tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156099162024-03-06T23:54:54.286-05:00Clark Street BlogThings I see, hear, and think about in Cincinnati.WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.comBlogger1181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-2199432972377740262013-10-13T12:00:00.000-04:002013-10-13T12:00:59.647-04:00Police OrderWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-26774679818099622352013-09-12T19:25:00.000-04:002013-09-14T08:56:41.141-04:00I Salute JobsOhio for Yet Another Great DecisionJobsOhio, one the greatest examples of John Kasich's bold, visionary leadership, did the right thing in rejecting tax credits for Pure Romance, a "relationship enhancement" (i.e. satanic fornication) products company. I, for one, am very pleased that Cincinnati will not have its money supply tainted by the foul-fleshed fingers of fornicating female fluffers.
I have seen these women and I assure WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-61091783463857097142013-05-15T07:10:00.000-04:002013-05-16T13:14:03.450-04:00John Cranley's Own Words Show He Has Lost His Way
This is a cup from Cranley's 2000 congressional run. I couldn't help but notice how far he has wandered from his erstwhile slogan, "Faith in People."
In whom does he have faith now?
Not the city's residents who have repeatedly supported things he opposes;
Not the city's business owners who support economic stimulus and infrastructure investment;
Not the city's business organizations who WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-11562379571946447812013-04-24T05:17:00.002-04:002013-04-24T05:22:35.464-04:00Metropole at NightWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-78998533097998139902013-03-06T08:09:00.000-05:002013-03-07T19:31:08.933-05:00Charlie Winburn's Metaphysics
"Why is there something instead of nothing?" is the question generally regarded as the starting point for Heidegger's metaphysics. For the rarified few who have slogged through several hundred pages of Being and Time only to arrive at the realization that little will be understood without reading it again (probably in the original German) and then realizing that this will never happen, itWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-30117859349526361712013-02-19T17:33:00.002-05:002013-02-20T21:48:53.552-05:00The Best Thing about Toby Keith’s Bar & Grill Might Actually Be the Food
“Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill.” Certainly I was not alone in the hope that this ridiculous name would be the worst thing about the place. As it turns out, not only is it not the worst thing but there doesn’t seem to be even one good thing about this place at all.
After reading the Business Courier’s news briefing about TKILTBG’s eviction notice due to rent non-payment, I surfed WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-36402338696786781722013-02-09T08:49:00.000-05:002013-02-09T08:49:01.773-05:00What Would Happen if Everyone Had a Gun Has Been Happening for At Least 138 Years
138 years ago, the June 23, 1874 Tri-Weekly Maysville Eagle newspaper (Maysville, KY) carried this report:
Clark County Democrat: “A friend of ours had quite an adventure with the fire-fiend a few days ago. He awoke about midnight, impressed with the notion that somebody was in the backyard. Getting his pistol, which lay loaded in the drawer, he cautiously reconnoitered through the window,WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-74946157258746162592013-01-21T19:10:00.000-05:002013-01-22T12:19:25.250-05:00Losing Avtar Gill Is Like Losing a Skyline Chili Ingredient
This morning, I searched through old photos on my computer, looking for an early photo of Avtar but I couldn’t find any. Surprised at first, I then realized that when I first saw Avtar-- probably 13 or 14 years ago-- I used a film camera and I don’t have anything remotely that old on my computer.
Downtown & OTR was “pre-renascence,” back then so there were no frequent public events like WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-70497519738805414342013-01-19T12:23:00.000-05:002013-01-19T12:23:04.898-05:00All You Need to Know About the Afghan War in Two ArticlesFirst is the Telegraph's excerpt from William Dalrymple's upcoming book in which he spends time embedded with Afghans and explores their perspectives on their own history and conflicts:
"...some American officers called us to a hotel in Jalalabad for a meeting. One of them asked me, 'Why do you hate us?’ I replied, 'Because you blow down our doors, enter our houses, pull our women by the hair WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-24262765702062059762013-01-14T02:35:00.001-05:002013-01-14T02:37:38.811-05:00Recycling is for the BirdsWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-62280763497686261902012-11-12T14:06:00.000-05:002012-11-12T14:06:13.801-05:00Here Are Some of Enquirer Reporter Lafcadio Hearn's Articles from the 1870sI've mentioned Lafcadio Hearn before, in this crazy post. Here are the titles of some more of his popular columns:
The Last of the Horse: How he is turned into soap, fertilizer, and Prussian Blue, a flying visit to the Horse-Frying works at Delhi
Within the Bars: How prisoners look, live, and conduct themselves, some glimpses of life in the County Jail
The Aesthetics of Hanging
Dug up. WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-92149843922623373882012-10-19T06:51:00.001-04:002012-10-19T06:51:47.489-04:00Great American IronyWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-33014541358581848372012-10-10T08:12:00.000-04:002012-10-10T08:12:42.283-04:00Even the Clouds are Queer in NorthsideWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-78024929941661235522012-10-06T09:24:00.001-04:002012-10-06T10:53:42.830-04:00Here's a Camel Ad from Exactly 52 Years Ago
Maris, the Yankees "home run hitting right fielder," hit 39 homers in 1960, good enough to win the HR title and beat Mickey Mantle for the AL MVP.
It was the NEXT year, 1961, that Maris hit 61 homers, a stat that would turn out to be the first of several home run records with an asterisk next to it. He beat out Mickey Mantle again for the MVP award.
So a half-century before steroids we had WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-16703612018696071942012-09-30T12:05:00.000-04:002012-10-22T17:54:37.424-04:00An Hitchcockian MorningWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-21598643313464190272012-09-19T15:58:00.001-04:002012-09-19T16:04:15.299-04:00Check Out This 1960 UC Student Newspaper Ad
Gosh frosh!
How'd you catch on so quick? Catch on to the fact that Coca-Cola is the hep drink on campus, I mean. Always drink it, you say? Well-- how about dropping over to the dorm and downing a sparkling Coke or two with the boys. The man who's for Coke is the man for us.WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-36043128695450881652012-09-16T19:31:00.000-04:002012-09-17T07:58:09.784-04:00From the Dept of Questionable Behavior......comes this Fountain Square visitor, whose visage I am mercifully showing from the back. Let's just say her front-- which was prominently showcased-- would readily elicit pop culture references about a certain desert-dwelling ungulate's phalanges.
That's not all. She had a friend. Her friend wore a white shirt with the words "WORKING CLASS HO" in bold black letters. And the two of them WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-18805538596171472772012-09-03T12:13:00.001-04:002012-09-04T23:19:52.949-04:00Golden Gate Bridge Designed by UC GradI discovered this interesting factoid while skimming 50-yr old issues of UC's student newspaper, the News Record. Transcription below.
Thanks to the "Parent's Letter," the NR has learned that San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the world's longest single-span bridge, contains a singular honor for UC.
The bridge was built by UC honor graduate Joseph B. Strauss. As an undergraduate, Strauss WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-82948668117831065052012-08-22T09:04:00.000-04:002012-08-22T09:04:12.849-04:00Quasi-AbstractWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-74915430810574504162012-08-12T11:11:00.000-04:002012-08-12T11:11:17.705-04:00Sunday Morning SunshineWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-6072412839764488892012-08-03T12:47:00.000-04:002012-08-03T12:52:18.232-04:00Broken, Abandoned, & Left to DecayWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-28959307383564883342012-06-29T06:24:00.000-04:002012-06-29T06:24:35.722-04:00Touch o' ClassWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-51864859431425294882012-06-15T08:09:00.000-04:002012-06-15T09:09:58.691-04:00In the Old Days, Beer Came with VerseThe Christian Moerlein Brewery was a burgeoning business in the late 19th century. One of its bottled beers was "National Export" which had this poem on the label:
The Moerlein "National Export" Beer,Parexcellence Stands Without A Peer,From Native Shores To Foreign Lands,It Heads the List of Beverage Brands,The Convalescent, Sick and Well,The Gay Dundine, The Natty Swell,The Scions of Nobility,WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-23311241284637913262012-06-10T19:01:00.000-04:002012-06-10T19:03:31.962-04:00Downtown is a Dirty, Dangerous Place so Please Ignore this ArticleThe Harvard Business Review's recent article Planting Entrepreneurial Innovation in Inner Cities really got me steamed. Just look at the some of the lies & misinformation it tries to pass off:
Remember just a decade ago when the term "inner city" basically meant "dead city...?" Scholars... are showing that although increasing problems accompany increasing density, urban access to the good WestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15609916.post-71764621463677173702012-05-30T07:45:00.000-04:002012-05-30T07:45:46.806-04:00Harnessing the Power of YouthWestEnderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13170032373825704559noreply@blogger.com0