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December 25

Ely Minnesota, population 3200, a hour's drive from a larger city (Virginia, pop. 8900).

Not much happens here. Once or twice a year I read about a drug bust or an overdose. Rumor of arson last summer. Amazon packages stolen from steps.

Nights are quiet, I don't worry.

Post @ Twitter (3 August 2023)

"The Big News" email to AirVuz

From the email announcement I sent to AirVuz a few minutes ago (September 18, 2019):

Hello AirVuz,
The big news is that I have purchased property in Ely, Minnesota, and I am in the process of moving up there right now.
The property is a residential/commercial space on the main street in the heart of downtown Ely. It's been an art gallery and framing service (the Kess Gallery) for thirty years. The artist couple that own it are retiring. The building needs a lot of work, but the price is low so I can afford to fix it up.
Most of the property is taken up by the gallery / retail space, with very cramped living quarters at the back, but that's okay for now. Next year I will rehab the entire residential area, tear down the old garage and back porch, and build out more living space in back including maybe a separate small residential unit for AirBnB.
Closing is scheduled for September 30, but the owners handed me the keys right after I signed the purchase agreement and said go ahead and move in. (They have a house nearby.)
So, I will be busy moving for the next couple of weeks, but then I will settle down and get back to work.
Drive time from Ely to the AirVuz World Headquarters is about four and a half hours, and I want to get into the metro about weekly, so I will attend at least some staff meetings, maybe all of them.
You are all invited (once I get settled in) to visit me in Ely:
130 East Sheridan Street Ely, MN 55731
I will rename the place the Karl Jones Gallery and continue to show and sell art, mainly by my Twin Cities friends and myself, also by local artists. I don't expect the gallery to make much money, that's not how galleries usually work. But I'm sure it will be great fun.
The former owner, who has an established clientele base for framing services, is setting me up with all of his stock and training me how to do framing, which will be a nice little sideline business.
That's about it for now. I will keep you posted as things progress.
Your Man in Ely, Karl Jones

If I ever disappear

If I ever disappear like I occasionally threaten to, just think that I was on Art of Darkness, published by Apocalypse Confidential, I created The Forest of Symbols. I had a good run.

Forest of Symbols @AldousAsterion

That's one small step for gpt, one giant leap for chatkind

Four strong winds that blow Sherbrooke Seventeen Seventy-Eight runs high How I wish all those things come what me But our letter of marque has come And I'm bound for movin' on I'll look for the scummiest vessel I’ve ever seen

O the year was Seventeen Seventy-Eight How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now A letter of marque came from the king To

God damn them all I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold We’d fire no guns, shed no tears Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett’s Privateers

Four strong winds that blow lonely Seven seas that run high All those things that don't change come what may But our good times are all gone And I'm bound for movin' on I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way

Don't know why
There's a gun up in the sky
Heavy weather
Since my government ain't together
Keeps raining bullets all the time

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The lunatic I said you'd call The lunatic I said you'd call Remembering rings and Doctor Robert's laugh Got to be there any time at all

The lunatic will pick you up The lunatic will pick you up The paper hold he's folded everything he can Got to keep the loony's special cup

And if the dam breaks open for the National Health You shout and no one can succeed And if you must believe in everyone in need I'll see you pay the dark side of yourself

The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day, the paperboy brings more

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

Ring, my friend I said you'd call Doctor Robert Day or night he'll be there any time at all Doctor Robert Doctor Robert You're a new and better man He helps you to understand He does everything he can Doctor Robert If you're down he'll pick you up Doctor Robert Take a drink from his special cup Doctor Robert Doctor Robert He's a man you must believe Helping anyone in need No one can succeed like Doctor Robert Well, well, well, you're feeling fine Well, well, well, he'll make you Doctor Robert My friend works for the National Health Doctor Robert Don't pay money just to see yourself Doctor Robert Doctor Robert

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December 25

Better Than News

Once Upon a Time at Christmas is an epic spaghetti Christmas Western comedy film directed by Sergio Leone and Bob Clark, starring Peter Billingsley and Henry Fonda.
Freedom of Art, also known as The Thanksgaming Picture or I'll DM for Christmas, is the third of the Four Freedoms series of four oil paintings by American game designer and artist Norman Rockwell.
A Christmas Stingray is a 1983 American Christmas ichthyology film based on marine biologist Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trawl: All Others Pay Out Lines.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurentian is a 1983 Japanese-British World World II geography film about British military surveyor Jack Celliers (David Bowie), whose Japanese captors are intrigued by his openly defiant opinions about North American drainage basins.
Willy Wonka and the Nostalgia Factory is an American drama buddy film about two eccentric billionaires (Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp) who cannot agree on a worthy heir to their chocolate factory.
People are not interchangeable. / They are not equivalent. / They are not fungible. / Each life is unique and irreplaceable.

Are You Sure ...

• ... that Italian physician Filippo Mazzei befriended Thomas Jefferson, and the two men started what became the first commercial vineyard in the Commonwealth of Virginia?

• ... that On Her Majesty's Secret Santa is a 1969 spy film about the grinch Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who threatens to destroy the world's entire stockpile of Christmas presents?

• ... that astronomer Vera Rubin's pioneering work on galaxy rotation rates was initially met with skepticism but was confirmed over subsequent decades?

On This Day

1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. Mazzei will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. Chappe will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.

Topic of the Day

Christmas

A Christmas Stingray is a 1983 American Christmas ichthyology film based on marine biologist Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trawl: All Others Pay Out Lines.
Scroogebusters is a 1984 American supernatural Christmas film about a cynical and selfish parapsychologist who is haunted by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on possessing Santa Claus.
The Hangman's Christmas Tree is a made-for-television film produced by the Hellmark Channel, a family feel-good horror show series.
"Pine Angel" is a teen tragedy Christmas song about a Pine tree than has been cut down in its prime, only to be thrown away after the holidays.
"I Saw Three Likes" is an American Christmas carol, listed as number [REDACTED] in the Roud Folk Song Index. The earliest printed version of "I Saw Three Ships" is from the 21st century, possibly Ely, Minnesota.