Erstwhile Dancefloor Revolution

mantis guy

mantis guy Originally uploaded by jyllianm A new born baby mantis guy. He let us take pictures as we were eating our dinner outside. He skittered back and forth and was so tiny it was hard to catch him,but there he is.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

~Thoreau (right?) Somehow I always want to attribute this to the Die Blechtrommel. I march to a very different drum. Part of this has to do with my past. It wasn’t easy and that is a considerable understatement. I hope, in the near future to be able to work with …

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.~Oscar Wilde

I love Oscar Wilde. A bisexual who irritated everyone. Hmmm… So yeah I pissed off a few people with my last post. It’s not the first post I got email on from random people on the internet but hey…I got some. . Why did my er…anti Valentine’s post bug people. …

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.~Oscar Wilde

Just dropping in to say that any second now I’m going to find my rhythm and start writing here regularly again. It’s been quite a transition to go from the insanity of school to working full time. It’s an improvement on so many levels, but now we need to find …

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. ~T.S. Eliot

New year, new design. I’ve actually been playing with that a lot lately. I like the last one but it was too dark. The one before that had some other issues with fonts that didn’t want to be fixed I really like this one, it’s very Steampunk and I think …

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning. ~T.S. Eliot

Ah where have I been? I have been enjoying the hell out of the swine flu. I’ve had fever and barfing and all sorts of horrible other things for the past almost week. I’m still so fatigued I can barely move. We’re so behind on Xmess I don’t know how …

Guiltlessness

There are reasons I like facebook. This being posted is one. “I was doing an interview with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche recently, and I asked him the question: “Rinpoche, you have been living in the west for some time now, and you know western people well. What do you think is …

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.~Sidney Poitier

First random thing: I would like to like the show Eastwick because 1) the redhead witch was on Eureka a show I love 2)The actor who plays Darryl the Satan character was in this WONDERFUL PBS/Sundance show called Slings and Arrows. Which I LOVED. 3) I adore the other redhead …

Minutia

Edited–WHY did this post in January? Sheesh. Today is world AIDs day. Get tested if you are at risk. Take care of yourselves–we’ve lost too many wonderful folk. Planet 51 is a cute movie. J, Em and I went this weekend and it was so cool to just hang out …