tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60046070933079464442024-12-11T18:10:54.285-05:00elle est belle la seine la seine elle est belleWelcome to Marlinspike Hall, ancestral home of the Haddock Clan, the creation of Belgian cartoonist Hergé.
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Enjoy your stay! There are some fuzzy slippers over there somewhere, too.Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.comBlogger1695125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-20113370609420592572015-05-04T09:47:00.000-04:002015-05-04T09:47:48.243-04:00Monday, May 4
Monday, May 4 [The Timeline (from Wikipedia)]On Monday, May 4, a protest was scheduled to be held at noon, as had been planned three days earlier. University officials attempted to ban the gathering, handing out 12,000 leaflets stating that the event was canceled. Despite these efforts an estimated 2,000 people gathered[22] on the university's Commons, near Taylor Hall. The protest Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-42524759311389646002015-05-04T09:23:00.001-04:002015-05-04T09:27:52.914-04:00way belated happy birthday; so much loveyour belief that keeping secrets is a blessing of a gift?
the nearest to a holy thing, at times?
do you mean it's a sacred glue?
the holy foreskin ground up with some
old monk's gritty spit in a well-worn
mortar and pestle?
that you lighten a soul's load?
we lost phone and internet
these past few days.
i lost the secret
to call for help.
just after i'd discovered
another "williiam" in the
Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-90664398318783845732015-05-04T09:02:00.001-04:002015-05-04T09:02:12.810-04:00do
"Rise To Me"
Big mountain, wide river,
there's an ancient call,
these tree trunks these stream beds,
leave our bellies full
they sing out:
I am gonna stand my ground
you rise to me and I'll blow you down
I am gonna stand my ground
you rise to me and I'll blow you down
Hey Henry, can you hear me,
let me see those eyes
this distance, Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-14056679692114116942015-05-04T09:01:00.002-04:002015-05-04T09:01:55.808-04:00don'tdon't read too much into this.
Well I don't have as many friends because
I'm not as pretty as I was
I've kicked myself at times because I've lied
So I will have to learn to stand my ground
I'll tell 'em I won't be around
I'll move on over to your town and hide
And you be the captain and I'll be no-one
And you can carry me away if you want to
And you can lay low, just like your Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-31879936692997377752015-04-26T13:22:00.000-04:002015-04-26T13:22:08.341-04:00The Water Bowl / Dobbox / The HoyerYou know how we love Dobby, how iconic he is, on top of being a big-eyed, star-faced angel. No matter the more perfect photos we get, we return to this one, "dobbox." Fred was working in the Computer Turret, caught up in an ADHD bit of hyperfocus and entrepreneurship, hence the waiting Priority Mail box. Fred noticed Dobby as he first sat to deal with his antique Leica buyer -- those eyes, Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-33758218414725190842015-04-24T18:16:00.001-04:002015-04-24T18:24:38.776-04:00Cynthia Penaskovic had time to think about it
Shamelessly lifted from the RSDSA Weekly News You Can Use -- full of overtly more cheerful fun announcements 'n all, but I stole this one for its serendipitous conjunction with the RSDSA International Research Consortium. Science, good science, is where it's at. Cynthia Penaskovic had time to think about it.
The Cynthia Penaskovic Memorial Fund
Pain is a more Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-74211986001817604052015-04-23T20:46:00.002-04:002015-04-23T20:46:40.849-04:00Loudon Wainwright III -- "Bill of Goods"for today, the joke, the truth, spewn from loudon,'
and in spite of the spittle undeniability?
i believe.
fred and i admire his basic truth telling about men;
his drilling down, despite his sadness, into the truth of women;
can all that truth end only in weeping eyes,
the need for lies?
Everything will be alright,Remember when you thought that?I sold you that bill of goods,Remember when you Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-24377830094603306712015-04-23T04:13:00.001-04:002015-04-23T04:33:44.656-04:00"Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark."
Uploaded to YouTube by Jeff Romanovitch
Although credit is often given to Cash for this song, it was originally recorded by Loudon Wainwright III in 1973 for his own album, Attempted Mustache.
There once was a man who justBianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-1565879936629978932015-04-23T01:04:00.000-04:002015-04-23T01:04:04.391-04:00Pre-Politics:CRIME STOPPERS EPISODE #8,939,247 or Life on the Other Side of the DrawbridgeTIMELY REPOST, and remembering how to conduct real political business among real common folk, who rarely hang the day in a coffee shop... and, as I take a breath to fight hypoxia, it is always good to remember Tante Louise.
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As it was a hazy, lazy day and we were in a hazy, lazy frame of mind, La Bonne et Belle Bianca Castafiore Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-40858589043518239722015-04-22T23:10:00.000-04:002015-04-23T20:50:16.255-04:00Facebook IdiotsDid you happen to see this gorgeous, titillating photograph of the Dalai and dear Desmond? I found it on my top secret Facebook page, designed to keep tabs on both a wonderful group of far flung friends (most some version of academic cowgirl rabid independents on real horses, whipping up actual lemon bars, and ALL doing secret good work) and a mixture of beloved long lost relatives and Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-14673986644786819942015-04-22T15:36:00.000-04:002015-04-22T15:36:53.310-04:00“[C]ompassion fatigue”: Staff ‘too stretched’ to help veteransFrom THE AUSTRALIAN -- APRIL 23, 2015 12:00AM
Andrew Burrell
WA Chief Reporter
Perth
Former Afghanistan Digger Sean Milne says he has been let down by the Department of Veteran Affairs. Picture: Colin Murty Source: News Corp Australia
As Australians gather in Gallipoli to celebrate the centenary of the, a veterans’ support group says thousands of the nation’s Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-11301342950906528762015-04-17T19:17:00.000-04:002015-04-23T00:59:46.288-04:00A Year Ago Today
We lost García Márquez a year ago. This photo, still causing me to grin back, commemorates the famous result of his run-in with that thug Vargas Llosa. But yes, among the other things Gabo taught the non-illustrious readers in my family:
"Cease, cows, life is short."
“Cease, cows, life is short.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-51566914511612177012015-04-17T19:02:00.001-04:002015-04-18T13:25:20.565-04:00I Disappoint the Maine Coon, Keeper of The ManorWould that we were laughing.
The home health aide who has been with me for about a week has fallen in love with Buddy the Outrageously Large Maine Coon (Forever Kittenette) -- click on the link and you'll see the fun of those days not so long ago, before hospital beds 'n such, when filling the pill container for the week meant watching Buddy get distracted by Little Dobby and... Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-46343270982986085902015-04-15T09:38:00.001-04:002015-04-16T23:01:15.137-04:00The Wide SkirtSome deaths, passings, going "bye-bye" -- the bigger saying "helloooo!" -- I sometimes imagine the first truly cleansing rush of Universal Wind (imagine an Infomercial Exfoliator's Honest Finest: not to take off your fine skin, but to smooth it, finally, as one fine sand paper, no edges, woo hoo!
Sometimes I think of the sweetest, kindest waters to the face's corners as they meet, say, ancient, Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-54824999109047566642015-04-15T00:00:00.000-04:002015-04-15T00:00:21.434-04:00Pray for Jessie Claire! Do What You Do So Well For Jessie Claire!Oh, Dear Ones, I've been raising Cain.. cane...? I've been making noise over the Duke Blue Devils, over my inability to stand up from this wicked hospital bed, to get to the persnickety bathroom, over our failure to make it on time to the doctors' blessed appointments, over our equal failures to get the felines to obey the feline rules of the feline household! Did I hear that they're Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-70760182336288295002015-04-12T23:05:00.001-04:002015-04-12T23:05:35.775-04:00to Jessie Claire... to RobinYoung ladies, I apologize! Your blog post is coming. It was promised on April 9, and I ache to break my promises.
"Stuff" has intervened, but "stuff" cannot win out every day.
I have a wonderful aide who is going to ease much of my frazzle tomorrow. It is clearly a requirement that one write of Miss Jessie Claire using the wise guidance of her mom Robin's high standards.
And, well,Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-20998282415739464532015-04-06T16:58:00.000-04:002015-04-06T16:58:41.044-04:00a repost for myself, alone: "your kin have bought the rest by their suffering the loss forever"a repost for myself, as i keep forgetting who i am, and
my strengths and purposes.
From -- Pour un tombeau d'Anatole by Stéphane Mallarmé
RÉSUMÉ :
Le 6 octobre 1879 mourait de maladie, à l'âge de huit ans, le petit Anatole,fils tendrement aimé de Stéphane Mallarmé. Les deux cents feuillets présentés ici par Jean-Pierre Richard furent rédigés par le poète à la suite de cetBianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-69406046638342096092015-04-06T10:06:00.003-04:002015-04-06T10:06:53.813-04:00Crazees
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1. The top three most complete songs-with-lyrics, unavailable in Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-71602600556508475952015-04-06T09:37:00.000-04:002015-04-06T16:40:35.893-04:00OUTTA DATE 2In Emory Hospital, more specifically the CCU spooky unit, the spooks had the Psych Unit Group A, consisting of a large African-American man, leader of the group, in, oh, so many ways, and three Oriental young women, one interesting, in terms of her dress, possibly in other terms, but I, obnoxious, never gave her a God-lovin' chance... oh, and the other two... well, they did not deserve a Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-24208881111538621552015-04-06T09:30:00.000-04:002015-04-06T09:44:05.342-04:00Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels-Devil in a Blue Dress
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The FeastBy Tuvia Bolton
Editor's note: This is an old Jewish story/joke/metaphor. Versions abound. My favorite is Tuvia Bolton's rendition:
There were once two beggars who used to go around begging together. One was Jewish and the other a gentile. As the night of Passover approached, the Jewish beggar offered to help his non-Jewish friend get invited to a seder (the festive Passover meal Bianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-34834925183650261532015-04-02T15:35:00.003-04:002015-04-02T15:35:55.048-04:00
To those who think I dabble in nothing but trivia:Dear LisaI wanted to pass on an email I received yesterday from Berkeleyan Richard Nagler, who weathered the serial theft of his Wall Street Journal for years with such fortitude. He asked me to share it with you. Tracey
To the Berkeleyans who have stood by me in this dark and difficult time in my life: As many ofBianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004607093307946444.post-55466196715570040062015-03-28T13:21:00.000-04:002015-03-28T13:39:56.778-04:00Good Work: "Void and Compensation (Karaoke Genesis)" by Michael MorsePlease take me seriously. Please.
I wish I could claim that tears fall uphill onto laptops hitched up on knees in hospital beds, the keyboards held by ribs, head cocked by a funky pillow and a cat watching blessed neighbor Michael mow our lawn (need it or not, before dawn or not!). Ah, that slight pause that had Buddy so enthralled was a switch to a mulcher do-dad. When Michael retired as aBianca Castafiore?http://www.blogger.com/profile/07088130255223709497noreply@blogger.com0