how crazy tomorrow will be at my lil alma mat neighbor CU. Interesting to scan through the remarks on the spectator website, gosh gosh gosh such controversy! such debate! such rigorous frustrational dispository recognativity going ON! This is such a big DEAL! Who is walking out of class to protest this one? What does Mark Carnes have to say about all this? What? Is B going to SHAKE HANDS with A? I think attention to detail will really say a lot about this whole shin-dig, watch the BODY LANGUAGE. i dunno, after reading the prez release i am thinking that i'll love the ivy if there ISN'T a hand shake and really be pissed if there IS one. Will they SMILE? Gosh, if they do...its all so fragile...so bearly democratic, so vicariously patriotic.


Here are the words i speak of, they hail from the Prez Bo release:


...I would also like to invoke a major theme in the development of freedom of speech as a central value in our society. It should never be thought that merely to listen to ideas we deplore in any way implies our endorsement of those ideas, or the weakness of our resolve to resist those ideas or our naiveté about the very real dangers inherent in such ideas. It is a critical premise of freedom of speech that we do not honor the dishonorable when we open the public forum to their voices. To hold otherwise would make vigorous debate impossible.
That such a forum could not take place on a university campus in Iran today sharpens the point of what we do here. To commit oneself to a life—and a civil society—prepared to examine critically all ideas arises from a deep faith in the myriad benefits of a long-term process of meeting bad beliefs with better beliefs and hateful words with wiser words. That faith in freedom has always been and remains today our nation's most potent weapon against repressive regimes everywhere in the world. This is America at its best...

of financial interest...

BLADELOGIC, a company that specializes in things of the intangible sort, but it seems, very very helpful things, including the, ahem, seamless integration of some awesome free software into massive for-profit company's servers that in the end, makes our lives easier and more pleasant is having an IPO in a few weeks and has applied for the ticker name BLOG.

They are cool, not just because they're ticker name will be BLOG but because they are in the business of cyber-integration--which makes everyone's life easier. Let's just hope that verizon becomes a customer at some point... 

Here is the annual awesome VENICE inspired movie quote...(gotta check the archives for that weird quote about BAGGAGE from DEATH IN VENICE...)

The movie is, aptly, and obviously, SUMMERTIME with my cinematic siamese twin, KathArine Hepburn and a Mr. rrrRRRarrr, and dare I say...familiar? Rossano Brazzi. Lest you've been spared its "plot-acious", "Kid-life-esque-ness" here is the Criterion synopsis...

An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome-but married-Italian man while vacationing in Venice...

And the quote...Mr. Brazzi is talking at Mz. H, letting her know what she is and what she should do right before the first kiss...
"YOU ARE LIKE A HUNGRY CHILD, WHO IS GIVEN RAVIOLI TO EAT, NO! YOU SAY, I WANT BEEF STEAK...MY DEAR GIRL, YOU ARE HUNGRY, EAT THE RAVIOLI"

Then she says
"I'M NOT THAT HUNGRY"
Then he says
"WE ARE ALL THAT HUNGRY MS. HUDSON"

How great is THAT!! I even ATE ravioli today!!!! The coincidence is un-fRIGGIN-believe-able...

Wallowing in languid air, waiting for a bubble to break, tis moi.

I've got a terrific quote fur ya, of the painless meditation type. After reading it a few times I realize its quasi-cultish with a lingandering of sun-kingish monarchistic overtones. But its very nice.

Brought with angst and smoke to you by Hanna Mina, a very famous Syrian novelist who humbles us all with his bone marrow politics. This is from SUN ON A CLOUDY DAY...



"...Learn how to play for the people. Talk to them so that they listen to you. The people are generous, but they don't know to whom they should give or how. Tell them then that they are the masters of this universe, that the universe is made of you, and everything in it is for you. After that, convince them to achieve what you have said and lead them. Drummers are always in the front. Flag carriers and knights always walk in front. If the leader retreats, the drums will stop, the flag will be lowered, the ranks will fall back, and the people will scatter. Remember that. Be a leader in dancing, music, and war. But be prepared to pay the price of leadership. Die for it. Let your instrument speak if you are a musician. Let your feet speak if you are a dancer. Let your arm speak if you are a fighter."


I can't decide if these are pretty words with ugly ideology or if they are pretty and wise words. Interesting.

And on lighter note: Happy happy birthday to MizzzzRS. Emily Villemaire!!!

Hey, if Harlan Jacobson says a movie is good then by all means go pay good money to see what he says to, he has supra good taste.He said ONCE, this crazy dogme 95 wonder coming out of ireland was good, well, shit I say its BRILLIANT! BRILLIANT BRILLIANT! If you can stand acoustic ex-girlfriend music, well you just need to look over it and then you have such a fantastic post-modern, japanese love problematics dialectic twisted with relateable folk (points for red hair--yes!) weaved with unlikely and original not so prop props and varnished with perfect imperfect camera work, with an extra coat of super expensive "regretless regret". so good!

So the inevidable slip into basement nostalgia this weekend at homey home home, looking through the seas of paper past, find i an actual freakin homemade hand bound BOOK OF POETRY, complete with title etc. by, wow, awesome, ME. Check out the highlights... Kid Sheridan circa 1991.


excerpts from NINETEEN POEMS BY KATHERINE KENDRICK


Untitled 3

World
hectic, confusing
spinning, bouncing, hurting
exuberent, sorrowful, meloncholy, nothing
Planet...




Untitled 5

Golden~
was the sunset~
I tryed to figure out~
Why people wanted to take it~
Away~




Answer

I wondered out to sea
With questions in my head
looking for an answer~

When we got to shore
The people looked at me
the questions in my head
followed as always, behind me~

So I followed a sailor
Out to his boat
I asked give an answer?
Said he, Why ask me monsieur?
I realized then, he was not going to help me~

So I followed a squatter
Up to the house
Asked I give an answer?
Said he back, no sir, I'm sorry.
but you look closely, there you see? yes? do you?
Ah well, I'm blind
I realized then, he was not going to help me~

So now I am old
ready to die
Still searching desperatly
But I have now realized...
I won't find one.
never~




An End To a Great Memory

I felt a stab of pain
go through my heart
As I watched my little cottage
go up in flame

That house I had loved
for many years
Through good times
and bad
it had been my shelter

But now I watched
with foggy eyes
it burn into ash
it burn, into nothing




AND LASTLY...the happy one...




A Peaceful Conclusion

I walked along the shore
as the wind kissed my cheeks
I watched the sun melt across the lake
The guls peck at the sand and fly off.
The water whisper as it reached my toes
The sun dribble away and more stars appear.
My eyes close and float away
Into another dimention.

In the spirit of all things beautiful and flowery and gardenesque down here in mortality land I will let you know about cool things that are being sent upwards, perhaps for futures in weightless gardening...

Headline today reads:
50 SNAILS SHOT INTO SPACE
***The spacecraft's cargo also includes 50 snails to be studied in experiments on tissue regeneration in zero gravity, the Russian news agency Interfax reported***

Apparently this happens a lot, snails going to space, it happened in 2005 with the Russians and in 2001 with the Chinese. The snails have been launched and will arrive on Tuesday at the ISS, which is currently being home for Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov and NASA lady Sunita Williams.

Also, BASIL! Millions of basil seeds are being sent up to space in June with Barbara Morgan, here is the story ala collectspace.com

*** In addition to Morgan and her six STS-118 crew mates, space shuttle Endeavour will have on-board millions of basil seeds, which will be distributed after the mission to children in kindergarten through high school working to develop their own designs for Moon- or Mars-based plant growth chambers.

"We know they will be excited about having the seeds, something physical that has been in space that they can touch and grow," Morgan told collectSPACE during an educational event held Friday at Space Center Houston...

"We want them to understand that our mission, and all these series of missions, are just one and long step into an open ended future. So we're going to help finish building the International Space Station, that leads on to us going to the Moon and on to Mars. Right now, as you know, we are working on the exploration vehicle and how we are going to get to the Moon and how we are going to get to Mars," continued Morgan. "[For] these kids... and even high school seniors today, that will be figured out by the time they are in graduate school but there's lots and lots of stuff that hasn't been figured out at all yet."...

"We are also taking up a growth chamber that we will be transferring over to station and Clay [Anderson, STS-118 crewmember and station resident,] will start and continue the growth of these basil seeds," Morgan said.***

Growth Chambers!

oh good jesus lord, I find myself at weeee old hours stuck in a car that won't move in the manhattan one waiting on a dear man with a flatbedihatethisSHIT! homecoming a la studio b was pleasantly austere, maybe I will dream again about neon orange lights, videogames, tibetan activists and frustrating love interests, cause thats what happened last night, oh, and jaw breakers. so my car got a bitch of a problem and I finally got to use my AaA card on MYself, fuck, but then I lost the card. tomorrow always has the potential to be better, right?

Back.

Forth:

Dr. Bernard Foing, an aptly named talking head at the European Space Agency thinks that we should reenact the Old Testament on the moon Strategy- we take DNA samples of EVERYTHING here on Biosphere 1 creating a nice lil library and transport it via a space age NOAH'S ARK to the moon.
Now this is great, its like starting an IRA in space. great things. conservative thinking.
*******
"If there were a catastrophic collision on Earth or a nuclear war, you could place some samples of Earth's biosphere, including humans, [on the Moon]," he said.

"You could repopulate the Earth afterwards, like a Noah's Ark," he said.

(from the archives-BBC)
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Which reminds me of a story I read awhile back by Dr. Martine Rothblatt about weird immortality, albeit totally inorganic, that can be achieved on the moon through the meticulous recording of a person's mannerisms...
and omi gosh I just found an awesome, completely MUST SEE quicktime video of the doctor him/er self explaining it all. go go go. this will trip you out! caveat: there might, just might be identity fraud issues here so just watch the video. if it IS identity fraud though, then it is totally ingenious.


http://www.terasemcentral.org/cyberev.html



New words I learned from watching this video: Bambrage Molecules, Inditia, Roshar Tests, and Beams (units of being-ness)
Highlights: Deposit your beingness to the cosmos to preserve your precious consciousness. Beams are more important than genes.




Meanwhile I find, on my rusty, crumbly neanderthalic internet connection, that
BRITAIN wants to pawn its ROYAL SOCIETY in exchange for a National Space Agency. Bravo.

One thing always leads to another and on Saint Patrick's day this is what happend:

Cruising down Fry Blvd. in a what what 1971 GREEN jaguar with a CHEVY engine when, oh shit the engine goes kaput. Luckily friend Morgan had friend Sheridan to help out with a AAA card she has never actually used for her own car. Within the hour the nice fat AAA tower man came and brought us back to where we were supposed to be. On the way, using our newly honed questioning "craft" we managed to gather some wonderful bits of information regarding the whereabouts of AA Allen's grave as well as his bible college as well as the exact location in Miracle Valley where a shoot out between a rabid jesus cult and the local authorities resulted in the deaths of lots of folks, where tent revivals have been known to happen as well as other "things..."

Pictures...


http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/interface964/detail?.dir=/c30dscd&.dnm=ca9ascd.jpg&.src=ph