For Amusement Purposes Only.
Changeling poet, musician and writer, born on the 13th floor. Left of counter-clockwise and right of the white rabbit, all twilight and sunrises, forever the inside outsider.
Seeks out and follows creative and brilliant minds. And crows. Occasional shadow librarian.
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Bastet - Ancient Egyptian Goddess of Cats and the slayer of Apophis, serpent of chaos (www.youtube.com)
Bastet is the Egyptian goddess of the home, domesticity, women's secrets, cats, fertility, and childbirth. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children. As with many deities in Egyptian religion, she also played a role in the afterlife....
[News] Republicans nominate Steve Scalise to be House speaker and will try to unite before a floor vote (apnews.com)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Wednesday nominated Rep. Steve Scalise to be the next House speaker and will now try to unite around the conservative in a floor vote to elect him after ousting Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the post....
Sex On Wheelz (Cool World Mix) (www.youtube.com)
I'll turn you on like a tiger baby...
The Maker - Christopher Kezelos and Zealous Creative - Stop Motion Animation - 2012 (www.youtube.com)
A silent film that speaks volumes. So I'll let it speak for itself....
The Princess Bride - 1987 - starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest. (movie-web.app)
Have fun storming the castle!...
[News] RFK Jr. launches independent bid for president, leaving Democratic race against Biden (abcnews.go.com)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dropping out of the Democratic primary race against Joe Biden to launch an independent campaign for president next year, he said in a speech on Monday....
Indigenous youths keep ancient forestry traditions alive in the Philippines (news.mongabay.com)
In the southern Philippines’ Misamis Oriental province, Indigenous Higaonon practice a forest management tradition known as panlaoy....
How to build a heat-resilient city (grist.org)
Cities are hot. When you cover the ground with asphalt and concrete, jam millions of cars together on congested streets, and erect thousands of buildings that leak their own heat, you create what experts call an “urban heat island.” Daytime temperatures in these places can be as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than...
Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service - 1969 - Full Album (www.youtube.com)
So Fediverse, who do you love? Where do you love? How do you love? Which do you love?...
Cracker - Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) (www.youtube.com)
I don't know what the world may need, but I'm sure as hell that it starts with me, and that's a wisdom I have laughed at...
Flip, it's time you realize, this Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us - even if you Kimono My House - Sparks - 1974 (www.youtube.com)
Zoo time is she and you time...
Fear & Delight - Puppet Loosely Strung - The Correspondents - 2013 (www.youtube.com)
Oh, but I know you'll cause me grief. Close friends of mine are in disbelief. They can see what's underneath, fluttering lashes, red lips and pearly white teeth...
The Crow - 1994 - starring Brandon Lee, directed by Alex Proyas (movie-web.app)
It can't rain all the time....
Shake That Bagpipe - The SIDH - 2018 - Italian Celtic Dubstep (www.youtube.com)
There is no better day than Saturday to shake a bagpipe....
[Opinion] Hakeem Jeffries: A bipartisan coalition is the way forward for the House (www.washingtonpost.com)
In recent days, Democrats have tried to show our colleagues in the Republican majority a way out of the dysfunction and rancor they have allowed to engulf the House. That path to a better place is still there for the taking....
[News & Opinion] "Already an embarrassment": Legal experts shred Judge Aileen Cannon for granting Trump "delay" (www.salon.com)
The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents case on Friday temporarily paused a series of significant pre-trial deadlines pertaining to prosecutors' sharing of sensitive materials that the former president is entitled to while building his defense, The Messenger reports....
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - 4th Annual Collection - 1991 - featuring the work of Joyce Carol Oates, Haruki Murakami, John Crowley, Karl Capek and Ian Fraizer (pdfhost.io)
Opening Statement of Mr. Harold Schoff, attorney for Mr. Coyote: My client, Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona and contiguous states, does hereby bring suit for damages against the Acme Company, manufacturer and retail distributor of assorted merchandise, incorporated in Delaware and doing business in every state,...
The Year's Best Science Fiction - Fourth Annual Collection - 1988 - featuring Robert Silverberg, Orson Scott Card, Bruce Sterling, and William Gibson (www.mediafire.com)
It rains a lot, up here; there are winter days when it doesn’t really get light at all, only a bright, indeterminate gray. But then there are days when it’s like they whip aside a curtain to flash you three minutes of sunlit, suspended mountain, the trademark at the start of God’s own movie. It was like that the day her...
Where Everybody Knows Your Name - my nomination for the official theme song of the Fediverse (www.youtube.com)
Making your way in the world today...
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction - Anne Charters - 2nd Edition - Compact Version (866 pages) (pdfhost.io)
During her many years of teaching introduction to fiction courses, Ann Charters developed an acute sense of which stories work most effectively in the classroom. She also discovered that writers, not editors, have the most interesting and useful things to say about the making and the meaning of fiction....
I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - Do It All The Time - 2018 (www.youtube.com)
We’re taking over the world one kiss at a time. And then I’m taking your girl and I’m making her mine....
Hurricane - Cannons - 2022 (www.youtube.com)
A woman who knows how to demand that you talk to the hand. I'm convinced she's a scanner....