Animal Talk

 A bird on the cover or a cat on the cover?

Car music today

Car music today: mostly Kid A

Controversy

Military moms in uniforms breastfeeding.
I think if they put those pictures on billboards over the freeways there'd be some traffic accidents.

Bankrupt

A company that laid me and a buncha other people off a while ago...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing files for bankruptcy

Thank God she's not 16 anymore...

'Cause then this summer she'd end up riding with a distant cousin on the top of a car, speeding down a country road with little pellets of bugs hitting their faces, with some idiot teenage boy behind the wheel, and she would never do that now. Special song. Never listened to it all the way through...but maybe someday...

Special picture:

Prom date's mom worked for NASA and would sometimes get interviewed by TV crews in Costa Rica!!!!

Bad Mobo

"Sounds like the name of a band."
Could be. Or how about Fried Mobo.
"Bad Mobo" is what was writ on the form
Think I'll look at/listen to happy Bluegrass.
RIP Doc
Some of them look like little cities...

Large tree trunks & a flower

Is this happening soon?

Manhattanhenge
similar to Stonehenge?
sounds intriguing

fashiony stuff

I'm not so up on fashions and things, but sometimes it's fun to read articles by Ms. Schepens, a girl who was in my high school creative writing class...
Um...this is sort of recent...Designer Finds Moment of Zen

Lucy...

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

What I'm reading

In between fits of weeping and searching for a new computer...
Lit. One of my grad school friends has read it. If the other one gets to it, we'll have a book club over the phone...

Bah

It's not just the OS that's bad on the "deal" of a computer; it's the hardware too. Some deal!
CROCUS SCHMOCUS
I just thought that would be fun to say or type.
Oh my gosh. You can actually find stuff when you google that.

Instrumental music

Background music to work to.
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

A song heard on a road trip

Here we go magic - A different ship - Over the ocean

Not for sleepy driving!

Big Clover

This Memorial Day

Stepped outside and saw a squadron(?) of military aircraft in the sky. Everyone was looking at those. I wondered if all the pilots were in a really good mood. Hopefully so.

Terrific song

Thanks, military man's music collection. Fallin' - Connie Francis

So one time, my computer died

and then I found one on sale and plus got an extra discount and got excited and called people who were out but then one was in and I got, like, this astonishing, fire and brimstone, super religious um... and then the new computer didn't work either??? them's the breaks sometimes

This animation

The Best Country For Mothers

Maps and music

Maps and music are remedies. Ma-a-aps song. Any one of those maps books would probably be very pleasant to spend some time with.

An Opinion

I think army brats, and everyone else, should get AFFORDABLE health insurance for life.
I mean, health insurance that's actually useful and pays for stuff.
_ _ _ _ _
For some reason I got Crackity Jones in my head.
~~~~~~
And then Where Is My Mind.

A Writer

I read My War by Paul Fussell. I'd never heard of him before, but he died this week.

Maps

A map from You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination

From Brain Pickings - Creative Cartography: 7 Must Read Books On Maps

Fun Album covers

that are also somewhat food or beverage related
and good songs too, of course.

The Logical Song

Goodbye Stranger

Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings

MT writes a librarian

I am greatly troubled by what you say

The strangeness of coming out from anesthesia...

 "I started to wake, I saw the big round lighting fixtures on the ceiling and the first thing that went into my mind was Mark Twain...And I'll be damned if now whenever I'm left to drowsing by myself all my thoughts don't start coming out like a Mark Twain book.  I think somehow in the deep slumber of anesthesia, close to death itself, Mark Twain's words got in there.  And they seem to be stuck there..."

Check out girl recommendation

It can be a good idea to listen to the girl bagging your groceries...
Ray Bradbury & Snoopy

Be kinder to yourself...

Don't yo-yo diet...
Body Hatred Killed My Gall Bladder

Eggplant

I think I clicked on this for the picture.

PS - Quick Selection & Refine Edge

If you're going to watch a photoshop tutorial, it should be one with a guy proferring (sp?) an eggplant.

High school meme(s?)

It quite makes sense...for many, high school is the era of broken valentines.
Thanks to a high school photography class, I got very interested in some old photographs.
It Won't Come Smooth
MacDonald family
I wonder if high schools still have photography classes with dark rooms and fixer and stuff.
~~~~~
Maybe not? But I guess they have the internet and things like High School Memes...

Rattlesnakes

This was fun to drive/singalong to yesterday.
Artist's Rattlesnakes cover.

is crazy, no?

There is an Antique Vibrator Museum.
~~~~~~~
Uh oh. Water aerobics shenanigans...
Old Ladies Who Didn't Love Me

"sounds like a brother"

I heard someone say that phrase recently, so I decided to search it on the internet...hmmm...
There's...
Sounds Like A Brother (Explicit)
Love You Like A Brother
The Sisters Brothers
and much more!
Now I have to go to bed
but maybe I'll investigate that more tomorrow.

How happifying

Birmingham Rollers and Beethoven
found that at this post:
Praise for Pigeons!

What can tick me off

Finding out that someone worked hard and diligently at her minimum wage hotel maid job, got tipped by customers who were impressed by the service, etc., and then the health insurance pays for notafuckingthing.

Shores of Silver Lake

(Illustrations by Garth Williams)

More from Shores...

More lovely illustrations by Garth Williams

Book Addiction is Terrible

Today I got this:

That very afternoon Clarence pulled Martha's hair. Her brown braid whisked across his desk as she turned her head, and he caught it and gave it a tug.

“Clarence,” Laura said. “Do not disturb Martha. Give your attention to your lessons.”

He gave her a friendly grin that said as plainly as words, “All right, if you say so; I don't have to.”

To her horror, Laura almost smiled. Barely in time, she kept her look stern. Now she was sure that she would have trouble with Clarence.

--“One Week.”

Also this, which I have never read, but looks like something you'd unearth from a book stash in someone's attic.

What's a linnet? A valerian?

Eclipse

Beach

This looks like a good candidate for either the Jesus Footprints poem or Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy.

Heyyy...intriguing...

Jherek Bischoff - Young and Lovely

Fun Summer Song

This Time I Know It's For Real
~~~~~
"Sorry, I have to listen to this again. Is it going to bother you?"

"I've tuned you out."

"Cool."

Saturday is...

Sitting on the couch listening to The Battle of Evermore while someone else plays WOW before going to the beach (with his friends that work at Blizzard? No, actually, those people had to cancel.)
Also today--a little boy burst out laughing after reading a story about Mary Anning.
A girl discovered dinosaurs?
Yes, a girl.

Boo-ga-loo-ing?

Boo-ga-loo Flick Book

Googling hair

This is what happens when I google hair.

Googling Marsha Hunt

What comes up when I google Marsha Hunt

Aggghh

Who doesn't love a book that says Aggghh
Sublimating Rage Through Arts and Crafts

A stitched watch!

That would be cool to make. Sublimating Rage Through Arts and Crafts.

This is a cute mailbox

Sublimating Rage Through Arts and Crafts

This is cool

From Sublimating Rage Through Arts and Crafts

Actually checked this out...

I hesitate to repeat this, but...

I am being obstructed from checking on library fines by this message on the local library webpage:

pPpPpPpPpPpPpPPPpPpPpPpwn3d by eCORE!
yes nobody more! just me!

LatinHackTeam are
eCORE $ AdminP4nic $ infeKt

Follow us on twitter
@LatinHackTeam
stop global warming!

Things changed,
but lov you a**** ♥
u.u"

I need to check on library fines so I do not get more poor. 

Seriously, that is very weird. 

Day of the Dead Art

                                                              MexicanSugarSkull.com

Sigh freaking sigh

Toothache = buzz kill.
Actually, anything pain-related.
Life is not fair.
And it is expensive.
Let me figure something out.
First, go get some ibuprofen.

The human body is perplexing

"But really the human body is more like a tree. It's permeable; it bleeds..."
Florence Williams (author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History) on Fresh Air today.
They talked about household plastics and contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune Marine Base.
It was on the radio after I went for a walk. I saw trees and many scampering lizards.

Doing tolerable well

I think it would be fun to go to Disneyland today.
But what must I do? Sweep and clean the floor.
Oh well...maybe another day...

agapeness

Rocky Raccoon

Black and White?

Color?

I have to go get some work done.

How one hears things

So I did something with the blending mode in Photoshop and now I just cannot get Hotel out of my head. I thought (erroneously) that she sings "Multipy" over and over again. Apparently not! I also did not know that the words "Lollipop Gestapo" were in that song...interesting...

Exactly what I need...

Scripture with my candy

Interesting distraction

Cannes female-free directors line-up criticized

In The Morning

While dressing, forgot that the bedroom door was open.


(Which is really no big deal, since there’s a shielding wall between the doorway and the vanity area, and only needed to put on a t-shirt anyways.)

Question: “Is our roommate home?”

Answer: “I don’t know.”

Reply: “I’m surprised at your openness.”

Stop. Put the bottle of tea tree oil down on the counter. Feet go padding softly across the floor.

“I don’t mind…”

The door clicks shut.

More bird thoughts

I quite admire Pieces of Margo's admiration for her parrot.

I like this song: "Fly my Brazilian lovebird..." I mean, Brazilian Lovesong by Nat King Cole and Bebel Gilberto.

If you ever want to move to a place where you could get dive-bombed by hummingbirds, California/Los Angeles is the place...

Lola!

So, for some reason, I just decided that I felt like listening to Lola. Which is also the song that makes me think of pot-smoking high school kids on an island in the Pacific Northwest in the '90s. And then of course, I had to think about the Lola that made the biggest impression on my life...

Lola was an Amazon parrot. She was in love with a guy I went out with who was a rainforest guide. He used to catch baby caimans and he knew all sorts of bird calls...also, he'd climb the vines up giant kapok trees. When I worked in a warehouse job one summer (wrapping ties and trinkets for the Smithsonian magazine) I talked about him, and the boys I worked with guffawed and called him "Tarzan." So insensitive. Anyways, Lola was a smart parrot with a scary beak.She stole the key to my room and wouldn't give it back to me. But why was her attitude towards me so bizarre? I guess she felt competitive or something...

Aw, two Lolas...

Not long ago, the ex from Peru wrote and asked if I'd ever move back. He pointed out how great the food is down there. True, but alas, I am not as money'd as I was in my youth...

Fly, Lola, fly....

(Pics from Walls of the Wild, Scarlet Macaw Petshop, and a travel blog.)

On the other hand...

Little kids have some pretty cool insights.
So do teenagers.
And even some people in their twenties.
I guess it all just depends....

Youth...

Youth is very popular.
Youth can be overrated.
I think I'll remember to seek the wisdom of my elders.
I'm so grateful to have found a cure to my addiction to people telling me I look youthful, 'cause I know that won't last forever!

I would like...

dance lessons...

Toes & Heart

Grouchy amusing Peanuts

It could be a long tattoo...

Oh God, now there's more bad news about health insurance and not being able to pay for surgery. Well, even though it may not being rioting in the streets over tortillas, it's not exactly a joke either.

No, I don't think that would make a very good tattoo. A different kind of poem or a picture would be much better.

This is one useful sentence

And I want it to stick in my head.
Money flows towards the writer.
(From "For Novice Writers...")

Hurricanes

Hopefully hurricanes won't hit the East Coast this summer.
I might go to South Carolina. First time leaving Cali in 2 years.
My gypsyish immediate family members move around a lot.
Sometimes I think it would have been nice to live in one place.
More stability. Less neurosis.
I used to draw a lot of tornado clouds in margins.
Oh well...I guess the grass is sometimes greener...
Pancake.

Good Stones song

Wild Horses

16 going on 17...

This is a revise of a delightful Rodgers and Hammerstein tune that I used to sort of plunk around on the piano:
Sixteen Going On Seventeen
This is from the Sound of Music soundtrack:
Sixteen Going On Seventeen

72 cheers for molasses and brown sugar

molasses is in some tori amos songs
and brown sugar is in moravian sugar cake
i thought molasses would be in that cake too
it's not though
the rolling stones sing something about brown sugar
it's hard to be very clever right now
dialogue from the boiler room (movie) is fracturing the atmosphere
and i have to do some work
so anyway
there is no molasses in moravian sugar cake

3 songs

There were 3 songs that got stuck in my head today:
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
(it was playing in the 99 cent store)
You're Not Alone
(a family member with a messed up health/insurance/financial situation likes that song)
Kiss Off
(it was playing in the car on the way home)
There really should have been a fourth one about money....

Baba Ku

Dancer

Drummer

Jester

Cupcake

Cupcake--er, I guess, author's page
from
Bake Sale
(new library book)

Happy Monday...

I love this:

[Then there is this dream with its other bright edges]

I feel like reading that after watching some of the Miley Cyrus "Part of Your World" song was kind of like mashing together two cakes--one of the four-year-old mind, and one of the adult mind. (Even though The Little Mermaid came out when I was twelve.) I have to go to the beach soon....

Cool Sword Dancer

Al Seraphim Mora