What a time to reconnect
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https://cxg.fandom.com/wiki/Our_Twisted_Fate
with the personality that re-emerges after a phone call. Hello hyper-responsible personality my old friend... π΅
Friday, April 30, 2021
10 years ago...3 years ago...
"Easily distracted people may have too much brain" | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20453-easily-distracted-people-may-have-too-much-brain/
"Here's scientific proof your brain was designed to be distracted" | WIRED UK
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brain-distraction-procrastination-science
Colm 𧑠a character
"Derry Girls fans were delighted to see the incredibly boring Uncle Colm return to the show"| JOE is the voice of Irish people at home and abroad
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/derry-girls-fans-delighted-see-uncle-col-returning-show-661718
Derry Girls | “I Just Really Need You To Stop Talking” - YouTube
Wow some variations
WEP Islington on Twitter: "Feeling fruity? Fancy a bit of equality? Fair pay for workers? A balanced society where everyone’s needs are met? You know what to do - Vote @WEP_UK on May 6th on the orange/peach/tangerine..... ballot! Because a vote for @WEP_UK is a vote for everyone. #EnoughIsEnough #wep_uk https://t.co/GrjbCG4LHh" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/WEPIslington/status/1388027203741491200
I've not seen that here yet????
Mandu Reid on Twitter: "Me, @sanditoksvig and @catherine_mayer mulling over one of the most pressing political questions of our time. It’s orange damnit! WE need it to be orange. Vote @WEP_UK for the London Assembly on the orange ballot paper on the 6th of May! ππ" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/ManduReid/status/1387750566089068546
Phones are different now...
Mandu Reid on Twitter: "Phenomenal work by @DrJessTaylor and @Jaimi_Shrive. It’s heavy reading and I’m still processing it. As painful as it is, we HAVE to face up to the scale, ubiquity, and impact of male violence against women. And not only, as too many politicians do, when the news-cycle demands it." / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/ManduReid/status/1388183113528926210
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Things Are Better Than They Use'ta Be....
It's not that I ♡ this song it's just that it appeared. It probably played in a bar a lot.
The Flaming Lips - "She Don't Use Jelly Lyrics"| SongMeanings
"When I was a preteen, I would have hid in the bushes, hyperventilating..."
~ J. McKee
Blah would be better
At blah if raised to be better at blah Mozart blah blah blah blah doing some brothers a favor blah blah blah blah but they're still so fucking ungrateful blah blah blah Beethoven & other stuff blah πΆπ€ͺπππππΆ
It's a good thing
If things improve, you or your favorite deceased sports star might not have a PTSD-induced mid-life clothes chewing phase? Crisis? (I feel like "phase" is more optimistic) next time around. So much easier on the teeth, wallet, and fabrics.
In the name of Brotherly Love
Thanks for the discussion.
Rachael Venables on Twitter: "Fabulous to see @loosewomen discussing my story today. The more conversations about this, the more we can help to stop it. The brilliant research was done by @DrJessTaylor and @Jaimi_Shrive and their full report is published tomorrow. https://t.co/ccChRyx3DO" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/physwiz
It's like the brain went, "If some of us in 2021 waited for 75% of the world's dads of daughters to begin a conversation about this sort of thing, the world would just get increasingly rapey, so long as certain people had distractions such as work and sports and dinner and homeownership and income inequality tipped in their favor & a pipe to smoke (adds a homey touch.) And of course, tax deductible donations to a favorite charity would be a wonderfully easy way to avoid the dreadful topic as well.
In the future, will the world be tackling the issues of FGM and Getting Jail Time For Unfortunate Pregnancy Complications Too?"
That sounds like a nice life purpose for him
"When Wi-Fi inevitably found its way to this nearly unpopulated island Morandi adopted it and began sharing his beloved piece of paradise with the world through social media. Embracing this new form of communication is his concession on behalf of a larger purpose—to facilitate a bond between people and nature by exposing them to its beauty. A bond Morandi hopes will motivate people to care for the planet wherever they are.
“'Love is an absolute consequence of beauty, and vice versa,' Morandi says. 'When you love a person deeply you see him or her as beautiful, but not because you see them as physically beautiful … you empathize with them, you’ve become a part of her and she’s become a part of you. It’s the same thing with nature.'”
~ M. Ardu
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/photos-of-life-alone-on-a-paradise-island
At least they all have A2 milk?
* Whole Foods, Sprouts, remodeled Stater Bros
* Never been remodeled Stater Bros
Conversations
Two topics presented to me *by another young person recently:
My neighborhood's grocery stores aren't as nice as my friend's neighborhood grocery stores.
Mom's medical care is more expensive and not as good as dad's medical care (parents are divorced).
(*Their neighborhood, their mom.)
Gifts 4 the gifted
This is what happens when society starts evolving.
From a Rachael and some Doctors:
Rachael Venables on Twitter: "Regarding my story today. I'm going to say this once, and then have a cuppa and go on a muting spree. Sex without consent is rape. You cannot consent when you are asleep. End of. And to the men crying about this in my mentions today. Take a long hard look at yourselves." / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/rachaelvenables?prefetchTimestamp=1619723110673
Dr. Simon Albright on Twitter: "Very interesting thread on the approach taken to an excellent, and rather terrifying, piece of research by @DrJessTaylor and @Jaimi_Shrive into violence against women and girls. There's a good summary of the results here: https://t.co/yf1bhGEwW8" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/PhysWiz/status/1387837611167866880
LBC on Twitter: "'Sexual assault has a shame element that isn't there with being punched or spat at' @DrJessTaylor discusses the stigma around sexual assault as a report shows that 51% of women say they’ve woken up to a partner sexually assaulting them while they’re asleep. @ShelaghFogarty https://t.co/2KbDnHIU8C" / Twitter
Some other time
A more effective explanation of how a lifetime accrual of experiences made me bad at making excuses for the antics of some dads.
That would be smart to fix
In the 9th minute: the thing about what's more likely to happen than getting shot in a war.
"Securing Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault"
How New Nueva York
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Twitter: "I'm live now with @ChuckGrassley, @SenJoniErnst, @SenBlumenthal, @SenTedCruz, @SenMarkKelly, @ProtectRDfnders & @IAVA to introduce the #MJIIPA, our bill to secure justice for survivors of sexual assault & to help prevent sexual assault in our armed forces. https://t.co/c1RF7F3t6P" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/gillibrandny/status/1387784907112566784
Wow, Point West.
#NotInMyMarineCorps on Twitter: "her own experience with assault and her daughter’s stories from West Point helped shift her views on this issue. “I know we have to do more,” said @SenJoniErnst She’s right. #MeTooMilitary #EndingMilitaryInjustice" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/NotInMyMarines/status/1387759316464283651
WVD voices
"I used your WVD in my mind and now my friends and I are finished"
-- Nasty Misogynistic Voice Again
"Don't expect me to treat you as well as my unacknowledged progeny. It is far too easy to demonstrate how my society trained me to treat Others"
-- That One Again.
"Why would I be able to in any way validate you or your experiences when society has so clearly encouraged me to act like you and they are worthless. Me and my suck up to the patriarchy friends win again, you and your worthless rape culture experiences will not be anyone's paycheck anytime soon."
--Another One with many enablers again demonstrates perfectly average and acceptable 21st century ethics and approach to life.
"I have no idea how to not be another obstacle"
-- Patriarchy Speaks (not always in the body of a man, but sometimes) Again.
"Consider the less fortunate...just kidding! Why would I ever fucking do such a ridiculous thing? I am far too ensconced in my own bubble and surrounded by enablers to act like I know better. Much like a baby in a many decades older body whose needs always must be considered first, I am here to demonstrate why those rules that apply to You could never apply to Me"
-- Someone You Know Again.
"Because the peeps I am trained to view as not so worthless are more than okay with my selfish behavior, I assume you must be, or else something must be wrong with you, not me, clearly"
-- That One again, but kind of on a shakier pedestal lately?
"Did I make you want to throw up yet"
-- Yes, again.
What's this again
"5 reasons the married service member is just as much a 'dependa' as the spouse"
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/5-reasons-married-service-member/
That's Worthless Vagina Dependa to some people.
WVD.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
India gets attention
"India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing"
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/04/india-covid19-moral-failure/618702/
Fruits fruits fruits fruits fruits
"Washington bill called discriminatory against foreign farmworkers"
"Overtime bill marks historic change for farmworkers and industry"
"Why some Northwest Latinx residents and farmworkers hesitate on COVID vaccine"
I decided to believe
The Dream:
I lied and I messed up and I want to be better.
Extra interpretation added outside of the dream:
I would be so actually fun if I didn't show that I have to align myself with a lot of untrustworthy people in order to fit in and survive.
Sometimes society makes it easy
to feel the effects of literacy and how it can help you learn new things.
"Become a Stupenda-Dependa - here's 35 ways! | Military Spouse"
https://www.militaryspouse.com/spouse-101/35-ways-to-be-a-stupenda-dependa/
AND
"Meet the 'Dependa': An ugly meme — and sexist stereotype — used to slur military spouses"
Well, some of them did anyway
"MJD: I think that during the pandemic, people became very aware of their food, and, hopefully, they became aware of who are the people who are producing the food that they eat."
"INTERVIEW: Undocumented Farmworkers Push Through Pandemic, Sickness and Job Loss" by Sarah Hager https://wskg.org/news/interview-undocumented-farmworkers-push-through-pandemic-sickness-and-job-loss/
I feel like if I do right
Maybe I won't have to go to two clinics today, or maybe it's just because.
Oh restaurant knowledge
Might never forget that coworker who said something about me and a kiss, and who couldn't get her son back because of the controlling asshole father who took him away from her. She was just too beautiful to be his and he was from a patriarchal culture so he manipulated the system and punished her for it. Did he ever become a better person? π€
Figure it out later
πΆ later π΅ later πͺ later πΌ later πΏ later πΈ
"Love, Care and the Illegitimate Child in Eighteenth-Century Scotland"
"Deck the Halls"
Sigh...so talented...
I would like to check out the album with the same title later.
Angel Olsen - "All Mirrors (Official Video)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjt698Zv5jQ
All Mirrors | Pitchfork
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/angel-olsen-all-mirrors/
I would be ASLEEP
Except I have to wake up for a body and hydrate before one or possibly two appointments to care for a body (depending on if I also go to a walk-in clinic I looked up to see if they've got compatible hours or just drink a lot of water and pure cranberry juice.) So Much Work Already for Just One Body.
It's honestly amazing
How much work it can feel like it is just to take care of a single human body sometimes.
Being in a body is like a lifelong arranged marriage.
Everyone Should Put Their Health First
Including when Mr. Awkwardly Old Enough to Be Your Mom's BF Energy meets Also Awkwardly Old Enough to Deal with His Own Weird Jokes Energy.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
πΌn the day that blah was πΆ
God, the angels of the night π music πΆ that soaked into my brain at age 8 are so persistent.
AM Radio in upstate NY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(They_Long_to_Be)_Close_to_You
Pretty sure it was not "The Carpenters." (Poor Karen...)
Three amusements...then Grace.
"WHAT did you say?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/mymp2j/what_did_you_say/
"For the first time since the Astros' 2013 realignment"
https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/mxvs4y/for the first time since the astros 2013/
NPR on Twitter: "Good news: Prancer, the 13-pound gremlin Chihuahua who hates men and children, and was described as a "vessel for a traumatized Victorian child," has been adopted by a 36-year-old single lesbian in Connecticut. https://t.co/3xrCpWemVn" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/amdubouchet
Grace.
As in THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD...
Just imagine this
Going to Central America to meet one of those women who got thrown in prison for a miscarriage.
Geez, you might be able to just go to the Midwest...I am going to find that woman I read about...
Monday, April 26, 2021
Pull a quote...again?
"I would say older retired single women have probably been our largest demographic" ~ Isla Chappelle (23:56).
That was because of listening to the last 10 minutes of the "Investing in children and families is also infrastructure" after the episode mentioned Nomadland.
Marketplace Business News Podcast & Show - Marketplace
Found a more specific link...
Why older, single women are buying camper vans - Marketplace
An incomplete
That third part (the ice breaking up) is what I'm looking for, but is it available as a clip?
Sasha and Orlando getting enchanted on the ice
Sasha and Orlando getting disenchanted on the ice
They separate and the ice breaking up (where is that?)
I could watch the whole film. I have the DVD. But I was trying to do 3 clips.
I forgot how it goes πΆ
I shall look it up.
"The uncanny genius of 'Walking on Thin Ice,' Yoko Ono and John Lennon's poignant final collaboration" | Salon.com
Maybe it will change
"But it's also kind of sketchy that Tara Reade doesn't seem to care about the rape accusations against Assange" she thought, and typed the words.
I wish they wouldn't have to do that
See a person you took care of at the brink of death multiple times to develop more compassion.
Now it may be true
that a man (Stop Pretending Your Dad Isn't Filthy Rich) is paying my rent. But it is also true that even back in high school, he was way nicer than most people. Also, I was doing a lot of work in the home with a dependent while my mom was doing the out of the home single mother type of work stuff.
"Dependent" is military lingo.
There's an interesting peacock muse
She's a dancer and has a costume with feathers and a head piece sort of like a bathing cap with blue and green colors (those are from the male peacock π¦ I know) and she turns her face one way as she stands and puts her fists up in the opposite direction. So that could be an interesting image to create sometime.
I can feel how helpful this can be
"Stomach Pain Chart | Details and Printables | Printable Medical Forms, Letters & Sheets"
2 more row
Might be more something.
Have you ever thanked someone for all his non-help lately.
To be fair, the training was not there.
Back to this pretty poem ;-)
"About Music For Bone And Membrane Instrument=="
Drunken Boat | Alice Fulton
https://d7.drunkenboat.com/db3/fulton/aboutmusic2.html
"....Oh HEAVY
fans."
~ A. Fulton
So HEAVY
Because why not?
Grimes "So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth"
"Grimes Fiercely Defends Elon Musk From Critics Amid Claim He Is Destroying 'the Planet and Humanity'"
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/grimes-fiercely-defends-elon-musk-145418083.html
"Ten Interesting Facts About The Beatles 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)'"
The director gave this guy a deadline
I am reconsidering
"Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache" | Film Threat
https://filmthreat.com/reviews/looking-for-a-lady-with-fangs-and-a-moustache/
"Deadline"| Origin and meaning of deadline by Online Etymology Dictionary
Sometimes people pay attention
"The reason I wish I’d seen Nomadland on the big screen is that Zhao’s film echoes the visual vocabulary that says 'America,' as painted in perhaps that most American of genres: the Western, with its vistas, sunsets, and silhouettes. It’s familiar, and it quietly beckons us to consider how Fern’s life is like the idealistic version of the frontier that the movies have shown us on the silver screen in the past. Then it invites us to notice how, for Fern, things are very, very different."
~ A. Wilkinson
"Oscars Best Picture winner Nomadland doesn’t just tell a story about America. It embodies it."
When does all that pay off
PTSD of all varieties but some varieties more than others, fear of death vs longing, sleep paralysis and bad dreams, tapping into the mental state of those who felt trained to feel worthless, rage at complacency IT'S JUST MONEY, frustration turning into self-abnegation, inability to go backward and lack of clarity about the way forward, houses burning down in forest fires, suffering, destruction...music music music music helps sometimes...
That's what the most recent dream said
The teachers and the pupils who need to be tutored are the same.
A lot of training happened
The people who are trained to coddle your ego are equally well-trained to unsee a lot for their own benefit, which is, in some cases, something to be attained by constantly propping up the kind of people they have been trained to treat as Most Important.
This was better
"Oscars Best Picture winner Nomadland doesn’t just tell a story about America. It embodies it."
Paychecks from...(guess who)
Sometimes it looks like outer success as a woman still depends a lot on Being Willfully Ignorant of the plight of other women.
The patriarchy very obviously liked you better if you laughed at a roofies joke before the MeToo movement. Or if you went along with "she was probably lying to get attention." Some nice women were really good at that.
Being that sensitive person who felt the pain of rape victims was not what the patriarchy wanted from you. Being the patriarchy's friend by having no feelings for victims of violence was and still is rewarded by the patriarchy.
Paychecks happen.
Even after MeToo, the patriarchy likes you so much better if you go back to tending to a man's feelings first.
Maybe it's better to find other people to think about when you start feeling this way.
Maybe this is what came up after having a dream that a teacher and a student who needed to be tutored were the same person. One was the younger version and one was the older version.
The student was a younger woman. The teacher was a woman. That was what the dream was about.
The patriarchy is ugly, oppressive, and loves your father 20 times more. Your father is also nicer than a lot of guys. He is a guy, though. Those are the the people who are supposed to... (fill in the blank). But even a lot men who seem to benefit still suffer under the patriarchy. You see that if you look more closely.
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Ah, I think I might know how to think about what to do (generally)
Instead of fixating on perfect timing for projects, just think about what make each day a little better or a lot more interesting.
Noted differences
"Rodney Versus Death" episode
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/312245-rodney-versus-death
One person can listen to this and continue enjoying his burrito; the other finds it fascinating but cannot deal with chewing or swallowing the mountain of salad in front of her.
Almost would've ventured outside by now
"Zorita, a burlesque dancer from the 30's, and her famous "half and half" routine"
That was just sent to me.
More entertaining than Early Childhood Experiences
"Derry Girls: The Difference Between Catholics and Protestants"
I just read an article & noticed
It was written by both a man and a woman! (Sorry, the mind has been affected by a lot of pastors and priests and presidents and bosses and bibles.)
"How The Pandemic Increased Domestic Abuse And Sexual Violence Against Women"
What a day to find more music videos
Mitski - "Happy (Official Video)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0O2vDT0VE&feature=emb_rel_end
Happy? HARDLY!
Hardly any of the commenters seem to care about violence against women.
Oh, ho-hum, chopping up the mistress in the basement into bloody pieces, and then who's next?
This comes up a lot
"Derry Girls | The Very Best Of Sister Michael"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nleRCBhLr3k
which was supposed to beThis taught me something tangible
I never knew how bouncy my own veins were before I listened to it and touched (bounced) them!
Next this thing
"Stop pretending I'm not there"
Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
"Easy, easy"
Jamie xx – Gosh Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
"SueΓ±o que estoy andando por un puente y que la acera (Mira, mira, mira, mira) Cuanto mΓ‘s quiero cruzarlo (Va), mΓ‘s se mueve y tambalea""Jesus save us"
"Your mother wouldn't approve of how my mother raised me"
I just think it'd have been nice if
professors, TAs, and students had given as much respect to Song of the Water Saints as they gave to The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is the super buttoned-up version
priests and presidents.
(It was 2004).
Wow, I'd never seen some of these before!
Remembered...
"Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan collaborate to beautiful effect!"
https://www.durhamcool.com/damien-rice-and-lisa-hannigan-collaborate-to-beautiful-effect/
BECUZ
"A Chatbot Is Mysteriously Sending Droves of People to Listen to Grimes and Stevie Wonder"
Time~ing
This might be too much at 6 am but perfect at 6 pm. Depending on the day.
"Tori Amos’s Professional Widow — explicit lyrics and war-cry vocals"
This is how it goes sometimes
Drink more water and start to feel better and comforted by the touch of a soft, fuzzy blanket on the foot. But at the same time, Tess of D'Ubervilles is coming up.
Or more specifically, walking around in a park in Illinois in 2005 and trying to enjoy nature but thinking why must I feel haunted by a story in a book I only skimmed and was never officially assigned. Why is it dominating my life after a layoff and during a long period of introversion.
Why is it hard to even speak to a checkout person at the library sometimes.
Then you go back to reading the Joy of Cooking at age ten and wanting to try a lot of 1960s housewives recipes, like petit fours, but instead you mix nutmeg and blue food coloring into vanilla refrigerator cookie dough and eat it with your sister.
Taking care of yourself is king
That's why sometimes I need to be boring and stay in and drink water and balance myself.
Sincerely, a person who does not sign any paychecks but knows things sometimes anyways.
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Thought it would be a higher number
"32%: This is the share of this year’s Oscar nominees who are women and it’s the highest percentage ever."
~ D. Feldman
I probably will not be watching????
Someday another spirit will be stronger
Old man...
Neil Young – Old Man Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
OH.
Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara - Wikipedia
The aftermath of happens when you're 14 and someone tells you he sees you as spoiled girl in Italy in another time when he was an ARTIST. (Which one? There were so many.)
Pt 1. Pt 2. Pt. 3: she goes and tells the story to true heroes.
"Reddit - MitchellAndWebb - Just noticed 'Local Zero' is called 'Local Hero' on Netflix"
Should you not make
Something.
There's Peep Show to watch.
There's the time I flew to Amsterdam and I told a Dutch guy sitting next to me that looking over the British Isles was like seeing movie stars.
He said seeing the U.S. is like that for them and started talking about greenhouses in Holland or something and I complimented the insight but then got quiet because....
Because because because because because (I got a feeling he seemed to see something I was not intending)
Business Trip.
I thought I'd have traveled more by now but...financial obstacles, etc.
I am still glad I read this...
The Winter Soldier
https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/winter-soldier
But given the circumstances, I was rather surprised that the narrator wasn't more worried about something terrible happening to his beloved, like
"gang rape"
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/emma-macalik-butterworth/as-the-waltz-was-ending/
other kinds of assault are not good either
Is a forest dream in there
Carbon Brief on Twitter: "Recommended read: 'Big words, and little action': Greta Thunberg’s must-read letter to the world | @GretaThunberg @BritishVogue https://t.co/KkGtjdZqox" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1385906365915451398
Greta Thunberg on Twitter: ""Bolsonaro has approved a 24% cut to the environment budget for 2021 from the previous year’s level, just one day after vowing to increase spending to fight deforestation." Oops... it's almost as if our "climate leaders" aren't taking this seriously. https://t.co/AvIRRyBJqu" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1385950833712549892
Greta Thunberg on Twitter: "Heartbreaking to follow the recent developments in India. The global community must step up and immediately offer the assistance needed. #CovidIndia" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1385956073459306498
Charmers
He's done showmanship type stuff before, so I guess he might have a good time?
https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/elon-musk-to-host-saturday-night-live-on-may-8.html
This quiz might have ended on a more upbeat note if she'd had time to complete the last question with both of the participants?
Team Coco on Twitter: ".@WhitneyCummings' Freudian dating quiz revealed a lot..." https://t.co/4F8trusEOD" /
I thought that taking a brief moment to acknowledge could have been rather charm-schoolesque?
Team Coco on Twitter: "That time Conan enrolled in Southern charm school." https://t.co/S7MZYuMEDE #CONAN https://t.co/hDQhwups52" /
Actually, I have never been inside of a charm school; nevertheless, I might partially be a product of being around others...
I also have a whole uncharming vibe that got BAKED into my soul.
Maybe it's for the best
"National Audubon Society Announces CEO David Yarnold to Step Down"
https://www.audubon.org/news/national-audubon-society-announces-ceo-david-yarnold-step-down
"ADVOCACY: Audubon CEO steps down amid internal turmoil"
Alright, horses!
This is truly a website of few words.
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T.A. ~ Fast Horse (no more music video?), Fool on the Hill / Horses
"Nature in Horsemanship by Mark Rashid, Review"| New Rider Forum
https://www.newrider.com/threads/nature-in-horsemanship-by-mark-rashid-review.238474/
"Corb Lund's Horse Soldier Horse Soldier" — Lonesome Lands
https://www.lonesomelands.com/new-blog/2018/5/20/corb-lunds-horse-soldier-horse-soldier
"'Out of the Wild' to Bring Mark Rashid’s Horsemanship to The Big Screen" – Horse Illustrated
Cursed sleeplessness
When you think "I wonder if he will delete this like he deleted his thoughts on bread & butter" and then you type that thought.
I wonder about that person in my forest dream
Would she think this is a good book to read.
Nature in Horsemanship: Discovering Harmony Through Principles of Aikido by Mark Rashid
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324328-nature-in-horsemanship
https://www.southwestindian.com/p/southwest-indian-catalog-request
Even if it's not totally the truth
"What if you have aged out of a certain stage of life now" thoughts.
This is an odd trio?
I have thought of watching these 3 shows the most lately.
WHO
NEEDS
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/peep_show
MORE
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/world-on-fire/
SLEEP???
"Anyways..." π
This is still so funny...
https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/claire-foy-mikey-day-war-in-words-snl-maya-marty.html
Can't sleep yet
Models don't have much room to say anything in this piece...
"Alex Gaudino 'Destination Calabria' making of"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMLNs4N3gjc
Maybe thisErin La Rosa on Twitter: "Let me tell you something — Scott Rudin is not the only high powered person who pulled shit like this. He's just a high profile one. I'm going to tell you a story about my time as a showrunner's assistant a few years ago..."
juxtaposition will seem unfair?
"2 Men Realize All Their Favorite Movies..."
My face feels hot again. π₯
"Erin La Rosa on Twitter: 'This experience CHANGED THE COURSE OF MY LIFE. I was fully invested in a career as a TV writer. But after working on this one show, I couldn't stomach the idea of returning to another room. And being forced out in the middle of a season? Who would hire me? I had no references.'"
https://mobile.twitter.com/erinlarosalit/status/1385634198531153924
Not the average dream
I was floating around like a spirit in a green, mountainous forest, and there was evidence that all had not been well for the inhabitants. Several times I saw the remains of deceased people, but I also kept seeing a young woman who was alive. I felt seen, and so I finally went towards her. She had a piece of paper, and it had things written on it in Spanish about freedom and human rights. She gave it to me as we were next to a very steep drop-off, and I told her I don't think I can go down that way. She agreed but it seemed she had no other instructions, except for "I think this gringa should find a different way down" (back to towns/ civilization).
Friday, April 23, 2021
Trivially interesting
Oh it is Friday and music is on the radio. The guy who did trivia night more than a decade ago asked the patrons if something was "Porn Star" or "My Little Pony."
OR
Well only one of those songs always makes me think of being 8-years-old in a backseat with other kids. It is almost in the category of "Bye Bye Miss American Pie" or "Red Red Wine," except at least those you can sing along to when they come on the radio without an adult getting mad about it.
Water story
"California water officials on Friday issued a draft order telling NestlΓ© to "cease and desist" taking much of the millions of gallons of water it pipes out of the San Bernardino National Forest to sell as Arrowhead brand bottled water.
The order, which must be approved by the California Water Resources Control Board, caps years of regulatory probes and a public outcry over the company’s water pipeline in the San Bernardino Mountains, where opponents argue that siphoning away water harms spring-fed Strawberry Creek and the wildlife that depends on it."
~ I. James & J. WilsonCalifornia officials tell NestlΓ© to halt 'authorized' water diversions (desertsun.com)
Interesting choices
Why did they censor the word "rear" with the sound of a girl screaming?
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance (Official Music Video)
Cassette tapes...
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/adam-graham/2021/04/23/remembering-shock-g-freak-genius-behind-the-humpty-dance-and-more/7349079002/
That's what phones are for π£ πΆ
Nowadays.
Didn't used to be that way
"First BIRD - Every Day Should Be Saturday"
https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2019/7/31/20729397/free-bird
Skyler Higley on Twitter: "I wonder if people in the dark ages were passive aggressive like "AS PER MY PREVIOUS MESSENGER HAWK,"" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/skyler_higley?prefetchTimestamp=1619162707176
AndrΓ©s du Bouchet on Twitter: "Last night I asked Sara what today's #duBouchetoftheDay should be and she instantly said "Finches" (I, Finch) so it's back to my first album for this one. Here's a really well shot live performance from (gulp) a decade ago... https://t.co/skRY2qkDsc" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/skyler_higley?prefetchTimestamp=1619162707176
"How Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Free Bird’ Got Longer and Longer"
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/lynyrd-skynyrd-free-bird/
"Tuca & Bertie S2"
https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-tuca-bertie-season-2-clip-reminds-us-to-go-to-th-1846522900
Thursday, April 22, 2021
And shamed in academia (but now celebrated)
For quite a while, according to his wife...who has a good sense of humor, too.
"Remembering Sherry Rowland: Scientist, Citizen, and Savior of the Ozone Layer"| NRDC
"Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet"| PBS SoCal
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/ozone-hole-how-we-saved-planet
Old Science on TV
Fascinating.
Refrigerator leaks used to kill people
Thomas Midgely!
CFCs
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/ozone-hole-how-we-saved-planet
Who knows how some of this stuff could effect various kinds of bodies...
This could be footage from the 70s?
"Why ‘Crip Camp’ Deserves to Win the Oscar for Best Documentary"
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/04/crip-camp-should-win-best-documentary-feature-1234629283/
Good Guys on Earth Day...
This guy has a noble profession (tending his flock of sheep) and just eats whatever he wants but the universe sends no remonstrating pangs to his uterus because he doesn't have one...and this guy is a curator of tree huggathons...
π π πΊ πͺ π€Ή
"Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World premieres in USA in a three-hour event on Earth Day, Thursday April 22nd at 8/7c on PBS." https://t.co/0HhDNLPFKp"
Greta Thunberg on Twitter: "⚠️This is an emergency alert for the general public⚠️ #MindTheGap #LeadersClimateSummit #EarthDay #NoMoreEmptySummits https://t.co/e1z1A783I2" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1385165197350952961
One shirt is not the same on all bodies
Mindful of dress code things...
Antonia on Twitter: "Apparently I'm asking for it with this pic He asked what do I expect? Just to be able to enjoy the sunshine in a t shirt in public and not be harassed for it I'm shaking I'm so upset https://t.co/MMIrVS1QlW" / Twitter
Very terrible anger management issue
"Death of my sons: ‘I loved our children more than life itself. He saw them as possessions’"
If you must, you must
Seems like some people feel they must.
Rachel Williams on Twitter: "Last year, Gemma Robinson, 34, took her own life just days before she was due to face her abusive ex-partner in court. Absolutely π R.I.P Gemma We know that at least 200 women take their lives each year to escape an abuser & at least 10k try. https://t.co/BeZ8HhaFDw" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/aarefahm
Before #MeToo There Was Aarefah Mosavi - BAMN
Sheeeeeeeesh
Big Partial Truth: Carries Grudges on Behalf of Others thought: if only the person who introduced us hadn't made him feel so clumsy about dancing I would have wanted to write her about how we had a ceremony performed, and cuisine from the culture she was part of, and it didn't occur to me until afterward what a coincidence it was.
Kinda she does...
Storm Large kinda reminds me of Grace Tame.
"Una Notte a Napoli" ~ Storm Large and Alba Clemente, Interview with Storm Large & China Forbes. March 2020. They must have done it right before the pandemic cancelled almost everything.
This guy who is really enthusiastic about Berberine for his own health purposes kinda reminds me of Max Greenfield, because YT had a clip about him in Promising Young Woman in close proximity.
Natural π± meets Supernatural π»
π Earth π Day! π
"How to Make a Happy Uterus with Lady's Mantle Tea"
https://theherbalacademy.com/ladys-mantle-tea/
"Pink Martini – Una Notte a Napoli Lyrics"
A body is a vehicle
Now what if you had a uterus. A really communicative one, that makes you incredibly aware of it during the Luteal Phase. Is is not worth as much as a car? Why doesn't insurance cover "alternative" health treatments?
Bleat(s)
B ~ Beatrice's Earth Life
A ~ Augustine's Earth Life
A ~ Astral Travel Memory, 21st century: Seeing a very nice garage & how some people with π° are really into their cars...
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Basically
A film is
An opportunity to rediscover other things, like for example I found out Splendor in the Grass is also a Pink Martini album when I started looking up the movie, and then I reconnected with "Una Notte a Napoli" for the first time in many years
Still living on earth π on Earth Day.
And growing as a person, since that's what being good at some things and not so good at other things will do for a person.
Curious about both of these films
Red Moon Tide & Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Mustache
"Its transfixion is contagious. Indeed, I was hesitant to move during the experience for atavistic fear of disrupting the trance."
~ Natalia Winkelman
‘Red Moon Tide’ Review: A Village Paralyzed in Grief - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
"Some films leave you stunned once it fades to black and the credits run. This mystery interlaced with drama film is that type of piece, but it is also more. It is a film that stays with you and you find yourself thinking of it and specific scenes weeks later."Wednesday, April 21, 2021
This guy made a new film?
I guess I just found out.
"Fascinating Insight from Director Khyentse Norbu into Looking For A Lady With Fangs And A Moustache"
I noticed something
A person who rarely carries long-term resentments, that's who I live with. People hardly ever remark on such a quality but it is very interesting to me...most laid-back male person I ever lived with. Do I want to watch My Brilliant Friend? That show hasn't got any laid-back male characters.
What's growing as a person got to do with it π΅
And the comforter could be for sleeping under or a cozy space for reading a book about acupressure points or remembering a cold night on the East Coast 15 years ago and knowing you would leave a situation in part due to someone's reliance on alcohol and feeling glad you escaped that (but don't want to think very hard about it at all.)
AM film reviews...
Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) amnesiac about certain details of a film I watched before I moved to the West Coast. I can't believe I forgot almost everything except for the parts where the guy meets the girl in the Italian restaurant and winds up living with her out in the country at the end.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/splendor_in_the_grass
By the time I finished the end of what this reviewer had written, I had the impulse to kick him.
Only evolving slowly
Not cured but maybe almost crying without tears and taking time to notice there's an energy that leans towards the love of some beings...such as warthogs...
I know gratitude
Peace when pain disippates.
Aftermath of another battle that felt just brutal.
I love π "Luna's Touch" πΆ
Luteal Phase is still so challenging
The supplements seem to help but this morning.
Is.
So.
Challenging.
So.
So.
So.
Challenging.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Hijo de Manuela
“I remember my mum, she gave us advice and never left us alone. It is painful to grow up without a mother because that love is incomparable,” said Santos de JesΓΊs, Manuela’s eldest son, in a statement to the media before the hearing. “I ask the state not to do these things because they left us abandoned without a mother.”
~ Joe Parkin Daniels
Manuela
"The judge felt free to create his own narrative of the facts: Manuela was an unfaithful wife, lacking 'maternal instinct,' who killed her child in an act 'contrary to nature itself.' As soon as Manuela had been admitted to the hospital, a female doctor had reported her and the police had been sent to search the shack where she lived. There, they opened the latrine pit and forced Manuela’s illiterate father to register the fetus with a first and last name (the family’s). The victim was no longer Manuela; instead, the patriarchy assigned itself the role by representing an unborn creature, named so it could be publicly cast as an innocent.
There is no way to separate the abortion issue from gender equality policies, because it is by criminalizing reproductive rights that the life plans of young women are controlled Denying Manuela the right to a defense and never taking her body’s truth into account, the court quickly handed down its decision, sentencing her to 30 years. Forced to sleep on her cell floor, she was persecuted in prison and suffered from her painful cancer. She received hardly any visitors and died two years after the obstetric emergency that had prompted her miscarriage. Hers was a sick and suffering body, but one ignored by the fury of the police, courts and medical establishment."
~ D. Diniz & G. Carino
"From Herrera to Herrera: women against the patriarchy in El Salvador" | USA | EL PAΓS in EnglishEducational & quotable
"'It’s not intense desires that lead to sexual assault it’s having no empathy or respect for another’s boundaries or desires that does,' Contos wrote in response."
~ M. Di lorio
"Grace Tame & More Explain Why The Milkshake Video Was Dumped"
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/grace-tame-chanel-contos-milkshake-video/
We care about some things, they say
"And what might those be"
http://litlover.blogspot.com/2021/03/and-what-might-those-be.html?m=0
"Cats are better"
http://litlover.blogspot.com/2021/03/cats-are-better.html?m=0
Well we are not comforted, they say
"Emma Cline: ‘No one is a monster 24 hours a day, not even Harvey Weinstein’"
Showed up again.
"I want you to kiss me."
~ Waitress who got her kid taken away from her.
Or maybe it was "I want to kiss you."It might be so
"A society that ignores violence against women is inherently more violent" ~ A voice inside my head.
Adrienne Lawrence on Twitter: "Two Colorado officers slammed a 73-year-old woman with dementia to the ground and hog-tied her, dislocating her shoulder and breaking her arm. All because she forgot to pay for $13.88 worth of items at Walmart. How are these officers still employed? https://t.co/QnPAJMUbt1" / Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdrienneLaw/status/1383520660345872384
A woman and a girl and feelings
A woman and a girl came into the restaurant and gave me a poster with information about domestic abuse and a hotline number to call and asked if I would ask my bosses to put it up in the back to help any who might need.
My horrible, sexist male bosses did not care. They threw it away. Maybe if the president acted like he cared they would care. It seems not so different now.
Did I mention about being in my "seeing a picture of a couple who got married on a beach in California and they divorced and the wife became a mom who lived in Las Vegas and was murdered by a man or how my female relatives always experienced the most violence" mode.
Monday, April 19, 2021
I used to rip them off the unsold copies
"Marie Claire's Nicky Briger: 'Why Magazine Covers Will Never Be The Same Again'"
But it's so annoying
The universe hopes you can make something of this someday. Female Health Issues.
Not paying enough attention to the diet or the scale and the consequences which maybe were partially related to stopping the Berberine capsules and how that allopathic doctor visit disappointed and would it have been nicer to have more money for holistic health stuff years ago and the inconvenient genetics etcetra, etcetra, etcetra.
Yet Another View of the System that Discriminates & Serves a Select Few.
Just getting into it...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass
Page 9: "For all of us, becoming Indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it."
Ever notice this?
After a change in status, still so much OLD - FASHIONED wording in business correspondence in 2021.
XY: "The rep was nice but the company is sexist."
XX: "Yeah, I'm adding you. Why did they write me to say you're adding me?"
Sometimes written correspondence falls short.
XY: "Why does my name have Mr. next to it."
XX: "You're a man! They don't want you to feel demeaned. And unmanly."
Sometimes the world seems filled to the brim
with people putting off tasks.
Dear humans on Planet Earth, does escaping a predator that preyed on many other women make you feel fortunate? Are your parents lucky? Do you feel lucky? Does lack of ER wait times make a person lucky?
Amusement unexpected
"Lady Sclareol."
What a name.
I picture a witch coming out of the bottle.
I am here to scare you. And also to wish you good health!
Maybe later. I renewed an interest in buying a powerful blender. Someone else is still seeing if the old one can be repaired. Hours and months in limbo about this...
Should send to a doctor maybe
"5 Ways PCOS Might Be Secretly Messing With Your Weight"
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/a19936581/pcos-affects-weight-loss/
It cost me over $200
To find out I needed Boron and Cholacol and B vitamins and to get adjusted by a chiropracter who does not take insurance.
Last year, when I weighed xx lbs less, I paid less because of insurance, but still it cost me some $$ to get examined by a gynecologist who asked if I'd ever heard of taking ibuprofen and told me not to worry about PCOS.
Not including the cost of Berberine which I just recently started to take again.
On stage I think
Leo Buscaglia very much enjoyed talking about his deceased mother. This is based on watching 2 clips on YouTube (so far...)
questo uomo albero ~ dieser Baummann
"The trees outside your home are doing wondrous things..." (26:30).
I have to send this to my friend who shared his books with me.
Oh good I found them again
Some people told me about this band a while ago.
"San Antonio's Fea Appears on NPR's List of Greatest Songs by Badass Female Musicians"
"Dialogue"
I was thinking about fashion stuff, even though I am not buying anything unless I want to or until I am sure I will not choose holes in it.
A-line dress??? I almost never see that. What a plethora...
Like a TICK this morning
The Growlers - "Monotonia" (Official Video) - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSzluF9itcw
Such is the nature of the cancelled doctor appointment.
this is NOT U
Character xy:
"My WIFE hates Feminism 10x more than I DO."
CHARACTER XX:
"I AM SURE SHE DOES NOT. Sorry it is the Luteal Phase Time and I haven't taken my BORON yet."
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-894/boron
π
Manicure time.
Oh well why Pinterest
When you can just have some random word pop into your head and look at the boards other people made.
So that's a bit challenging for some
Consider the state of health of the organs in your body and remain very calm.
Yr $ or yr weight or yr internet distraction
The WandaVision actress is in a movie that's not a S & G song.
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Concert in Central Park version: Kodachrome/Maybellene
Oh what opportunity is this
They cancelled your appt? Read...
"Robin Wall Kimmerer (Author of Braiding Sweetgrass)"
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/49921.Robin_Wall_Kimmerer
oh WOW
"Spare some space for the migrant monarch"
https://www.pinejournal.com/northland-outdoors/6966675-Spare-some-space-for-the-migrant-monarch
Cool sculpture.
Your brain & the things it likes
Memory: I stared down into a basket of kitty cat trinkets and just one trinket that was a pansy but I didn't take any because I felt watched and then they disappeared so fast I might never forget but now maybe I want them back?????
Some people in the 2020s
liked that "The Future is Female" saying so much they had it on a poster in their home.
Cool posters.
Ah, the crazy 2020s
Isn't it weird to look back and see how much the Larger Society of People was trained to ignore bodies, and how many were not especially keen about regarding how women's health and children's well-being and environmental issues have always been related to the Things They Deemed More Important to Pay Attention To. Nevertheless, it was still possible to find pockets of Healer-Oriented folks out there, which is so Intelligent and Helpful to know!
All you can do is learn sometimes
You might be what you're not in the next life.
Your body might be totally different. You could have a physical chemical emotional it's a whole thing and diet is probably involved blah blah
When you wake up and wonder about how well it will go for the late am appointment.
It might be sort of okay by then?
Will you not eat any sugar or dairy or flour soon.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Wonder what year it was
The year L. Buscaglia encouraged salespeople to get in touch with their madness (8:30).
Now here, in the red and white striped shirt, he rants a bit against taking pills, but I will take Berberine capsules again after the scale said I am xx heavier than I was at the doctor's office less than a year ago, and maybe my old Metformin (not at the same time as Berberine), except that I read there's been a recall on some of those since I got them, so, hmmmm....maybe just the Berberine.
Found a painting...and a gallery.
Orhan Peker: The Fisher Boy and Cats, 1976
Plus...
Because all the other links go here now:
