By bluerasberry on 2019-03-22
There is a 2008 comic book, Umbrella Academy, which contains a joke about the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy (JFK).In 2019 the comic became a video series and presented the Kennedy assassination joke again. I liked the comic and I recently watched the video series. The joke is incidental, but since the joke […]
Posted in Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conspiracy, death, policy
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-26
On Tuesday 10 July 2018 Fabian and I joined a tour group which advertised trips to Soweto. The tour included a drive around Soweto and and explanation but what I really wanted was the walking tour of the place that was a slum, or shanty town, ghetto, or favela. Soweto has a long history but […]
Posted in museum, rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged death, discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-05-20
Today Sunday 20 May 2018 I went to the University of Virginia (UVA) graduation ceremony which includes “walking the lawn” in front of the Rotunda. The ritual is that graduating students should walk from the Rotunda on UVA grounds through the lawn out into the world as a symbol of taking learning from here to […]
Posted in Charlottesville, education | Tagged death, protest, university
By bluerasberry on 2017-12-02
Feisty the Chinchilla died Friday 31 November 2017. I had known him for almost 4 of his 6 years. Every day that I was home I played with him. When I was not home it was part of my check-in routine with Fabian to ask about the chinchillas’ behavior and whatever they might be doing […]
Posted in animal, New York City | Tagged death, rodent
By bluerasberry on 2014-06-03
My mother had been sick for a long time, and especially sick for the past few weeks. About a month ago I talked to her and she told me that she was immediately going for surgery to have her gall bladder removed. She had not told me of problems previously, but upon asking about this, […]
Posted in health, Texas | Tagged conference, death, public health, surgery
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-20
I wanted to visit the site of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster. I also wanted to visit whatever major NGO was working with the survivors. This is why we went to Bhopal, the capitol of Madhya Pradesh. I expected that affected people were still living in the area. I also expected that these people had […]
Posted in education, health, India, legal, non-profit | Tagged death, pollution, school, toxic waste
By bluerasberry on 2010-07-09
Saturday July 3 was the Fremont Zombie Walk. I regret not having pictures, but there were three of us together as zombie scientists in lab coats. Here is a picture of me without blood or too much makeup. I participated in a pie-eating contest organized by The World is Fun, and since it was no-hands, […]
Posted in festival, Seattle | Tagged blood, competitive eating, death
By bluerasberry on 2009-03-09
A dear fried of mine named Adam died last week. I had known him since I was about 12 and we were close until I moved away to go to school. I would even say that until that time, we had a lot in common. I still talked to and emailed him after I left […]
Posted in drug | Tagged civil rights, death, opium
By bluerasberry on 2008-06-05
I live in an apartment building with 100 units. Today I went to the elevator and there was blood spilled all over the floor. I started thinking about what I was seeing and how this looks in the movies. There was a lot of blood there and obviously someone had a really bad time in […]
Posted in art | Tagged blood, death
By bluerasberry on 2007-09-02
Pocket was the smartest hampster I ever had. He communicated with squeaks every day and was loud enough to be heard from other rooms in the house. He squeaked usually when he was angry, which was often, but he also squeaked when he was playing or when he wanted attention. Pocket would chirp from his […]
Posted in animal, encounter, health | Tagged death, hampster, medicine