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The Beatles:  Requiem for John

A Day in the Life

As I was driving home from taking pictures, I asked myself whether there would be some time in the future when light displays would be considered too luxurious for public consumption. That is a part of the reason I like taking pictures: I wonder if I am witnessing the passing of the world we live in. When I am old and no longer productive, will the pictures I take be the memories I drift on as I reach my final destination? Will the world I passed through simply be a memory for many of us? Will the children I saw delighting over the displays be forced to survive in a much meaner one of continuous shortages, grief and struggle, over the last few remaining resources?

Our local zoo has an annual Christmas light display, so I decided to check it out.

I am in truth, not a super duper Christmas person. I haven’t started my own personal war on Christmas, I am just a bit ambivalent. The other night a work colleague was stressing out about whether she had gotten enough presents for her kids. Some of them will be from Mommy and Daddy, some from Santa. Another work colleague has an adult niece and nephew who are pretty irresponsible, through out the year she is always loaning them money and if it weren’t for her, the kids wouldn’t have a Christmas. She rarely gets a thank you. I wonder if the kids will ever realize when they are older just who bought them most of their gifts.

The zoo was mainly full of families with young kids and some teenagers looking for something to do. It was nice to see that in a world of hyper fast imagery and video games that kids still like lights.

The entrance was graced with fake snow. If it really snowed in Memphis, even an inch or two, Memphians would be galloping through the grocery stores acting as if it was Armageddon, not appreciating lights.

I am too lazy to write anything. I am lame. I embrace lamehood like a badge of distinction.

In the you tube commentary, in this little Russian animation, most people were angry at the cat. I thought it was a bit more complicated than that, more of a Yin Yang, love and pain can mix together in a potent and confusing recipe. Both characters learn a lesson I think.

I like this one because this little cat has persistence even if his goal is a bit macabre.

I will end this with music. Hope you are waking up feeling rested.

Please don’t rec pony party, hang out chit chat and then go read the excellent offerings on our recent and rec’d list.

on saturdays in leiden, the vendors fill the streets with their carts and tents of clothes and food and olibolo (did NOT spell that right) balls for Sinterklaas… middle eastern scarves, heavy wheels of cheese, african carvings, and books. people here love books.

i found this slim volume of poems by John Smith (?) at one of those carts. a book in english and i liked the subject… so i bought it. and, after reading, thought some of the poems might generate discussion, as love tends to do.

I’m sure you already know…. don’t wRECk the pony party

So… (I recently learned from davidseth this is a jewish way to start a paragraph!)

Nightprowlkitty had a neat essay about haiku’s, or pops…. and since I had nothin’….

I thought I’d try to continue the puppy theme with my haiku effort.

(I want to warn you I’m pisspoor at poetry & don’t remember the rules of haiku!)

Your haiku’s can be about anything, of course… and you don’t have to haiku.

tumbling growling running

wet noses, sloppy kisses

Puppy pile up

fur-people friends

understand everything

yet never think worse of you

soft and good to burble on

rotund replete asleep

fat puppy belly

So I was thinking about Puddin’ Hed, the smartest dog who ever owned me, this morning and this was the only net ready photo I could find…

Which of course started Puddin’ Hed’s favorite song in my head:

While looking I found some other puppy pics along the way…

Pooka…

Muad’Dib & Oblio…

Which led me to thinking about Puppy Power!

And puppy bellies…

And puppy curiosity…

And the goofiest grey ever…

Aaaaargh! Too many puppies….

I don’t know what the hell is going on in this clip, but it made me laugh.

so here youse go….

The ex-chief of staff to former Republican Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania was charged Tuesday with allegedly using his wife to accept kickbacks to help a consulting firm get federal funding.

….from the ABC News story…

“and it hit me like shot… there are no niggers”

Here is my favorite Yahoo!News story du jour….titled ” Young chimp beats college students”

Short-term memory tests were conducted by showing sets of numbered (arabic numerals 1-9) ‘cards’ on a computer screen for seven tenths of a second.  After that short interval, the numerals disappeared, and participants were asked to touch the ‘cards’ in numerical order by remembering the arrangement.  Young chimps and college students were pretty equally matched in correctly reproducing the correct order.

However, as the test progressed, the amount of time for which the numbers were shown was progressively reduced, first to four tenths, and then to two tenths of a second. The chimp was still correct about 80% of the time (which is consistent with the longer version) while the college students proficiency dropped to about 40%.