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"Life expands or shrinks in proportion to one's courage." ~Anain Nin
Wonderful! Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces of Wonderful! Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces of Ornithology [via Plep] jaybird found this for you @ 17:28 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Today is a bit bittersweet, Today is a bit bittersweet, my last day supervising my workers, but in a few weeks it's on to bigger challenges and a more stable future (total illusion, I know), so, it's time to turn off and turn over this ancient workstation and sail on into the Great Big Whatever. jaybird found this for you @ 13:56 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
Indian dam town defies 
Over 20,000 people in India's Madhya Pradesh state are defying a deadline to leave their homes - which will soon be submerged by water from a river dam. The Indira Sagar dam is one of 29 being built on the Narmada river. The town of Harsud, 235km from state capital Bhopal, faces being submerged when monsoons raise the water level. jaybird found this for you @ 12:31 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
Moving Mountains, Walking on Water Moving Mountains, Walking on Water As artists like James Turrell and Michael Heizer continue to toil on their massive Earthworks, caretakers of other examples of Land Art are facing questions of conservation, access, and environmental impact. Meanwhile, more ecologically conscious artists have been updating the genre. jaybird found this for you @ 07:31 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
"Thanks" jaybird found this for you @ 23:54 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
"Lift the handset and dial "Lift the handset and dial a number to be transported to another place." [via MonkeyFilter] jaybird found this for you @ 22:17 in Cosmic Randomness Grab Bag | | permalink
How to Create a Golem How to Create a Golem From the Comfort of Home jaybird found this for you @ 19:06 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Status Qué? So here's the deal- my job isn't lost, it's just wandering away for a while. I've been coordinating 'community based' services for at risk youth for seven months now, on an interim basis. Funding for that position has dried up and gone away... for now. I'll be back 'in the field' over the next two weeks covering vacationing case workers, and when that's over, I re-enter the office for a PERMANENT foster care coordination role, which kicks ass! Provided, of course, that funding for that role is stabilized. Human services work is always at the mercy of the friggin' state, and it drives me bonkers. But, the worst did not come, and in fact, things look slightly brighter. Now on with posting silly links. jaybird found this for you @ 18:41 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
The Odds of 9 to 5 Ok, here's a little clarification to that last desparate post (which I wrote as a therapeutic release on my cellphone during a meeting that was drubbing the very soul out of my anxious bones). Today I find out if the funding for my current postition continues or sputters to an end, in as little as a few days or maybe two weeks. So yes, I could be facing unemployment. Or, I could continue on in my position as a 'temp' with enough time to callous up my hiney for the great and final kicking. Or, if the palnets are aligned just right, I might squak by the axe in lieu of the branding iron of permanency. There are very few jobs available right now in this area and in my field- what's out there would most likely force a drastic pay cut, which is better than nothin; but still rather close to nothin'. These are scary times, kids, so send a vibe or two of fortune and positivity this-a-way as crunch time gets down to crunch one thing or another. Either way, to paraphrase what a certain sage said last weekend: the only way to change the world and your life in it, no matter what, is to say YES to it, to jump up and down in it, and remember that consentual reality is an illusion. jaybird found this for you @ 13:37 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
This is a moblog* post: My stress levels are going through the roof with this crazy job- unfortunately, the spectre of unemployment is even creepier. Please keep fingers and toes crossed. *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 11:19 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Family values with a hooker Family values with a hooker on each arm: Sex pros get ready for party With thousands of Republicans set to invade the city this summer, high-priced escorts and strippers are preparing for one grand old party. Agencies are flying in extra call girls from around the globe to meet the expected demand during the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 gathering at Madison Square Garden. "We have girls from London, Seattle, California, all coming in for that week," said a madam at a Manhattan escort service. "It's the week everyone wants to work." jaybird found this for you @ 07:49 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Four and a Half Wonders for Monday jaybird found this for you @ 23:09 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Cultivating sacred sexuality Our North Our North American culture is goofy when it comes to sexuality. On the one hand, sexuality and sexual information is suppressed; perhaps because we confuse ignorance with innocence. On the other hand, sex is everywhere - used to sell toothpaste, brain-dead television sitcoms, soft drinks and cigarettes. Our culture is also goofy when it comes to spirituality. The scientific age in which we live has us satisfied only when we have broken everything down into the smallest parts possible. “Mystery” has come to mean failure a to understand or research thoroughly enough. Mainstream religion - meaningful for many, but a compromised resource for lesbians and gay men - seems equally uncomfortable with the puzzles of life’s meaning at the end of this millennium. Despite all our knowledge, we find ourselves adrift. jaybird found this for you @ 21:25 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
10 Quirky Landmarks, including a 10 Quirky Landmarks, including a field of corn (but not a typical field). [via somewhere, I forget where] jaybird found this for you @ 18:30 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Go to the slime mold, Go to the slime mold, thou sluggard: To see the world in a uninucleate amoeboflagellate cell, and heaven in a plasmodium ...these organisms challenge some of our most fundamental preconceptions about how life should work. And needless to say, faulty assumptions and unconscious prejudices constitute the most serious impediments to understanding - in religion no less than in science. You want transformation, metamorphosis? Boy, do these suckers ever metamorphose. Forget about caterpillar into luna moth, soul into spirit, Big Mac into little Jimmy. Every species of slime mold progresses from an assimilative phase to a propagative phase: that is to say, they go from moving around and eating stuff to standing still and growing little stalks. From animal-like to plant-like - often in just a few hours if the conditions are right. jaybird found this for you @ 14:23 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
He has your eyes...? Iranian He has your eyes...? Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog' An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body. jaybird found this for you @ 10:13 in Forteana, Phenomena & the Bizarre | | permalink
Start your Monday with profound Start your Monday with profound questions: What is that thing? Images of bizarre antiquated contraptions meet your mind and it's own images of bizarre antiquated subconscious associations. jaybird found this for you @ 07:17 in History, Civilization & Anthropology | | permalink
Jay: What does the trickster Jay: What does the trickster do for society? Tom Robbins: The trickster heals through wonder and humor... [1.2mb mp3] Yes, 'Tom Robbinsfest' continues here as Jay just won't come down from the high of meeting such a warm and amazingly 'vivid' person. jaybird found this for you @ 19:28 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
Why in the world 
Why in the world does Tom Robbins write, jaybird found this for you @ 16:36 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
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Look close... it's hard to tell like in the last pic from the appearance yesterday, but that ruddy dot at the center is Tom (here at Jubilee! Community, what we call a 'special-ed' church for the non-churchly) Just delivered a really powerful speechette too. *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. This post has been updated. jaybird found this for you @ 11:50 in Live from the road... | | permalink
"If you meet the Tom on the road..." ... take him to lunch! Oh by golly gosh, count my lucky stars! I've just been invited to dine with Tom Robbins, the guru's guru, the conjurer's stardust! It's around 1 o'clock today, so send me a wink and a prayer as I keep my composure, bottle up the nervous sweat that heaves forth in the expectation that comes with meeting such a venerable clown, a holy hullabaloo artist (as he insists each of us are as well). I'll have more audio from yesterday's Q&A up later today, including the trickster one from yours truly. I'm recording his talk at chuch this morning as well... for those in the know, there's a can of beans, a dirty sock, a painted stick, and a silver spoon on the altar today. I'll see if I can moblog a pic from the talk here... y'all must think I'm crazy for all this jittery joy, but bear in mind that we all suffer from such aflictions when some similar vessel of the divine spills wine all over our finery. jaybird found this for you @ 10:34 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Quite the headline for big Quite the headline for big media: Gay pride message spreads across the world Hundreds of thousands of revelers wearing everything from full Victorian garb and designer gowns to skimpy leather and construction hats celebrated gay pride in cities around the world Saturday. Berlin saw one of Europe's largest parades. To the sound of thumping techno music, the city's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit led floats in the 12th annual celebration of Christopher Street Day, commemorating the start of the gay rights movement in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969. jaybird found this for you @ 07:50 in Gay, Lesbian, Queer & Free | | permalink
Audio entry: this is part Audio entry: this is part 1 of several clips from the Tom Robbins festivities today: here, Tom gets vaguely semi-autobiographical. [2.2mb mp3 file] jaybird found this for you @ 03:00 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
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*Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 01:24 in Live from the road... | | permalink
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Of all people, it's my favorite author/guru of the godly giggle, Tom Robbins! *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. This post has been updated. jaybird found this for you @ 18:10 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Here's some bizarre web-art for Here's some bizarre web-art for a potentially bizarre day: Oculart, via MeFi. Why bizarre? In a few mere hours, I'll meet my guru, my first spiritual teacher-by-proxy, Mr. Tom Robbins. If possible, I'll post pics or audio. Woo who who and Wee he he! jaybird found this for you @ 15:48 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Street Memes: a sticker, stencil, Street Memes: a sticker, stencil, or poster that can spread a single image around the world. Unlike traditional graffiti art where each piece is unique, street memes can be copied repeatedly, taking on a life of their own, and spreading through the collective effort of people scattered around the world. [via World Changing] jaybird found this for you @ 13:12 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Semiotics for Beginners If you If you go into a bookshop and ask them where to find a book on semiotics you are likely to meet with a blank look. Even worse, you might be asked to define what semiotics is - which would be a bit tricky if you were looking for a beginner's guide. It's worse still if you do know a bit about semiotics, because it can be hard to offer a simple definition which is of much use in the bookshop. If you've ever been in such a situation, you'll probably agree that it's wise not to ask. Semiotics could be anywhere. The shortest definition is that it is the study of signs. But that doesn't leave enquirers much wiser. 'What do you mean by a sign?' people usually ask next. The kinds of signs that are likely to spring immediately to mind are those which we routinely refer to as 'signs' in everyday life, such as road signs, pub signs and star signs. If you were to agree with them that semiotics can include the study of all these and more, people will probably assume that semiotics is about 'visual signs'. You would confirm their hunch if you said that signs can also be drawings, paintings and photographs, and by now they'd be keen to direct you to the art and photography sections. But if you are thick-skinned and tell them that it also includes words, sounds and 'body language' they may reasonably wonder what all these things have in common and how anyone could possibly study such disparate phenomena. If you get this far they've probably already 'read the signs' which suggest that you are either eccentric or insane and communication may have ceased. jaybird found this for you @ 11:50 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
Suspiciously superstitious: Superstitions Database • Suspiciously superstitious: Superstitions Database • A frog brings good luck to the house it enters. jaybird found this for you @ 09:47 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Audio entry: Just after 
Audio entry: Just after watching 'Fahrenheit 9/11, walking to the car. [mp3 1.1mb] jaybird found this for you @ 00:55 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
This is a moblog* post: Miracle! I'm in! *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 21:53 in Live from the road... | | permalink
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I'm in line for the midnight show! *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 20:40 in Live from the road... | | permalink
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That's entertainment! *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 20:09 in Live from the road... | | permalink
In the spirit of Friday In the spirit of Friday poetry (because I'm presently about the do the sound for a poetry concert), Hello Kitty Has No Mouth. Hello-Kitty, in fact, uses Morse code to communicate with the outside world. You may have heard of the book Johnny Got His Gun, in which a soldier was so badly wounded that the only communication he had with the outside world was by tapping Morse code with his head. That soldier was Hello-Kitty. jaybird found this for you @ 19:04 in Silly People, Satire & Strange Behaviors | | permalink
Movies > The 1,000 The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made, according to the grey lady, anyway. I'm going to see the 10 o'clock showing of F911 (if lady luck allows), et bien sur, I'll review it for ya kiddies! UPDATE: The line apparently is stretching to about 1/4 mile! Looks like I won't make this viewing, but I'll be on the scene soon and will post pics! jaybird found this for you @ 18:14 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Anonymous is one prolific author! Anonymous is one prolific author! jaybird found this for you @ 17:26 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
Terminator my ass... isn't there Terminator my ass... isn't there anything more important to do than to decide when to kill things, Arnie? Schwarzenegger Wants Strays Killed Faster Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to repeal a state law that requires animal shelters to hold stray dogs and cats for up to six days before killing them. Instead, there would be a three-day requirement for strays. Other animals, including birds, hamsters, potbellied pigs, rabbits, snakes and turtles, could be killed immediately. jaybird found this for you @ 12:49 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
"American Theocracy?" Very bizarre, long and involved dream last night. I slept on the couch for some odd reason and maybe the change of venue got my juices all a twitter. Anyway, it dealt with a theocratic America, and the repression of those who were unmarried, gay, artists, scientists, etc. The resistance was made of the usual suspects but also a wide swath of Christians opposed to this extreme dictatorship. Ernest Borgnine got shot early on by a policeman cracking down on threats to the theocracy.... those who enforced the law were called 'angel-lawyers.' Europe and Canada had also fallen to this regime, possibly on the suspicion that Christ had returned. Australia hadn't fallen yet and there was a huge rally here in the US to pray that 'the Last Prophecy' comes to Australia. There was also a push by the government to evacuate the western portion of the states and move as many people as possible East ostensibly for increased control. I was witnessing some of this incognito as a member of the resistance, living homeless in the back of a truck in the west, trying to outwit the 'angel-lawyers' and tearing down their propaganda posters. This seemed to go on all night, and that's all the detail that's dribbling out of my head right now. |
