Eden and I are on the list and either Phil or Tracii will be on the podcast. FINALLY!
Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction adventure film directed by Brian De Palma, written by Jim and John Thomas, and Graham Yost, and suggested by Disney‘s theme park attraction of the same name. The film depicts the first crewed Mars exploration mission going awry; American astronaut Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise) helps to coordinate a rescue mission for a colleague. Principal support actors were Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O’Connell, and Kim Delaney.
Released theatrically by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution through Touchstone Pictures on March 10, 2000, the film was both a critical and commercial disappointment.
I actually LOVED this movie and cannot believe it took me 25 years to learn of it. Very original and has a very good finale. I’ve been on a MARS kick over the last few years and this helped to feed that hunger.
I needed to do a search to find this grave but did and my first visit to this grave was 7/9/2025
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a “father of skyscrapers” and “father of modernism”. He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Wright and Henry Hobson Richardson, Sullivan is one of “the recognized trinity of American architecture.”The phrase “form follows function” is attributed to him; it encapsulated earlier theories of architecture and he applied them to the modern age of the skyscraper. In 1944, Sullivan was the second architect to posthumously receive the AIA Gold Medal.
The Architectural Poet’s Tomb, Louis Sullivan at Graceland
“Visiting a dead man on a summer day”
by Marge Piercy
In flat America, in Chicago,
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side.
Forty feet of Corinthian candle
celebrate Pullman embedded
lonely raisin in a cake of concrete.
The Potter Palmers float
in an island parthenon.
Barons of hogfat, railroads and wheat
are postmarked with angels and lambs.
But the Getty tomb: white, snow patterned
in a triangle of trees swims dappled with leaf shadow,
sketched light arch within arch
delicate as fingernail moons.
The green doors should not be locked.
Doors of fern and flower should not be shut.
Louis Sullivan, I sit on your grave.
It is not now good weather for prophets.
Sun eddies on the steelsmoke air like sinking honey.
On the inner green door of the Getty tomb
(a thighbone’s throw from your stone)
a marvel of growing, blooming, thrusting into seed:
how all living wreathe and insinuate
in the circlet of repetition that never repeats:
ever new birth never rebirth.
Each tide pool microcosm spiraling from your hand.
Sullivan, you had another five years
when your society would give you work.
Thirty years with want crackling in your hands.
Thirty after years with cities
flowering and turning grey in your beard.
All poets are unemployed nowadays.
My country marches in its sleep.
The past structures a heavy mausoleum
hiding its iron frame in masonry.
Men burn like grass
while armies grow.
Thirty years in the vast rumbling gut
of this society you stormed
to be used, screamed
no louder than any other breaking voice.
The waste of a good man
bleeds the future that’s come
in Chicago, in flat America,
where the poor still bleed from the teeth,
housed in sewers and filing cabinets,
where prophets may spit into the wind
till anger sleets their eyes shut,
where this house that dances the seasons
and the braid of all living
and the joy of a man making his new good thing
is strange, irrelevant as a meteor,
in Chicago, in flat America
in this year of our burning.
Tuesday 7/8/2025
Bruce Alonzo Goff (June 8, 1904 – August 4, 1982) was an American architect, distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.
A 1951 Life magazine article stated that Goff was “one of the few US architects whom Frank Lloyd Wright considers creative…scorns houses that are ‘boxes with little holes.”
In 1934 Goff moved to Chicago and began teaching part-time at the Academy of Fine Arts. He designed several Chicago-area residences and went to work for the manufacturer of “Vitrolite“, an architectural sheet glass introduced during the 1930s.
Goff died in Tyler, Texas, on August 4, 1982. His cremated remains are interred in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, with a marker designed by Grant Gustafson, one of Goff’s students, which incorporates a glass cullet fragment salvaged from the ruins of the Joe D. Price House and Studio.
In 1981 Dr. Ruth Pater received global recognition of her materials research when the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) named her co-authored report on epoxy resins its paper of the year. Pater was a senior research scientist in the Polymer Matrix Composites Section of the Materials Division at NASA Lewis Research Center. Her research focused on developing new hi-temperature and advanced polymers that could improve aircraft performance and fuel efficiency.
Pater earned her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Tanchang College in 1962 in her native Taiwan. There she received the Chinese Women’s Association’s highest award for academic achievement. After emigrating to the U.S. in the early 1970s, Pater earned her master’s degree at Southeastern Massachusetts University and doctorate at Brown University. She worked several years in industry before joining NASA Lewis in 1980.
In 1986 Pater accepted a senior polymer scientist position at Langley Research Center. She authored over 60 technical papers and holds an array of patents, including four filed while at Lewis for her work in high-temperature polymers. In 1992 Pater received NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.
Dr. Ruth H. Pater, Ph.D. (82), a longtime NASA researcher specializing in the field of materials science, passed away peacefully on June 27, 2021, at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
Watched another bomb from 2000 that is about travelling to Mars. Not as good as MIssion to Mars but it had a great storyline.
Yesterday morning I listed this 30 year old item and started with an opening bid of $50
Vintage Type O Negative 1994 Christian Women Love Me To Death Long Sleeve XL RARE
Rare Long Sleeve on Size Large art By Syd Edwards May 21, 1963 – January 23, 2025 who was a graphic artist for MK ULTRA issues #1-#3 1995
Syd also did the cover art for the CD single Cinnamon Girl by Type O Negative
This absolute collectable is the longsleeve version of the already iconic “Christian Woman” tee. Featuring the same beautiful front and controversial back (COURTESY OF THE LATE GREAT SYD EDWARDs) and with the addition of the band’s name on one sleeve, and the song title “Blood and Fire” on the other. The longsleeve is a significant step up from the shortsleeve and is another staple and signature piece, for Type O Negative fans and collector.
Pre-owned – Fair: This item has been gently used but is in good condition. It might have a few signs of wear as in slight fading of the black material.
I have many vintage shirts of indie / industrial / goth / rock bands for sale. Please see my other auctions and feel free to ask any questions.
For multiple orders aI will combine shipping at an agreeable cost.
Friday night family movie night at Sinema Diablo.
An all new behind-the-scenes look into the world of adult film legend William Margold (1943-2017), actor/director/spokesperson/activist as he struggles for the adult film industry.
Finally weekend mornings are getting back to normal. As it turns out Elizabeth Matthews of FOX 32 had been out since after June first due to having shingles.
