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MTA thoughts and soundsNovember 13th, 2014
A couple of awesome things happened this morning, that I can't not mention.
First of all, I saw this lady:
I saw her, and I thought, oh… I do this too. New York City is an orchestra of facial ticks some mornings (and afternoons and nights). And there's an anonymity and permission allowed to you on the subway. Is it like this in all cities? I know about the NYC subway policy of behavioral leeway, because I've wept multiple times on public transportation, and once I had an explosive screaming fight on the Jay Street Metro Tech platform with a now ex-boyfriend. It was all allowed. MTA decorum enforcers did not arrive with tissues or counselors. They also didn't say anything when I saw a man clip his toenails and eat fig newtons right there on the seat. When a man tried clipping his toenails at Goodbye Blue Monday during one of my shifts, I had to ask him to stop. He was a little indignant. I said, "This is a public place. You're doing a private thing. It's not a bathroom. This is something you should do in your bathroom…" I guess I was the first person to explain this to him. I told him not to take it personally; it's just a societal norm.
The lady in the video has a job. I'm assuming she has a job. It was morning rush hour. I don't think anyone would sit on a train at that time if they weren't going somewhere to get paid. I wanted to follow that lady and see where she worked. What does she do for a living? What does her cubicle look like? Does she like her coworkers? Do they like her? Hey lady! Can I stalk you for a little bit?
The other awesome thing was also on public transportation. I was on a different train–the 2 train going into the financial district. I haven't been in these parts for years. I used to work at 85 Broad St. for like 7 years from the late '90s on. Being there was really bringing back the '90s for me. I had forgotten what a crush of human beings filled the train cars close to 9am. We were all on top of each other, breathing each others' air, withstanding the conductor's whimsical breaking. And nobody killed anyone. Not even one murder. People were even saying "excuse me" and "sorry." I heard it on the radio once… if we were all gorillas in there, we would have ripped each other apart. Blood, mayhem, fury. But we on the train, we didn't even growl. No one died. Not even a little.
Everyone got off the train, and the other track let off its load, and then there was the effort to get up the stairs. How is this ever going to work? But it did. We all just moved as much as we could, not killing anybody, and we got through it.
AND I even overheard a man offering to carry a woman's heavy rolling bag up the stairs for her. A strange man asked to carry a strange woman's bag for her and she let him! Amazing. I just wanted to say I'm impressed. No one died, and a lady got help with her bag.
Okay, sometimes things can be so horrible they are amazingly horrible, and I'm not going to ignore those either. This example comes from this past summer when I discovered a new form of subway torture… it's when you're exhausted, and all you want to do is go home and rest your pathetic struggling bones and you waited for 30 minutes standing for the train that finally came and then it stalls on the platform with doors open. And there's music playing. And sometimes the torture is a singer-songwriter with an original song you don't like and a voice that is wailing and little bit flat and a need to be liked that is huge–too huge for you to fill. And sometimes it is a saxophone with a meandering solo
that makes you question your love of horns. And sometimes it is this (but longer):
Bagpipes. On the subway. This happened.Share
Triple A Trixie in Rouyn NorandaNovember 7th, 2014
Am I over my October performance art tour of Canada? No. No I am not.
Here are some more pictures. Look, Leslie is green. It's the magic of theater. We are in our world created by the loving and genius hands of Julie Lamendola as we sing Leslie's song "Sleep."
And Genevieve with her monologue in the song "V-JJ" that I wrote initially for Bushwick Book Club presents Philip Roth. It was her improvised vagina monolgue. She initially wasn't going to talk about her vagina but vaginas in general since her mom was in the audience that night, but in the end, she decided to talk about her vagina afterall. Her mom was okay. She knows her daughter has a vagina.
AND… here we are at the finale. Julie Lamendola's interpretive vaginal dance.
It was the closer. I mean, where do you go from that. You go and have a drink and call it a night… You might want to sigh and digest your feelings, maybe mull it over with fellow spectators, maybe dance, shake it out, let it move through your body, your glorious body that is yours alone to experience the world with. But that's about it.
Way to be, Rouyn-Noranda. Thanks for having us. You know how to make a vagina feel received.
Photos by Christian Luduc.Share
Canadian DaysOctober 21st, 2014
This is a rare bird of a month. I'm not usually in Canada. The last time I was here was for Ching Chong Song shows in Montreal. Halloween 2008 or something like that. Goodness. One time before that, Murderizer played a bike messenger show also in Montreal. The boys behaved so badly, I drove us straight home. My bands have gotten more fun since then.
I will work backwards. I just said goodbye to this lovely man:
He is a sweetheart whose name I feel insecure pronouncing. It's Alain, but you don't pronounce the "n." The "n" is a felt, understood but unspoken thing. What a subtle thing to think a letter but not have it come out your mouth. If Chinese is a tonal language, then French is a subliminal one — filled with intentions that aren't necessarily acted upon. I suck at French. My intentions are flung willy nilly.
But I'm loving hearing the language and the mix of French and English that is everywhere in this city. Alain is studying landscape architecture. His home is full of growing things–little plant cuttings in water. A small tree. Happy little beaded succulents. Alain is also a performance artist and dancer. Well of course he is, he comes from Rouyn-Noranda. He grew up with Genevieve there. This small mining town 8 hours north of Montreal is an unlikely artist haven. I'm not sure what's in the water there. Alain says it's pretty toxic actually. But whatever it is, it must breed artists. Genevieve and Matthieu, a couple who is also a rock duo as well as visual artists, have created a community there and a bi-annual performance art festival that attracts international theater and performance artists to L'Ecart, their performance art and studio space for a week-long celebration and communion of the out-there, the creative, the brave, the true(ish) expression. Good lord.
Here are some revelers after our performance on Friday night. They were inspired by the toning we did at the top of our set. We ended up toning all night with the help of some apple brandy/whiskey thing that was delicious.
Julie made this world out of cardboard and paints for our performance.
Julie spent a couple days in the basement in her sweatshirt and underwear listening to hip hop, happily creating the pieces of this world. She was so content there making these things. I'm more visually challenged, so I marveled at the pleasure she got from letting her imagination have at it with cardboard and paint and old clothes.
Leslie, Julie and I had words on cardboard that we tied to our waists and dragged around for part of the show. It reminded me of the handicaps that people dragged around in Kurt Vonnegut stories. Mine was "baby." Just dragging around that inner child.
THis is the vaginal nest we made for our last number. They actually supplied the kiddie pool we requested in our rider, so we made a nest for Julie's vagina, which of course symbolized Every Vagina.
Alain made the food for the festival. Oh my goodness. A feat of deliciousness.
He also said we could use his apartment in Montreal while he was gone. He said we could have sex in his room. Now that is hospitality. I smell like Alain now from the blanket he let us use on his futon. It's not a bad smell at all. I smell like an adorable man whose name I can barely pronounce.
I bought jeans yesterday, probably because I don't know how to give myself a break, and I'm wearing these jeans with the same hesitancy that I say Alain's name. Is this how you do it? Is this okay? Surely, this can't be right.
This is my third week away from Brooklyn. So so strange. Most things feel strange, and I make myself nauseous over doing it (chocolate, apple cider vinegar, alcohol, you name it). A few things remain consistently right– singing (it's always better to sing than not to sing) and Alain's laugh. He has this cackle, high-pitched glee and pure joyful bubbling noise that flies out easily and sincerely. It's not a tortured, long-awaited thing that is coaxed out. It's this easy sound that sails and catches the air with the slightest movement. It's really something. I'll try and get a recording.
Alain and Carolina. They are jokes and good times. Alain says French is an unserious language compared to English. I think he may be right. But British people are culturally hilarious too. There's that. I'll continue this argument myself, don't you think on it too much.Share
Songs from the last Bushwick Book Club showSeptember 5th, 2014
The Frontier – a rantAugust 28th, 2014
The Cole Haan woman is the new Marlboro man.
I saw these advertisements after reading a few paragraphs of My Life As A Dog for the Bushwick Book Club show that happened last week. These were passages talking about America and walking out in nature. The main character, a young boy in 1950's Sweden, is imagining himself as an American and all the romance that entails. He imagines himself "walking into the American wilderness.." He eats "the fruits of nature and drink(s) from rippling streams and springs and rivers." He walks with a wolf/dog/super-human and realizes "his is also not wholly dog nor human being. We are the best of both–one for all and all for one." That is the dream–one of the most romantic notions of America. The frontier. The return to the basic essence of people as inhabitants of the planet. A connection to nature and our purer, primal selves. The frontier is abundance, with you as a natural participant in, recipient of that abundance. That land of milk and honey that is yours as your human birthright. And of course, that's in contrast with reality. Especially reality now. Everyone longs to be epic, fighting big battles of good and evil instead of just the battle of will power against Doritoes and reality TV where we indulge our inner voyeurs by watching people treat each other horribly. We give in to our smaller natures by watching other people flagrantly give in to their smaller natures.
I'm trying to think of all the least epic things — doritoes, cubicle walls, tourists, emails, email blasts, xboxes, plastic forks, walmart, airconditioning, flourescent lighting, fat mirrors in the elevators, cheetos. I don't know… These are all arguable. I really tend to think that packaged snack foods in general though are anti-epic. And fastfood chains. They take most of the food out of the food and then package it in mass quantities for us to eat and become addicted to. What a racket. What an easy trick on us humans who need nourishment so bad that we'll take it in these depleted forms that kill us in the end. Sometimes there seems no end to the depth of human patheticness. So here we are..
And the Cole Haan ads reflect this. They know what they're doing. They want you to associate their shoes with epicness, with something beyond the day-to-day pathetic tedium, mediocrity, mundanity that makes us feel unconnected in the end. Mostly unconnected. From each other, and from ourselves, and certainly from anything epic. But the ads, they show a young, lithe blonde woman in the wilderness. There are mountains behind her. Maybe they are the American Rockies. She's on a road. She's going places. She's walking. Maybe she'll hitch hike. But right now it's just her and the elements. It's just her, living her life, at peace with the unknown, ready to accept whatever the gods put before her on that road.
But these are pricey shoes. You can't get a pair of flats that aren't at least a hundred dollars. A pair of boots can cost half a month's rent. And how long would your $500 boots last you in the Rockies? And if you could afford those boots, you probably wouldn't be walking on that road. You would be driving your SUV. Or you would have your driver drive you. Or you would have that boyfriend who bought you those boots drive you. And if you paid for them yourself, you might have had to spend way too long in over air-conditioned environments, away from any natural light. You might be very short on vitamin D from your lack of sunlight and short on melatonin from your lack of complete darkness. You might be very short on sleep in general because people want you to work all the time. Everyday. For most of the week so that all that time you spend making money for rent doesn't leave you much time to enjoy the apartment you're paying rent for. So those boots of that brand that is supposed to connect you to the eternal grandness inside you can only be bought by submitting to the most mundane, but painful, robbery of that grandness inside you.
What a trick these Cole Haan people are pulling–telling us we need $300 dollar shoes to feel connected to the earth and nature, when we already are the earth and nature. We'd probably feel more connected to the earth and nature without any shoes at all. We could all probably use more time in our bare feet.
Well, maybe soon we'll all be spending more time in nature anyway, because there are the garbage patches in the ocean and then there's the global warming, and it's going to cause coastal flooding and flooding of major urban areas so we'll be homeless and in nature a lot more, what's left that we can stand on that is.
Oh, I just thought of another similarity between the Cole Haan woman and the Marlboro man. The Marlboro man used the rugged American frontier to sell cigarettes that kill you. And the Cole Haan woman uses that same romantic frontier to sell consumerism that kills you.
Jesus. Why does advertising keep wanting us all to have cancer?
I don't see the point in that.
Incomplete list of non-epic things:
styrofoam containers
food products
Songs About Books Gone WildAugust 12th, 2014
I was talking with Leslie the other night about how I don't tend to post things from the lower clouds. I mean, my last post was from cloud 9, but generally speaking I won't speak online if I'm not at least coming from cloud 7. Yesterday, I got to Cloud -5, which included sitting on a train that wouldn't move after I had already waited 30 minutes for it when I was dead tired at the end of the day. It sat with the doors open on the platform where a folk singer played and played, making me feel like I was at that eternal open mic in hell. I cried.
But you know, it never ceases to amaze me how all things exist at once. There I was crying in hell, but then there's this great thing that exists now that is the product of some of my very favorite people coming together to make something. Here's the new music video for "Girl Pool," a song I wrote for our Vonnegut-Cat's Cradle Bushwick Book Club show a while back. The recording features Matt Menold on guitar (who I miss a lot), Mark Ospovat on bass (who I miss a lot), Adam Amram on drums (yay!) and Julie and Leslie on vocal harmonies (sweet and powerful mix). Oh, also Cecil Scheib on trombone! He's the best.
The video is made by my dear friend and talented filmmaker, Deborah Magocsi. And the cast of course includes adorable people I know from many different worlds. And they all came together and got in the water with me. It was a beautiful experience.
People come together for weddings. And funerals. The making of this video felt like I married myself, and all these loved ones came out to witness and celebrate. Or maybe it was a funeral too. A funeral of one of my old selves, and the moving on to a different place. Well, now I want to do it again. More wedding/funeral/choreographed dance numbers, please.
Speaking of songs about books, there's also a SHOW next week at City Winery with the founders of BBC Malmo. TICKETS are on sale now! You can get them here: http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/bushwickbookclub082014.html
Wednesday, August 20th, musical nerdery reaches new heights as we present our first international collaboration of songs about books at City Winery. The founder of Bushwick Book Club Malmo (our Swedish Chapter) will be in New York to present new songs and performance inspired by Reidar Jonsson's My Life As A Dog.
The night will feature original music and performances by:
Sunny Sanam – performance artist, actor
Julie Lamendola – Ching Ching
Sam James – The Wowz
Charlie Nieland – www.hervanishedgrace.com
Christy Davis – GOLD
Casey Holford – www.caseyholford.com
Sophie Malleret
Early Riser – Heidi Vanderlee, Kiri Oliver https://www.facebook.com/earlyriserrr
Susan Hwang – www.susanhwanglalala.com
Summer Morse
Jessie Kilguss – jessiekilguss.com
Hilary Downes – hilaryedownes.com
Pierre de Gaillande – www.pierredegaillande.com/
Pearl Rhein - pearlrhein.com
Sweet Soubrette – sweetsoubrette.com
Hosted by Susan Hwang with the founders of Bushwick Book Club Malmo – Kristian Carlsson and Thomas Teller,http://bushwick.se/
August 20th, 8pm
City Winery
155 Varick St.
New York, NY 10013
Ph: 212 608-0555
Door: $10
Tickets: http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/tickets/bushwickbookclub082014.html
"The Bushwick Book Club takes humdrum book reading to a new level." — The New York Times
Aygo Chamna and Monday Night with AmramsAugust 5th, 2014
Hi. I'm writing to you from Cloud 9. I don't know if I'm supposed to be up here. I'm not going to stay. I don't think they let you. You get booted in time, so you can find another way up. But it's nice to make it here today. I got here with the help of Amrams and Dr. Vella. It's a pretty potent combination and one that I couldn't have planned, but glad I fell into.
You know that David Amram has this monthly residency at Cornelia Street… I saw it for the first time in May after I had moved onto Hart Street. Actually, the day I moved in. Adam moved me to the apartment
and then said he was playing with his dad later on Cornelia Street if I wanted to go. I was dead beat, but I couldn't pass up the chance to see the show. I was charmed and amazed and moved. David Amram can freestyle. There's almost nothing more exciting, right? It's like the Cirque du Soleil equivalent of verbal acrobatics. He's got all the plates spinning; he's contorted and balanced and is hanging in impossibly beautiful positions in mid air. Will he fall? Will it all come down? How can this sustain itself? But instead the contortions continue and now chainsaws are being juggled and then midgets are being balanced on chins, and then he dismounts and lands perfectly on the ground. It's like that but with words and singing while playing piano with a 4 piece band.
That night in May, Mr. Amram improvised music to accompany a recited poem. He followed the story and added drama in whichever way tickled his fingertips, and because of his natural playfulness and musical agility, the accompaniment was as much the story as the words. It was one of those things I saw and then knew I could do. There actually aren't that many things like that. I mean most things, a lot of things I see, and I think, 'That looks really hard' or 'Not for me in this lifetime.' Like when I see really good guitar players… really good musicians, any instrument, actually, I kind of know I'm never going to get to that level. I'm not a virtuoso, not even close, on any instrument. Honestly, I don't think it's in my make-up. I may not have the head space or the ear or the coordination or the discipline or the, what is that called… talent. As I explained once, I don't have any chops. Maybe one chop on a good day, but plural, never.
But when I saw the poem accompanied by David's improvisations, I just knew that was something I could do. So I asked Adam if he thought I could tell a story at the next show. And he said yes. And so I had to have a story.
But it was intimidating, as that process often is.. All weekend, I was "writing." Which requires all kinds of breaks, like going to pick up my keyboard and eating Chinese food. There's lots of time needed for staring off into space. Suffice to say, it wasn't exactly flowing. I thought I could do this. What the hell?
So the whole weekend, and I'm still confused.. nothing's clear about the story I want to tell. Usually it's pretty obvious to me what I want to say and how I want to say it, but all of a sudden, I'm spewing out things and all kinds of tangents that I'm not sure are interesting… I'm really wishing I had an editor. And I mean, this has to be good.. if I'm bad, they might regret letting me do this, and I'll never be allowed to do anything again ever. That would be really sad for me. Very regrettable. Why did I say I wanted to do this again?
Monday comes, and things are STILL murky. I can't do anything but focus on this, but I can't seem to focus on this… I've got to go to Dr. Vella's in Queens later… I'm running late. He's running late.. I tell Dr. Vella about my dilemma. He says he'll fix me. He's a chiropractor, but he's really not like any chiropractor you've ever met. He just touches little spots on your back and neck and tail bone and then lets you lie face down for a while and then comes back and touches your feet and has you move your head left and right. And he can check your system to see what it's compatible with. I swear, my body never talks to me, but it will talk to Dr. Vella and tell him things. Answer questions. Pretty remarkable. I never knew my feet had so much to say. Apparently, sugar alcohols are all kryptonite to me. Who knew.
I leave Dr. Vella's with that open, mushy liquid feeling… a little vulnerable, but not bad at all… I work on the piece on train. I have dread. I thought maybe I shouldn't do the show, but the pendulum said I wouldn't regret it, so I said fine, I'm coming. I'm writing stuff out by hand, because it's not like I have a printer. I'm cutting and re-wording… which sections stay, which sections go? I'm still writing as the show starts.. I don't know if this is going to work. I imagine calling out for the hook to pull me off stage if I get terribly boring. Can I just carry my own exit hook with me to extract myself out of failing performance situations? Is that allowed?
But as I start talking (telling the story of the time I dyed my hair blonde and then had to go to my brother's medical school graduation dinner, so bought a wig to wear so as not to offend my Korean relatives and spirits of my ancestors), I was flanked by Amrams. I was in their attention. It was intense. I had known this before from playing with Adam. He locks into you, and then whatever you do, he's already with you; he's already there. Now I see where he gets that. It's like their whole nervous system takes you in, connects with yours. You can see it in their eyes, but really it's their whole being. And the great thing is, they respond to you with their own creativity and skill. Which is huge. I mean, their creativity and skill are huge. Formidable, really.
So things went where I had no idea they would go. Some of the parts I doubted the most ended up being the most fun. The audience responded in ways I hadn't anticipated which changed what I did, which affected the band, which affected me and then the audience… whoa… we were on this ride. I was out there on this wave with two Amrams in the Cornelia Street Cafe. You didn't even know there was ocean in that basement, did you.
I've never actually been surfing in my life, but I can't imagine it could be more thrilling than that.
I jumped off the stage like I was just delivered to shore. The rest of that night, I kept thinking, gosh, my parents came to this country. We had no idea what we were in for. But look, last night happened. I did a scary thing that ended up with me surfing with Amrams in a historic venue in New York City. What a thrill. Thanks mom and dad for being brave enough to come to this country even though I now can only speak Korean like a three-year-old, and it caused you much heartache because your kids did exactly what you told them not to do–art.
Last night will not be written about except for here. I don't think it was recorded. The memory may please some of the people who were there for a little while. Certainly, any enjoyment or expansiveness of a shared moment like that does something good to you and adds some measure of joy and connectedness to your store of joy and connectedness. I think there's that. I don't think any time spent in pleasure and sharing is time wasted. However, even with the transience of last night's moment, I count that moment. I mark it in bold, for myself, because I walked through some dread and uncertainty to arrive on a stage with incredible people, and we created something. We made something. Really the whole room made something, because we were informing and affecting each other the whole time. And me there, who came to this country as a toddler, with parents who never wanted me to sing in public, I got to share that stage and be a part of an American culture of music and performance. My parents never wanted this, but isn't it great. I'm really happy about it. Sometimes the best things are the things you never could have imagined. I'm glad for all these moments that don't last, past and future, doing what my folks never ever imagined, but what makes me happiest.
Look, Amrams have a penchant for musical multi-tasking. My theory is, you throw an Amram any two things, and he/she will play them at once:
David Amram on flutes (an Egyptian song):
And Adam on drums and trumpet in my room. That's me singing along like an idiot (albeit a happy idiot):
See that space, that space between the 2 Amrams? That's where I was standing, talking about my hair. And.. the obligatory selfie in front of Cornelia Street Cafe. David Amram said, "That was a great story! Does your mom know you're telling that story? I bet she would really like that." Well, he obviously doesn't know my mother, but I called her today and mentioned it. She was silent mostly in response. I asked her if she remembered that time with the wig. She said, of course. How could she forget? I asked, what was it that you said when I took off that wig? She said, "Aygo chamna." I asked what exactly that translates into. I know what it means for me, but I wondered what the exact words were. She said it translates into "Oh my god. So awful." Oh, I now have the next album title…Share
Sunday – Philip Roth in the ParkJuly 18th, 2014
Okay, it's on this time. July 20th in Propect Park. Join us in the southern end of the Big Lawn in Prospect Park under the tree on top of the hill with the Teddy Roosevelt Boy Scout Tablet. We'll be the ones playing songs inspired by Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth.
Sunday, July 20th, 3 pm
Prospect Park – Teddy Roosevelt Boy Scout Tablet
Performers: Pierre de Gaillande, Jessie Kilguss, Susan Hwang, Leslie Graves, Dave Voigt,Chris Rael, Don Rauf, Geoffrey Scott Diesel, Julie Lynn, Mark Lessereaux
My hair knows things now.July 11th, 2014
It was just a haircut, but it was also a reflection of my evolution as a being.
I tell Hannah that I want Brigitte Bardot hair (the usual). She gives me layering options. We let the pendulum (Pendgie) decide on the classic cut/shape for me, and I head off for shampooing.
I'm met by a lithe young woman named Ford. I'm a little intimidated at first at how lovely she is. She's effortlessly beautiful in her strappy white top and brown skin. The kind of girl whose only needed cosmetic is a nice tan. Her loveliness has this eternal quality to it. Surely, she must be immortal. I should have asked.
I normally feel like a truck driver around women this pretty. This happens a lot around French women who have a built in, cultural or genetic quality of impossible femininity. Like Asians have this genetic connection to cute things–hence the creation of Hello Kitty and Hello Kitty-like things. But the French women have this extreme, hyper, yet refined, femininity. It is a force. And around it, I always feel like a truck driver. Actually, when I think about it, I often feel like a truck driver, whether I'm around the French or not. It's weird when I catch myself in the mirror and realize I don't actually look like one. I am, however, a very good driver. And I can parallel park with the fearless abandon of an Olympic figure skater or um, Errol Flynn or Inigo Montoya (prepare to die…). . I'd like to learn to drive camels and elephants one day, because I have a friend who says he needs a mahout.
So I didn't ask if Ford is immortal, but I found out she has the hands of a goddess. This is the view I have of her as she presses and rubs my head. Come on, mythic beauty. You can see why I was questioning her mortality. She does this amazing thing where she presses hard on the very top of my head. Oh, this must be my reset button! Ford, is making me new! I make sounds. She asks if it's too hard. I say, you can't press too hard on my head. You just can't. And we talk about how expressions of pleasure and pain are sometimes indistinguishable. I think, what a wonderful thing to give a person for a living. Of course, she's apprenticing to become a stylist herself there at Blackstones. But I was thinking, if I could, I would give up my mahout dreams and just wash peoples' hair, pressing on their heads until they felt like heaven. I think that would be fulfilling.
So they start haircuts at Blackstones with ecstasy, which is a very nice
way to start. And then I go to Hannah's chair where you can bare your soul and be received with expert attention all while getting that much closer to Brigitte Bardot.
Speaking of bare.. yes, that's a bear in between us. And an antelope. Or I guess a deer.
I tell Hannah that I've finally made peace with my forehead. It only took about 41 years. My whole life, I bemoaned my mediocre forehead. I wanted it to be as large as Rita Hayworth's Hollywood-altered forehead. Or this.
Now this is a forehead. This forehead is royalty. And romance. You can dream on this forehead. Carol Lombard's forehead is moonlit nights and mystery and the height of everything.
Hannah and I have had similar forehead issues. We've both tried covering them up with bangs and strictly-enforced side parts. For over ten years I had Bettie Page bangs, then various bang-like fluctuations, and then finally, in my forties, I've said, you know what, I'm going to just let my forehead be my forehead. So what. And you know, for the first time in my life, I love my hair. I walked into the salon that day and said to Hannah (who gave me my last cut as well), I love my hair. I don't know why I'm here. I love it. I guess maybe trim it a little? She did. It was a touch up refresher.
I told her that I'm not married to my side part either. She agreed–why be committed to a side part? Yes, these days, I let the part fall where it may.. the middle, off from the middle, left right. It does what it wants. All the time. Which brings me to my new motto: Do What You Want All of The Time.
Honestly, anything else only gets you in trouble.
So see, sometimes it takes you 41 years, but you eventually get to learn flexibility and acceptance. Even my hair knows it.
I'll leave on this note. Hannah is one of my heroes. She's one of the amazing young women I met working at Goodbye Blue Monday. What I lacked in tips at the bar I certainly made up for in inspiration from the young people around me. They were all (still are) like 15 years younger than me, but they moved me so much in how they shaped their lives into what they wanted them to be. Hannah was working at the cafe, but wanted to be a hair stylist. She got up the nerve to ask her favorite salon, and they hired her. She worked her way up to being a top stylist/cutter there. She transformed her life, and she spends all day transforming other people. She's all about making everything more beautiful. I think that's beautiful.
I feel like that generation of girls has less fear than mine? Or maybe just less fear than me… but I don't think I've ever changed my life like that, where I get to do what I want most of the time. I think it's because I never believed I could, so I just let things happen instead of directing myself where I want to go. I've always been a good driver, but if you don't have a sense of where you want to go and the bravery to move in that direction, then you'll just parallel park or sit in traffic. Well.. better late than never. And I have great inspiration from those friends I made at GBM. My hair is already learning things like flexibility and acceptance. Where is that elephant..
Educational AppJune 27th, 2014
I'm so excited about this, I can barely write. Surely, it must exist already. I was sitting on the train and looked over to where a boy was squiggling his finger rapidly on his device… He startled me, but he was just playing one of those video games where you have to zap a bunch of things with your fingers.
I know and am related to people who know and love video games, and I had my time with the likes of Frogger and Pitfall and Tetris… Pong too, sure, but in general, I much prefer to stare off into space than stare and poke at a little screen. Besides, my fellow commuters give me plenty to look at. Sometimes too much.
Something about that young man's intense fingering of that screen made me think–my, if only people paid that much attention to pussy, they'd be really good at it. It just takes attention, focus, practice, repetition. Like anything. If they made pussy into a video game, boys would be really good at it. It would be an educational app. You would manipulate your iphone va-jj until you hit your goal. You would have to pay attention to the sound, heat, movement and swelling, and if you got really good, you would hit the bonus level of magical multiples where you earn points like crazy. And each clitoris and vagina would would be different with different characteristics and different rhythms and different sensitivities, so even if you scored into multiples with one, the next time you played you'd get a completely different one and have to master that… You can play with your friends.. at the same time, you know with the headsets like they do for those simulated flight games, right? You could get very good at Virtual Vagina or Practice Pussy while playing with friends around the globe. You can buy the plastic screen cover to protect from moisture damage for when you get to the oral manipulation levels which is really for experts because you can't see what you're doing. Oral manipulation is a blind art. It's all feel. Imagine, an iphone app that would help you develop feel (and a feeling other than addicted frustration that you're not getting more messages and updates…).
Of course, the idea of this game is that you would get really good so you could go forth in real life with a certain knowledge and confidence and skill level. I mean, people who play those flight games may never fly a plane, but we're hoping that those who practice, hone and learn on the Virtual V-JJ go on to please many actual v-jjs into the realm of magical multiples. It's win win.
This is just an idea… I wonder if this would take all the sexiness out of sex? But then again, mindless fumbling with being too embarrassed to ask isn't sexy either. Or complete ignoring of because you're a man and supposed to know everything.. that doesn't get anybody going either. What we really need to cultivate in this society is excitement about learning about sex, definitely about vaginas. Vagina education should be the best part of the day or week. I've always been very into learning in general. Usually, I do it the hard way, but none-the-less it makes you feel alive. And if you're alive, you may as well feel like you are. It's such a jip to be alive but feel like you're dead. What a dumb joke that is. No thanks…Share


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Size matters: Bromium 'microvisor' to guard PCs for big biz
Bromium, the security software company that was started by the techies who brought us the Xen open-source hypervisor out of Cambridge University, has brought vSentry, its first product, to market. But unless you are buying a new PC from a partner who is bundling the vSentry tool on a new machine, you probably won't be able to …
A false sense of security perhaps?
I'm not saying this product is a bad thing, but we should be careful how much we trust it none-the-less.
Most would assume that an OS running in a VM can't attack the host system, and yet there are vulnerabilities (most recently in Xen 4.1.2) that allow this to happen. There's no reason a microvisor won't have the same issues, especially once it's targeted.
As they say, though, there's far less code for them to keep an eye on than in a full Windows install, so it should be easier to find and fix.
"the microvisor and its microVMs know what different programs are supposed to do and what they are not supposed to do"
This pirate be a wee bit on the skeptical side.... especially with land-lubbers blathering on that "Startup Bromium Could End Computer Viruses Forever" (ref).
Methinks this sounds like a hardware assisted version of ye olde App Armor me matey. That be nice and all, but until it be out on the seas and at risk of being lost to Davy Jone's locker (read: risk getting owned by real security researchers hammering on it) me and me crew won't blink a good eye about spending our booty on it.
Perhaps the Chinese supply chains should use it
You know, the ones that are allegedly distributing pirated copies of Windows... Aaargh!
Interesting approach.
Hearing about it here and there, all I can say is that it's an interesting approach to the problem, to say the least. I'll give them points for coming up with something rather novel. And bully them for taking a "whitelist" approach to trust. Starting slow is fine for a whitelist. Just as in real life, trust should be earned the hard way.
But as others have said, this still needs to face the acid test. Two concerns abound. First, there is already VM-aware malware in the wild. They can sniff out virtual machines and either not run or, worse, trigger the second concern. Second, how well-guarded is this MicroVM against a rogue process trying to "redpill" its way out?
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It was love at first sight, although admittedly, not quite for the first time. But Neha wasn't one to count or rank "loves." Love was just love, not to be confined or categorized or controlled, or worse still, rationalized. It was simply there to be lived, and its magic believed in and celebrated, without any conditions or expectations. Like life. To other people, Neha was naive. To Neha, others were unnecessarily complicated.
She excitedly memorized every detail of what had just happened as the red-heart-clutching white teddy bears on the shelves smiled, winking at each other mischievously.
It was all so romantic, and all so perfectly timed, as though predestined.
Barely an hour ago, for no reason she could fathom then, she had decided to bunk her last lecture and go on one of her random walks.
Everyone judged her ways crazy, but she never questioned her instincts. Random walks to her were not a hobby or even a habit; they were a way of life she abided by with utmost faith, because she knew she would discover the reason behind the "randomness" sooner or later. Neha believed that coincidences were hardly ever accidents, and often found herself to be proven right.
Her steps that day led her to a supermarket. And there, in the aisle especially devoted for Valentine's Day gifts, just as Enrique's 'Hero' started playing on the supermarket's loudspeakers, he walked by and caught her eye.
He was short, pale and average-looking. Yet, there was something that drew her to him. Maybe it was his eyes, bright and kind behind thin blue-framed spectacles. Maybe it was his warm and genuine smile. Or maybe it was just the way he seemed, content, at peace. Like someone who valued life and every moment thereof. Neha liked people like that because she found herself reflected in them.
And when he talked, she knew that it was his sincere heart that made him so magnetic.
"Hey, can you help me?" he said to her, politely, with a cute, endearingly embarrassed air, "I need to buy something for my girlfriend for Sunday, you know, Valentine's Day, and I have no idea how to go about..you know? I've never - Sorry. If you don't mind, that is."
"Sure!" Neha chirped cheerfully, "How about this mug? It's adorable. You can fill it with lots of tiny chocolates, and give it to her ...umm, along with ... a hand-made bouquet!"
"There are these beautiful lilies on the other side of the mountain! I have plucked them before. There is nobody to stop you. And listen, don't be nervous. She'll be very happy, I'm sure!"
"You know, you're, you're simply wonderful. Thank you. I love you!"
Neha smiled and he went away with the mug.
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"If you can identify these patients, you have a better chance of saving their lives," said Benjamin Horne, PhD, director of cardiovascular and genetic epidemiology at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute and lead researcher for the study, which will be presented Nov. 5 at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2012 in Los Angeles.
Preventing hospital readmission among heart attack patients is also a key goal outlined in the Affordable Care Act. Improving the personalization of medical care during an initial hospitalization is the most effective approach to preventing repeat visits to the hospital, but until now the medical evidence regarding who will return has been very limited. This new evidence-based tool provides a standard approach to assessing the likelihood that a heart attack patient will end up back in the hospital, allowing medical providers to re-evaluate their care plan.
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Natural Colorant Taiwan Swirl
- Difficulty:Intermediate
- Time:45 minutes
- Yields:3 lbs. of soap
This beautiful technique is called the 'Taiwan Swirl' because of the first YouTube video that showcased this style of soapmaking. The most difficult part of this recipe is keeping the batter at a light enough trace to get wispy lines. You can change the look of the design by changing the size of the dowel/chopstick/skewer or swirling tool. This recipe used a larger tool and a thin to medium trace to achieve the final product.
Bonus! The new Multi-Pour Sectioning Tool makes it a breeze to separate the 4 colors in this recipe that create the unique design. Scroll down to step 7 to see how to use the dividers.
What You'll Need:
3.5 oz. Cocoa Butter
8.7 oz. Coconut Oil
10.5 oz. Olive Oil
5.2 oz. Palm Oil
7 oz. Rice Bran Oil
4.8 oz. Sodium Hydroxide
11.5 oz. distilled water
Essential Oil Blend: 1.5 oz. Litsea Essential Oil and .6 oz. Spearmint Essential Oil
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If you've never made Cold Process soap before, stop here! I highly recommend checking out our FREE four part SoapQueen.tv series on Cold Process Soapmaking, especially the episode on lye safety. And if you'd rather do some reading, Bramble Berry carries a wide range of books on the topic, including my newest book, Soap Crafting. You can also checkout the digital downloads for that instant gratification factor.
SAFETY FIRST: Suit up for safe handling practices! That means goggles, gloves and long sleeves. Make sure kids, pets, and other distractions and tripping hazards are out of the house or don't have access to your soaping space. Always soap in a well-ventilated area.
COLOR PREP: Disperse 1 teaspoon of each colorant into 1 tablespoon of Sunflower or Sweet Almond Oil (or any other liquid oil). Use a mini mixer to get clumps worked out smoothly. Prepping your colors in the beginning will allow you to work quickly and give you more time to work with your soap.
FRAGRANCE PREP: Combine the Litsea and Spearmint essential oils in a glass container and set aside until step 3.
MOLD PREP: Using cardboard, cut three dividers that fit snugly down the center (lengthwise) of the mold. Cardboard brackets on either end can help with stability. If you don't want to use cardboard, Bramble Berry has a retrofit divider set here for the classic sliding bottom 5 pound mold.
ONE: Slowly and carefully add the lye to the water and gently stir until the lye has fully dissolved and the liquid is clear. Set aside to cool.
TWO: Combine the Cocoa Butter, Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil and Palm oils (remember to fully melt then mix your entire container of Palm Oil before portioning). Once the lye water and the oils have cooled to 130 degrees or below (and are ideally within 10 degrees of each other), add the lye water to the oils and stick blend until thin trace. If you'd like a harder bar of soap that releases faster from the mold, you can add Sodium Lactate to the cooled lye water. Use 1 teaspoon of Sodium Lactate per pound of oils in the recipe.
THREE: When the batter reaches light trace, add the essential oil blend. The Litsea Essential Oil will breakdown the trace, so be sure the batter is fully emulsified before moving on. You may need to stick blend for 10 – 20 seconds.
FOUR: Split the batter evenly into four contains. No need to be exact, but each container should hold about 11 – 12 ounces.
FIVE: Add the dispersed colorants at the following rates:
- 1 teaspoon dispersed Titanium Dioxide
- 3 teaspoons dispersed Indigo Powder
- 1 teaspoon dispersed Dark Red Brazilian Clay
- 2 teaspoons dispersed Activated Charcoal
Stir in the colorants with a wire whisk or spoon.
Quick note: We used cardboard dividers here, but for ease of use the new Multi-Pour Sectioning Tool can't be beat! This sectioning tool set is perfectly fitted for our 5 Pound Wood Mold with Sliding Bottom. It divides your 5 pound soap loaf into either 3 or 4 sections. Keep in mind it only fits the 5 lb. Wood Mold, so it's too big for this tutorial. If you want to try the dividers in the bigger mold, simply resize the recipe with the Lye Calculator and set the dividers into the mold.
SEVEN: For now we'll stick with the cardboard, and for this part you may need to grab a friend. Make sure your center pieces of cardboard are stable and then get someone to help you simultaneously pour the colored batters. Tamp the mold on the table several times once all the soap has been poured, and then slowly lift the cardboard straight up and out of the mold.
EIGHT: Insert a chopstick or dowel down to the bottom of the mold. Then, move it back and forth horizontally through the soap, working your way up the mold.
NINE: Repeat this process, except this time move the dowel up and down vertically.
Allow the soap to sit in the mold for 24-48 hours. When it's time to cut, you can cut the loaf in the traditional way, but I find that the swirls really shine when I cut the bars horizontally. If you're not sure how to cut bars horizontally, there's a video for that here. Cure for 4-6 weeks and enjoy!
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Love it ! On my wish list ( which gets longer).I have your 5 lb mold so will end up ordering it soon:)
I was refering to your multi section tool:)
Titanium Dioxide is on the list of banned ingredients that I got from Whole Foods. Also the State of California has it on a list for ingredients that larger companies have to report using. What is their reason (if you know) for not considering it a natural colorant?
I don't see that Whole Foods has titanium dioxide on this list (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/about-our-products/premium-body-care-standards) for their body care standards? So, I can't speak to what their concern around body care may or may not be.
In general, I do know that there is controversy over the use of 'nano particles' and often Titanium Dioxide is a nano-particle. Bramble Berry does not use titanium dioxide that is a nano-partice.
The reason California is concerned about is for inhalation – so only aerosolized products. There is no evidence that it absorbs into skin in normal particle size nor is it a bio accumulator.
Skin care (leave on) and soap (rinse off) would not apply to the issue around titanium dioxide and being aeorsolized.
Of course, each and every crafter should make choices for themselves, their family and their customers that they are most comfortable with. For me personally, I'm confident and comfortable using it in my products for myself and my family. The good news is if you have any concerns, it's not a necessary ingredient for any soap recipe. It just keeps the soap a more white color. =)
I too have heard about the recent controversy with titanium dioxide and having been meaning to ask SoapQueen's take on it.
On a lighter note, I can't wait to make this bar. I think I have almost everything, except that new divider. Scent sounds great too. Last time I tried this technique I had a bout of acceleration and I want to try this again.
Instead of doing all that measuring, can we just use your Quick Mix or Swirl recipe? That cuts down on all my measuring mistakes. Thank you so much for the tutorials.
Would this need to be insulated? for 24 hours?
Beautiful soap and the smell is wonderful! I overprocessed before adding the colors. So it was rather goopy putting into the dividers. But it still made into a beautiful soap. I will post some pictures on my website as soon as I can.
When you're using natural colorants infused in oil to do a swirl, do you have to make two batches of soap and use the oil as part of the recipe, or can you split one recipe and then add colorant to one like you would with other colouring processes?
For some reason when i do this or any soap for that matter, the soap forms a skin so fast and i cant blend it properly. Its also not thick like i always see in pictures or videos its really watery. (I do this with MP soap) Why is this?
Hi Ann Marie,
Thank you for your website, I love all the crafts you are doing. I want to do your moisturizing soap recipes from an old post, your favorite's. I am not sure when you refer to "palm oil", whenever you refer to that, is it the same as the "red palm oil"? I have been searching local stores for the "palm oil" but they all say red palm oil. Is it okay to use that for recipes whenever you have "palm oil"? Thanks for your advice.


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Rick Calamaro, Former Charlie Sheen Assistant, Found Deadby Hilton Hater at . Comments
Rick Calamaro, the former assistant and close friend of Charlie Sheen's who many believed took part in the actor's past drug binges, has been found dead.
As first reported by TMZ, Calamaro's body was found in his Los Angeles apartment yesterday, although it's believed he'd been deceased for many days.
Moreover, according to authorities, "numerous pain medications and an open bottle of alcohol," were also found at the scene.
Calamaro was a club promoter who befriended the actor many years ago.
He accompanied Sheen to New York City for the infamous October 2010 incident with Capri Anderson at the Plaza Hotel, where police were called, Anderson ended up locked in a bathroom and Sheen ended up in the hospital.
No word yet from Sheen's camp, but our thoughts go out to Calamaro's family.
Ricky never used or pain killers. That just wasn't his drug?
Scratch the surface,and see the truth.
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would have been nicer to have a pic of the actual guy instead of that waster Sheen....
drugs is never a solution learn and take another road if you are clever this guy was not clever he should have asked for help
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New Cards and New Habit
I was in the audience at a show recently, and afterwards my friend, Kelly, and I were hanging out. We met a woman who, after finding out we both perform, asked for our cards.
Neither of us were packin'. When we both fumbled around in our wallets and explained we don't always have cards when we're not going to be on stage, she was shocked and said "always have cards -- no matter what!"
You know what? She's right. I'll still fill up my shirt pocket when I perform, but now I'll also have a couple in my wallet at all times.
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Saturday, June 7, 2014
Laugh Your Asheville Off 2014
Just got the news: I'll be joining many terrific comics in August's Laugh Your Asheville Off Festival!
I always love LYAO. A zillion very talented comics descend on our fair city and light up the town for a fun weekend. Stories are told, friendships are forged and memories are made -- all in my adopted hometown, so I don't have to travel to see it all!
The festival runs August 12-16, and when they become available you'll be able to get tickets at LYAO's website: http://www.laughyourashevilleoff.com
I look forward to seeing you there!
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At one of my high school reunions, an old friend asked me to dance a half dozen times over the evening. I kept telling her I can't dance, but I finally acquiesced and we took the floor. Halfway through the song, she pulled me off the floor, wagged her finger in my face and said, "your wife could TEACH you how to dance."
I've never understood dancing, and sometimes that bums me out.
When I say I don't understand dancing, I don't mean I don't understand why -- I SO do. Who wouldn't want to be part of this unabashed celebration of... well, just having a body. And being around bodies. And music. And people. And friendship, and sweat and love. It looks wonderful, and when people are dancing around me, I find myself staring until I realize I'm being creepy. And then maybe a little more.
No, I understand why folks dance. I just don't understand how. I'm sure I could figure out dances with steps like Swing or Tango; I'm reasonably agile and have some sense of my body in space. But that thing that people do. That beautiful thing. When they hear music and run to an open floor and shout and move and laugh without plan or doubt. That I can't do.
When people ask me to dance, it's kind of like if you were a spectator at the Olympics and someone did a spectacular parallel bar routine, and then it was suddenly your turn.
Here's what happens in my head when I try:
Ok, gonna do it this time. It's ok, it's just dancing. Low stakes here. Nobody's watching me.
So, first off why don't I watch the other humans and try to do what they're doing. No, the male ones. What the fuck? Why are they all doing different stuff? That's not gonna work.
It can't be that complicated. The music has an organization system -- "beats," I gather -- if I can move one or more of my feet each time one of those "beats" goes off... What the fuck??? Why has each of my feet gained 30 pounds? Conservation of matter and energy alone should preclude that phenomenon...
Wait, I have a partner here. How's she doing? Oh, that's not good. She doesn't have that joyful, "lost in the moment" look I've observed on her in the past. She seems to have a "when's the moment gonna be over" look instead...
How. How do you do it. Somebody tell me, and I will fill your life with tokens of my gratitude. In the meantime, I'll be on the sidelines watching you in the least creepy way I can muster.
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'House of Lords Journal Volume 3: 25 June 1625', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 3: 1620-1628 (1767-1830), pp. 442-443. URL: http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=30444 Date accessed: 26 November 2014.
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Die Sabbati, videlicet, 25 die Junii,
Greville's Bill.
Et 2 a vice lecta est eadem Billa, et commissa,
Mr. Coles, King's Servant. Privilege.
Brown, King's Servant. Privilege.
E. Sussex's Privilege. Markham arrested.
Absent Lords, Motion for their paying.
King's Answer to the Petition for the Fast.
Committees for the Order, Customs, and Privileges of the House.
Bills not persected last Session to be reported to the House; and Redress of the Misdemeanors of Footmen, etc. to be considered.
Domini tam
Spirituales quam Temporales, quortum nomina
subscribuntur, præsentes fuerunt:
HODIE 1a
vice lecta est Billa, An Act for the
Settling and Confirmation of the Copyhold Estates and
Customs of the Tenants in Base Tenure of the Manor
of Cheltenham, in the County of Gloucester, and of the
Manor of Asheley, otherwise called Charleton King's, in
the said County, being holden of the said Manor of
Cheltenham, according to an Agreement thereof made
between the King's most Excellent Majesty, being then
Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewall and of Yorke, and
Earl of Chester, Lord of the said Manor of Cheltenham,
and Giles Grevill, Esquire, Lord of the said Manor of
Ashley, and the said Copyholders of the said several
To meet on Monday next, at Eight in the Morning,
in the Painted Chamber.
The Lord Steward presented unto the House Two
The one of Augustine Coles, one of the Yeomen of
His Majesty's Chamber in Ordinary, complaining, That
whilst he was in His Majesty's Service at Dover, William Swetenam, John Birde, and Thomas Bertlett, Bailiffs, entered his House, and carried away Goods to
the Value of Thirty Pounds, at the Suit of Michaell
Harison, for a Debt (wherein he was Surety for
Richard Cotle) of Ten Pounds, whereof Four Pounds
is paid.
Which Petition being read, it is Ordered, That
the said William Swetenham, John Birde, and Michael
Harrison, be brought before their Lordships, on Tuesday,
the 28th of this June, in the Morning, to answer their
Contempt and Breach of Privilege of Parliament.
The other of Robert Browne, His Majesty's Servant,
arrested by Henry Fetche, Serjeant, and Hughe Povey
his Yeoman, at the Suit of Henry Shawe, in Contempt
of the Privileges of this High Court.
Ordered, That the said Henry Fetche, Hughe Povey,
and Henry Shawe, be brought before their Lordships,
on Tuesday next, the 28th of this June, by Eight in the
The Lord Keeper signified unto the House, That one
Samuell Markham, Servant to the Right Honourable the
Earl of Sussex, was lately arrested in London, contrary
to the Privilege of Parliament.
Ordered, That a Habeas corpus, etc. be awarded unto
the Sheriffs of London, to bring the Body of the said
Samuell Markham before their Lordships, on Tuesday
next, at Nine in the Morning.
The like Habeas corpus, etc. is awarded, to bring Robert Browne before their Lordships.
The House being moved, That whereas those Lords
that came late to Prayers do pay to the Poor Man's
Box; videlicet, each Earl Two Shillings, and each
Bishop and Baron One Shilling; and yet those Lords
who are absent altogether that Day without Leave pay
nothing; That it would please their Lordships to conceive some Order against the wilful Neglect of those
that be absent: and that such might not only pay for
themselves after the said Rate, but also for all those
whose Proxies they have; for that the House doth not
only lose the Votes of such absent Lords, but of their
Proxies also. The which is referred to be considered of
by the Lords Committees for Privileges, etc.
The Lord President reported to the House, That
Yesterday the Lords Committees of both Houses delivered unto His Majesty the Petition (agreed on) for a
General Fast; and that His Majesty's Answer was to
this Effect: videlicet,
"That the Message pleased Him very well; and
this their Beginning with God promised Celerity in
their Actions: That he liked of the Petition, required Time to consider of the Form and Manner of
a Fast, and would appoint the same to be done
speedily and effectually."
The Lords Committees for Privileges, etc. are to
meet in the Painted Chamber, presently after the Adjournment of the House, and to name a Sub-committee.
And those Lords Sub-committees are to consider of
the Bills begun, and not dispatched, the last Sessions,
and to order which of them shall be presented to the
House. And to consider of some Order to be made
against the Misdemeanors of Pages and Footmen, etc.
These Lords are this Day excused, for not coming to
the House: videlicet,
Dominus Custos Magni Sigilli declaravit præsens Parliamentum continuandum esse usque in diem Lunæ, 27m
diem instantis Junii, Domini sic decernentibus.
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Two mismatched brothers, a beautiful mexican woman in need of love, a rag tag bunch of cut throats lead by that lovely old grandad in the Waltons and love struck big George Kennedy chasing after them - You can't go wrong!!
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Submitted: Jul 30 2013 / 13:31