Saturday Morning Me

saturday morning me//
soft lights twinkling/incense smoldering/
espresso pot calling/açai juice/wheat toast/
flannel pants pjs/white tee/hotpink toed barefeet/
peeking obama speech/back to media hibernation/
still painful like a lover who broke us in 2000/
forecast: hope and chamber music/
so how about you?/

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Julie Heffernan

by Julie Heffernan

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Howl Festival

Howl Festival

is five days of dance, music, performance, poetry & writing @ Tompkins Square Park, Sept 5 - 11.

I was happy to see that the Cockettes are performing there Sept 6th. An outrageous gender bending legendary hippie performance troupe from San Francisco around 1969-1972. A recent Cockettes DVD has introduced them to a new generation. link


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You May Not Be Cool, But Your Baby Can Be

BABY WIT - You May Not Be Cool, But Your Baby Can Be

Lovely Tattoo Shift Dress at Baby Wit for your small child or grandchild but I just can't justify buying one for my grandson, Phoenix (who's a year old September 9). Nice, affordable stuff for kiddies.

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Ooze Out's Finest

Leslie Keffer

Peter Poffenhoffer's Ooze Out's Tuesday night program is appointment radio on WPVM.

Leslie Keffer is an experimental composer currently in Nashville, TN. Hear her talk about all things glittery, magical moments and her forthcoming LP Give It Up, on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label. Download the Leslie Keffer interview here.

Also, tune in this week for our exclusive interview with Caethua. (via)

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Barnaby Barford

"Oh God, Oh God, Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day, Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day." --2008

Just one of many from Barnaby Barford's fun and creative porcelains, One-Off Pieces - Private Lives.

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Whole Lotta Cash?

Whole Lotta Cash?

Jimmy Page & Leona Lewis, winner of British reality show 'The X Factor', will perform an altered version of the Led Zeppelin classic 'Whole Lotta Love' for the closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics on Sunday Aug 24th.

Jimmy and Leona's new 2008 version - without any of the apparantly offensive 'sexual innuendoes', will be performed atop a 'transformed' red double-decker bus (# 2012) during the 8 minute handover ceremony. When the 4 minute Page | Lewis 'duet' ends, British footballer (soccer player) David Beckham will kick a football (known as a soccer ball in North America) into a crowd of athletes before the feed cuts away to a London 2012 handover party taking place live outside Buckingham Palace in England.

You lost me at Leona Lewis.

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How Many Houses Was That?

Feist Helps John McCain Count His Houses

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THE CHILDREN OF AGAPE CHOIR

WE ARE TOGETHER: THE CHILDREN OF AGAPE CHOIR celebrates the remarkable life-changing odyssey of orphaned, South African children who overcome hardship through love, community and music.

I watched this doc last night, well, around 3am or so, and I cried and I cried and I cried. (Did I mention that I cried?)

Their story moved me immensely. You might think that you wouldn't have a single thing in common with this family but as the story peels away, and it sounds so simple to say, but people really are the same all over the world.

I enjoy it when the stats roll away and the story can tell itself.

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WEBTRAIL

Further On..

"She-Bang what? Absolutely not." Ricky Martin has twins via a surrogate. - link

Coilhouse Magazine, Issue 01 is finally here! link

"Christmas on Mars" is the first feature film from the Flaming Lips - link | Trailer

Project Runway Challenge: Dressing drag queens is no small feat. That do-me red dress really stood out. link

Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon The Brain!" - just out on DVD - link

"Didn't you used to hate Walt Disney above all others?" "Yes. But now it's Spielberg. I think Spielberg is the son from when Walt Disney fucked Minnie Mouse." -- Alejandro Jodorowsky - link

Tell me-- do you trust the FDA? link

DNC protesters would be locked up in a city-owned warehouse in a building that includes barbed wire-topped cages and signs warning of stun-gun use. - link

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Elena Gregusova

“Wearing The News”

Designer Elena Gregusova is currently appearing at EnviroCouture in Vancouver, BC.

Haute Art from the Waste Container. (via)

Part of getting to live so long is that I can enjoy watching things like this inch their way from the odd and the weird into the acceptable. Not that anyone reading here can relate to the odd and the weird, right? :)

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Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy

"Caroline: Pull a Cheney!"

An Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy (head of the Obama VP search team) from Michael Moore

What Obama needs is a vice presidential candidate who is NOT a professional politician, but someone who is well-known and beloved by people across the political spectrum; someone who, like Obama, spoke out against the war; someone who has a good and generous heart, who will be cheered by the rest of the world; someone whom we've known and loved and admired all our lives and who has dedicated her life to public service and to the greater good for all.

That person, Caroline, is you.

WHAT??? Well, maybe.... [READ MORE]

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Tilda Swinton's Nairn Festival

Tilda Swinton's Nairn Festival

WITH no red carpet, paparazzi or glitzy after-show party, and not even a cinema, Scotland's latest film festival is by no means conventional.

The first Nairn film festival, founded by Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton, (LOVE her) launched Friday, showing an offbeat mix of classic, unusual and obscure films – in a former ballroom.

Entry is £3 – or free if you bring a tray of home-baked cakes – and the audience will sit on beanbags. Running from Aug 15 - Aug 23.

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Painted ceiling of a smoking area

Painted ceiling of a smoking area someone sent to me. Still not smoking. =)

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He will make Cheney look like Gandhi

He will make Cheney look like Gandhi.

Some opinions of McCain from his own party and military "commrades".

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George W Bush: Looking Drunk At The Olympics

Bush Drinking Again?


"Nice flip turn or whatever, dude."
Go take a look at the series of photos @ Gawker where one by one, everyone in his party, including the family, looks totally exasperated. Just what in the hell would *elicit a face like this from the leader of the free (?) world?

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* thanks, Stu!

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Orwell's Diaries Go Online Today

Orwell's Diaries Go Online Today

Previously unpublished George Orwell diaries are being released online as a daily blog. The first entry, from Aug. 9, 1938, will appear online Saturday, exactly 70 years after Orwell wrote it. The diaries shed light on European history and Orwell’s life.

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Still On Track

Still On Track

I'm still amping up to my big Quit Smoking Day on August 9 and have cut down 90% on smoking already. I've been feeling foggy headed but that's pretty much all that's bothering me besides slaying these dragon urges. And I'm really beginning to get irritable.

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I Quit

I Quit

Largely because of a doctor visit this week, I decided to seriously quit smoking (again) and today is my first day on the prescription medication, Chantix, or Chamtix, as it's called in Canada and Europe.

The perfect scenario for this 12 week program is to quit smoking by the end of the first week. Most people slow down through the weeks and end up quitting altogether by the end of the 12 weeks or sooner.

I've quit twice before by cutting down. After 40 years of smoking, it's not only about the nicotine, though that withdrawal will be ugly. It's also the lifestyle, the bitch of a habit, the oral fixation -- tootsie roll pops and gum are helpful. I've kicked smoking (and worse) before so I hope this time I'm successful. And that it's not too late for me.

A diagx managed to scare this old bird into big-time serious quitting mode. Chantix is controversial, but the risks outweigh keeping smoking to me.

What has worked for you, or someone you know, to quit smoking? How'd you do it?

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