thanks!

cliff, did you also have one of those penny cartoon bubbles playing over your head?
i can see the keystone cops...nell on the railroad tracks...dick dastardly....

enjoyed the clip!

i was out this evening and saw (among other things) a bunch of those iridescent lizards with the bright blue tails running around all swaybacked and one ran and hid right under my sandal, with me in it...like that is a safe place to hide! so i stand there wondering what it will do next...and i wait...and so then i carefully lift my foot and he seems startled like he just woke up and who turned on the light anyhow and what's the big idea!? so i carefully put my foot back down beside him and wonder what he'll do now and he is all cautiously checking out my sandal and steps up and onto it and crawls onto my foot and climbs right into the cuff of my pantleg...i am kind of tickled by this but know it wouldn't be safe for him to stay there and eventually turn him back out onto the ground.

i think i may be running on fumes

I ran across this and I said, "Gee, I wish I could do that"!

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

i remember the flying lizards!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYBx5_p8r_o

maybe you already know that i am not so fond of religion (telling me what i am supposed to think and feel about everything) but religious folks are referenced in this vid
and so (?), it is not always clear what is in a person's heart based on their proclaimed life stance, period
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEz5mS_XQcQ

The Irish take their material from Ireland, I don't know who started it first.. them, or the English, but both love their heritage more than Americans can can imagine.
This is one of the most impactful pieces the group has made. Very powerful.

it is!

pretty moving...

My great great grandparents (on my father's side) made that trip.

We based the whole IrishSpace project on the voyage of one immigrant ship, the Jeanie Johnston out of Tralee. In ten years of shuttling, it never lost a single passenger or crew member. When writing the narrative for the piece, I researched a lot of the original materials to find out why. It came down to the Captain and the ship's surgeon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1b5wajK5Bk

There are five chapters of those (youtube 10 minute limits).

When they sailed the replica of the Jeanie Johnston to the US a few years ago, I took the family to see her. She's a fine piece of Irish shipbuilding with a proud Irish crew. If they sail her back, you should go see her and understand what a tiny thing those coffin ships were.

i know, i have posted this before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wotxd2uqP1c

i guess it is that element of fun!

And speakin of the plight of the Irish plight, there is a very fine literary work out there called Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zLpf1XDNko

crickets are singing that autumn will soon be here!

over the weekend i was catching bits and pieces of woodstock remembered on the radio...i heard them talk some about the brown acid that wasn't specifically too good,,,something about folks experiencing cramping (?) and hallucinations at the same time (that doesn't sound too good).....as opposed to the run of the mill freak out where someone would need to talk them through it, you know, "it's going to be okay....you'll be alright...have some fruit and bulgher....you're gonna be fine..." and all a sudden i am thinking, "bulgher....i haven't made tabouli in a long time!" so i grab that old cosmic cookery cookbook i picked up back in the 70s...still living with my folks...i remember experimenting with some of these "new" kinds of recipes,,,some in the house liked them pretty good...some were intrigued...and some seemed to think i was joining some dark side or something?? (though most conceded that the macaroni and cheese wasn't half bad)
i don't know...anyway! so i look in the book to get some basic idea how to make tabouli (a distant memory), which i changed a bit...for example, i put cilantro instead of parsley (i can thank my friend who told be about cilantro for that....remember the limburger cheese incident? man, she makes me think of a holiday!) and i don't use mint (i know i know...that's crazy talk!!!) fresh basil is pretty good though... blah blah blah anyway! i went and got the stuff and it appears i have made plenty, so help yourself to it if you like that sort of thing....
ever have that fromage d'affinois? that is pretty good! (that is what i get i suppose for having worked at one of those natural food type places at such an impressionable age?)

i wanted to post a song but really couldn't think of one...then all a sudden decided i loved hearing levon belt this on out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHyovwX7JM


....okay here is another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wL6FcMJw8

I dunno. I mean you can make a mojito with basil. I love basil. You can't make a mint julep with basil.