Hello everyone! Yesterday, Saturday 13,2010, I had a soccer game. My team played against Edmond. My team won 7 to 0! We kicked their butts! I was very happy that we won! That was our first game for the season!

I cant wait till summer! Angie got Josie and I into Camp Classen! I forgot when, but I know it's somewhere in June.

Dear Grandma Cori,

                              I am very excited to come down! I will see you soon! I love you!

                                                        ,Love Jordan

                                    Well that's all the news I have! Bye bye!

Asked to comment on a career that's had plenty of failures and has now achieved the ultimate success, Bridges quoted his most famous movie role. "I've had ups and downs," he laughed, staying as humble as always. "What does the Dude say? Strikes and gutters, man!"

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1633371/20100308/story.jhtml

We recently received Josie's scores for the standardized test the school system requires.  They call it a "Benchmark," but the EXPLORE exam is like a pre-pre-ACT exam.  We are so tickled and proud of Josie's performance!  Overall, her cumulative score puts her in the 94 percentile out of all U.S. scores!  Isn't that remarkable?!  Here's the link to the whole report:

http://www.box.net/shared/static/esjub2qefz.pdf

Way to go, Josie Ann!!!

You are looking at the shadow of the last real phone man ladies and gentlemen.  No matter where Girth goes the shadow of a phone man follows........

Being on Facebook, I find myself chuckling at the people, usually girls under 18, who constantly post song lyrics.  They are most often songs about love, heartbreak, and not-quite-sex, and all of those other chemically induced reactions that are confused with emotions.  It's all so sweet and optimistic!  However, once in awhile, song lyrics describe something more accurately than us non-poets can verbalize.

Maynard James Keenan of Tool, not to mention A Perfect Circle, isn't afraid to put pen to paper and kick us all in the teeth with reality.  He says the things that most of us know are true, but are too afraid or embarrassed to utter aloud.  And he phrases these concepts so eloquently.  I imagine if there is a god and/or other heavely beings, this is how they see us:

"Right In Two"
Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.

Don't these talking monkeys know that
Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys,
Where there's one you're bound to divide it.
Right in two.

Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason.
And this is what they choose.
And this is what they choose...

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs,
They forge a blade,
And where there's one
they're bound to divide it,
Right in two.
Right in two.

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey.
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs.
They make a club.
And beat their brother, down.
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here.

Cut it all right in two

Fight over the clouds, over wind, over sky
Fight over life, over blood, over prayer,
overhead and light
Fight over love, over sun,
over another, Fight...

Angels on the sideline again.
Benched along with patience and reason.
Angels on the sideline again
Wondering when this tug of war will end.

Cut it all right in two
RIGHT IN TWO!

Right in two...

N.Y. / Region

Art Review | Westchester

Quirky Marriage of Art and Text

Mary Ann Hardiman/The New York Times

JUXTAPOSED At the opening of “ 'Ek-fre-ses” at Lift Trucks Project.

By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO

Published: February 10, 2010

Right by the train station in Croton Falls is an old factory that once serviced forklifts and trucks. Today it houses artists’ studios and an exhibition space — not so much a gallery as a place where artists and independent curators can put up temporary exhibits. It is called Lift Trucks Project.

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Not surprisingly, the exhibitions here tend to be somewhat out of the ordinary. That is the way the artist Tom Christopher, who owns the space, wants it. His goal, he said, is not to sell artwork to promote the creators’ careers but to “encourage people to look at art from a fresh perspective.”

The latest project is “ ‘Ek-fre-ses,” a group show of quasi collaborations among some 35 artists and writers. “Ekphrasis,” as it is written in English, is a verbal representation of a visual work of art that dates to ancient Greece. Each work in the show is paired with a text, sometimes old, sometimes commissioned especially for the exhibition and published in the catalog. Over all, the quality of the writing is extremely good.

Snippets of the text have also been excerpted from the catalog, blown up, printed out on giant sheets of paper and used to frame or wrap or in some way become part of each piece of art on the wall. It doesn’t really work, for the partial text becomes meaningless and more often than not distracts from the art.

Putting aside this quirk of display, the show is filled with interesting if disparate stuff. You will find everything here from an Auguste Rodin watercolor to a print by Robert Motherwell. There are even a pair of LeRoy Neiman sketches from the 1960s, borrowed from Mr. Christopher’s extended family.

But the show mostly contains work by Mr. Christopher’s friends and acquaintances, people he knew as a successful young painter in the East Village in the 1980s and, later, in Long Island City, Queens. Among them are a conceptual artist known only as FA-Q and Doug McQueen, a tattoo artist who also paints and draws.

Because the show has no real theme, it is best approached as a series of individual artist-writer collaborations. Some pairings are more successful than others: For instance, the playwright and art dealer James Balestrieri wrote a poignant prose poem to accompany a 1931 lithograph by Rockwell Kent.

Ben Cheever, the son of the novelist and short story writer John Cheever, and an author in his own right, wrote a short but jaunty text loosely inspired by a Saul Steinberg watercolor, borrowed from a local collector. It recalls his childhood memories of Steinberg’s magazine illustrations and what they meant to him.

Beyond famous names, and solid career painters like Mike Cockrill and A. R. Penck, the show includes some weird underground artists. Among the strangest is Dainty Dotty, a mid-20th-century American circus “fat lady” (she was 585 pounds) who also made gothic, surrealistic watercolors.

Other oddities include cowboy paintings from the 1940s by Fred Darge, an amateur artist, retablos from Mexico, and some lime green gnome sculptures by the German artist Ottmar Hörl. Mr. Hörl’s gnomes inspired the writer James P. Othmer to pen an imaginary conversation between the ghosts of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels about the artist and his work. It is one of the nuttiest things you will ever read.

“ ‘Ek-fre-ses,” Lift Trucks Project, 3 East Cross Street, Croton Falls, through March 27. Information: ltproject.com.

Me and Josie are playing soccer. I have practices on Monday and Friday and Josie has them Monday and Thursdays. I am very excited about soccer. I am not on Josie's team,though.It;s going to be fun!!

                                                 ,Jordan