Tag: pony party

Just because I like to know what others think about things great and small… and I have a passion for anybody who can condense the spirit of a thing in a few words…

The floor is open.  Shall we dance?

All pictures from PBS’ America’s Ballroom challenge

The mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance.  Mambo was the name of a Haitian Voodoo princess.  It means conversation with the gods. The first music called “mambo” was written in the late 1930s by a Cuban composer.  Instruments commonly used for mambo music are conga, cajon, bango, timbales, claves, upright bass, piano, trombone, trumpet and saxophone.  

The mambo craze began in the late 1940s when a musician named Perez Prado came up with a dance to go with it.  

Hit it Perez!

Mambo No. 5

Now for some modern mambo craze.  This is a fun song and the video rocks!

The Mambo Craze by De Phazz

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Thursday,  I  Think  Seriously,  About  Stupid  Shit

Gung ho fat choy!  Happy Chinese New Year!

February 7, 2008 begins the Year of the Rat.

Chinese Zodiac (wikipedia)

Rat: Forthright, disciplined, systematic, meticulous, charismatic, hardworking, industrious, charming, eloquent, sociable, shrewd. Can be manipulative, cruel, dictatorial, rigid, selfish, obstinate, critical, over-ambitious, ruthless, intolerant, scheming.

Ox: Dependable, calm, methodical, patient, hardworking, ambitious, conventional, steady, modest, logical, resolute, tenacious. Can be stubborn, narrow-minded, materialistic, rigid, demanding.

Tiger: Unpredictable, rebellious, colorful, powerful, passionate, daring, impulsive, vigorous, stimulating, sincere, affectionate, humanitarian, generous. Can be restless, reckless, impatient, quick-tempered, obstinate, selfish.

Rabbit: Gracious, kind, sensitive, soft-spoken, amiable, elegant, reserved, cautious, artistic, thorough, tender, self-assured, astute, compassionate, flexible. Can be moody, detached, superficial, self-indulgent, opportunistic, lazy.

Dragon: Magnanimous, vigorous, strong, self-assured, proud, direct, eager, zealous, fiery, passionate, decisive, pioneering, ambitious, generous, loyal. Can be arrogant, tyrannical, demanding, eccentric, dogmatic, over-bearing, impetuous, brash.

Snake: Deep thinker, wise, mystic, graceful, soft-spoken, sensual, creative, prudent, shrewd, ambitious, elegant, cautious, responsible, calm, strong, constant, purposeful. Can be loner, bad communicator, possessive, hedonistic, self-doubting, distrustful, mendacious.

Horse: Cheerful, popular, quick-witted, changeable, earthy, perceptive,

talkative, agile mentally and physically, magnetic, intelligent, astute, flexible, open-minded. Can be fickle, anxious, rude, gullible, stubborn, lack stability and perseverance.

Sheep: Righteous, sincere, sympathetic, mild-mannered, shy, artistic, creative, gentle, compassionate, understanding, mothering, determined, peaceful, generous, seeks security. Can be moody, indecisive, over-passive, worrier, pessimistic, over-sensitive, complainer.

Monkey: Inventor, motivator, improviser, quick-witted, inquisitive, flexible, innovative, problem solver, self-assured, sociable, polite, dignified, competitive, objective, factual, intellectual. Can be egotistical, vain, selfish, cunning, jealous, suspicious.

Rooster: Acute, neat, meticulous, organized, self-assured, decisive, conservative, critical, perfectionist, alert, zealous, practical, scientific, responsible. Can be over zealous and critical, puritanical, egotistical, abrasive, opinionated.

Dog: Honest, intelligent, straightforward, loyal, sense of justice and fair play, attractive, amiable, unpretentious, sociable, open-minded, idealistic, moralistic, practical, affectionate, dogged. Can be cynical, lazy, cold, judgmental, pessimistic, worrier, stubborn, quarrelsome.

Boar/Pig: Honest, simple, gallant, sturdy, sociable, peace-loving, patient, loyal, hard-working, trusting, sincere, calm, understanding, thoughtful, scrupulous, passionate, intelligent. Can be naive, over-reliant, self-indulgent, gullible, fatalistic, materialistic.

In Chinese astrology the animal signs assigned by year represent what others perceive you as being or how you present yourself. It is a common misconception that the animals assigned by year are the only signs, and many western descriptions of Chinese astrology draw solely on this system. In fact, there are also animal signs assigned by month (called inner animals) and hours of the day (called secret animals).

Click the wiki link above to find your zodiac symbol (based on the year you are born) and your “inner animal”.    Earth, wood, fire, water, and metal also modify the animal signs.  

Imagine.

What, again?

Oh come on.

sigh  All right.  I imagine….

In the spirit of a popular front against the forces of anti-poniness, the Anarcho-Syndicalist Pony Liberation Front (ASPLF) has allied with more mainstream pro-pony forces to bring you an officially sanctioned Bootleg Pony.

As for your author ? Well, the subject of my Scots roots has come up lately, and ranged from nicknames to the inevitable kilt questions (“Well ?”) to a sporran-and-kilt reunion of sorts with our own outstanding climatologist stormchaser. One thing that comes to my mind is the love-hate relationship Scots themselves have with aspects of their own culture. For example, do you choose to say someone’s “strangling the cat,” (no, not that …) or playing the pipes ? Myself, I love the bagpipes. Never learned how to play but given their skill with wind instruments I have some hopes for my kids (actually I think the youngest will skirl, the middle one’s more of a Highland dancer.) But pipes, hmmm, different things come to mind.

‘Twas the night before Super Tuesday

When all through the house

Not a creature was stirring

Not even Dennis Kucinich a mouse

The ballots were stacked

By the ballot box with care

With hopes that the voters

Soon would be there

The voters were nestled

All snug in their beds

While visions of Democrats

Danced in their heads

Obama in his kerchief

And Clinton in her cap

Had just settled down

For a long winter’s nap

When on the White House lawn

There arose such a clatter

I sprang from my bed

To see what was the matter

Away to the TV

I flew like The Flash

Grabbed the remote

Which I almost crashed

The loon on the screen

On the White House lawn

Gave me the shivers

And caused me to yawn

When, what to my wondering

Eyes should appear

But that horrid wretch

Who likes to shoot deer

I knew in a moment it must be Mr. Dick

More rapid than the Eagle Forum

His minions they came

And he whisted and shouted

And called them foul names

“Now, Russert, now, Brit Hume

Now, Billo and Hannity

On, Fox News, teh stoopid

On Matthews and Blitzer!

To the top of the screen

To the top of the wall

Now bash away, bash away

Bash away all!”

As dry leaves that before,

The wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle,

Mount to the sky,

So up to the White House

The minions they flew,

With reports Republicans,

And St. Dickless, too.

Eek! I forgot again. And I even have a reminder set in Outlook.

Oh, well. Another Monday morning, another pathetic Pickle Pony Party.

But, hey, the GIANTS won and that PATS lost! W00t!

The Chiffons and the Shirelles

He’s So Fine

The Association

Along Comes Mary

I think we need to start with some shaking music since this is the last pony party of the day….

Here are the last of some pics I snapped yesterday. The Northwest Passage exhibit was closed for renovation and the warm weather animals were off sunbathing on a beach somewhere so you get mostly birds and some big kitties at the end….

Hey Wazzup????

Love is in the air….

Staunch individualists….

 Does anybody NOT like penguins? Come on I dare ya. These ones are South Africa and the keep mentioned that the weather yesterday ( high 30’s to 40 ) was about the lower limit of what they tolerate.

They have a little “keeper chat” everyday at 15:00 and the penguins know they will also get fed. A Cormorant also from South America and South Africa hangs out in their pool. I wouldn’t say he hung out with them but he did get fed.

This gentleman used to be a normal sized catfish but he took steroids hoping to get a bigger contract…

Pretty fish….

A skink….