It was a good day. The powerful heat retreated and I was able to reassemble bits and pieces of myself. The road is long but I can see that it is going somewhere.I get freaked out when I can't see the road. It is time for another installment of Poetry in Plain Sight. The Southern California poetry community is diverse, once you get away from the Hollywood side of the fence. There are a mixture of people that you will not see on Hulu or cable television. Our voices are no less important.We are here. We love. We ache.This is a poem called Emp...
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Health Insurance Workshop for Artists At The Armory
Posted on 10:16 AM by Unknown
For those in the Pasadena, CA area and are of the artistic persuasion you might want to consider attending a free workshop called Health Insurance 101. I don't know much more about it than the post card I picked up at the Armory.From the Health Insurance For Artists website: This workshop provides unbiased information to help you navigate the tangled web of our health insurance options. Topics include: How to compare benefit designs. Individual & family plans. Guaranteed-issue group plans for the self-employed. Association plans for artists....
Friday, August 27, 2010
What The World Need Now on the Finally Friday Freakout
Posted on 5:43 PM by Unknown
This was a week that I felt blue. I am deep in the grips of it. I can function but if God himself came to pay me a visit I'd ask it we could do it next week.It is not one specific thing. We Americans have no will to do better. Not collectively. Oh, no. That would be socialism. Booga, Booga.We have no will to re-think the way we do things about transportation, food, employment or community. These are things we have to do right now if not sooner but first a word from our sponsors, detractors or good old fashion "Not in My Backyard" mantras.Some days...
Monday, August 23, 2010
Podcasting Literature - Salvation Road
Posted on 9:00 PM by Unknown
I have been pulled deeper into audio fiction and drama podcasts. There is so much good work out there that I've missed. I'm telling you straight, broadcasts and cable television have lost me. I have to add the exception of Mad Men;, I don't even have cable and that show rocks. It is up there with Homicide, Life on the Streets, China Beach, Sports Night and sigh, Babylon 5. In other words. I got nothing to watch in 2010. Not that I don't have stuff to do, I just signed up for a technical writing class. But a girl needs some fiction in her life....
Friday, August 20, 2010
Eric Dolphy on The Finally Friday Freakout
Posted on 5:56 PM by Unknown
I'm going to be honest. I don't know who Eric Dolphy is or why he is important to jazz. I'll tell you how I found him. I was looking at a advertisement for the Pasadena Jazz Festival. I don't know most of the people on the ad. This is more my shame than the performers. I wasn't brought up in the jazz tradition. Jazz was separate from Funk. I was raised a Funkateer. I will never turn my back on Funk. That doesn't mean I close my ears to other forms of music. I have an album around here with Chick Corea playing classical music. I knew that he was...
Friday, August 13, 2010
Different Voices - Civil Debate Session BlogHer 2010
Posted on 1:39 PM by Unknown
One of the things that I appreciate in a good web site or blog is the opportunity to find different voices and ideas about a topic. It is far better to know want to know what other people think and believe about a topic. Being smug and correct is a good way to get your feelings hurt down the line. This is a clip from the Change Agents: How to Start, Engage in and Moderate Civil Political Debate session at BlogHer 2010 in New York City. The panelists are Denise Tanton, Pam Spaulding and Suzanne Fort...
Dealing with Thread Hijacking - Civil Debate Session at BlogHer 2010
Posted on 8:39 AM by Unknown
We've all seen it happen. Folks are having a discussion and someone plunks down a screed or a twenty page smoking gun on why the rest of us are so pathetically wrong.In this clip Denise, Pam and Suzanne share methods on how to deal with that problem. This is from the Change Agents: How to Start, Engage in and Moderate Civil Political Debate session at BlogHer 2010 in New York City.The panelists are Denise Tanton, Pam Spaulding and Suzanne Fort...
Beautiful Tree on the Finally Friday Freakout
Posted on 12:06 AM by Unknown
Cleaning out the junk, the old e-mail and the things I missed the first time I found an e-mail from Jon Blecher. I don't know who Jon is or how he got my e-mail address. Maybe he noticed the music posted on the blog or something. Anyway, I wanted to post music. I needed something non-toxic. This is Rain Perry singing Beautiful Tree.This song is the theme for a television program called Life Unexpected. I clicked the link to view the video before I read anything about Rain. I was gonna like it or not. I went back to the e-mail. Yep, she has been...
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Validating Your Creativity - BlogHer 2010
Posted on 3:23 PM by Unknown
I've been fairly quiet, for me at least. I am actively trying to throw out computer magazines from 2006 and earlier. I'm cleaning, editing, writing, and being gobsmacked by what humans are doing. I knew I was missing a load of stuff because of the day job. I go back to the cubical next week. I gotta get a smartphone.I don't lack for ideas but sometimes the evil wicked voice in my head likes to remind me how truly despicable my writing and how I should donate my computer to a good school. Or a bad school. The effect is the same as a writer's block...
Two Games About Women's Bodies and Both Make Me Sad
Posted on 11:11 AM by Unknown
The power of intention always whacks me upside my head. My post for BlogHer about the FOX News report on Abstinence Video Game is up but as part of my research I was lead to these two games. I'm not a gamer. I do not want to kill anything or anyone in reality or in a virtual environment. I will if I have to protect my life. But the hunt and execution has not thrill for me.I do believe in sex education and empowerment but I'm not sure this is quiet the way to go. From E4 comes Privates where the troops are posted in the vagina to kill off the STD...
Monday, August 9, 2010
The Things I'd Want Other Women to Know
Posted on 11:30 AM by Unknown
Last week I saw the movie Deep Impact at the hotel at BlogHer 10. I couldn't sleep. Jet lag I think. Anyway, the impending comet of doom is coming and the population is being selected for New Genesis, I think.There is a line in the movie about how no one over 50, with skill based exceptions, would be selected for survival.Eh? I'm doing the numbers in my head 50 + 2 = Rest in Peace. Now I do understand that from a science fiction standpoint this is a necessary plot point.Looking at it from a resource survival of the species standpoint it is kinda...
Thursday, August 5, 2010
A Heck of A Town - Pre-BlogHer
Posted on 9:22 AM by Unknown
The trip was a trip. It started at 3:30a.m. with a ride to an empty airport. I didn't know that the airport opened at 5:30a.m.The only pick-up time was 3:30a.m. I wasn't alone but it was spooky.On the plane there were two crying babies and two yappy dogs. The dogs barked the first hour or so then it was ok for a bit. Then the last 45 minutes the babies kicked in a few notes.I gotta say with Direct TV is wasn't so bad.The trip into town was tough. I don't eat before a flight. I was hungry. I saw every food joint as we passed by. I damn near wanted...
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