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Flange
Everybody that knows me know I like trains -- DUH! I started a thing on video where railfans can share videos they shot of trains. It is called Railfan Exchange. Again, when YouTube came along, it rendered the need to do it on tape moot.
Phelps or America
America is mired in an illness that it has suffered from it's inception. If the United States is to survive, then all citizens must realize that discrimination against one is discrimination against all. We elect bad leaders rather than allow other people the freedoms and protections that we enjoy. We thank God for his graces, then try our best to deny those graces from others. Fred Phelps likes to say that God hates America. If we do not figure out how to live and let live, Fred Phelps may be right, but not for the reasons that the Phelps family states in their protests. Here are all the videos I can scrounge and put in one place on the whole Phelps issue.
Kansas City Crossroads
Kansas City Crossroads has become the crossroads for art and culture in this little corner of the Midwestern United States.
SCeNe 6
In January 1989, while attending Central Missouri State University, I got involved with the Student Cable Network, through my friend Mark Dashner. We started a show there called SCeNe 6. Our goal was to go out and videotape local bands and present them in a show. This started me on a lifelong hobby, which is now my profession. The following are videos that I shot for the final version of SCeNe 6, which was a 2 hour tape I put together of bands I shot mostly in 1993. The theme of the video 'zine was "the state of all-ages shows in Kansas City." I started out with some mixed videos, all of which I had a hand in producing. In April of '93, I went to the Outhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, where Keith Patterson put on one of the first shows of that year there. Then I went to St. Louis, to a place called Cummels Cafe, where oddly enough it seems, the City doesn't have much of a problem with all-ages shows and artistic expression. By the way, Cummels is still in existence. Then, back to Kansas City. The year 1993 was a bad year for flooding in the midwest. While I was in St. Louis, the floods reached their peak. In Kansas City, I visited a place called the Rhumba Box. I ended up staying all night. That night, record breaking rains fell on Kansas City. It flooded Southwest Boulevard, including a place called Java Gaia, where Mike Check had his clothing store. During that rain, Mike was walking across the street and got nailed by a hit and run driver. The serious injuries he sustained were very expensive, and he had no insurance. To top it off, he lost his business that night to the flood. So his friends at the Rhumba Box, and a lot of Kansas City local bands got together and threw a benefit concert for him. That show is how I concluded my video zine.
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