Bits 'O' Tid

I dreamed that a friend (OK, it was Jen) was preggers. She’s post menopausal so this’d be a wicked neat trick. More interesting still, when she went in for the ultra sound, the docs noticed a bee buzzing around in there. Yeah, a live honeybee. It’d somehow gained entry and was floating and flying around in her ute. Poor little worker fella was def unhappy in there.  Jen wasn't thilled about it either – especially when the medics said, there’s nothing we can do. The bee will come out when you give birth.

Dunno how the fetus felt about his new roomie. He didn't say.
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dictionary.com’s word for the day is eurhythmic. Wow, that’s a real live word and not just a band. Waddya know.
It’s an adjective meaning :

1: characterized by a pleasing rhythm; harmoniously ordered or proportioned.

2: of or relating to eurhythmics.

Janey's new eurhythmic cut and dye job looked flat out stunning on her.

Shouldn’t that be capitalized?
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I just can NOT wait to see this! Frances McDormand could stand on stage farting and it'd be revelational. I've been wild about her ever since Fargo.
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Paul Ryan’s bait and switch chicanery, re: those of us who criticize the Repub call for nothing but “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of mass murders, is pretty fucking disingenuous at the very least. He’s received $171,977 in donations from the gun lobby. That ain’t peanuts, that’s a bloody pay off.

But NOOOOOO, we’re just the far secular left and don’t understand the whole sitch. Godless Heathens R Us, don'cha know.

A majority of NRA members support this simple, handful of measures but Ryan doesn’t:

1) Requiring criminal background checks on gun owners and gun shop employees.
2) Prohibiting terrorist watch list members from acquiring guns.
3) Mandating that gun-owners tell the police when their gun is stolen.
4) Concealed carry permits should be restricted to individuals who have completed a safety training course and are 21 and older.
5) Concealed carry permits shouldn’t be given to perpetrators of violent misdemeanors or individuals arrested for domestic violence.

Why does Ryan hate Americans so much?
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In the past 40(?) years, graffiti has gone from nuisance to being hailed as public art.  Yes, the boring old tags still show up BUT there is so much more. I've been lucky to see some incredibly brill work in Montreal, Phoenix, Reykjavik and here at home. Jen and Oni caught some amazing stuff on a visit to Venice, California. I'm always on the lookout for fresh beauty.

One street artist, Nina Wright (AKA Girl Mobb) in Oakland, California, on finding very few other women making public art, decided to open a door/water the earth/light a fire/INSPIRE and teach.

She founded and runs the Graffiti Camp for Girls:

OUR MISSION is to develop the talents and create opportunities for girls creating public art.
Graffiti Camp gives girls a creative opportunity to enhance their public art skills. Participants learn the process and skills to collaboratively create a mural based on themes decided by the participants.

Our artists provide creative counsel, image planning, an understanding of tools and application, and safety precautions necessary to use these tools and materials.

The end result of each camp is a mural designed and executed by the girls themselves.

I RILLY wish this had existed when I was a kid. Hells bells, I wish there was a camp like this here in Boston – Madison, Juliana, Helen and I would go. What a blast that’d be!