bee-you-ti-full comic

Clan Apis comic #5

I have been missing my friend who gave me the book Clan Apis, which had a different cover than the one shown above.  I remember him telling me about bits of it...the Swahili word for bee, the sister stuff...and in retrospect, I think he could tell that I wasn't bonding with the book. After many years, I gave it away without ever reading it. But my friend was wise. Ten years later, this would be the perfect book for me to read. And its message is even more of a gift in coming from a friend who has left this mode of existence. I felt a pang when I opened the library copy, knowing I had given my gift away, but I do believe that I wound up reading this story at exactly the right time.

Oh, A

I am not an alcoholic, but for what alcohol has done to some of my troubled family members, I'd gladly see it confiscated from all their houses. Saturday praying for broken things to mend.

Namaste.

from sevenof.com

ides for the ides

New song!  Ides ~ Four Months

My ides has been rather musical. The car radio sucked me into the end of an opera, and I wound up skipping lunch to drive further & listen to more of it. Stopped by a little nursery that is not on the internet maps. Their arrangement of plants was rather topsy turvy, but I enjoyed my visit and made a small purchase. As I drove back, the radio was playing the Swan Lake finale (I recognized that one.) At home, I was shown the video discussed in this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/what-j-los-naked-men-reveal-about-pop-musics-naked-women/284431/   which inspired me to rewatch the Blurred Lines parody. I revisited http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-tale-of-two-sissies.html and then, thinking of distant kin, http://mistressalexnyc.com/mistress-seamstress/. The opera, I found out, was Werther, and it was broadcast live. Although I don't find the wikipedia synopsis to be especially moving, it was oddly transfixing to hear it on the radio, and the audience was clearly into it. Perhaps I miss going to the opera...

But euphemistically...

Walter George Bruhl Jr. obituary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Parrot_sketch

3 friday surprises

1) finally investigated a weedy pot and discovered that someone may have planted an avocado pit in with the lemon balm (bored landscapers?)

2) someone seems to have buried a peanut next to the rose-scented geranium, and it is now resting between thai and purple basil

3) there is a copy of the three burials...on the premises ~ it's some sort of studio copy or something without an illustrated cover, so it was not very noticeable ~ maybe it's time to watch it...

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for number two, perhaps the "it" can be read whimsically...

Book and plant excitement of the day.

I.  Clan Apis finally arrived. Also, I found (on the 'net) another book that I believe I gave away at about the same time: Always Elsewhere: Travels of the Black Atlantic (and I went Ha! when I discovered it, because it wasn't that easy to find.) I had forgotten the title, but remembered buying it at a used bookshop in Ann Arbor. I think the story that stood out the most to me was "a merchant seaman wryly observes the pleasure-seeking passengers on his ship in the Far East" (http://www.bulldozia.com/projects/index.php?id=380).  I had to turn in Wave and GEB ~ for the latter, the introduction (in which the author laments his own sexism and rejoices in foreign language translations that convert his Carrollian tortoise character into a female, which made me wonder why he didn't just make the change in English, too) and this "discarded review" & some of its comments are the closest I came to reading it. Maybe it's not for me/ my math allergy, or maybe it's for some other time. I looked up Chopin's "Winter Wind" later on.

II.  HOUSE PLANT EQUATED WITH INCREDIBLE HULK CAN LEAVE SCARS FOR LIFE, SOURCES SAY

http://plantsarethestrangestpeople.blogspot.com/2011/04/incredible-hulk-schefflera-actinophylla.html 

Beware the sap of the Umbrella plant.

Actually, maybe those sources don't say that. But others did.

May all oatmeal baths be strong & gentle enough.

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Further reading on plant poison

looking forward to zzz's

combined health/health insurance issues seem to be making a mind go to pieces...

however, they are probably recoverable...

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after reading the description of the Republic in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia, now wondering if I've perhaps been assigned to the "iron" plan, featuring backlogs, elusive official confirmation of anything, ha ha ha...

a little poem galaxy ii

My friend who recently passed away had things to say before he left earth. I do feel a little funny posting some of them, but I am just about 100% sure he would not mind. And it seems like it makes my headache go away. These are a few of his bestowings... 


From January 7
With my LifeVest external defibrillator I have a better idea how good it feels when a woman takes off her bra.

From January 23 

The device I use to summon a nurse is called a 'call bell'. It also is used to control the TV and a light. Unfortunately the ringer doesn't work for me so the nurses can see my light turn on but not hear the ringer. It could be said I need more call bell.

 

From Feb. 16

Had a setback but now I'm back.

 

From Feb. 17

Happy Precedent's Day. I don't think I have ever made this joke before.

Poem on the last day (March 1, 2014):

 

Hospital insomnia

The usual suspects.

Maybe the midnight solitary wakes
Telling me I know secret knowledge now
Of mystery cures

The zonked out family
Growing a common gold crown of insomnia

The helpful lurking nurse
Watchful over a puzzle of beeping alarms

The nurse recommending sleep cuz
Tomorrow is a big day
But my candy cane options
Are mindless TV drivel
Or the flying thoughts of my mind

The boxy green light alien hanging from the ceiling

The warm hot breathing tubes
Fiery and
Fascinating
How the black levels
Support the full feathered breaths
Through the coughs
That I may one day support others
The one thing I can do now
Taking out of league breaths
Just to prove I can
Do take deep breaths
Without setting off alarms
Find peace in the cyclone

Feeding tube down nose
Silently circulation liquid food in

And burbling coming up my throat
Like a black catburglar
Establishment will not negotiate

The ever present professional ready to
Pee or poop or play whatever black ball

And me trying to thread the camel
Write this poem
Not setting off my heart

 

By Chris Thehundredpercent Lee

a little poem galaxy

http://www.kimroberts.org/pages/books_wishbone.html

A Neil in a Paper Moon

A Neil in the Wilderness

In The Next Galaxy poem

New appreciation...

Poison oak is much worse than the nettles rashes from my Pacific Northwest childhood...(Tecnu Extreme Poison Ivy Scrub doesn't hurt, seems to somewhat help, and is NOT a cure-all.) Anyway, I have a new appreciation for the dainty nettle.

http://www.wolfcollege.com/stinging-nettle-harvesting-processing-and-recipes/

carryover from Saturday night...

Watching Cosmos on a new TV on Sunday night is pretty cool...

Nature is very educational

After a few natural and not-so-natural remedies (Benadryl Gel for Kids was one of the better ones) it seems that tonight, Tecnu & I have "a rendezvous that we just can't evade..." (Partially inspired by  old songs on the radio on the way into and upon departing Walmart! Louis Armstrong ~ It Takes Time / Dick Powell in "The Singing Marine" ~ You Can't Run Away From Love Tonight) And if that doesn't help, maybe trying the more expensive Zanfel, or possibly Mean Green, will bring about better results, except it seems that the latter must be ordered online...

Nature lesson: Be incredibly wary of "dead" pale twigs near trees (even ones without leaves!)

Example with leaves:

http://www.castrovilleccp.org/ManzanitaPark/poisonoak.htm

Different example (but do I see a few leaves on it?):

 "On the bright side, we have now proved that the resin of poison ivy stays around even when it is winter and seems to be dead. That’s what real scientists do, try to prove things."  From http://theschoolhouseontheprairie.wordpress.com/tag/poison-ivy/

Otherwise, you may lose hours of sleep and work and peace of mind, and it will suck.

moon craters

a walk tonight ended in viewing some moon craters and stripes on jupiter through a telescope...texted a neighbor and they came out to talk for a while...and then the end-end of the walk was all cool wind, high sky, and very tall buildings (especially one lofty, white church building)

champagne wishes and caviar dreams

Of one who still walks the earth...sometimes with burning skin and body anxiety...

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02773/poison-oak.html

https://www.coveredca.com/events/

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oh, what's a good "walk off the earth" song for now....

karma police? magic?

Simply meant

Langston Hughes: I loved my friend

I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.

http://tiltingourheadsup.blogspot.com/2013/01/langston-hughes-i-loved-my-friend.html

such weather

This morning, in the course of sporadically checking FB, I noticed that once again, one of my friends has shocked me by having the nerve to die after a long illness (muscular dystrophy.) We used to be in a writing group together. Also, we met through a church. Sigh. Okay, girls who wanted to talk to me about the lord. My friend also gave me two gifts: The Wishbone Galaxy and Clan Apis. Sadly, I think I must have put the latter in the pile to be donated when I moved across the country. (why? why? why? why?) However, I can at least find another copy of it in the library. I still have the other one (a slender volume, very easy to pack.) The first poem in it begins: "All the hair of your life comes back to you" and ends with "the thorns, the drunkenness, the choking hairballs..."

http://senorparrot.com/blog/2010/09/01/review-clan-apis-by-jay-hosler/

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In Wishbone, I found a note to myself about what my friend said to me when he gave me this book. He said that the poet reminded him of me. "He said she/her poems are like scattered energy that settles down." Also, he asked me if I was Jewish, because she is. That again! Actually, I think my sister said she found one Jewish ancestor on our mother's side when she traced the family tree. So if her research was correct, then maybe, if you count one person from about a thousand years ago...

Portraits in music videos

a) High School Lover 
b) Let's Go

I think I clicked on the 2nd one because from a distance, the girl kind of reminded me of the actress in Napoleon Dynamite.

2 girls

Today's disconcerting moment: found myself lying on some grass under a tree, paging through an impulse-checkout (Redeployment.) Two girls came over and, in a friendly and not entirely offputting way, asked my name & introduced themselves to me. Then they asked if they could sit down and talk to me. I said, I don't know, is this about religion? I said I was not interested in talking about religion. And they said, actually, we're not so into religion ourselves, but we would like to talk about the lord. But I said I didn't want to, and they said "fair enough," and left. We wished each other a good day. I felt a little unsettled, as if I'd been rude, even though they came up to me and interrupted my reading. Would an interesting conversation have been possible? "What do you think of the goddess?" Or they might've had their own interesting perspectives on "the lord." Maybe I should have... However, I was not at church. I was reading a book about war, written by a veteran. The juxtaposition was a little too weird. Which is, of course, why I'm thinking about it now...

another earthly way to be aware of skin...

Dear "urushiol" (?) ~ you've provided this week's most sleep-depriving torments, and now it's time for your side effects to freaking go away.

"Poison oak and poison ivy do not spare age, sex, race or economic status. Each year thousands of people are afflicted with moderate to severe dermatitis from touching the foliage of these plants. Poison oak and poison ivy account for an estimated ten percent of lost work time in the U. S. Forest Service. In fact, hundreds of fire fighters who battle summer and fall blazes in California's coastal ranges are so severely affected that they are unable to work. People who breathe in the smoke and soot may develop serious inflammation of respiratory mucous membranes. Because of the serious economic impact due to lost employment time, poison oak "injuries" are covered by Workers' Compensation Insurance in California. The monetary cost of this affliction is approximately one percent of the state's workers' compensation budget (Epstein, 1994)."

Hmmm. "...drops its leaves during the winter months....trailblazing through a patch of the bare stems could result in a painful rash."

~ Poison Oak: More Than Just Scratching The Surface

"it can occur from 5 hours to 15 days after touching the plant.^{1" who knew?}

"Indirect contact with urushiol can also cause the rash. This may happen when you touch clothing, pet fur, sporting gear, gardening tools, or other objects that have come in contact with one of these plants"

http://www.webmd.com/allergies/tc/poison-ivy-oak-or-sumac-topic-overview

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At least it's probably not a flesh-eating thing--first doc was quite rushed, leaving awfuller visions of skin catastrophes dancing in the head as symptoms worsened in the following days--props to the comparatively chatty female doc who bothered to explain the cause was probably a poisonous plant!

Free time tomorrow to be dedicated to whatever the hell is going on with health insurance.

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"Poison oak urushiol causes a complicated delayed allergic reaction with the body's immune system. It is technically classified as a cell-mediated immune response and the "peak misery" may not appear until days or weeks later. It is quite different from the primary irritants of nettle and euphorbias, the effects of which are immediate."

No kidding!

Slightly obsessed.  

tres cheery

and possibly anti-inflammatory?

http://theherbgardener.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-difference-between-french-marigold.html

http://theherbgardener.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-difference-between-french-marigold.html

Would have been nice if the phone rep. could have located a medical # today and being reassured that a backlog means that lots of other people are also still waiting for theirs was, well...

https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/m/marigo16.html

http://leungschineseherbnews.blogspot.com/2007/03/medicine-from-marigolds.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19374166

how many times

I've never surfed, but it's possible that I may never tire of watching this surf video...

Maybe I'll be more athletic in the next life.

~~~~~

Parrot's beak

from gardenatheart.blogspot.com

such flowers

from http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/k/Senecio_flower.htm

From http://www.asergeev.com/pictures/k/Senecio_flower.htm

This guy also has pictures of his early childhood art on his site...good for him. I wish I had mine...

Viola seeds

Pearly...

http://www.portlandnursery.com/plants/perennials/viola.shtml

 
http://www.portlandnursery.com/plants/natives/viola.shtml

http://midnighttea7.deviantart.com/art/Winter-Violets-87781876

Birds, books...

From http://kestrelart.wordpress.com/tag/murmuration/

This week, when I got a book stuck in my head, it was the memoir Wave, which I just read. (I also read several fine reviews of it, and because of this one, I think I am also going to give The Snow Leopard a try.) I was sitting in my car watching some birds flying, and some of the parts of the book that were about observing nature, anagrams, and things a child might say about being from another world seemed to sort of float up in my mind. The birds were doing that kind of flying where they dive and swoop and turn a lot. It's similar to some videos I found of starlings, except it was a much smaller group of birds than the large swarms that seem to be in most of the internet videos...

"Murmuration" video

this video with repetition

named after a type of cloud



because of http://musicmachinery.com/2014/02/25/exploring-regional-listening-preferences/

Iberis sempervirens

Favorite common name off a plant list I am to memorize this week: Evergreen Candytuft.

oh, fleet & flown

Idear from 5 years ago: portrait of a hostess leaning on the appointment book podium, pointlessly jealous that she can't be the future self yet.

Curious about:


"The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983) (made-for-television)

Directed by Tony Maylam; screenplay by Ken August and Peter Lawrence

Starring Belinda Bauer as a female Dorian Gray; Anthony Perkins as Henry Lord

This version sees Dorian Gray as an actress who becomes immortal while an audition tape she made ages for her."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray)

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Some people seem more appealing on tape/film/video/CD, etc.

Feeding requirements

"The United Arab Emirates has passed a law requiring mothers to breastfeed their children until they are two years old. The clause was added to a children's rights law, but the social affairs minister, Mariam al-Roumi, said it raised the prospect of husbands suing wives who did not breastfeed."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/uae-law-mothers-breastfeed-first-two-years

"When children from different families were compared, the kids who were breast-fed did better on those 11 measures than kids who were not breast-fed. But, as Colen points out, mothers who breast-feed their kids are disproportionately advantaged—they tend to be wealthier and better educated. When children fed differently within the same family were compared—those discordant sibling pairs—there was no statistically significant difference in any of the measures, except for asthma. Children who were breast-fed were at a higher risk for asthma than children who drank formula."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/02/27/breast_feeding_study_benefits_of_breast_over_bottle_have_been_exaggerated.html

Laborsome yesterday

Hours of tying tomato plants caused nausea-inducing back ache and three major ideas: 1) repetitive motion discomfort can make one reconsider the importance of developing great people skills 2) is it because of the mild scoliosis? 3) oh my dear god how can I improve my posture! At about this time, several police officers were apparently yanking a student out of a classroom and handcuffing his hands behind his back so the rest of the class could be sufficiently traumatized. All the way home, police cars were everywhere, and they all said "Sheriff," including the one in the rearview mirror just before turning into the library...

Boats

Almost never really on them, but felt like looking at these for some reason...

http://poucherpastels.blogspot.com/2010/02/colorful-little-cape-cod-boat-painting.html

http://poucherpastels.blogspot.com/2010/04/boat-hull-reflection-pastel-painting-by.html

http://poucherpastels.blogspot.com/2010/12/provincetown-dory-evening-light-pastel.html

http://poucherpastels.blogspot.com/2010/08/floating-boat-reflection-pastel.html

http://poucherpastels.blogspot.com/2012/08/indigo-hour-boat-seascape-pastel.html

music flashback

I really did wonder how the name of this new album came to this artist...the 2nd name makes me vaguely think of old late 60s, early 70s photographs, a very beautiful (modelesque?) blond woman, a former best friend, not mine, my relative's best friend when they were very very young...and even though I might be wrong about the name--maybe it was not the ex-best friend's name at all, maybe it was another women's name, actually the name of a cherished cousin--I have this idea that they split up for some reason (the 2 girls who thought they were best friends) and that there is something unrepentant about it...and I decided to look/listen at these again because they are Agent Orange / Doughnut Song / In The Springtime of his Voodoo...

had a day, drove home in a car

with a radio

Satie ~ Gnossienne No. 1

~

Battle of Trees?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cad_Goddeu

PS

Internet story stirs imaginings....

http://www.policymic.com/articles/82737/woman-gets-bullied-for-her-beard-so-she-shows-the-world-what-real-beauty-looks-like

mensuales

http://wordsofwilliams.com/live-on-last-months-income/

http://www.policymic.com/articles/79631/what-the-oscars-would-look-like-if-they-weren-t-decided-by-old-white-men

http://www.policymic.com/articles/79677/women-can-win-oscars-but-only-if-they-play-one-of-these-roles

http://www.policymic.com/articles/79677/women-can-win-oscars-but-only-if-they-play-one-of-these-roles

OH. P.S.! http://wordsofwilliams.com/why-submitting-to-your-husband-is-actually-a-compliment/

worldsostrange

"From 1998 to 2013, the percentage of female film writers dropped from 13 percent to 10; the percentage of female directors dropped from 9 to 6."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/02/19/women_s_media_center_2014_report_the_representation_of_women_in_journalism.html

http://www.anorak.co.uk/229042/strange-but-true/china-erects-pair-of-massive-breasts-attached-to-tiny-girl.html/

"But when I asked a group of actors, producers, writers, and casting directors about who’s to blame for reinforcing that standard, everyone pointed the finger in a different direction. It was like the Rashomon of sexual objectification."

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/02/women_in_hollywood_are_female_executives_to_blame_for_the_industry_s_unrealistic.html

(Could it be time to finally watch Rashomon...)

Short film & road trip songs

PJ Harvey ~ The Glorious Land

Also:

Mavis Staples ~ Freedom Highway & I Like The Things About Me

stars & ovaries

http://www.nailpolishwars.com/2012/05/ovarian-cancer-awareness.html

a few of the gifts of searching for "oh my stars and ovaries!"

https://twitter.com/abroshar/status/398864584850685953

https://www.facebook.com/HouseOfShakti/posts/10152510924740016

http://anita-womanwifemom.blogspot.com/2009/09/oh-my-stars.html

ohinnernet

I'm glad you exist but you will make me drink while waiting for a chipotle chicken mac n' cheese frozen dinner to cook in the oven for 50 minutes theoldfashionedway....

http://www.policymic.com/articles/82997/olivia-wilde-takes-down-hollywood-s-sexist-double-standard-with-one-simple-sentence

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bw75d_kimberle-crenshaw_news

http://ofmeansandends.com/2014/02/04/remembering-rosa-parks-anti-rape-activist/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/olivia-wilde/haiti-cholera-documentary_b_1432841.html

https://twitter.com/oliviawilde/status/432192565413023744

http://www.thewire.com/culture/2014/02/men-are-fragile-and-do-not-need-your-common-courtesies/358451/

Also, to have listened to some young women enthusiastically concocting a story about a girl scheming to steal a boy away from another girl by lying about pregnancy and saying "ooooh, I'd read that!" in the a.m. was very

Learning about a new tree...

This weekend, I have learned more about...

http://www.flowersociety.org/joshua_tree.htm

http://www.nps.gov/jotr/planyourvisit/upload/2013guide.pdf

Funny tweet:

https://twitter.com/JoshuaTreeNP/status/429673630629261313

http://allandsundryblog.com/2013/08/09/dr-seuss-inspiration-joshua-tree-national-park/

Chucklesome TV

Feeling like "Parks & Rec" is my current favorite TV show...

http://rebloggy.com/post/k-parks-and-recreation-amy-poehler-aubrey-plaza-april-ludgate-leslie-knope-parks/47787397614

Maybe I'll eventually check out "My Little Pony" to see what the Bronies are watching.  

Ghost song

Donna (Hair song)

car weirdness

if a white car with a license plate frame that says "superiority" glides super close next to me, unlike other cars which give the pedestrians a respectable berth, i'm gonna look up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_complex when I get home & think the driver either has issues or needs a new pair of glasses...

Video game discoveries

Play Tetris!

http://www.freetetris.org/

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/ptsd-tetris/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/04/26/playing_tetris_helps_reduce_effects_of_ptsd.html

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/how-tetris-could-help-you-stick-your-diet-n33041

Discovery about the color teal & other things...

http://artevolve.blogspot.com/2012/09/pcos-awareness.html
 

http://www.etsy.com/market/pcos

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jan2013/od-23.htm

https://twitter.com/pcosdiva/status/433341847616778240

http://www.drinkcitra.com/2012/09/september-is-pcos-awareness-month.html

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/23-year-old-woman-grows-beard-says-she-feels-more-feminine-t

Royals Ukulele cover

Sinfonia Agridulce

oh, nevermind

all because of cake rainbow

http://weheartit.com/entry/69316920

the pagan month of october version could be: an innocuous marbled fudge butterscotch loaf streaked with syrupy veins of brown sugar smothered in velvety vanilla cream cheese icing garnished with sanguine cinnamon dots spelling out ladymacbethusurpationisacrucialmust plus whipped cream and a cherry, followed by a ouija board session for the selection of tomes...

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that Shopping By Drone Could Be Good For The Environment.'"

(credit: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Racing with the moon / Midnight Cowboy in despair / decked out in his 'finery' / with tonic on his hair. Dubai Could Make Drone Deliveries Before Amazon Does." 

(credit: "Racing With The Moon" by T. Hawkins)

Delicious...

http://www.eatingfree.com/blog/2012/07/19/pichuberry-peru-exotic-fruit/

Kind of looks like a tomato? But more tart and more sweet simultaneously!

Plants & Deee-Lite

I like this one showing its roots in a mason jar:

http://paulcramactor.blogspot.com/2011/11/rooting-devils-ivy-plant-in-mason-jar.html

I meant to turn on Ice Dancing and got this instead: "Freshen Up Your Home With Houseplants" clip. I think it is worth watching. I don't know what's going on with the embed code; it kind of freaks me out...the actual TV was then about to give the Ice Dance results but I turned it off because of Spoiler Alert. Then I went on the internet...auuuugh...that's okay, even if I know who won, I don't know how it was won yet. I can save it for later tonight.

I've noticed that this one is almost always accompanied by an apology for the fuzzy quality:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1sskq_groove-is-in-the-heart-dee-lite_music

Rendezvous reverie

Paper Moon ~ Ella

Moonwalking with Neil

Pop N Taco & Kento Mori

Intriguing

Extrapyramidal

http://park12.wakwak.com/~pharma1/textbook/Antipsychotic/Antipsychotic-e.html

Et tu, Bill?

Life is so disgusting sometimes. Have to go from the disgusting stuff to the more hopeful links at the end, like with the president and the rap battle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/why-are-so-many-boys-leaving-high-school-thinking-rape-is-funny_b_4759742.html

http://www.newsweek.com/taking-bill-cosby-228495#.UvmIS0yi5eI.twitter

http://www.newsweek.com/another-woman-accuses-bill-cosby-sexual-abuse-228837

http://edactnow.tumblr.com/post/74528377867/we-made-obamas-weekly-address-weekly-address

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/02/nihal-arthanayake-dj-bbc-radio-rap-battle-mc-threaten-rape-interview

sooo...read in the park at night...

from patheos

...you will end up talking to a guy who wants to tell you about a star society that sets up telescopes, then sedgeways into his childhood split between an orphanage and a millionaire grandmother, his love of breakdancing, and his personal acquaintance with M.J.'s choreographer Bruno Falcon a.k.a. "Pop N' Taco."

Pop N' Taco & Kento Mori: "I Can Make You Dance" and "Billie Jean"

Carmina Burana

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana

small simulation of cute gift

From etsy

book club idea?

From zenandnow.org

Because someone said, "You know, I worked for four hours on this last night, and that website you told me about really helped. Because I found out he was in the military, and I know what his problem was."

Last day...

 

Bandanas, flannel, short jean jackets, bustiers, sunglasses, hooping earrings, lipstick, names. Gargantuan empty tequila bottle. Dialogues: speak English, speak Spanish, I have your man, you're so bossy, she treats me right, you're hot and all, but I'll pass. Cat fights, machismo and cardboard motorcycle cutouts. Girls simulate doctoring drinks to serve to a rival gang. Rivals throw monopoly money at stripper. And of course...musical selections...

Sigh

Seems like it's my song sometimes...

Of interest

As one who diligently and faithfully paid off her student loans prior to the recession and now owes more on them than was ever originally borrowed, this:

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial-new-lower-interest-on-student-loans-past-due-1.7047470

Spent $$ on a Thai tea drink and heard something by Flying Lotus in the tea shop today. It was worth it.

Ha ha: If there's a HUGE...

Art

Found on reddit

mudskipper cuteness

cool animules

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/absurd-creature-week-lyrebird/

http://www.dogeweather.com/

Still a fun song...

http://www.biography.com/people/lesley-gore-16606845

Lesley Gore ~ You Don't Own Me

The Blow Monkeys ~ You Don't Own Me

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Written by 2 guys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don%27t_Own_Me 

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Movie Trivia

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/natalie-wood-death-rebel-without-266053

Peliculas

"The Milk of Sorrow"

http://filmmakermagazine.com/12035-claudia-llosa-the-milk-of-sorrow/#.UvYH10nTkeE

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-peruvian-filmmaker-claudia-llosa-to-premiere-new-film-on-feb-12-102177

Four4FridayLaydayzzz7

Saada Bonaire ~ Second Face

Quilt ~ Arctic Shark

Sam the Sham and the Pharaos ~ Wooly Bully

"You know, the sad thing is the raffle only raised 6 dollars 72 cents and a button."

~L7 Live Studio "Stuck Here Again" and some dudes commenting at the end

Shrew you

There is something about Stephen Holden's review of The Invisible Woman that I find really nauseating.

Possibly addicted to covers (& originals)

  

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53336/20-songs-you-might-not-know-were-covers

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The super "House of the Rising Sun" cover list...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Holman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_White

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Blake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Williams

3 mos!

"The task force has about three months to determine the best ways for colleges and universities to deal with these crimes."

http://www.technicianonline.com/news/article_0273b20e-8d5c-11e3-a3d2-0017a43b2370.html

Ugh

Getting pregnant is the best thing one could ever possibly attain, unless of course you're not married...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/04/catholic-teacher-fired-over-pregnancy/

dundundun...

From janeaustenfilmclub

"Scott Thomas is mesmerisingly beautiful, but she refers to herself as an 'ageing actress' and keeps saying, 'I'm terribly old' or, 'I'm positively ancient.' In fact, being ancient might make things slightly easier, for she adds, 'I'm sort of, as the French would say, 'stuck between two chairs', because I'm no longer 40 and sort of a seductress, and I'm not yet a granny.' She got a terrible shock a few years ago when a close-up portrait taken for this newspaper was reprinted in a glossy magazine, without being digitally retouched. 'It was a really great picture, and looked fine on a grainy piece of paper in black-and-white,' she says now. 'But on the gloss of a magazine cover, without being retouched, it was the most terrifying thing. It really brought home to me how the images of women we see are so manipulated.' Accustomed these days to seeing faces digitally perfected, anyone who saw the magazine would, she groans, have thought: 'My God, Kristin Scott Thomas, she's so ancient!'

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/31/kristin-scott-thomas-interview


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10198039/Kristin-Scott-Thomas-Men-will-run-when-they-see-this.html


http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-kristin-scott-thomas-ryan-gosling-only-god-forgives-20130806,0,1290221.story#axzz2sKTlUXNO


http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/no-meaningful-change-over-time-in-female-filmmaker-participation-among-new-research-released-today-at-the-sundance

HowdoIgettothis?

From buzzfeed

Click https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/430522554021711872
Click https://twitter.com/GWillowWilson/status/430559358984785920
Click https://twitter.com/hijab4men
Thank you, Stephen King.

California guys in the '60s

"During recording sessions for 'Incense and Peppermints,' the band expressed a dislike for the song's lyrics (written by John S. Carter), so the lead vocals were sung by a friend of the band, Greg Munford, who was attending the recording session as a visitor. The regular vocalists in the band were relegated to providing background and harmony vocals on the record.^[7]"

~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense_and_Peppermints_(song)

The bookish on twitter

Wondered if this was the famous horror story writer sense-of-humor I've heard about (I live with someone who loves his books...)

"Boy, I'm stumped on that one. I don't like to think it's true, and there's an element of palpable bitchery there, but..."

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/430468906243735552

"Hold up yall. Stephen King is no misogynist, nor advocate of rape. We can disagree on this w/o ad hominem attacks"

https://twitter.com/marykarrlit/status/430512569313677312

"Oh who knows. Stephen King is no misogynist tho. 140 characters catches us all. Complex issue"

https://twitter.com/marykarrlit/status/430516194375122944

"Maybe he thinks the editorial writer bitchy. Or even me. I don't think it's his response to yng woman's letter"

https://twitter.com/marykarrlit/status/430517713384259584

hint...pls clarify!!!

(I'm just guessing the "palpable bitchery" (ad hominemy?) referred to mia farrow since I kind of remember from way back in, say, junior high?...ah, reading newsweek in social studies class...that everyone thought the mother was putting her young daughter "up to" the accusations out of bitterness...)

Update:

"Have no opinion on the accusations; hope they're not true. Probably used the wrong word."

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/430515420836024320

"Still learning my way around this thing. Mercy, please."

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/430522554021711872

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OK, well who knows. "Palpable bitchery" somehow alighted on a tweet, I guess.


96 characters for #You
your cliches
your little tweets
your stereotypes
your twitter soundbites


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Oops, do spaces count as characters...

96 Tears---?

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"... used the wrong word to describe...a sad and painful mess."

~ http://www.stephenking.com/news_archive/article429.html

Mistakes happen.