ungoodgrief

This industry just sounds very hard on women.

So Long...
Dress Criticism...

Some pages from a book I bought with Xmas money.

Cat nurses

This piece about Jesus actually made me more aware of a rather amusing meme. Cat nurses come in a plethora of purrrrrrsonalities, which include:


Demanding
allposters.co.uk



Friendly
stockphotopro

Mysterious
Julia Hartling

Lazy
pxleyes.com

I am not aware of a tarot card that has a cat nurse on it.
When I searched for one, I found another one that I have, which is this one:

Persian Cat With Swords
The Heart Lung Thing Blog

Actually, maybe this could be one though.

Angel Nurse Cat
lunarivera

CAT NURSES!!!!

Mostly female. But, for a male cat nurse...

Popeye the Nurse Cat!

Also

Hook up TV to watch the Rose Parade.
The first float I saw when I hooked it up was:
Petal Pushers
The second one I saw had women in traditional Korean costumes, but when I tried to look for it really quickly online, I got info about the one for Korean war vets.
There's a lot left:  Parade 2013 line-up
Fairy float: Dew Drop By
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How educational! Buffalo Soldier float has a woman to represent Cathay Williams
A dad came home on the military dog float
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and then a wedding...
and a float of the Alhambra...
maybe I should have accepted the offer of a free ticket to see it from grandstand seats?
it's cold out there though...
plus I can't find my keys...
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B-2 flyover
Cowgirl Chicks
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Oh boy, they are playing a recap! I can see what I missed in the beginning!
Sigh...Marines on palamino horses...
MARCHING BAND
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Hmmm...follow your dreams boy in hammock under a vividly colored rainbow
Hawaiian people on horses
That's a lot of fruit.

Jan. 1, 2013: Poems and Resolution

Poems in 3s!
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
Resolution: FIND KEYS!!!

fire on vacation

fiery effect

luminaria face

fire extinguisher

firefly bathtub

end of year pix

 

End of Year Que Pasa

Spending a holiday in a bar and saying "We should leave before she has another one" and being encouraged to have a more laissez faire attitude about it, then walking towards a door that says "She Crab" on it. Sign in the stall: "Please remain seated for the entire performance." Come back, she's having a limeade now. Free Bird plays. Pleasant to watch friend befriend an older man at the bar. Alex Tribeck is looking distinguished. Everyone knows the answer on Final Jeopardy is the Taj Majal, but the contestants guess, respectively, The Alhambra, The Kaaba, and the Haggia Sophia.  Blackbird Fly plays. The woman who guessed The Alhambra wins because she bet less money than the others. Mr. Magoo's Xmas Carol comes on. Time to leave. Talk in the car about lucky we are not to live in Salem during witch burning times, and local folklore about "haints" and "hags" and "boo-daddies" ..."I want to know what a boo-daddy is"...discuss paint colors for the walls... Que Pasa?  ~ Remembering some pages from The Brief Wondrous...and always running into a skinny Indian guy in the upstate NY grocery store and other places and would, for some reason, keep forgetting about it...Que Pasa?  ~ Played Spades with a friend from New Jersey who said he'd played other games with A. Bourdain in Atlantic City and didn't know it at the time. "Stick with me and you'll win," the mysterious guy told him. He kept following him around and winning, but when he tried to get more personal info about him, his mysterious new friend had to go. A week later, he saw his show. Before the friend told us this story, sister said, "do you remember that time we cooked steaks and one looked like a heart and there was a knife in it and you sang 'Shot Through The Heart...' and then we got in the car and that song was playing on the radio?" And days later, in a Pasadena bookstore, picked up Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine To The World Of Food and specifically read about how the author wants to be a better guy for his daughter in a chapter called "I'm Dancing." Que Pasa?

Song inspiration

Because of this (and this) I decided that Sandra Fluke is a good fit for the Prodigy song Firestarter.

For extra hilarity points, I thought that to myself on my way back from a walk. And I was walking by a group of adolescent boys. And I think I had a very serious look on my face while I was thinking about it. And then, one of them leaned in and whispered, "Yeah, baby!"

More things to do on a lazy afternoon

Discover a new old song:

The Police - Mother

Never heard that one before today.

Read a funny article...

Nine

I hear Dante really liked Nine.

Sometimes life is like the first nine Pixies songs that played on your friend's iPod when you got up and borrowed it at 6 in the morning.

Bone Machine
Nimrod's Son
Holiday Song
Caribou
Broken Face
Gigantic
Vamos
Hey
Monkey Gone To Heaven

After I re-watch "Nine," I suppose I should watch "8 1/2" sometime.

The Cloud of Unknowing

So one time my friend who I live with was all like, look at this bio on iTunes, you are kind of like NC. And I was like, well, not really. Then I said, one time I read this interview and part of it annoyed me. Okay, only two parts. The first part just looks all blinky-blink and batting-of-eyelashes-ish. But I realize I'm probably just projecting my own issues onto that (damn, Y R U projecting YR issues on dis poor defenseless interview?) Anyway, this was more like the most irksome part:

"Yeah, like postfeminist theory in art school. Oh, it's oppressive! [Laughs] I don't wanna paint with my menstrual blood! I just wanna learn how to use this printing press, man! Come on!"

https://www.believermag.com/issues/201202/?read=interview_alexie_case

Oh, YOU know, that rite-of-passage...running away from ladies who try to make you paint with your menstrual blood. Hey, why didn't I get to experience that rite-of-passage? All I got to run away from was military people and rape stories! This is probably why I really would like to become better at meditating and going on vision quests, so I can work on these issues of mine.

True story from self-indulgent yesterday

NOT THE MESSIAH
thats review

A SINGLE Man loks good

about to watch NINE

this is good stufff

Sweet Tea vodka and Lemonade vodka

ONLY if you are not alcoholic

if you are, don't you dare

go to a meeting

some people are lucky

some people are skinny

not alcoholics

not ovarian cyst ridden

etc. etc.

DANIEL DAY LEIS why are you do talented???

Do you have a russian accent

oh no

Italy

watcg

for JUDI DENCH!

and sophia loren

has become an older woman

in a movie

blow kisses

he sings

and wears a hat

 

I didn't remember anything after BE ITALIAN...I think I have to watch it again.

Oh, boy

An afternoon all to myself with a big, warm computer.
What to do...and what NOT to do!
This was the first thing that came up:
From alcohol to kites...

Sunday morning revelation

This is still a really good song: Mykonos

Sounds interesting

"Zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, diffuse white glow seen in the night sky..."

Hmmm, free things

Four free audio meditations

Yay, this place

I am glad RAINN exists and happy to hear of people who have money donating to it.
I have had the need to recommend it to others often enough.

Funny tumblr

Female friend sent this:

http://yourllbeanboyfriend.tumblr.com/

Anecdotes

Funny things I read because my friend who I live with was reading them...

1)

Right now I'm reading a book from mega-selling fantasy author George R. R. Martin. The following is a passage where he is writing from the point of view of a woman -- always a tough thing for men to do. The girl is on her way to a key confrontation, and the narrator describes it thusly:

"When she went to the stables, she wore faded sandsilk pants and woven grass sandals. Her small breasts moved freely beneath a painted Dothraki vest ..."

That's written from the woman's point of view. Yes, when a male writes a female, he assumes that she spends every moment thinking about the size of her breasts and what they are doing. "Janet walked her boobs across the city square. 'I can see them staring at my boobs,' she thought, boobily."

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women_p2.html#ixzz2GAqK0ejL

2)

"We decided to have sex with the nice people on that other island. Be back never."

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america_p2.html

 

3)

 

Fact Check on the 2nd article:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/1/post/2012/05/the-truth-behind-the-native-american-discovery-of-america-in-60-bce.html

 

Downtime travel moments

A question to ask oneself while watching CNN in the food court of the Nashville airport and avoiding those grey-looking pieces of chicken in your salad:

What does a famous actor apparently starving himself to look like an old man for a movie role have to do with getting kids fit and healthy? Are they all going to be given personal trainers, CrossFit workouts, and glasses of wheatgrass juice?  The sound was not good. But it said MM has two roles to play. Something about a "dramatic weightloss" and then something about getting kids fit and healthy. And those ideas were linked with a semi-colon.

MM's Spiritual Journey
Old Larry King transcript

USDA has a food desert locator...

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JL Opens Up
Les Mis Diet

Actually, these people should really count themselves lucky if they don't end up suffering from heinous gall bladder problems.

Which may be what will happen when many average people out there try to imitate them without the benefit of medical expertise. Or is already happening.

Poor people in Les Mis: mostly fashionably thin
Poor people in this country in 2012: more likely to be unfashionably obese