Insomniac's Corner

Nov 10 2009

"....Josh Brolin, in bad Keith Richards drag, suffers misfortune while orally pleasuring Marley Shelton's flight attendant;
Holly, who has the hots for Bambi, is incapable of going down without throwing up."

Melissa Anderson
Village Voice

{gsgs comment- In what world, is soft porn a good choice for children's viewing on free access TV ? It is three in the afternoon. Not three in the morning.}
 
I am just sad, that the same old feelings will be dredged up. The sadness about the victims of the abortion clinic killings in Brookline.
Now, that sadness is transferred to the victims that died, and the ones who lost limbs. Joy has turned to loss and pain.
The feeling of timidness, after 911. Walking by Boston landmark buildings and wondering, if I would be a witness to destruction.

I will be naked honest about this- I had fear that I, too would be blown up in an explosion. That feeling took time to fade.

Now, there is sadness that a happy event, year after year has been wrecked by some person, or persons, who's eyes flash "Crazy, crazy!"

I provoked those nutcases that haunted the women's health clinics in Brookline. I found out what gets expressed, from the eyes of fanatics.

They are way, over the edge. They are homicidal. They are fucking crazy. Like rabid animals.

There are stories that the terrorists from 911 were holed up in a hotel, and an office up on Route 9, outside of Boston.

So, once again, simple joy of life, is replaced by mourning, and loss.

I am hoping tomorrow will not bring more people, screaming to themselves- "What the fuck was that ?" or "I am bleeding/dying."

"Where is my daughter, son, father, mother, aunt, uncle, grandad, grandmother, friend, lover, girlfriend,boyfriend, wife, husband, classmate ?

"I hope they are OK." "I hope that they will be OK." "I hope that we can find them."

The people down at Copley Square had extra stress. No one could reach anyone on the smartphone or cell phone.

I cannot imagine how frantic they were, when they could not reach their loved ones.
 
Over the millennia, as Christians have revised Jesus himself from the at-once historical and obscure figure in Mark
(the gospel actually written before Matthew, whose more fantastical and spectacular take on Jesus and particularly
the resurrection upstaged Mark and thus became definitive) to the judgmental, fire-and-brimstone Jesus of John, the
Devil has become more charismatic as well.

http://prospect.org/article/obama-republicans-devil
 
"What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany,
and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina's of course. "

- Rep. Peter Hansen, R-Amherst, NH

A New Hampshire lawmaker apologized Wednesday for referring to women
as "vaginas" in an email to his House colleagues during a debate over
repealing a law allowing people to use deadly force to defend themselves.

"The debate over the rights of everyone to protect their home and family is too important to be
overshadowed by the clumsy and disrespectful way in which I tried to make my point."

- Rep. Peter Hansen, R-Amherst, NH

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130417/NEWS06/130419121
 
While we are zombie-sleep walking through the cluster fuck, that is the search for a Chechnya teenager. ( It continues in Watertown, MA)

Obama protects people who work for the government, so that they can use secretly obtained inside information to make their wallets fat.

What is happening with CISPA ?
CISPA is what everyone who uses the internet, needs.
It is up for a vote.
Will the attention for CISPA get diverted ?

U.S. Arms Deal With Israel and 2 Arab Nations Is Near
New York Times
April 19, 2013

A $10 billion deal would provide missiles, warplanes and troop transports to help Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates counter any future threat from Iran.

And the latest, most advanced jet fighters!
 
There are drawbacks to being an insomniac. I get things mixed up.
CISPA ? April 22, 2013 will be marked by many.

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/obamas_cispa_privacy_surprise/

If HBO had seized onto The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series 1955 )

the series would have lasted longer than Game of Thrones.

Then, again, Hi-Def is unforgiving. Many sins were hidden with black and white film.

"The first three series have 39 episodes each and are on five-disc sets, while the last series has 26 episodes and is on three discs."
 
Battur Tumer, a descendant of Genghis Khan and one of the participants-

Wells's team collected y chromosome data in a region of Asia once ruled by the 13th-century Mongolian warrior.
Their analysis identified a marker that originated about a thousand years ago and was carried by about 8 percent
of the men living in the region. The marker was found in only one population outside of Asia—the Hazaras tribe
in Pakistan. The Hazaras have a long oral tradition that says they're Khan's direct descendants.

http://worldwidescience.org/news.html

(Next stop, molecular level!)

Sadly, much of these people have been murdered, because of genocide.
 
Boston
Cold Comfort: A Non-Native's Guide To New England Winters

Black Ice:

Not (as non-New Englanders tend to assume) the rap/pop super group formed by Vanilla Ice and Black Eyed Peas.

No, to a hearty native, “black ice” means a transparent sheet of frozen water that covers any exterior surface you,
or your vehicle, might wish to traverse.

Examples: your front steps, your sidewalk, the streets you drive to work.

Black Ice has one purpose: to kill you.

Spring Thaw:

A mythical geothermal event marking the formal end of winter. It is said to take place in mid-March.

The actual thaw occurs in early to late April, right around the time you shake your final super bug
of the season, and finish renovations on your Mud Room.

{gsgs comment- Exceptions- The years when there are six inches deep, of solid ice covering your entire lawn.
This ice seems to delay Spring, because of the cold it emanates. Is this how glaciers work ?}

http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2013/01/25/winter-glossary-steve-almond

{ gsgs comment- I will add one more.

Ice Storms

When Nature decides she needs to take her temper out on a region.

All the lovely trees that make New England famous, become a threat.

Ice builds up in layers, on the big heavy branches. The ice covered branches crack off the tree from the weight.
They fall on everything. Power lines, telephone lines, cars, houses, people. It looks very pretty. A world made of
coloured glass. You cannot go anywhere, when the roads are covered in ice. The ice makes the electrical power
fail. No heat, no light. No travel. No deliveries.

This is where Girl Scout and Boy Scout skills come in, handy.
 
"You have this completely ludicrous situation where the general is saying, 'I'll move when the admiral moves,'
and the admiral is saying, 'I'll move when the general moves,' " Cornwell says.
"And at the end, neither of them are talking to each other."

Meanwhile, the advice of the American second-in-command, a tactician and decorated soldier
named Peleg Wadsworth, was falling on deaf ears.

The British, during that bungle, managed to get a message to New York to request reinforcements.
A fleet of seven ships was immediately dispatched. In the meantime, the British -- under siege by the
immobile Americans -- continued to build the walls of the fort higher and offload guns from their ships.

"The fort," Cornwell says, "is getting ever-more-difficult to take."

The Americans, seeing the fort walls rise, also call for reinforcements. But the British arrive first.
So, Cornwell says, the Americans "panic."

The American fleet cannot even manage an organized retreat. The warships flee first, instead of staying behind
to protect the backs of larger, fleeing transport ships. The mess of ships eventually makes it upriver, only to
discover they're trapped by a larger British fleet.

"The whole fleet is burned," Cornwell says. Only one American ship out of 42 escapes.

By some accounts, 500 Americans were killed or went missing.

Listen, My Children And You Shall Hear ...

As dramatic as it was, the Penobscot story has gone mostly unreported in history books.

Cornwell, a British transplant to the U.S., says that's in large part because the fledgling nation was victorious
in the bigger war. "The Americans wanted to forget it," he says. "After all, you won."

Another fascinating wrinkle to this story is the American who was branded partially responsible for
the stunning defeat. He was the man in charge of the American artillery forces: Paul Revere.

Revere had made his fabled ride years before. But after Penobscot, the author says, Revere was put under house arrest
and court-martialed on charges of cowardice and incompetence during the expedition.

He was eventually exonerated and then largely forgotten by history.

Until 1860. That's when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published his poem "Paul Revere's Ride" --
and this long-dead, relatively minor character of the American Revolution got elevated to the big leagues, Cornwell says.

http://wap.npr.org/news/Books/131220680
 
"I was almost certain at one point they were going to kill her."

At the back of the house, he discovered two dogs mauling a young girl "like they were trying to tear her apart."

"A third dog was circling the other two excitedly.

According to McCausland, the pit bulls, named Jager and Meister after a German liqueur, jumped a fence and attacked Angel (12-year-old girl)
who was playing nearby with her sister and another girl. Each dog is 7 months old and weighs between 50 and 60 pounds.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/rescuer-of-girl-recalls-attack_2013-04-30.html
 
yeah, yeah Rule 34 Nothing is sacred.

But, still- just because the dragons are no longer the tiny things, that they were-
Is there anything or anyway, to justify besmirching Daenerys and her dragons ? Ughhh *sad sigh*
 
'Bea Arthur Naked,' Controversial John Currin Painting, Heads To Auction
05/14/2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...d-john-currin-painting-auction_n_3274750.html

December 15, 2003

John Currin, the forty-one-year-old satiric and surrealistic painter, whose sparkling mid-career retrospective
has come to the Whitney Museum by way of Chicago and London....

"....acrid fantasy portraits of menopausal women—images suspended,
in his words, “between the object of desire and the object of loathing.”

“Bea Arthur Naked” (1991). Bea Arthur naked.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/12/15/031215craw_artworld?currentPage=all

A mystery to be solved- what did John Currin use for source material ? Are there nude photographs
of Bea Athur, being circulated ? I cannot imagine that Bea Arthur would pose for this painter.

*tip of the hat to Dave Letterman for mentioning this event.
 
It has been a Spring that stayed cold and dry. What is normal for New England,
is to have four rainy days, and three dry days. Sunny or overcast. The soil is dry,
and crumbly. Is the soil parched because all of the glaciers are melting away ?
 
Brides

Marguerite of France married Edward I (Eleanor of Castile was his first wife )

Eleanor of Aquitaine (she never murdered Fair Rosamund) Through her, the English King,
Henry II had more French lands than the French King himself.

Isabella of France married Edward II. Edward was in love with Piers Gaveston. (Piers was given Margaret, to marry.)
Hugh Despenser the Younger- lover of Eleanor de Clare's uncle. (Hugh's wife was Edward II's eldest niece.)
1318 Hugh and Edward II are in love. Edward II's lovers- Roger Damory, Hugh Audley and William Montacute
Roger Mortimer escaped from the Tower in 1323 and fled to France, where 2 years later he became the lover of Queen Isabella.

Edward II was deposed, and Edward III was crowned in Westminster Abbey. He married Philippa of Hainault, Flanders
(now a part of Northern France)

His eldest son Edward (called the “Black Prince”) died in 1376 and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral.

Catherine de Valois marries Henry V. Catherine was Queen of England for only one year, though: Henry died soon after
their only son was born, leaving Catherine a 19-year-old widow and mother of the infant King Henry VI.

Margaret of Anjou married King Henry VI of England. Henry lost the greater part of the lands his father had conquered
during the Hundred Years’ War. Henry, agree to the Act of Accord in 1460, which allowed Henry to remain king for his
lifetime but signed away Prince Edward's birthright and named Richard and his heirs as the king's successors.

“And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay [Calais] !’
He chortled in his joy.

Berengaria of Navarre married King Richard I also known as The Lionheart.
While King Richard I continued on his Crusades, Berengaria stayed in Europe.
Berengaria finished the rest of her life at Le Mans, a property of hers.
She became a benefactress of an abbey, and entered the convent.

Isabella of Angoulême was kidnapped by King John. As punishment for John’s actions, Philip II of France confiscated all
of his lands in France and started an armed conflict, while the entire Lusignan family rebelled against the English king.
Isabella was in love with Hugh X of Lusignan, and Hugh was in love with her. They were to marry, before the kidnapping.
Although a French princess by birth, Isabella fought for the interests of her once adopted country, England, and for the
interests of her son, Henry III.

Eleanor of Provence married Henry III. When Henry was captured by his own barons and forced to agree to their terms
for reforms, Eleanor went to France and raised a formidable army to free her husband. But her invasion fleet was
wrecked before it reached England. Her son Edward (later Edward I), as combative as his mother, fought off
the rebels and rescued his father.

Isabella de Valois marries Richard II. Richard was deposed and imprisoned and subsequently died (or was killed) in prison.
Following her return to France, Isabella’s father arranged her marriage to Charles, Duc d’Orleans. Henry V married Isabella’s
younger sister, Catherine.

Mary of Guise married King James V of Scotland. Mary of Guise was married in 1534 to Louis d'Orleans, the second Duke of
Longueville. After he died in 1537, Mary of Guise rejected a possible marriage with Henry VIII of England and instead married
James V of Scotland, in June 1538.

James V died, leaving Mary of Guise in a position of influence during her daughter's Mary's minority.

Henry VIII wished to have baby Mary as a future bride for his infant son, Edward, and in 1544, his forces invaded Scotland
in an attempt to force this matter, but he failed. Mary was sent to France to marry the Dauphin, Francis, the eldest son of
the King of France, later Francis II. Her mother, Mary of Guise, acted as regent in Scotland.

In 1559, the King of France was killed in a jousting accident, and at only seventeen years of age, Mary became Queen of France.

Young Mary, married Francis II, King of France in 1588 There were Protestants and Huguenots in France. But, there were powerful
forces bent on destroying these groups.

Francis II died. Young Mary married Henry Stuart (Lord Darnley)

"Mary, who had been very ill some time before, was recovering at Craigmillar. During an ambiguous conversation which was
reported two years after the event, the Lords suggested "removing" Darnley. Mary was concerned about the effect a divorce
would have on the legitimacy of her son, but declared that nothing should be done to taint her honour. It is generally
deduced from those words that she meant that she knew that the Lords's intention was to assassinate Darnley and
that it was fine as long as it could not be traced to her. The most that can be concluded though is that Mary did have
foreknowledge of the plot against Darnley. Shortly after, the Lords signed a bond in which they undertook to prevent
further harm from being committed by Darnley. On 12 December 1566, James was baptized in a lavish Catholic ceremony
at Stirling Castle which Darnley, although on site, did not attend presumably to avoid the humiliation of being ignored
by Elizabeth's representatives, who still refused to recognise him as King. On 24 December, Mary pardoned the remainder
of the Rizzio murderers - Darnley insisted that David Rizzio be stabbed in the presence of the Queen, in the hope that she
would miscarry. As it happened, Mary did not miscarry and Darnley's plot failed.(except for Ker of Fawdonside and George Douglas)
allowing them to return to Scotland, as part of the bargain struck at Craigmillar. Darnley was not going to hang around
to face those he had betrayed and took off to Glasgow to see his father. En route he fell ill and it was assumed that he had
been poisoned. A later diagnosis however confirmed that he had small pox, which we now know was the later stages of syphilis."

Mary gave birth to James on 19 June 1566 at Edinburgh Castle.
James VI of Scotland and I of England.

While incarcerated at Lochleven Mary, under duress, signed her abdication in favour of her son. James aged only 13 months,
was crowned on 29 July 1567 in a Protestant church outside Stirling Castle. Mary's half-brother, the Earl of Moray, finally
reached his goal by becoming Regent.

1589, James married Anne of Denmark. Three of their seven children survived into adulthood.

James himself died on 27 March 1625 and was succeeded by his second son, Charles.

Henrietta Maria of France married King Charles I. We have the Charles River in Boston, to remember what happened to him.

King Charles I and Henrietta Maria had nine children, with three sons and three daughters surviving infancy.

Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War.

Catherine of Braganza marries King Charls II. She bore no live children.

James, The second son of Charles I, he ascended the throne upon the death of his brother, Charles II.
James was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII.

Commoner, Anne Hyde marries James, Duke of York, later King James II and VII.

Two years after the death of his first wife, James married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, who bore James Francis Edward,
James' only son to survive to adulthood. James became king of England, Ireland, and Scotland in 1685, but was deposed
during the Glorious Revolution in 1688.
 
04/16/13

"Seven months ago, we were struggling to make ends meet," she writes in the blog post.
"Now, things are finally coming together and it's all because of you guys.
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote
deserves a big THANK YOU from my whole family."

I missed this news bite, and missed out on "Slammed."

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/...-woman-self-publishes-hits-best-seller-lists/

Let us hear it, for the happy and successful woman from rural East Texas! yay for Colleen Hoover!
yay for ebooks and self-publishing!
 
"Hey bro," [Charles] Ramsey tells the 911 operator. "Check this out. I just came from McDonald's right? So I'm on my porch eating my little food, right?
This broad is trying to break out the f-----g house next door to me, so there's a bunch of people on the street right now and s--t. So we're like,
'What's wrong, what's the problem?' She's like, 'This m--------r done kidnapped me and my daughter ... She said her name is Linda Berry or some
s--t. I don't know who the f--k that is, I just moved over here, bro. You know what I mean?"

"Are the people that she said did this, are they still in the house?" the 911 operator asks.

"I don't have a f-----g clue, bro. Like I said, I just came from McDonald's."

"This girl is kicking the door and screaming."
"So I go over there ... and I say, 'Can I help? What’s going on?"
"And she says, 'I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been in this house a long time.
"I want to leave right now."

He got his "Chuck card." Free burgers, for the rest of his life. And a Ramsey Burger on the menu. (Special Sauce and tater tots.)
 
Warning!-
The people with the extra-ordinary senses of taste, scent, palate, should turn their eyes from these comments

Does skunk cabbage grow in other states, besides Massachusetts ? Call me that, and I will make your family jewels regret it.

Petit chou du marais ? OK This is acceptable when someone from France or Canada says this.

Serve them, this-
In a large saucepan sauté the onions in the oil over moderately high heat, stirring, until they are browned,
add the tomato, the vinegar, the currants, the thyme, the parsley, 1 cup of the water, the garlic paste
the sugar, and salt and pepper to taste, and bring the mixture to a boil. Simmer the mixture, adding more
water, 1/2 cup at a time, as the liquid evaporates, for 50 minutes, or until the onions are tender.

Cook the mixture over high heat, stirring, until the liquid is reduced to a glaze and let it cool. The onion
mixture may be made 1 day in advance and kept covered and chilled.

With skunk cabbage ? heh heh heh
 
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