13: What’s the Buzz?
1. Between the bee and the thistle, I felt the above picture should be named “Don’t Stand too Close.”
2. I was juggling taking notes, video clips and pictures at a recent event that I was covering for the paper when my high school motto for getting good grades came back to me: Just Pay Attention in Class.
3. Joe and I recently picked enough apples to overfill a milk crate, which made me think about a bushel and a peck … and then … a hug around the neck, a song my dad taught me.
4. We got a new carpet installed in our bedroom this week, and so slept in my son’s old room, which is when I noticed that the tapestry hanging on the wall (still there from when it was his bedroom) had an obscure pattern of a man smoking a hookah on it. The worst part is that I think I bought it and was clueless when I did.
5. THIS is more fun than a yard flamingo.
6. Read about the time Joe and I drove to town blaring the poetry of the beats with the holy holy howl of Allen Ginsberg and his sunflower sutra and Jack Kerouac’s stoned-out Shakespearean jazz reading of the Three Stooges and Neal Cassady on the tape player HERE.
7. Is it MC or emcee?
8. Summer is like a rainbow bubble that pops too soon.
9. It’s hard to believe that parts of the country are already experiencing severe snowstorms, weather events some are calling “Snowtember.” The pictures are pretty chilling. See HERE.
10. I was going to post THIS link about new names for Climate Change, but it seemed kind of crass, even though it appeared in The New Yorker. Then I came across THIS website that had the even better idea of naming extreme storms after climate change deniers.
11. Joe was reading a book called “Lick the Sugar Habit,” which seemed like an oxymoron to me. I was thinking that licking sugar wasn’t going to be a very helpful way to break a habit until the next day when I realized that “lick” was being used like the word “beat.”
12. Last night I dreamt that I was driving somewhere and was lost. I tried to ask Siri for directions but my phone would only show me cartoons.
13. THIS is today’s soundtrack, but only because I couldn’t figure out how to work in THIS one.
_____Thirteen Thursday
September 17th, 2014 11:30 pm
What a buzz.
Laughs at thirteen. I still do lithofilm in a dark room every so often, and once in awhile, while the red light is on, someone will stand at the door and sing Roxanne badly.
September 17th, 2014 11:46 pm
Ha! Every time I hear it I think of Eddie Murphy singing it in 48 hours! http://videosift.com/video/Eddie-Murphy-sings-Roxanne-in-48-Hrs
September 17th, 2014 11:49 pm
Most, no all, sing it worst than Eddie Murphy.
September 18th, 2014 4:44 am
I’ve been reading a long time. Some of my all-time favorite lines, ever: the final stanza of Ginsberg’s Sunflower Sutra.
September 18th, 2014 4:53 am
#3 hug to you around the neck – hate to see fruit seasons leave especially peaches
September 18th, 2014 9:48 am
1. That would be an OUCH.
2. Mine was, “just show up and look good.”
3. Those are the only words to the song I know.
4. Hahaha. I had to look up hookah. I’m clueless still.
5. I love doing picture collections. This is going to be a fun Facebook album.
6. l♥ve / ❤•♥.•:*´¨`*:•♥•❤
7. The second one.
8. But at least the pictures last.
9. I think of Edgar Cayce when noticing such weird weather. Or maybe it’s the chemtrails.
10. It’s hard for me to understand how anyone can still deny climate change.
11. Lick – a good play on words. Beat can mean defeat. Not a good title.
12. I wonder what that dream was “driving” at?
13. I’ve never heard of Police. I’m still back at I Love You a Bushel and a Peck.
September 18th, 2014 10:19 am
I LOVE the name change policy, the second link under #10. GREAT idea!
September 18th, 2014 10:38 am
Love The Police and bees in thistle. Though we haven’t seen snow yet here (knock on wood), we did set new record low highs twice last week, with daytime temps in the low 50s and down to around 40 or upper 30s at night. It’s too soon for those kind of temps! My T13 *
September 18th, 2014 11:09 am
But the thistle flower actually looks kind of soft. And is there really anything better than a yard flamingo?
September 18th, 2014 12:13 pm
I love the bee in the thistle flower. What a great picture. You’re really talented.
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September 18th, 2014 1:51 pm
WOW! I have been missing your TT. I should come around more often.
I want to comment on all, but can’t remember the numbers!
September 18th, 2014 2:23 pm
I am ready for Autumn, but not for snow. I read a book about kicking the sugar habit some time back. It advised you to eat a potato every night before you went to bed. I tried it for a while but all it did was give me crazy dreams.
September 18th, 2014 2:48 pm
Not missing that snow…yet. Loving the fall, but since I am on travel and headed to a cooler climate I will miss out on some of the best of Indian summer here. Yeah, I know, you are playing a tiny violin.
September 19th, 2014 10:23 pm
Cute post! I can relate. Speaking of Siri, have you tried VDOT’s 511 lately? I can never get it to understand me!