BOOM has a folder of crazy stuff

which you will be seeing SLOWLY all next month... some of it will make sense, or maybe not.

A preview:

we are gif-crazy... you do know that, right? BOOM!

that elf

we have a big love for this elf...

what did you expect... it is ELF SEASON... BOOM

8,000-year-old stylized engravings show domesticated dogs

Rock Engravings of Dogs on Leashes Show Pre-Neolithic Good Boys

santa school?

Beach Santa sounds perfectly normal to us... BOOM!

There is even a Santa school... when you get to do fun stuff...

here is one of my Mental Midget poems:

you do not know
~~what?~~ what
you do not know

I am ~~abnormal normal~~ not
i break ~~rulers rules~~ apart
i bend ~~spoons minds~~ backwards

hope is ~~skin-thin~~ paper-thin
hope is ~~waterproof tear-proof~~ gone
hope ~~cracks creaks~~ buckles
~~lost all my~~ hope

yup, I am working on a new poetry collection... (c) 2017 LT... BOOM

HONESTY (Preview)

hair swapping?

Hair-swapping may seem a bit strange now, in an age where we can carry basically all of the non-forensic evidence of a relationship—from photos to correspondence to shared transactions—around in our phones. But in the past, and particularly in the Victorian era, swapping hair served as a common sign of affection, a way to literally give a friend, relative, or lover a piece of yourself, and keep a piece of them in turn.

John Keats’s hair, with a note from Leigh Hunt attesting to its provenance. The empty frame probably originally contained a portrait of the poet. Atlas Obscura

VIA

what you looking at?

Stop Making Sense

hurting birds and bees migrations

FOR THE BIRDS Eating even a few pesticide-coated seeds can disorient white-crowned sparrows, new studies suggest.

...new findings add to evidence suggesting that the widely used pesticides, which are chemically similar to nicotine, might be sending ecological ripples beyond the intended targets.
In lab studies, researchers captured wild white-crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, that were migrating north and fed them small doses of imidacloprid for three days — the amount that birds would get from eating a few pesticide-coated wheat seeds. The birds that ate the pesticides lost weight, study coauthor Margaret Eng reported November 15 at the annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry North America.
And when placed in a large, inverted funnel used to study birds’ migratory orientations, the neonic-fed birds tried to fly in directions other than north. Birds that consumed sunflower oil instead showed no ill effects. SOURCE

Art Appreciation: Joseph Beuys

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Many years ago, I worked at the Bellevue Art Museum in Bellevue, WA, east of Seattle. I was hired as manager of their two gift shops. They ran a holiday store MY WISH LIST that year - it was overwhelming and crazy busy. Also when I worked at BAM, they ran an exhibit of Joseph Beuys. I never forgot this. It was weird, provocative, startling, unexpected. Go to the link and watch the preview of a new documentary about him and his activism.
This year, I actually got to see a very small exhibit of Beuys at the Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (MASS MOCA). Again, highly unusual.

see below

Thirty years after his death, Joseph Beuys still feels like a visionary and is widely considered one of the most influential artists of his generation. Known for his contributions to the Fluxus movement and his work across diverse media — from happening and performance to sculpture, installation, and graphic art — Beuys’ expanded concept of the role of the artist places him in the middle of socially relevant discourses on media, community, and capital. Using previously untapped visual and audio sources, director Andreas Veiel has created a one-of-a-kind chronicle: Beuys is not a portrait in the traditional sense, but an intimate and in-depth look at a human being, his art and ideas, and the way they have impacted the world. THE FILM