Loose Leaf Notes

1. When I woke up Sunday morning after going out dancing two nights in a row and saw the wrist band around my wrist, I thought for a split second that maybe I’d been in the hospital.

2. It’s always good when I go dancing and apple picking and get a massage all in the same weekend.

3. Virginia is for Lovers, or is that Smokers? Read my brother in law’s (alias Horace Harker) write up on Sherlock Holmes Pipe club about his experience at Floydfest X as it relates to cigars HERE.

4. A Newspaper update on Abraham Cherrix, the young man who made national news and whose parents were charged when he refused traditional cancer therapy, the young man who moved to Floyd after that and who I wrote about is HERE.

5. “There have been studies that actually show you get a hit of oxytocin [aka the love or cuddle hormone] when you social network or get a call or email from someone. It feels good, so we want to do it over and over again.” ~ Tiffany Shlain – Filmmaker and director of Connected, a new documentary about technology, family, and the way the Internet has changed how we think.

6. Shlain’s father, author of The Alphabet Vs the Goddess, believes that literacy reinforced the brain’s linear, abstract predominately masculine left hemisphere at the expense of the holistic, iconic feminine right one and that the invention and current prevalence of media based on images – like photography, film, television and computers – is rewiring our brains in a more right brain pattern and is moving the culture towards an equilibrium between the two hemispheres, between masculine and feminine, between word and image.

7. The song my friend Michael Kovick sang at this weekend’s benefit concert in support of the ban on uranium mining in Virginia titled “Copopration’s Not Person,” would be a good one to sing at the Occupy Wall Street campaign protesting the influence corporate money has on politicians in Congress.

8. I can’t find my poetry. I think it left town to join the protest on Wall Street.

9. Favorite video of the week: THIS guy is good in a Napoleon Dynamite way.

10. Can you guess which modern American president holds the record for increasing U.S. debt? See HERE.

11. Best quote of the week: “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.” ― Stephen Colbert

12. In response to the recent changes at Facebook that make it harder to get a most recent online feed – or maybe because it’s recently been revealed that Facebookers are never really logged out of the site so the company can track users across the web, someone posted this: Tomorrow, Facebook will change its privacy settings to allow Mark Zuckerberg to come into your house while you sleep and eat your brains with a grapefruit spoon. To stop this from happening go to Account> Home Invasion Settings> Cannibalism> Brains, and uncheck the “Tasty” box. Please copy and re-post. It will save lives.

13. Crickets or grasshoppers? Alligators or crocodiles? I get them all mixed up.

Thirteen Thursday hub is HERE.