O morning mystery

Hair band, where art thou...
flushed down my toilet?
swimming in my tank top?
lying in plain sight on the bedroom floor?

http://madeinaday.com/2014/01/30/hair-band-lollipops-free-printable/

Shapes

http://www.gameparts.net/backgammon_pieces.htm

Had a strange dream about a game (about kids and sexism?) A girl and a boy play a game supervised by some elders. The boy gets five points. His points are shaped like long wide popsicle sticks. A girl gets two points. Her points are two circles, like backgammon pieces. In the meantime, the boy gets his points doubled. So they are starting out in the game with 2 round points for her and 10 long wide points for him. He feels pretty good. She looks at him, like, how can she catch up? (Even if her points get doubled she'll just have four, and in the meantime he'll get fifteen).

You can be a winner at the game of life... 

http://m.omaha.com/momaha/blogs/kids-craft-ideas----popsicle-puzzle-pieces/article_f92af6fa-82d0-5bb1-9ca2-f6b29dee8ec7.html?mode=jqm

Something that sounded good...

Enchanted Wine ~ Monster Rally

BIG

FAT
RAINDROPS
fall on Halloween candy

Wakie

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2kvo0c/reddit_what_are_some_must_have_apps_on_your/?limit=500

http://o.canada.com/technology/wakie-5-things-i-learned-from-waking-up-strangers-with-this-bizarre-app

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseamarshall/17-gatos-que-no-entienden-el-concepto-de-horario-1

Zingy

and TERRIFYING

The best I could come up with is "Pudgy Leonard Bast (???)"

I wonder if anyone ever dressed up as a snarky tweet.

from somewhere...

Not every cat...

One thing leads to another....

http://lit.genius.com/William-shakespeare-sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day-annotated#note-58930

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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kenning

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

perhaps its chemical

One type of story about a traumatic event might focus on grisly details in a detached way and cause a delayed traumatic reaction (such as, couldn't get out of bed for hours and couldn't stop wondering about crazy things, poisonings...) another would perhaps cause tears to come but at least not focus on grisly details so much and show signs that a community is grieving...the tears are better...

http://rebloggy.com/post/love-pretty-art-life-rock-interesting-fire-creative-flower-peaceful-flowers-natu/48177547407

and a sherry for santa

short http://indulgy.com/post/YBhaSrjeQ1/xray
burst http://indulgy.com/post/6WTYRu2xW1/cat-on-a-cat-here-kitty-kitty
of http://indulgy.com/post/uZsY5ZjGF1/ouch-what-the-said-mother-earth
over http://indulgy.com/post/cAHeIjY5R1/burger
zealous http://indulgy.com/post/xlPEp1Hra1/freaking-awesome
excitement http://indulgy.com/post/u8U7BGeYT1/tesla-in-his-houston-street-laboratory-captio
forcraftstoreshoppingseason http://indulgy.com/post/y0bMUqXnu1/the-starry-nightmare-before-christmas
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http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_does_Santa_traditionally_have_sherry_and_a_mince_pie_in_England_and_milk_and_cookies_in_America

Funny & sounds interesting

Thats What She Said - Angela Shelton Kail - "Use Your Sword"

&

http://www.searchingforangelashelton.com/

Notes

RICE

  ~~~~~

http://www.hardickchiropractic.com/

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How to serenade an ace bandage...

Ankle Wrap



 
Ligament

and dewdrop dreams

"If kids grow kale, kids eat kale."
http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la?language=en#t-27617

"Food grows where water flows."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-reese-halter/fracking-poisons-californ_b_5986758.html

Make Up

http://slodive.com/design/music-notes-symbols/

Do It Again 3x

music

Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again

Tori Amos - Do It Again

Steely Dan - Do It Again

ach

Trees vs. Humans

"Tulare County is the fruit, nut, and dairy basket of the nation," says the video...

Video game...

http://bluenationreview.com/girls-code-something-throw-microsoft-ceo/

Interesting & positive women-in-video-game-industry news...

wow

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

Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination

Life By The Cup

Wonder Woman's Kinky Feminist Roots

presque trop commercials

for any extremely unexpected fans....

Special day

Kitties may have caused schizophrenia???

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91692-the-scratch/

http://www.annetaintor.com/products/bags/canvaspouches/sku63639/

http://www.fark.com/comments/3448703/No-more-Caturdays-no-more-lolcats-you-cant-haz-cheeseburger-New-service-pushes-lolcats-off-internets

http://caturday.tumblr.com/

Goddess-y or not so much....

I went to look up some mythical figures, recently. I did it after I went on a binge of watching comedy sketches. I did it after watching a comedy sketch called Pretentious Hotel. I know ppl say "don't read the comments," but unfortunately I did, and they reminded me of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/the-unsafety-net-how-social-media-turned-against-women/381261/   I did not originally find that one on my own. I found it because a man turned to me and with a sick look on his face, said, "I am ashamed of my gender." (What? Why? He has no need to be! He is such a good guy!) He told me what he had been reading. I tried to be optimistic with both of us. I told him of survivor stories I'd read recently, of people who have made strives to reclaim mental health and have a positive outlooks on life. I told him he can't let it get him down. It was nice to be in this position. That is, in the position of the one trying to cheer someone else up, and not in the position of the one who is traumatized and losing her mind...anyways, we got through it. The days went by, and then yesterday he recommended I watch some funny stuff and I did, and then I started clicking around on other funny stuff, and that's how I wound up searching for something I thought might exist called a "Helen of Troy complex" (I still wonder if HD was critiquing it). The man I know who was traumatized by the article looked up some baseball stats and started to feel better. That's cool. It's not the same as what I would do, but at least there's something. I don't believe anyone should walk around feeling bad about who or what they were born as. Helen of Troy complex is just named as being a structure for softball, but Cassandra is the one who has the complex. Several of them, actually...

Coming soon...

A presidential visit in about an hour or so...

"Muir, the bard of California’s mountains, called them 'pure and untamable as the sea.' In 1877, on his only trip to the region, he wrote that here 'Mother Nature is most ruggedly, thornily savage. Not even in the Sierra have I ever made the acquaintance of mountains more rigidly inaccessible.'” 

FROM:
http://www.lamag.com/hikingla/san-gabriel-mountains/#sthash.AhDhHS0r.dpuf

~~~~~

http://transpressnz.blogspot.com/2010/12/mt-lowe-california-railway-into-clouds.html

http://www.mountlowe.org/mlpsi-collection/postcards/largest-searchlight-in-the-world-on-echo-mount-calif-postcard/

lagrimas tristes sequia

sigh

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/california-drought/satellite-images-reveal-severity-californias-water-loss-n218076


http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/_10_percent_of_california_s_water_goes_to_almond_farming.html


http://rt.com/usa/194620-california-aquifers-fracking-contamination/


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/08/california-is-actually-doing-a-pretty-good-job-of-saving-water-during-the-drought/

Today's Fantasy Double Feature

I Am Ali  &  Night Moves

(haven't seen either...just going on articles...)

gardening & laundry

Had thought to watch a movie or even Portlandia....

Could be a giant book mark?

Water Goddess by Wendy Andrew banner
from http://www.goddesstemplegifts.co.uk/product/goddess-banner-water-goddess/

"This Folk Art hanging of the Water Goddess is beautifully printed on a heavy weight cotton based fabric. With a wooden dowel top and bottom. It measures 400mm x 1250mm. Perfect to hang on a door or wall."  ~ http://www.goddesstemplegifts.co.uk/product/goddess-banner-water-goddess/

Thoughts

while recovering from some attention-getting mid section pain, realizing that the castor oil, working it's Edgar Cayce-esque magic on various tissues, lymph tubules & whatnot may have soaked through the ratty t-shirt to the soft heating pad cover this time...noooo!!!!...if only a yogurt company would endorse themselves via a female artist needlepointing something profound about the reason certain trees get those scars that look like eyes (enticing advertising for women for one)...and if only this recommended oil was a little differently fragranced??? well, that's okay...

Where did this come from?

Potassium helps

That is a very attractive album cover.

ah, beatles...

five

http://leavenproject.org/bbb/

http://www.naturallifemagazine.com/1304/five-stages-of-environmental-grief.htm


http://www.cal-ipc.org/symposia/archive/pdf/2008/1Reichard.pdf


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/02/01/good-grief

Morning reading

Dreams of water....

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thirst-turns-to-desperation-in-rural-california/ar-BB73j6n

http://ecolisima.com/cuanta-agua-consumimos-al-dia/

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/09/27/growing-list-of-norcal-communities-counties-running-out-of-water-in-just-60-days/

http://www.avina.net/esp/5522/2-de-febrero-dia-mundial-de-los-humedales-los-humedales-y-la-gestion-del-agua/

replacement wish maybe

http://houseofhabit.blogspot.com/2011/02/almost-spring.html

///this, for too-scratched-to-listen-to-the-last-two-songs Scarlet's Walk CD///


(!!!map!!!)

mellifluence

Sororal

qlearasmud

(sugar?) it's weird to indulge in self-deception and then the half of a rum-and-coke and a few minutes of watching a movie trigger a queasy-heat-headache-run-for-a-dark-quiet-room-mode...it's truly a medical mystery....

various & sundry

Beautifully lazy Friday....




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"CannibalAnn 324 points 1 day ago

OP, please post results in 20 years. Thank you in advance."

http://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/2i3klu/i_found_a_tree_growing_through_speed_limit_sign/ 

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https://redditjs.com/r/gifs/comments/2i4qio/the_more_you_look_at_this_gif_the_more_it_moves/

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Cat Power ~ Cross Bones Style

Washed Out ~ Eyes Be Closed

Twin Sister ~ Milk & Honey

treesyq

Anything can be a mnemonic device...one time I was trying to figure out how to remember melaleuca linariifolia vs. melaleuca quinquenervia and the q one just made me think of a person, so I was like, oh why not...later I was in a group of people getting acquainted with these plants. The latter has a hard yet spongy trunk that peels off in swathes of bark-paper...a person in the group said "it's like touching Rocky Balboa!" And then we were asked if we were ready to move on and some of the group chorused "Noooo!" They liked this tree...(Later I had a dream that I was in a dance class for a little girl...a fine dancer was going to teach it and I had asked an adult male director to be in it. But he had to wear the dance class uniform. I asked what he was wearing. It was a big t-shirt and tights. I started to sort of snicker and then he was going to leave but I said "no! please stay!" And what do you know, he did. So there we were waiting for the dance teacher to teach us and this little girl a dance class, but I was afraid they were getting bored. Adult male person started saying some gibberish that sort of made sense. I asked him what it was and he said it was the language of Max. Max referred to a grandfather figure. I said, "Wow, here I am with a genius who makes up languages," and went to the bathroom. While I was in there, a female secretary called in to me. She said the dance class was being ruined by a priest who kept interrupting it all the time to say mass. I went out of the bathroom. The director was gone and the little girl was standing with her mother. I asked, had she enjoyed the dance class. She said no, she had not enjoyed it. Alas, a softly disappointing ending...)

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

tree hunting song....

2014-05-26 Tori Amos "Don't make me come 2 Vegas" (De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) TheLoesy

quotable on netflix

"Los Angeles is not what you see in movies. It's like Detroit with palm trees."

~Don Draper

House of...

introverts

(listen to roommate's musical selections (ex: Never Gonna Dance Again) and feel transported into some 80s dream of solitary woman, neutral colors, billowing curtains, and slightly wonder about peoples' rich internal lives....)

A strange moment about midnight

Northern California dreaming...

http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/iac/Northern_Map.html

Resurfacing...memory from the end of last summer of dozing on a drive from San Francisco to Mendocino and then waking up and stopping in a strange-seeming town called Cloverdale...

Found a charming online diary:  http://moonshinejunkyard.blogspot.com/

Strange impulse to listen to A Heart Full of Love

The little Victorian frozen yogurt place...

~~~~

"...you've got a husband now I have waxahatchee creek and you used to come here with me..."

"...that's okay, I was born in LA..."

Warbler Niches

From http://dooboohongrae.blogspot.com/2013/09/3-niche.html

What niche?

 "Advertisers want female viewers. That's kind of why we made El Rey so dramatically male, because we knew there'd be a separate niche for women."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-rodriguez-quentin-tarantinos-tv-726148


~~~


"all about themselves"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/09/03/stolen-nude-celebrity-photos-late-night-hosts-make-jokes-about-an-unfunny-situation/


~~~


"But the segment really went to the next level with a clip from Outnumbered on Fox News, the show that basically exists to make excuses for sexism, on which Kimberly Guilfoyle said, 'Look, men are going to be that way. What can you do?'"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/09/03/the_daily_show_on_kirsten_gillibrand_sexual_harassment_and_cat_calling.html

Where

Death and a baby

Death and water

Death and bees

A flower

His cats

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/08/21/6058997/man-goes-to-court-to-keep-assistance.html

being human

http://m.zimbio.com/watch/08BghFjZZaT/Being+Human/Robin+Williams

Floating City

From an interview:

"Tell me, why?

You played "Floating City" for the first time in your career, right?

Yeah!"

http://jezebel.com/exclusive-tori-amos-premieres-new-video-and-answers-al-1613198445

Couldn't see this artist again, and it was okay, because the day she came, I had to be out of town for a funeral.

But once again, a reminder of how much I can love art...

FOUND

Under The Milky Way...

(What the beginning of Let Go For Tonight sounded like...)

Yep.

into each other...

(not Chandelier)

ShakirameetsAlanismeetsBridalMagazine?

songs running into each other...

June in July

song paving

and...

http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/watch-tori-amos-covered-tatu-s-lesbian-anthem-before-putin-took-to-stage-14399.html

Kicky

"Penalty kick."
Car mechanic who locked his office yesterday because he had to go upstairs to watch football.
"Penalty kick."
Guys at car rental place in the bg of Sonic commerical compilation (seen at 1:12). Looking for stand alone clip of Sonic guys in Ren Fairey attire with car rental place in the background...

"Sonic and Visual Structures..."

Big match is coming...



Sleepover Friends are so excited...

Much

http://heartsteps.org/2012/healing-power/

So beautiful, this image. So much challenging, crazy-making illness news this weekend...so much wish for healing...it is that way in a life on earth sometimes...it is so...it is so. Cool site: http://heartsteps.org/

Some fun?

While trying to restore some tabs, Gimme Shelter plays along with a Monty Python(?) clip.

Ahhhhhhh

Christmas in July

from pinterest!

Sigh Moo Sigh Moo

When the universe gives you indicators that maybe you should really cut back on or possibly eliminate dairy products.

http://www.pinterest.com/me2mom/pcos-foods-to-eat-low-carbsgluten-free-dairy-free/

Body as environmental barometer experiment.

Ha Ha Ha.

from pinterest!

Followed by excellent cramping.
That should be the name of a '90s zine.
(Or below...)

from pinterest!

Really?

from pinterest!

new old sound?

Fallingfallingfallingfalling

for backing vocals. Again.






(Drop-jaw info about a lady at a meeting)

Almost

funny depiction of a nauseating piece of news I heard on the radio.

http://boingboing.net/2014/06/30/an-illustrated-guide-to-amer.html

Magic

Make Believe Documentary

Fun website name...

http://www.thehoneyladies.com/

~~~~~

(but scary predicament...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2014/06/27/325640795/white-house-task-force-to-save-bees-stirs-hornets-nest )

Revisiting

Cut Chemist ~ The Garden  &  Beyond from The Animatrix

W-W-W-Whimsy

Many people around the planet are thrilled and excited about the World Cup. Some others, not so much. This very creative ad also reminded me that when I asked a group of about 30 young people to list off their favorite sports and mentioned the World Cup, none of them acted very excited--maybe some of them were, but they didn't act like it--and one girl wrote, "I hate soccer."

 http://time.com/2915617/world-cup-whimsy-mcdonalds-ad/

(Bread and circuses are for boys, says whimsical McDonald's ad?)

~~~~

To be fair....

http://time.com/2927761/likeagirl-always-female-empowerment/

revisiting

Cut Chemist ~ The Garden & Beyond from The Animatrix

better bookcover nostalgia

(ebay)

bayminibinge

nonononononono
http://www.vulture.com/2014/06/how-to-tell-youre-a-woman-in-a-michael-bay-film.html

yesyesyesyesyesyesyes

Beagle Baying With Tornado Siren
US Marine Surprise His Beagle Dog

Talking Dog Cute Beagle Puppy a Beagles Funny Baying

Here is my dog guiness

bored vid and i was singing my fav song yesterday from the BE...

beagle puppy howl

clearlyitslate

http://foreveryoungadult.com/2012/02/24/oh-petals-on-the-wind-a-blowing-all-day-long-chapters-9-12/

http://foreveryoungadult.com/2012/02/24/oh-petals-on-the-wind-a-blowing-all-day-long-chapters-9-12/

http://foreveryoungadult.com/2012/02/24/oh-petals-on-the-wind-a-blowing-all-day-long-chapters-9-12/

A meet B

A! The Ghost Writes Back by Amy Boesky

"For six years during my twenties, I worked as one of the principal ghostwriters for a mass-market series for teenaged girls called Sweet Valley High."

B! From Russia, With Love... by Erin Callahan

"Sweet Valley High 5: All Night Long
in which Jessica dates a rapey college guy with a mustache, and Elizabeth and Todd break up for reasons I can't remember
Number Of Drinks Taken: 13.
First Page On Which the Twins Are Described As "Blonde, Blue-eyed, All-American Good Looks" or equivalent: Page 2, I think"


A world without SVH #5 All Night Long is not a world in which my fourth-grade self was destined to exist...

a partir de 1979, pues

Bodymind mysterious

http://www.onceuponasaturday.com/69-darwin-3/

To this guy, people in favor of "trigger warnings" are close to being dangerous proponents of censorship, deserving of ridicule:

"When People Choose, They Choose Wrong"

I don't think everyone thinks that way. "Wanting trigger warning" does not necessarily equal "wanting to ban books." Or wanting to forget everything. To me, ridiculing traumatized people about wanting "trigger warnings" seems kind of like yelling at a person with severe dyslexia for not naturally having high level reading abilities, or something.  I do not know why some people are more easily triggered by certain words / images / experiences than others. For that matter, why do some people have issues with sugar or alcohol and others can gaily chomp away / drink away without almost any sort of negative side effect?

http://blogs.psychcentral.com/panic/2014/02/low-blood-sugar-and-panic-attacks-how-are-they-related/

Why are some  "able to hold their liquor" and others for some reason are not "able" to do so?

http://psychcentral.com/lib/alcohol-consumption-and-genetics/0004943


Why can some people read on the bus without getting sick???!!!!!

http://www.greathillsent.com/blog/post/my-doctor-says-the-rocks-in-my-head-are-making-me-dizzy-what-now--the-bppv-problem.html

Looks so good to me

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/21/5_ways_to_help_girls_survive_a_world_of_sexism_partner/

1. Support girls’ creativity.

2. Volunteer with girls.

3. Help girls develop a sense of humor.

4. Encourage physical activity.

5. Travel with girls. 

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"Societally, 'we teach men to distance themselves from the experiences of women and girls,' said Tony Porter, one of the organization’s co-founders. Boys aren’t encouraged to befriend girls, he said. When they do, they are teased about romantic or homosexual implications. To encourage mutual respect, however, boys and girls must be allowed the space to form meaningful bonds."

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/6/feminism-boys-educationmisogynysexismgenderequality.html

 

12 Delights

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

chanson du matin

Awoke with an old 80s tune running through my head. Couldn't make out any of the words but thought I could ID the voice...and found it.

3

From http://cironline.org/blog/post/heres-look-3-plans-stop-rape-fields-6422


No. 1: Focus on contractors who provide growers with labor

"There’s a push right now in the California Legislature to ratchet up the accountability on the middlemen who provide growers with the seasonal workers they need to pick vegetables, prune orchards or thin vineyards."

No. 2: Get advocates directly into the field

"'You have to go to the people,' Segura said. 'You don’t wait for them to come to you, especially for those with high risk factors and barriers to accessing services, and farmworkers are very much that.'”

No. 3: Turn to drama

"A Spanish radio soap opera tells the harrowing story of Juana, a Washington state farmworker who starts a new job at a local orchard with her friend Lupe....The script is drawn in part from the experiences of 20 Yakima Valley female farmworkers who helped create a University of Washington-sponsored public health campaign."

miresomemediamaniamonotony

J. M.:  5 Things
Ashley Scott & The Rock (Walking Tall)
Gridiron Gang trailer
Girls and Guns
22 Jump Street trailer

hot criminal

http://www.buzzfeed.com/saeedjones/time-for-an-oz-marathon

leads to literary quiz

http://www.buzzfeed.com/saeedjones/who-said-it-james-baldwin-or-audre-lorde

You got 10 out of 13 right!

You’re definitely familiar with both Baldwin and Lorde’s work, but they were wonderfully prolific. If you’ve already read Lorde’s autobiography Zami: A New Spelling Of My Name and essay collection Sister Outsider, you might find The Cancer Journals especially moving. If you already own James Baldwin’s Collected Essays and are still craving more of his brilliance, The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings was published in 2010.

Curious to see how mugshot felon's fame unfolds...

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Maybe they can put him in the stands the next time there's a World Cup camera pan. 

 

hilarious car window moments

something else, not the same http://libertyhillhouse.blogspot.com/2010/08/making-medieval-swords.html

a round little boy in a big green t-shirt swinging a thick green "sword" at an unarmed girl also running around in the yard until she turns around and chases/hits him...