tomorrow is a long time

Tomorrow is a long time.

talk about... talk about... talk about: elephants!

...going back to the Kaziranga Nature Preserve yesterday am, before dawn, for a second elephant ride to see the wildlife again. ..the six or seven elephants moving slowly through morning mist in tall grasses that concealed swamp deer, rhinos, and boar.

elephants through morning mist tall grasses swamp deer

'In the elephant field / tall green ghost elephants / with your cargo of summer leaves / at night I heard you breathing through the window'

--Ghost Elephants p14 Break the Glass by Jean Valentine

~ Don't you ever think that I'm not crying, since you're away from me, Don't ever think I went free.
At first the goodbye had a lilt to it - - but it was a beheading.


BREAK THE GLASS by Jean Valentine » RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century:

Ghost elephant,
reach down,
cross me over—


The Young Mother

I’m sad, Warden
Are you sad

All you people looking out from the stern
Of the white ship Withholding

–I’ll take my babies
and swim

as with rosy steps the morn

Everyone
on the other side of the earth
standing upside down, listening

Don’t listen to the words—
They’re only little shapes for what you’re saying,
They’re only cups if you’re thirsty, you aren’t thirsty.

these are lines I noted also. 'it was my dream too.'
along with:


'My, my coyote in the doorway'
--p18 Coyote


~'every coldness ever breathed had left its trace elements inside me
In the end, I laid them all down there at the leopard’s feet, I was glad to lay them down.'
--p7 The Leopard


~ 'I thought it's time to go into the forest with a bowl You are the forest and the bowl You don't need a bowl putting his cupped hands together - - the trees walking toward us'
--p47 I thought It's time


epigraph LORINE NIEDECKER

a pencil

for a wingbone

my notes from ~ two months ago, early October, this book a small hardcover being used for a class
here, BREAK THE GLASS by Jean Valentine » RATTLE, also:


If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them

Can you breathe all right?
Break the glass - shout
break the glass - force the room
break the thread - Open
the music behind the glass.

In his poem, “A Textbook of Poetry,” Jack Spicer wrote: “The ghosts the poems were written for are the ghosts of the poems. We have it secondhand. They cannot hear the noise they have been making.”

ggl 'latest' hits on election night, as democrats losing seats to republicans, incl by late evening in tight races in pennsylvania & here in illinois Alexi Giannoulias (D) vs Mark Kirk (R). ggl 'latest' mostly fr twitter, as this one:

courtenlow‎: Giannoulias still trailing Kirk? Does hotness matter to NO ONE anymore?
Twitter - 5 minutes ago

...over on her twitter page, that post not (yet?) showing. but recent ones sweet re kitten:

1. It's RIDICULOUS. It's small and tiny and a kitten and little. http://yfrog.com/n1ws1uj 6:19 AM Oct 31st via Twitter for iPhone
2. My mom found a tiny baby kitty friend on my parents' front porch. 6:03 AM Oct 31st via Twitter for iPhone

NipTuck /early fvr. really just their first season, v good. /FX likes also: shortlived for me TheRiches I did really like the pilot quite a lot and what that seemed to promise for the show is there somewhat for me now in Weeds 6th season: the conning (drugdealing but also straight up cons now really: as 6-8 Andy & Doug pretending to be pastors) family traveling together in a big RV (I just like families on the run in winnebagos? running away together, making do)... , anyway FX: also bit of RescueMe. and my one fvr comedy AlwaysSunny.
oh~ now-earlyDec Raising Hope makes two comedies I really like.

serious fvr

Life -- VeronicaMars -- Terriers

BreakingBad


BigLove will air last season starting Jan11.


TrueBlood /think of terry making military go-gestures. I really like this show, esp latest (3rd right) seasn. maybe I seem forget that really do like it. +! twopj recaps.

Weeds //this sixth season some appeal like The Riches premiere, see above, the conning family on the run together. and I always enjoy Andy, and even when the show is not esp fvr, the twopj recaps are a bonus
twopj recaps also a reason to watch prettylittleliars (+ hannah, spencer are int chars well-acted) and bits maybe of gossipgirl (also blair leighton meester v good, int char)


Parenthood -- {ModernFamily} -- {GilmoreGirls} shows can enjoy watching w mom. and at moments I love them. really like parenthood a very lot. esp: crosby. also julia. and amber. so Parenthood is the one show I seriously like that is not about: after-the-end. all the rest here are, after things fall apart. except~ Big Love, where the appeal, like Parenthood, is the emotional family interactions, though v different families!


oh: Lost. not first rate like BreakingBad or Terriers. but no other show so good at the imaginative. such involved imaginative discussion. and blows-your-mind story possibilites, esp season premieres or finales. reinvention of the story, with enough continuous substance that the reinvention is awesome .(rather than just: anything can happen, so, so what.) is Lost the most fun, the most thrills, of all shows?

fvr shows are re after-the-end: Life, Veronica Mars, Lost. BreakingBad.
also~ Weeds. and now Terriers.
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+ TheCloser I forget: some epsds really good, esp re Sanchez.
-- Dexter d not first rate but entertaining, and I v m like this season's victim chased through woods turned real lover
-- statesTara actually near first rate quality but ~ slight ~

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and shortlived: Kidnapped. veryshortlived butIveryliked: LoneStar. -
rg sad disappointed not renewed: Carnivale, Rubicon.

________________________________ notyet: Rubicon.
read about, admired but not actually gone real into: Carnivale. Deadwood. TheWire. ~Sopranos.

SixFeetUnder watched thr all but no special my involvemnt.

FridayNightLights shortlived involvemt, then no further not yet maybe later.
and

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of all above, currently airing: Dexter. Weeds. TERRIERS. & on network: Parenthood.

oh and In Treatment just realized airing currently. that gets to be on this list, serious fvr, at least wrt second season (and maybe the third, wh I hear is good); I d n like the first season, none of the patients m int me, not even the young gymnast m., but second season Walter (actor played Fraser's dad) superb, also April young girl w cancer and autistic (was it?) brother not telling anyone, and the little boy whose parents splitting up, boy w his turtle, asks to come live w Paul.. that leaves Hope, who was also smwh int, & Paul's sessions w Gina ~ okay. but impressive: three of five very moving to me.

will return in ~January: Big Love. ~March: Breaking Bad. statesofTara.
durn ‘Breaking Bad’ Season 4 Delayed: til July 2011. well that's ok.

'Terriers': You Can Read Proust | PopMatters:
Hank’s a private detective in San Diego, unlicensed. As such, he lives on a familiar kind of edge, the kind negotiated by ex-cops and recovering alcoholics. In the smart new FX series, Terriers, Hank has a few other accoutrements you’ve seen before—an ex-wife, Gretchen (Kimberly Quinn), whom he still loves, and an ex-partner, Detective Mark Gustafson (Rockmond Dunbar), whom he still trusts. He’s also got a scruffy new partner in his new detecting business, one-time thief, Britt (Michael Raymond-James). .. While the show provides some standard-seeming villains—expensively outfitted and imperious—it also pits Hank and Britt against or in league with a number of less obvious types, including Hank’s sister Steph (played by Logue’s own sister Karina Logue). When she shows up in the fourth episode, she helps to stretch your understanding of him, as he copes with her unexpected decision to go off her meds and exit the hospital where she’s been living. But she’s not just the crazy sister. Instead, Steph (an MIT grad) offers another view of Hank, in glimpses of their shared past and in her independent mind, made visible in frame compositions that tell story as well as dialogue. So, when he asks Gretchen to look after her for an afternoon, Steph walks through the background of their conversation in the kitchen, reminding them that she can hear them and reciting the “rules” concerning her care: “Don’t leave her around any sharp objects, don’t let her read any Proust,” she says, her figure out of focus as Hank and Gretchen also understand their parts in this knotty, multi-part relationship. “Never take her to the wild animal park, never serve her red wine with fish, blah blah, blah, blah, blah.” like the rules for gizmo so he doesn't lead to Gremlins, right. As Steph observes here, social propriety is arbitrary, no matter whom it’s designed to contain. “You can read Proust. Alright?” he says.

mmm. makes me feel better. partly bcs I am a less crazy sister, there are not rules for me (though maybe I'd like that = caretaking, someone else managing me, in charge) and partly bcs I like him a lot and he's good to her.


Hank’s own excesses, his steps outside such propriety, take a variety of forms. Britt has scenes apart from Hank—mostly with his incredibly insightful and patient girlfriend Katie (Lauren Allen)—but for the most part the show keeps you inside Hank’s experience. This means you see him share a particular language and sensibility with Steph, worry about Gretchen’s upcoming marriage to Jason (Loren Dean), and confess to his AA meeting that he’s buying their old house from her. When a fellow member advises against it—“You’ll be living in a museum of all your past mistakes”—the look on Hank’s face simultaneously conveys his agreement with this assessment, his lifetime of regret, and also his enduring optimism.
Like co-creator Shawn Ryan’s The Shield, Terriers features charismatic, complicated grown-ups wrestling with a lot of past mistakes, even as they continue to make them. Though Hank and Britt are accused repeatedly of behaving childishly, they know enough to see what they’re doing, and measure it against other so-called adult behavior (say, cheating on land development projects or following proper investigative procedures). Guys who’ve gone wrong now trying to go straight, they value loyalty and intelligence. So, when Mark warns Britt, “You gotta know he’s gonna let you down, it is not in Hank Dolworth to do anything but self-destruct on people and when he does, everybody catches shrapnel,” the new partner nods and listens, but takes the risk.

Nyr to re

Table of Contents: October 4, 2010 : The New Yorker:

borrowed fr K, felt like flipping thr most of th articles, but gave back hvg lkd at little ~ end bit of M Gladwell int me Wall St guy's friend loses phone left in NY cab uses web bullying (sounds to me) of teenager who found it & won't give it back, gets lots emails (sympathy? poor phone lost now stolen victim?) coverage (?), get police to treat as stolen & compel teenager to give back. huh. used as ex in talk given by Clay Shirky social network guy re cld not hv happened few yrs back. gladwell gets pnts fr me for skeptical th good of th. upping weak ties, lowering bar to participation ~ empowering th already privileged ~ well read rest article not sure got sense of his context. lunch counters.

Small Change
The truth about the Twitter Revolution.
by Malcolm Gladwell

and

David Fincher and “The Social Network.”
by David Denby

and also of int but blue square = avail only subscribers, can however read an abstract of th articles online (and there are web only accompaniments video audio document):

“Let Me In,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”
by Anthony Lane

Let Me In vampire adolescent unTwilight but not as good as the orig ~Swedish ~ here redonw Amer version

“To W.C.W.”
by Eunice Odio

poems end pg, and fr above was also int in

Searching for Silence
What John Cage heard.
by Alex Ross whose books I kn

The Next Incarnation
The Dalai Lama and Tibet’s future.
by Evan Osnos

The Scholar
Why was a brilliant student in a safe house?
by Jeffrey Toobin

web+ Documents: Rachel Yould’s plea for leniency.

and had not noted but now do and can read online
re Christine O'D now m in news is she ~ saw pconstant mentioned ggl zz


Bewitched
Christine O’Donnell’s peculiar past.
by Rebecca Mead oh R Mead fmlr fr early web rdg re blog? her NYr article, or there was her & another Rebecca I confuse conflate

and note

A Note to Our Readers
The New Yorker débuts on the iPad.
by The Editors

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finally & in the first place it was the back page cartoon caption contest motivated th borrowing in the first place
because I v m like th winner contest 253:

"In the end, Ed, most of us are carried along by our delusions."

R: who in pic carried by delusion? I say: both Ed and the speaker who is incl himslf as one of the most of us, his horse too, who knows, riding that saddle probably requires delusions too. R: who is not deluded? I say: a possible few, not here with these guys, not pictured, somebody else.

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+and I like the one in semifinals contest 255:

"I gather you both feel you're being manipulated."

"O.K., now do a tragedy." that's my fvr & I think of Bergson saying to do a comedy have actors sit down (body in to it). here they were standing, th puppets, top of chairs, expansive. so a show tune or so! and I like when the counselor can be talking both to the people down behind th chairs but also to th puppets the little people standing on the backs of the chairs. and K says he's caught up in it, for the moment.

"You need an agent, not a counsellor."

____________________
+and th one up for captioning, wh I've seen the seminfinals & is now having votes counted so captions now shown here, will add link later, relay here now fr memory, and I liked contest 257

~ "At least he swims like a duck."

ducklings trailing parents ducks talking about th one w human face glasses. so rife w poss idioms like that one takes adv of ('if it walks like a duck, talks like a') or cld hv done sth w 'ducks in a row' esp wrt the glasses, like he just got them, so now finally the parent duck could be relieved that the nearsighted one can see and so she can keep all her ducklings in a row. or also sth w duck duck goose. but I d n think of and am very impressed, like goes a diff direction, a pun less ready-to-mind, and this one shld win, maybe genius:

"You should see his wing tips."

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso | LibraryThing:

-The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was celebrated in a wedding party at which the Greek gods came to mingle with mortals for the very last time. When the gods left, they announced that they were never coming back. As a parting gift to all of mankind, they left us the alphabet. Thus the marriage of Cadmus and Harmony was the legendary birthplace of Western literature. Italian humanist Roberto Calasso chose that story as the anchor-stone for this explanatory and reverential tribute to the role of the gods in Western lit, folklore and mythology. Seldom do belles lettres become so accessible and so important to the common reader as Calasso and Parks present them here. 'The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony' is a worshipful, joyous, enlightening look at myth and literature and storytelling for all readers, everywhere. Read this book if you're into speculation about humanity, human origins, and primal causation (aka 'the divine spark'). ( )

dekesolomon | Sep 12, 2009 |

Suggestivo e affascinante.

francescocaligiuri | Jun 23, 2008 |

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Calasso.

I read this book on the recommendation of a friend commenting on my blog. First published in English in 1993 it’s clearly something I should have picked up before. Or should I? Initially I felt, by turns, beguiled, exploited, delighted and even insulted. It seemed to me, before I was very far in, to be moving between the profound and the whimsical across the space of a single page. I was not sure whether I regarded it as an insightful interpretation of Greek mythology or a comic-book vision of the gods. I also felt that I should actually be reading Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia, not just because it is usually better to read things in their original language but because it felt like a very Italian text even via the American English into which it has been translated. I was reminded of the style of Ripellino in his Praga Magica. Perhaps ‘style’ is the best way to approach a description of the book. Its originality of presentation of the gods owes everything to its style. The way things are said is as significant as what is said. Once I had accommodated myself to that I began to enjoy it.

And there is much to enjoy. There was a time when Cadmus and Harmony could get married at Thebes and the gods would come to the wedding. But since then they have withdrawn, to Olympus and further off. The Golden Age and its dissolution through Silver to Iron and Bronze is chronicled here with as much élan as could be wished for. But those stretches of apparent frivolity, crystallize into some cameos which are worth reading the book for in themselves:

"Dionysus is not a useful god who helps weave or knot things together, but a god who loosens and unties. The weavers are his enemies. Yet there comes a moment when the weavers will leave their looms and dash off after him into the mountains. Dionysus is the river we hear flowing by in the distance, an incessant booming from far away; then one day it rises and floods everything, as if the normal above-water state of things, the sober delimitation of our existence, were but a brief parenthesis overwhelmed in an instant."

This is brilliant stuff and brings the gods alive in a way that other works rarely do. If I consider how else readers of English might gain an understanding of these gods, I suppose the comprehensive text that would be referred to is Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths. Graves is himself often whimsical and irreverent, but compared to Calasso his is a mere reference book, and one than can itself deceive by appearing to be so definitive when he is, of course, as liable to be arbitrary in his interpretations and definitions as is Calasso. But with the Italian it is all on the surface, part of appearance, as he himself defines one aspect of the gods. Besides, this is a book to be read through; Graves’ two volumes sit on the reference shelf to be consulted rather than followed as narrative.

I must, finally, comment on the presentation of the relationship between Odysseus and Athena. I found it epiphanic. I’ll resist the temptation to quote from it as it’s the sort of thing best discovered rather than isolated from its context. And here I have to concede that the apparently arbitrary way that Calasso throws in brief paragraphs of information between longer stretches of narrative and illustration, creating an apparently disjointed structure, as if wondering where this bit or that bit can best be fitted in, is not so whimsical after all. He has created a form that is disconcertingly effective, encompassing the many contradictions which can thwart the task of description and casting light, sometimes directly but often elliptically on his subjects. "In the beginning was the word" says the christian text. In Calasso's view, for the gods, it was more like the end. Except that his words attempt to reclaim them as the only way to lead an interesting life

1 GregsBookCell | Mar 11, 2009 |

GregsBookCell - Wales - currently reading: Briggflatts (book,dvd,cd) by Basil Bunting mmm briggflatts fifty years a letter starlight


groups: I Survived the Great Vowel Shift

Random books from GregsBookCell's library

The Dylan Thomas Trail by David Thomas

The Virgin and the Nightingale: Mediaeval Latin Poems by Fleur Adcock

Margiad Evans (Writers of Wales) by Moira Dearnley

Saint Joan;: A chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue, by Bernard Shaw

An Introduction to Geoffrey Hill (Agenda/Bellew Poets on Poetry Handbooks) by W.S. Milne

Y Treigladur: Check-list of Welsh Mutations by D.Geraint Lewis

Metamorphosis (and Other Stories Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka

Gillian Welch - Make me down a pallet on your floor

writ by Mississippi John Hurt

Make me down a pallet on your floor

Make me down a pallet on your floor

Make me down a pallet soft and low

When I’m brok an' I got no where to go. mmm

Weary blues are everywhere I see Weary blues are everywhere I see Weary blues are everywhere I see No one ever had the blues like me

So, make me down a pallet on your floor Make me down a pallet on your floor Make me down a pallet soft and low When I’m broken an I got no where to go always what I want why rarely on hand a friend who lets you lie low a pallet on their floor ~ tvz If I had no place to fall, and I needed to, could I count on you? to lay me down

Renee & Jeremy It's A Big World



It's a big world baby and you live for a little while
It's a big world baby you can fill in your own style


It's a big world for every little thing

It's a big world baby and you live for a little while
It's a big world baby you can fill in your own style

It's a big world baby and you're little for a little while

It's a big world baby you can fill in your own style.
... ... in your own style ... in your own style ... in your own style ... in your own style ... in your own style.


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little for a little while oh-
it's a big world you can fiddle in your own style - 'fiddle' each time? - yes - well I say 'fill' you can fill the world in your own style, too - oh it's alos 'little' *every* time! - 'you're littlefor a little while' 'you live for a little while' which is also true an what I heard when first heard when MaryKatherine put it on in lilo's room after nap, waking up.

Shape I'm In 24 September 2010 seven is it eight years on
and he's on fire playing everyone I've ever loved all remember recognized I know that song I know that voice I know that ____

Willie Nelson Redheaded Stranger

Lucinda Williams Laissez le bon temps rouler

(Mary Gauthier) Your Sister Cried a-a-all the way h-home kate cutrer

Gillian Welch ~ In South Carolina there are many tall pines I remember the oak tree that we used to climb
But now when I'm lonesome, I always pretend That I'm getting the feel of a hickory wind
I started out younger at most everything but I'm younger now history my dear friend All the riches and pleasures, what else could life bring? But it makes me feel better each time it begins Calling me home, hickory wind
It's a hard way to find out that trouble is real In a far away city, with a far away feel
But it makes me feel better each time it begins Calling me home, hickory wind
Keeps calling me home, hickory wind

YouTube - Gillian Welch - Hickory Wind (writ by Gram Parsons)

then
Van Morrison Could you find ..

Townes Van Zandt shake the dust off from your .. To Live's To Fly so that caps it

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and guitar is that Leo Kottke tape from Meg at P&P

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read sfgate TGdmn re recent Mad Men:

"Mad Men" Spoiled Bastard. Ep. 9: "The Beautiful Girls." : Tim Goodman. | photo of Sally: Innocence lost.

"Mad Men" Spoiled Bastard. Ep. 8: "The Summer Man." : Tim Goodman. | Don in pool, voiceover confessional thoughts - psyche floating, sinking, wrung out

"Mad Men" Spoiled Bastard. Ep. 7: "The Suitcase." : Tim Goodman. | Don a pitiable drunk, losing the veneer he shined for so m yrs. humiliation, an acute sense of a man losing his grip on life in a way that made others look away in sadness or shock or disdain.

"Mad Men" Spoiled Bastard. Ep. 5: "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword." : Tim Goodman. | photo: Betty w (Sally's) therapist





~ watch:

oh and: RUBICON s1 now airing on AMC

[The Tudors - showtime] Reasons to Love James Frain/Thomas Cromwell Justified (TV series) - Wkp reminded of James Frain by appearance in True Blood


[Justified - FX] Natalie Zea - Justified ~ ok watch


[Terriers FX] - Change Partners: Consenting adultery - HitFix.com
+ Terriers - TWoP Forums -This show just got weird and dark as well as funny. I like it.


[Lone Star - Fox but not long for]: Living In a House of Cards with Adrianne Palicki and Jon Voight - TWoP Forums

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Little bit of a lacuna, then Seattle.

Any Tool's a Weapon if You Hold It Right | Weeds 6-3 'A Yippity Sippity' recap by Jacob | TWoP | p1:

The Newmen take a good look around Seattle and see a picket line. Although crossing picket lines stands against everything Andy Botwin's ever stood for, older son Mike wonders what, then, would be "broke-ass Randy Newman's take."
*If you cross the picket line and toss out even your tiny little moral set, turn to page 54. If you take the unimaginably revolutionary option of actually working for your living, turn the channel to some other show because that is not how we roll.*
Randy is with Nathalie, so they head on across the picket line and into the hotel. They are scabs! Which, after you've sold out everybody you know to everybody else you know everyone I love is married to everyone else [--movie 'the thing called love'] at least once, and personally gotten numerous DEA agents shot to death or with their faces sanded off, and managed to traffic in child prostitutes completely by accident, is probably not as big a deal as to you or I, who have hopefully done none of these things.

Mike is entirely unsure that even this Newman life is sustainable, but Nathalie has hope. "This is who we are now. This is us." But as Michelle once said to Romy, But okay, if those things were so easy to get, wouldn't we already have them?
"What if you'd have gotten a real job after Dad died, and we could have skipped all this shit?" Nathalie explains that she would have had to sell the house, they'd have gone to a different zip code --the horror!-- and the boys would have gone to even lousier public schools. The way she says it, you can hear the way Nancy's been telling herself this, every second, for the last six years. She nearly sounds bored, she's heard this speech so much.
*If you can accept the lot of a million other widows just like yourself, turn back to page one. If you're a Daredevil Girl looking for your next hit, turn to page 420.*

But Mike's asking the wrong questions, he didn't go back far enough; he's missing the bear. mmm. all the way back to-
[pilot epsd: 'You can't miss the bear.' and later th writing v impressed me, re weeds 4-8 'I am the table': Every second that goes by that you want your fix or get it: that's the tunnel down; every second that goes by that you don't feed the bear, that's the tunnel up.]
It's not about Nancy selling weed, it's about Judah dying. Nancy would have gone crazy either way, become Lacey, become Nathalie, just like she did when her parents got sick and she ran off to Paris. Maybe it would have gone even worse. I cannot say for certain that she would have ended up in this horrific junkie whore wig. The wig might actually be due to drug dealing.

.. | Maid Nathalie comes into a room where a heavyset careerman is cuffed, facedown, in what soon becomes clear is a quickly drying puddle of urine. "Did you at any point think who might have to clean this up?" The irony, it escapes Nathalie more often than Nancy escapes fate. But lest we think that this is about sisterhood or the underclass or the fact that drug dealing arises naturally from the need for shadow economies when women and minorities are denied entrée into exactly the realm this guy is the master of: "You're not exactly in the power position, so I suggest you be a little more respectful to me, the fucking maid." Not maids in general, no, just this one pretty white lady one, who broke a picket line to get here. | ..

p7] Nancy takes off her nasty wig and lets her pretty Nancy hair out to play, sitting at the bar with a glass of white wine and staring into the middle distance. Dude appears. "What do I do?" Nathalie stalls, going dark for just a second. "I own my own business. A dance studio. I studied in Paris." They discuss Paris in some easy-reader Français and before she knows it, Nathalie starts telling the truth. It's about a dead woman, and in some ways a lie, but it's still true. Her eyes light up. "9th Arrondissement. It was great. It was so great. Um. But then New York beckoned..."
And then Seattle. Little bit of a lacuna, then Seattle.

Nathalie, for a second, was a terrific idea. She just got lost in the narrative.

Mike will be reading in his underwear. And socks, and a little bellhop hat. Pretty specific, altogether, but we can't say we're immune to the overall effect. Randy is all over it --fifty bucks a page, I don't see the dilemma-- and gives Mike some very good advice. "Wear boxers. Preferably ones that don't gape. Read fast, and skip paragraphs."
*If you're secure enough in your identity that you know you can't catch gay, turn to page 48.*
This is the smartest thing Randy Newman ever said: [Is it gay?] "Not if he pays you. Or if it's underwater." And the whole What Happened To Andy In Alaska concept just keeps getting more interesting. Besides, Randy says, maybe it'll be such a great book he'll "get lost in the narrative."
Randy complains about Chef Wagner and Mike dicks with him and Randy goes, "Back off, Reading Rainbow." Which is layered, which is appreciated, especially at the end of a long work day.
Nathalie's outside and Randy asks how her day went and she goes, "I'm no better than the whore who pees on people." Randy of course immediately tosses that one to Mike --"Silas, I think Mommy has a story, too!"-- which makes him 3 for 3, and then goes looking for a joint. The piano bar piano man who played over Nathalie's flirtation with Vince comes out and, crestfallen, explains that their usual weed guy, Nigel the valet, went on strike and won't sell to scabs. Meaning there's not a single source in the hotel.
*If you know already without looking the exact look that just crossed Nathalie's face, pat yourself on the back. If you honestly thought she meant any of this normal life shit for one second, go back to the beginning because you are lost in her narrative.*

If Nancy hadn't turned to drug dealing, things would have been pathetic and horrible, right? She would have had to sell the house and do Normal Things that depressing Normal People Do.
*You gotta turn to page 603, because she tried it their way, the Normal Newman way, and it was worse than she ever could have imagined.*



Cut smash jerk to the next scene, in which Nathalie attempts to start the whole motherfucker over again.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. and who is sitting on the couch being her usual muscled eerie self but Original Sarah Connor herself, Linda Hamilton. I like that she's back. I like nothing quite so much as when they come back to us. Like who knew Margot Kidder and Anne Heche would come zooming home from Crazytown, so perfectly lovely and unscathed? And now Linda Hamilton is having her moment -- still so gorgeous and intense and never really that crazy in the first place -- and Anne Heche looks better than she's ever looked, which is just so important.
Back on the show, things suddenly flare back up into that long-ago brilliance that used to define it.
Every second is glorious after this point.
"Fiona! The seitan is burning! And save the oil! Fuels our van." (Trans. We are actual liberals, and gays, and ladies! Three things Nancy Botwin cannot handle but Nathalie Newman will try and schmooze anyway!) Nathalie notices that the Providers don't keep the trimmings from their plants--a couple other, less Caucasian ladies sit at a table stuffing them into garbage bags--and gorgeous lover Fiona explains that you can't compost them because they are bad for the beetroot as well as anybody who eats the beetroot. I don't know what beetroot is but I'm sure it tastes all kinds of vegan. Their adorable five-year-old comes running through the room with golden locks flowing and Nathalie manages to call him "her" and "she" about sixty times before Linda rears up on the couch: "We need to cut his hair. You're gonna make him a fag!"
Fiona shows a bit of mommy steel, hissing, "Hey. He's good!" before grabbing the boy--"Kish"-- and needling him about how the improvised Barbie gun he's created "better be shooting peace rays!" And I mean, for a show that doesn't always do gay that well, you have nailed it. Well fucking played. For being such cartoons these are the least cartoonish gay ladies I've ever seen on TV. First of all, little boys do this. Everything is a gun. A bitten bite out of a slice of bread makes it into a gun made of bread. ("Any [Every] tool is a weapon if you hold it right," said sister Ani. She was talking about IQ, but then lesbian vegetarian mommies wield that weapon better than anybody.) It's not about violence, it's about penises, which explains why even super gay little kids will still improvise guns. So the fact that he's doing this with a Barbie doll in the house of a thousand mommies is just a brilliant, tiny little detail that's metonymic for the whole thing.
But it also reinforces the idea that even if Nancy had been the perfect mother --which the only thing better than one mother is two mommies and science will back me up on this-- there would still be violence, because it's also about violence. Case in point: Kish fully rips the head off the Barbie gun just as they're clarifying his gender. Fiona sends Kish to the Contemplation Corner, which is more-lesbian-than-lesbian for Time Out, and he goes cheerfully and sweetly.

So, if I dream I have you, I have you,
For all our joys are but fantastical;
...
John Donne - Elegy X : The Dream Posted by m at 6:15 PM

tvz my

_YouTube - Steve Earle - Fort Worth Blues | Townes Van Zandt tribute -_


You always said the highway was your home - but we both know - that ain't true
It's just the only place a man can go - when he don't know - where he's travellin to

There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight - Silver light - over green and blue
And every place I travel through I find - some kind of sign - that you've been through


_YouTube - Steve Earle - Fort Worth Blues | Townes Van Zandt tribute -_

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Nancy Griffith - Tecumseh Valley | Townes Van Zandt Tribute

'daughter of a minor' = ___ down down down up

at end here 4:30 v pretty: 'the name she gave - will always be - Caroline.
-daughter --daughter [up] - of a minor' = ___ up up up down





'And her ways were free and it seems to me sunshine still walks beside her.' sweet clare writing re maurisa_

_The Closer 6-6_

Lt. Tao: "No threats and nothing compromised with the Commissioner's computers. And I even refragged their registries. You know, most people think refragging is a big waste of time---"

_The Closer 6-6_

That is not authority! That is abdicating authority!

Hitting The Ground - True Blood 3-7 recap by Jacob | TWoP | p1 :
Lorena's got Sookie up against the wall and she's sucking on her blood. She's all, "You are magically delicious!" Lorena, for at least the third time, asks Sookie what she is, and Sookie thinks about saying "A waitress" like usual right, last epsd to Russell. and in pilot I think, outside Merlottes, to Bill. "I'm a waitress." all sweetness & light (mm wh actually is wh she is), but instead says that what she is today, in Mississippi, is the bitch what's going to kill Lorena.
.. Lorena's ability to understand love, which exceeds every other character's on this show or real life hm?, is called into question, but she is peaceful.
.. Fountains of blood are the next thing that come of Lorena, and then Sookie's there covered in her slithy toves. nice.. jabberwocky.


Tara, of course, assumes that Bill is dead because she doesn't know about how vampires explode when they die. And in fact, this is key: Sookie only knows about that because of Longshadow, and Jason only knows that because of Eddie, and nobody else knows that. Because in this world, it is very important that people not know the infos of vampires, and vampires are the only ones that can give you the infos about vampires, if you see what I'm saying: Don't blame Tara for thinking that bashing someone's head into a paste is sufficient. Ninety-nine out of a hundred, I think you'll agree, it is.

Also, though, every time Tara calls Bill "dead" it's a double-entendre that strikes at the heart of Sookie, who has already stopped thinking of dead things as dead things, or else she would not have sex with the dead things.

And finally, Tara is allowed to hate Bill a very lot. She's like the one person who has the right to hate vampires without seeming like a racist when she does it, because even if she was a racist before Franklin -- and Russell's house, and Talbot's lilies -- she now has more experience of vampires than Sookie, whose empirical evidence would suggest that what vampires mostly want is: To put the moves on you and then do you big favors.

(Also, remember please that Sookie only met Bill Compton something like six weeks ago, and is still very much in the flower of her love -- one thing I really respect about this show is how much it respects us by expecting us to keep up with the incredibly compressed timeline over the past three years, in which only once by my count have we "skipped ahead".)

The wolves are coming!
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p7] Queen Sophie-Anne has been put in a cage, in fact a gigantic wrought-iron (guessing silver is involved) birdcage. It's a beautiful image, and just as weirdly out of place as anything else in vampire-world, but with this show I feel like they buy themselves the ridiculous at a vast overprice: The weirdness shows you -- and this will become increasingly important to remember as the episode continues, right? [p1 recaplet: in the meantime did I mention there was a **magical land of glowing water and fancy people**? This is the greatest show ever made.] -- the stakes. Moving back and forth to dreamworld, vampires as symbolic modes of being, with the only sign we've done so the increasingly bizarre ways things can look.


Now, first rule is don't ever use the word rape unless you're talking about rape.


Vampires are magical creatures who feed on blood, yes. But if they are merely displacing the darkness in themselves with our light, then what is their blood? Life. Life so magical that it causes the dead to *walk*, right, but also so dark that it can show you your soul..

And so whatever words Hadley used in telling Eric what Sookie is , they don't really measure up to the truth. Maryann, though, never once lied, but especially in joy: "It was like Nature Herself was shooting out from your fingertips!"



p12] The guy callously compares Sam-Dog's future in the ring to -- once again in this episode, please do note, because I am sick and tired of hearing about what a crappy show this is when all that does is prove how lazy and dumb you are, but then I say the same thing about Gossip Girl, so clearly I can't be trusted -- the act of rape.
Sam responds by taking human form -- a specifically love-letter-to-us-all naked form, with a chrome dog-collar chain around his neck -- and bopping guy on the head. He crams him into one of the cages, and then opens all the rest of them because Sam is a sweetheart ..
then he pulls a fire-ish alarm ("Actual humans who wouldn't countenance this bullshit are coming!") and everybody scatters and Sam jumps into the ring, yelling at the dog that was just fighting Tommy to go away, and then their little family is alone.

He yells at them forever and ever, comparing them to even the Merlottes in terms of shittiness, and then takes Tommy away. "I can't promise you a perfect life, but I can promise you it'll be better than this one." Valid. They leave; Melinda stops crying and goes cold and yells at Joe Lee about how much she hates him. Then she turns into a magnificent dragon as big as a barn and eats him. Just kidding, fuck both of them.


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Jason assures Lafayette he is not coming to him for vampire blood: "I told you, that shit's behind me! I just need some meth!" (♥.)
p.s. p5-6: Hoyt reminds him of the time a few episodes ago he took down a drug dealer, and Jason waxes: "Reminding me of last week's glory ain't gonna change the fact that this week ain't done shit for me yet!" Words to live by. Well, the "done for me" part y is classic Jason and the worrisome thing about him always, but mostly it's a good idea.(wait what's a good idea, living in the present not the past?)


.. Magical mystery music starts playing when they talk about how Jason does have a blood type, which he knows because he's always fucking up with power tools, but that Sookie has never been sick. And isn't that a coincidence because both she and Boyfriend Jesus show a high level of something called midichlorians. huh nurse Jesus too is what Sookie is? y know this fr the bks?

Sookie: "Oh: fairies!"
Claudine: "Don't say that word yet."

"I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and reach, and yet there is only one great thing, the only thing: To live to see the great day that dawns, and the light that fills the world."
It is beautiful. "That's because that shit is Inuit," Lafayette explains. "And we all is used to lesser religions."

Claudine forgets herself. Begs Sookie to come with them; to let it begin now. To let the great day dawn.
Sookie balks, for several good reasons -- that place sounds like a real bad idea, for starters; everything is not beautiful and some things hurt for a very good reason, and fucking grow up already -- but also and mostly because she doesn't swim.


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p19-p20] So then the Magister offers to arrest Sophie, by "the powers vested in me by the Authority," and Russell makes fun of him about that for a while, which maybe makes sense maybe not.
If you do the viral stuff, videos and stuff -- which I don't, but now have -- you know that the Authority is sort of a High Council that has nothing to do with royalty: Royalty earned it, Authority has been there since the beginning. Like Russell Time or pre-Russell Time. The Kings and Queens earned their role by being totally awesome, and always there's this other thing that is what's selling the PR of vampires. We don't know about it in the same way that Tara didn't know Franklin needed to explode, but it's about to become very important.

Russell goes right on with his V For Vendetta stuff about how the Authority can go ahead and shove themselves up their collective, and meanwhile Eric is tending to Pam.(There's an awesome moment where the Madge interrupts himself to scream at Eric to leave her tied to the table, as he feels his authority draining out of the room.) Anyway, Russell has put the Magister into a pickle, because of all the "blasphemy" going on, and how the three of them (four including Pam) are a Conspiracy at this point, and Madge has responsibilities w/r/t that. I feel him. But also the four of them, the King and Queen and Sheriff and Pam are about the least interested-in-that-idea people you've ever met whose last names are not Stackhouse.

(wait what idea his having responsibilities? well anyway keeps in my mind: "are about the least-interested-in-that-idea people you ever met whose last names..)

So Russell and Sophie -- with a cute little air-kiss -- tell the Magister that, since he's now at the unspoken mercy of the Conspiracy, would he mind terribly putting their marriage on record? Um, he would. But a little bit of nudging from Russell -- and reminding him that see above re: the Authority we don't care.

"And we need to take this world back from the humans, not placate them with billboards and PR campaigns while they destroy it. That is not Authority! That is *abdicating* authority!" Gotta say I agree.

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bottomland - low-lying alluvial land

bottomland - low-lying alluvial land near a river.

alluvium, generally stratified and varying widely in texture, recently deposited by streams, and subject to frequent flooding.

Alluvium (from the Latin, alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock), soil or sediments
eroded, deposited, and reshaped by water

fine . ..................................... Finesse they say is a matter of competence without ego.
silt and clay and larger particles of sand and gravel.

lake sediments (lacustrine), river sediments (fluvial), or glacially-derived sediments (glacial till)

"cover" because these sediments obscure the underlying bedrock.

concentrations of valuable ores -- gold, platinum, gemstone, is termed a placer deposit.

very young (Quaternary in age)

... sediments formed and or deposited in a perennial stream or river not 'alluvial'.

perennial stream ( hydrology ) A stream which contains water at all times except during extreme.

carry flowing water continuously

An examination of perennial stream drainage patterns within the Mammoth Cave watershed

tidal or perennial

- wetlands - waterbody -

The preferred time for making determinations as to whether a stream contains perennial flow is during the height of the local dry season.


Prynne and Sobin and also Irby or not have this kind of diction in common, specific re natural phenomena, description. knowing the terms. I like the exact and I like: river. green. trees. bottomland.


I can't comprehend the ways that I miss you. These come to light in my mistakes. Neko Case

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Bairn - Wikipedia

*dlcs-littleryhmes ~ Medea poem: "It matters whether furious Medea was / sane or screwy
mad or cold, / It matters -- though it doesn't matter / to her bairns, /who are dead"


Bairn - sco.wikipedia.org: A bairn, wean, child or littlin is a youthie body, a lad or lass. Whiles a bairn is defined as bein a body afore the oncome o puberty, a body afore the end o puberty, a body unner the age o majority, or itherweys. The term micht can define a relationship wi a paurent or authority feegur an aw, or seegnifee group membership in a clan, tribe, or releegion; or it can seegnifee bein fell affectit by a specific time, place, or circumstance, as in "we're aw Jock Tamson's bairns" or "a child o the Saxties."


Whiles a bairn is defined as bein a body afore the oncome o puberty
that's just straight up how the talk is in sco ?
itherways
seegnifee

Guid tae see ye at the Scots Wikipædia, the first encyclopædia in the Scots leid!

no. no this is humour. is it? shoot I dunno!

dlcs-Others
-it's like trainspotting exploded on this page!


ok. humor. (right?!) NOT listed among the languages in wh wikis exist on mainpage www.wikipedia.org

Everyone's bookmarks for "A Paler Shade of White: Musical Events: The New Yorker" on Delicious dlcs-Others notes re 'A Paler Shade of White by Sasha Frere-Jones | New Yorker 2007 | -indie rock as evidence of how racially segregated music has become -littlerhymes*:I don't agree (eg White Stripes?) but argument is interesting
~ miscegenation -'..whose chocolate got in whose peanut butter'
-dexter: 'how indie rock lost its soul'. haha. indie rock is for white kids? ORLY?



Everyone's bookmarks for "A Critic at Large: ESCAPING PICASSO : The New Yorker" on Delicious


(incidental : along the way) Art: A Paler Shade of White - TIME
paint the paint - Google Search wanted to paint the paint, the stuff itself y alchemy


Sasha Frere-Jones - Wkp: Nyr got more responses to his 'Paler Shade of White' than any since Adam Gopnik 'Escaping Picasso' 1996



Dandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Slim-fit pants - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Teddy Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
pegged pants - Wiktionary
Reduplication - Wkp zoot. suit. zoot suit boogie.
Zoot suit - Wkp

"When he fell through the Mason-Dixie line he just kept going." - Google Search
Mezz Mezzrow - Wkp

Gyaru-oh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ganguro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Loose socks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kogal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia school girl
Gal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gyaru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia lightened hair blonde or orange or silver grey ; tan skin ; neon pink or other bright clothes

oh style! you are so strange. fashion music race (all mysterious to me? ) ~ identity, attitude, expression ok! but easily reads like collection of odd things to do, why wld multiple ppl (=a group) adapt not just the one but all of a set of behaviors? We wear loafers, drop our g's, peg our pants, spike our hair, listen to syncopated beats, and spend afternoons at the park, but never on a Friday.
We real cool, we skip school. We jazz june, we die soon.
You have to be against something. So I'm against the burning of witches. Whenever they burn a witch, I get all hot under the collar.
_ leonine Abe, in Tender is the Night. F Scott Fitzgerald. _

Hipster_(1940s_subculture)- wkp : The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes.

The White Negro - Wkp

Grime (music) - Wkp
UK garage - Wkp

Wigger - Wkp (I remember.) Allophilia - Wkp
Can't Hardly Wait - Wkp ................................... Mise en scène - Wkp director as placer-in-scene

Grief lessons: four plays by Euripides - Google Books Result
trans. Anne Carson. NYRB 2006

..They are old men. They lean on sticks or on each other. All mortals come to this.

Gods remain a problem. You will hear gods' names and see their consequences rawly displayed throughout the speeches and the action. You will sympathize with the chorus who cower before them and also with Herakles who decides not to believe in them -- not to believe, that is, in the story of his own life. Bold move. ..

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There are certain objects (people, animals, cars, boats, etc.) in which right & left refer to the right & left sides from the objects’ perspective.
However, there are other objects (pieces of paper, buildings, etc.) in which you use your right & left side to reference it.
I assume this has to do with whether we can mentally substitute ourselves in place of the object—we can do that with other living things or with vehicles in which we can ride, but not inanimate objects like a piece of paper.

hmm. int re cars. the vehicle moves ( = animate? ~ de anima ~ does not have its source of motion in itself ~ well except it does actually, it's not being moved, it is moving. so how is that distinct fr? an engine not an anima)

anything in motion,indep of us moving it, wld we say it has a right & left side of its own (from its own perspective)? because it moving gives it a forward direction, and thus a right & left? forward more powerful (as a notion in mind) than simply having a front?


divisbyzero.com/2010/02/04/why-do-mirrors-reverse-right-and-left-but-not-up-and-down-2

Posted by: Dave Richeson | February 4, 2010
Dave Richeson , Associate Professor of Mathematics, Dickinson College
MY BOOK | Euler's Gem: The polyhedron formula and the birth of topology. Princeton University Press 2008


I'm reposting something I wrote last year at this time. I was then, and am now, teaching Calculus III, and we just finished discussing the cross product. I ended the conversation by telling my classes how the cross product helps us answer the question: why do mirrors reverse right and left but not up and down?

Before we answer that question, we have to ask a more basic one: what is “the right”?

“Right” and “left” are a slippery concepts that are hard to define. In fact, you need to know other things about an object before you can determine its right and left. For example, if I handed you a blob-like sea creature and asked you which side is its right side, you may not be able to answer me. If I told you where the top and front sides of the critter were, then you could quickly identify the right side.

yes if there's a top & a front then there's a right & left side. { but...}

which is just wh said to R, defending my rxn when he said the bks "on that book's right". I said if we can speak of it having a front (& top I see now that we'd have to have a (shared) sense of wh is top ~ rb asked th, standing his pen up, if has top & bttm, wld I say it has a right side? ~ laughing at. & I said y since pen had one of those metal ..~clips? wh are those?! I guess fr design of pen to be hooked over shirt pocket so y 'clip'. since it has that, marking a front, then y it has r & l) than we can speak of it having a right.
R thought this preposterous. and alarming sheesh. bcs of the { but...} see below.
it's not preposterous though. ok, convention says that we refer to right & left sides of inanimate objects with reference to our right & left when facing those. but given the phrasing "*its* right", the book's right*, it's not preposterous that I would think he might be specifying a sort of book-right, like stage-right. see int Merriam Webster below. d1. but used wrt any object other than a stage? which is a special object since people stand on it & the norm is that they face other people 'in the house' 'house right'.
*realized myself an argument I'd accept, against taking that phrase that way. wh is that "to the book's right" and "to the right of the book" are syntactically the same, mean the same, just two ways of wording the possessive. genitive. and the latter, being more common in this situation, I recognize as conventionally indicating MY right when I look at the book.

The three directions, top, front, and right are mutually perpendicular and if you know two of them, you know the third. For a person, a car, an animal, etc, the top and the front are unambiguous and intuitive. Then we use them to determine which side is the right side. and note that right side of the car is ITS right side, truly. (wh makes sense I suppose bcs you relate to it by sitting in it, ie facing the same way as it. not just by facing it, ie facing the opposite way as it.)

Here’s a mathematical explanation of what you would be doing mentally. Take the coordinate axes shown below, point the z-axis out of the top of the creature and the y-axis out its front, then the x-axis will point to its right.



{...but }

I’ll end this post with some assorted thoughts about the left and the right.

• One thing that occurred to me while writing this post is that we treat different objects differently. Suppose I was holding a piece of paper out in front of me with my two hands and you were facing me. If I told you to point to the right hand side of the paper, then to point to my right hand, you would point to two opposite sides of the paper! There are certain objects (people, animals, cars, boats, etc.) in which right and left refer to the right and left sides from the objects’ perspective. However, there are other objects (pieces of paper, buildings, etc.) in which you use your right and left side to reference it. I assume this has to do with whether we can mentally substitute ourselves in place of the object—we can do that with other living things or with vehicles in which we can ride, but not inanimate objects like a piece of paper.

good comment, in response to complaint that mirrors are 2d & thrf no front or back
-A mirror may practically be 2d dimensional, but it reflects light that encodes three dimensional information.

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thefreedictionary.com/left

a. Of, belonging to, located on, or being the side of the body to the north when the subject is facing east. int. not as intuitive as..

b. Of, relating to, directed toward, or located on the left side.

c. Located on the left side of a person facing downstream

right = the side to the south when a person or object faces east] so why 'southpaw' = left. that comes from someone who faces west? :) y! [From the practice in baseball of arranging the diamond with the batter facing east to avoid the afternoon sun. A left-handed pitcher facing west would therefore have his pitching arm toward the south of the diamond.]
oh and p.s. "or object" 'when a person OR OBJECT faces east got a face got a right & left

..as
designating the side of something or someone that faces west when the front is turned towards the north
seems more common to talk in terms of facing north. and thrf to correlate: left = west.
and p.s. "SOMETHING or someone."


merriam-webster.com/dictionary/left

Main Entry: ¹left
Function: adjective

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, weak; akin to Middle Low German lucht left; from the left hand's being the weaker in most individuals

1 a : of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body in which the heart is mostly located. ok. that keeps it personal.
b : done with the left hand
c : located nearer to the left hand than to the right
d : (1) : located on the left of an observer facing in the same direction as the object specified ['stage right']
(2) : located on the left when facing downstream ['the left bank'] ah ok d n exactly know th. wonder why that conventn? facing downstream. so if walking upstream against current, the bank on your right is 'the left bank'?
La Rive Gauche (French pronunciation: [la ʁiv ɡoʃ], The Left Bank) is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westwards, cutting the city in two: looking downstream which looking west, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern bank (or Rive Droite) is to the right. ok so that is the model. and I guess I knew term wrt Paris but not extended generally ~ wrt other rivers ~ is it?
"Rive Gauche" or "Left Bank" generally refers to the Paris of an earlier era; the Paris of artists, writers and philosophers, including Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Henri Matisse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and dozens of other members of the great artistic community at Montparnasse. The phrase implies a sense of bohemianism and creativity. Some of its famous streets are the Boulevard Saint-Germain, the Boulevard Saint-Michel, the Rue de Rennes.
Rive Droite can now be used to refer to a level of elegance and sophistication not found in the more bohemian Left Bank. The Right Bank's most famous street is the Champs-Élysées, but there are others of prominence, such as Rue de la Paix, Rue de Rivoli, Avenue Montaigne.

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right
Lat. 'regere' to lead straight, direct, rule. Greek. 'oregein' to reach out for, to stretch out.

7 a : of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body which is away from the side on which the heart is mostly located

huh to its being #7. after ~ rightous, upright; in accordance with what is just, good, or proper; correct, conforming to facts or truth; appropriate; straight geradeaus; genuine, real.
but before 8 : having the axis perpendicular to the base. & etc.



geradewegs = directly

Episode 17 of the Final Season of LOST « The Final Season of LOST as Seen by Someone Who Has Never Seen LOST

Overall What is Happening

Jack’s dead.


More Detailed Episode Recap

Get excited, the woosh woosh woosh transition is back! But selectively.

Nice, slow pretty montage showing the characters double lives. Jack’s dad’s coffin arrives in LA. Which is an incredible coincidence that Desmond pranked him to say it was arriving and it actually was and the airline didn’t call Jack to inform him. Jack is looking at a head X-ray, trying to figure out what’s wrong with this guy’s knee. Locke is being wheeled on a gurney about to have surgery on his spine by someone who probably shouldn’t even be allowed to give a tetanus shot. Sawyer walks by a mirror he punched earlier and says “there’s more where that came from, mirror.”

Over at a building...

woosh woosh woosh

Miles and Ricardo are riding in a canoe, heading to the other little island. While rowing, they see Salty Pilot clinging to a flotation device. I guess he’s survived out here for days. To be clear DAYS. Make an effort to get to shore, Lazy Pilot. He points out that he’s a pilot and can fly them off the island. How could anyone forget, he’s wearing his uniform all the time.

While walking through the jungle, the good guys and bad guys run into each other. Sad Day Monster finds out that Jack took over Jacob’s job on the island. “You’re the obvious choice.” “He didn’t choose me, I volunteered.” While technically correct, I believe Jacob was laying game on you pretty hard. He might have even said that he was happy you volunteered, so let’s not get too cavalier about this, Jack.

The talk in the Team Protagonist circle is that Dez has special talents and can be used a weapon.

Three minutes later they come across the light in the tunnel. Ya know, the light that Sad Day Monster has spent a century trying to find in a finite area but has had no luck until right now? Desmond is going in. He tells Jack it will send them to be with the people they love and not worry about the island. Can I go?

woosh woosh woosh

Sayid goes to help up Blonde Girl. They start having The Flashbacks.
...
Kate comes up and touches Jack. Based on his face, Jack has some issues. Why is Jack the only one who doesn’t just roll with these flashbacks?
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Jack’s dad is there. Jack says “what are you doing here?” His dad says “What are YOU doing here?” Good comeback. This is all Jack needs to realize he’s dead.

Miles and Ricardo are nowhere in sight. My guess is that they had much cooler times than the time they spent on the island. They’re at some church across town with cool people.


Thoughts I Have

• How does this work? People don’t die until they move on? I’m unclear on how Mrs. Whitmore knows what’s going on and wants to prevent it.
• I stand by my 5/15 Theory that you can watch the first five & last fifteen minutes of each episodes and know everything you need from the episode. Expanding out for the extended episode, you would have watched the first 13 minutes & last 37. Theory works again.
• My above theory was also confirmed for me by Radio Askew with whom I did a podcast over the weekend (www.radioaskew.com). Someone put my theory to the test and got all caught up before the finale. Science wins again.
  
• My assumption is no one ever threatened the island again and they just went on about their business for eternity.
• For the record, I was able to follow this season fine. I enjoyed the finale.
  

idolbloglive.com - Season 9 | American Idol Season 9 Live Blog - Episode 43 (Finale)

'American Idol': We're live-blogging the Crystal Bowersox-Lee DeWyze season 9 finale! - M Slezak + cmmts | EW.com

this is kind of fun. big live Event. hello beegees, hello hall & oates, hello poison 'every rose has its thorn' I remember you


Lacey, Paige, Didi, Katie, Siobhan, and Crystal sing their non-obvious segue songs, “Beautiful” and, um..is it called “Stronger?” first few singers, seemed like each was an imprvmt over th last. Lacey eh I just d n enjoy her look. Didi ok. Katie ah now here is a voice, seems to me Katie can really sing. & Siobhan ~ bit weird in stage presence but always interesting, & powerful voice. then Crystal, who just as always elevates the song to another level.
Katie screams out an intro well done Katie for Christina Aguilera. Yikes! Christina looks like Princess Leia and Madonna’s love child as she sings a song I don’t know. Her tights are quite the bedazzled spectacle paired with a corset of some sort. I’m pretty sure she forgot her skirt backstage. y outfit was distracting, not expressive seeming. Whatever song that was managed to get a little better as it went along.I liked it pretty well. liked the warbles in the refrain, with her fingers drumming on the microphone.

Ryan chats up Papa Bowersox. He’s adorable! Crystal is up next to sing, “Ironic” and then introduces Alanis Morrisette. Cool! They’re singing, “You Oughta Know” with some creative lyric changes. hee hee Love it! They did a great job! Crystal seems just as professional & accomplished a performeras Alanis. she might even be better - ?

Undo It” is what Carrie Underwood sings next. It was 5 years ago that Carrie was crowned American Idol. She sounds great, but I don’t think I lo uh uh uh uhve the song. /I liked it: "I want to uh uh un-do it.

Next up is footage of Kris Allen presenting Crystal and Lee with the Ford cars they designed weeks back for the Ford video. Very cool! Then we see this week’s Ford commercial with Lee and Crystal singing, “My Wish” and a montage of clips from previous Ford commercials.
Crystal makes every song classy. or nearly.

Casey James sings “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn” and Bret Michaels joins him on stage. He of the recent health scares and winner of Celebrity Apprentice. {& ok y lead vocalist of the glam metal band Poison}
-Casey was just awesome tonight. Can’t wait to hear what he does on tour, & and then after. Surprised to see Bret Michaels… hmmm… ah well… was a great moment, and the guitar jamming at the end was sick! y show rg. I think casey might be a rock star.

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..& over at EW.. [live chat, show airing from 8 - 10 pm (7-9c my time)]
Wednesday May 26, 2010 7:33
-BowersoxloverBowersoxlover: Do you think dialidol could be wrong?

Slezak: DialIdol is inaccurate often enough that it's hard for me to truly have faith in its predictions.

-crystal4thewincrystal4thewin: Do you think there is any possibility for crystal to win? I feel like everyone is predicting lee including dial idol who has never been wrong on finale predictions. i really think she deserves it!


-Kris's CD is unexpectedly amazing. first time I'd seen or heard Kris Allen. 'The Truth' ~ 'honesty is honestly the hardest..' ~ seemd pretty good.

& poll at top of this live blog seems to indicate ppl still int in him
Which former Idol are you most looking forward to hearing perform tonight?
Kris Allen ( 48% )
Carrie Underwood ( 10% )
Kelly Clarkson & Fantasia Barrino duet ( 42% )


Wednesday May 26, 2010 8:54 Slezak 8:54
Slezak: Alanis in da house. Please don't sing "Thank U."
Slezak: Oh Em Gee.
Slezak: Are they really singing "You Oughtta Know."
Slezak: Yes they are!
Slezak: WOULD SHE GO DOWN WITH YOU TO THE THEATER?
hee. the lyric is 'down on' (.. 'at'? the theater? y guess so: @jiffywild: FOX butchered classic Alanis:"would she go down WITH you TO the theatre?)

-YES! Crystal Morrisette!!!!!
-Oh hells yeah! This just got waaaay better
-OK, THIS I CAN GET BEHIND.

-ha nice lyric change there Crystal y I wish they'd given that line to Alanis since going to draw attn, let the established star take it

-The Crystal/Alanis duet just MADE this season for me.

-The show finally started!

Slezak: I definitely enjoyed the vocals, but the staging and camerawork made me a little anxious. Did you guys see when Crystal almost tripped over a camera cord?

-Meg: I hope Alanis signed Crystal's guitar.
Slezak: MEG: ME TOO!

-Alanis is a walker on stage, no? She moves back and forth, side to side. I liked Crystal's cord trip. me too. I wasn't sure if I saw a mis-step or a spunky little hop.

-Can they do a duet for Crystal's album? Please? Pretty Please? With awesomesox on top?

9:01
Slezak: What is this ad about losers and second-best from BMW? Hmph.
Slezak: I mean both of these kids are ending the night with a record deal and a new car, yo!

-How much will crystal's Guitar be worth once it's completley covered?

-I saw her trip but I hoped she was skipping!

Slezak: Carrie Underwood about to perform "Undo It."

Slezak: At what point did RoboCarrie Contestant become a rock star? she was pretty rock star.

-about the time she started to really believe in herself

Slezak: Yep, I'm gonna buy this track tomorrow.

-What a change from the pink shirt and jeans from her audition.

-I would KILL for a Carrie-Kelly duet... oh huh wasn't there a Kelly Clarkson & Fantasia duet ~ must have missed that

-Hated her on Idol, though I love her now. Team Bo all the way! {Bo Bice was co-finalist w Carrie Underwood. I actually saw a bit of that finale. 2005 I guess? d n m know what I was seeing. turned on the tv bcs was ~ hanging about civilizedly, alison was coming up to see re taking care of lg while I went to Fla wedding. & had seen sth in joe's red eye, I think, about the finale. I think I liked Bo: he sang Sweet Home Alabama, I think

Slezak: I am a proud member of Team Bo as well.



9:08 Slezak: You gotta love Mr. Michaels for working overtime since his health scare.
Bret is a great sport here, too...really sharing the moment with Casey.

-Glad to see Brett Michaels is out and about after his health scare.
-Brett!! GEez, the man is EVERYWHERE since cheating death!Good for him.
-Bret Michaels is a total champ

Slezak: No guarantees on tomorrow, people. {oh I see, vis a vis Bret Michaels health scare. So download that Allison Iraheta CD today.
-Allison's CD is spectacular, i agree!
-ALLISON'S CD IS GREAT! Favs: Don't Waste the Pretty, Scars, Just Like You, Friday I'll Be Over U...but they're pretty much all good.
-I feel like Allison's album should be a mandatory step in introducing the brilliance of music to kids. huh, that good?
-I played Allison's CD at neighborhood pool loudspeaker. 5 people asked me for a copy.
Slezak: And with that, I end this commercial plug for Allison's "Just Like You" disc.

-Casey can sure play that gee-tar.


9:14 Slezak: Hrmmm...Lee paired with Chicago?
-I'm guessing the producers asked Simon"Who do you want to see in your last season finale?" and he picked EVERY band that would drive the young demographic away from Idol and towards X Factor.



Wednesday May 26, 2010 9:45
Slezak: Siobhan front and center...and the Idols are singing live..."Again."


Slezak: KELLY CLARKSON.
Slezak:And Rooooooooben!
Slezak: AND FANTASIA.
Slezak: And Carrie too?
Slezak: My mind if exploding a little bit right now...all this Idol Power!
Slezak: Jordin! Taylor! And KRIS ALLEN!
Slezak: "Together We Are One" is probably not a song that will make its way to my iPod.
Slezak: But I will not lie. it's pretty soul-stirring to see all these Idol grads on one stage.

Slezak: David Cook and J.Hud's absence has been duly noted.
-WHERE IS ADAM LAMBERT? -Daughtry?
-ok we can't have them all! but the alum we had were great!!

Slezak: I thought there was gonna be a Kelly-Tasia duet guess not. they were part of big alum group ensemble performance instd


Slezak: Janet Jackson in a dramatic gown and sexy-short 'do.
-She sounds so much like Michael, it's amazing.
[idolbloglive: This is eerily sounding just like her brother Michael. ]
-is she live?
Slezak: I am beginning to suspect this is not as "live" as I'd like it to be.
Slezak: Take the poll!
-sharona: Maybe Paula will come back out and dance "Nasty Boys" old school style! did she?! (guess not) this is my 7th grade drill team music well not Nasty a Nasty Boy but I think one or two other Janet Jackson songs, same album? ish.
Slezak: SHARONA! That would rule! Get Paula up there!
Slezak: Okay, this is all well and good, but if you're not going to interact with the actual Idols, I'm gonna have to ask you to make way for MamaSox.

Slezak: "With a Little Help from My Friends" by Crystal and Lee
Slezak: "Joe Cocker...living legend!" says MamaSox.
Slezak: OOOH CRYSTAL.
Slezak: She is so elated.
-This is the energy we needed for the past few weeks, Crystal!!
-can joe cocker win american idol this season?

-Crystal and Lee should just screw 19E and form a band together.
-I'm at least glad these two genuinely seem to have become real friends


-My mom is two weeks behind in Japan... I told her Casey won. *evil grin*


10:00 Slezak: Choice of duet partners and overall feel of the night suggests the win is going to Crystal

10:02
-Lee is about to vomit

10:03 Slezak: Wow.

-I wanted him to win in that last second just so he wouldn't vomit.

-very happy for lee, but i reaaaaally wanted crystal to win

-Did Idol just break???

-If this were called "American Nice Guy," this would make sense.

Slezak: Okay, I'm gonna try to be philosophical here. Because #1 and #2 get their record contracts and...
-People knew Crystal would be fine on her own, so they went with Lee..... let's go with that.
-Maybe the Joe Cocker and Alanis Morrissette duets were consolation prizes, like KISS and Queen last year for Adam.
-I don't think Crystal expected to win. Lee's more of a midstream choice. Not surprising

Slezak: Mama-say, mama-sah, ma-MamaSox!

-they're trying to hide crystal with confetti so we don't rememeber who should have won


Wednesday May 26, 2010 10:10 Slezak
Slezak: Well, guys...there were some cool moments. Loved Xtina with the season 9 ladies. Loved the way Bret Michaels shared the stage with Casey. ADORED Crystal and Joe Cocker.
Slezak: And stoked to see all those Idol grads.
Slezak: On one stage together.
Slezak: In a world where people pay to see Britney Spears lipsynch for her life, at the very least, Idols nine seasons give us a legacy of dozens of vocalists who can get the job done liiiive and without a backing track.

Slezak: Thanks for hanging out with me tonight