Lampside Briefcase

Lennon James Martin

2006-01-04T13:35:00.000-08:00

i am here

2006-01-04T13:34:00.000-08:00

wait over here.

i get lost easy....

2005-10-27T19:53:00.000-07:00

dang passwords.

where are you?

i was trapped under water for weeks...

2005-10-11T07:49:00.000-07:00

but now i am back. wet but back. no not a wet back... just back and wet.

okay since we are on the topic.

The word "wetback" is a relatively new disparaging term for "an illegal Mexican immigrant or worker who crosses the Rio Grande into the United States, sometimes swimming to get across" (Hendrickson, 1997). There is some debate as to when the word was first recorded. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of the word was in 1929 when Foreign Affairs used it to refer to a peon that walks or swims across and is welcomed by countrymen as a ‘wetback’. However, according to the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, the first recorded use was in 1948 when the number of illegal Mexicans swarming the United States increased by a significantly large percentage.

The word "wetback" became widely used when the United States became involved in a military operation known as Operation Wetback. Post World War II, millions of Mexicans swarmed to the United States as the demand for cheap agricultural laborers increased. Between 1944 and 1954, known as "the decade of the wetback," "the number of illegal Mexican alien workers swimming across the Rio Grande to the United States increased by 6,000 percent" (Operation Wetback, 1997).
As a result, in 1954 Operation Wetback got under way as a national reaction against illegal immigration. Commissioner of INS, Joseph Swing oversaw the Border patrol, and organized state and local officials along with the police. The purpose of border enforcement was "illegal aliens," but Operation Wetback became strictly focused on Mexicans in general. Officials swarmed Mexican American neighborhoods in southeastern states. Some Mexicans, "fearful of the potential violence of this militarization, fled back south across the border" (Operation Wetback, 1997). In 1954, the agents discovered over one million illegal immigrants. Many of the illegal immigrants were deported to Mexico by trucks, buses, trains, and even ships. In some cases, "illegal immigrants were deported along with their American-born children, who were by law U.S. citizens" (Operation Wetback, 1997). The agents used a broad criterion for determining who were potential aliens. They began racial profiling of Mexicans on the street. This practice incited and angered many U.S. citizens who were of Mexican American descent. "Opponents in both the United States and Mexico complained of "police-state" methods, and Operation Wetback was abandoned" (Operation Wetback, 1997).

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Jack has been found!

2005-08-25T18:00:00.000-07:00

we found him with the neighbor walking down the side walk.

Lost Cat

2005-08-22T22:09:00.000-07:00

Help me find my

Lost Cat

picture left to right: Perry (at home), Jack (missing)

you can look but you can't touch

2005-08-16T14:09:00.000-07:00

this is a preview the the marketing launch of collective genius

www.collective-genius.com

tuesday?

2005-08-16T14:03:00.000-07:00

i have decided to make today Friday.

blog it baby

2005-08-16T14:02:00.000-07:00

blog IT.

the lot

2005-07-25T10:29:00.000-07:00

landed in san jose and blogging

2005-07-12T12:01:00.000-07:00

this is my Shakespearean blog within a blog blog.

a look back: team jistoray

2005-07-11T15:05:00.000-07:00

Team number one: Don and Donna get wet. Donny is sporting the front loaded backpack for easy access to the beer. He is a very sharing person. Donny is happy!

Team number 2: Carl and Emily happy and wet. Carl mentioned he really wanted the light blue poncho but they were out. Most would laugh but I wanted the light blue one as well. Emily smiles, Carl laughs at Anna.

Team number 3 (team martin): baby martin2 first concert Jistoray Atlanta, Midtown June 10th, 2005. Yeah i am starting to get the dave matthews hair line. dang that is cool.

Team number 4: MIA at Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Slide...

the fall of empire davern

2005-07-11T14:51:00.000-07:00

update from camp kohlman

2005-07-11T10:21:00.000-07:00

...last sunday, things have been mostly great. just tidying up the end of the snowboard season, shooting a few things here and there, etc. really mellow time of the year. july and august are usually basically a vacation. no real deadlines, just do whatever comes up. well, i was feeling a little shortchanged on my previous trip to switzerland so i planned on going to a camp there on the glacier at saas-fee.

scheduled to leave sunday night (the 3rd) and stay until the 20th or later. sunday afternoon i was riding my bike downtown to run a few errands and get some last minute supplies for the trip. it turns out that trying to tackle a midsize car such as the ford taurus at a medium speed from the seat of your bicycle is not a good idea. that'll get you a 3 day stay in the hospital, a fractured skull, a dislocated shoulder and a ruptured ear drum!! luckily, i lept up a little bit and my legs were totally spared, i just bounced off the hood/windshield.

trip: off.

No more running with balloons in the grass

2005-07-08T08:23:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of our little lady Kennedy the morning after she broke her arm running through the grass with a handful of balloons. I never knew how dangerous that could be.

Kennedy felt her babies needed some slings as well. She is doing fine and broke her arm in two place away from the growth plates.

Dang that is some crazy morning hair. That is what pig tails can do to you.

Here is a good picture of the hard cast Kennedy received a few days after her fall in the grass.

Wondering what is happening here? Kennedy decided she was not tired. Since her door was shut she could not get out so she though she would teach us a lesson. Good thing she only had energy to remove two drawers worth of clothes before falling asleep on them.

night night

we are having a boy

2005-07-06T12:49:00.000-07:00

kid number two and the name is picked... we were considering martin martin martin but we thought we would do something a little different. I think we will keep atleast one of the martins.

Vandalay

2005-06-30T12:48:00.000-07:00

This is my friend Jeff and his band Vandalay. You may know Jeff from the 90's band Cliff Road.

I think he is wearing his lucky shirt.

top

2005-06-22T13:32:00.000-07:00

bottom

DarthJohn42 meets DarthJohn43

2005-06-21T13:58:00.000-07:00

I asked DarthJohn42 if he had ever met DarthJohn43 and he said "I met him once when we all stood in the darthjohn line. He was the guystanding behind me. I didn't catch his name though."

RUN!

2005-06-21T13:33:00.000-07:00

the blog monster!

bump bump bump bump

2005-06-16T10:08:00.000-07:00

elephant

baby Richard J. Leboeuf Jr.

2005-06-14T14:05:00.000-07:00

Richard J. Leboeuf Jr. due in November.

very cool.

thanks for the free wireless

2005-06-12T21:34:00.000-07:00

a shout out to amore coffee on grand ave saint paul for giving me free wireless as i sit in my car and borrow it after hours on a sunday night

amore

i am drinking a full pot of coffee

2005-06-11T10:56:00.000-07:00

mmm marriot brunch

Jistoray Plays Music Midtown (the trip)

2005-06-10T12:46:00.000-07:00

Trip to hotlanta

Wake up: 5:00 AM

Delta out of MSP: 9:00

(The plane ride to hotlanta. This was a dangerous ride being we were flying and part of a band. I had the iPod fired up on the plane.)

12:00 taxi to the court yard marriott

1:00 - Anna and I visited a restaurant by our hotel called the The China Buhda. It was dark in there I ate too much.

3:00 Hanging at Carl and Donny's hotel preshow warm up. They found a cool 1920's hotel. These guys are true rockstars. The uppity management (Anna, I, and baby) stayed at a Marriott. Hey we are just playing our roles...

We hung out for a while discussed practicing... This was a very cool place with an underground vibe. We thought it would be a good idea after our dinner. Practice never happened but the band warmed up on some wine.

Picture: Carl talking with Anna - the dons talking about running for some beer.

4:00 Jistoray Family dinner next to the highland inn (cool place). Our server works at the local college radio stations so he got a free cd. Some day I think we will sell these things but for now I think my job is to give them away... That must be a trade secret of year one.

Left to right: Emily, Carl, Jeff, Jon, Anna, Don, Donna

The drink: Carl identifies the wine rock stars drink. A few glasses later the band did not need to warm up anymore. I ate like the veggies Don and Carl. We had hummus, flat bread and veggies.

Jon ate meat. drummers need meat.

Side note: We had had our stage passes but no striny deal to put them on. So our server hooked us up with some twine they had in the kitchen. I bet tom petty got one of those stringy deals.

8:00 Jistoray played a great show tonight to the ~300,000 people that made it out. Okay not all 300,000 stopped by the stage but let just say < ~300,000 were there for the show. The show was really good. It was starting to rain a little bit and many people were under the trees catching a spot to watch Jistory jam. They gained a lot of interest from the local Atlanta music people. They played a good set and at the end made some on the spot modifications to their set list. I think they were making room for perfect circle.
A pic of Carl giving Jon and Donny a head nod only they would understand.

10:00 We had the opportunity to see the Counting Crows. It was one of the most emotional shows I have ever witnessed. The lead singer admitted partly through their set he received a phone call 20 minutes prior to the show that his good friend had passed away. Dang he sang his heart out.

This is a bad stage and monitor pic. I think my camera was drunk.

11:35 caught a small bit of the white stripes...

12:45 is it too late to get a sub?

hello self

2005-06-09T10:00:00.000-07:00

go to the bathroom.

miracles happen

2005-06-09T09:48:00.001-07:00

willy

he plays golf, he rents, he games, he eats burritos and pizza, and he is part of the big truck club

coffee is cold

2005-06-09T09:40:00.000-07:00

my brain is buzzing. is buzz bad?

the light side

2005-06-09T09:34:00.000-07:00

darth john

http://darthjohn.blogspot.com/

technology marketing

2005-06-09T09:32:00.000-07:00

technology marketing

www.ignitedivision.com

zen master.

2005-06-09T09:22:00.000-07:00

mark kohlman.

http://www.markkohlman.com

follow me!

2005-06-09T09:14:00.000-07:00

jumping the river