Getting ready for Easter Sunday in the Food Lion parking lot

And I'll whoop a fool upside his head.   I'm out here practicing.   Getting ready for Easter Sunday.   Jesus is gonna rise up.  I'm gonna whoop the devil.   Right out here in the parking lot.




Shake it off.   Shake it off.

Nice note from God

Your roommate plays Indigo Girls

Your Roommate Plays The Indigo Girls
by Lore Sjöberg Man,

 http://brunching.com/yourroommate.html

The myth that feminism is making progress

The Last Psychiatrist detects a pattern.     His hilarious (and I think mostly true) column HERE

Excerpt:

The most important-- her words-- advice Sandberg has to offer women is... choose your husband carefully.  
Could I select my love based on my career concerns, or is the logic that my soulless zombie skull would love anyone who agreed to do half the chores?  The only person who can pull that off is a psychopath.

 

Is college football profitable?

Unless the alumni is contributing to other school programs on football weekends, then the answer is no.

Here are the numbers.    Less than half the BCS schools have a football team that turns a profit.  The other half turn a loss and do not support ANY other athletic teams at the school.

And that was the BCS, which is the richest football schools with the big TV and bowl revenues.

Here are the numbers.  

Example:  you think Marshall University turns a profit on football?   They have a big stadium and win a lot of games so you would think they're turning a profit.    No, they don't.   Click on the Marshall row and you'll see they would have a $7Million loss if it wasn't for the $8,194,567 the school contributes to the athletic department. 

Rilke - sometimes a man stands up

sometimes a man stands up during supper
and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking,
because of a church that stands somewhere in the East.
And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead.

And another man, who remains inside his own house,
stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses,
so that his children have to go far out into the world
toward that same church, which he forgot.

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Why can't you show some Personal Responsibility

From That's Life, by Michael Twohy.

Is Sally Hogshead full of it?

Here's the link if the above player doesn't work: YOUTUBE

I think this is weak. My BS detector is pegged at the max. Yet my web searches for this speaker indicate nobody else thinks so.

OK why do I think it's weak.

1: At the 7-minute mark we consumers of her speech get switched from an analytical mode to a bid for approval. We have little choice but to approve her selection of a mate.  Any other option would be poor form as an audience.

2: She uses her individual confirmation of his "fascination factor" as proof that simply saying Hi doesn't work.

It seems manipulative and makes me reluctant to consume the rest of her message.

Too bad, because I like what she writes.   I'll think about it some more.

Short film (4 minutes) "Are you the favorite person of anybody?"

2005 short film with John C. Reilley




Written by the girl. Miranda July
Music and cinematography by the last guy. Chuy Chavez

Will a lion chase a laser pointer?

Let's find out.

Cinematographer Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle is cinematographer for Wong Kar-Wai's most acclaimed works (and dozens of other movies)

This is a note to myself to watch at least one of them.

sunflowers

From   http://www.gocomics.com/herman/2013/03/13

Ceiling of The Basílica i Temple Expiatori

 The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain.

Atlanta's great stadium

Holds 95,000

Grass

Outdoors

Built in 1957

Connected to many rail and bus lines

Rated a 5 star stadium for amenities and facilities

Hosted Olympics, Springsteen, Mass led by the Pope, Michael Jackson, U2 etc.

The stadium Atlanta should have built in 1957, but will never build.   Atlanta likes disposable stadiums at taxpayer expense.

Where is it?    Barcelona.

Wash Post Article: How many people do you know who have been shot?

SHARE YOUR NUMBER AND STORY

Mark Hummels was shot in a Phoenix office building on Jan. 30. He died the next day. Hummels was a lawyer mediating a legal dispute between his client, Steven Singer, and Arthur Harmon, an independent contractor. Harmon brought a gun to the meeting and shot and killed Hummels and Singer and wounded a woman. He then drove to a parking lot and killed himself.

Roger Hartley, a friend of Hummels’s, was asked to write an appreciation of him for the Tucson Weekly. Hartley, a political science professor who lives in Asheville, N.C., was thinking about what to write when he realized that with Hummels’s death, he knew nine people who had been killed or injured by guns. He decided to post that on Facebook and ask his friends: “Please answer how many people you have known (people you’ve talked to) who have been the victims of gun violence? Suicide, accidental, murder… otherwise. No politics. … No judgment. Just a number.”    [MORE]

Face Jugs

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina” May 4 to July 7, 2013.

Dale Couch, GMOA’s curator of decorative arts and the in-house curator of the exhibition, said, “The persistence of African culture in the work of enslaved craftsmen is a strong statement of resistance and on human dignity.

As I've quickly skimmed the thousands of "face" vessels (coffee cups, mostly) in art festival booths, I never considered a deeper history for that medium.

Man in drag is #1 Tupperware salesman

Show girl: Aunt Barbara sells $250,000 worth of Tupperware products a month at parties hosted by eager housewives

Nowadays, in the era of online buying, a flamboyant drag queen known as 'Aunt Barbara', is keeping fans of the iconic storage products loyal with her over-the-top parties and eccentric sales techniques.

Owing to the enormous popularity of the outrageous character, the sales representative who plays the role, Robert Suchan of Long Island, NY, has become the number one seller of Tupperware in North America.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2094547/Tupperwares-queen-bee-How-man-drag-seller-American-housewives-favourite-product.html#ixzz2MoXGYbkW

Adorably and amusingly fierce feminist art historian blog

Who writes this stuff, I asked myself irritably as I turned the pages to check the footnote.  Second rate historical fiction?  Over digested creative writing assignment? Highly regarded manifesto of modern design?  Yes, it's  Charles Edouard Jeanneret, the man who also had the poor taste to reject Charlotte Perriand when she applied to worked in his atelier in 1927, dismissing her with the comment "we don't embroider cushions here."      
                --- Jane Librizzi

Jung and our purpose

"In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted."   C. G. Jung

Fat causes cognitive decline

I swore off being a dime-store neurologist, but this stuff always grabs my attention.


From Huffington Post:  Saturated Fat Linked To Cognitive Decline and Poor Memory Among Women

a study published online today by the Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society, associated one particular bad fat - saturated - with worse overall cognitive function and memory in women over time.
....
Women who consumed the highest amounts of saturated fat, which can come from animal fats such as red meat and butter, compared to those who consumed the lowest amounts, had worse overall cognition and memory over the four years of testing.

 

Natsumi Hayashi - the levitating girl

These are not photoshops.   They are all self shots.    She sets the camera's timer and jumps when the camera indicates it's about to shoot.

T-shirt "Greetings From The Rapture"

Cool design from Quertee.   I like underwater.   And the Rapture.   But $18 for a t-shirt?   ($12, plus $6 shipping).    Come on.   I thought the internet was supposed to make things cheaper, not more expensive.

Ouch. Dime-store neuroscience.

Want to see the following myths refuted?

FOLK NEUROSCIENCE Popular misconceptions

■ The "left-brain" is rational, the "right-brain" is creative
■ Dopamine is a pleasure chemical
■ Low serotonin causes depression
■ Video games, TV violence, porn or any other social spectre of the moment "rewires the brain"
■ We have no control over our brain but we can control our mind

Click HERE and skip to the bottom of this article.

Resolution:   I've got to stop sounding like a dime-store neuroscientist.

America Is So Fat Because We Don't ... Clean as Much?

Even for working women, 132 fewer housework-related calories were burned. ...his prescription isn't necessarily more hours behind a vacuum "but it wouldn't hurt," he added under his breath.

Great Rock and Roll Pauses

If you think a Powerpoint has no emotional power, you're wrong. This is from Jennifer Egan's book "A Visit From The Goon Squad". The best book I've read the past year.

Advice: Some of the slides have audio. Turn on your speakers. Be ready to click PAUSE as soon you click PLAY on this, so the slides won't automatically play too fast. Then you can advance the slides manually. Ha. I said Pause.

Great Rock and Roll Pauses from JenniferEgan

More tweets from God

I do this so my Twitter account isn't mostly retweets of @God

I'm telling you right now if you don't start behaving down there I will turn this planet around.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 26, 2013

Seriously, what is wrong with you people?
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 26, 2013

When you type "omg" you simultaneously blaspheme, abbreviate and lower-case My name. But hey, no worries.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 28, 2013

Catholics: there's no pope! Quick, start sinning before it starts counting again!
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 28, 2013