So glad to have most of the holidays behind me. My daughter, Skyler, spent a few nights and we had so much fun together like two girls at a slumber party. 
We laughed until we cried more than once. I am really blessed to have her and I tell her quite often.
Interview by Susan Kay Anderson
Less-than-revered by his Beat peers (Ginsberg gave him the ungainly nickname “Bunthorne,” Burroughs once observed him—drunk—crawling along the floor of a hotel after a reading event, Ferlinghetti said he “was all the novelist the hippies needed” because “[i]t was a nonliterate age”), Richard Brautigan became internationally famous in the late ’60s for writing simple-yet-surreal poems, short stories and novels that made readers marvel and burst out laughing.
Brautigan’s personal life, however, was no laughing matter. Severe alcoholism—drinking a bottle of brandy and two fifths of whiskey a day during binges, according to friend Don Carpenter—and depression over declining book sales led to Brautigan’s suicide in September 1984. He was 49.
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This has been a nice day. A stressful one, but it's over and it's time to relax. It was all fine until my Mother reverted back to my high school days, came to my room and made a motion with her arms like an umpire calling a runner out at base.
"Get 'em outta here!" she yelled.
"I saw those two boys, now get them out of here NOW!"
I was stunned. "Knock yourself out", I say as she goes from room to room looking for errant visitors.
I felt steam building up inside of a now teenage version of me being scolded... and I say something about "...I'm a grownasswoman, almost 60 fucking years old and if I wanted to have "boys" over to vist, by God, "boys" would be visiting."
Tomorrow I might put up my Christmas tree. Again.
Actually if I do it'd be the 3rd time in two weeks.
The first time that I put it up it was so beautiful and I took some photos and I added some packages under the tree. But it wasn't standing sturdy enough and it fell crashing down and sent all the items scattering, some shattering. Sigh...
It's 7-ft tall and is crammed full of mostly collectible ornaments.
So I put it up a second time. The big snow storm that rocked the whole east coast came through Friday night and a snow-heavy willow tree fell and hit our power pole which (among other things) blew out the tree lights so I had to remove the burned out Christmas tree lights.
You cannot take off your tree lights without knocking off most all the ornaments and the beads and pearls, etc, so I stripped that sonofabitch down again and "bare ass naked" it now sits in the living room.
Maybe tomorrow we try again? Let me consult my Eight Ball.
After a reboot a few days ago I seemed to have lost the new comment form I was trying out. It's Intense Debate and I like what it offers so I'm trying it again...
Thanks for your patience. (Like I'm speaking to the masses or something)
...the election of Councilman Cecil Bothwell in Asheville, North Carolina, was being contested because he does not believe in god. No, your morning coffee is not laced with LSD; you read that correctly.
H.K. Edgerton is threatening to file a lawsuit in state court against the city to challenge Bothwell's appointment because, "My father was a Baptist minister. I'm a Christian man. I have problems with people who don't believe in God," said Edgerton, a former local NAACP president and founder of Southern Heritage 411, an organization that promotes the interests of black southerners.Am I the only one to see the problem here? Discriminating against blacks is bad, but perfectly OK when directed against people with a different world view?
saturday morning me//
eagle's football jersey/charcoal leggings/
black knee boots/good hair day/
bowl of cheerios/still drinking hot tea/
sandalwood incense (Nepalese String)/
clothes washing/and did i mention
the freaking tree that fell down last night that took a week to put up and now i have to do it all over again? Fuck. Me.
so what about you?/
"Arise and drink your bliss, for all that lives is holy." --William Blake
Last week I was rated "R" now today I'm "PG". It must go by what's on the recent days of your website.
Without further ado I must mention hardons, dildos, shooting heroin, goatse and *bukakke and a partridge in a pear treeee. I'll run the test again tomorrow.
*Edited to correct spelling.
Johnny Depp's Dark Shadows to begin next year
Sci Fi Wire has learned that production will start on "Shadows" late next year. What, you want to know when? "We're actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny," he said. Which I'm guessing means that the movie will see a summer or fall 2011 release, presuming all goes as planned. Burton is still finishing post-production on Alice in Wonderland, which also stars Depp and opens March 5, 2010.
The Barnabas Collins character will be outstanding with JD doing him. I've been waiting to hear more on this and finally we get dates. Yay! Won't that be grand?
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New Naoto Hattori prints. I learned of him pretty soon after I got online at least 10 years ago and he's simply the best at what he does.
This particular print is 15" X 16", $150.00. Sadly, too expensive for my meager budget.
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flames by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer
tokeofthetown.com — Cliff Maynard of Pittsburgh has blazed a unique trail on the stoner art scene. The 37-year-old creates amazing mosaics using the humble medium of used roach papers from smoked joints. {via: digg}
I'm all for innovative art? I suppose it is art. Thoughts? link
A little odd to see Bobby in long straight hair singing about Santa but with this bordello-type spin on it, it's not bad. It's from his first ever Christmas album, Christmas In The Heart.
All of the artist's U.S. royalities from sales of these recordings will be donated to Feeding America, guaranteeing that more than four million meals will be provided to more than 1.4 million people in need this year's holiday season.Link | YouTube | Review Read more...
We have been consumed by a frenzy of green and alternate energy but Foxfire is the original green series and surival guide.
The original book was published in 1972 and my husband and I really poured over this book and Foxfire 2 which came later. There are maybe 12 of these Foxfire books now. Link
I can hardly think of Foxfire without thinking of the other good publications that came out around the same time like Mother Earth News and The Whole Earth Catalog. These were essential to us hippies and commune dwellers. 
But the Whole Earth was our "go-to" guide, our reference, our Google. It taught several generations how to select ecologically-sound products and make wise choices. Because of Whole Earth we had super cool accommodations near the Appalachian Trail by Watauga Lake and always had something good to eat. We all learned how to grow and cook and can almost anything. We built an outhouse and re-routed a spring. We loved it. The only problem we had was people always wanting to come over and hang out all the time.
Good News: Your Mother is Christie Brinkley
Bad News: You look like your Father (Billy Joel)
"Bless her heart," as we say in the south. But I have sympathy for her recent suicide attempt. She's obviously having problems.
"The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century."Pretty fucking severe, wouldn't you say? But I read further because it's George Monbiot and learn that what Canada's leaders have done is reprehensible and at the root of it all is goddamn oil. Fucking oil! Why did I not see that coming?
"Until now I believed that the nation which has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works."
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I don't know this model's name but he's featured everywhere this season. He's in the VNFOLD magazine link below, too.
A traffic stop in South Texas yielded illegal drugs including pills in the shape of President Barack Obama.
Police in Palmview detained the driver after finding black tar heroin, cocaine, marijuana and several Ecstasy pills. Police say the Ecstasy was in brightly colored pills made to look like cartoon characters Homer Simpson, the Smurfs and even Obama.
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As in "OMG, I got SO wasted last night. We did a hit of Orange Barrel and two fucking Obamas."
Premiere issue of VNFOLD, Argentina art, culture, and fashion magazine. OUTSTANDING photos.
CRY OUT (Trailer by Matthew Stone) - Presented by the Theo Adams Company from Theo Adams on Vimeo.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and at a moment when the economies all around the world are paying for the excesses of capitalism, Chasing Napoleon questions the gravity centre of our political lives and explores utopist landscapes of all kinds, from Hobbes’ state of nature to the influence of science fiction in Paul Laffoley’s work.
It also includes elements as different as Dieter Roth’s inventory of Reykjavik, Theodore Kaczynski’s anti-capitalist manifesto, Darth Vader and, of course…Napoleon Bonaparte, the ultimate political symbol.
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Blogs, Twitter, websites of all kinds… Our perception of fashion is changing. The fashion image is nowadays so much more than just the printed photograph.
Visionary photographer Nick Knight understood this 9 years ago and founded Showstudio, an innovative, interactive, imaginative and inspiring website.
Somerset House now hosts an exhibition showing some of Showstudio’s best works, created by Knight himself in collaboration with some of the biggest and most exciting personalities in fashion.
Nick Knight's 100 Portraits LIVE at Somerset House
People walk past a statue of a mother holding a dead child in her arms in Bhopal, India, on November 18, 2009. Residents are bitter whenever they glance behind their homes toward the old Union Carbide factory, where a lethal plume of gas escaped from a storage tank in the early hours of December 3, 1984, killing thousands instantly. Survivors say the anniversary marks another year of physical and psychological trauma compounded by government and corporate negligence.
To this day, Dow Chemical (who bought Union Carbide) has refused to clean up, and whole new generations have been poisoned. For more information, please visit http://www.bhopal.org.
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saturday morning me//
still sipping on chai/wheat toast and honey/
grey sweats/grey hoodie/navy houseshoes/
listening: broadcast/
opium incense/two ivory candles glowing/
forecast: procrastination & naps/
but first: grocery shopping/salon stop/
so what about you?/
Technomad: Global Raving Countercultures by Graham St John is the most wide-ranging and detailed of all the books on rave. More than the study of a musical movement or genre, Technomad offers an alternate history of cultural politics since the 1960s, from hippies and Acid Tests through the sound systems and 'vibe-tribes' of the 1990s and beyond. Like Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces, Technomad makes unexpected but entirely convincing connections between people, movements and events. Like Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, St John's book introduces us to unknown heroes, committed geniuses and genuine revolutionaries. Beautifully written, with a genuinely international perspective on electronic dance music culture, Technomad is one of the best books on music I've read in some time."
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Just ordered it from Amazon. In paperback; hardback already sold out.
Have you ever heard someone say that they have shrunk over the years? When I'd heard that in the past I didn't believe it to be possible at all but it happened to my husband.
AND he regained his lost 3.5".
He lost 3.5" of height to put him back at an even 6'0" because of spinal problems. After surgery to rebuild the discs in his spine he's back to his full 6'3.5". So there is merit in the saying about people shrinking.
I still have to stand on my tiptoes to kiss him. :)
By the way, he continues to heal and is getting pretty good at using the walker around the house but it's hard on a man to be seen as needing aid or help so it's an emotional journey as well.
"Which giant corporations own which "small" organic food brands? (2009 edition)" How much more clear they be? We have graphs that show us more and more about the crap that we are eating. 
This rumor involves Barack Obama. And at an upcoming summit, he is going to for the first time publicly ask for her release.
photo by Kiino Villand for Style Section L.A. via
Neda's mother: She was 'like an angel' - CNN.com
Benjamin (Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Coolidge), is a loner whose passion for writing leads him on an journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker.
The film, Moon, has been around the festival circuit and with limited release in the US in June 2009. The trailer was so intriguing I had to see it and fortunately was able to download the movie. (more...)It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. His only companion is a robot named "Gertie" (voiced by Kevin Spacey).
So sad to see yet another missing child end up dead. And does it seem like there are a large percentage of them living in Florida? 
Dragon*Con 2009
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Aren't these magickal photos?
Strange Worlds Collide: Cosplayers at the Aquarium first seen at Coilhouse.
In a Democracy Now! special, an hour of conversation and music with Cree Indian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. In the turbulent 1960s, she was just out of college but already famous for her beautiful voice and moving lyrics in songs like "Universal Soldier" and "Now that the Buffalo’s Gone."
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