13: Drumming up Some Blog Business
1. I was typing, my fingers slipped, and a smiley face came up on the screen. I don’t know how to make that happen again, do you?
2. Funny grafffitti HERE.
3. I’ve been reading Tabor’s One Day at Time blog for several years but only now looked up the word “tabor” and discovered it was a small drum.
4. Years ago I participated in a shamanic drumming ritual and it was revealed to me that my animal totem is the crow. At first I was disappointed, wishing for something more majestic like an eagle or a panther, but then I found out how intelligent crows are and that they have a masterful and complex language and, being a lover of language, the crow totem made sense.
5. I love to learn how words are invented. The word tuxedo came from Tuxedo, New York, cologne came from Cologne, Germany and hack came from Hackney, England, according to the new book, Toponymity: An Atlas of Words.
6. Shooting Creek is a road I regularly travel on that was named for the shoot-up battles between moonshiners and feds back in the day.
7. My mind is like as snow globe where thoughts get stirred up or settle.
8. A Tea party crasher? The tea party’s “grassroots” credentials are as phony as Demi Moore’s mammary glands. Phony boobs. How appropriate. ~ More from Doug Thompson on the tea party and more HERE.
9. The funniest thing that happened when Bryce was at our house on Saturday was when he mimicked me. He sat in my favorite rocking chair with a play dough container for a cup and told us he was drinking his tea.
10. My “dharmacrat” poet friend Will, who coined the word moonth for month and alter-native for Floyd’s alternatives, just said on Facebook, “Leaves know when to leave.”
11. The political ad season has been sort of gory. THIS is my kind of negative TV campaign commercial.
12. I think the word Drum is an onomatopoeia, named for the sound it makes.
13. It’s shocking but true that crows are as intelligent as primates. They make tools, can follow and recognize faces, and pass knowledge on to their young. Watch a crow make a tool HERE.
More playing 13 Thursday HERE. My past ones are HERE.
October 27th, 2010 11:36 pm
I just watched that NATURE Pogram on Crows—They are FANTASTIC! I couldn’t get over how they learned immediately what they had to do to get that ball of food—and how each time they added another thing the crow had to figure out—He Did!!! They are incredibly intelligent and I think it would be an honor to have the crow be your Animal Totem!
YES! I’m with you..Frankenstein For Presidewnt…! LOL!
Blog traffic seems so strange these days…very inconsistant. I don’t understand it….At least, that’s how it’s been for me…..!
As always, Colleen, a very rich and varied T13!
October 27th, 2010 11:42 pm
I saw that show too! I was blown away.
October 28th, 2010 12:26 am
I am soooo tired of political ads. Only a few more days to go. You can actually have multiple animal totems. Sometimes an animal enters your life when you most need its guidance. Mine is the hawk, which is said to travel between this world and the spirit world, representing psychic ability, vision and creativity. Sometimes I need that guidance quite a bit.
October 28th, 2010 6:37 am
Greetings from Frankie (Frankenstein), Witchy (of Oz fame), and me.
October 28th, 2010 6:40 am
Interesting stuff! I wish I could see the program on crows, but I’ll have to scour the internet for something they’ll show here. Hmmm… If I had more time, I’d sit down and do that.
I’ll have to wait for a later date. 🙁
Happy TT!
October 28th, 2010 7:35 am
any moonshiners still in them there hills?! 🙂
disgusted by the political ads and the commentary, and especially sick of the tea partying crowd. seeing the woman have her head crunched under someone’s foot was very upsetting. we have sunk to an all time low in this country, and people seem to be really missing the boat. 🙁
October 28th, 2010 8:16 am
The race for garnering votes seems to have hit an all time low in the US. So very sorry to see this.
Happy Halloween!
October 28th, 2010 8:47 am
I hear tell there are some “still” (a pun) but nothing like before. There is an old still in the Old Church Gallery museum for viewing.
October 28th, 2010 8:50 am
#7 cool comparison- also your views 2 posts below are spectacular and take me homeward…
October 28th, 2010 9:15 am
My totem in recent years has been the deer. A shamanness told me this was my totem.
I will be glad when the campaigning is done, too, but then they’ll just start it back up for next year. Sigh.
October 28th, 2010 9:30 am
#7 reminds me of something my 12-year-old said while doing her homework the other night: “What do you call those houses the Inuit live in…snow globes?”
Wendy
October 28th, 2010 11:26 am
I loved the Frankenstein video. Dracula is all over Washington DC now. Bwahahahahahaha.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
October 28th, 2010 12:47 pm
Have no idea about the smiley face but if you find out let me know. Don’t they call those things “easter eggs”? The little hidden things that programers put into computers to have a little fun.
October 28th, 2010 3:45 pm
Cool list.
I agree with #12…tabor just doesn’t fit…
Nice TT
October 28th, 2010 8:13 pm
#1: You can re-make the smilely by pressing the Alt key followed by the #1 key on your 10-key (not the numbers up above the keyboard)
There are more combinations with the Alt key and your 10-key…try them out! 🙂
#13: Crows are very intelligent…and that’s probably why they freak me out just a little bit.
October 29th, 2010 6:23 am
I read this right after you posted on my blog…but never commented. Colorful history in that neck of the woods.
October 30th, 2010 12:32 pm
Have you ever read Ravens in Winter, by Bernd Heinrich? It is a fascinating tale of research into the feeding habits of ravens in Maine.
October 30th, 2010 12:38 pm
Never read it. The PBS show covered all the latest research on crows and ravens. Fascinating!!
October 30th, 2010 4:51 pm
yes, crows are smart similarly to humans. the corvid family isn’t the only one like this but at least we’re starting to recognize it. Man the maker of tools isn’t a distinguishing feature. Our imagination, our mental illnesses, our capacity for compassion is all around the animal kingdom. Even plants have a kind of intelligence and interaction that we overlook. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant_intelligence.html