This Hurricane Strength Animation thing is cool.

http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/hurricanesHistory08/index.html?SITE=KHOU

Looks like Ike is thrashing Galveston and Houston. My family in Sugar Land says the winds are pretty crazy. Our fence blew away a couple of hours ago. They haven't had electricity in several hours. My sister's house in Galveston is one block from the Seawall so I have no idea what shape it's in right about now, but I'm guessing it might resemble a ( Read more... )

Domination Of Black ( Read more... )

Missing Chihuahua.

Please read the following link for more. Picture is on the page. The owner/guardian of the dog offers a reward and misses the dog terribly.

http://venacava.livejournal.com/511388.html

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72843-0.html?tw=wn_politics_5

a lot has been said about how to prevent rape ( Read more... )

The more I learn about the world, the more inclined I am to limit my commitments to humanity and humankind. Perception can be so very different, and malleable, and illusory. And the world is too big for me to take all of it in. This breaks me. Will I ever be able to do justice to the beauty of a single stem of a punk-orange blossom at the crux of ( Read more... )

"All truly profound art requires its creator to abandon himself to certain powers which he invokes but cannot altogether control." -- Andre Malraux, "Goya."

I want to live in an olive-colored house with stucco walls and a reddish roof in Spanish Tile. It would have a verdant courtyard and a fountain and a library inside for all of my books and my writing desk where I would compose poems over the window overlooking bright bougainvillea and hibiscus. And inside, the parlor would be lavender-grey ( Read more... )

Apparently, this is what I am like, because I was born in January ( Read more... )