Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Triangle Fire

From Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion

Sweatshop Garments Drag All Of Us Down referenced the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which I remember learning about when I visited a museum in upstate NY as a teenager (I think it was by "the Egg"). I'd been to the museum as a child, so it was strange to come back in a taller/bigger body and look at things from that vantage point. I also felt very fascinated by the exhibit, in a terrible way.

Some things online about garment workers who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911:

My First Job - Rose Cohen
Rose Cohen & Isidore Wegodner

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The Sweatshops Garments article also mentioned three more recent garment factory fires:

7 people died in a fire at Smart Fashion Export in Bangladesh on Jan. 26, 2013

112 died in a fire at Tazreen Fashions in Bangladesh on Nov. 24, 2012

250+ died at Ali Enterprises in Pakistan (and there were also 25 deaths in a fire at a shoe factory on the same day?) on Sept. 11, 2012




Monday, February 25, 2013

A little musique

Old song from high school and/or maybe college...
Fade Into You

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Hooray!

Had to find something to make me feel a little better before I went to bed.

Chester Township woman helps battle modern-day slavery

"Neigher said her lifelong concerns about human trafficking began when she wrote a ninth-grade paper on migrant laborers while a student at Monroe High School in Rochester, N.Y. Her mother was a social worker in a county with a high population of migrant workers."

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Maybe a little less hoorayish:

In Deterring Modern-Day Slavery, California is Stopped Short

"Young children and women remain heavily exploited. Crisis Aid states that the average age of a trafficked victim is 12-14 years old; however, girls as young as 5 and 6 years old may be sexually trafficked in the United States."
 
"With regards to forced labor, 40-50% of the exploited are children, while 56% of all forced labor victims are women and girls. Health and Human Services claims that “women and children are overwhelmingly trafficked in labor arenas because of their relative lack of power, social marginalization, and their overall status as compared to men.”

"Two types of labor trafficking exists: bonded and forced. The former, also known as debt bondage, remains the most common form of enslavement. The victim must repay a loan by providing labor, and the value of his/her work often exceeds the sum of money owed. The latter forces one to work under threats of violence against the individual or the family."

I'd watch this again

Marwencol

Someone will be *** with cute

From Cat cafe to open in London

Sunday videos

Sometimes, I just watch videos b.f. shows me, and then watch other stuff on my own.

Not necessarily in this order:

My Little Brony

Twister Commercial

Your Printer is a Brat

Kids shows

So apparently, "My Little Pony" was revived (I'm pretty sure I've seen the dolls in stores) and now there are grown men called "Bronies" who really like it a lot.
Adult Male My Little Pony fans
Huh.
Yes, I suppose it sufficiently interests a person who at one point got made fun of by boys (well, mildly teased, really not that bad) for playing with toy ponies. And I don't know any adult men who watch the show. I don't watch it. But I don't have cable. Barely have a functioning TV. Anyway.
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Article comment (sarcastic? serious? tongue-in-check but truthful?):
JohnYardDog
167
I'm a Brony. Don't think it's that big a deal though - I've always enjoyed She-Ra, Jem, Hello Kitty and all manner of things that are considered 'for girls'. There's no reasons why things can't be 'cute' and 'badass' at the same time. Now, if only Season 3 would start.
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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Songs and shoes and clothes and etc.

I just came across an interesting post about the "Wings" song! I didn't know all those people would be exposed to it like that...but I think it's cool to think that now a lot of people might go and seek out the full song after being exposed to just part of the song. I think some of those songs triggered some feelings in me... For example, I have been wondering off and on about which countries my clothing has been coming from for years. It feels very natural for me to wonder about that, and if my wonderment also deepens into regularly feeling concern for the treatment of the people who make the shoes on my feet and the clothes on my back, then that's probably how it should be.
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A 2012 article with differing perspectives on whether or not LA has sweatshops

Darn.

I'm trying to figure out if this could've been a game I played at a daycare in the 80s:
Pound Puppies: Pooch On The Loose

Friday, February 22, 2013

Aw....

Bob Dylan Lays Off 2,000 Workers From Song-Writing Factory
and
Johnny Depp Now Completely Made of Scarves and Bracelets

Interesting quotes from pages about fashion

A quote from Introducing Fashioning Change:

"The ideas behind the company were instilled in me by my father. He grew up in Juarez, Mexico, a city that many consumer-goods companies use as an outsourcing location. He had friends and family who worked in many of the factories, and he saw the impact people could have when they chose to purchase one brand over another. With that in mind, he gave my brothers and me three rules we had to abide by when making purchases: One, we couldn’t buy anything made in Asia because he believed the manufacturing practices in many Asian countries were worse than they were in Mexico. Two, we weren’t allowed to buy clothing made of synthetic materials. And three, we weren’t allowed to wear dark clothing because he believed that children were the light of the world and should dress in bright colors."

and a National Park Service page about the historic Anjac Fashion Building:

"In view of the fact that Los Angeles was, and remains today, an important center of the Mexican working-class population, and that Mexicana workers are still the major work force in the garment and needle trades industry, the garment strike of 1933 should be commemorated. Working conditions that strikers protested against in 1933 have not changed dramatically in the garment industry since that time. Recent Latina and Asian immigrants suffer many of the same degrading and humiliating sweatshop conditions their sisters struck against in 1933: no control of hours and wages, exploitative piecework rates, and no place to go for redress of grievances for fear of being fired or deported."

Comfy clothing #2 & #3

#2 - T-shirt that says "Isla Mujeres" -- made in Mexico by Yazbek

#3  - A favorite sweater -- from Soft Surroundings, made in China

A page with links about the textile industry in China

Garment Industry Booklet

Summary of Some Basic California and Federal Requirements....
 
"Much of the clothing we wear each day is made in factories in California employing California workers. Some of these factories are large, modern enterprises that scrupulously follow California's labor laws and maintain safe and healthy workplaces; others are fledgling enterprises, whittled out of storefronts or apartments. In the face of powerful competitive forces, some employers are tempted to cut corners on wages and health and safety laws to gain a competitive edge and amass working capital. These employers unfairly undercut law abiding employers while their employees, often California's poorest and most defenseless workers, lose wages and endure higher risks of workplace injury and illness. Most factories run 24 hours a day, causing production workers to work evenings and weekends. Many operations work on rotating schedules, which can cause sleep disorders and other stress from constant changes in work hours. Overtime is common for these workers during periods of peak production. Working conditions vary greatly."

"This booklet is not intended to answer all employment-related questions, but rather to serve as a guide and reference as questions arise. Issues, such as employment discrimination and taxation, are not addressed in this booklet. While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this digest is accurate, laws, as well as policies and procedures, are subject to change. Therefore, it is important that you keep up to date on developments. You should also consider contacting employer groups, trade associations, unions and other employee advocacy groups for assistance..."

Comfy clothes of the day #1

Black yoga pants I bought a while back (I love these pants!)
By Champion
Made in Cambodia

A PBS story about the Cambodian garment industry:
Are Western Consumers Willing To Pay More For Apparel?

Thursday, February 21, 2013

A just-remembered poem

Just felt like reading a poem called About Music For Bone And Membrane Instrument = =

A few appealing album covers

music.meteor.ie
Arise, Therefore...

Who cleaned the bathrooms I used today?

At home: Me. (I need to learn to do a better job of it.)
Out and about: I don't know who cleaned those bathrooms.

Who picked the food I ate today?

I haven't a clue.

What am I wearing?

Clothes that were made in India and Honduras.

On a more bittersweetly optimistic note

Hero 4-year-old pulls little sister from wreckage...

O, my little lower mind

This is pretty gross, so I couldn't read all of it, but the title alone just attracted my little lower-mind mentality:

Change of Command Ceremony Dissolves into Giant Orgy

Ha ha.

My little lower mind also thinks it'd be pretty funny to substitute words like "outgoing Battalion Commander" and "ingoing Battalion Commander" with the following:

a) people who think they're hot shit in academia (especially tenured fuckers)
b) people who think they're hot shit in Hollywood (especially folks with penises)

Whoa! How many rape-culture assisting people is that? Do I even know? Probably not! Part of me's still gotta work harder on achieving better, higher-level mentality, I'm afraid.

Tee hee:

Female Marine Charges Obstacle Course With Sexual Harrassment

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Flower food

In some parts of the U.S., Black Locust is an invasive, but in other places it's native.

all-creatures.org
I tried the flowers by themselves once, and they were so good, I thought about eating them for weeks, months...

Some recipes:
Black Locust flower doughnuts
Black Locust flower fritters (with Italy pics!)
Another recipe with more detailed step-by-step pics!
A Polish version!
Black Locust flower pancakes

From what I understand, just the flower is okay; the rest of the tree is poisonous.

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LookedupapublishedauthorIusedtoknowingradschool
butIcouldonlywatchthatvideoforlike10secondsbecausethenIfoundout
thatthere'samilitaryversionofTheOnioncalledDuffelBlog
it'sofflineatthemoment
ohnevermindit'sonlinenow
tryingtovisualizewhattheworld'sgonnalooklikewhenI'm70iscrazy!

Some of the older people will be the reincarnated young people, I think

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Mule Fat Lover

A lovely picture of a bird alighting atop a branch of Mule Fat
From Plants of the SG Mts

O COBRA

why art thou so expensive
why the brush-off from the sliding scale clinic and why the ER bills
why o why
lacking the financial background to understand such things
i cannot answer this question
however,  i think i will send these to some people...

Get Me To A Hospital...

B & P Cobra dance

Holy Hedgehogs

I just enjoyed
15 Hedgehogs With Things...

Another onion?

I found out from Transcending Culture Shock that there's a Thai version of The Onion, called Not The Nation.

Bar Staff, Sex Tourists Wait Patiently...

CCH Defeats CCH

Video reveals...

Looking for an old song...

I was looking for a kids song about going to the country store, 'cause it's happy and peppy. It has a lot of "Fiddley diddley diddley dee..." in it. I think my favorite verse when I was a kid was:

Fiddley diddley diddley dee
Me n’ Bob saw stars
Bob on the fender, Jim on the seat
And me on the handlebars

The whole song wasn't online but I think there's a sample of it here.

Instead I found this book by a guy with the same name:
The Great Divergence

Also, this came up for some reason...
(And, what on earth, the first time I tried to link to the book review, I got an ad and then this page for an Andy Warhol auction???)

Because...oh, why not?

The best of penises Prime Minister's Questions

Seriously, I wish I were this creative

Fresh Guacamole
Azealia Banks Harlem Shake Remix
SeaWorld San Antonio H.S.

Monday, February 18, 2013

HK pizza search results

Far from Purrfect cat picture and post
What I got when I tried to click on it the first time
and finally
HK pizza
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There's a good quote from the end of the first post by an author who once lived near where I now live.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

--Upton Sinclair

Seattle music

It's gotten more cheerful than when I was in high school...
Victory Lap
Same Love
And We Danced
and?
2011 Pizza Party Photobooth version of "Sexy..."
(from before the NASA song)
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Ah, but there's also a song about the Swoosh...

Well, that's too bad I guess

Sister is sick.
I call them.
Blah blah blah, tests at hospital are expensive
I ask if someone can go to the pharmacy for menthol chest rub.
Maternal response: I'm sick, too!
My reply: Do you think, if I were there, and I felt sick, but if one of you guys was sicker, and I thought it would help you, that I would go to the pharmacy and get you some menthol rub?
Maternal response: Alright, I'll talk to you later.
AND THEN>>>>HANG UP THE PHONE.
Sigh.
Older sister syndrome.

Travels

I checked a social media site for the first time in ages, and a friend says, "I am above the fold on the World Social Forum homepage." (In one of the slideshow photos.) Current status: staying in one place whilst others travel to various parts of the world...

And then...

Rainbow Brite / Time Lord / Occult Propaganda...

"The rainbow is a Biblical symbol that the New Age has wickedly mocked by attributing the false notion that the rainbow represents man's bridge to godhood. The "Rainbow Brite" heroine is pictured on the box of a best-selling cereal. Examine her image and you'll find a small, five-sided star (the Satanic pentagram) on her cheek." (Texe Marrs, Dark Secrets of the New Age, p. 242)

I think I actually remember reading this when I was growing up!
I probably liked the cover...

Oh, shoot, maybe it was this one? (Much earlier publication date.) I dunno...

Auugh! Perhaps it was this one?

Omigosh

This video was pretty funny, too:
Stupid Girls
And it came out YEARS ago. I wonder why I never saw it?
Oh well, I guess there's a time and place for everything.
Like, when you have a day off on President's Day, 2013!!!!

Protagonist befriends man who loves shoes

The Bread of Angels

Thinking about binaries on President's Day

"Happy Birthday, Mr. President" vs. a song I heard on the radio came to mind, but I then found this Happy Birthday, Mr. President clip from a T.V. show. (I guess that was supposed to be a scene of female empowerment?) Kind of reminds me of the end of Grease, too, but I don't know why...Anyways, Happy Birthday, Mr. President Bio clip ("she had permission...to get up there, she drank a lot of champagne...well, I guess maybe people loved it, but for me it was a caricature...")
or So What (the song I heard on the radio yesterday).

Also:

Porn Star or My Little Pony

maybe

I was in a very laid-back mood
so watching this
was actually
mildly
non-disappointing?
The Six: Girls You Date In College
Kind of like me, in a past life.

another sunday

mostly not, but partially, devoted to reading some interesting things on the internet, such as "Women of LA" and this Short List of Male Celebrities...Well, despite his massive popularity, I wasn't exactly surprised to see Roman Polanski on it, but oh dear...even Jesus Lennon was sometimes quite abusive and nasty (not only to women, but to his own favorite son)? Sometimes I think that maybe if there were more creative collaborations amongst grown-ups (you know, like the kinds of things that little kids might actually do together naturally???) we wouldn't have these societal constructs which seem to promote viewpoints such as people who were born "fancy on the outside" are more likely to excel at respected and better-paying occupations, while people who were born "fancy on the inside" are naturally more suited to lower-paying, less respected types of occupations...although, if you have doubts, then Desmond Morris's fascinating explanation in The Human Sexes on why girls are less capable than boys at tasks like technical drawing might please you...or maybe not.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Kids' stories

Today I tutored a little kid who told me about the comic book/movie idea that he's working on with his best friend and some other kids in his class. He said they came up with the ideas on their own and they're not doing it as an assignment. There are four boys and three girls working on the project. His character is an angel, and his best friend is a "bad guy" werewolf. The other boys are "good guy" wizards. The girls are two "good guy" vampires and one is an angel who got a spell cast on her by the bad guy when she went out to pick berries, and now she thinks she's a werewolf. They're all going to have to battle a snake with a werewolf head. The bad guy werewolf and the angel who thinks she's a werewolf are going to be on the side of the snake. When the boy angel meets the werewolf in battle, the werewolf is going to torture him by chanting a spell, singing "Who Let The Dogs Out," and dancing for ten minutes. Then the angel will defeat the snake with the help of his friends, which will break the spell so that the girl angel realizes that she's an angel and she no longer thinks she's a werewolf. The werewolf will be defeated in the end. All of the children who are working on this story want to grow up to write comic books and make movies, he told me.

Also worth a read this morning...

Meth Actually Not That Bad For You...

A thing to wonder

Sometimes, when I think about what I've heard about how working conditions are for so many people who provide

1) clothing (as factory workers or garment sewers in the textile industry, for example)

2) food (as pickers on farms, for example)

3) sanitation (as housekeepers in hotels, for example)

I wonder why it seems like it is so easy for us to accidentally forget about them. It seems unfair.

If we are all in a web of interconnected life, wouldn't it be more natural for us to think more about people who are helping to provide us with clothing, food, sanitation, and a whole lot more?

Then I read stuff like this, and it brings me insight:

Study Reveals Conditions In Women's Prisons Deplorably Unsexy

More Than 1,000 Russians Injured In Freaking Coolest Event Ever

Friday, February 15, 2013

O music

Serenity Prayer
The 2nd Law: Isolated System
Ancient Minoan Civilization
I'm from Crete. I'm Minoan. The minotaur needs a sacrifice.

Nature meets technology

Or, nature meets nature in the form of technology?
Bunnies attacking cars

This sounds grueling....

Prosecutor leads effort to test...

"Wayne County, Mich., Prosecutor Kym Worthy has seen her share of grisly crime, but even she was shocked by a discovery in 2009 at a former police storage warehouse."

Today is Susan B. Anthony Day

I doubt most people know that...I never did, until today...starting off with a bunch of meteor stories and decided to reread Bread of Angels...Are you watching military-themed Harlem Shake videos again? STOP the insanity. HS Onesie Parents (man, woman, baby, and more...)

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

It seems to me...

if you're going to be interested in clothing, fashion, etc., you should also take a little time out of your day to consider people who work in the textile industry.

"Honduras is the third largest exporter of clothes and textiles to the US market, employing approximately 110,000 workers, 53% of whom are young women from deprived backgrounds with little education. Many of the clothing factories are found in Honduras' 24 Export Processing Zones (EPZs), industrial areas with low or non-existent taxes and a cheap labour force designed to attract foreign investment."

Women Factory Workers In Honduras

Cute invitation picture

Quite bizarre, also sad...

Julia Pastrana
An Artist Finds A Dignified Ending For An Ugly Story

Story to ballet

The Princess and the Goblin NYT review
NYT onstage performance clip
CBC review and rehearsal performance clip

Monday, February 11, 2013

Hurray, commentary backstory

"'The Light Princess' is hysterical. Although I disagree about Adela Cathcart, and just read a lovely cloth-bound reprint. If you want some really tedious sermons, by the way, I suggest looking up Lancelot Andrews, or the novels of John Newman--both widely read in their day. MacDonald is actually quite lively for 1864."

"About the swimming scenes--there's a fun bit of backstory behind that. John Ruskin read 'The Light Princess' in manuscript, and sent MacDonald a lengthy critique in which he suggested that the swimming scenes were too improper and would be damaging to children. (This from a childless and possibly impotent bachelor to a man with eleven children, but never mind.) MacDonald, however, published the story unaltered, but gave all of Ruskin's objections to Mrs. Cathcart, the grim voice of prudery and all things superificial--Adela's aunt, and the ostensible evil witch of the story. Ruskin promptly wrote a hilarious letter in mock-fury, accusing MacDonald of inventing 'all wrongs to choke up my poor little right with.' But in this case, MacDonald was right and Ruskin wrong, I'd say. "

--from 11. mrpond47 ~ Slipping a fairy tale into the mundane...

A body today

Today was a day to be happy about not experiencing rippling spasms of pain...

It was also a day to contemplate how women's bodies are not other peoples' decorations...

And also to think about how interesting the internal workings of bodies are...

I would venture that the study of physiology and massage could be a good way to find out more about that...

To read if available

Ever since I read this review, I want to find the "enormously long three volume realistic novel Adela Cathcart, the story of an annoying and sickly young Victorian woman who is All Mysteriously Ill..."

Bring on the tedium and meditations on death and snowstorms! Maybe.

Musical diplomatic tip

It would be better to learn from the Spanish Inquisition rather than appear to accidentally reenact it.

Hmmm, maybe I'll check out some other ones...

Like The Divine Comedy.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Hah

Favorited this ad: Fallen Star: The Untold Story of A Youtube Sensation

LP pages

Before an argument
After an argument


G. is weird

Last night I dreamed I was walking up a creek or riverbed with a man who was like my husband and he was a black preacher. We climbed up a little cliff. He talked about jumping in the water. I pointed out that he didn't know how deep that water was and it might not be a good idea. He agreed, but did it anyway. He survived. Then I thought to jump into the water too, but instead, I was just going to climb back down and sedately walk into the river. But some force threw me off and I flew far away from where he'd landed. I landed in the water and survived. End of dream, but woke up with cramps and the need for a heating pad and castor oil pack. Later on, I skipped going to a baby shower because b.f. had to work and did other things. Then I ate some frozen yogurt. Shortly thereafter, terrible pains came over me. Whether it was indigestion combined with cramps or what, it felt a bit like having to push a bowling ball that didn't actually exist out of my stomach. I'm not in a real hurry to experience that again if I don't have to...when I did go through it, this is what was for me: 1) Steven Halpern on the mp3 player. 2) Castor oil pack. 3) Rescue Remedy. That's it. No movies, no TV shows. JUST STEVEN HALPERN ON THE MP3 PLAYER AND THAT IS IT.  Eventually I drifted off to sleep and got up and felt better and thought to write about this experience. And I Can't Tell You Why....

Tales to treasure

Sometimes I think The Light Princess was overlooked or underappreciated by me when I was younger.

O W

Some war things...

PTSD Hip Hop songs

Soldier suicides outnumber combat deaths

Chart of war and domestic gun incidents (starting at 0)

I think I'll try to seek out some peace things!

A tendril?

I saw The Informant recently and thought there were elements of Herbert Rowbarge in Mark's adoption story.

Strange mixture of poems and stories

Poem:

The Raven

Character who inspired a novel:

Swordfighter/singer

Commentary on women's bodies:

Body politic

Democratic nudity

Sunday things

Local news

(OUCH)

(less ouch)

I wonder why we can't have more happy orange-flying-saucer-spotted-by-John-Wayne-airport-stories?

Saturday, February 09, 2013

Raving about ravens again...and religion

Mary Melville, The Psychic
pages 106-107 (Ravens)
pages 132-135 (Religion)

Something of interest

Swales


permaculturenews.org

It's like it could be in a novel

and it's REAL?
Boyz II Men boosts Russian birthrate

In search of literary genius on the internet...

He heaves himself off his hemorroid donut... he takes three viagra, a beta blocker and an eye dropper full of blood thinner. He then climbs onto his beloved like a pile of laundry on top of another pile of laundry. Then, his penis, ERECT IN DEFIANCE OF GODS WILL, enters the woman like a tube of chapstick entering the Lorray Caverns. Then, nine months later, a baby is born. Which I will illustrate by pushing this uncooked cornish game hen through these gray drapes.

From owlcaponed on Reddit

Original source is apparently someone with the interesting name of "Patton Oswalt."

Comical

Inbox missives:
Ballads
WTF Opera pic
Mallets

Friday, February 08, 2013

Steamy Friday Night Shower Experience

X: (About to take a shower, but stupid shower door has come off hinges. After struggling with it for about 2 minutes, X leaves and seeks help from Y.)
X: Hey, Y, do you know how to fix the shower door?
Y: Yes.
X: Can you come do it for me?
Y: Ok.
X: Wtf are you watching?
Y: The rape scene in Dragon Tattoo. It was just on. I didn't fast forward it to that part or anything.
X: Alright... (Thinking to self...so I guess she's supposed to kick ass after that anyway...)
X & Y journey to the bathroom, where Y proceeds to fix the damn door in less than 2 seconds.
X: Thanks...
X: (Gets in shower)
X: (Thinking to self) Sometimes I kind of miss the days when rape scenes seemed confined to watching clips from The Accused during a screening of DreamWorlds in a college auditorium full of crying freshman girls. Oh well.
X: (Sigh)
X: That hot water feels pretty nice...
X: Maybe there should be more nudist colonies...

Considerations from last night

1) The life of Lilia Scott MacDonald and her parents

2) Mary Melville, the Psychic by Flora MacDonald (esp. pages 38, 68-69, 88-90, 99-101, 115-116, 118-119, 122-123, 202-203, 231, 251-253, 264-266, 267)



PG

Pondering...
Getting to know more about...

             Lady Sybil dying of eclampsia
             Beatrice D'Este according to wikipedia

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Peoples' panic attacks &
Geodon doses

Bubbles

One time in recent memory I heard part of a debate on the radio between a colonel and an activist, which in part concerned the use of drones, and at the end they were talking about people living in "bubbles." I was intrigued, because I think everyone has been in some kind of bubble at some point.

Some of my bubbles have been quite Jesus-related. For example:

Oh, so random violence against girls and women is so common, apparently they don't look enough like Jesus to get people enraged and marching in the streets when that sort of thing happens.

Why Aren't We Shocked?

Women At Risk

Also

Mr. Nader's honeypot trauma is not applicable to J. Assange, and I'm sure the activist community can find a more worthy Jesus-like figure to worship.

Others not so much:

Oops, after reading about Steubenville, this photo-op accidentally reminded me of rape culture for some reason.

It may be useful for many people to try to figure out what kind of bubbles they live in.

Weird thoughts about celebrities & activism

I was futzing around on the computer this morning and then decided to get out and go to a park. But on my way back, in the car, I was thinking about how I looked up this older talented singer and how it seems he might sort of disagree with this other, younger talented singer (who knocked the Superbowl lights out) about some activisty type things. Now, since he's an elder, and therefore, older and wiser, I kind of think this is more on him. I mean, the girl was born in 1981. I know she's a new mother, but still, she's practically a baby! (I admit a prejudice: I have a baby sister who was born that year so that's how it seems to me.) And who knows, maybe in another life, they were totally BFFs who were almost the same age and did yoga together and said that special word that means "I honor the place within you where the entire Universe resides; I honor the place within you of love, of light, of truth, of peace; I honor the place within you, where, when you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us," and deep down, they really love each other and stuff.

Anyhoo. So I think he just kinda needs to get on her wavelength a little more. Okay. So first, he should've hit her up on twitter, and been like, girl, your ass is looking fine in that dress! Bootylicious! You go girl! You liberate us all with those curves! Ain't nothing wrong with being a fine woman with curves. And stuff like that, and therefore, gotten to be better friends with her. Then, after a while, he could mention that he's got this friend who is an up and coming designer for women with curves. And she is so talented, but if she only had someone with celebrity star power to wear a few of her fashions, she could just rise, she could just catapult to the top and finally realize her destiny, her full potential! And send her some pictures of the friend's very best designs, to show how talented the designer is. And get her dress sizes and send some of them to her. They could arrange it so that, in her spare time, B. could wear a few of those articles of clothing while she's out and about ...and then this person would start to get very famous. And it would be, of course, because she's talented, but also, thanks to that extra celebrity star power boost!

And since we all know how talented, successful people love to give back to the community, maybe they could at some point arrange a charity fashion show to do something really great like Support the Troops and Their Families Who Also Sacrifice. Yes! Nothing better than giving back to those who gave their all so you could succeed, right? Oh, and then, there could be another fashion show, and this one would benefit victims of terrorist attacks. Like when some flying thing comes and bombs you out of nowhere, and you're just a little kid, and now your home  and your parents are gone and you've got nothing, but at least if someone holds a fashion show somewhere and raises a little money, at least then we know there's still a light of hope on this planet! But maybe he doesn't have to mention who threw down the bombs. At least not right away, cause that would be so conflicting, politically. But maybe eventually, you know, they could sit down and have some tea and do yoga and say that word that means "I honor the place within you where the entire Universe resides; I honor the place within you of love, of light, of truth, of peace; I honor the place within you, where, when you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us," and talk about how deep down, they really love each other, and then talk about it.

So that's what I sort of think Harry should've said to Belafonte, I mean, Beyonce. Whew! I dunno if it's really a good idea or not though, so maybe other people have some better ideas.

Silly O

Pictures like Drone That Destroyed Wrong Target Casually Flying Away Like Nothing Even Happened remind me of that really bad dream I had before my shift when I worked at a restaurant outside of DC in 2007 where I was a sister trying to save my little brother and then a bomb fell on us and I guess we died or something.

Catchy song

You hear it as a kid, could get stuck in your head for life...
Mama Look A Boo Boo

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Sonata movement

Moonlight Sonata might've been on the radio this morning?
3rd movement
presto agitato

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Interesting MD bros

1) G. McD
Book with pics of old, creepy medical instruments
Book with pics by this artist!
2) Ronald McD
Book with woman pontificating on marriage

Favorite religious picture of the evening

buzzfeed

Perhaps

It's a bad time for teenage girls to start a rock band in Kashmir.

Ugh

Big Green Giant + minister's spoiled bratty son = 4 year old girl resentment 4 EVA. What a pity children are so easily influenced by violent TV shows...

Monday, February 04, 2013

Athletes & degrees of separation

Knuckleballer
Sounds like a cool guy. Never met him.
Olympian shooter
Waited behind her car at a light during a grocery run the other night. (License plate was a dead giveaway.)
Fencer
Came to my little goodbye gathering when I left the East Coast 3 years ago!

Sunday, February 03, 2013

Cute Old Hollywood pics

from Josito Montez
from Josito Montez
from Josito Montez
from Josito Montez

Almost time for quiet music

Interesting day. Got to see some cool rocks again, got a gimpy knee again, felt tired and decided to stay home and abstain from SB activities (again), read about 49ers and miner's lettuce in a book about edible plants, went on the computer to do some work, got distracted, and via clicking on this and that, read about this guy's life and death, heard people next door making some kind of big noise about the game, got a surge of really bad headache, went for a walk, talked to someone on the phone about SB power outage, read about the boxer rooting for the Ravens, decided to watch the music video for Mama Said To Knock You Out for the first time, and now, almost time for some nice, quiet music.

It was fun to listen to Wait Wait... in the car in the morning. I, too, thought the two brothers thing sounded more interesting than the actual football game.

MORE of this in Life

Yarn bombing

Saturday, February 02, 2013

Miner's Lettuce dilemma

I believe I know of a nearby patch of miner's lettuce but don't know if I will ever feel sure enough to actually pick it and put it in a salad.

Amusing moments in cooking

From Day of Honey:


 

touching and texture-y

Dorothy Parker telegram
Snowy picture and story
Poodle moth

little moments -- weird, unplanned

While listening to Agent Orange and looking up BFP, sounds from another computer waft across the room.
X: Who is is that?
Y: Trent Reznor
X: What's he doing?
Y: Telling people to steal his music.

Friday, February 01, 2013

Postcard

Albert Einstein meets Marilyn Monroe by Quint Bucholz
Harrison's Blog

Quote and Marilyn reference

A thought-provoking quote from a Washington Times book reviewer:

Miss Ciezadlo notes that “[m]ost civilians experience war not as the fighters and victims that parade across television screens, but as tired housewives peeling potatoes and wondering, all the while, at the stupidity of it. Being trapped in the house … forced me to experience the awful, humiliating tedium of war without the anaesthetic of danger or the narcotic self-importance of risk - to go through it not as a witness, not as a journalist, but as a human being.”

Also, I just came across an unexpected Marilyn reference....



Books to movies

I have gotten a chance to read and enjoy Gods Behaving Badly, which is to be made into a movie. I went and looked up which actors/actresses are going to be in the film.  I have to admit, I was a little bit shocked at the choice for Apollo. Not based on acting abilities or anything, but lookswise, Apollo always struck me as being a bit of a beauty queen (like the male version of Sharon Stone)...but I guess I momentarily forgot about "the formula" (as somewhat bitterly touched on in this post: A Deeply Philosophical Rant). I suppose that the physical standards which are still applied to most actresses would start to look different if they would ever consider casting someone like Melissa McCarthy as Aphrodite. I doubt I could have come up with a comparision very quickly before the movie Bridesmaids came out...