there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
Sunday, October 23, 2011
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
gallo-kohlas
Mimi Rosenthal, 101, is all smiles while Michelle Gallo-Kohlas tattoos a sunflower on her arm at Requiem Body Art in Spring Hill Saturday. When Rosenthal turned 99, she decided to get her first tattoo, an “itty-bitty butterfly” on one of her ankles.
survive
This is a true story of Mother’ s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head. With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure. He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “ The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’ s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up. The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said ,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept.
eva huber
My name is Eva Huber and I’ve been a tattooer for 8 years. This photo was taken of me by Tong Marklarat at the 10th annual Boston Tattoo Convention. You can follow me at theevahuber.tumblr.com or twitter.com.eva_huber. You can also check out what conventions I’ll be at next by visiting my website, www.tattoosbyeva.com Thanks!
Hideyuki Nakayama
ReCraft Your House: 004 House by Hideyuki Nakayama
Via Moco Loco - An outstanding home in a new residential development in Matsumoto, Japan, began with “sketches of a girl sleeping on a blanket with a floor hovering above her.” The two-storey structure reveals almost nothing of its interior organization from the outside. A sunken living room connects with the lot through a strip of glass that runs the perimeter of the house at ground level. nside, “ambiguous spatial relationships,” centered around a “black slab [that] acts as a mezzanine as well as a place to eat and gather.” More at Hideyuki Nakayama.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Traces of a Triassic Kraken?
At first I thought this discovery was really cool, because I love the idea of ancient giant cephalopods creating art and us finding the works now. But then, reality sinks in: that's a genuinely, flamboyantly extravagant claim, and the evidence better be really, really solid. And it's not. It's actually rather pathetic.
It consists of the discovery of ichthyosaur vertebrae lying in a flattened array. They look like this.
Photo shows shonisaur vertebral disks arranged in curious linear patters with almost geometric regularity. The arranged vertebrae resemble the pattern of sucker discs on a cephalopod tentacle, with each vertebra strongly resembling a coleoid sucker.
Wait, what? That's it?
This work was presented at a meeting of the GSA under the title "Triassic kraken: the Berlin ichthyosaur death assemblage interpreted as a giant cephalopod midden ", with this argument:
"It became very clear that something very odd was going on there," said McMenamin. "It was a very odd configuration of bones."First of all, the different degrees of etching on the bones suggested that the shonisaurs were not all killed and buried at the same time. It also looked like the bones had been purposefully rearranged. That it got him thinking about a particular modern predator that is known for just this sort of intelligent manipulation of bones."Modern octopus will do this," McMenamin said. What if there was an ancient, very large sort of octopus, like the kraken of mythology. "I think that these things were captured by the kraken and taken to the midden and the cephalopod would take them apart."In the fossil bed, some of the shonisaur vertebral disks are arranged in curious linear patterns with almost geometric regularity, McMenamin explained.The proposed Triassic kraken, which could have been the most intelligent invertebrate ever, arranged the vertebral discs in double line patterns, with individual pieces nesting in a fitted fashion as if they were part of a puzzle.Even more creepy: The arranged vertebrae resemble the pattern of sucker discs on a cephalopod tentacle, with each vertebra strongly resembling a coleoid sucker. In other words, the vertebral disc "pavement" seen at the state park may represent the earliest known self portrait.
Let me explain something here. This "Triassic kraken" has not been found; no fossils, no remains at all, no evidence of its existence. It is postulated to have been large enough to hunt and kill ichthyosaurs, which is remarkable—comparison to modern giant squid is invalid, since they are prey, not predator. This fossil bed is being over-interpreted as a trace fossil, with the bones arranged by intent, by an intelligent cephalopod, which they have not seen. Furthermore, a line of discs is being seen as a picture of a cephalopod tentacle, classic pareidolia. This is trivial: dump a pile of Necco wafers on a table, and I'll see a picture of squid suckers. This is a whole series of tenuous and unlikely speculations stacked together to make an ultimately ridiculous hypothesis.
After I read the abstract and realization settled in that this was nonsense, something else was nagging me. That name, McMenamin — I'd heard it somewhere before. A little search, and there it was: I've encountered him tangentially before. He's the geologist who so effulgently endorsed the imaginative pattern-spotting of Stuart Pivar. He also claims "that mariners of ancient Carthage made it to America long before Eriksson and Columbus, some time around 350 BC."
I think I would concur with the idea that Mark McMenamin is exceptionally imaginative.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/10/traces_of_a_triassic_kraken.php
I was at this talk this past week in Minneapolis. It was hilarious. The room was packed full of people snickering not sure whether this was a hoax or if he was serious. Based off the abstract I expected more.
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