mushin no shin

More great news for Flatrock:

Coleman Community Center Grand Opening2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 3
Coleman Park Regional Community Center
384 Thompson Lane
Nashville, TN
Phone: 862-8445
Please join Mayor Karl Dean, Council Lady Anna Page and Metro Parks to celebrate the opening of this new state-of-the-art regional recreation facility.
The $5.5 million facility is an innovative state of the art, community center. [...]

Awesome, in one night I can give example and counterexample to the ancient question of irony;
it’s not ironic that my knee injury forced me to miss karate tonight.
It is ironic that this leaves me home on a night the television happens to deliver both a show called “Bones”, and Doc Opera about an alcoholic curmudgeon [...]

I add, “I think I threw my knee out playing piano”.

Got my 2nd Degree Brown Belt today. It was actually pretty late, I should have been there in January, but I had my sabbatical in December which set me back a month, plus another month or two to get back where I was. Still not there really, but enough so to pass.
Anyway, onward.

I so love this line:

We’ll know for the first time
If we’re evil,
or divine;
We’re the Last In Line

I’m not sure what exactly the song is supposed to be about. And that video — which I can only summarize as being something like George A Romero’s interpretation of Orwell’s 1984 [meets a Tim Burton take on a [...]

You may have heard that Congressman Barney Frank — perhaps the closest thing we’ve got to a sitting left-libertarian and certainly one of the few on the hill with anything resembling honor, or even a basic a grip on right and wrong — has introduced the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of [...]

Let’s keep on with the music posts, but make a sharp left hand turn: Howard Jones
I don’t want to overstate the case — I mean he’s not the Art of Noise, or Falco :) — but I always thought highly of him. Loved New Song, liked many of the others. Certainly enough, at least, that [...]

This isn’t so much a fully formed thought as a reminder to myself to fully form one –
From a discussion on the LPTN list: their candidate for House 58 posts a press release basically in favor of letting the racetrack @ the Fairgrounds do whatever the hell it wants, whenever the hell it wants. I [...]

From Chris Lugo:

Well, about six of us peace activist lefties showed up tonight at nine pm at the main post office on royal parkway. The traffic line to the post office went back about a half a mile so we had to wait in line about fifteen minutes to find a parking space. [...]

(because you know you like it)
OK. No more metal for now. Tonight, abacab makes a soothing soundtrack to a cup or three of tea and a reasonable bedtime.
And an early rise, to unload that tea. It’s win win, really.