Insomniac's Corner

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Ah, love! A lid, for every pot!

Sultan Kösen married Merve Dibo

Kösen is 8ft three inches tall. His sweetheart is 5ft 8 inches tall. He has 27.5cm hands 36.5 cm feet - a massive size 28. He is one of only ten people ever to top 8 feet and the first in a decade.

Sadly, the path of love, does not run smooth-

Merve Kösen visited the town of Qamishli to attend the funeral of her uncle, just across the border at the beginning of June, but she has been unable to return as the border gate in the town of Nusaybin has been closed for security reasons.

Sultan Kösen, who is from the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin, has asked Mardin Governor Mustafa Taşkesen for help, reportedly telling the governor that if his wife is not able to return, he will go to Syria himself, saying "he cannot live without her."

Officials said Merve Kösen did not ask for the necessary permission before leaving Turkey for Syria.

Sultan and Merve Kösen got married in October 2013.

 

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Gram Parsons met Peter Fonda, and he appears in the film with the International Submarine Band. (Nightclub scene.) Sadly, their music in the nightclub scene was overdubbed with the music of the Electric Flag.

Gram Parsons & International Submarine Band in "The Trip" - 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFHRZEGM_0

(gsgs comment- It is fun to find unexpected things, when you are looking for something else!)

Phil "The Mangler" Kaufman-

He is most famous for stealing Gram Parsons corpse, driving it to Joshua Tree, and setting it on fire.

Rock and Roll's Most Infamous Tour Manager (and some musicians)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2b3rBrHM4

GRAM PARSONS
The International Submarine Band:
1965-1967

To read about the Shilos and other musical projects from the formative years of Gram Parsons, see Gram Parsons: The Early Years, 1960-1965.

http://ebni.com/byrds/memgrp2.html

 

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"We don't want you here" - Christopher and His Kind - BBC Two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYV5dRoUyLI

Another season of Dr. Who has begun. Where has Matt Smith been ?
Somewhere, that I did not expect! Boston PBS WGBH TV has offered
censored versions of BBC programs, in the past. But, I am guessing
that this film would never be shown.

Since Newt Gingrich and his Conservative gang attacked Sesame Street and The Telly Tubbies, Boston's wgbh has been forced to look for funding from unlikely sources. Since, BBC America has taken charge of the shows that would have been offered to wgbh, there is less to chose from.

Has Boston Public Television wgbh, taken to self censorship ? What has happened to locally sourced shows that supported the LGBT community ?

"Just two years earlier, when New York City PBS affiliate WNET began producing In the Life, television's first nationwide gay-oriented show, conservatives had vigorously attacked public television from the Senate floor. Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole railed, "It seems that the broadcasting apologists are hiding behind Big Bird, Mr. Rogers and Masterpiece Theatre, laying down their quality smokescreen while they shovel out funding for gay and lesbian shows" (Village Voice, 6/30/92; see also Extra!, 6/93). In the face of such threats and criticism, PBS refused to distribute the show; over 10 years later, the program still receives no financial or distribution support from PBS.

http://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/pbs-censors-postcards-from-buster/

1967 Congress creates PBS. What happened to the promise that the broadcasting companies made, before I was born ?

 

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Ken Kesey's Restored Furthur Bus Rolled Through NYC

Earlier this year, Jason Johnson, executive director of the Furthur Down the Road Foundation, told SF Gate, "We'd like to create a rolling exhibit, and take the restored bus around the nation or loan it out to universities and educate people about Ken Kesey's life, his art and his work." And so it is.

http://gothamist.com/2014/08/25/ken_kesey_furthur_bus_nyc.php

Magic Trip - Official Trailer [HD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_OdTgsu40

 

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Ken Kesey's Restored Furthur Bus Rolled Through NYC

Earlier this year, Jason Johnson, executive director of the Furthur Down the Road Foundation, told SF Gate, "We'd like to create a rolling exhibit, and take the restored bus around the nation or loan it out to universities and educate people about Ken Kesey's life, his art and his work." And so it is.

http://gothamist.com/2014/08/25/ken_kesey_furthur_bus_nyc.php

Magic Trip - Official Trailer [HD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G_OdTgsu40

Nice.

 

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Boston TV channel tries to warn people about what is lurking in New York-

Aug 27, 2014

Tim Horton's unveiled its Buffalo Crunch Doughnut at the New York State Fair, combining a doughnut with hot or mild buffalo sauce, tortilla chips, and ranch dressing.

http://www.wcvb.com/video/buzz60/tim-hortons-buffalo-crunch-doughnut-has-all-the-tastes/27758112

 

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Saw this title and thought, its not that late. 20 to 2am. -__-
I got to fix my sleep schedule.

 

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Get money. Get excited about concert. Spend money.
Spend 4 hours in traffic, trying to get to the concert.
Fail to see concert. yikes

Paul McCartney Fans Stuck in Traffic Start Petition to Get Refund for Missed Show

Fans Stuck in Traffic Won't Get Refunds

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2...-start-petition-to-get-refund-for-missed-show

"...the traffic was so horrendous to get to the stadium that McCartney started an hour late. When he was supposed to have begun, the stadium was nearly half full."

"It took us three and a half to four hours and we didn't even get into the stadium parking lot," Ruth McDevitt said on Friday, adding that she flew in from Pennsylvania to hear the former Beatle swoon.

Before the Thursday night concert, one concert goer said while stuck in his car: “It’s insane. I’ve been in this crud for over two hours, right here at Candlestick.”

The man, who didn't give his name, wasn't the only one of the 50,000 fans who paid hundreds of dollars to hear McCartney's "Out There" concert to vent.

Lots of drivers couldn't find parking once they finally arrived. (No one there, to direct the parking ?)

"Insanity," tweeted Alex Drude. "Abandoned driver, walking final mile to #Candlestick. 10m to show. Passing hundreds of cars."

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...an-Says-of-Candlestick-Traffic-271379811.html

 

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hmphhh- The duck is in Los Angeles

"Six-storey inflatable rubber duck sails into the Port of Los Angeles"

Discovering London's Ancient Harbours: the Ports of London before the Great Fire
27 September
Starting from the Museum of London
2-5pm

Starting in the Roman and Medieval galleries at the Museum of London, this walk will take you along the City waterfront from Blackfriars, where a Roman ship was discovered in 1963, to the locations of several historical archaeological excavations investigating the harbour of Londinium, the Saxon harbour at Queenhithe, the new harbour established at Billingsgate alongside the first medieval timber bridge, and so much more. Take the opportunity to explore London’s maritime history through the ages, and where it may head in the future.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/whats-on/Pages/Totally-Thames.aspx

 

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Something beautiful-

14 women, after serving in combat, flying planes and helicopters- Open New York Fashion Week

Salute the Runway

Women vets, and women who are still serving, walk the catwalk. Live, from Lincoln Center!

They looked so happy!

Beautiful works of art, for those who love what words can do-

A 20-year survey of work by the American artist, the exhibition Lesley Dill features oil pastel drawings, a large-scale metal wall drawing, and bronze and paper sculptures in the Joyce and Edward Linde Gallery, as well as an outdoor sculpture on the Pollock Terrace.

Dill is known for combining language with the human form in a variety of mediums. In her work, she uses text as a mode of communication, as a physical subject, and as a symbol by painting it onto bronze sculptures, stitching it into paper, and sculpting it in metal. The words of poets including Emily Dickinson, Franz Kafka, Salvador Espriu, and most recently Tom Sleigh, inspire and find physical form within her visceral works. Lines of text appear on disembodied heads, hands, and dresses–all reoccurring motifs in Dill’s oeuvre–communicating the artist’s interest in the politics of the figure, psychology, and faith.

http://www.decordova.org/art/exhibition/lesley-dill

After founding Wild Hawthorn Press in 1961 and publishing hundreds of artists’ books, Finlay rose to prominence as one of Great Britain’s foremost experimental literary artists making concrete poetry, a practice which wed language with sculptural form. In 1966, he and his wife Sue Finlay built Little Sparta, a garden in Dunsyre, Scotland, which became the site for the ultimate realization of his aesthetic program. Finlay treated Little Sparta as a site for engaging with cultural inquiry and criticism rather than as a sanctuary or more traditional pastoral setting; he literally placed language into the landscape in monumental form, encouraging a discourse on the reconciliation between nature and modern society.

Finlay freely mined human history to source imagery for his work. He believed that most positive symbols in Western culture had been drained of their meaning through consumerist assimilation and desensitization, and so employed universally powerful symbols of violence and authority such as machine guns, tanks, and guillotines in his work. Finlay’s merger of beauty, violence, and the sacred spoke to his belief in the disintegration of contemporary society’s cultural ideals. When encountered in juxtaposition to emblems of nature and classical idealism, Finlay’s epigrams provoke contemplation of society’s need for a reclamation of civic and aesthetic values.

http://www.decordova.org/art/exhibition/ian-hamilton-finlay

 

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Too long a wait, for me to read-

For the next century, one author per year will contribute a piece that will then be sealed away until 2114. Margaret Atwood is up first. If you’re a fan, you have 100 years to get pumped up.

Scottish artist Katie Paterson is behind the Future Library project. She planted 1,000 trees in woods outside Oslo, and the plan is to cut them down a century from now to print the 100 works on. Paterson told the Guardian that Atwood is her “dream” first author. It seems like a perfect fit since Atwood is known for writing about the future, often dystopias, in novels like The Handmaid’s Tale and the MaddAddam trilogy.
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Of the project as a whole Paterson said, “It freaks me out a bit when I think that many of these writers aren't born yet. Sometimes it does hit me—oh my God, if I live to 90, what will it be like then? It's very exciting as an artist.”

Seventy-four-year-old Atwood says she isn’t perturbed by the idea of producing work that won’t be released in her lifetime. “It is the kind of thing you either immediately say yes or no to. You don't think about it for very long,” she told the Guardian. “I think it goes right back to that phase of our childhood when we used to bury little things in the backyard, hoping that someone would dig them up, long in the future. ...”

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...e_library_project_which_will_be_unveiled.html

 

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Bath

LAMBALLE, Marie Therese Princesse de (1749 1792)

1 Royal Crescent

In 1786 an important visitor from France lodged at No. 1 Royal Crescent. She was Marie Therese Louise de Savoie Carignon, Princesse de Lamballe, friend and lady in waiting to Queen Marie Antoinette. According to the Bath Chronicle of 27th September 1786, she arrived with a large retinue of servants, and her personal physician. She was a pale, slim lady with curly, fair hair and a prominent nose. She was abnormally sensitive; if she suffered the slightest shock, she would collapse into a faint that often lasted for two hours. The smell of violets made her disastrously ill, and the sight of shellfish, even in a painting, sent her into a nervous fit.

She came back to England in 1791, when the French Revolution was at its height, hoping to persuade the British royal family to help Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to escape from France. But when she returned to Paris she died horribly, as the Revolution reached its bloody climax in the September Massacres of 1782.

http://www.royalcrescentbath.co.uk/...se_Princesse_de_(1749_1792)_1_Royal_Crescent_

 

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King Richard III of England
Died a Brutal Death
(gsgs comment- Real life brutality trumps the gore of Game of Thrones)

The forensic study of Richard's remains has revealed that the doomed king—the last English monarch to die in combat—suffered 11 wounds at the time of his death at Bosworth Fields in 1485. Nine of these were to his apparently unprotected head, two of them "nonsurvivable," according to Sarah Hainsworth, a forensic scientist at the U.K.'s University of Leicester who was one of the study's authors.

The study, which used whole-body CT scans and micro-CT imaging, paints a grim picture of the king's last moments, when he dismounted in a marsh and was surrounded by at least three and possibly four assailants armed with halberds, swords, and heavy-bladed daggers.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140917-richard-cause-death-helmet-forensic-science/

Richard III: how was the king killed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6S0ku1R9nE

 

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Happy Fall Equinox!

The private spaceflight company SpaceX lit up the night sky over Florida early Sunday (Sept. 21) with the spectacular launch of Dragon spacecraft packed with supplies — including the first 3D printer in space and a troop of 20 mice — for the International Space Station.

The unmanned Dragon space capsule launched into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:52 a.m. EDT (0552 GMT). Ten minutes later, Dragon reached orbit and separated from the Falcon 9. It should reach the space station on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

http://www******.com/27215-spacex-dragon-cargo-ship-launch.html

http://www******.com/27213-autumn-equinox-monday-skywatching.html

 

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Drones are available, to deliver anything to your home or office.
Unfortunately, a hawk or eagle may destroy the drone.
(That happened, this week.)
Or, someone may shoot the drone down, with a gun.
(Some people take their sense of privacy seriously, out West.)

Now, we need someone to invent a defensive force field for the drones.

 

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Goodness knows, what strange pumpkin creations that we will see this year.Gothamist gave me a wonderful and horrible idea. Hollow out one of those prize winning, 1,000 pound pumpkins, and create a multi-birth scene. Hundreds of pumpkins, falling out of a pumpkin woman's vagina, along with that slippery, messy stuff left over from hollowing out the pumpkin.

I never thought of creating a snowwoman, that was giving birth. There are rumors of Halloween snow.

Fake blood is in supply, this time of year.

 

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Jack O' The Green, Jack O' The Lantern- A strange combination.

The face peers out from the "fruit," itself.

The Pumpkin Man spills his seed ?

Devil's Night, the night before Halloween.
All Hallows Eve, night before All Saint's Day

2014, make your choice- Angel or Devil ?

Others, choose to remain human, or, maybe, humane.

Trick or Treat- Give a gift to the children, or suffer the consequences.

Leaving offerings, to thank entities, that we are forbidden to speak of...

 

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100 years have passed, since Winnie the Pooh had his beginnings.
Who knew, that it involved a real, live bear and Canada ?

Thank you, BBC

Teddy bears from across the Pond, salute you.

 

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Cold, cold, cold.
Second snowstorm of the week, for Maine.
Hardcore FarNorth Maine vs
DownEast Maine

Bangor Daily News

 

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I am thankful that My Ogre Husband, He Who Must Be Obeyed, decided not to take a job offer in California. Disturb Native American burial sites, at your own peril.

2014, We have the tech to find ancient dinosaur remains. But, no one uses the tech to examine land for the presence of ancient human remains and artifacts.

 

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After a long and happy lemur life, Jovian Zoboom MaFoo has gone to his final rest.

Those who loved Animal Junction, remember Zoboomafoo with much fondness.

Thank you, PBS for the opportunity of seeing him.

 

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You have neurons especially for stroking!

http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=OFCRvjle2o8


http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7434/full/nature11810.html

 

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Make it Rain- Ed Sheernan

http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=jrYA9dLxXf0

Sometimes, life shows you its hardest face.

 

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Salon has seen fit, to have someone who knew Dimebag Darrell, to write an anniversary tale.

It has been ten years. It does not seem that long, ago, to me.*sigh*

What the fuck is wrong, with Columbus,Ohio ?

I know I took note of the tragic scene, in some post.

 

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The Anti-Santa?
Krampus will be here, soon.

The Original Nightmare Before Christmas?

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/10/143485735/naughty-or-nice-krampus-horror-for-the-holidays

Did Krampus mutate into Black Peter ?

Should Krampus come back, as a Disney version, that will not frighten the children?
(Maybe he should drop the birch switches and the tree limb club. We do not beat our children. We leave that to the police.)

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-netherlands-confronts-black-pete

Krampus had black fur, black skin, long horns, red or yellow eyes, a long tongue that would make Kiss jealous.

He has goat legs, with cloven hooves.

Who does this remind you of?

Could it be...