Category: Everyday Stories
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Listening to Eric Burdon
And Spill the Wine.
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What’s in a name
Funny, fun coincidence. What I’ve been working on, a character’s name is Virginia. I’d not expected her to be a significant character but she grew into one. However, “Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World” also has a Virginia which is a prime character. She’s a rather abrasive character and so is this Virginia in this…
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Research I can believe in
Zoning out is a crucial mental state for fruitful problem solving. And happy thoughts are not as conducive to it as “sad” thoughts.
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In which I learn H.o.p. doesn’t like PETA
Last night, I told Marty about PETA going after Obama for swatting the fly, and H.o.p. overheard. Now, I’ve never said a word about PETA, and H.o.p. loves animals, but it was immediately apparent that somehow someway this eleven-year-old had educated himself about PETA on the web, I didn’t know when or why, but he…
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Iran, the 3rd largest country of bloggers
Did you know that Iran is the 3rd largest country of bloggers? I didn’t. Here is the Vancouver Film School’s short animation, “Iran, a Nation of Bloggers”. Very well done. My slow brain has had to go through some strenuous gymnastics learning how to pronounce Ahmadinejad. Plus I’ve heard it pronounced various ways. But I…
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The passing of TV’s snow age
Thus has passed television’s snow age. Future viewers of “Poltergeist” will have no point of reference for the spook factor that was the fuzzy spirits lurking in the blizzard tellie.
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News I’m watching
Besides Twitter, the two sites I’m continuing to follow for Iran news are the blog on it at the Guardian and Huffington Post’s blog. The Guardian Huffington Post Streaming video of protests at Persianq here. Wonderful video of rally today. Location is Karimkhan bridge.
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Check the sponsors
Reading on HuffingtonPost a piece in which a yoga instructor states she can learn things about people, like their ability to get what they want, in yoga. She says when your body tells you in yoga to quit because it’s uncomfortable, that’s your moment of choice. When you actually notice those reactions, you get to…
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Horse’s Hooves as Shoes
And it hit me…inspired by horses’ hooves. Here’s a hoof. Here’s the Nina Ricci shoe design which literally gives you a foot up in height. I read these shoes are “surprisingly easy to walk in”. Here’s the supposed proof in the below video where each model is one misstep from an ankle cast. I was…
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In Which H.o.p. Corrects Me
“Oh, no, that’s real world violence. I don’t want to see any real world violence, it’s too scary,” says H.o.p., glimpsing a video of protests in Iran. So I explain to him what it’s about and that it doesn’t show anything extreme. I give some historical context but also accidentally misreferenced on a significant point.…
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On Etiquette and Lemon Meringue Pie
I grew up with lemon meringue pie. Marty grew up with lemon cream meringue pie that was called lemon meringue, though no one in their right mind should claim lemon cream is the real deal. Anyway, when I’m eating a store-bought, lemon meringue pie, don’t come up and tell me, “It looks like snot.” There…
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Hot dog!
Surreal. No? Faustian fire. Devil and the dog. For once, the illustrator felt he’d come well nigh art. And he cried at the empty space it pried open in him. Behold!