Last night, this (Ysanne's Mermaid song/video and also a post from April about Alice) put me in mind of some old pictures I saw in a book...
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Friday, May 24, 2013
furnishings: now & some other time
Last night, this (Ysanne's Mermaid song/video and also a post from April about Alice) put me in mind of some old pictures I saw in a book...
Driving home
Debussy, Degas, Dickinson
(Reverie, The Dance Lesson, To Make A Prairie)
and then the first few minutes of Les Preludes by Lizst (ending on an exciting part while pulling into the garage.)
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
weekend recreation-going out vs. staying in
Due to a nauseating sensitivity to loud noises and exciting camera work, I had to miss two gigantic portions of The Great Gatsby (thanks, delicate ear organs) but at least I managed to get through Amy Schumer's A Porn Star Is Born quite nicely...
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O scrutable inscrutables
Today I was remembering that after visiting Universal Studios when I was 12/13ish (89-90ish!) I saw a woman writing something at a patio table on a sunny restaurant terrace. And there was a cat that curled around her legs. She was self-possessed, happy, alone, and important-seeming (to me.) I think I sort of told myself I wanted to be like that when I grew up. O room of pale people of the male persuasion in dark suits representing the film business (I'm sure they've had other lives, just as the others have had other lives that were maler, paler, and more dark-suited as well), have a Kipling poem
or
a Grass Roots song
Sha la la la la la...
or
a Grass Roots song
Sha la la la la la...
Friday, May 10, 2013
iz perplexed b/c
sometimes, having the time to read all this stuff on the internet can get crazy
so, there's a salon piece criticizing a comedian and rape culture
and then he's like, unlike the salon piece, this is well-written
and her piece says the salon piece was "impeccable"
(??)
and then i see this thing out of the corner of my eye
and then i'm thinking that i have been or felt funnier in small groups (like four people)
which reminds me of two recent situations with group projects
situation 1:
me: stating my idea 3-4 times to a woman
the woman: not buying it
one guy in the group: oh that's a good idea
the woman: oh, okay! (she writes it down)
situation 2:
me: stating my idea 3-4 times to a man
the man: not buying it
that same one guy: oh that's a good idea
the man: oh okay! (he writes it down)
HA HA HA HA HA!
PS - here's that same one guy on another topic - are you sure we have to write stuff down? (to his girlfriend who is also in the group: "write this down!") well, i'm going to the Kentucky derby this weekend... i'm going to Vegas with my uncles this weekend... do we need to type it? i'm not so good at typing... oh okay... well, i can probably get my mom to type it...
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Anne Lamott on Mother's Day
so, there's a salon piece criticizing a comedian and rape culture
and then he's like, unlike the salon piece, this is well-written
and her piece says the salon piece was "impeccable"
(??)
and then i see this thing out of the corner of my eye
and then i'm thinking that i have been or felt funnier in small groups (like four people)
which reminds me of two recent situations with group projects
situation 1:
me: stating my idea 3-4 times to a woman
the woman: not buying it
one guy in the group: oh that's a good idea
the woman: oh, okay! (she writes it down)
situation 2:
me: stating my idea 3-4 times to a man
the man: not buying it
that same one guy: oh that's a good idea
the man: oh okay! (he writes it down)
HA HA HA HA HA!
PS - here's that same one guy on another topic - are you sure we have to write stuff down? (to his girlfriend who is also in the group: "write this down!") well, i'm going to the Kentucky derby this weekend... i'm going to Vegas with my uncles this weekend... do we need to type it? i'm not so good at typing... oh okay... well, i can probably get my mom to type it...
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
Anne Lamott on Mother's Day
T(h)ree
The Three Spinners
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Miracle, 1000 +, 112, 8
"Rescuers had not found a person alive in this rubble for 13 days."
-- bangladesh-factory-collapse-survivor-pulled-from-rubble-after-17-days-trapped-in-basement/
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"Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military’s engineering department who first spotted her in the wreckage, said she could even walk."
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"She told her rescuers there were no more survivors in her area. Workers began tearing through the nearby rubble anyway, hoping to find another person alive."
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"The religious aspects of the rescue — in a Muslim prayer room, on Islam’s day of prayer — was not lost on the ecstatic crowd."
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"Officials said 1,038 bodies had been recovered as of Friday morning from the rubble of the fallen building, which had housed five garment factories employing thousands of workers. The disaster has raised alarm about the often deadly working conditions in Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment industry, which provides clothing for major retailers around the globe."
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"The country’s powerful garment industry was struck by more tragedy late Wednesday night, when a fire in a sweater factory that had closed for the day killed eight people, including a senior police officer, a Bangladeshi politician and a top clothing industry official."
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"Since workers had gone home, the toll was likely far lower than it could have been. A November fire at the Tazreen garment factory killed 112 people."
-- http://world.time.com/2013/05/08/officials-8-dead-in-bangladesh-garment-fire/
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"Von Drehle says that the international outcry over Bangladesh's recent textile tragedies will not actually change the situation, nor will a proposed boycott of American t-shirts that are made in these factories. In the end, he says, what will make change come is if Bangladeshi workers and local organizations mount a concerted effort to put pressure on local politicians. That and that alone can make the lives of Bangladeshi textile workers better."
-- Bobby Ghosh: Lessons from the Bangladeshi Factory Tragedies
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"Von Drehle is the author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America"
-- bangladesh-factory-collapse-survivor-pulled-from-rubble-after-17-days-trapped-in-basement/
~~~
"Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military’s engineering department who first spotted her in the wreckage, said she could even walk."
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"She told her rescuers there were no more survivors in her area. Workers began tearing through the nearby rubble anyway, hoping to find another person alive."
*
"The religious aspects of the rescue — in a Muslim prayer room, on Islam’s day of prayer — was not lost on the ecstatic crowd."
*
"Officials said 1,038 bodies had been recovered as of Friday morning from the rubble of the fallen building, which had housed five garment factories employing thousands of workers. The disaster has raised alarm about the often deadly working conditions in Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment industry, which provides clothing for major retailers around the globe."
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"The country’s powerful garment industry was struck by more tragedy late Wednesday night, when a fire in a sweater factory that had closed for the day killed eight people, including a senior police officer, a Bangladeshi politician and a top clothing industry official."
*
"Since workers had gone home, the toll was likely far lower than it could have been. A November fire at the Tazreen garment factory killed 112 people."
-- http://world.time.com/2013/05/08/officials-8-dead-in-bangladesh-garment-fire/
~~~
"Von Drehle says that the international outcry over Bangladesh's recent textile tragedies will not actually change the situation, nor will a proposed boycott of American t-shirts that are made in these factories. In the end, he says, what will make change come is if Bangladeshi workers and local organizations mount a concerted effort to put pressure on local politicians. That and that alone can make the lives of Bangladeshi textile workers better."
-- Bobby Ghosh: Lessons from the Bangladeshi Factory Tragedies
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"Von Drehle is the author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America"
Saturday, May 04, 2013
3 from Ruins of Berlin
Picture of You, Love Letters, Cigarette Party
50s ish
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50s ish
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| The world needs more creative brother-sister duos! |
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
I just wanted to find this book cover
I had a sudden flashback: attending a baby shower where all these girls sat around talking about how they didn't want to have a girl cause girls are soooo much trouble to raise. UGH. Well, whatever. The past is past, right? However...
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| In my head, I travel back in time, bringing along this book as a very special gift. Traitors! |
This is a thing?
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| from Betty Crocker |
I think the funness of Gender Reveal Parties would really depend on a number of factors...
I dunno...I do kind of want to eat the cake...
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Eeesh.
"...cakes and babies have a terrible history in literature, as readers of Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" and Gordon Lish's mastercut "Bath" well know. In both versions, EVEN THE "CUT" ONE, a cake is prepared for a child, who then immediately dies, driving a baker around the bend. Don't even get me started on Little Jack Horner...
...there is way too much food in fetal analogs as it is. You know what your baby looks like at 15 weeks? A navel orange. Not a Spaldeen. A navel orange. Sometimes I like to eat a navel orange. You know what I don't like to eat? Babies. But it doesn't matter, because my baby was made with "baby batter," I "cooked" my baby, and now I'm silencing it with some "baby bubbly." I hope my baby tastes great braised in butter, with a little shallot."
"...a stream of urine into the air if it's a boy; a devastatingly cruel giggle if it's a girl? Why not..."
From Let Them Eat Baby! The Terrifying New Practice...
as the world turns
more and more children have reincarnation-y things to say...
The 13 Creepiest Things A Child Has Ever Said...
courtesy of impromptu a.m. social networking site checking
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