Morning Readings

Talk about forsaken! Good grief! I haven’t felt like posting anything here and spend entirely too much time on Facebook. It is an evil tool of distraction.  It entertains me though. The latest privacy concern is easily disabled.  All I post is links, garden and food photos, and too many YouTube videos when I hit the decanters.

So.  What have I read today?  There are no political links as all parties are crazy.

• Male Brazilian waxing.  (Salon)  I prefer a trim.

• Joan Collins is on Twitter. She has a short film, Fetish, that gets raves.    I might watch The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing tonight. The Joan Collins DVD set is a great collection of her earlier films.

• Bedbugs frighten me and I never want to battle them.

• I am envious of 3 Boys Farm.  All that organic, hydroponic produce would send me into fits of glee.

• The Burger King Pizza Burger makes me sick.

• There is a new James Baldwin collection of writings called The Cross of Redemption.  (NPR)

• Karin Dreijer Andersson’s Fever Ray covers Peter Gabriel’s Mercy Street with a free download.  (NME)

• Diego Zuñiga Fall 2010. (Fashionisto)

• The moon is shrinking. Just a bit.  (Discover) (New Scientist)

• AIDS virus changes in semen make it different than in blood.  (Eurekalert)

I experienced yet another hiatus. During this hiatus I read the Sookie Stackhouse series. If I’m going to enjoy the television show, True Blood, I should at least read the books. The books are a frighteningly easy read.  It only takes a few hours to finish one.  Mindless fodder is my goal.  Thinkin’ is hard.  HA!  One of my favorite sentences from Book 9 was: “He was as deep inside me as he could get without an operation.” Uh-huh.

Let’s see what mindless fodder is in the RSS feeds.

• The heavily cloistered nuns of Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l’Annonciation will release an album of Gregorian Chants.

• A few days ago on FB I mentioned that Petulant kittens were devil spawn as I bleed daily from their attacks.   Lo and behold, Satan is real.  Petulant kittens also like to torture hapless frogs brave enough to journey from the pond to the screened porch.  O’ kittens.  They perform the dark work.

• OKAY! Tough healing love has a specific brutality.   “A member of the First Love Church Healing Center says he was pinned down and spanked 20 times with a two-by-four for looking at a website.”  (CNS) I must know what website, probably gay porn.  Isn’t it always.

• Both can be an option.  Sir Peter Blake: why I chose Pop (Art) over pot.

• I always adore Visconti and Ludwig.  Schloss Neuschwanstein.  Here is a favorite photo from my collection. I am also partial to the paint-by-numbers version too.  I have yet to piece together the 3D puzzle version.  Maybe I will scour the closets and attempt it.  On second thought, that might require too much thinking.

• Though  I am not a member of the jailbreaker brigade, other rulings by the Library of Congress Copyright Office are interesting. (Crunchgear)(Boing Boing) (EFF)

- allow college professors, film students, documentary filmmakers and producers of noncommercial videos to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism or commentary.

• Humans can mind-meld too.  (New Scientist)

• Where’s the fence?  Climate Change May Mean More Mexican Immigration.  Oh wait.  I forget.  Winter is cold so it doesn’t exist.

• The hairy-nosed otter is adorable.  I have a ground hog named Gertrude that lives under a shed.  It could be male.  Gender is subjective.  I don’t mind if she nibbles the cucumber plants.  A girl has to eat.  The damn moles are a bane.

I guess that wasn’t too mindless.  I should start Book 10 of the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Cheers.

• Annoying Cooks on the Web – A Field Guide (Urlesque)

• Variorum of Classic Tracts and Pamphlets (A Journey Round My Skull)

• Limp Laws: The Catholic Church’s impotence index. (The Smart Set)

• The bookcase you’ll want to live in. (Guardian)

• Which Dystopian Future Is Right For You? (Flavorwire)

• Skeleton Clocks (feuilleton)

• Altered animals: Creatures with bonus features.  (New Scientist)

• Divide and Conquer: Genes Decide Who Wins in the Body’s Battle Against Cancer.  (Science Daily)

• Iraq’s Modern Art Collection, Waiting to Re-emerge.  (NY Times)

• Women Claim Boss Smelled Their Feet. (CNS)

• A Concise History of “Fuck.” (Vanity Fair)

I spent more time on and off Facebook today than dealing with this place.

Let me regurgitate.

• I started the day looking at the McCrucifix.

• I read about the Terrifying Frankenfood to Be Unleashed on America.

• I pondered the length of my thumb.

• I looked at jewelry from the Cast of Vices Collection.

• I watched Neko Case at a New Pornographers show teach an audience member a lovely message about throwing shit on stage.

• I posted my favorite quote from Sunday’s episode of True Blood.  “I’m a nurturer. I found a baby armadillo by the side of the road and I nursed it. Now it sleeps under my bed. His name is Felix.” -Terry Bellefleur.

• That lead to reading about Armadillos and Leprosy.  There are rare cases of transmission to humans, usually through undercooked meat.

• Thanks to the illustrious Shad Marsh, I discovered that it was the International Mel Brooks’ Status Day.

• I posted Nurse Diesel from High Anxiety: “Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.”

• I also posted from History of the World Part One: “Yes, citizens, plumbing! It’s the latest invention to hit Rome! It moves water from one place to another! It’s astounding, it’s amazing! Get on the bandwagon! Pipe the shit right out of your house!”

• Then I had to watch Lili Von Shtupp from Blazing Saddles.  I am soooo tired too.

• Finally I linked to a photo gallery of spoilers for the Doctor Who finale. SPOILERS!

That was easy.