Scientists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, contradicting their chewy caramel center theory. #NowYouKnow
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Scientists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, contradicting their chewy caramel center theory. #NowYouKnow
Places I have Lived: Seattle
Seattle, Washington
I love Seattle. I miss Seattle. I wrote this post about band clothes:
Years ago I had a conversation in Seattle with a musician who told me, "music is medicine." He even had a small record label by that name.
Music was my focus and life in my teens and 20s. I was a professional rock musician. It was more than a career. It was a calling... (and the weird thing is I am not finding any people in my first family who had musical talent but both my adoptive parents were both talented musicians.)
I'd kept quite a few "vintage" dresses from my rock band days, which was in my 20s, eons ago. They are kinda like a scrapbook of fabrics (yet I don't sew a lick!)
Why do I keep them? ...these are many many good reasons...
Second, when you are in a rock band, you barely make rent money. Wearing unusual band clothes was a "fitting" thing to do... especially if you are female. Fitting is my way of telling you it was very hard for me to afford tailoring. The rock bands I joined had no budget, seamstresses, or dress codes. When I started in the late 70s, there were a tiny handful of female singers. ((Hint: Linda Ronstadt was one. Heart came along eventually.))
Third, most of these dresses were found in thrift stores yet they are probably the most precious creations I could own or wear. One vintage 1940s black rayon midi-length has two beaded hummingbirds. (see photo) I also wore this to work in Seattle, I wore it to nightclubs, I wore it on a cruise. It is still lovely but I did a crappy job hemming it years ago...I found a tiny hole in the bottom of the dress. (No tag inside means it must have been handmade.)
Fourth, mainly it's the feel of fabric and touching recreates memory for me. (Sometimes I think being adopted did cause me some brain damage and trapped some memory in fog.) (I've kept some old tshirts from my travels too; some are from bands, of course.)
I think of band clothes as body armor; in a way these simple clothes create an illusion that isn't there. Black leather pants -- and what do you think?
Some of my rock band clothes were gifted. One blue velvet dress was given to me in college by a classmate (the mother of Wendy who I knew somewhat in high school). Her mom wanted me to have this family heirloom and of course I did wear it often. (I do wonder if Wendy knew about this?)
There is even a pink quilted bed jacket my mom gave me. No, I have not worn it. When did the bed jacket thing get popular? I think women in the 1930s and 40s had much better "taste" than we do now. (I'll admit I've a taste for kitschy colorful table linens, too.)
The rayon green print wrap dress was found in an abandoned house in Wisconsin (my friend's grandmother lived there and was deceased)(top photo of dresses) (I scooped up a black fur coat, too.) That green number was what I was wearing when I met Blackfoot. (You will have to read my memoir One Small Sacrifice to know that rock and roll saga). I also wore it when I sang in Automatic and then Tropic Zone in Minneapolis.
I didn't give up on music; my first marriage killed it for me.
Another post about my working for Jerden Records in Seattle
Oprah spoke of Maxi Priest and his music is medicine HERE.
Apprecation Friday: Poet Maurice Kenny: In Memoriam | Dawnland Voices
Monahsehtah
Evicted into the frozen teeth of winter
by the landlords of the plains;
cast into the bloody waters of the Washita
where your father’s corpse flowed in the stream . . .
his manhood stuffed into his mouth,
his scalp made guidon for Custer’s soldiers.
Torn from the band of helpless captive women,
a suckling child, mewing and puking in your arms;
driven by Long Hair to feel out the ashes of the village,
scout out the vital hearts of your people.
Did Sheridan’s eyes admire the loveliness
of your young Cheyenne cheeks?
Did Custer claim you like a trophy until
his civil wife pulled his sweaty thighs
from the Cheyenne Mystery of your life?!
You held your childish hands to your womb
and felt the kickings of a bird, the fledgling seed
planted like so much corn by Yellow-locked Long Hair!
Where did you find the love to mount his cot, knifeless,
or did he find your flesh upon his earthen floor?!
Custer strutted your grave to glory, foolish girl.
Now in the winds of the Washita Valley cottonwoods cry
for the slain Cheyenne. No winds moan in the leaves
for the head-strong girl, daughter of Little Rock,
who followed the pony soldiers.
Monahsetah’s Answer
How do I answer?
Do I call, hey you half breed, white man
with blue eyes, you half red man standing
within your breech clout?
You ask why
did I not take my knife and rush it
into his belly allowing his enemy blood
to river into my people's Oklahoma earth.
He called me to his bed.
His tent would be my sacrificial altar.
His body become my demise once my face
had been softly stroked by his hand . . . cold,
clammy; his body. I was his war treasure,
a hunk of gold, a pot of flesh. There was no escape.
In fact his man took my knife and slit an open
run of blood on my arm . . . just to warn
that I had better smile and be content.
Maurice Kenny: In Memoriam | Dawnland Voices
There are some people who I am glad came to this world and left us their words good words great words, words like this... LT
Song Exploder: Michelle Branch
Episode 108: Michelle Branch
“Best You Ever”
Michelle Branch is a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter. She put two platinum albums when she was still a teenager. Those records were huge hits, and so her sound on those records defined her as an artist—for better or worse. Over a decade later, and after a long stretch, in 2017, Michelle put out her third album, Hopeless Romantic. In this episode, Michelle talks about why she was in musical limbo for so long, as she takes apart her song “Best You Ever.”
CASTLE ROCK Season 1 Stephen King J.J. Abrams Series
This town of Orange isn't far from the BOOM location so we'll report what we hear!
Castle Rock Synopsis
Here's the official synopsis for the show: A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King’s best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King’s literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT, and Needful Things, as well as novella "The Body" and numerous short stories such as "Rita Hayworth and t"he Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller — a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.
p is for privacy
Want more real talk?
Listen to the full first episode, All Your Data Are Belong to Us, when host Veronica Belmont talks with a private investigator, a data broker, a guy who claims his headphones secretly spied on him and more. What’s their take on your data privacy? Tune in and find out.
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(and we have it listed on this blog under podcasts! BOOM)
learn to grieve?
Almost every hoarder has suffered a loss of a family member and they never finished grieving... HMMM...it's not rocket science, people...learn to grieve... BOOM!
Got Clutter? Buy Less Stuff
Between extreme hoarding and extreme minimalism, there’s a sustainable middle ground for staying organized and generally clutter-free. Amanda Sullivan, author of Organized Enough, says that getting there starts with developing reasonable habits. Two good ones: regularly donate things, and don't shop if you don’t need to. (The Leonard Lopate Show)
OY/YO
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