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And so continues my adventures in Blue Hill, Maine...
I know what some of you folks are saying. That this Internet blog is fake and designed to make Conservatives look bad. I wish that I could say that Conservative Economic Policies isn't forcing a full grown 51 Year Old Man out of his apartment at Lexington Hills Apartments in Upper Arlington, Ohio and this entire blog is Fake News with which to ignore away with. Look folks, I wish I could say something that could make you feel better. The truth is that I'm an ACTUAL PERSON---a 51 YEAR OLD MAN LIVING IN HIS MOM'S HOUSE BECAUSE CONSERVATIVE ECONOMIC POLICIES FORCED HIM OUT OF HIS APARTMENT AT LEXINGTON HILL APARTMENTS IN UPPER ARLINGTON, OHIO AND BACK INTO HIS MOM'S HOUSE. You see, some problems can't be solved by screaming bloody murder at them while doing nothing except deny that the problem ever existed. We need actual answers to this economic mess, not more scary acting and unproductive denial and temper tantrums and the convenient waving of the magic wand---FAKE NEWS AND FAKE RACE RIOTS AND FAKE DISASE PANDEMIC SOLVED WITH A FAKE DRUG PICKED OUT AT RANDOM WITHOUT THOUGHT AND FAKE ISIS/AL QUADA MILITARY STRIKES TO IGNORE AND DO NO MILITARY RESPONCE TO WHATSOEVER. I will, as always, aspire to improve my life day after day. Who knows, I might even get my own apartment back again someday.

On Friday the statue of the “Little Mermaid” in Denmark was vandalized with the words “racist fish” across its base. The bronze statue honors Hans Christian Andersen’s famous fairy tale and perches on a rock in the sea off a pier in Copenhagen. No perpetrators have been identified.

The 107-year-old sculpture is visited by 1 million tourists each year. “I am having a hard time seeing what is particularly racist in the fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid,’” Ane Grum-Schwensen, a researcher at the H.C. Andersen Center at University of Southern Denmark, told local news.

The fairy tale has been on the news lately since last year, Disney announced it is working on a live action remake of the 1989 classic, animated film.

Source 1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/03/man-offers-to-resign-after-showing-during-livestreamed-video-meeting

Bernardo Bustillo mistakenly left his video on while attempting to multi-task by showering while listening to an online meeting

A municipal councillor in northern Spain has offered to resign after inadvertently broadcasting video of himself showering during an online council meeting that was being livestreamed.

Earlier this week councillors in Torrelavega gathered online to hash out some of the latest issues facing the municipality of some 52,000 people. Following the protocols put in place as the coronavirus tightened its grip on Spain, half a dozen councillors dialed into the videochat at 8am, streaming it online for journalists and residents.

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well, the plans for today
got squashed by circumstances
a nap was a good replacement

the question
3 What small courtesy did someone pay you today?

my beloved son
turned somethings on
saving me the trouble

The big event was playing Jackbox games with some folks I haven't seen in forever.  That got really good after my laptop battery died (I was running the games) and so it suddenly stopped and I of course disappeared from the Zoom gathering.  So when I got back in we all decided the game we were playing at the time wasn't meant to be, and just chatted.  I thought it'd wind down pretty soon, but folks seemed to want to talk, and talk we did.  Caught up some folks.  Got bolstered by others talking about things like being disappointed in Stacey Abrams.  I dunno.  It was just good.  The last person and I didn't "hang up" until 1 a.m., and that only cuz I was getting blood-sugar spacy, and wanted to open the windows & start blowing the cooler air into the place.

A model kit I ordered for myself a while ago came just in time to be a birthday present to myself:




And then today one of the Zoomers---a local---brought me a couple of sweet treats, complete with plastic for my buddy to enjoy:


The more expensive sorta-present I got myself is DNA testing.  It was a middle-of-the-night whim a week ago.  I don't give a hoot about the ancestry part, but I like the idea of finding out about any health factors that are more-or-less inherent, or inherently predispositional, in me.  The tube for saliva came the other day, and now it's on its way to the lab.  I think it's a matter of weeks before I hear from them.

Then today in my email Coursera, through which I took most of a MOOC a few years ago, I saw that there's a series of anatomy classes, through the local U, starting today.  I mean, why not?  I can audit.  So I've signed up & am starting that.  It might be a bit much, on top of learning Spanish through my phone app and working the steps in a workshop in my newer recovery program, plus there's a chance that I'll squeamish out when I get to the cadaver detail shots.  But maybe not.  And, really, I often find myself curious about body things, so why not know more?  I trust it won't be only about learning the names for things.  But I have already learned the word "integumentary", as it's part of the title of the first of the four courses.

I'm just auditing.  So it's free.  No need for a certificate.  Kinda great, yes?  The folks checking in in the "Introduce yourself" message board are from all over.

I also remembered today to activate my free months of Apple music, from buying a keyboard a bit ago.  One of the first things I looked up to hear was the dB's.  Power pop from my college days.  Their greatest song is undeniably "Amplifier," but here's an album cut I like of theirs a lot:





It's hot.  About to do another in-and-out-of-the-shower with my hair in a ballcap.  Maybe when the sun goes down I'll want to eat something.

Oh, forgot to say we had (to take) the day off work today.  My birthday observed, I choose to consider it.

 

Thought for today: I realised that all of my LJ friends, excluding wanderipity, are trolls.  TROLLS!  remember when being a troll was bad?  Now you too are bad.  Bad like a troll!

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first a belated
Happy Canada Day!!!

(the last two days have been crazy busy)

i love peaceful Canada
but this appeared on my friends page today
did our ill humor drift across the border?
https://wildhunt.org/2020/07/neighbor-files-complaint-against-canadian-witchs-religious-garden-art.html

"I might go to jail for posting this."

* it's been a long day
Plan A got scraped
when friend needed help

* Plan B included
lunch with friend
we all needed food
at favorite "biker bar"

even better than last time
table with umbrella on pier
no one near
lovely cool breeze
delicious scallops and salad

* her errands - our errands
a long day
but her car is fixed!
we took her to pick it up
and finally home

Question #2
2 Have you ever gotten into a physical fight with someone?
physical?? Fight?? MOI???
not the way i was raised
i learned how to use words

China imposes sweeping national security law on Hong Kong ...

By Helen Regan, CNN Updated 12:42 AM ET, Wed July 1, 2020 Hong Kong woke up to a new reality on Wednesday, after China's central government imposed a sweeping national security law late the night before that critics say has stripped the city of its autonomy and precious civil and social freedoms, and cements Beijing's authoritarian rule over ...

Defiance and fear as Hong Kong settles into new normal ...

Countries prepare to take in Hong Kong refugees fleeing China's crackdown

a massive police presence and zero tolerance approach

CNN publishes Chinese propaganda praising China

If you look at a Wikipedia map, it will show China as including Tibet.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~3/hc1aA5Sw-3o/d_l_stewart_scenes_from_a_black_trans_life

At the crossroads of life and livelihood, scholar D-L Stewart invites us into scenes from his own life as he resists and reflects on the dehumanizing narratives that shape the Black trans experience in the US. With each word of his captivating and poetic dissection, Stewart emphasizes the magnitude and urgency of the rallying cry "Black trans lives matter" -- and calls on others to uphold that truth, too.

I have some other postcards to celebrate the occasion of my own danged birthday, so I'll put a few ( Collapse )

One more, from the now-defunct Fantasy Island amusement park in Grand Island, NY, looking like it's from the years of my childhood, roughly:

 

I was correcting some tags, and pulled up a 2018 post, which seems relevant to today's uncivil unrest.  Unfortunately, LJ no longer allows users to SHARE past posts, so I have to link you to it: https://madman101.livejournal.com/tag/%22great%20overreach%22

See also tag https://users.livejournal.com/madman101/tag/democrats%20in%20denial

I have pretty much recovered from the very bad migraine, and am therefore up doing anything and everythign I can, before the next downfall.

I shall add a new term and definition to my madman lexicon.  It helps to do this, because creating a new term is like making a folder into which you can throw a bunch of related files.  It saves a lot of explanation, when all you have to do is use one word or phrase, yes?

You read the recent TIME PASSAGES post, regarding thinking yourself into a place in the past - almost an alternate universe.  This mental "time travel" is done via bed.  And so i am calling it, "beditation."

"BEDITATION": A kind of meditation in bed, with eyes closed, which uses a relaxation of the mind, memory and visualisation.  One references back to a past time in a past bed, and imagines those past surroundings now to be the present ones.  Thus, the meditation is a kind of imaginary, emotional and somatic time-travel.  It can be argued that an actual psychic event occurs, in this exercise, if one takes a relativistic or supernatural view of reality.  However, such a conclusion is not necessary to the term.

Beditation can also describe simple relaxation of mind, and then the stochastic visualisations which occur prior to sleep, and may even be extended to refer to the act of dreaming.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brainyquote/QUOTEBR/~3/EWOvYT8v2BE/charles-darwin-quotes

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~3/T2kuPJh_bqY/shekinah_elmore_the_courage_to_live_with_radical_uncertainty

When your future is uncertain, how do you keep moving forward? In this courageous talk, oncologist and cancer survivor Shekinah Elmore shares how she embraced life after a rare genetic diagnosis -- and explains why she believes doctors have a duty to help their patients learn to live with radical uncertainty.

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/885942130/militarization-of-police-means-u-s-protesters-face-weapons-designed-for-war?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=freshair

Radley Balko, author of Rise Of The Warrior Cop, says police departments across America are increasingly using equipment designed for use on a battlefield, including tanks, bayonets and grenades.

July 1
the intensity of summer
"now it begins - now it starts"

i'm procrastinating
there's a lot to be done
today this day

but maybe i'll start
the questions
June got too personal

Q1. What was the first concert you went to?
i've never gone to a rock concert
(yes, i know what you're thinking lol)
concert means "classical"
or variant there of
i went to lots of them
when i lived in NYC
lots of musician friends
free tickets : )
young with long blond hair
it was either classical or folk
Peter Paul & Mary in the Village
lots of memories - no "first"