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This is funny… Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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…until you imagine that instead of dancing, this person is merely fighting off the hordes of bees that have been forced into his costume and are defending themselves somehow.

Also: My favourite moment is 3:18, when the head gets squished in.

 

Horror-scopes. Asstrology. Friday, November 13, 2009

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A whitewash happens when you use deceit to cover up the messy facts about a situation. A blackwash is just the opposite: It’s when you invoke candor as you reveal complications that have previously been veiled. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to enjoy a jubilee of blackwashing. But I suggest that you proceed gently. Remember that not all hidden information is a sign of malfeasance or evil intentions. Sometimes the truth is so paradoxical and nuanced, it’s hard to get it completely out in the open all at once. And sometimes people are motivated to keep things secret mostly because they’re afraid to cause pain.

“Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful,” said Goethe. Luckily, Virgo, you’re in the midst of a process that may emancipate your spirit and give you more control over yourself. Here are two ways you could cash in on this potential: 1. Brainstorm about a big dream even as you attend to the gritty details of making the dream a reality. 2. Expand your imagination about your tricky situation even as you burn away the illusions you have about your tricky situation

A 13-year-old girl shocked everyone by winning a plowing contest in England. Driving a 12,000-pound tractor and pulling a five-furrow plow, Elly Deacon did a better job than all of the middle-aged male farmers she was competing against. What’s more remarkable is that she was a newcomer, having had less than a week’s experience in the fine art of tilling the soil with a giant machine. She’s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Like her, you have the potential to perform wonders, even if you’re a rookie, as you prepare a circumscribed area for future growth.

Have you heard about the new sport of chess boxing? Two competitors play chess for four minutes, then put on boxing gloves and try to punch each other for three minutes; they continue this rhythm for up to 11 rounds. I suspect you’ll soon be asked to meet a similar challenge, going back and forth between two contrasting modes. If you treat this challenge as a fun game rather than a crazy-making exertion, you’ll do fine.

I hope that by now you have finished scrabbling along on your hands and knees over burning hot shards of broken glass. The next and hopefully final phase of your redemptive quest should be less torturous. In this upcoming chapter, the operative metaphor might be assembling a jigsaw puzzle with 200 pieces, all of which are red. Amazingly enough, you actually have it in you to accomplish this improbable feat — as long as you don’t spread out the puzzle pieces all over the burning hot shards of broken glass. Find a nice, clean, quiet place to do your work.

- all Rob Brezsny, realastrology.com

 

Friggin iphone Friday, November 13, 2009

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Gretchen Rubin: The days are long but the years are short Monday, November 9, 2009

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Protected: I feel like death Monday, November 9, 2009

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Protected: Seriously Monday, November 9, 2009

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Naked Clown Calendar! Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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The naked clowns are back!!

(Tom and I are May)

 

Note to self Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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Calvin Klein Women’s Perfectly Fit Racerback Bra #F2564

 

Protected: drones and clones Sunday, November 1, 2009

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Protected: A man, a plan, a canal, panama Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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A quote I found Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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“To put it in a nutshell: in this quest I first found that — whatever way you look at it — the quantum mechanical formalism when taken at face value compels us to consider that two particles that have once interacted will always remain bound in a very strange, hardly understandable way even when they are far apart, the connection being independent of distance.”

— Bernard d’Espagnat

 

Blahhh Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Wedding dresses are expensive

 

Don’t eat the seeds Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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“The clouds are the most fertile part of the sky,” writes Guy Murchie in his book The Seven Mysteries of Life. Microbes with short life cycles live there in abundance, “eating, breathing, excreting, floating, swimming, competing, reproducing.” Next time you look up at a puffy cumulus, see it as a large city that hosts a teeming host of living things. Speaking of invisible fecundity, let’s turn our attention to you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are largely unaware of how much creative energy has been building up within you. Your homework is to tap into it and unleash it.

In my dream last night, the High Priestess from the Tarot deck came to life and gave me the following message: “Tell Virgos that when their deep hunger starts to stir, they should not eat from the bowl of delicious seeds. That meager meal would not satisfy their deep hunger. Rather, they should plant those seeds and let them grow up. The resulting harvest will satisfy their deep hunger.”

- rob brezsny, realastrology.com, link in the sidebar

 

If I wrote a pop song… Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Usually I’m humble, right now I don’t choose
You can leave with me or you could have the blues
Some call it arrogant, I call it confident
You decide when you find on what I’m working with

Damn I know I’m killing you with them legs
Better yet them thighs
Matter a fact it’s my smile or maybe my eyes
Boy you a site to see, kind of something like me

I also enjoy Kanye’s version:

 

Shit this is beautiful Monday, October 19, 2009

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