UPDATE FROM LAST WEEK – Baxter sez:
You are cordially invited to the CLOSING RECEPTION OF “FULLERTON’S FINEST” at BaxSpace. This exhibit was a successful 8 day experiment in transforming a beautiful but empty downtown Fullerton retail location into a proper locking art gallery. The exhibit is named “FULLERTON’S FINEST” – because it is an exhibition of Fullerton’s greatest contemporary artists since the beginning of time, for real. Tonight June 13 and tomorrow June 14, 6 to 10 PM, 120 East Commonwealth!
There are Fullerton residents who purchase art, they just don’t purchase it here. They go to Laguna, Santa Monica, L.A and beyond. The goal pf this exhibit is to ask local art buyers to do for art what they do for their produce … BY IT LOCALLY & SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ARTISTS.
“Fullerton’s Finest” features the following artist who either live or have a studio in Fullerton: Steve Metzger, Jose Lozano, Mary Zarbano, Bandon Monk Muñoz, Carol Towler, John Sollom, Ned Shultz, Katherine England, Rene Cardona, Marjorie Kerr, Fay Colmar, Denise Marshall, Jim Dahl, as well as promising up-and-comers Britny Gledhill and E.E. Jacks.
In this tight-knit community of writers, musicians, professors, students, performers, artists, art-lovers, and activists we can lean on one another for support, camaraderie, creativity and self-expression.
Tell your friends, tell your neighbors to buy their produce and their ART locally!
This is pretty last minute but the opportunity to take over the old state farm office in the heart of downtown Fullerton, which was generously given to me for art walk by the new owner Jeremy Popoff, was too good to pass up. With only a few days to promote we need your help getting word about this new space out to the public. Please share the event with your friends. You can also RSVP on FB here: https://www.facebook.com/events/658886784186076/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
The new location!
This show, which arguably includes the greatest collection of local Artist in recent memory, goes a long way in establishing that we have amazing local artists, some of which have been creating since the 1950’s. These artists want and need your support and our community needs them to remain in Fullerton.
We want to make Fullerton a destination for art lovers. Lovers of fine art, lovers of music, of theater, of poetry, of literature … it’s all connected and in my mind these types of venues attract the folks that can assure a better future for our community. A community that is accepting, loving and creative. A community that is free of bigots, bullies and swindlers …. A New Fullerton!
Please stop by during art walk and come and see this wonderful space and meet some of the best artist around. But please do so on your way to, or coming from The Magoski Arts Colony, where Hibbleton, Neighborhood, my own Egan Gallery and many artists that rent space there, all have great exhibits of their own. (last week’s issue of OC Weekly had the Magoski Arts Colony as it’s the cover story http://www.ocweekly.com/2014-05-29/culture/magoski-arts-colony-mike-fullerton/)
Viva Fullerton, Viva Art … see you Friday night.
Thank you for posting this Vern!
US OUT OF IRAQ!
“IRANIAN PRESIDENT HASSAN ROUHANI says his country ‘has no option but to confront terrorism ..”
The definition of irony …….
This is a proxy war by Saudi Arabia — our ally, funder of the original Al Queda and of this new iteration — and Iran, which hasn’t invaded anyone in living memory. You have to dig through a few layers of irony to get to the only one you seem to recognize.
By the way, one reason that I want an extreme focus on renewables (and that oil companies don’t) is so that we as a nation cal tell the leaders of Saudi Arabia to screw themselves. So everytime you oppose alternative energy, you’re aiding this enemy.
Greg,
You can say the exact, and I mean the exact, same thing about fracking.
Enjoy.
And fracking could cause as much damage as a war.
Yeah that’s the thing, Ryan and skally … whether you think we’re right or not about fracking’s dangers … nobody is saying that the alternative sources Greg’s talking about risk any kind of damage … except to the bottom line of the current reigning polluters!
So no, not the exact, and I mean exactly NOT the exact, same thing. Enjoy.
Vern,
If you’d like to go back and alter Greg’s statement so it doesn’t say exactly the same thing, then fine. Until you do, it’s exactly the same thing.
You might want to do a little research into how rare earth metals are mined in China. Silicon isn’t exactly a picture of greenness either. While the left is happy to demonize fracking as some sort of subhuman science . . . I’ve been saying this for quite a while– they don’t seem to be willing to accept the consequences of banning a 60 year old technology.
Banning fracking today lets Saudi Arabia and Iran win. If that’s really what you want to do– fine. Just spare me the lecture on female genital mutilation, honor killings, and human trafficking. I didn’t sign up for it. I wanted the cleanest and fastest way out. You said no.
I’m all for a green revolution. You can’t get there without natural gas. You can’t get the gas without fracking . . . unless you want to build it on the backs of oppressed women in the middle east.
Silicon isn’t a rare earth metal.
We seem to be in a situation, Ryan, where the continued availability of hydrocarbon fuels (even at continually higher costs to the environment) allows our society to continue to drag its feet on adopting alternative energy sources. (Maybe it’s the attempts in other states to outlaw rooftop solar that have been the final straw for me. If not, maybe it’s this Saudi-sponsored invasion of Iraq using Al Qaeda proxies.)
In any event, some fracking will certainly continue to occur, largely because some state governments suck. A moratorium on California fracking, though, would have primary sped up the pressure to adopt alternative energy technologies — and THAT is what scares Saudi Arabia. I don’t think that they’re looking at our approval of fracking and trembling at the notion that it’s part of some plan to thwart them in the long term. And they have enough brainpower behind them to have a good sense of what is and is not a threat to their genital mutilating, honor killing, human trafficking agenda.
You think that continued amelioration will do the trick. I think that at this point it’s probably just as likely that we need a Paul Volcker-1980-style crisis to knock us onto a more sustainable track. In either case, I don’t think that either of our preferred policies at this moment is responsible for genital mutilations and the like — responsibility for them goes way back, and the energy (and automotive) companies own a heap of it.
doesn’t fracking cause obesity in minority children
Of course silicon isn’t a REM. Who said it was? (For anyone interested, there is a real environmental cost to get the material required to build “green” cars: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/what-are-rare-earth-metals)
“A moratorium on California fracking, though, would have primary sped up the pressure to adopt alternative energy technologies — and THAT is what scares Saudi Arabia.”
No. It won’t. It just means California will continue to import more CNG from Utah. Local utilities have gigawatts of gas turbine electricity plants planned over the next two decades. All banning fracking does is raise the price of your kilowatt hours and your gasoline. That’s it.
Also, I think you have Saudi Arabia confused with West Virginia. WV cares about California policies that prohibit the use of coal. Saudi Arabia could care less. In fact ,they probably favor it as it could potentially mean that LNG exports from Alaska are permanently shelved . . . which just means more bucks for the oligarchy.
While it may be inconvenient, it is a truth: Banning fracking supports oppressive regimes who support the mutilation and suppression of women. Fracking may have its downside, but parading around like a ban has no cost is ludicrous.
In my opinion the human cost of sending dollars overseas is substantially greater than the environmental risk of a sixty year old technology. Love it, hate it, but there it is.
Oh, and one more thing– the energy companies and the auto companies really had nothing to do with it, Greg. The villain you’re looking for is the British Navy. <— That's what got us in the mess.
Ryan, why do you think that I mentioned the auto companies? Hint: legislation.
We’ll have to have a longer discussion on fracking. Do you really think that calling it a “60-year-old technology” proves anything, though? First, opiod medications have an even longer history, but we still have new problems arise with them.
Your juxtaposition of REM and silicon was confusing. And yes, there’s an environmental cost to green cars — but some environmental costs are normal sorts of problems (people die) and some, such as the ones that contribute to global warming, are unprecedented ones.
Now you can go ahead and tell me that burning natural gas has a lesser effect on global warming and then I can talk about effects of its extraction.
Every time you oppose fracking you’re aiding the enemy.
Fiala sounds exactly, and I mean exactly like my exhusband. Who is crazy. And refuses treatment. Fracking and Fiala…..hmmm…an injection of unkwnown ans deadly poinsonous vitriol to foment energy. Energy probably not worth the damage and risk of an alternative source. Enjoy!
I just deleted it. He has to be on really good behavior to get to post here. Looking at what he’s done to the VOC comments section makes me say “there but for the grace of God go we” — but God helps those who help themselves.
Vern can always overrule me, if he hurries.
Ah, it didn’t make much sense anyway. Just that there wasn’t really “Jew” stuff or “magic negro” stuff in it.
What does “BB” stand for? I think I know.
I wasn’t sure, but I was kind of thinking it was Netanyahu “Bibi” you know. Now I don’t remember what it said… “BB” allowed Iran to get nukes or something, by not bombing them pre-emptively?
No. Best to drop it, as I can no longer find it either for us to discuss.