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USA Event: Poly Family Weekend
Hello Lovely Readers:
My friends are running an event called Poly Family Weekend in Atlanta in September, so I said I'd give them a shout out here:
http://sites.google.com/site/polyfamilyweekend/home
This is year one, and they hope to make it an annual event, so if poly's your cuppa, rock on up and join the fun!
Cheers!
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Sunday Morning musical serendipity
So, this morning I got out of the shower and felt like listening to Placebo's "Every Me and Every You ( Read more... ) -
So, I was _resolved_ to go to Majma Festival in 2010...
...and I just realized that it clashes with Emilie Autumn's concert in Leeds (which we already have tickets to).
OUCH.
*dies of the bad timing*
Anyone got the inside track on cloning? I could use another me!
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Ah, Keats. Stories like yours are part of what made me love the English Romantics.
On this day in 1819, 23-year-old John Keats (books by this author) composed what's considered to be one of the most beautiful love letters ever written:
My dearest Girl,
This moment I have set myself to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content. I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in ( Read more... ) -
oh the grace! the artistry! the hilarity!
I just got so caught up in practicing my spinning that I fell over.
Yes. Literally. Fell over.
Once I realized I was on the way down, the music still swirling a bout me madly ("Coin-Operated Boy"), it happened in stages... and there's the wall. Cannot crash into the mirror. Okay - push off the wall, down over laundry basket and ..... floor!
I lay ( Read more... ) -
I had forgotten about this strange moment of amusing juxtaposition...
17th July. On the way to GothlaUK, I'm watching the first episode of 'Deadwood', an HBO TV Western, when the (train) conductor speaks. He advises that someone has been caught smoking near the rear of the train. "If the smoke detectors go off," he states, "we will have to hold up the train for 40 minutes. Additionally, if you are caught smoking ( Read more... ) -
yesterday at the Home Office...
We were awaiting our photos and fprints to be cleared when Mr Tumble came on the tele and taught me BSL.... now if I ever need to say hello to Big Teddy, Little Teddy, or Dolly as we order cauliflower and a gigantic carrot together I'm all set ( Read more... ) -
Some days, when I wake from dreaming...
...all I recall is a song, a musical motif from a story lost to sleep. This follows me around all day, setting tones and shading events.
Here's this morning's dream motif:
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All that and time to write about it? Must be holidays!
I write this from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with the smell of gumbo permeating the air and the gentle quiet of not having to do anything I'd rather not exhilarating me. Long post-starved readers, might I share with you my perfect morning?
This morning I awoke at 8.30am after having slept precisely how long I wanted to. I took a shower with what can ( Read more... )
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