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| from dailymail |
Watching
No woman, no drive
b/c of
https://twitter.com/shereenelfeki/status/394754250489610240
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Hooray, sex & religion! And the Citadel too?
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Which has been turned into a very nice Embassy Suites...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Stick shift is even worse
Watching
No woman, no drive
b/c of
https://twitter.com/shereenelfeki/status/394754250489610240
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Hooray, sex & religion! And the Citadel too?
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Which has been turned into a very nice Embassy Suites...
Isn't it delicious...
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| From MoMA |
"A trend known as “ochobo” -- having a "small and modest mouth" -- has caught on to the point where it's considered rude for women to open their mouths wide in public."
" Freshness Burger reported that sales of their large Classic Burger to women have increased by 213 percent since introducing the new wrapper."
~ Liberation Wrapper Allows Women To Eat...
Yea
Dear Virginia I hope you enjoy the dude who's replacing Maybe Ken Cuccinelli Shouldn't Have Built His Campaign Around Sodomy and just for fun hear ye is an Electric Six song about those kinds of people w/ some civically engaging footage...
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Nay
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/inside-mississippis-last-abortion-clinic
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Nay
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/inside-mississippis-last-abortion-clinic
Friday, November 01, 2013
Dia de los Muertos Music
I think I'm going to start listening to this guy's music. This one was on the radio for Halloween but it also works for Day of the Dead, I think...
Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
Interesting lyrics...
Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!
 Toothsome facepaint |
| http://padmes.com/2012/10/day-of-the-dead-bella-frida/ |
Interesting lyrics...
Homework interrupted
Because of a tweet, I found myself trying to identify the hotel lobby types of plants in this clip:
Continental Breakfast
Do I spy heartleaf philodendron? Maybe some kind of dracaena, or arrowhead vine, or kentia palm? It's hard to tell because of the blurred background. But what is the plant behind the clerk? Oh, my ignorance.
That's the second Key & Peele clip I've seen.
The first one was Clear Cookies.
Continental Breakfast
Do I spy heartleaf philodendron? Maybe some kind of dracaena, or arrowhead vine, or kentia palm? It's hard to tell because of the blurred background. But what is the plant behind the clerk? Oh, my ignorance.
That's the second Key & Peele clip I've seen.
The first one was Clear Cookies.
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| http://paddy1.over-blog.com/article-heartleaf-philodendron-the-climbing-love-tree-117004019.html |
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Too many nerds in a bundt pan
This was not a night of wearing make up or anything special.
So Cal has such nice trick or treating weather, but there is still too much leftover candy.
Apparently, sugar no longer makes you hyper, but it must have some jarring effect on body chemistry nonetheless. Why?
Why did "Rollin With the Homies" ever get stuck in my head?
Why did my chalkboard calligraphy never look this good when they asked me to write the beer specials
on the board?
Hmmm...
So Cal has such nice trick or treating weather, but there is still too much leftover candy.
Apparently, sugar no longer makes you hyper, but it must have some jarring effect on body chemistry nonetheless. Why?
Why did "Rollin With the Homies" ever get stuck in my head?
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| From buzzfeed |
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| Why? |
Hmmm...
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| scapeclub.org |
A new orange flower
As (runs to the door) I (runs to the door) am (runs to the door!) rapidly doling out all the fruit punch flavored Nerds before starting on the orange ones, I have been searching for a picture of a pimpernel because last weekend I went over to a neighbor's place and ate their crushed Oreo dessert. These neighbors are very relaxed people who were carving pumpkins with friends on the front lawn. We talked about being in bit parts in musicals. (Me: The Sound of Music. Them: The Scarlet Pimpernel.)
They have a pretty black and white cat and told me I can come up and say hi to her whenever I like.
The kitty cat's name is Coraline.
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| Actually, it's orange! http://austenauthors.net/the-cajun-cheesehead-chronicles-14/the-scarlet-pimpernel |
They have a pretty black and white cat and told me I can come up and say hi to her whenever I like.
The kitty cat's name is Coraline.
Halloweenhalloweenhalloweeencaramel
My oven is gonna have so much fun making this:
while my stove slowly sautes some onions in a saucepan!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57610125-93/googles-halloween-doodle-turns-you-into-a-witch/
That google doodle reminded me of an experience I had earlier this week. After waking up in the morning, I watched a film behind my eyelids. I had to half relax/half concentrate for it to happen. It was a short, soundless color film with simple animation. A little dog moved around and interacted with objects or maybe even other animals, but it's hard to remember. After a short time, it faded out, and the next thing I saw was a crudely drawn witch. She sat in front of a TV set. She started to jump up and down and open her mouth, as if screaming (in rage? I had to guess at that because there was no sound.) Then I couldn't keep the film rolling any longer. I opened my eyes. But it intrigued me. Where did that little film come from? It seemed as if it might actually exist somewhere...
Synaesthesia - Colour and Sound Hypnosis animation
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| From realsimple |
while my stove slowly sautes some onions in a saucepan!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57610125-93/googles-halloween-doodle-turns-you-into-a-witch/
That google doodle reminded me of an experience I had earlier this week. After waking up in the morning, I watched a film behind my eyelids. I had to half relax/half concentrate for it to happen. It was a short, soundless color film with simple animation. A little dog moved around and interacted with objects or maybe even other animals, but it's hard to remember. After a short time, it faded out, and the next thing I saw was a crudely drawn witch. She sat in front of a TV set. She started to jump up and down and open her mouth, as if screaming (in rage? I had to guess at that because there was no sound.) Then I couldn't keep the film rolling any longer. I opened my eyes. But it intrigued me. Where did that little film come from? It seemed as if it might actually exist somewhere...
Synaesthesia - Colour and Sound Hypnosis animation
Abracadabra, it's Halloween
Last weekend, I found out a fire warden lived at my address about a hundred years ago...
Halloween themed text message of the day:
The orange Nerds are better. Give the punch ones to the kids.
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This sort of drove me crazy a few weeks ago
https://twitter.com/MistressAlexNYC/status/385444525973712896
whatmovie?whatmovieisit?whatwhatwhat? Best guess?
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone movie. Maybe?
Song-heavenly-to-my-inner-6-year-old (and because the magic stuff also seems appropriate for Halloween!)
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| From rockmymakeup |
Halloween themed text message of the day:
The orange Nerds are better. Give the punch ones to the kids.
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| From chronicallyvintage.com |
This sort of drove me crazy a few weeks ago
https://twitter.com/MistressAlexNYC/status/385444525973712896
whatmovie?whatmovieisit?whatwhatwhat? Best guess?
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone movie. Maybe?
Song-heavenly-to-my-inner-6-year-old (and because the magic stuff also seems appropriate for Halloween!)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Uncoverings
Some interesting but slightly confusing news stories about a da Vinci mural have been making it sound as if they've just discovered the room with a mural of mulberry trees, but it's not such a recent discovery...
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/10/lost_da_vinci_mural_found_unde.html
"The first major study on Leonardo's fresco was by Luca Beltrami, published in 1902...He interpreted the fresco as both a commemoration of Beatrice d'Este and an exploration of Leonardo's personal interests in nature and interlaced designs."
"In 1981 Martin Kemp provided the first political reading of the iconography in the fresco. He interpreted the Sala delle Asse as a courtly fantasy that commemorated the dynastic union of the Sforza and Este families. The heavily rooted trees represented a personal symbol of the Duke and the gold interlaced rope represented one of Beatrice d'Este's favorite designs."
"The mulberry tree, as a personal impresa of the Duke, was rooted in the already established image of the black African Moor."
~ From Architectural Trees and Moorish Knots...
by Thane Young, Thesis from Spring of 2011
They had already uncovered some roots...
and now they have found some flowers?
http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/10/lost_da_vinci_mural_found_unde.html
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| Golden knots, branches, leaves from discovery.com |
"The first major study on Leonardo's fresco was by Luca Beltrami, published in 1902...He interpreted the fresco as both a commemoration of Beatrice d'Este and an exploration of Leonardo's personal interests in nature and interlaced designs."
"In 1981 Martin Kemp provided the first political reading of the iconography in the fresco. He interpreted the Sala delle Asse as a courtly fantasy that commemorated the dynastic union of the Sforza and Este families. The heavily rooted trees represented a personal symbol of the Duke and the gold interlaced rope represented one of Beatrice d'Este's favorite designs."
"The mulberry tree, as a personal impresa of the Duke, was rooted in the already established image of the black African Moor."
~ From Architectural Trees and Moorish Knots...
by Thane Young, Thesis from Spring of 2011
They had already uncovered some roots...
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| from discovery.com |
and now they have found some flowers?
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| from discovery.com |
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
A few raisons to learn francais
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| Dega's Four Dancers ~ nga.gov |
All that dance terminology
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It's interesting to listen to.
Abdellatif Kechiche
L'Esquive
(Remember watching Games of Love and Chance at The Moorings. Traveling vicariously around the world through cinema...just one of many films available at this wonderful library...)
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It was the langue de plume of Christine.
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Because of the letters written to Benjamin Franklin by all of his good friends in France.
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Just generally....food!
http://onthetable.us/culinaryfrench.shtml
(Seems like a good enough reason to learn just about any vernacular...)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-25/michael-pollan-joins-cheese-nun-in-crusade-for-real-food.html
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To see if Tartuffe is funnier in the original language.
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Oh God
Those Darlins – Oh God Lyrics I was a drunk girl in the shower In yet another shit hotel I could have been just anywhere The towel I held Well I was drying off my hair Both my feet and legs were bare My shirt was almost ripped in two That ragged shirt I wear to prove That mom and dad That mom and daddy’s love was true It was a picture that he drew It was the fabric that she made And every hole was one I earned I earned them holes A different city every day I earned them holes A different city every day Well after every toilet seat And every ash tray of a night The gas pump sidewalk sort of days I smell the fumes I smell them every single night It was a drunk and steamy shower You left a message on my phone When I pressed it to my ear I heard you whine Oh god I heard you whine and moan Well as I pressed it to my hear I could hear you whine and moan In a frantic voice you asked What have I done You said oh god what have I done
http://www.unpopularlyrics.com/those-darlins-oh-god-lyrics.html#ixzz2ixNzKMf5assdlj
It's Sunday
The world is all like, b*****s be submissive & sexy or something! Reading NY Times review of Blue is the Warmest Color:
"Mr. Kechiche employs a selective aesthetic that shows Adèle slurping her food (“You’re voracious,” Emma says) but, importantly, does not permit her a similarly sloppy appetite in bed, where the movie’s carefully constructed realism is jettisoned along with bodily excesses and excretions in favor of tasteful, decorous poses. This may be what Ms. Maroh meant when she said the sex scenes were missing lesbians; I’d go further and say they’re missing women of any kind. Adèle’s hunger is contained, prettified, aestheticized."
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"There’s a banality to how a lot of directors represent female bodies and female pleasure, partly because they borrow from the industrial handbook of male-oriented pornography.
From Seeing You Seeing Me...
*
Friday night/Saturday morning in the suburbs: The woman upstairs is entertaining a visitor. Loudly. Are they fighting or not? Snippets of conversation make it sound unfriendly but then there is laughter.
Man: I am NOT a WHITE GUY. My last name is GERMAN.
Woman: You are an ASSHOLE.
LOL!
Later they sound something like this:
Man: talking in a very low tone. Makes it sounds like he's reading off a script.
Woman: Ow. Oh. Ah. Auuuuuugh. Oh. Yes. Yes. YES! You're a GOOD BOY. AAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Recounting another interesting development later on:
A: So they were being really loud and she was screaming a lot. And it sounded like her sister stomped over and said "Shut the fuck up!"
B: Nice!
Next Day:
Concerned Father & Husband next door: Did you hear your upstairs neighbor last night? What was going on? We were outside and saw him pushing her up against the railing and she was saying "Ow, ow, you're hurting me."
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Also 'Woman of The Year' In Esquire, Wants To Be A 'Brand'
"Mr. Kechiche employs a selective aesthetic that shows Adèle slurping her food (“You’re voracious,” Emma says) but, importantly, does not permit her a similarly sloppy appetite in bed, where the movie’s carefully constructed realism is jettisoned along with bodily excesses and excretions in favor of tasteful, decorous poses. This may be what Ms. Maroh meant when she said the sex scenes were missing lesbians; I’d go further and say they’re missing women of any kind. Adèle’s hunger is contained, prettified, aestheticized."
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"There’s a banality to how a lot of directors represent female bodies and female pleasure, partly because they borrow from the industrial handbook of male-oriented pornography.
In truth, it isn’t sex per se that makes “Blue Is the Warmest Color” problematic; it’s the patriarchal anxieties about sex, female appetite and maternity that leach into its sights and sounds and the way it frames, with scrutinizing closeness, the female body. In the logic of the movie, Adèle’s body is a mystery that needs solving and, for a brief while, it seems as if Emma will help solve it. In “The Second Sex,” Beauvoir wrote that “the erotic experience is one that most poignantly discloses to human beings the ambiguity of their condition; in it they are aware of themselves as flesh and spirit, as the other and as the subject.” This is the ideal, but for Adèle, the erotic experience leads to despair, desperation, isolation. The body betrays her — just like a woman."
From Seeing You Seeing Me...
*
Friday night/Saturday morning in the suburbs: The woman upstairs is entertaining a visitor. Loudly. Are they fighting or not? Snippets of conversation make it sound unfriendly but then there is laughter.
Man: I am NOT a WHITE GUY. My last name is GERMAN.
Woman: You are an ASSHOLE.
LOL!
Later they sound something like this:
Man: talking in a very low tone. Makes it sounds like he's reading off a script.
Woman: Ow. Oh. Ah. Auuuuuugh. Oh. Yes. Yes. YES! You're a GOOD BOY. AAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Recounting another interesting development later on:
A: So they were being really loud and she was screaming a lot. And it sounded like her sister stomped over and said "Shut the fuck up!"
B: Nice!
Next Day:
Concerned Father & Husband next door: Did you hear your upstairs neighbor last night? What was going on? We were outside and saw him pushing her up against the railing and she was saying "Ow, ow, you're hurting me."
~~~~~
Also 'Woman of The Year' In Esquire, Wants To Be A 'Brand'
Saturday, October 26, 2013
AAs
"On the Chicken Little aspect: It’s actually awesome..."
~ Addicted to the Apocalypse
Adorable Amusement
~ Addicted to the Apocalypse
Adorable Amusement
Oh, name
Some neighbors just invited me to a little Halloween thing. I could not remember one of their names, so I desperately typed in the other one's name (and I only remembered it because it's the same unusual name as some kid I knew in Seattle.) Well, I didn't turn up my neighbor's name right away, but I accidentally found the kid's name. This kid used to tell me I should stay on a basketball team I left. He also wrote something rather lewd in a yearbook. Now he's a pastor with kids who has rejected his New Age upbringing in favor of Christianity. Of course. I know, I know, I KNOW religion will get me in trouble my whole entire life. I probably should stay in and do homework. No, I will go out and admire jack o'lanterns and eat a scary dessert made of Oreo cookie crumbs! Then I will return and do the homework...
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| http://blog.showclix.com/family-friendly-halloween-events/ |
Film to finish
Watched the first half of Samsara.
Interview: The Filmmakers Behind Samsara
http://billcharlesblog.wordpress.com/video/joseph-rodriguez/
Samsara Director and Producer on Globetrotting...
Recent Scenes from North Korea
Only In Ghana Does One Get Buried In Style
Interview: The Filmmakers Behind Samsara
http://billcharlesblog.wordpress.com/video/joseph-rodriguez/
Samsara Director and Producer on Globetrotting...
Recent Scenes from North Korea
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| http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/recent_scenes_from_north_korea.html |
Only In Ghana Does One Get Buried In Style
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