Jill Rants and Raves: blousy bountiful beautiful candye kane

These photographs are just a few I have taken over the last ten years at The Albany Bulb, also known as the Landfill, the Waterfront and just The Bulb. It is a place I feel passionate about. That much is obvious. There are many of us who believe that this piece of the much hyped Eastshore State Park should have been left untouched and unmanaged - because it is a unique example of what happens when a place naturally and organically self regulates. But the dogma of 'preservation' and 'conservation areas' 'resource protection', 'habitats' and 'liability' overrules all individual identity. They cannot leave anything untouched, un-designed. It is as if if they (the park planners) didn't make it, it has no value. Rules, guidelines, regulations, interpretive signage, fences, safety, sanctioned art - it leaves nothing to the imagination. That is what the landfill meant to us - a place of unlimited imagination.

April 21, 2008

blousy bountiful beautiful candye kane

The news from Candye Kane Central is that the lady is doing as well as can be expected after 8 hour surgery to remove a pancreatic tumor. If you have never seen Candye perform or haven't listened to her music, go treat yourself. Check out 'Toughest Girl Alive' on her myspace page and you'll get a sense of why she decided, when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer to go out there and show the disease just how tough it would be dealing with the indomitable Candye. Great to know that she is on the road to recovery.

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