that said, why not check out Olive Kitteridge
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Tinsily distracting
"There was once a woman who made terrible excuses for her significant other's behavior because..."
On the agenda for the evening
Two Broke Girls + Parasite
Although it might just be the movie if the show isn't easy to access.
It was a pretty scene
The officiant self-consciously said it was "just the elopement ceremony" but I am sure it looked good enough to be the real one!
I think they should change their name now.
I think the prices at the 99 cent store have gotten rather high.
See, she does know stuff
Lorna Byrne on Twitter: "Angels can be very creative at times in getting us to listen. They need to be, as so often we don't recognize the answer to our prayers as it doesn't look the way we expect it to. Blessings Lorna #angels #angel #creative https://t.co/8Rxyo3G9uR" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/LornaByrne/status/1365006232000598017
An hour and a half of silent entertainment
"The Flapper" (1920) Starring Olive Thomas - YouTube
Because the people in the documentary trailer said she was funny. And I don't know what I am doing.
Hopefully it got better
"The mysterious death of ‘the most beautiful woman on earth’"| by Stephanie Buck | Timeline
https://timeline.com/hollywood-scandal-olive-thomas-ede513a2f57c
"Olive’s funeral featured plenty of female fans fainting dead away just like they would at the Valentino death-circus several years later."
~ G. Thomas
https://brightlightsfilm.com/beautiful-dead-girl-olive-thomas-collection-dvd/
"In an effort to support her family, Duffy ended her education at age 15. She found a job selling fabric at a department store and was married by age 16 to Bernard Krug Thomas."
"Olive Thomas" | Hometowns to Hollywood
https://hometownstohollywood.com/pennsylvania/olive-thomas/
Trailer | OLIVE & JACK
Like a garden?
The universe was like "sometimes you have a way of tapping into that martyrdom for a cause energy" and the universe was also like "but this time I'd rather steer it towards another direction, like creating a garden."
then there's that energy
"Well i just wish those guys would have paid attention to me" pierced through the fog, well why not pretend they're an environmental cause and go forward with that and then maybe this unnecessary drag won't have to continue.
I wish x would come back
and do his creative complaining thing so I could just sit there and listen and feel good about the education I was getting
"bystander effect" & "environmental topic of choice"
so much creative complaining potential with those two
who else did it
Favorite teachers.
They complained sometimes!
And somehow, it was admirable and appropriate when it was their turn to do it.
"why not do something better" prompt
Ex: why not do something better than fixate on women who complain if you don't like what they're complaining about.
universe was like, you're allowed to notice things
someone who made a joke with me in a park about being a doctor or nurse and needing mouth to mouth resuscitation did not offend me because no malice was intended whereas people who get fixated on making sure you don't complain and seem to be not too nice about it are perilously close to that ever unpopular "retaliation" territory...come on really????
fell asleep, no TV, woke up
Not complaining will pay off for you some say, but that simply isn't true. Man, if I were a man, they'd pay me to complain. Now imagine the circumstances that would make someone say that. Or say your fixation on dress codes is insensitive and unnecessary. See this article again:
https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/dress-code/
Suffragette
Feminist
Composers
Complained.
Please complain
Come to my women who weren't supposed to complain party
Women for women in Bosnia who complain
MLK complained
Malcolm X complained
You complain a lot yourself
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Guys, I feel
I might check this out when it gets darker outside.
Ilana Glazer: "The Planet is Burning (2020)" - Rotten Tomatoes
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ilana_glazer_the_planet_is_burning
I for one feel hopeful
That some women with severely internalized patriarchal systems aren't still saying "boys are so much easier, girls are so much trouble." At BABY SHOWERS.
Greener
"Humor helped 90% of subjects feel more hopeful about about climate change"
https://www.inverse.com/science/climate-change-is-terrifying-humor-science-can-help
It's like this stuff intersects or something
"Gender and the environment: What are the barriers to gender equality in sustainable ecosystem management?"
https://www.iucn.org/news/gender/202001/gender-and-environment-what-are-barriers-gender-equality-sustainable-ecosystem-management
Dire environmental weirdos
"We saw your brothers and now you better not get out of line because it's a small world, missy."
I am sorry but the bees are dying off.
She's so funny!
"I pray you're born a woman in your next birth" (subtitle / translated at 1:45)
~ Kamla Bhasin
Satyamev Jayate Season 3 | Episode 6 | "When Masculinity Harms Men | Love of power" (Subtitled)
Not about cats, but kinda cool
"Teachers Day: A Message For My Teacher"
&
"An Open Letter To Kamla Bhasin On Teacher’s Day"
There are some clues
"Grimes shares song about putting her obese cat on a diet"
https://www.nme.com/news/music/grimes-62-1234625
"hi here's grimes booping her cat"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimes/comments/9wrppc/hi_heres_grimes_booping_her_cat/
"Grimes Releases Collaboration Song With Majical Cloudz About A Fat Cat –"
"Listen to an unreleased song about Grimes’ cat" – Consequence of Sound
https://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/listen-to-an-unreleased-song-about-grimes-cat/
Grimes & Devon "Voignamir"
What kind of cat does she like?
"What Is Grimes’ Real Hair Color?"
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/grimes-real-name.html/
This 😹 is different
"Happy gardens for cats: your guide to creating a cat-friendly garden"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcTsYdKdMRk
There's a lot of "how to keep cats out of the garden" when you search for "garden cats"
Cute cat content day 🐈
Imagine if some people used their actions and speech to show they are as enthusiastic about other things as they are about climbing up a ladder though.
scratchy Saturday
"Tips on dealing with unwanted scratching from your cats"
https://foxsanantonio.com/features/for-pets-sake/tips-on-dealing-with-unwanted-scratching-from-your-cats
I'm not watching television
I'm watching a non-famous gamer play a "famous-to-gamers" gamer. Oooo, it went well. Non-famous gamer had a "very aggressive, quick deck" apparently.
Friday, February 26, 2021
Kitten advices
Such a variety.
"Does it get better? My kitten has drained all the happiness out of me: Pets"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/1lnsnu/does_it_get_better_my_kitten_has_drained_all_the/
I ' ll just say ripples
In conclusion, some people can still get more worked up about lots of things based on their training to be fearful, as opposed to curious and interested, and that just doesn't feel like it's as much fun sometimes. So what if the universe is eagerly anticipating different kinds of ripples. I can look at this again...
"Women of the White Buffalo" - A documentary by Deborah Anderson
"glass cliff"
It's a new way of seeing it.
Julie S. Lalonde on Twitter: "YUP. And you don't change culture by simply pushing women off a glass cliff. https://t.co/pi2GxWDTfZ" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/JulieSLalonde/status/1365353445121785857
Because it's not too much
"Bella Thorne Reflects on Her Childhood Sexual Assault, Late Father and Mental Illness in New Book"
https://people.com/music/bella-thorne-new-book-most-shocking-revelations/
Why is the moon so
"Voltage Pictures Launching Global Sales On Bella Thorne Movie 'Time Is Up’"
"Bella Thorne 'Shake It' Video Not Meant to Be Controversial"
I feel kind of inspired though
To draw his hand???
"Obama Pretty Sure Clueless Men Are The Reason Tampons Are Taxed As Luxury Items"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-tampon-tax_n_569950f0e4b0778f46f94d97
Just to be repetitive
"On top of being impractical, Campbell says, the old dress code at ETHS was not being equitably enforced.
“A lot of our students felt—and I agreed with them—that if certain females were not a certain body type, if they had more curves or they had certain features that were developed, they were dress coded over another young lady who may not have the same features but were wearing the exact same items. Our young women of color were dress coded more than our white girls were.”
~ J. Gonzalez
"Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code" | Cult of Pedagogy
Climate change might mean
"Showing too much skin" is always much more stressful for certain bodies.
"Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code" | Cult of Pedagogy
Here's the moon being influential
I heard howling, too, but missed recording it.
"Moon Sign Astrology..." *why not*
https://www.thecut.com/article/moon-sign-astrology-what-your-moon-sign-means.html
just to get it out of the way
Brother (s) it can be a little enervating when distant people who didn't...now have various ways of showing or seeming to imply that they wish they'd met you in a meadow or on a bus or next to the velociraptor...
Budgies being...
"birdketball"
https://www.reddit.com/r/PetsareAmazing/comments/lsv9wa/birdketball/
Well, I don't know if bird ID is my forte.
Amazing :3 kitty
"Cat that vanished 15 years ago reunited with owner"
https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-cats-palmdale-f7124cbe659faa47b5758567d386e74f
tap ta tap ta tap
"This mad cat swims"
O
http://www.katievagnino.com/poetry/chrysalis/
W
http://www.katievagnino.com/poetry/mise-en-scne/
O
http://www.katievagnino.com/poetry/the-worst-metaphors-for-our-relationship/
W
http://www.katievagnino.com/poetry/how-to-explain-death-to-your-daughter/
Ow....
https://notalwaysright.com/its-official-cats-are-the-cure-for-everything/227903/
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Or a massive rocket
"Flight of the Conchords - The Summer of 1353 (Woo a Lady)" - Dallas, TX 10-26-2016 - YouTube
Patriarchal/Maternal methods of communication?
Greta Thunberg on Twitter: "If you needed more solid proof that the climate- and ecological crisis can not be solved within today's systems, well here you go." / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/gretathunberg?prefetchtimestamp=1614284035429
~~~~~~~~
Intelliblog: ALL ABOUT NASTURTIUMS
http://nicholasjv.blogspot.com/2016/08/all-about-nasturtiums.html?m=1
~~~~~~~~
I suppose it's weird it wasn't
"patriarchal" & "matriarchal"
Siiiiiiigh
"Bella Thorne Blasts Public Scrutiny Britney Spears Faced: 'No One Gives Disney Kids Enough F***ing Credit'"
+
"Grimes offers a glimpse at unreleased Miss Anthropocene visuals"
Don't want a world without cameras
It would make some people sadder.
https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/azealia-banks-ryder-ripps-engagement-grimes/
I think I just got the Hanukkah song in my head.
https://genius.com/Adam-sandler-the-chanukah-song-lyrics
I mean the Chanukah song.
Pricier now...
A bookseller who searched for a physical copy for me told me he thinks the price of a new copy is higher now because the publisher re-issued the book?
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Heaven-Lake/John-Dalton/9780743246354
I got A Tree Grows In Brooklyn used and ordered a used version of Heaven Lake.
But what about the salary increases
"Eleven unfair ways people make more money"
https://careers.workopolis.com/advice/eleven-unfair-ways-people-make-more-money/
What a creative yet horrible thought
Did anyone on this planet ever torture her mouth to make herself eat less and look prettier and thinner? I wouldn't doubt it, but that would be a terrible way of dealing with things.
"The new eating disorder this year is..."
Kind of an interesting question
If some people have recordings of their previous behaviors all over the www, are there any they'd want to take down now, or is it just fine to keep the recordings available as-is as educational tools?
Satisfactory
Could doctor see me? No, but they moved up the appointment.
Did the waterpik and saltwater help more? Yes.
Is doing
I can't believe I am just complaining about my tooth issue right now, but it is the thing my body did.
& the health of others
I worry about a person's chronic cough
Is it this:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/that-nagging-cough
Well that person doesn't worry about it and is not coughing right now...
So back to the dental issue which is annoying but not as bad. Or maybe an excuse to scream or something. Or complain, at the least, about unfairness. And maybe realize this should get better. Why not. It wasn't always that way. So, get smart about how to handle that sort of health issue is maybe the next thing to do now.
Life in a body can be such a nuisance sometimes
I have a pain issue in the back upper right side of my mouth which happened after eating food in the evening and then the space between the last back two teeth got very irritated and I am supposed to see a dentist about it in April but it's very lame kind of pain to deal with right now. I wonder if I should try a different thing or try to call them when their office opens.
I also wonder if this stuff happens as a way to complain about pain. Here's the pain to complain about now: pain in the upper right back part of the mouth. Too much space and maybe exposed nerve or something in the gum area. This is something unpleasant that needs to get fixed by some hand or some medicine.
Oh tooth area you've gotten very upset and you deserve to feel better finally, isn't that right, so what can I do to help you feel better?
It's a very uncharming pain.
Weirdly, typing about it has toned the pain down somewhat and that's kind of nice! But it's totally still annoying and yucky enough to complain about. Hmmm. What to do?
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Dear Esteemed Institution
Did you see that movie about the promising young woman.
Space to draw an interpretation.
because because because
"new spectrographic technology"
~ R. Handler
https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/behind-the-new-gloriously-queer-emily-dickinson-movie.html
Maybe I'll make a little thing
A little Harris Burdick-esque book with blank pages. Here's some text. Draw an interpretation.
I wonder if he ever read "A Tree..."
"But there is another twist, one having to do less with foreign agents than with domestic labor relations."
~ Amy Davidson Sorkin
Formative first grade is distracting me from the film
I think the universe wants me to work out something.
Nice conversational kid twice my age who made me a clay heart on the steps in front of my apartment and "bad" but also very conversational kid in class who played with plastic red sticks from cheese and crackers packages and didn't go to the religion class and there were so many pencil scribbles.
Everywhere (on the desk, on paper).
It's because the teacher was so mean. I wonder if she liked poetry? She liked plants. A LOT better than us.
I wonder how this other interpretation will be
A Quiet Passion (2016)
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_passion
Well, I can say that the repression in the first 15 minutes is at least 10x heavier.
I heard Bakersfield has good Basque food
Plus other kinds...
La Santa Cecilia - "Strawberry Fields Forever" - YouTube
Makes sense to 🎶
"Don Ho sings 'Tiny Bubbles' - Hollywood Palace 1/21/67"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mlCiDEXuxxA
"Hummingbirds Jewelled Messengers w Sir David Attenborough"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PI41xRQiNNI
Greta Thunberg on Twitter: ""If we continue on our current path we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security/.../And if the natural world can no longer support the most basic of our needs, then much of the rest of civilisation will quickly break down." https://t.co/tfP2OiXx0w" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1364487994980335619
The "Wild Nights..." movie was so good, & also
"Banished women"
"Banished Indigenous Women Fight Tribal Leaders In Federal Court"
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Maybe this would be interesting
Thomas Frank on Twitter: "Great new video series from @Logitech, produced by @realstreetsense and hosted by @gabriella_deyi --> #LogiTalk: @Leahtommi on Intersectional Environmentalism https://t.co/wQjTUt8PZq via @YouTube" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/leahtommi
"Episode 153: Embracing Intersectional Environmentalism — She Explores: Women in the outdoors"
https://she-explores.com/podcast/embracing-intersectional-environmentalism/
Kinda wonder what poems actually
"'They saw each other once a week on the weekends, while the rest of the time they exchanged poetry and letters. These letters were intellectual exchanges about political and theological questions, written as much to display the author's intelligence as to convey knowledge,' Critchlow wrote."
~ E. Nicolaou
"Who Is Phyllis Schlafly? Facts About the Mrs. America Character"
https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a32094701/phyllis-schlafly-facts/
I'm sure their religion enriched their lives in many ways.
Okay, reality check with G. I guess
Greta Thunberg on Twitter: "”The climate emergency is already hitting ’worst case scenario’ levels that if left unchecked will lead to the collapse of ecosystems, with dire consequences for humanity.” https://t.co/pOqs5epfIH" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1364304377855545347
Don't get depressed, get creative.
okay, but
Tasha put her very trusting and colorful parrot upside down in a ceramic bowl, praised it's fatness and said "my, you'd be good eating" and then the next shot showed her hand slicing though a roasted chicken.
at LEAST it's possible
to make television consumption like a form of processing planetary energies
Tasha Tudor or Dexter or nature documentary
I have a spontaneity orientation sometimes
But there are people who went on those spinning amusement park rides and flipped upside down by accident. (I didn't.) So I am glad I never went on a Gravitron.
"NASA - The Pull of Hypergravity"
It seems that way sometimes
"Maybe if people listened to feminists more often there would be fewer helicopter crashes"
That first song
That made me like her so much
https://genius.com/Beth-orton-couldnt-cause-me-harm-lyrics
is probably most often the favorite...
Maybe...
"Desert Rose" – TheMagickalEarth
https://themagickalearth.com/pages/desert-rose
I just want to go out to the desert...and think about...why...the portion of patriarchal skewedness that has to do with abandonment is not equally harmful in all categories...it sounds sort of ascetic and appealing, actually.
The overlap between "Desert Rose" & "If I Ever Lose My Faith..."
I bet I will try this sometime
" The Big Sister | Vanilla And Bean"
https://vanillaandbean.com/the-big-sister/
I still drink occasionally.
another ✍ pairing to consider
thank you for writing
"Review of Asian Studies Vol. 18 (2016): 69-79 Grotjohn: k-pop"
https://ininet.org/review-of-asian-studies-vol-18-2016-69-79-grotjohn-k-pop.html
"Tavi Gevinson: Britney Spears Was Never in Control"
https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/tavi-gevinson-britney-spears-was-never-in-control.html
They can do so much for America
"How Emerson and Thoreau’s Transcendentalism Could Inspire a Re-Awakening (and Consensus?) After the COVID-19 Pandemic - Resilience"
"Whitman's Conflict with Emerson over the Body - Jeff's Literature Cafe"
https://sites.google.com/site/jeffsliteraturecafe/whitman-s-conflict-with-emerson-over-the-body
It's very cinnamon-y
It's not quite as healthy and spiritual as when I made a smoothie and sprinkled in some cinnamon.
I feel like I get this song in my head whenever I talk about making something with cinnamon ever since December.
"Variations on a Theme: Sinner Man"| The Mantle
https://www.themantle.com/arts-and-culture/variations-theme-sinner-man
I got marketed towards
The girl behind the counter swears she can get customers to buy this candy potato and that it's really good.
Here's the keys
WHY DON'T YOU be in older sister mode first.
It will be like a fun thespian exercise for you.
Maybe preparation for the next life, too.
ever feel that survival mode stuff kicking in?
There have been changes since last year and clear instructions are lacking and this video is almost a year old & does nothing to do to address how to do stuff in a new version of blah blah blah blah...
well, maybe there is something else that might be more helpful
it's all experimental!
what is this joke?
"I love that T.S. Eliot poem:
‘This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang and not with a whimper, But with a HODL!’" 11:26 AM · Feb 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/seanonolennon/status/1363208487153655808
Lucky, lucky John and Julian...
"Shared interests"
"Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse" | TED Talk
I guess it's good I used to live somewhere else
Driving around in the hills of upstate NY with no traffic...listening to Morcheeba...
I was looking for a book I had about different kinds of women's dances, and also for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, but I think they got sacrificed during one of the moves.
I think am going to make something like these again...but I don't want them to be too mayonnaise-y.
https://hostthetoast.com/garlic-herb-marinated-chicken-spiedies/
I was hoping for something a little different?
Me:
Let's see what's good to watch after you've finished Mrs. America.
Internet article:
We recommend MadMen!
Saw this for a reason
Matty D on Twitter: "@ebruenig I dunno. Strange birds are appearing https://t.co/lW5dSfi595" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/MDoryland/status/1364201338939277322
Monday, February 22, 2021
I literally just wanted to be watching a new show now
Desert rose stone distraction happened.
https://thoreauharding.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/thoreau-and-whitman-part-i/
I kind of wish she would share poems she likes
Gloria Steinem on Twitter: "A feminist movement is rising in poetry and protest in Russia. #FLetter arrives in the U.S. today with @_isolarii_. F LETTER is an anthology that assembles Russian activist poets in a lexicon of dissent that can be shared far and wide. https://t.co/76ScFKuMBh" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/GloriaSteinem/status/1319027252605161474
She didn't enjoy the Mrs. America series, which I really liked. Oh, well...
I feel like i have a desert rose stone
in the vicinity of my right hip. The feeling will probably go away. However, sometimes existing in this body steals away A LOT of my time.
MM & Emma M. ♡
"Marlena Myles on Twitter: "My art portfolio is blowing up today as a side effect of Zitkala-Sa getting highlighted as a google doodle since I have a piece that goes into some detail about her opera 😆 https://t.co/vXD0yfQVie "
Marlena Myles (@ThisIsMarlena) / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/thisismarlena?prefetchtimestamp=1614055154605
&
"Emma Marris: Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it"| TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/emma_marris_nature_is_everywhere_we_just_need_to_learn_to_see_it
I want to find out more about her, actually
I knew nothing about her!
"Zitkála-Šá & the Sun Dance Opera | The Art of Marlena Myles"
https://marlenamyl.es/project/zitkala-sa-the-sun-dance-opera/
(& it's too bad I can't understand the German documentary...)
"Zitkala-Sa, American Indian composer"
https://9to5google.com/2021/02/22/zitkala-sa-google-doodle/
"Sun Dance opera, hmmm..."
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-celebrates-writer-and-activist-zitkala-sa/
I got shown this
How to describe the sound?
"A bird calling out looking for its mate for life, not knowing it's the last of its species."
Probably could watch a less death-oriented show soon.
"whether you call that thing God or the cosmos or simply inspiration she isn’t sure, but"
~ E. Alex Jung
https://www.vulture.com/article/michaela-coel-i-may-destroy-you.html
"The Golden Globes snubbed Michaela Coel and honoured James Corden – do we live in hell?" | The Independent
agenda, agenda
X's: now we see x is being obstinate
X's: now we see x is waiting for a ghost to tell her other x's aren't being milquetoast
Actually, this is the first account of her story that I read last year
"The terrible murder of Junko Furuta, who lived 44 days in hell"– Film Daily
surely such horrors should never be repeated
"Were Junko Furuta's murderers ever brought to justice? Inside the story" – Film Daily
https://filmdaily.co/obsessions/true-crime/furuta/
And it shouldn't take such horrendous occurences for people to notice that degrading the value of girls and women is sick and unhealthy.
"We were taught to be misogynists"
"We even made it fun and entertaining for ourselves sometimes."
Maybe you should find an even better hobby!
"Why does society want to train me to do that to women"
Well, it might be out of fear and cowardice and other things.
Some cannot wait
for some people to change their tired, gas-lighting, hypocritical, self-absorbed behavioral patterns.
And their misogynist patterns inherited from the toxic patriarchal patterns...
CULTural practices that interfere with fun
Official Justice For Thae Ohu on Twitter: "This will be the last year I put on this uniform. When I reported my sexual assault. I was gaslit. Discredited. Ostracized. I wanted to do 20 years. https://t.co/syALM2pwbV" / Twitter
Official Justice For Thae Ohu on Twitter: "Then I found out what the USMC did to Thae. I don’t want to be a part of a institution that tolerate, and cover up sexual assault/harassment. -Pan They. Do Not. Deserve. Our. Beautiful. Energy. #JusticeForThaeOhu" / Twitter
Sunday, February 21, 2021
They're just hanging out
Death and loss are still hanging around.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/21/us/coronavirus-deaths-us-half-a-million.html
So eclectic.
Well, it is Sunday I suppose
"The Impassable Gulf (The Parable of Dives and Lazarus)," Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
Student loans at tax time, yuck
I still owe more than I originally borrowed in the 90s and 00s, and it feels like those payments I made amounted to just throwing money into a hole.
Wouldn't learning more about birds be beneficial
I didn't know what this one was, but sent a picture to someone who could ID it immediately.
what's $ good for these days
I can't believe I have to have the song from "The Story of the Thong Song" in my head. By the end of the interview with the string musician who is raving about his wife, it's like, I feel like I know a guy who would be amused by that, but more excited by whoever Albert Schweitzer was.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1952/schweitzer/biographical/
Maybe I should learn more about him, too.
"& how do you feel if"
you read about a character who is the type of guy who would play a tape of mewling pet noises outside of a girl's apartment to see if she'd come out until he heard the story that sex offenders might have tried it and then he stopped because he wasn't trying to be that, he just wanted to have a real conversation with someone who kept not wanting to (and of course that would be a good way to gain control over a situation he wanted to have more control over)
And include a body and biological process in there somewhere.
Maybe society should marry sad "Must've Been Love" types of songs to relationships with certain reproductive organizations' BS.
Mourned, created.
Older, but the songs are still good
La Luz - "Brainwash"
The Growlers ~ "Monotonia"
La Luz ~ "Call Me In The Day"
not a favorite dream
A man was complaining to me that a woman in his class was talking too much, and he showed me an unflattering cartoon he drew of her because he was an artist. When I asked for more details about it, he was very vague. The overall impression was that he just found her annoying because he liked the sound of his own voice better.
Continues to be
"Home > Relationships > It's Complicated"
"How a Mexican community kitchen is offering refuge from domestic violence"
"'We're very lucky to be able to work with what the land gives us to produce and escape the violence that we experienced at home,' said Alma, standing next to a still-smoking stove."~ AFP
She ♡s the monarchs
"Fort Myers 4-year-old is on mission to save monarch butterflies from extinction" - NBC2 News
"Juliette's Monarchs" - Home | Facebook
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Go, Watervliet Elementary
"VIDEO: Watervliet school collects 600+ cereal boxes for charity"
"'Fierce Girl Playing Hopscotch' by Alice Fulton" | Poetry Magazine
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/36081/fierce-girl-playing-hopscotch
Oops, that wasn't the Watervliet I went to
"Burst pipe pushes Watervliet elementary students into remote learning"
https://www.timesunion.com/news/amp/Burst-pipe-pushes-Watervliet-elementary-students-15913674.php
but still interesting.
I think I love this show.
I wish I had shows like this to watch when I was in high school. Or college.
Music's fun too...
Oh, catchy upbeat tune + depressing lyrics, that's just like life sometimes
https://genius.com/The-asteroids-galaxy-tour-the-sun-aint-shining-no-more-lyrics
I'm just going to buy an expensive map
Think about it think about it think about it
OKAY FINE. This map will bring me some kind of joy!
I know we can all get very mad at times.
Either "ha-ha!" mad or "angry" mad about a lot of stuff.
If people disappoint you, maybe just think about telling them and yourself, quit neglecting your connection with nature.
Of course, it might only be yourself you need to say it to.
Or better, "Cherish your connection with nature."
I can't believe how much a little walk outside can do for me sometimes. I don't know, maybe it's not that way with everyone. I feel lucky...
It's a bit sad today.
A distant family pet might leave pretty soon.
To pass into a zone of vast greenness, perhaps.
I put some thoughts in order
A) What's your brother going to do when he comes back in the body of a small-framed or any-size-framed woman (this is a thought I have had before)
B) thinking about watching a film about an illustrator later
https://theswoonsociety.com/2015/08/28/a-legend-in-her-own-time/
C) listening to "Zero Point" helped with doing dishes today
T.A. - "Zero Point"
https://songmeanings.com/m/songs/view/3530822107858627414/
Math metaphors
"Her story illustrates the calculus that Marine women must think about before they speak up"
~ P. Szoldra
"Her story illustrates the calculus that Marine women must think about before they speak up"
~ P. Szoldra
"Her story illustrates the calculus that Marine women must think about before they speak up"
~ P. Szoldra
"Marine calls out Corps for sexual misconduct in 'deeply disturbing' video"
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-sexual-misconduct-tiktok-video/
I think I'd like to peruse...
"Planting Guides" | Pollinator.org
"Our ecoregional planting guides, Selecting Plants for Pollinators, are tailored to specific areas of the United States. You can find out which ecoregion you live in and get your free guide by entering your zip code below."
Plants as medicine could be another interesting topic
"Aspirin, morphine and chemotherapy: essential medicines powered by plants" | Natural History Museum
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/essential-medicines-powered-by-plants.html
This might be harder to access...
Violence against women is a problem
"Emergency calls on violence against women spiked in Mexico in 2020"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-women-violence-trfn-idUSKBN29U2FH
I had a dream in which a Mexican man was trying to kill a Mexican woman, but he got distracted by seeing me (wanted to kill both of us), and then she took advantage of the moment to beat the crap out of him. She also gave him a lecture while she was doing it.
To get more detailed, in the dream, I was there, and I saw him sneak up behind her with cloths to blind and choke her, but I couldn't speak or say anything and I felt unhappy about it. However, he was so distracted that he moved away from her towards me and it gave her time to collect herself and she saw what she could use to bring him down and also tell him what she thought of his actions. The last thing I remember was being next to both of them. She used her hands and feet and a very heavy barrel of some kind of white powder. All he could say was that he hated women. He looked very pathetic by the end of it.
Maybe I can finally watch The Paper Chase (some other time)
Those words used to seem to come floating around me when I was still in high school, and I wondered why.
"Feigen recounted that her property-law professor, A. James Casner—later the inspiration for the professor in the movie The Paper Chase—designated only one day a year to call on women in the class, which he dubbed 'Ladies' Day.'"
&...&...&...&...
"'Mrs. America' Phyllis & Fred & Brenda & Marc (TV Episode 2020)"- IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9397678/
"Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice movie review (1969)" Roger Ebert
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bob-and-carol-and-ted-and-alice-1969
Curious language choices
So, female actors...
https://www.stage32.com/lounge/acting/Actor-vs-Actress-what-is-the-correct-title-now
Male actresses?
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/sep/25/readers-editor-actor-or-actress
Mankindish AND ageist?
Flipping between phone & TV
"Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin: Video alleging Marine assault 'disturbing'"
"Mrs. America..."
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/04/9722104/mrs-america-recap-season-1-episode-4-betty-summary
Friday, February 19, 2021
At home again watching television
WandaVision is alright, but I probably liked Tales from the Loop better.
"Tales From the Loop: Season 1 - Rotten Tomatoes"
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/tales_from_the_loop/s01
Okay.
https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2021/2/19/22291032/wandavision-episode-7-mid-credits-scene
Appreciated the song.
https://www.thewrap.com/wandavision-agatha-harkness-kathryn-hahn-theme-song/
fell asleep, woke up, retrieved phone
1-2-3
Haley Britzky on Twitter: "Saying there's "zero tolerance" for sexual assault and harassment doesn't mean anything when people see time and time again that there is, in fact, tolerance." / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/halbritz/status/1362837082285162500
Dwayne Johnson on Twitter: "This is a strong, important initiative 👏🏾 Well done my friend @ava and the groundbreakers at @ARRAYNow for this phenomenal work. You can count @SevenBucksProd in!! Step by step, sis 💪🏾" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheRock/status/1362862614737420288
‘I found the video deeply disturbing’: Here’s what we know about the viral video of a female Marine claiming her alleged ‘perpetrator’ will be allowed to stay in the Corps
WE are rededucated
There's more stories about basketball teams than about the massacres of insect pollinators.
Sometimes the Universe is just SO
RANDOM about some things.
"random | Origin and meaning of random by Online Etymology Dictionary"
https://www.etymonline.com/word/random
Inside Amy Schumer - "Football Town Nights (ft. Josh Charles)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2RUVnTlvs
YouTube on Twitter: "Heard of that small Welsh village with the mighty name of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?! 🏴 @jayforeman teaches you how to pronounce British places, with this lesson in nonsensical names 🗺️ → https://t.co/2gascbfeyN https://t.co/3K6aCJ2Kz3" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/YouTube/status/1362718547449950210
That's positive language
From a person who can enjoy continuing to develop a large capacity for empathy.
"I just want to start a flame in your heart."
https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1362871307516452865
Alas...what happens when you can feel both sides...
"Fargo-Moorhead's 'monarch massacre' starts national dialogue about butterflies and pesticides"
"I like parallel narratives"
Cookies consumed yesterday
All cornflake clusters and no snickerdoodles.
https://genius.com/Tori-amos-cornflake-girl-lyrics
ah...funny details though
Even the good garlic guy disappoints
This sounds disturbing, as if the young woman was assaulted, but it gets treated as an amusing anecdote ending in the birth of a "beautiful son."
Thursday, February 18, 2021
The Moon is hiding Mars
I so appreciate the moon and the stars tonight and I am sure spending more time appreciating nature would be the most healing thing.
Sometimes I feel bad when I think that someone with a genuinely helpful nature might have tried to ask me if I needed help years ago because I blew them off, but approaching a person on a street at night raises the likelihood of that happening. It's just that sometimes I am the person who would accept the help, but what if the universe interferes for some reason?
I don't think that past has to be repeated.
Internet communications have flaws. Face to face may be better, but who knows.
It's nice to be in a place where you feel appreciation naturally bubbling up and that what nature can do for some of us.
Trees, water. A clear view of night skies...
What's the point of being in the universe?
It is very sad and painful to see or feel or perceive how much suffering occurs due to the toxic patriarchal elements of so many cultures on this planet, and how often men and women still perpetuate harmful behavior patterns which affect so many human beings in negative ways. Some might appreciate more efforts to find better ways of doing things in the future.
There. Must. Be. So. MANY.
Patriarchal forces combining to make people, including people who claim to be passionate about civil rights, exalt an abuser over children's safety.
What situations could this sentiment apply to recently?
Patriarchal women deeply disappoint
I have zero desire to work for any man or women who acts like I am worth more or deserve to be treated better if I am a man, especially a man who assaults and traumatizes any human being with my currently non-existent...
Go examine your influences more deeply.
That really must have been terrible
"...it was the barren woman who was a pariah, an object of scorn to other mothers. 'From her first recorded mentions, the infertile female was a monster, distinct from woman-proper,' Kimball writes, recalling Atrahasis of Babylon, the Jewish Lilith (whom my daughter is named after), and the Egyptian Alabasandria, all of whom kidnapped children, caused miscarriages, stillbirths, and even male infertility. Many of the high-profile witchcraft trials, she points out, centered on barren women."
~ A. Klein
"Why Are Women So Mean to Infertile Women?"
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-are-women-so-mean-to-infertile-women/
Why is this so educational now
“I am not putting my comment on your blog because I hate half of the people who are leaving their comments. Gosh … American people have a very strange view on life, children, mothers, compassion and honesty. They’re just horrible!”
~ ????
"Why Are Women So Mean to Infertile Women?"
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/why-are-women-so-mean-to-infertile-women/
This is not nice and yet it is still online
"Kobe Slut Katlyn Faber Is Pregnant"
https://alt.thebird.copwatch.narkive.com/AzYHiVWE/kobe-slut-katlyn-faber-is-pregnant
I guess the exception to the motherhood pedestal rule is, "don't get raped by a famous basketball player."
Isn't she also a mother?
I thought, "I wonder what her kid thinks about."
https://www.latintimes.com/kobe-bryants-2003-rape-victim-five-things-know-about-katelyn-faber-455296
I just remembered
Before I left the old address I got one thing in the mail about diamond ring on finger and the other thing in the mail about baby shower from people who otherwise never care to think about or talk to me because they understand very well what does not make you a worthless human being in this culture.
good morning nature!
"this is our domain and we will enchant you with our beauty and then poop everywhere so you have to clean up after us"
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Every lifetime is different
"Clove" ~ A. Young
"Professor Emeritus Chester Aaron Remembers Horrors of Holocaust" | Saint Mary's College
https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/professor-emeritus-chester-aaron-remembers-horrors-of-holocaust
"Books by Chester Aaron (Author of Garlic Is Life)"
Wouldn't it be great
Retreats for people where they just have books and nature to entertain themselves! Even looking at the glow behind the mountains at night can be mesmerizing.
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