Viral Dog Video O' Teh Week

I have never had so many friends share one of my found videos before. Of course, it is raining really hard, not much to do.

Before The Internet

There was the Whole Earth Catalogue.
Diry hippies.

Introducing Hahn-Bin

Should have put this up weeks ago, but sometimes I forget about Contrarienne. And you.

There Are Good Poets And There Are Better Poets

And then there's Pinsky, always with the jokes.

Need is my tactic. Detachment

is my strategy.

I Was Told There Were 18

Some Corgis were mated with dachsunds (most notably Pipkin, who belonged to Princess Margaret) to create ‘Dorgis’.
At present, The Queen owns four Corgis: Linnet, Monty, Willow and Holly and three Dorgis: Cider, Candy and Vulcan.

Now I am better informed. I notice she allows them to jump up. Encourages them even. I am doing the right thing.

Jack Bauer, Inc.

Kept hearing the talking heads tell me last night how we'd be hearing a lot more about J-SOC  in the coming days.
The day came and Spencer Ackerman came through. Have admired his reporting since earlier days at TPM. Journalism is not dead.
Ed. "Hey, Spence, we need 50 inches on JSOC toot sweet."
SA. Here.
Silent squirrels, indeed. McCrystal. Extreme rendition.
So far no one has plugged in the Panetta/Petraeus thingie in light of what we now know was going on.
Hey, Spence.

My New Motto

You cannot make the dead man write what you want.

Rec'd this morning from my daily poetry service, a quite lovely piece — featuring chocolate — by Marvin Bell who, I believe, is indeed a dead man. still lives part-time in Port Townsend.
Live as if you were already dead indeed.

FOX News: African American Man Kills Elderly White Man

Because Of Roger Ebert

I was motivated to learn how to get my computer to speak to me in the morning.
I wanted Vicki to greet me when I turned the computer on, but that's a little down the road. But all I have to do is highlight a piece of text I keep on my desktop, press the selected keys and I get the greeting I composed.
I love it. he makes me feel good.
Why have I lost the ability to use cap s? Vicki?

OMG, Aparagus Pesto!

 And 12 other things.
I love Mark Bittman.

Quote O' Teh Day

All a person is in the end is a story you tell yourself.

Possibly Charles Fernyhough, a developmental psychologist

I heard it on Radiolab today but missed the reference. Am thinking about making Radiolab my daily meditation. Using Beulahland didn't work, it always made me cry.

I Do This Because I Can

And for science.

Oh, THAT Wedding

The hats because, why not?
So what if they're never worn again, the museums will appreciate a chance to do a fun show.
Now, on to the gown.

What Wedding?

Hi, I'm back. Was worried for awhile that I was't worried. Hope you're still out there.
You owe it to our neighbors to read something about Canadian politics every few years.
Here it is. Uh, because there's an election going on that could change things radically.
Then again, maybe not. It's Canada.

Oh, All Right, I'll Read Infinite Jest

guess I'll have to buy it after this.

Tina Fey, Honorary Contrarienne

Janet Is-She-Still-Alive? Maslin does a nice profile, er, book review.

“Only in comedy,” she writes, about interviewing for a writing job on “Saturday Night Live” in 1997, “does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.”

Here, Have A Death Cookie

Possibly the most engaging thing I have read in months. And I read a lot.

“The risk you take has a feedback effect on the unconscious,” he says. “The unconscious will give you ideas and it wants you to act on them. The more courage you have when you act, the more ideas it will give you.”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_goodyear#ixzz1IMDNIfZd

The reason it is so engaging is that I recognize my own experience.

Malcolm X Redux

There's a new book I'd really like to read, but the author's story is remarkable as well.

As Promised

VR I think I should go to Brazil. Then maybe Argentina.

Lost Love

I have cleaned up all the family photos and the CDs and put  Zap Mama back into my life. Next up, Virginia Rodriguez.