This photographic essay of historic Maple Hill cemetery isn’t about the bigwigs buried there. During my stroll I tried to capture the ambience and serenity of life’s final stage, with a hopeful tincture for the beyond.
The unearthing of the capsule is the first impropriety as it was orchestrated to follow immediately on the heals of George Bush’s presidential inauguration on January 20th. Literally just two hours after the Republican Bush was sworn in, the Democratic Party time capsule ceremonies began.
Click on the photograph for a panoramic showing where the new bicentennial fountain SHOULD be located. Bye Centennial apparently is the correct connotation for the activities and “celebrations” to be associated with Huntsville’s bicentennial year of 2005. As Huntsvillian’s know, Huntsville was first founded in 1805 in and around the Big Spring downtown. There is […]
Oh, I got it all right. Jose L. Gonzales doesn’t have constitutional rights because he isn’t a United States citizen. Well my friend, neither are you anymore.
Glenn Watson got pissed off and told him to quit if he didn’t like it, because he was afraid of an employee strike. Councilman Dr. Showers tried to intercede on the workers behalf, and Loretta Spencer called Richard Showers “uppity.”
Two nights ago on Monday evening, I attended and spoke at a public forum held by North Alabama State lawmakers. The forum was broadcast by a local cable carrier, and for those viewers no additional explanation of my remarks will be needed. However, although the Huntsville Times actually did a better job of placing my […]
You know, it’s funny, in a queer sort of way. I can remember a good friend of mine from long ago who once chastised me quite roundly for the inappropriate use of the word “queer.” He (only a friend mind you) informed me that words like “gay” and “queer” were good words gone bad when […]
The City of Huntsville recently, quietly, announced plans to build a new office building to be located at the corner of Church Street and Cleveland Avenue, that will house the offices of The Huntsville Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the offices of the City Public Transportation Service.
This is an original “Radio Show” column that I presented back in 2002. I created several of these while the Internet was still evolving just to see how it would work. The song says “video killed the radio star,” but in this case the original presentation was killed by advanced browsers that automatically block pop-ups. […]
Hollywood has also been too grateful to be critical. Just look at all those wonderful space films, and space monsters, and space crafts, and Star Trek, and aliens, and time warps, and macro scopes, and telescopes…
LISTEN TO BILLION DOLLAR SKY IN MY FINEST RENDITION OF FARSEE https://tocc.tv/audio/billiondollarsky.mp3 One can little argue that the impact of the Trade Center bombings in New York on September 11 was felt by, and ultimately impacted, all Americans in some way. If you didn’t know someone who was killed in one of the towers, or […]
