Downtime travel moments

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

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

MM's Spiritual Journey
Old Larry King transcript

USDA has a food desert locator...

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JL Opens Up
Les Mis Diet

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

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

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

Cool song and colorful video

Bjork - Hidden Place

Thinking about how 2009 was...

for some interesting now-deceased people...

Tildonia

Many Manifestos

Lesser known historical figures

Sophia Foord

Reading things

I tried to interest a person in the bimulous nights book, but it was too confusing for him. Then I tried to put a literary gloss on it, but that didn't help!

OH, FB

enlightening social media...
UC Berkeley Library Story
Christmas Spectacular
~~~
y tambien...
Holiday Pageant
?!?!?Royal Family Doctor!!??

perhaps I would say "allure"

The Lure of the Writer's Cabin
I heard Thoreau mentioned in a holiday PHC show from this weekend
This is fun to look at: Storybook Woods

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Itzhak Perlman's playing really is exquisite. It's like, if you have unresolved emotions or feelings from your life, he can play you a story to figure them out. It was like that when I worked for a publisher in the Chicago area and saw him play live too.

Ways to use your pricey blender

Vitamix recipes
This pancake recipe is fun to play with. For example:
1 egg
half banana
lemon flavoring
cloves
And then a little honey and juice from a small lemonish fruit from the local produce exchange...

Still a cute book

A book with a song....
(Bimulous Nights)

Tettigoniidae - a walking leaf?

Canciones

I got a cool book from the library, and I am pretty sure that the book about bimulous nights put something into my head about wanting to know more about the "Mexican Hat Dance" at a young age. Then I was looking for the "Thieves" song by She & Him, but instead I found this:

Thieves Song - The Albion Band

I like it...very minstrely...and it kind of made me think back to a hippie-ish island...which was not always hippie-ish...I hear it is not as hippie-ish now...and kind of also thought, I wish I could have said something like this to some preppy junior high girls who made fun of the holes in my clothes (before grunge was cool) and said that I was "friends with the hos" (other girls with holy clothing?)

Soda can shapes

Xmas Shopping

This big *POP* went off in a really crowded area of the mall yesterday, which was slightly nerve-wracking...but fortunately it was just a little kid popping a balloon...I think the people who work at this store have a lot of fun with glitter, color, textures, sugar crystals, etc. ~ LUSH

Blah

Sometimes it does not seem like the world is getting that much better. From random mass shootings to a roommate coming home and talking about high school kids getting into really bad fights and being told he needs to be more strict with them "but I don't want to go back to the Phillipines with a heart attack!" And coworkers who say they had to be locked in an office for seven hours because of another shooter. Why does school have to be so dangerous? Now, some things have gotten better. For example, people are less homophobic than they used to be. But at the same time, I was just thinking of, oh, say for example, parents warning a kid by saying that being friends with other people is okay but watch out, because that culture is dangerous to women! is happening less? And then I read something like Jane's jihad and then I'm like, yeah right, that probably still happens all the time. 
ChristianMuslimJewishWiccanPaganBuddhistZorastrianComparativeReligionsexyslavery!
People have delicate lives.

Deer

What one might look up after a walk

Rare letters fail to sell

Little Red Haired Girl tumblr

Playboy Mommy

6 ways C.S. was C.B.

Fantasy

Despite knowing almost nothing about D & D, having never played it, this Community episode had a fair amount of amusing absurdity

Interesting ladies

I was surprised to find out that there is a 65-year-old woman in a lead role in a ballet! (read about that after this came up)

While I'm randomly clicking away on assorted articles, I can't even believe this person was allowed to practice "countless operations...for almost 20 years..." HORROR

ha

Guys With Boring Jobs...

I am jealous because they have laptops...

Story Accompaniment

to traffic school final exam...
Eye Spy

хорошие истории

I do not know the Russian alphabet but...this is a good story...
Made to be Broken

Nature shapes

Little bird, little bird

Great people

This woman looks great:

Susana Trimarco

I'm sure she never wanted to be...
Very hard topic.

A Reminder

on a mundane evening
sometimes they lie
by themselves
in parked cars 
slowly, quietly burning up
because a ghost
from the Song of Songs
has come to visit
and then they have to go
to the store
eat a burrito
or do whatever it takes
to be normal again
sometimes by themselves
people are mysterious

Glorious day off

How to get through 6 1/2 hours of online traffic school for a $$$ rolling stop...

WAR ON CHRISTMAS!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-december-3-2012-denis-leary

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and/or grainy Garbo documentary clips...

artartartartart...

Who is this woman...

Mr. Scruff (Moondog-Lament)

who reminds me

http://chronichealing.com/dysautonomia-part-2/

of Ms. T?

http://www.yessaid.com/photos-2003-talesofalibrarian.html

Ah, maybe it's Greta Garbo...

The whisky scene somewhat reminds me of some paintings I used to look at in a book of Impressionist art from the Nat'l Gallery in Washington, DC.

Plum Brandy

It said that because she was a young woman who sat alone, she might be a prostitute.

Masked Ball at the Opera

It said that Manet had painted himself into this scene and then signed his name on the dance card that had fallen to the floor in the lower right hand corner of the painting.

I had to look up whisky (no e?) and found Whisky Cures A Man Who Went Blind From Vodka.

click click

This version of a song I listened to the other day shows all sorts of old interesting (Hollywood style?) portraits...

random fun stuff

dance is fun...it puts oxygen into cells...cooking is fun...hopefully the end result is delicious and gives us nutrients...looking up "zen cat" and other stuff is fun...

This sounded like a good documentary on the radio this morning:
Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home

Some background music

Moondog - Lament 1, 'Bird's Lament' (mixed by Henrik Schwarz)

Holiday pancake ideas!

Add spinach to this recipe or try making little silver dollar sized ones from this recipe, and also tint with green food coloring...unless there are red toppings, maybe these are better for St. Patricks Day, or possibly Halloween in addition to Christmas?

Besoin en Fonds de Roulement d'Exploitation

Intelligent Body Exploitation! Trying to find acronyms for this concept could be a great way to stave off boredom, depression, online traffic school...

funny quote

"I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I’m not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. I would really just love to collaborate on that. You know, people ask me, “Why the Dutch orchestra?” And it’s like asking, “Why is she dancing with that guy?” It’s because he asked her to dance. The Dutch orchestra is the only one that ever asked me.

That’s an honest explanation.

Sometimes I tell that to men and they just crack up. I think for a lot of them, it just never occurs to them to ask."

-- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/booming/tori-amos-still-wrestles-with-her-muses.html?pagewanted=all

O SR

Today I discovered Sarcastic Rover, who was feeling a little out of sorts this Monday.

The evening's awesome food

Cranberry sauce (the cranberries boiling on the stove kind) with one chopped jalapeno in it.
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Reverie over awesome food interrupted by scary laundry basket sccccrrrraping across the floor... AH!!! You scare too easily. Not really, I just have PTSD from a nightmare I had as a two or three or four year old. (ENORMOUS bust of some great composer sccccrrrrrraping towards little girl on a bed...god, how terrifying.) Wonder if this guy ever reincarnated.

America's Great Awakening

Le sigh

Le book is so good mais is le expensive...
 
http://themarlowebookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/09/when-sky-is-like-lace.html



Super affordable Saturday night entertainment

Read aloud portions of this book to a person who laughed and said "I don't talk about my mother."



to try...

flour-free pancake

Retro D.H. Lawrence essay

Discovered an interesting-sounding author!
Found this in the library after searching under "blasphemy."

"There is now available a whole literature about D. H. Lawrence's life, written for the most part by ladies who can boast of having known him more or less well. As Compton Mackenzie aptly remarks, the dead Lawrence has suffered the same fate as the living Orpheus: to be torn to pieces by his female followers. It was, by the way, a male 'friend' of Lawrence, Middleton Murray, who let loose the whole flood of personal reminiscences about the dead poet. In a somewhat nauseous and turgid book Murray tried to reduce the mysterious quality in Lawrence to so simple a supposition as his alleged impotence. The chorus of protesting women's voices makes it clear in any case that the enigmatic element in Lawrence's genius is not to be explained quite so easily. After all we have been told about him--by friends male and female and by Lawrence's widow--about the irresistible charm of his manner, about his terrible unsociableness, about his candour and his disingenuousness--there still remains something mystical about his person. But finally the girl who had been his companion and confidante during the years when he was feeling his way to his own individuality--Miriam he calls her in Sons and Lovers--wrote a little book about her relations with lad Lawrence.Time after time Lawrence returns to this Miriam figure, a girl who detests the sexual element in love, but who wants to love a man spiritually and to possess his soul and his talent. Against these ideas, then, "Miriam" herself finally protested. She was a perfectly normal and healthy young woman and had never thought or felt that there was any opposition between the physical and the spiritual in love. It was Lawrence who was uncertain, who dared not embark on a real love affair with her, because his mother was jealous and he was dominated by her, and because his sisters did all they could to separate their brother and his girl friend. When at last the lad tried to transform their friendship into a love-affair, it was too late. The girl had turned cold, from long waiting and from humiliation."

--"D.H.Lawrence," Men Women and Places, Sigrid Unset

"Undset was a shy, rather introvert young woman with few personal friends. But she had unusually sharp eyes, she saw people, and she saw through them. Her way of breaking out of her loneliness was to take long strolls in and around Kristiania, both east and west, and she came to know it better than most."

~ http://www.mnc.net/norway/SigUnd.htm

Open source

Although it seems like this person and this person might not be exactly in agreement about some things, it seems like maybe they would both be in favor of creating more open source knowledge systems...

Medicinal Reading

Whole Earth Discipline has some very interesting things to say; however, I was a bit disappointed with the author for dissing Buffalo Woman Comes Singing. Oh well, I'll just have to not agree with his judgement call on that one. Afterall, I doubt that he has ever curled up with raspberry tea and heating pad and castor oil and bountiful cramps while reading some Buffalo Woman as part of the medicinal treatment...and even if he had, I know not everyone would want to read the same thing in that situation...maybe sometimes, something else, such as this song done completely in palindromes, could also be rather medicinal...

Recommended

For people worried about a world without Twinkies.

"...when his young daughter asked, Daddy, what’s polysorbate 60?” he was at a loss—and determined to find out.From the phosphate mines in Idaho to the corn fields in Iowa, from gypsum mines in Oklahoma to the vanilla harvest in Madagascar..." -- Twinkie...

From the "Weird Book Room"
https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn/9781594630187

a-ha (?)

Ah-ha! said I to myself a few weeks ago (thinking about Dancing... and generals (not to be tiresome, but it is what it is there...also, nicknames for kathleen - kay, katie - just coincidence?) Might be something to mention to a few relatives at Christmas. One of these days, I should try to read that Mt. Shasta book.

Drizzly evening song

On the radio
Birchbark - Leelanau - Dana Falconberry

Tengo una pregunta

is this trope ever going to get old?
Mexico beauty queen
Man says prayer group...
Koop Island Blues video

"My daughter Randy asked for a story about two nice kids who have sex without either of them having to die. She had read several novels about teenagers in love. If they had sex the girl was always punished...My daughter was fourteen when I dedicated this book to her." --Judy Blume

Not boring to read

This is the first article of its kind that I've ever read about this type of situation...and another example of how it's not always a woman who takes a more feminist stance...It Happened To Me: I Lost A Job....

Sometimes people look like dessert

Missed photo op!

Older white-haired gentleman in a suit strolling down a sidewalk behind a tiny blond girl wearing a cute dress but also looking quite independent and self-assured while carrying enormous backpack almost the size of her entire body...

POVs

in some kind of order?
How Women Have Ruined Men...
Devil Inside...
Yes, Congress...
Wait A Minute...
Girls Need...
Soon...
Mean Feminists...

Sad day, good day

Sad day:
Sick...and have to return several library books that I didn't have time to read on my not-sick days. They are in high demand, so there's no option of renewing them at the moment. Here's a memoir I might order if they have it: Coal To Diamonds --but will there be time to read it?

Good day:
The 99 cent store had ENORMOUS tubs of $$$ Organic greens, and I have a working refrigerator!

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Ha ha....Getting pregnant with Michelle Tea...

Not to be confused with OPA!

The magical incantation of flaming cheese...

https://mylifeisthebestlife.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/flaming-dairy-friday/

The word "oppa" (literally older brother) is an informal title like
"daddy" and "mommy" in English. This title, "oppa," can be used only by a
girl when she calls out to or talks to either (1) her real older
brother in her family, or (2) a male friend slightly older than she is
(not older than, very roughly, 10 years, in which case the title
"a-jo-ssi," literally uncle, would be more appropriate). For the second
use, the older male friend does not necessarily have to be her
boyfriend, although he can be. "Oppa" conveys a sense of warm
friendship, so all Korean guys love to be called "oppa" by younger
girls--especially by those they find attractive. As for what the
difference between "oppa" and "oppan" is, "oppan" simply means "oppa
is." So "Oppan Gangnam style" means "(girls!) Older brother is Gangnam
style," and Gangnam is the richest district in Korea full of expensive
condos many of which are well over US $2 million dollars.
--"Jeff"
http://www.kpoplyrics.net/psy-gangnam-style-lyrics-english-romanized.html 

Things One Reads Up On Instead Of Applying One's Fingers To The Keyboard To Type Words About Weighty And Serious Topics....

Novembre



Novembre

Gemmea l’aria, il sole cosí chiaro
che tu ricerchi gli albicocchi in fiore,
e del prunalbo l’odorino amaro
senti nel cuore...

--Giovanni Pascoli

November

Seedy readings, etc.

Whole Earth Discipline
Food's Frontier
Future of Food & Seed
Navdanya

Milkweed & Willows

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2008/10/joy-of-milkweed-seeds.html

"If you sit at an open attic window toward the end of September, you will see many a milkweed down go sailing by on a level with you, though commonly it has lost its freight--notwithstanding that you may not know of any of these plants growing in your neighborhood.

...I notice milkweed growing in hollows in the fields, as if the seed had settled there owing to the lull of the wind in such places.

Thus, the quietest behaved carries off the prize while exposed plains and hills send forth violent winds to hale the seed to them. The calm hollow, in which no wind blows, without effort recieves and harbors it.

...When I release some seeds, the fine silky threads fly apart at once, opening with a spring--and ray their relics out into a hemispherical form, each thread freeing itself from its neighbor, and all reflecting prismatic tints.  These seeds are besides furnished with broad, thin margins or wings, which plainly keep them steady and prevent their whirling round...

...But not in this case is the return to earth fraught with danger, but toward night perchance, when the air is moist and still, it descries its promised land and settles gently down between the woods, where there is a lull of the wind, into some strange valley--it may be by some other brook like this--and its voyage is over. Yet it stoops to rise."

-Faith In A Seed (92-93)

Monet ~ Woman Sitting Under the Willows"
monetalia

"Ah willow, willow, would that I always possessed they good spirits; would that I were as tenacious of life, as withy, as quick to get over my hurts.

I do not know what they mean who call the willow the emblem of despairing love! --who tell of

             

                   'the willow worn by forlorn paramour!'

It is rather the emblem of triumphant love and sympathy with all Nature.  It may droop, it is so lithe, but it never weeps. The willow of Babylon blooms not the less hopefully here, though its other half is not in the New World at all and never has been. It droops not to commemorate David's tears, but rather to remind us how on the Euphrates once it snatched the crown from Alexander's head.

*****

Herodotus says that the Scythians divined by the help of willow rods, and where could they have found any better twigs for such a purpose? I begin to be a diviner myself at the first sight of one.

When I pass by a twig of willow, though of the slenderest kind, rising above the sedge in some dry hollow early in December, or agove the snow in midwinter, my spirits rise as if it were an oasis in the desert. The very name "sallow" (salix, from the Celtic sal, "near," and lis, "water") suggests that there is some natural sap or blood flowing there. It is a divining wand that has not failed but stands with its root in the fountain."

-Faith In A Seed (63-64)

Silly

Pumpkin Pie

I should see this on stage some time

This is like the first song I remember but they cut Sancho out...

This one has Sancho but the sound quality is kinda messed up...

This is a version sung by a 10 year old girl...1:50 - holy soprano...

More entertainment

"Community" Netflix DVD - In spite of the fact that I didn't get well over half of the action flick references, Modern Warfare was very fun to watch. The Chicken Fellas episode was also good...

Interesting media moment!

Local TV station's anchors quit...

"Michaels, 46, and Consiglio, 28, didn't tell anyone of their decision before the newscast..."

Age Discrimination On TV

Oh well, maybe Consiglio saw into the future...

Foxy Ladies

"winsome women paired with older men"

This is an odd song

to get stuck in your head on Friday night...
I'm Only Thinking Of Him
and also on Thursday night....

Sounds like the beginning of a movie...

For years, Christiane Schaefer and Wolfgang Hock would meet regularly at an Italian bistro in Berlin. He would order pizza, and she would get the penne all’arrabbiata. The two philologists—experts in ancient writings—would talk for hours about dead languages and obscure manuscripts.

It was the fall of 1998, and Schaefer was about to leave Berlin to take a job in the linguistics department at Uppsala University, north of Stockholm. Hock announced that he had a going-away present for Schaefer. She was a little surprised—a parting gift seemed an oddly personal gesture for such a reserved colleague. Still more surprising was the present itself: a large brown paper envelope marked with the words top secret and a series of strange symbols.

Schaefer opened it. Inside was a note that read, “Something for those long Swedish winter nights.” It was paper-clipped to 100 or so photocopied pages filled with a handwritten script that made no sense to her whatsoever...

-- They Cracked This 250 Year Old Code

Eating well but not reading enough TAROT

Eating out is not a thing I get to do regularly, but now that we have a roommate with possibly the most benign youtube channel ever - please make this a good sign - I finally got to revisit an old childhood favorite. That was The Old Spaghetti Factory in Seattle, which gave you a free glass with your Italian soda and spumoni. (YUM said my 8-year-old tastebuds.) This one is in an old haunted schoolhouse. As I scrutinized the limited choices on the menu, I realized that maybe my tastes have changed, but anyway, Homer apparently ate their signature dish while composing his epics! (Noodles and Mithra cheese.) It has also come to my attention that silly internet browsing kidnaps free time I could've spent on more useful activities, like reading Tarot cards...Medeya, schmedeya...I was queried as to whether I have asked one of my parents for an opinion about some stuff in the news, and the answer is, no, I did not ask how he felt about his star classmate's media scandal because it seems not quite the thing to do right now (even though, apparently, even cooking show people can't stop talking about it.) Yesterday, I found a squash lasagna recipe on this food blog. I was like, that girl looks a lot like my activist twin friends from DC. I read it while I was also eating kale and squash...coincidence! (Spaghetti squash with pesto, in my case. Squash masquarading as pasta! I think I am into that.) Those coconut muffins are also intriguing...Then I looked at the blog author's twitter....what's that...we share the same birthday? I told the person I live with, who said to me, "Here, I want to show you something." Held out cell phone to show me a picture. "Where'd you get that?" "That's my friend with..." "You have a picture on your phone of him with someone you know? The guy who is the 'lead screamer' in Jodie Foster's Army is also in the actual military?" I really do wonder what I am supposed to do with my life. Could Tarot provide the answer? The only thing that's really clear is that sometimes, life can be pretty weird. I haven't been to NY, VA, DC and other places in a good while. I miss them. I wonder when I can go back. But I am ensconced on the West Coast. Which is fairly amusing in its own way. And a lot more tolerable now that the weather is no longer in the triple digits. I think tonight I'll drink cheap wine and watch the last two episodes of "Black Books." (Wah!) After that, there's always "Community." Other things that have come to my attention:

Ask A Mortician

This show about people who are preparing for solar storms in Arizona and have all these gas masks and stuff in their guest room (it's like they're in a freakin' military camp or something...) but also they have a pool full of fish and a garden in their backyard and eat weird seaweed sludge...auuuugh why can't I find it now?

Pumpkin Curry
RUMOR: "It's good without the cashews"

I still want to see these sometime...

Earthships

No I don't, but I'll keep my eye out!

" Remember the 1980s ad for Wrigley's Doublemint, set in a restaurant, in which Girl A, speculating about where the boys might be taking them tonight, asks Girl B whether her hair looks okay? Girl B responds that if she were Girl A she'd be less worried about her hair than her onion breath. Why didn't Girl A gently put down her fork and punch Girl B on the nose? And why was Girl B so worried about Girl A's breath, when Girl A was having the skimpiest salad, of which the onions formed part, for her main course? Was this why they were eating before they met the boys? Because Girl A and Girl B were locked in a toxic cycle of narcissistic and mutually destructive sexual competitiveness? Far from encouraging me to buy gum, it instilled in me a determination to date boys in front of whom I could eat the most lingeringly pungent foods. If he still fancied me after an onion-bhaji-scented kiss, with a trailing after-note of minty raita, I would have found my match. See also Chili & Mint, page 196."

~ The Flavor Thesaurus (99)

Taco Day

After a strange afternoon, which included a young man telling me about the "immorality" of Calista in "The Storm" and listening to Sex and Power in the Military on the car radio,  I stopped for a taco at a fast food place (99 cent special, carnitas, surprisingly good salsa) and ate it while looking out the window at sunny mountains, listening to I'll Be Around, and wondering how I ended up in this place? November is really warm and sunny here. The guy who gave the weather report on the classical music station said he was going to rush right through it because it was boring. The same temperatures are predicted for today, tomorrow, and the rest of the week. "See, it's just kind of boring," he concluded. Well, you can always celebrate because it's not too hot...

The sky of boring weather

Really need to work on that closed captioning...

Hey, random post

"'That Girl' ran from 1966 to 1971 and won numerous awards, including Golden Globe for best actress."

I never heard of this show or that actress, until about 2 minutes ago...

How thoughtful...

Tulsa weatherman provides directions to Canada

Seedy thoughts

Food Inc. and Monsanto
Cornucopia.org poster
Vandana Shiva on Good Food
Agrarian Poetry

TO READ

The Flavor Thesaurus

spicelines.com

Flags and Flowers

Laundry Day...

West Point USMA ~ Made in USA
Poe's Tavern ~ Made in Downtown LA
Bunnicula Meets Edgar Allan Crow ~ Made in El Salvador 

Evening & Morning

Yesterday evening was partly like:

Smelling burning wood (very autumnal)
Admiring the way soft electric lights illuminate buildings and sidewalks at night
Listening to Your Cloud's watery lyrics
Sort of thinking about the water cycle

And for some reason, the morning was partly like:

Black Flies remix with surfer and Lofticries and looking up pictures of flying.

http://learnmyshot.com/how-to-photograph-a-flying-cat/

Perhaps...

People should read this after the election...
America You Sexy Bitch trailer

~~~~
???
CA's GMO Labeling Proposition
Farmers Clash on Prop 37
Food Movement Rising
Delusions of Danger
Food Companies Spend $ To Defeat...

~~~~~

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/11/01/the_simpsons_attacks_romney_with_mr_burns_and_seamus_the_dog_video.html

Interessante livro de mapas...

Maphead

Challenging British Isles accents in film

More Recently: Four Lions    More Like Back In High School: The Commitments

Today's fascinating food

Spaghetti Squash

medeeya

Not Medea...although, after the Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys painting, Christine & Medea in Epistre Othea came to mind...Musica de danca ~ I have discovered that What New York Used To Be is in the iTunes library. Wasn't terribly excited about "Your Body" (except that it has a good beat for practicing steps) but, what's this, apparently it's kind of sinister when you see the video? Hey, whatever works. Beginners can have fun...it's not like when I took that pottery class... Zero Ghost Tolerance ... Ghost Scene... There may be a way to find the funny clip of eyebrow wriggling in Romantic Expressionism...I give up! Up next: cut up a gazillion vegetables and listen to Anastasis. Random: "The director recommends that, when the film is shown, a toaster oven containing several heads of garlic be turned on in the rear of the theater, unbeknownst to the audience, with the intended result that approximately halfway through the showing the entire theater will be filled with the smell of garlic." ~ Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers

Seasonal

Pumpkin tea and tropical xylitol gum. The combination is like a weird sugarfree dessert.

Pomegranate and rather crispy brussel sprouts. Does this excite us?



Out-of-season

This is not the season for it, but for some reason I've been thinking about this cool custom I learned about earlier this year. Maybe the reason I was thinking about the cascarones is because of a weird dream I had. There's been some issues with acquiring a new roommate and the empty room takes it's financial toll...well, in the dream, the empty room was not an issue, and I was talking to b.f. about being excited that a baby was coming (not referring to a baby I was having or anything) and then it was like, oh gosh...taking care of a baby is a lot of work....this is possibly because a cousin of his going to have a baby soon. I saw him at Easter. The cousin was saying that he and his girlfriend went to the N.G./AFP Halloween show last year because she's a big fan...he wants to write about music...I got a picture of him getting an egg cracked over his head...they are both about 19 or 20 or so...I didn't think of it before, but it kind of makes you wonder, where do some of those Easter traditions came from?

Acorn

clover

leaf and seed

wood

Halloween dress

poetry

Nevermore

I went by this scarecrow contest last weekend and thought "Nevermore...could that be a reference to...?" 

As if the universe wanted to deliver some kind of spooky answer, a girl with a soccer shirt that said "Palmer" on the back floated by at that exact moment...Just kidding, she walked the ground like a mortal being. Should have snapped a picture of that as well...

Crow White

Nevermore

Fall Fun

To be or not to be...

Special Olympian Writes Powerful Letter to A...
preferably not like her

Playing With Pumpkins
more like the pigs

V asks P

V: So how does this strike you?
     Dear penis-centric society, why don't you go fellate yourself...
P: I don't think that would go over too well.
V: Really? How come?
P: Because it's impossible.
V: Are you sure?
P: Yes. There has already been a movie made about this topic. It's called Clerks.

A lot of people are tired I think

“I’m tired of Linda McMahon telling us she’s pro-choice and then tell us that she’ll vote against every pro-choice measure which will come before the Senate,” Murphy said. “You’re not just pro-choice because you use the word.”

-- Democrats stresss women's health

oh, life's medical ironies

A: I looked at your twitter feed and noticed that place I was thinking about calling for an appointment this morning had to get evacuated for a bomb threat

B: good thing you didn't go there

Cute & happy

Puppies kept lost boy warm

I want the world to stop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_and_Sebastian_(Japanese_TV_series)

for younger self

younger self needed to read this!
going to bars vs. staying at home and reading
 "book conservator asked..."
tumblr of book conservator
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also...itemized lists that can make one laugh...

Healthcare on Facebook

Kendall

posted October 28, 2010 at 5:55 am

This is coming from a doctor whose employer probably charges $10.00 for a tylenol? perhaps this doctor is a bit detached from the real world, and should practice in a society cosmetic office, considering the level of empathy he has for his patients. Notice he did not mention a thing about donating any of his $150,000.00 annual paycheck(average) to nutrition education in poorer areas, he just whined about it. What an ass.
gold teefs in the ghetto-40.00
small jankitty tatoo in the getto- 25.00 x 7
urban fashions at crappy retailer- 40.00
cell phone-150.00
dope ass jordans at crappy retailer-90.00
altogether less than this doctor makes in two days as an er physician….that’s whats wrong with health care
if they weren’t in it for the money, doctors who actually cared about patients would be practicing medicine.

Aw

The grandmother effect
in whales

It's life in a body

ailments can be challenging
sometimes it's time to kick it with S. Halpern
health is wealth...
hopefully, the people elected to office will have some empathy for women's health issues...

Nat'l Library of Medicine

Capriciousness

"Sail" fan video by Nanalew

"A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self" by weepingprophet

musique - 80s,90s, 21st century

80s
Sowing The Seeds
90s
Battleflag
2000s
Young Folks

Books dipped into yesterday evening

Random Family - the characters are definitely interesting
The Emperor's Children - the characters are disappointingly boring

Random Family got some good reviews. So did The Emperor's Children, but I just cannot get into the latter. I have been known to savor some "boring" ("Jamesian") books, but it is not the one for me right now.
Maybe some other time.

It's not too early to plan for Thanksgiving...

With a handy copy of Modern French Culinary Art. 

Page 435 is not some kind of dessert in a puff pastry.

It is Vol-Au-Vent of Fillets of Sole.

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Is page 623 a model of a hot air balloon that has crash landed atop a tray of pink cold cuts? 

Not quite. It is Ham glazed with Aspic. 

Aspic, aspic, aspic, where have you been all my life?











Most interesting in the last 15 minutes

Mysterious elk shaped lines! In Russia

"Women don't take forever to pee. It's other chicks who make us wait. We have absolutely no idea what we're doing in there, and we look at one another in the bathroom line like, What the hell? Then, to keep ourselves occupied, we play with one another's boobs." -- Faith Salie in Esquire

Random memory: Being 10 or 12 years old on an airplane and feeling really, really tempted to ask the male flight attendant for a copy of Esquire.

Cute song & video in park

Stories...

Forest family

Father & daughter

Growing up

Hug a tree?

"Send out Roots, Enter the Heartwood, Branches Reach for Heaven, Stand in the Stream and Sway in the Wind"

https://reikienergyhealer.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/chi-kung-and-the-healthy-tree-hugger/

"Based on my continuing luck with the moles, earthworms, and cabbage worms, I decided I would contact the Deva of the Japanese Beetle. Much to my astonishment, I touched into an energy that I can only describe as that of a battered child. It was an energy of defeat, of being beaten into submission. Yet it still had mixed in with it anger and a strong desire to fight for its life.

I was told by the deva that what I was experiencing was not devic but from the conciousness of the Japanese beetle itself. I needed this experience in order to understand what our relationship with the beetle had already done to it....

I then addressed the issue of the corn. Still hoping to salvage some of it, I decided I would try to raise the vibration of the individual stalks--perhaps the ears would fill out in spite of the Japanese beetle. I spent three days putting my hands on each stalk and LOVING it. At the end of three days, nature had had enough of this nonsense and I was told to leave the corn patch and not return 'until further notified.'

Devas and nature spirits do not respond to what they call 'gooey, sentimental love.' Their love is a love of action and purpose, and it is that kind of active love they desire from us. (Once while giving a workshop, I was asked to accompany several of the leaders of this particular community to a bush. It was a rather large bush, and it didn't take a horticulturalist to see that it was dying. It seems they had recently transplanted the bush, and, as part of their transplanting process, several members in the community would form a circle around it each evening, join hands and send the bush love...LOVE. The bush had the nerve to die on them anyway. I was asked what they should do. I walked up to the bush, looked at the soil around it, checked the leaves, then turned around and said, 'Try watering it.' That's love in action. Not to be confused with loveless action. Love in action is appropriate action done in a caring spirit.)"

--Behaving As If The God In All Life Mattered, pages 147-149

Possible Books "To-Do" List

This one certainly piqued my interest this morning: My Abandonment - P. Rock

Other intriguing-sounding books (some are in this list):
Stoner?
Beautiful Ruins?
A Fortunate Age?
Random Family?
The Emperor's Children?
Big Machine?
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Beautiful Ruins images...

Cats & Art

Famous Paintings Improved by Cats

random merriment

I have no idea why, but for some reason this was very amusing to me:
Here you go Johnlockers
I e-mailed it to a friend of mine who watches Sherlock Holmes.
Should I start watching it too? Perhaps I need to incorporate more cinnamon into my diet? What does it mean...

Feliz cumpleaños con retraso

To celebrate health
A post-birthday birthday song
Ana Tijoux - 1977

Mil Novecientos Setenta y Siete