"Scrota Contra Vota" (2000-) is a form of radical political comment for 50 percent of the elective population.

Your scrotum counts!

Attention, male individuals (biological and/or gender)! Please undress and sit down on a flat bed scanner and scan your scrotum. Anatomize the hi-res JPEG to monochrom via email. As a form of protest, monochrom reserves the right to send these digital images to various public people of political interest.

NSFW - Obviously, a site full of scrotums in all their glory won't be safe for work. But for the curious, take a peek and see if you recognize anyone. heh heh

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I'm not sure everyone gets how big a stand she actually took when she refused to move to the back of the bus for a white man. Black people couldn't even look a white person in the eye and could only speak to white people when spoken to. It seems so barbaric and it was. And I'm sure she was beyond embarassed, but she turned it into constructive activism. She personified courage, and will long be remembered for that courageous spirit and brave activism.

Go in honor and peace, Rosa Parks. You will not be forgotten.

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The Gospel According to Anne
The queen of the occult has been gone awhile. What's Anne Rice been up to? Getting healthy, finding God—and writing her most daring book yet.


Go listen to an excerpt from the audiobook of 'Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt'.

Wow, if that isn't an intriguing tease for a new book by Anne Rice, there's never been one.

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saturday morning me//
breakfast-cashew butter toast/oj-straight/
hazelnut coffee numero dos/
black sun and moon dress/trusty black shawl/
listening--Hide 'n' Seek - Imogen Heap/
watching leaves swirl on the back deck/
so how about you?

For those who wish to go across the water, may I be a boat, a raft, a bridge.
~The Way of the Shantideva

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The Visionary Art Of Gil Bruvel. Bruvel is one of those artists in a class by himself.If you register at the site, he'll send you the url for some exquisite wallpaper. Sure makes my pitiful pumpkin patch wallpaper pale in comparison.


Don't miss the sculpture. It's so detailed and bold. And different. I see why he's called a visionary artist.

Shop his online store for limited edition prints, posters, cards, books and more.


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Recently updated website with tons of good articles.

V72 - it's time to wake and discover the truth. Our belief is that there is a growing worldwide awakening of consciousness. Interest in our environment and the power of the mind is helping to create a new spiritual awareness and culture that will flourish in the new millennium.

Remember-- knowledge is key. Without the key we just stare at the door.

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We are here to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

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Medijate by Larry Carlson who also brought us Virtual Om, another good trippy cybertoy to play with.

Edited to add--Virtual Om link no longer active, per Bruce.
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Dreaming Methods is an extraordinary new project you can lose yourself in complete with dark, soothing background music. One section is Inside - A Dream Journal that begs to be explored. Outstanding....

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Art, Myth, and Spirit
Phoenix & Arabeth have been creating fantastic and mystical works since 1973. These striking images glow with a reverence for the earth, an awareness of the god/goddess within every individual, and the natural magic of the complete human: body, mind and soul.

Site features artwork, tattoos, henna, and body art from Iraq and the Middle East, a book on Tribal Bible, henna and tattoo galleries - all by Phoenix and Arabeth.
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Take action now to tell Kimberly-Clark to Stop Clearcutting Ancient Forests

Did you know that it takes 90 years to grow a box of Kleenex? That's right, every time you use a Kleenex tissue, you are blowing away ancient forests. That's because Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex and other toilet and tissue products, all but refuses to use recycled paper in its products. Instead, Kimberly-Clark is clearcutting some of the rarest and oldest forests on Earth - just to create disposable paper products.

I've pulled out my bandanas and began using them. Ideally, we should all use some handkerchiefs or bandanas or at least a recycled paper product instead of the evil non-recycled Kleenex products. Please consider it.

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How many dead Iraqis per gallon does your car get? [via]

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Have you tried Toogle? Visit Toogle and try it. Very cool. My end result was too large to post here and be viewed correctly.
Thanks, Jean.

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TOP 3 BAND NAMES OF THE MONTH
Say Hi To Your Mom
So So Many Many White Tigers
Superman's Guest List

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Advanced Searchbar - More features than the Google, Yahoo, and MSN toolbars combined. I'm giving it a test drive on IE and find it's very useful. Doesn't work with Firefox. (seen on Robin's pc )

saturday morning me//
waking to a cool clear morning/
black t-neck/black sweats/houseshoes/
hot vanilla chai/wheat toast-honey/
listening-back of my hand-rolling stones/
and watching local news/
waitng on the caffeine gods/
so how about you?

Delay indicted for money laundering, fluffing and folding.

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The Rare Vinyl Network specializes in 'hard-to-find' vinyl. But I also reading enjoy the back story on the albums about the band members or what was happening at the time it was made.

In 1967 the Beatles were in Abbey Road Studios putting the finishing touches on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At one point Paul McCartney wandered down the corridor and heard what was then a new young band called Pink Floyd working on their hypnotic debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He listened for a moment, then came rushing back. "Hey guys" he reputedly said, "There's a new band in there and they're gonna steal our thunder". With their mix of blues, music hall influences, Lewis Carroll references, and dissonant experimentation, Pink Floyd was one of the key bands of the 1960s psychedelic revolution, a pop culture movement that emerged with American and British rock, before sweeping through film, literature, and the visual arts. The music was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called 'mind-expanding' drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), and attempted to recreate drug-induced states through the use of overdriven guitar, amplified feedback, and droning guitar motifs influenced by Eastern music.

This psychedelic consciousness was seeded, in the United States, by countercultural gurus such as Timothy Leary, a Harvard University professor who began researching LSD as a tool of self-discovery from 1960, and writer Ken Kesey who with his Merry Pranksters staged Acid Tests - multimedia 'happenings' set to the music of the Warlocks (later the Grateful Dead) and documented by novelist Tom Wolfe in the literary classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) - and traversed the country during the mid-1960s on a kaleidoscope-colored school bus. Suzy Hopkins, formerly *Suzy Creamcheese, a dancer and inspirational figure on the underground scene in Los Angeles and London, remembers the visceral way psychedelic culture affected the senses. 'There's a difference between a drug and a psychedelic. Drugs make you drugged and psychedelics enhance your ability to see the truth or reality' she says. For her, LSD and music created a kind of alchemy. Many psychedelic bands explored this sense of abandonment in their music, moving away from standard rock rhythms and instrumentation.

* She's ONE of the Suzy Creamcheesees.

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"Here come the Street Sisters. Mothers, lock up your boys."

Trying to ease back into the blogging groove and catch up on my email. I took 2 weeks off and go back Monday.

I've been out of town, having taken my sister, Robin to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN, to see one of the best cancer specialists in the country. After receiving biopsy results with the heart-splitting news of her having liver cancer that's also in the lymph nodes, we discussed treatment options and what to do immediately to make her comfortable.

Because the cancer isn't just limited to the liver, chemotherapy alone ( 10-20 % results) isn't very promising unless done in conjunction with the surgery first.

She's my only sibling and I'm two years older. Yeah, I'll cop to it now. Everyone who knows us knows the running gag we have about her being the older one after years ago, some classless dick in a bar assumed she was the oldest sister. She was SO mad about that. Naturally, I saw an opening to tease her relentlessly.

We've seen each other through many heartaches, but mostly we have such fun together. She's always that first person I contact when I need to share good news or bad news. This week we've tried to absorb this somber news and have discussed everything else in the world, too. We discussed upcoming holiday plans, and we talked about the baseball playoffs and the Braves' choking, planting tulips, amaryllis and moonflowers in early spring, and sadly, we talked about funeral arrangements.

Anyway, if you can help me with a little love flowing, beads rattled, alms given, vibes sent, herbs shaken, bells rung, candles lit, and prayers ascended, my heart would be forever gladdened.

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Tiffany Bozic Paintings

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Web Trails

Aleister Crowley, British occultist born on October 12, 1875. He was an occultist, mystic, sexual revolutionary, and drug addict (especially heroin).

Other interests and accomplishments were wide-ranging (he was a chess master, mountain climber, poet, writer, painter, astrologer and social critic).

We place no reliance
On virgin or pigeon;
Our Method is Science,
Our Aim is Religion.
~Aleister Crowley

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
~Aleister Crowley

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Psychedelic Sunday - Berbati’s Church of Psychedelia is a free event organized by Point Line Plane’s Josh Blanchard. It has been going strong every last Sunday of the month since its inception last January.
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Exciting material relating to rock greats Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles and the Rolling Stones to lead Christie's annual sale of Pop and Rock Memorabilia at Christie's Rockefeller Center, 21 November 2005.
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Psychedelic Books for Independent Minds
Leary Library, Lilly Library, Fringe Series, Entheo-Spirituality, Psychedelic Library and more. Part of The Psychedelic Ring which has 29 sites, which may or not be surf-worthy.
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Faster Firefox - Speed up your Firefox browser by tweaking settings. Installs into Firefox Options if you can’t find it. Anybody tried this yet? Mitch? It's different from the tweaking we did last year on Firefox; it's a download. Thanks, Devon.

Is anyone watching Lost? I'm trying to watch it, especially after I heard someone talking backwards, reminiscent of Twin Peaks, which brilliantly stands alone in tv series innovation. 4 8 15 16 23 42 is keeping the secret.

British Library Online Gallery - Turning The Pages.
Leaf through 14 great books and magnify the details. Very nice. Thanks, Carol.
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I noticed Salon has a new design and read this piece: Thousands of men are shelling out $6,500 for hyper-realistic dolls that answer all their needs -- and don't talk back. Ask Davecat about Sidore. How fucked up ARE these guys anyway? Let me count the ways.
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Go get 'em, BDM. Big Daddy Malcontent takes the banks and christians to task.
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The cartoon sez:
Hmmm...OK, NOW?
Is now the time for us to rise and sieze the day? Is it time for us to convince the American people that we Democrats can do a better job than Republicans? Time to convince them that enough is enough?!!

....NAHHHHHH.....

We could seriously use a "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!" Network moment from the Democrats. Any Democrat will do.

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"Apply" now to secure a lucrative career both decrying and luxuriating in the spoils of Big Government! No experience necessary! Don't miss your chance to suckle greedily at America's soon-to-be-bankrupt bureaucracy teat!

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If you are registered to vote in Massachusetts, Your Signature Can End The War In Iraq.

HomeFromIraqNow.org is a national campaign to end the war in Iraq by using binding statewide ballot initiatives around the country to pressure the administration to bring our troops home now.

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Riding Shotgun With Uncle Sam
"Ain't a fucking thing out here but Texas,"? The Rock ?n Roll Judge said.

I looked out the window: Texas.

The Judge had tuned the stereo up loud, and he was clenching his fist, screaming and pumping his arm to a heavy saxophone and trumpet beat, singing along with Van Morrison singing Cleaning Windows:

?". . . curiosity killed the cat Kerouac'?s dharma bums and on the road

What's my line? I'?m happy cleaning windows. . ."


Father Luke, now in Santa Cruz, recently chronicled his road trip from California to DC with prose and pics. (Nice aerial shot of the protesters in DC ) Intellligence without pomposity; wit without bitterness and I can identify with his drug and alcohol past and his being clean since 1988. Nice website.

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