presuming to approach the mystery of providence's inscrutable intentions

Cuz, Derby Girls are really just big marshmellows (with very sharp elbows)

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/04/10/GA2009041001969.html

Because this is the question I keep asking....The Daily Mail provides an answer.
A Billion dollars is a lot--I'm glad that Soros is one of the guys who has some of the $$$--I'll need to check out the other guys

   

I had a great Spring Break visiting A*.  Roller Derby is fun.  Her neighbourhood in Baltimore is very pleasant, feels like Europe.

This year World Water Day is highlighting transboundary water management. 

From the World Water Day Website:  (linked from the picture above)

The world’s 263 transboundary lake and river basins include the territory of 145 countries and cover nearly half of the Earth’s land surface. Great reservoirs of freshwater also move silently below our borders in underground aquifers.

With every country seeking to satisfy its water needs from limited water resources, some foresee a future filled with conflict. But history shows that cooperation, not conflict, is the most common response to transboundary water management issues.

Over the last 60 years there have been more than 200 international water agreements and only 37 cases of reported violence between states over water. We need to continue to nurture the opportunities for cooperation that transboundary water management can provide.



 

Found in a book of poetry, about to be shelved in the Stimson Room:

laundry machines need to stop screwing around and get real jobs; hamsters need larger email accounts; and i need everyone to go home

by tao lin.


Melville House Publishing

(I have a copy of the Rav Patel book featured on the web page--I'm done with it and I will send it to anyone interested)



also--  Experimental Geography

The first five people to respond to this post and send me your mailing address will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

(Send your Mailing address to ozma.of.oz --at-- gmail.com - do not assume I know)

The catch? The catch is for you to "pay it forward" and extend a similar offer to those on your own lj friends list. Quite possibly you already have.

I can't promise that I'll send anything out in a timely manner, but I'm going to give it my best shot!

(And no promises that it will be felt monsters either--I just wanted a crafty picture and I found this one on teh internets)

Someone needs to teach this young lady how to do a proper Junior Birdman....

Seems to be the thing to do. Retiring Icons...letting go!

I was watching the festivities surreptitiously, in Atheism class, mostly watching the CNN screen of Dick and Lynne Cheney being loaded into a limo, and W. and Laura being airlifted out on a helicopter, the helicopter to the airplane.... and then...he gets shuffled into a hanger...NO make him leave, put him on the airplane.... watching the luncheon, did Our President actually call the Senate a bunch of white guys, oh yes he did.... finally the Airplane lifts off...the people sitting behind said I did a happy dance, nothing surreptitious about that.

Enjoy your exile in Crawford, because...Next stop, The Hague!

Today, I was looking for a bookmark from the William James Bookstore (in Port Townsend) (not online, no link, not surprising).  Wm James is located in the building with all the balconies in the picture above.  ( Reflections continue under the cut )












Photos stewickie, Painting by Michael Hale.
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Because it is just like cheese, it makes even good things better:  Cheese + McSweeney's


"If P.E. was the Crimean War of my middle-school life, then cheese was my Florence Nightingale. "


Also:   A* knows someone named Turnipseed.  I think that is wonderful.  I come from beetfarmers...

Heard on Liberal Talk Radio this morning:

"Wall Street will look more like an Utility and less like a Casino"

Can't tell you how much that works for me.

/"And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from
parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in
the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but
our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at
hand./

/To those – to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat
you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to
all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as
bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our
nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our
wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy,
liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope./ President-elect B. Obama

Herman Melville writing July 1863---watching New Yorkers rioting against Lincoln's call for conscription in the Civil War by attacking free blacks....

from The Housetop (a night piece)

"Yet fitfully from far breaks a mixed surf
Of muffled sound, the Atheist roar of riot.
Yonder, where parching Sirius set in drought,
Balefully glares red Arson--there--and there.
The Town is taken by its rats--ship-rats
And rats of the wharves. All civil charms
And priestly spells which late held hearts in awe--
Fear bound, subjected to a better sway
Than sway of self; these like a dream dissolve,
And man rebounds whole aeons back in nature."

How amazing that 142 years later, the great grandchildren of those Irish immigrants and free blacks met peacefully in Grant Park (and Times Square) to celebrate Lincoln's vision.

If you live anywhere near DC now is the time to contact your Congressman/woman for tickets to the Inauguration festivities---

For A*
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/wa06_dicks/09inauguration.shtml

Google "halloween" and the year you were born--post the pic

I know that many of you read Boing Boing, but just in case you don't or didn't, I wouldn't want you to miss this most wonderful thing:

Tuva Throat Singer Rap: with Richard Feynam: I think human beings should treat human beings like human beings.

  
From Boing Boing

Cuz science is GOOD!   Also,if you are like me, and tend to keep the computer turned on,plugged in etc -- consider this opportunity to have your electrical use (fish killing) put to good use:  two choices  Folding at home or SETI

because---today is a good day for frivolous  (click pic for link)

Hitting my head against the Pavement--- Flew over the handlebars of the bike early Friday AM --mistook a granite curb for a curb cut--guess I should:  1. wear a helmet, 2. fix the headlight

( Blackeyes....behind the cut cuz it is shocking...and uggly )

From:

Education, is a better appreciation of the newspaper:

Pirates: "we just want to buy food"

but I did read it through the filter of International Human Rights norms and Amartya Sen on Poverty and Famine:

Pirates

A bit more sinister if you read this one, too:  Poisoned Pirates   Add readings on security.....

from: 
thehornedgod 

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.



Is picked out by a singly rhyming friend
In the next, regularly terminating,
Pentameter--such couplets seem to mate
Two sorts of line, and make the rhyme a trifle
Less obvious (less artful, more like life,
You'd ask?--No. Wrong: just making rhyme less ruthless
In its insistence that like sound's like truth.)

Assonance (page 13) is systematic for line-endings

~from John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason

It was the closest  and on the top of the pile on the desk, the next nearest doesn't have a page 56--pages start at 996 (Anthology of Early American Lit...and right below is The Collected Poems of Stepane Mallarme  "Fear that a breath's avowal wreak   Indifferemment sommeillez"

The only other book open on the desk--DH Lawrence --Studies in Classic Am Lit.. "Are hunting in the virgin wild.  They meet two white women."
 
Memes are fun, play if you wish--