(musings from an upstart crow)
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“Make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame.”
“Infinitesimal gradations.”
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Holed up at home with sick little girls, television and warm blankets. One has flu, the other croup and everybody needs their mommy. Wish they felt better, but it’s nice to be needed.
Dreamt I left my purse on a table at the street fair and went back to get it. When I returned, I found a man who looked like Jerry Garcia dressed as a Hell’s Angel with an eyepatch stealing money from me. We started a conversation during which three times he tried to steal my cash and three times I stopped him. each time I caught him he would reply “sorry, I’m just doing my job.” Somehow I ended up walking off with a hundred dollar bill from his wallet. He reminded me a bit of Odin/Mr Wednesday in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
Attended the kick ass Grand Opening party for Silver Sea on Friday. Culminated in the Lizzieful one, the Lovely Miss Thea and myslef alone in the back room of the store with a microphone, a sound system and a number of Tori Amos tracks on CD, indulging our inner rock stars. The best parts sometimes happen after the party’s over:)
Mystery, when reversed: An enigma that resists inner wisdom. Unexplained or mysterious energies at work. Issues of sexuality. Feeling yourself at the mercy of the divine trickster. Dark omens and portents.
Forgiveness: A trial-and-error blend of creative solutions to a problem or complex issue. Keeping things in proportion and proper balance by making needed adjustments. Managing your time and resources carefully. Listening for inner guidance and tuning in to spiritual advice. ****************************************************************************************************************************************
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Sometimes she’s Salome
Or just another jezebel
in the endless parade
and she falls like the stock market
and you rise like unemployment
and sometimes she falls but no one catches
her
she falls because she’s unsteady
never learned to walk before learning to fly
strange little bird that she is
when you let her out
of her gilded cage
she just goes looking for other nests
never learned to spread her wings
never learned a lot of things
still somehow she knows too much to be useful
Working Assets – another great site for armchair activism. You can use their prewritten eamil letters to lodge your political concerns, or just repond to the issues as you are alerted to them. And if you have a landline phone (I don’t anymore,) you can choose them as your long distance company and stick it to the corporate profiteers. Plus there’s free Ben and Jerry’s pints to be had. Been there, done that, licked the lid clean.
For your issues oriented enlightenment, may I offer Mother Jones, In These Times which has the occasional Kurt Vonnegut column as a bonus, and Utne Reader, which remains “the best of the alternative press.” You could always buy these magazines, but don’t kid me, you’re all too busy for that. Be an empowered electorate! Or at least be a real “punk.” Or whatever. Just trying to do my part for “the cause,” whatever that is.
Lastly, an issue brought up by a friend of mine: Alaska Logging. Here’s a letter you can cut and paste and legislative contact info.
There, don’t you feel better now?
Reward yourself with some Mcsweeney’s links and a trip to The Onion. Or if you’re still waxing political, check this out…
…which I can only listen to at home, because my car cd player is missing its faceplate 🙁
1)”Delirious” – Luka Bloom
2)”Jagged” – The Old 97s
3)”Virginia Plain” – Roxy Music
4)”Remove This Doubt” – Elvis Costello
5)”Cecil Brown” – Hank Williams III
6)”Hold Her Down” – Toad The Wet Sprocket
7)Neil Gaiman on Tori Amos
8)”Tear In Your Hand” – Tori Amos
9)”River Euphrates” – The Pixies
10)”Something To Say” – Toad The Wet Sprocket
11)”Nothing To Fear (but fear itself)” – Oingo Boingo
12)”Zak and Sara” – Ben Folds
13)”(I’ll love you)Till The End Of The World” – Nick Cave
14)”Big Love of a Tiny Fool” Peter Murphy
15)”Crucify” – Tori Amos
16)”Candy Says” – Velvet Underground
17)”I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know About Her” – Elvis Costello w/ Tom Waits
18)”Clear Spot” – Pernice Brothers
19)”Lover’s Lullaby” – Townes Van Zandt
Dreamt of dolphins. Common dolphins, not bottle nosed. They could talk and were explaining why it is that they beach themselves sometimes and what we could do if we wanted to help, but I don’t remember what the reason was. Said something about how they would love to submerge themselves for days at a time if only they could get enough air. How they wished they could just breathe underwater and cut out the middle part. Very jaded dolphins. Described themselves as “dolphins, porpoises, whatever the hell you guys are calling us these days…” Seemed most unimpressed with the collective intelligence of humankind. Sort of as though they were the French and we were the Ugly Americans.