I mentioned on Monday that I was withholding the most fun part of my afternoon’s adventures. I wanted to share some of the pictures with you today. Here are a few of them now.
For $20, you can pick up a five-album set of the Boss.
They looked good, too.
There’s this collage of paintings you see in one or two places. One of the pictures is a color version of this old hand-drawn shot of Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum and Cliff Hare Stadium. I’m assuming this is an original draft from the artist, then. That it is labeled as Cliff Hare means this board, if it was drawn contemporaneously, is from at least 1973. It can be yours for $9.
They used to do these in the textile buildings, as part of the students’ work, I guess. I used to see them on ebay and the like, but I haven’t run across them in a while. Who knows how old they are:
When was the last time you saw a postage stamp vending machine?
I saw other things in my quick stroll. Also I picked up three Gloms for my collection. I also met Mr. Brewer, the owner of Angel’s Antiques. We talked about my collection — I now have 101 books, 86 percent of the entire series — and he promised to keep an eye out for me.
Also, I just realized how many of those things I need to scan. We’ll have weeks of covers to look at soon.
Things to read … because you can check this stuff out right now.
This is a long excerpt, but you need it. And it isn’t every day you read about high school journalism. This one you should read, because it is awesome: Student journalists learn to cover scandal from Stamford High School halls:
After the newspaper staff returned to school in the fall, the story ratcheted up. In October, Stamford police charged the principal, Donna Valentine, and an assistant principal, Roth Nordin, with failing to report what they knew about Watkins and the student to state authorities.
Rebecca Rakowitz, features editor of The Round Table, said Ringel asked the staff whether they wanted to report the news by summarizing the work of outside organizations or “whether we wanted to go to the courthouse and the police station and take it on ourselves. We wanted to take it on ourselves.”
They ran into barriers. They learned nothing more from police than what was said during a news conference that followed the arrests of Valentine and Nordin, for example.
And teachers weren’t talking.
[…]
Sports editor Bailey Bitetto said the newspaper has a role.
“Teachers are supposed to be the voice but now we are the voice, because the teachers are too scared,” Bitetto said. “It’s a lot of responsibility but we understand that their jobs could be at stake.”
Four news stories:
‘I don’t feel like he’s dead’: Son vindicated as father rescued after 12 days at sea
Police look for clues in case of Mississippi teen burned to death
Credit unions: Retailers “should be held accountable” for data breaches
Instagram Hits 300 Million Monthly Users To Surpass Twitter, Keeps It Real With Verified Badges
I kinda hope this goes to court. I don’t have any strong feelings about it in any of the possible directions, I simply think this would be an interesting First Amendment case — assuming the issue of “tag as state property” was mitigated. Is ‘No Homo’ license plate free speech? Alabama Revenue Department says no, recalling tag:
Amanda Collier, spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Revenue, confirmed the tag saying “NOHOMO” does exist and was approved by mistake.
“By law, the issuance of motor vehicle registrations is not centralized and must be processed at the county level. However, the Motor Vehicle Division of the Alabama Department of Revenue does hold the authority to approve personalized messages on license plates,” she said.
[…]
When a person buys a tag, the county employee enters the desired message into its system. Those on the banned list are supposed to be automatically rejected, but that didn’t happen here.
And a thought exercise, what if the plate had said “YESHOMO”?
How would you like to be on the plate approval committee? Well, a 1982 DMV rule, by the way, says they’ll turn down any plate “which contains objectionable language or symbols which are considered by the Department of Revenue to be offensive to the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”
They are typically very proactive in their refusals. And you better like the E-Street Band. You couldn’t get H8BOSS, for example. But you can get those records at Angel’s …
