Pax ethnica optimism
First time scanning just brought me across the wavelength of Dylan Ratigan on MSNBC. consecutive upbeat and inspiring segments today were Pax Ethnica which emphasized areas on earth (including Queens, NY) where ethnic differences among occupants are included and embraced. This was followed by Daily Rant contributor Krystal Clear who went on a soliloquy of cautious optimism that sent me right to her FB page for a pat on the back and then here to you.
DD out
3/21/2012
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Monday, March 19, 2012
The Cuckoo Clock
THE CUCKOO CLOCK
The other night I was invited out for a night with the girls. I told
my husband that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!"
Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily.
Around 3 am, a bit loaded, I headed for home.
Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up
and cuckooed 3 times.
Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed
another 9 times. I was really proud of myself for coming up with such
a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with
him.
(Even when totally smashed... I knew that 3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos
totals = 12 cuckoos or MIDNIGHT!).
The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, I told him,
"Midnight, honey. Just like I promised."
He didn't seem pissed off in the least.
Smugly, I told myself that I had gotten away with that one!
Then he said "We need a new cuckoo clock."
When I asked him why, he said, "Well, last night our clock cuckooed
three times, then it said: 'Oh, shit!', then it cuckooed 4 more times,
cleared it's throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed
twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted."
my husband that I would be home by midnight, "I promise!"
Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily.
Around 3 am, a bit loaded, I headed for home.
Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up
and cuckooed 3 times.
Quickly, realizing my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed
another 9 times. I was really proud of myself for coming up with such
a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with
him.
(Even when totally smashed... I knew that 3 cuckoos plus 9 cuckoos
totals = 12 cuckoos or MIDNIGHT!).
The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in, I told him,
"Midnight, honey. Just like I promised."
He didn't seem pissed off in the least.
Smugly, I told myself that I had gotten away with that one!
Then he said "We need a new cuckoo clock."
When I asked him why, he said, "Well, last night our clock cuckooed
three times, then it said: 'Oh, shit!', then it cuckooed 4 more times,
cleared it's throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed
twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted."
Monday, March 12, 2012
India no longer polio endemic
According to Rotary International, India is no longer suffering in a polio endemic. Now we -- or, they -- just have to keep up with the vaccinations. Are you feeling me, Jenny McCarthy?
http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/120227_news_indiapolio.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rotary%2FPBqj+%28Rotary+International%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Up until 2009, India accounted for 50% of the world's polio cases. With strong action from Rotary International and other sources the flow has been stemmed and the last case reported was in January of 2011.
Litzlberg am Attersee
http://www.rotary.org/en/MediaAndNews/News/Pages/120227_news_indiapolio.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rotary%2FPBqj+%28Rotary+International%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
Up until 2009, India accounted for 50% of the world's polio cases. With strong action from Rotary International and other sources the flow has been stemmed and the last case reported was in January of 2011.
Litzlberg am Attersee
Friday, December 16, 2011
Cacophonous Christmas 2011
We paraded through the city yesternight, spearheading and spreading cheer and spilled liquor over a narrow and winding path.
Cacophony Christmas lives!
But not because of you, probably, dumbass. Where The Fuck were you last night? Surely not clinging to your new best friends and drunken neighbors as were the ragtag bunch that briefly occupied Safeway on Market around 8 pm. Songs of merriment and cries of confusion were abounding as upwards of a hundred revelers paraded through the produce aisle and check stands, snake-like bellowing Deck the Halls and wearing the latest Xmas fashions.
Check me, where you there? Were you not entertained? Ah well, just as well. We didn't need you anyway.
The parade returned, like the swallows to the Capistrano-adjacent area, and the merriment resumed.
Some guy wearing a kimono strummed a uke and a lot of nice people peppered with drunks strung along the Lower Haight, then up Market to Castro, where shit really started to get weird: I mean, people actually starting JOINING IN with us. Singing and laughing and everything. It was epic. So we left.
The parade of mayhem continued through a bar on 14th, and a halfway house of recently sober youths (PERFECT place to put a bunch of slobbering drunks, right?). We knew we had reached our Zenith, so we stumbled, apologized and ---chagrined -- everybody pissed off and planned for how to make NEXT year's CC the REAL last one. Go baby Jesus!
Cacophony Christmas lives!
But not because of you, probably, dumbass. Where The Fuck were you last night? Surely not clinging to your new best friends and drunken neighbors as were the ragtag bunch that briefly occupied Safeway on Market around 8 pm. Songs of merriment and cries of confusion were abounding as upwards of a hundred revelers paraded through the produce aisle and check stands, snake-like bellowing Deck the Halls and wearing the latest Xmas fashions.
Check me, where you there? Were you not entertained? Ah well, just as well. We didn't need you anyway.
The parade returned, like the swallows to the Capistrano-adjacent area, and the merriment resumed.
Some guy wearing a kimono strummed a uke and a lot of nice people peppered with drunks strung along the Lower Haight, then up Market to Castro, where shit really started to get weird: I mean, people actually starting JOINING IN with us. Singing and laughing and everything. It was epic. So we left.
The parade of mayhem continued through a bar on 14th, and a halfway house of recently sober youths (PERFECT place to put a bunch of slobbering drunks, right?). We knew we had reached our Zenith, so we stumbled, apologized and ---chagrined -- everybody pissed off and planned for how to make NEXT year's CC the REAL last one. Go baby Jesus!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Piggyback cars
Volvo is almost ready to roll out this new system of public transportation. You ready for this?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/19/tech/main7261375.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/19/tech/main7261375.shtml
Friday, August 19, 2011
Anna Benassi - Grateful Heart Therapy
Anna Bennasi is a Therapist Intern with Grateful Heart Holistic Therapy Center in San Francisco.
I have met and worked with several therapists over the last thirty years.
That may not do much for my credibility and then again, it may. You decide.
But all I have is my opinions. And in my opinion, Anna is a fine therapist.
She demonstrates all the skills and practices that are needed in therapy. She is highly intelligent without arrogance, a wonderful listener without being passive, and a highly trained -- yet humble -- expert in the field of psychotherapy. She is a caring and compassionate healer.
In the six months since I have met Anna, she has helped me with my wife, my marriage, and my life.
If you are looking for a therapist anywhere near Castro, you would be wise to consider her.
Douglas Whiting
I have met and worked with several therapists over the last thirty years.
That may not do much for my credibility and then again, it may. You decide.
But all I have is my opinions. And in my opinion, Anna is a fine therapist.
She demonstrates all the skills and practices that are needed in therapy. She is highly intelligent without arrogance, a wonderful listener without being passive, and a highly trained -- yet humble -- expert in the field of psychotherapy. She is a caring and compassionate healer.
In the six months since I have met Anna, she has helped me with my wife, my marriage, and my life.
If you are looking for a therapist anywhere near Castro, you would be wise to consider her.
Douglas Whiting
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