Merry Christmas

Divine

Xmas Gift Ideas for John Waters

So it’s safe to assume you really love Christmas?

Yes, but there are some things that I hate about Christmas. I hate it when I get pears. How would anyone dare to buy me a pear? I’m always shocked when I open a box and there are six pears! I mean, how dare you? I can buy myself a goddamn pear! I think gift baskets should be liquor or cigarettes or porn, just things you’d never buy for yourself. A dear friend in New York sent me a basket of pears for Christmas last year and it did make me laugh when I actually saw one after I’d been bitching about them for so long.

 
Hey hey hbd ms. chan!

You remind me of Santa Claus

in a good way

I see you at night, I shine!

songs stuck in my head the last few days

Feeling pukey, feeling pukey
Nausea, nausea, all right now
there's another one that I can't remember right now that I will add later if I remember.
WWVPD?

Embracing my feminine side

This is a new series, where you follow me on my journey to figure out what it means to me to be feminine.  I spent a lot of my childhood trying to be accepted by boys, men and in doing that I nurtured my masculine qualities.  So now that I know why I did that, I can focus on embracing femininity in moi.  It's funny, cuz I almost don't know what it means to be feminine because I was so focused on being equal.  So here's how I'm going to start:

 

It's beginning to look a lot like

Warm wishes

Happy Birthday Samuel Langhorne Clemens!

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”  -Mark Twain

My Thanksgiving is perpetual

also happy half bday kiddo xo

Thank you, Owl.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.     --Howard Thurman

Renew!

I love Bjork, I love cornucopias

https://theshed.org/commission/cornucopia/

Vincent Price Weekend Extravaganza!

Vincent Price Weekend Extravaganza!

Vincent Price Weekend Extravaganza!

Dang gone

Look who left the cake in the rain

I don't think he can take it
cuz it took so long to fake it
and he'll blame anyone but himself for anything every day of his fucking life.

All Veterans

Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. But, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock, an intelligence officer with the US First Division, shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day, only ending at nightfall.^[1][2] The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days. A formal peace agreement was only reached when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year 

-Wikipedia

Ceasefire.
I received a snotty reply on Twitter from an Australian on Veterans Day.
It was from something I tweeted in early December 2017.
Walter Tremayne-- "But if you don't have wars you don't get veterans."
Dare to dream, Walter, dare to dream.

Meanwhile, Trump is a weak asshole trying to dismantle the allegiance we have with Europe.

first snow

We are having the first snow of the year in these here parts.
It's nice to know nature doesn't give a fig about the ominous crap going on with the dictator president and complicit republican party in my country.  Currently, the guilty are trying to find a way to stop the investigation on themselves and relinquishing passes on Jim Acosta, one of our prestigious journalists.  The level of danger keeps mounting.  I find myself babysitting Twitter a little more once again.  I managed to shut it down for the night, but I kept going back to my phone, but not to social media.  A poem kept running through my head so I had to document it.  Here's the poem I'm working on:

American Agrimony

Leaves
I don't know you or agrimony
Do I fit the profile?
Extract, essence
Surprised by my cinquefoil roots
So, so many roses
Somewhere on the sad clown spectrum
Yet not occult
Someday roaming for barren strawberries
Laughing over the hill

Halfway home we're there

First do no harm
Halfway there we're home.

A case of the Midterms

It is just that we should be grateful,
not only to those with whose views
we may agree, but also to those who
have expressed more superficial
views; for these also contributed
something, by developing before us
the power of thought

-Aristotle

Curated Oasis

So happenstance (algorithm) brought me here and apparently other people too.  The music and the comment section must be curated in my blog to offer an oasis from the negativity on the net from this time in Two thousand eighteen.

Until next year

Goooodnicht!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Homemade Halloween Decor

Deep thoughts by Jack Handy: Halloween edition

For mad scientists who keep brains in jars, here’s a tip: why not add a slice of lemon to each jar, for freshness?

Just needs a slice of lemon

Thing I found

Spotted this in an old Introduction to AV for Technical Assistants my coworker unearthed from the library collection.

I was way into Magic Lanterns back in aught-nine, I posted about it here.

Divine

things in me head again

This is from Kristin Hersh's new album Possible Dust Clouds.  I don't think this is even my favorite song on album, but it's stuck in my head.  Only I'm singing "no shade in shadow" like the Psychedelic Furs front man lounge singer style.  Yeah, I'm already riffing on it, it's that good!  Enjoy!



Maybe this is my favorite song.

Burn! Burn! Burn!

via GIPHY

This is from the RiffTrax version of City of the Dead, aka Horror Hotel.  You all really need to see it, it's my favorite to date.

Christopher Lee as a Professor of Mumbo-ology.
"It's Hammer Horror time!"

Other favorites:
"Kick ass Dina Shore mixed road tape"
"Sailed the ocean blue"
"Not everyone respects my degree in mumbo-ology"

Things in my head this morning

I sang this over and over on my way to work, trying to do my best Kate Bush

I wondered if Tina Turner and Jon Bon Jovi had the same hair.

Pretty much!

I keep thinking "from the rooter to the tooter!" 
I currently have all the indigestion symptoms, seriously, from the rooter to the tooter.

My hair right now

Is Bonnie Franklin going on Schneider

Scheider is disgusting!  I don't even remember anything about One Day at a Time except the fact that Schneider disgusted me.  Oh, how I long for those days when only Schneider was disgusting.  One day at a Tiii-hIIIiime!

The Mark Twain Anniversary

20/10 years together/married is when you celebrate the Mark Twain Anniversary.

Oh look!  See!  This year marks the 150th anniversary of Sam Clemens and his wife, Olivia Langdon, courtship.  http://theconversation.com/mark-twains-adventures-in-love-how-a-rough-edged-aspiring-author-courted-a-beautiful-heiress-90739

Mark Twain is for Lovers

Make the pilgrimage to Hannibal, MO on this special occassion

We need more Furs

Oral Hatch

Guess Who's Shakin' All Over

This Week with GOP in Power

Red Rust Hills

I didn't realize until now how much I love Georgia O'Keeffe's landscapes.

The Hidden Staircase

I started reading Nancy Drew for the first time ever.  Seems strange I missed this.

Woodward and Bernstein https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/05/media/reliable-sources-09-04-18/index.html

Me on the weekend

Luteal Phase

I no longer need this shame
Aim is exercise my demons
96 tears on my pillow
I'm a woman, man
I can't spare a square
I wad up these memories like rough drafts
And watch them burn bright as I toss them through my
self-styled force field
Even its ash can't penetrate my atmosphere

If you men had a luteal phase
I bet you'd've sung a song about it long ago
It took me til I was 42 until I knew

My cycle's on haywire time
My cycle's on haywire time

I'm edging past my prime
oh.
oh, how sublime.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

I love you.

It is a takeover

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

Suppressing voting, changing legislative processes so that a normal majority could no longer prevail, sowing public distrust of government institutions— all these were tactics toward the goal. But the Holy Grail was the Constitution: alter it and you could increase and secure the power of the wealthy in a way that no politician could ever challenge.

MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a hostile takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society. Peter Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of The Vanishing Middle Class, as well as economist Gordon Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of The One Percent Solution, have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why. MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook. 

Weekend Update

Bottom's up!

We the people are here and we aren't going anywhere.

Remove Trump

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-kremlin-and-gop-have-a-new-friendand-boy-does-she-love-guns

Me on the weekend

Gorey Friday

Ttlit!

FBI Agent Strzok testimony:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?447953-1/fbi-deputy-assistant-director-peter-strzok-testifies-2016-investigations

Book review:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07/11/how-to-change-your-mind-michael-pollan/

Ode to Dandelion

It is my job to propagate you
how could I not?
you give everything
two showy blooms
one of gold and one of wishes
toothy leaves and deep roots that nourish
The wind, children and I will ensure you flourish

Enjoy the silence

What makes a man hate another man?

Help me understaaaaaand!

Come clean Trump, GOP

We need more Depeche Mode.

After all the fancy explosions and smoke..

Sleeeeep, sleeeeep, sleeeep, my pretties



I really liked this. I'm glad my coworker found this and shared it with me.  I'm pretty chill now.  Now to find laughing whispers ASMR....!

Americans are ballsy

Happy Independence Day!