Thirteen Thursday Free Rent
1. After 183 Thirteen Thursday’s I find myself wondering if there will ever come a Thursday when I have nothing left to say.
2. I also worry about the size of my blog. After four years of archives, I wonder how big can a blog get?
3. When I first started blogging I wrote this: Sometimes I wish the word “blog” didn’t sound so much like “blob” and remind me of the 1958 movie (The Blob) staring Steve McQueen where something falls from outer space and gets stuck on his arm and then grows and grows until it covers his body. It’s good for blogs to grow – more readers and posts everyday – right? It’s not going to take over my life – right?
4. Someone read in one of my recent 13 Thursday’s that my Obama bumper sticker was falling off my car and sent me a new one in the mail.
5. On Monday Joe and I woke up and discovered we had the same dream. We both dreamed of a dead body that we had forgotten about and when we remembered, even though we were innocent of wrong doing, we wondered how to explain it or dispose of it.
6. Early on in our relationship Joe and I frequently had the same dream. Once when I asked him a question in my sleep and he answered me out loud in real life (making perfect sense), it startled me awake.
7. Although I remember the first Earth Day in 1970, I had forgotten the circumstances of its origins, so I did a little research and found this on Wikipedia: Earth Day was conceived by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson (June 4, 1916 – July 3, 2005) after a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after that horrific oil spill off our coast in 1969. He was so outraged by what he saw that he went back to Washington and passed a bill designating April 22 as a national day to celebrate the earth. Many important laws were passed by the Congress in the wake of the 1970 Earth Day, including the Clean Air Act, wild lands and the ocean, and the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
8. We can also thank him for this: In 1970 Senator Nelson called for Congressional hearings on the safety of combined oral contraceptive pills, which were famously called “The Nelson Pill Hearings.” As a result of the hearings, side-effect disclosure was required for the pill in patient inserts – the first such disclosure for a pharmaceutical drug.
9. Sean Penn in Rolling Stone on Bush leaving the White House and why his administration to be held accountable: I truly think the man should be imprisoned for the rest of his life. I know that sounds like some lefty thing, but I think the state of accountability is a sham. When Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon, a lot of people were upset about it, but when Ford died, these Democrats who’d once criticized Ford for that pardon suddenly had these revisionist opinions: “We need to be unified.” But long term, do you think Bush and Cheney would have gone to the trough like they did if Nixon had gone to jail? No.
10. Favorite Bumper sticker, as coined by Alice Walker: When the axe came into the forest, the tree said, ‘The handle is one of us.'”
11. I still remember how shocked I was when as a little girl I first learned that we had to pay for our land, our home, and even water. My next fall from grace and innocence happened in 1957 at the Hingham Loring Theater watching Bambi’s mother be shot.
12. My childhood home was taken by our town through eminent domain and burned to the ground. Like our green house at 10 ½ Spring Street, the sewage plant building that now stands in its place faces the Hull Village Cemetery, the place we played and sledded as kids before it was so filled up with gravestones, the place where two of my brothers and my father are now buried. More HERE.
13. About the same time that the first Earth Day was happening I was radicalized by Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book.” Of course, I paid for it.
More Thirteen Thursdays are HERE.
April 22nd, 2009 11:15 pm
I’ve never heard that saying: “When the axe came into the forest….” But I like it quite a bit. I’m a little blown away by you and Joe’s simul-dreaming. That’s very cool and deeply fascinating.
April 22nd, 2009 11:43 pm
Those dreams happening at th same time are scary!
April 23rd, 2009 12:21 am
Hapyy TT:)
April 23rd, 2009 1:23 am
Only in a dream could you forget a dead body.
April 23rd, 2009 1:26 am
Nope, I don’t believe you will ever run out of things to say.
April 23rd, 2009 1:30 am
I remember seeing Bambi as well and feeling far less innocent when I left the theater. Dreaming of death…not had that yet, but I know someday I will.
April 23rd, 2009 2:23 am
Re #1 — I do hope not!
April 23rd, 2009 3:07 am
183 TT’s on your belt! Wow. I believe you’ll never run out of things to say! I gave up TT when it reached 80. Now I am starting again. 🙂
April 23rd, 2009 5:04 am
Wow… have you two tried lucid dreaming? Imagine all of the free vacations you could take together. 😉
I remember being baffled by the paying for water thing, too… I mean, all of those animals were using it for free.
Happy Thursday!
April 23rd, 2009 6:44 am
I doubt you’ll ever run out of things to say! I don’t think I will, either, but I do sometimes run out of time to say it.
I enjoyed this TT quite a lot. The dreams paragraph was quite interesting. My husband seldom remembers his dreams but I recall mine almost every day.
April 23rd, 2009 7:28 am
Wow, that’s fascinating that you and Joe are so connected in the dream world. My husband and I often have the same random thought at the same time or one of us will be thinking of a song and the other will suddenly start singing it, but I don’t think we’ve ever dreamed the same dream.
About #1: Nope, I don’t think you’ll ever run out of things to say. At least, I hope not!
April 23rd, 2009 8:38 am
WOW that many TT’s!!!
This is another great one. ox
April 23rd, 2009 8:40 am
Kewl list. You and your husband sure share a special connection. I never knew where Earth Day originated. Thanks for the lesson. Happy T13!
April 23rd, 2009 8:47 am
same dream, same time? heebiejeebie!!
April 23rd, 2009 8:56 am
Wow! That’s a lot of 13s! I think I’m almost to 200 soon.
April 23rd, 2009 10:52 am
The oldest blogger who was a 100 year old Australian lady always talked about her blob ! She was really amazing, I think she died last year.
April 23rd, 2009 12:38 pm
Great TT, Colleen…I think that is amazingly wonderful that you and Joe are so connected—even in your dreams! This is a true example of “soul mates”, isn’t it?
I think it is so Horrible that your childhood home could be taken by ’eminent domain’….I do not understand this concept and frankly, I think it is equivalent to Highway Robbery!! And as to you running out of things to say….I hope that never happens in I honestly do not think it will! (lol)
April 23rd, 2009 2:54 pm
Great bumper sticker on #10.
My father always wanted one which said “Eschew Obfuscation” I actually saw a truck with an obviously handmade one saying exactly that, while driving to Richmond once!
April 23rd, 2009 3:11 pm
now what happens if i start blogging and synchrony happens with you here too!
luckily i’m too busy to write anything but little diddy responses like this.
xox0
April 23rd, 2009 4:12 pm
I don’t think you’ll ever not have something to say!
April 23rd, 2009 5:48 pm
4 – cool, 5 – weird 6 – wow 11 – the ruin of many a child, that scene. gah. those sadistic animators. I still can’t believe that land taxes fly as a concept. Paying for water if filtered I can see. How much would gas cost if gas tax covered all of car infrastructure?
April 23rd, 2009 7:43 pm
I had a best friend I could tandem dream with…I haven’t thought about that in years.
Having just found you, here’s hoping you never run out of things to say.
~X
April 23rd, 2009 9:30 pm
that is quite amazing that you and joe dream the same dream from time to time. do the dreams ever relate to something you both read or one of you read aloud or a movie or some other stimulation from the night before?
April 23rd, 2009 10:26 pm
What a diverse and fascinating list! Just love your paying for ‘Steal This Book’.
April 23rd, 2009 11:06 pm
About the dream: The night preceeding it we had both been disturbed by a the behavior of a person that is affecting a family member. That was the only thing I could determine that might have created a link to the “dead body” (males) scenario that we had forgotten about and then had to figure out how to dispose.
April 24th, 2009 8:05 am
makes sense, share experience, shared processing of it. still, uncanny that your unconsciouses resolved how to do it the same way.
April 24th, 2009 10:45 am
#3 i remember so clearly when you said that hahahahah
April 27th, 2009 7:23 am
#10 perfect Sandy
April 27th, 2009 3:46 pm
#5 is just freaky. I would be watching out for that body.