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Wrong Maybe

One of the defining characteristics of a person is their ability to look at life through an unfiltered lens. That is, can you be honest with yourself about everything—including your own decisions and opinions—in an effort to become better and positively influence others. Admitting you are wrong about anything is very difficult. After all, ideas are like your child: You will protect and support them passionately.

RIP Dwayne McDuffie

One of the great comic writers of our time has passed away. If you have ever enjoyed ICON or STATIC and if you have not then you should.

"Just one day after his 49th birthday, comic book and TV animation writer Dwayne McDuffie passed away due to complications from a surgical procedure.

His first major work for Marvel Comics was "Damage Control," about a clean-up team who deals with the mess those pesky superheroes leave behind post-battle.

In 1992, McDuffie created Milestone Media, which paid special care to cultural sensitivity and diversity in comic books. Later, McDuffie wrote and story-edited for animated television series like "Static Shock," "Teen Titans," and "What's New, Scooby-Doo?"

He was a key figure as story editor and producer of "Justice League Unlimited," and he wrote the story for the video game "Justice League Heroes." He went on to work on "Ben 10: Alien Force."

He also wrote comics for the New York-based DC and Marvel, including runs on "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight," the Fantastic Four and the Justice League of America. He also penned several animated features, including the just-released "All Star Superman," "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths"
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Mr. McDuffie you shall be missed.

For the fierce women in your life.

Heart Shaped

As Valentine's Day approaches, I wonder . . . .

Valentine's Day is originally a Catholic holiday to celebrate St. Valentine who was martyred in Roman Days. Like most religious traditions, it is being usurped by a secular world. Of course, like most Christian religious traditions, it has pagan origins.

The symbol of the heart is a bit more mysterious. Aristotle though the heart was the center of all emotions. Surely, everyone who has been heartbroken feels that heaviness in the center of the chest. Of course, when someone is excited, the heart beats faster. Thus, it is a natural inclination to associate heart with passion.
The heart shape of a valentine really does not look like a heart.

One of the most intriguing suggestions stems from the seventh century B.C. city-state of Cyrene. Cyrene traded the rare, now extinct, plant silphium. It was known as a means for birth control. The seedpod of the silphium looks exactly like a valentine's heart. Moreover, its use in sex is an obvious connection to love.

Some claim that the round, soft edges of the heart represent fertility or a female body. Visualizing the heart as a depiction of the pubic mound stirs some interesting comparisons. Others also state that it is the shape of a female buttocks pointing down the legs.

However, turn the heart upside down and it becomes a particularly intriguing symbol. Now the heart looks like a pair of plump, dangling breasts. The heart also compares favorably again to the female buttocks this time pointing up the back. The upside down heart also compares favorably to the male genitalia with two testicles and a pointed penis. Others have suggested the heart image looks like the tip of the penis.

It is amazing that such an endearing image has so many possible erotic connections. Perhaps that is why it has endured for so long as such a powerful and connotative symbol.

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My New Years Resolutions

The New Year has started and 2011 come in with laughter, great friends and some guy passed out on the floor. The inevitable resolutions list must be created. Well inevitable, if you decree that such a list needs to exist. So upon much inner focus and life affirming affirmations my 2011 resolutions list has been created. Set aside are all the basic resolutions such as drink less, act more mature, lose weight (which has been going quite well thank you very much) and date less but commit more.

My New Year's Resolutions for 2011:

1. I resolve to stay unresolved;
2. I will get a new LED HDTV
3. I swear to not stop swearing;
4. I will focus on feeling unfocused;
5. I agree to be disagreeable;
6. I give my word to have words with people;
7. I maintain that I am high maintenance;
8. I declare that I will make declarations;
9. I will opt to keep my options open;
10. I will have exact change for when madness takes its toll.

There know that list should not be to hard to complete before 2012. Hell it may all be done this month, but I will endeavor to not be an overachiever.

Oh yes, Happy New Year

Best way to wake up.

Have you ever had the chance to go to a sleazy motel and enjoy a vibrating bed. Well me nether, though it is on my list of things to do. In the event that the black light will reveal just to much gross things. Along comes the CLARITY 600 Wake Assure Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker. Create your very own rippling sleep oasis. The device also doubles as an alarm clock. One can wake up every morning to vibrating bliss and possible the smell of stale booze in the air.

Did you know!

If there is good, then there is always bad. If there is a Santa then there must be an anti-clause. There is a Christmas tradition in Austria and other surrounding countries. Where a Krampus visits the naughty. The beast is said to punish naughty children by stealing their toys, smacking them with a birch rod, and even tying them in a sack and chucking them into a river. Getting a lump of coal in your stocking doesn’t seem like such a terrible fate in comparison, does it?

Did you know!

 

 

 In 1961, Matisse’s Le Bateau (The Boat) hung upside-down for 47 days in the Museum of Modern Art, New York – none of the 116,000 visitors had noticed, including the art dealer Pierre Matisse, the artist’s own son.

 

With a non-figurative piece of work, being upside down may just be a different perspective than a faux pas.

We ladies can help fight the good fight in Movember

It’s Movember and fellows all over the world grow mustaches to raise money to fight prostate cancer. For us ladies that wish to help and are unable to grow enough facial hair. We can donate to our favorite mustachioed chaps and friends. Another way to give and receive is to participate in Have Sex with a Guy With a Mustache Day. By cuddle on up to a bewhiskered fellow and giving him some of that sweet, sweet loving that he so rightfully deserves. I know I will.

Remember, when it comes down to it, “you’re not a whore if it’s for charity.”

Girl Talk

All Day by Girl Talk is a new mash up album, created by the unbelievable talented Gregg Michael Gillis. It is available as one 71-minute file or as 12 separate tracks. If you are familiar with mashups and digital sampling and the mixing magic, you know the beauty of the medium. If not, will . . learn. All Day features 372 samples, starting with bits and pieces of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" and finishing on John Lennon's "Imagine," with chunks of Foxy Brown's "Hot Spot," the Beastie Boys' "Paul Revere," and many more in between.

For your ears sampling pleasure below. 'Here's the Thing" from the Feed the Animals CD. No dancing required but shacking of the booty may be inevitable

 

"Here's the Thing" - 4:46

• 0:01 - 0:28 Chicago - "Saturday in the Park"
• 0:01 - 1:05 Quad City DJs - "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)"
• 0:15 - 0:36 The Jaggerz - "The Rapper"
• 0:29 - 0:36 The Bucketheads - "The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)"
• 0:36 - 0:36 Tommy Roe - "Dizzy"
• 0:36 - 1:05 ? and the Mysterians - "96 Tears"
• 0:50 - 2:07 Egyptian Lover - "Egypt Egypt"
• 1:04 - 1:33 The Zombies - "Time of the Season"
• 1:05 - 2:04 Kelly Clarkson - "Since U Been Gone"
• 1:16 - 1:34 Nine Inch Nails - "Wish"
• 1:45 - 2:03 MC Hammer - "Too Legit to Quit"
• 2:08 - 2:19 Blur - "Song 2"
• 2:13 - 2:20 V.I.C. - "Get Silly"
• 2:19 - 3:14 Elvis Costello - "Pump It Up"
• 2:20 - 3:14 Shawty Lo - "Dey Know"
• 3:01 - 3:14 Peter Bjorn and John featuring Victoria Bergsman - "Young Folks"
• 3:14 - 4:04 Rick Springfield - "Jessie's Girl"
• 3:19 - 3:21 The Prodigy - "Firestarter" (portion sampled samples "Close (to the Edit)" by Art of Noise)
• 3:21 - 3:35 Mike + The Mechanics - "All I Need Is a Miracle"
• 3:21 - 3:47 Chris Brown featuring T-Pain - "Kiss Kiss"
• 3:48 - 3:48 Veruca Salt - "Seether"
• 3:52 - 4:12 Nelly Furtado - "Maneater"
• 3:52 - 4:18 Three 6 Mafia featuring Unk - "I'd Rather"
• 4:12 - 4:46 Looking Glass - "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"
• 4:34 - 4:46 Dude 'n Nem - "Watch My Feet"

What have you done lately.

There are many times in life one looks back and realizes how much the people in their life means to them. We do at times odd things for the ones we care about. From driving to Montreal to get that perfect smoked meat sandwich to spending 7.5 hours at a movie theater for the Harry Potter Adventure. We do these things because it brings a smile to our loved ones faces. Nothing feels as good as knowing you have the power to bring joy to a friend or family members life. Be it something simple as a hug to buying Ozzy tickets . The feeling is undeniable amazing and the smile . . well the smile is simply one of the most beautiful things in this world.

Have fun this week spreading smiles to the ones you care about.

It's not the size that matters it's how you use it.

Reading the post about the true size of Africa made me wonder if the maps I grew up with were correct visually. Lo and behold they were not. Not to say that, geographical wizardry is flowing through my veins but perceptions is King and Queen of human understanding.

All Hallowes Eve

The best time of the year when one gets to dress up and pretend to be something else for the night.

Halloween has Celtic origins. In pre-Christian times, many people believed that spirits from the underworld and ghosts of dead people could visit the world of the living on the night of October 31. These spirits could harm the living or take them back to the underworld. To avoid this, people started dressing up as ghosts and spirits if they left their homes on October 31. They hoped that this would confuse the ghosts and spirits.

So please put on your costume and travel with care this Halloween night.

Lemons anyone?

Last weeks meeting was going great till someone broached the subject of  working Dec 31. Now you are a wee bit anxious about this weeks meeting were the main subject is overtime. Guaranteed meeting harmonizer is the scent of lemon. In a recent study, the scent of lemon made people more generous and altruistic. Researchers explain that the clean scent is associated with good behavior, which is why it brings out the best in people.

Breathing in the scent of lemon essential oil may significantly improve mood, according to a 2008 study of 56 healthy volunteers. In a 2009 study, researchers discovered that animals that inhaled the scent of linalool (a compound found in lemon essential oil, as well as in lavender oil) had a decrease in their levels of stress-elevated immune cells.

So in that next meeting have a small bottle of lemon scented water and sprits the room. Or better yet place a bowl of lemons on your desk. If it does so happen that the sent does not calm an individual down you can always shove it in their mouth. 

Thanksgiving

Weather you are giving thanks for the bountiful harvest or your just thankful that you did not get lost. Today is the day to do it.

As history states the Giving of thanks has been quite a random act of celebration. The date could change from province to province and town to town. Until the Canadian Parliament proclaimed that it should occurring on the second Monday in October (since 1959).

Most Canadians receive a stationary holiday every Thanksgiving Monday. Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia being the exceptions. Hope your long weekend is fill of family, food, friends and pure enjoyment.

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all.

Lets eat

Start of the long weekend.

You may wonder what this high flying, wise cracking, party loving girl does after a long week of work. Well this beautiful Saturday was cleaning day. Some do love Spring cleaning. Me I love hard core cleaning in the fall. May be something to do with getting ready to spend many hours inside or somin like that. My new best friend (swiffer duster) and I attacked the menacing dust that makes the eyes water and the nose itch. Next it was off to cleaning the walls with my all natural stand by, water and lemon juice. Then on to the floor, my gods what is it with 15 year old boys, they are like walking dirt clouds. Dirt on the walls have progressively climbed higher as my brother gets older. Mounds of dirt collect where he sits and walks. Thought with age it would dissipate not condense. Anyway add some baking soda to the stand by cleaner and floors are done.

Now laundry ugh really do not like doing laundry, should pick up some Rockin' Green laundry soap. Pam states it make things smell clean. I like clean.

Did you know?

Coffee, sweet sweet coffee that can lift you up when sleep is not an option. Can also help reduce muscle soreness. In a British study, cyclists who consumed the caffeine equivalent of a 12 oz cup of succulent goodness felt less leg pain and had a lower rate of perceived exertion than those who skipped the boost. Would you like to know why??? Well it seems that caffeine blocks the production of pain-stimulating adenosine.

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