46664

46664 was the prison number of Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, Cape Town where he was held in captivity for 18 years.



Nelson Mandela gave his prison number 46664 to Dave Stewart of Eurythmics in November of last year who then asked the late Joe Strummer to write lyrics for a song about 46664. Stewart then completed the song with Bono earlier this year for this campaign. 46664 The Concert will be broadcast on the internet live on Saturday, 29th November.



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saturday morning me//

hazelnut coffee #2/cig #2/banana #1/

long navy batik dress/old dingo boots/

(a vision of femininity}

watching: snowflakes floating down/

listening: Diana Krall/

sniffing: Skye's pecan waffles/

so hows about you?/



Too many Divas, not enough stage.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

My sister and Mother are coming over to our house for Thanksgiving Dinner.



View Live Parade Cam in Times Square



Sir Mick has defied calls for a tourism boycott of Burma to spend a long weekend there. The news of Sir Mick's visit will outrage British campaigners who have joined the international move to urge tourists to boycott Burma, which calls itself Myanmar. Bad call, Mick. Of all the places he could travel, he picks the one where the former government leaders have taken the new, and first time democratically elected president under seige since May. President Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is still being held captive by her country.



Jimi Hendrix Birthday - born Nov 27, 1942.



{thankful}

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer



Plays with matches, runs with scissors and goes all the way. I'm a fucking molotov cocktail missing a match.

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Paramilitaries, Embedded Journalists and Illegal Protests. Think This is Iraq? It's Your Country. Tom Hayden also weighs in on the FTAA-Miami protests.



How are the NaNoWriMo folks coming along? Wow, some are already finished. I'm just back from an early morning grocery run-- the traffic was piling into the parking lot as I was leaving it-- so now I'm off to update Sanctuary and then to visit YOU.





Anna Mae Bullock was born 64, 60, 65 years ago in Nutbush, Tennessee. (I've seen all three) Happy Birthday Tina Turner. Also, John McVie, bass player with Fleetwood Mac, is born. (1945)



How about some pill earrings?



{quote} And then the day comes when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin



What wine goes well with Prozac and Turkey?

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My computer no longer humms loudly. It's beginning to growl, too. So if I can catch it between growls, spurts and sputters, I'm going Extreme Blog Visiting. I miss you. Oh, yeah, Good Morning...!



My cable went out earlier so I unhooked it, tuned in generic tv and waited for the repair service. What I witnessed will be forever branded in my mind. Celine Dionne (sorry, Celine fans) was singing and dancing with some guy while playing air guitar. (Deep breaths, Susan.) So I flipped the channel only to see Kathie Lee Gifford extolling her virtuous marriage and perfect family ad naseum to thundering audience applause. I search the room to see if I'm on Punk'd or Candid Camera with people waiting for me to go ballistic. No, just Crappy TV. Where IS that damn cable guy?



Have you visited the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? Good for those long lost web sites you created in 1996.



Body Tag - Here's something for you to play with while you're supposed to be working.

[via: jwalk]



Yooha! News - Bush parody site. Lest I be remiss on my Bush bashing.



{Listening:} Ugly Man - Rickie Lee Jones



{Haiku For You}

The battery's dead

I thank you for jumping me

Fixing the car, too



I'm out of estrogen and I've got a gun.

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My heartbeat quickens, my stomach churns, and my hands start shaking after all these years. I was 15 or 16 when the FBI came to question me at school one day. The principal turned over his office to us as I entered to see two intimidating suits waiting to grill me. "We've seen your bedroom 'curtains' and we'd like to talk to you about them."



Some friends and I had ripped off a truckload of flags the city used for Fourth of July parades. I had put curtain hooks in some and installed them on those pulley-type curtains you open and close. Two windows. Both visable from the street. Two Feds. Both taking a dim view of my cool curtains.



I'm reminded of this stupid stunt when I see the NYT article about the FBI collecting info on anti-war activists and others they deem suspicious. Young people, especially trouble-makers like me, were being watched closely then. I've often wondered if J Edgar Hoover's FBI started a 'file' on me as a young instigator. I'm such a Susie SquareJohn now.







Who Will Beat Bush? Play Who'll Beat Bush by how much for charity.

Your Guide To Online Anarchy - How'd I miss this site for so long?

The Daily Bleed - Very thorough calendar of eclectic events.

Listening: Soul Sessions by Joss Stone - my almost 15 year old daughter told me about this talented young bluesy singer.



This is my favorite time of day. Well, there it goes.

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November 22, 1963. Forty years ago today the nation lost her innocence. Trite, but true.



Nephew, Bobby Kennedy, Jr, has two good articles out this week attacking Bush as the worst environmental president in history- Rolling Stone and Salon. With all the atrocities of the Bush administration, I can't see how any half-ass intelligent person could consider backing this fucker. Damn, people, get your head out of the sand. You gripe about smokers, but allow such air and pollution emissions to exist?



See who is polluting your community with this Pollution Locator.



{rewind me}

Ruby Mazur Art

Surprise Goes Zen

What Really Happened

1000 Journals



{local}

Happy Ass Greeting Cards - Inspirational and irreverent Greeting Cards located here in Asheville, NC.



{literary}

Duty of Expression - Interesting interview with Howard Zinn and Thom York on the artist's place in politics and more.



{quote}

Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways.

Where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses.

~Anon



saturday morning me//

sipping coffee from my favorite cup/

jeans/football jersey/moccasins/hat/

watching: squirrels tightrope walk the fence/

hearing: anybody seen my baby- rolling stones/

since i've been lovin' you-led zeppelin/

and husband's usual morning hacking routine/

so hows about you?/



Carpe Diem - Seize the day; Carpin Denim - There's a fish in my pants

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Happy Friday all you Monday - Friday worker bees.



Johnny Depp is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. No argument here.



Excellent Live Webcam in Trafalgar Square. Protesters cheer as Bush effigy is toppled. CSPAN carried it live Thursday. London protests to end Friday.



Album Cover Find - comprehensive search engine retrieves all album covers pictures. Kinda cool.



Kit Kat clocks. I love all this funky ass stuff. I have the cookie jar, but he's reclining; I may have to get the clock, too. [thanks to j-walk]



And, it's a very special birthday today for Michelle. Go wish her well.

Happy Birthday, Michelle!




Putting the "ass" in classy.

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Let's Hear It For The Girls!



I suppose the Girls' Groups trend began with Jill Conner Brown's wildly successful book, Sweet Potato Queens. Now SPQ groups are cropping up all over the place. You'll recognize them by their big hair (the higher the hair, the closer to God), theatre makeup, huge bazooms, fishnet stockings, and heels so pointy they can kick a spider in the ass. Tiara optional.



A totally different group of girls here in Asheville, NC, are The Rebelles. The Rebelles are a neo-burlesque group that write all original productions that have a political and sexual theme. Their first production "Through Sick and Sin" won Best Locally Produced Play and Best Local Show in the Mountain Xpress Best Of issue. They have also been featured in November issue of Curve, the best selling lesbian magazine in the US and Canada. "People love it when you combine sex, politics and pop culture," observed Rebelles founder Christine DiBenedetto.



Another girl group in Asheville, with trademark Pink hair, the Go Go Girlie Action, have a weblog detailing current functions where they're appearing with lots of photos.



Margaret Cho has a clothing line out called Hi Class Cho. This is her Reversible "Skirt of Shame and/or Pride". If you happen to stay out all night and don't get home to change, turn your skirt inside out and you've got a new look. It comes in sizes 10-18--more in line with the national norm. She answers letters after her Falwell debate with MSNBC and after reading a piece on NPR's Morning Edition; both on the issue of gay marriage.

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I admit it. I'm a news junkie. While the television news is now blaring in the background, there's also the local newspaper in my lap, with two other area newspaper sites open on my pc that I'm also reading. Then I'll hit the regional and national news sites.





Art Gone Postal

Artistically designed postage stamps. Which reminds me that World Aid's Day is celebrated Dec 1. Did you realize that five people worldwide die of AIDS every minute of every day?



Re-Defeat Bush in 2004.

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London is fired up about Bush's visit this week! Massive security is in place - 14,000 police headed by Scotland Yard and several hundred US Secret Service agents will be on duty for Bush's 4-day visit beginning Tuesday. Al-Jazeera reports security on alert for al-Qaida.



"George Bush thinks he can escape an angry public. He's wrong." Help us track George W. Bush across London!



"With President George W. Bush due to touch down on British soil Tuesday, Internet message boards, mobile phones and pagers are buzzing with the sounds of protest, and police are scrambling to catch every word.



"I've just received word of a lead story in The Daily Mail tomorrow. The exclusion zones (which are now mobile and therefore harmless bubbles) will now involve mobile phone blackouts."



{related links}

Stop The War

Anti-War Art

Inymedia-UK - keep scrolling; there are updates and links of protest groups involved.

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