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Now playing: Ensemble Nipponia – The Folding Fan as a Target
via FoxyTunes
El Girafo by Zeno
Art by Jorge Zeno in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Right up the street from public parking.
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Now playing: The Manhattan Transfer – That cat is high
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Feeding deer near me
There is a Forest Preserve right across the street from me. I just today got my Flip Ultra video camera as seen on Oprah and it works flawlessly. I was worried about the low light but when I viewed it on my PC it is, well you can see fine. I did however import it to Windows Movie Maker and click publish to my computer and ask it to make it into a low bandwidth file which took it from a 40mb to a 1mb size which will be a nice size for emails and this Youtube post so it streams nicely. Where will I go next? It is nice be be alive after all the cancer I had to deal with last year.
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Now playing: David Sylvian – New moon at Deer Wallow
via FoxyTunes
Angry Fruit
Wiktionary says:
Angry Fruit Salad – (Geek slang) A Web page or user interface that is poorly designed and overuses color.
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Now playing: Alice Deejay vs Passion Fruit – Back In Wonderland
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Classy
For the cock craving fag who is also very classy…
One of Jackie Beat’s comments on Jan’s Myspace
which was so hilarious I had to feature it here.
photocrank
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Now playing: Bali – Traditional Musicians – Cockfight – Trance in Paksabali & Keseiman – Gamelan Beleganjur
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The perfect wine glass
Found this and other such fun on Austin Knights Windows Live Blog of Jokes
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Now playing: Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
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Dinosauroid
Brad Steiger writes about the carboniferous foot prints that have been found all over the North American continent.
…Russell and Seguin decided to take the exercise a few steps farther. Using Stenonychosaurus as the model, they fashioned a creature that might have evolved, rather than dying out with the rest of the dinosaurs, sixty-five million years ago.
via UFO digest
Photocrank
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Now playing: Miss Papaya – Pink Dinosaur
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Heath Ledger will be missed
The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in Manhattan, according to the New York City police.
via NYT
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Now playing: English Boy On The Love Ranch – Sex Vigilante (Deathwish Mix)
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Madge
Wiki says: Many of the photos in the book “Sex” are from film frames.
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Now playing: Robbie Williams – She’s Madonna
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The folding fan as a target
I believe I have found the song that was the inspiration for a segment of Bladerunner. There is a Geisha advertisement and her song is similar to the one on the album Ensemble Nipponia – Japan Traditional Vocal and Instrumental Music, called 扇の的 or The folding fan as a target.
This famous piece for voice and biwa is based on a complex legend similar to that of William Tell, in which a folding fan,
instead of the famous Swiss apple, serves as the target. Most biwa music is quite ancient. Voice and instrument in the narrative chants tend to complement each other as in Western recitative; the large ornamental leaps for the voice are characteristic of the genre.
Cancer so far
It has been three weeks since my 100 day’s after last hospital stay where I was CT and PETA scanned. All is fine. I had avoided writing or vloging about it cause I was just glad it was over and didn’t want to think about it. I had what is called a stem cell transplant. The first thing that was done is a couple hours of outpatient chemotherapy to stimulate bone marrow into the blood and for a week I did special shots to help it along. I was then admitted into the hospital where they extracted my blood with what I can describe as a kidney dialysis machine that separates the marrow from the blood. They then froze this concoction with preservatives in cryogenic temperatures. I then go through, not four days of chemo like I have all along, but seven days worth. This chemo was the hardest to deal with cause you are brought to the brink of death with no resistance to germs. The bone marrow is thawed and given back intravenously. It smells like cream corn because of the preservatives and that smell permeates from you for a few days. I slowly got better but was feverish and had the worst diarrhea since I had PCP pneumonia in ‘97. I was lucky and got out of the hospital in two weeks instead of the three and a half to four weeks that was predicted. I was nauseous for a month after that but made it by with plenty of generic ensure protein drinks. I now have 950 T-Cells which is a far cry from the 450 I had before I had cancer and is about average for a person with AIDS I guess. It is like my system was rebooted like a computer.
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Now playing: Astrud Gilberto – Who Needs Forever
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