Week of 6 January

This is fun. Of course, there's at least one woman in my past who was in the last three sets of days all the fucking time.

Why is it always the psychos who get all the women?

I Am Not Yours

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love -- put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.
-Sarah Teasdale

Oh, there's an idea. Let's all put radium up our asses. OK, so there are times when the old ways may not be best.

Just another day on Canal St.

Found this at Gangsters from London East End. I'd met this man when I was living in London. He claimed to be known as the "Godfather" & had, in his drunken stream of consciousness, offered to look out for me -- for a quid. Earl's Court in the 1980's, as well as (I'm sure) now, was not very safe. After returning to NYC, I'd described this man to a woman I knew who'd frequently stayed in Earl's Court on her way to Scotland (she'd made pilgrimages there every other year for many years), & she said that when she was last in Earl's Court, he claimed to be none other than Ian Anderson's "Aqualung". Remind me to tell you about the time I was negotiating renting an apartment from the "Teflon Don" John Gotti.

If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
-Dorothy Parker

Some of these subliminal ads are either well known or, in some cases, a stretch, but they are fun.

Do you know a magic poon...? I know one. I hear it's doing stand-up at a club in the Catskills.

Well, just click the image, eh?

Save the squirrels! Nothing new in many parts of this country, but Britain suddenly all for it.

I still wanna try this stuff.

I'll be reading The Recently Deflowered Girl later, but I'm in it more for the pictures -- they're illustrations by one Edward Gorey.

The Medieval.Net has lots of info -- including: Recipes people may have once eaten in Medieval History [note the use of may].

Here are some lovely ways scientists are predicting our race may experience extinction.

Yes, I agree the Israelis should defend the land they were given, but I also agree that Palestinians have the right to be free of the ghettos they've been herded into. Who's really suffering, here? Not the politicians. I firmly believe that as long as we're doing away with the rich & the corporations, we really need to do away with that other menace to peace & freedom. [If you'd like to see more images of the devastation & suffering -- many very graphic images -- see Gaza Kill Photos.]