Breaking the Thirteen Thursday Time Barrier
1. I was recently typing the name of my book of poems, Muses Like Moonlight, and typed “Mooses Like Moonlight” by mistake.
2. Written on the inside on my latest notebook: Note to self – in writing.
3. I can understand why my youtube video of the Hokie Wave Cheer at the Dave Matthews and John Meyer concert at VA Tech has gotten nearly 2,000 hits. What I don’t understand is why THIS video has gotten almost as many.
4. I wasn’t kidding about getting drunk on the aroma of apple blossoms while visiting an orchard on the Parkway HERE. The next day I even had a hangover from breathing all that pollen.
5. I was sipping tea on the front porch today when a cloud of pollen that looked like smoke passed by. It caused me to question for a second whether I was crazy enough to have lit the wood stove and forgot. I didn’t think so because it was nearly 80 degrees.
6. Mara says we need to bring some mud to our next spoken word night. Her idea was prompted by reading Tom Ryan’s latest issue of The Floyd Enquirer, in which he reported this: A full contact mud wrestling poetry slam has been scheduled for the title “High Priestess of Poetry”. The crowd favorite seems to be Mara “Drama-O-Rama” Robbins but the smart money is split between Colleen “Soul Crusher” Redman & Katherine “TeaTime” Chantal.
7. And about Floyd Fest, there was this Tomfoolery by Tom: It was nice to see that Kris & Erika were able to negotiate a “non-presence” of the Federal Interdiction Anti-Fun Force at this year’s festival (Floyd Fest). I was a little taken aback, however, to learn of the myriad compromises they made in reaching that accord. Changing the festival theme from “A Family Affair” to “A Family Values Affair” was bad enough but allowing Pat Robertson to M.C. and letting Dick Cheney sit in with Donna The Buffalo to perform “Ubber Deutschland” are bound to have a chilling effect on the festivals ambiance. I guess I can learn to live with these concessions but I was aghast at The National Rifle Association becoming the primary sponsor & forcing all staff to wear “Don’t Inhale” T-shirts. You can read the full online tell-all HERE.
8. A real 9/ll Call: “We made brownies and I think we’re dead.” More of this hilarity is HERE.
9. Michael Moore on Larry King talking about Obama’s relationship with Reverend Wright: Jeez, you know, I mean I go to Mass still. I’m a practicing Catholic. I’ve been that way all my life. But if I had — if I had gotten up every time I heard a priest from the pulpit in my travels around the country say things like I’ve heard them say, that birth control is a sin, that women should not be priests, that women should have a different role in church … I would have been walking out so much — that would have been so much aerobic activity for me … I wouldn’t look like this.
10. In the nearly three years I’ve been doing Thirteen Thursday, I actually forgot it was Thursday once and posted on Friday. My excuse: “I thought yesterday was Wednesday, which would make today Thursday, but of course it’s really Friday. Everybody says so.”
11. Have you seen the human clock? It runs continuously and changes ever moment with photo scenes people have sent in from around the world telling the time.
12. Also from my Thirteen Thursday on Friday: “I’ve always been fascinated by the group mind that humans share, which causes us to agree about certain things like what day of the week it is, or to stay in our own lane on the right side of the road while driving down a highway. What would happen if we completely dropped out and forgot these collective agreements?”
13. In August 2006 I wrote this: “I think of blogging as rapid fire target practice. Doing it daily, I can’t help but improve my writer’s aim, but sometimes my arm gets tired!” Hey, I guess that means I should have carpal tunnel by now.
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May 8th, 2008 12:12 am
Hurray for TT theme rebellion! never give in Colleen! 🙂
I’m not sure what the confusion is about the vids. It’s log splitting! For most people, that’s an unknown and rare thing! 🙂 I’ve only seen those pollen clouds from evergreens – they are wind polinated. Are your evergreens in season? It’s too early here.
Happy TT! this was great fun – as always. I love Michael Moore’s quote – and he’s right.
May 8th, 2008 1:28 am
The point about #9 is that he SHOULD get up and walk out of church any time a bigot in a pulpit says something disgraceful. If one just sits there and lets them go on, it only makes them think one is agreeing with them.
May 8th, 2008 5:59 am
Yes, where are the droves of people leaving the Catholic church? And where are they leaving Pat Robertson’s ministry for the horrible things he has said about assassinations, AIDS, etc? Seems like a double standard to me – what else is new!
May 8th, 2008 6:17 am
Colleen,
These are great. Your moose made me think of my herring. As in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Blue Herring.” I went through a semester with the wrong animal; didn’t get reacquainted until the final!
No. 13–so true. Practice is life is blogging!
May 8th, 2008 7:50 am
Pollen is REALLY bad this year. My car has been yellow for a month – and it’s really blue! Achoo!
May 8th, 2008 9:15 am
# 7 you are scaring me to death with that one I would watch Joe splitting. haha Mud funnyyyyyy
May 8th, 2008 9:45 am
Yes, the pollen is coming from my evergreen pines.
Claudia, the founder of TT always meant for it to be random, like a mini list of 100 Things About Me. I have never been able to color inside the lines and I do love list talk, stream of consciousness, so it works for me.
June, Great point. I agree it’s a double standard. Both Robertson and Falwell said we deserved 9/11. Wright has focused on our bad foreign policies being the reason, whereas Falwell and Robertson think God is punishing us for not being Christian enough. That sounds like the other end of radical fundamentalism to me. Falwell blamed the the Civil Liberties Union for 9/11. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/f/falwell-robertson-wtc.htm
May 8th, 2008 9:54 am
The pollen is killing me Colleen. It is so bad. I know I say every year it gets worse but it DOES! Our pond looks like a yellow pool. Yucky stuff.
I guess people interested in buying a log splitter want to see what it looks like? STrange what people like.
My mother makes the point that when our childhood pastor retired and our church started into the Southern Baptist submission mess in what the mid 80s…anyway we got this new cat that preached only Republicans went to heaven and all movie stars would burn…my mama walked out and stayed out. But I do think Wright is just a nut and jealous of Obama’s success. I don’t think Obama believes any of that mess. And I hear things all the time at church that I do not agree with. I refuse to close my eyes when they pray for the war in such a ridiculous way…especially since most of the church supported the idiot Bush! But I do enjoy going sometimes. I need it. I avoid the “club” I am barely involved but sometimes I just need to be there. But if our preacher ever says he hates any race or people I would walk out, and never listen to him again.
May 8th, 2008 10:19 am
I first saw a cloud of pollen a couple years ago…it was a wicked hot day and I was driving when I noticed this “smoke” near some pine trees…I pulled over and noticed it was pollen! Weird!
May 8th, 2008 11:27 am
#8? crazy!!
May 8th, 2008 4:24 pm
I couldn’t watch the video – I was afraid the guy was going to cut off his hand or something and I’d be having nightmares about it.
Happy TT!
May 8th, 2008 6:27 pm
6 and 7 cracked me up… i’d like to see a mud wrestling poetry slam. now that would be entertaining!
and i think with any church or pastor, you take some things and leave some things. but as deana said, if they were preaching hate in any way, i don’t think i could tolerate it.
May 8th, 2008 11:46 pm
It was pot brownies they made!
May 9th, 2008 12:00 am
I love how you always introduce us to new things. I wasn’t familiar with the human clock before but have added it to my ‘cool finds’.
May 9th, 2008 6:23 am
I LOVE you getting drunk on Apple Blossoms, AND having a Hangover, too..lol….They are Sweet! I hadn’t seen the Michael Moore interview…But I love that he said what he did!
May 9th, 2008 7:51 am
#9. Michael Moore is one of the most offensive of political muckrakers alive. He’s told more lies than he has gained pounds. Somehow I think comparing a priest that makes traditional conservative commentary on social policy is less of an issue than damning the very country and its government that shelters and provides a higher standard of living for him than just about any other country could do is apples to oranges on an embarrassing scale.
May 9th, 2008 8:56 am
Apple blossom buzz for the win!
May 9th, 2008 9:29 am
I do like Michael Moore. He is one of the few real celebrities left in the world. It does sound like he is an Obama fan, though.
May 9th, 2008 5:58 pm
I went to a music show that ended in a wrestling match, complete with ring and costumes. The visual arts people beat the musicians. I’d go to a mud wrestling poetry slam!