http://strangeobservations.tribe.net Tribe.net. Local Connections http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/194541d3-c2fc-4928-8d49-0d6cc03fbc5e#8bfcf7f5-bb74-482a-a0e4-8cdc35be9bed Those new culry bulbs are supposed to be more energy efficient, but they are filled with toxic chemicals and are not recyclable. And yet tehy are being hyped as a green solution to the energy crisis. Total shamsterism by GE and whoever else. Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:51:15 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/194541d3-c2fc-4928-8d49-0d6cc03fbc5e#8bfcf7f5-bb74-482a-a0e4-8cdc35be9bed Malvado Supremo 2007-10-12T18:51:15Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#a9dd2228-0d56-46b2-9569-590114dc7330 daniel, it does feel like that sometimes. esp when you have to go to the same job every day at the same time. i find that the hardest, most stifling thing about work. maybe this is particularly true of an office job. Tue, 01 May 2007 00:30:46 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#a9dd2228-0d56-46b2-9569-590114dc7330 Amy 2007-05-01T00:30:46Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/194541d3-c2fc-4928-8d49-0d6cc03fbc5e#0ae31fc9-fb13-434e-acf9-3f48f3f0f0cf i hate fluorescent lightbulbs, though i know it's wise to use energy-efficient bulbs. i put one of them on the front door of my brownstone building in NYC (it goes on automatically at night). but when i come home at night, every house looks warm and inviting (with regular bulbs) except mine, which looks cold and sinister like a bomb shelter. the bulbs lacks the warmth of regular light bulbs. sometimes when i look at them, i feel like i'm getting a glimpse into the desolate future were facing with disastrous global warming changes, extreme storms, fights over land use, water, war, etc. panic and despair. Tue, 01 May 2007 00:28:40 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/194541d3-c2fc-4928-8d49-0d6cc03fbc5e#0ae31fc9-fb13-434e-acf9-3f48f3f0f0cf Amy 2007-05-01T00:28:40Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#78100e3a-db06-4753-bac2-12fadb2e4583 ok. nice glasses. Tue, 01 May 2007 00:05:21 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#78100e3a-db06-4753-bac2-12fadb2e4583 Amy 2007-05-01T00:05:21Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#c62d7779-9d2b-4fc0-98d2-d27a29c41b42 Amy, I know you're all moderator n' shit, but quit deleting all the posts! Inquiring minds want to read. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:42:18 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#c62d7779-9d2b-4fc0-98d2-d27a29c41b42 marklar 2007-04-30T15:42:18Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#067988d0-2681-4f5d-94d7-72ebd4213c00 Very interesting - as if changing of the environment makes our old identity appear mechanical. Maybe we're actors in somebody else's manuscript, and we need to deliver a good performance. What do you think? Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:55:52 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#067988d0-2681-4f5d-94d7-72ebd4213c00 Daniel 2007-04-30T14:55:52Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/15af4af1-375d-4f92-a59e-5dfbdcaae6b8#2b26cb56-3d8d-4a71-b18b-640d0e1e0b15 no, but i have noticed that those fried chesnuts (or whatever they are) smell like some kind of pervasive toxin. whenever i'm smelling those, i know i'm in tourist town, outside the Met or something. Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:42:35 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/15af4af1-375d-4f92-a59e-5dfbdcaae6b8#2b26cb56-3d8d-4a71-b18b-640d0e1e0b15 Amy 2007-04-08T14:42:35Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/15af4af1-375d-4f92-a59e-5dfbdcaae6b8#a65e5425-d3ec-4287-a538-deef1ceb4a49 ...that in new york city... wherever you see a stand that sells hot nuts... there is another nearby selling sausages and hot dogs? Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:06:52 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/15af4af1-375d-4f92-a59e-5dfbdcaae6b8#a65e5425-d3ec-4287-a538-deef1ceb4a49 $item.owner.firstName 2007-04-08T05:06:52Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#5ea71e07-c37e-49c6-8781-106b9d713444 sorry folks, there's only so much of this sort of thing i can take. i'd rather have silence than blather. Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:44:18 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#5ea71e07-c37e-49c6-8781-106b9d713444 Amy 2007-04-08T03:44:18Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#35c53c2d-722d-4f97-9efe-2d0cc6dd7047 Mari , I am much obliged and would rightly tip the hat to thee-- if we met---tip it for a livelong day . You've mentioned a composer whose work I love ...at least Daphins and Chloe open up a synesthetic portal of mind ...Ravel is one swell fella ! And Henri de Regnier is a damn good poet . WOW I feel way past cloud nine ...Its way better than the cat's pajamas to have found a group of fellow esthetes who like the Symbolist esthetic . Sun, 08 Apr 2007 03:12:32 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#35c53c2d-722d-4f97-9efe-2d0cc6dd7047 Jason Leary 2007-04-08T03:12:32Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#2ab3a124-300e-42a3-9c03-b8248d5e1d53 In conflict, be fair .---- THE RESPONSE : That part of it has merit . Fair, but NOT balanced, that is (And they are not the same despite the weird tendency in the present weird era to conflate the two) In work, do what you enjoy.--- THE RESPONSE: Well that part could have merit too *provided that is fenced around with tight qualifications* inasmuch as the enjoyment of the work ought to be garnered by wholesome, ethically and esthetically vibrant activity and thought being always the crux of the lifeworld of that job ...and moreover the enjoyment ought to be an overlay the virtue -affiliation of that .The feeling of enjoyment should be savored alright don't get me wrong, however 1. the getting of enjoyment should not be the motive for the job (attaining goals of virtue should be the goal) 2. . concurrent with (1). the job ought to either be proactively virtuous in what it is about or...at the very least-- not be much contrary to virtue . Amy ,Amy, Amy ---you say you disagree (and of course whould have the legal right to do so without fear of being lassoed) . But again i'm tempted to in the words of the boy from the old time baseball movie utter, ' say it ain't so Joe , say it ain't so!' .I was hoping you could be a muse...a romanticized, idealistic, utopian dream girl for me swoon for and sing madrigals . An ideologically pure girl Friday ...oh no, please don't let it be that you accept even some earthiness ... Especially I hope....eeegads.. you do NOT.embrace the stuff that just about every day for years on end have been posting a blue streak of vehement polemics against---the horror that I have been perennially trying to verbally slay....eeegads relativism/postmodernism/conflicted thinking that weirdly seeks ---(yuck) balance as if it were somehow desirable for it's own sake...that in tandem with that gross tendency respects opinions regardless of how murky (like respecting grotesque opinions like the opinions of those who say it's okay to like vapid yuppie kitch like celebrity gossip) .'Oh my beautiful Amy---O whither has my lady wandered' ...Please dear Amy don't let it be so ....Let us go forth and let us be quixotic purists ----let us drink together from the pure azure well of single-mindedness ....Let us put to flight all that which fades and demures into the weirdness of being conflicted (i.e.selling out) . Let us together, my ingenue, slay the dragons of all that is duplicious , dodgy ...scatter seeds of extreme beauty that will burst like sparks of ineffable vigor and tear down the rotted, plastic seedy edifice of this present game show watchin, muzac driven, liposuctioned age . The water that flows to the low places of the vapid, earthy ...filthy-real realm of the bump and grind for the scooby snacks of the respecible rat race --in all its cosmetic variations ...is water than reflects only the most lurid and paltry light .The supreme good is more like the water of glorious fountains and geysers that flow upward ... And sparkle yes indeed .. Intrinsic virtue should be taken to extremes . When it comes to intrinsic virtue we could take a cue from an adage by the Old West film actress of yesteryear , 'Mae West' who (apparently) once said, 'Too much of a good thing is wonderful.' So-called shades of grey are NO substitute for accuracy and Truth . Flexibility is NO substitute for consistency . LET US DEAR AMY ASPIRE ALWAYS to be highfallutin...pure . Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:55:18 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#2ab3a124-300e-42a3-9c03-b8248d5e1d53 Jason Leary 2007-04-08T02:55:18Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#286579f4-0bc6-4323-ae5e-4be24dfb395e sorry, but i disagree. i prefer the taoist way of life: The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. -Lao Tzu Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:34:47 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#286579f4-0bc6-4323-ae5e-4be24dfb395e Amy 2007-04-07T21:34:47Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#8be92652-06d5-4f6f-a780-47556b2c2b28 AMY POSTED :why would i do that? it's an accurate reflection of life... what's really going on in so many ways under the surface. THE RESPONSE : Eegads....I the words of the old baseball movie of yesterday ----'Say it ain't so Joe. Say it ain't so ! ' Dear Amy , Conquer "life" ---make it say : uncle . Take it and purge it of all those contradictions. Purge away the silly realistic, earthy little moments of resignation ....and grind up its elements and pour them into a mould of pure, untramelled, highfallutin, rigid , single-minded BEAUTY . THE MORE HIGHFALLUTIN AND PURE THE BETTER .! Let's get into the HIGHFALLUTIN AND PURE FRAME AND STAY WITH THAT ! Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:29:58 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#8be92652-06d5-4f6f-a780-47556b2c2b28 Jason Leary 2007-04-07T06:29:58Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/80132a3f-e062-4359-bf73-d102e47a4d02#b95d0de5-70c2-4040-a745-7d708576e45e I don't know .... Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:18:46 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/80132a3f-e062-4359-bf73-d102e47a4d02#b95d0de5-70c2-4040-a745-7d708576e45e Jason Leary 2007-04-07T06:18:46Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/80132a3f-e062-4359-bf73-d102e47a4d02#655bb4a8-27e0-4483-ba66-438332e2b7c2 where would we go to the bathrooom? Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:24:40 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/80132a3f-e062-4359-bf73-d102e47a4d02#655bb4a8-27e0-4483-ba66-438332e2b7c2 Amy 2007-04-06T12:24:40Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#d579dba1-b26c-494b-905f-8a8362f8c518 why would i do that? it's an accurate reflection of life... what's really going on in so many ways under the surface. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:20:49 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#d579dba1-b26c-494b-905f-8a8362f8c518 Amy 2007-04-06T12:20:49Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#3217872b-605f-49b9-8da9-e2012202c775 Maurice Ravel composed a wonderful brief song to a text by Henri de Regnier that always makes me think of a di Chirico painting. This is the text: Les grands vents venus d'outremer Passent par la ville, l'hiver, Comme des étrangers amers. Ils se concertent, graves et pâles, Sur les places, et leurs sandales Ensablent le marbre des dalles. Comme de crosses à leurs mains fortes, Ils heurtent l'auvent et la porte Derrière qui l'horloge est morte. Et les adolescents amers S'en vont avec eux vers la mer. (Because of the play on words no literal translation into English can really do this justice, which is why I'm not offering one. But I'll search later and see if I can find a decent adaptation.) Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:18:31 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#3217872b-605f-49b9-8da9-e2012202c775 Marie Therese 2007-04-06T06:18:31Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/dbb6ee51-6231-4e5d-b061-e7dc4c93178c#f357209f-d317-4e7d-a501-f0a1f1e2e8b1 'Wild Nights' was written by Anne Matthews . You might check out a Barnes and Noble booksellers and reference it with her name . I got it through an audiobook service through a division of the Library of Congress that my Grandfather allows me to share sometimes . If only somebody could go back and time and have saved the coyote .... That must have been an awesome sight: the great horned owl . Birds are my favorite kind of animal . Although as far as flying creatures go , I would have liked to have seen a pterodactyl in flight. What a majestic sight that would have been --and could be if somehow one were revived . Fri, 06 Apr 2007 04:04:51 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/dbb6ee51-6231-4e5d-b061-e7dc4c93178c#f357209f-d317-4e7d-a501-f0a1f1e2e8b1 Jason Leary 2007-04-06T04:04:51Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#49ae6bbe-1fb1-4cec-8f56-61880394cb81 Amy , I'm glad you did . You have good taste in art . Natalie Merchant-- when she was with the band 10,000 Maniacs-- sang a song about De Chirico on the album titled ' Hope Chest ' . Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:53:48 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#49ae6bbe-1fb1-4cec-8f56-61880394cb81 Jason Leary 2007-04-06T03:53:48Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/80132a3f-e062-4359-bf73-d102e47a4d02#603d8f0e-5b54-469a-9cca-b7f96ac66b74 You have good taste in literature , Amy . I too love them both --and Julio Cortazar also . I wish you and I were in the Arizona desert sharing a bottle of green absinthe and reading Borges aloud to each other . Perhaps the ghosts of Carlos Casteneda and Ezra Pound could join us there later under the Arizona sky ! Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:49:14 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/80132a3f-e062-4359-bf73-d102e47a4d02#603d8f0e-5b54-469a-9cca-b7f96ac66b74 Jason Leary 2007-04-06T03:49:14Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#be4d323d-caeb-46f4-a468-f1e412b3d92e You should write a novel , Amy . And, (if necessary) use a dream as ballast . Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:44:44 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#be4d323d-caeb-46f4-a468-f1e412b3d92e Jason Leary 2007-04-06T03:44:44Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#39c31e75-172d-456c-bc28-f1885acc243e Amy , Well, I certainly hope that you destroyed the manifestation of awkwardness, contradiction, and duplicity in the dream . Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:40:43 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#39c31e75-172d-456c-bc28-f1885acc243e Jason Leary 2007-04-06T03:40:43Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#da70297a-176d-4e75-9ab4-9fbeaaa3762e my favorites part: we sat together on her bed with light pouring into the room. she had short brown hair, in the style of dorothy hamill and was pretty and young and bitter. she looked like someone who could be on tv. She wore feminine things, a short skirt and strange high fashion high-heeled shoes that looked like a swirl of green transparent shaving cream permanently stuck to her feet and ankles (where the ankle straps would be from fancy pumps if she wore them). i made a joke that a man might say to her, “allow me to lick your ankle, madam,” and she laughed and grimaced, jerking her foot away. as we talked about her ex-boyfriend in the hospital whom I was going to visit, it became apparent that she still had feelings for him. It was obvious to both of us that I would sleep with him. I asked her if that bothered her and her face grew dark for a moment as if I’d hit a nerve. We were knocking our feet playfully together up until that moment and she began angling to kick me “unintentionally” but I anticipated it and moved my foot away. I said, “I may not sleep with him, you know. I probably won’t.” “You probably will,” she looked at me and said with a totally knowing gaze. Between us it was completely understood that the man had no will of his own to evade the offer of sex, especially not on his hospital bed. i knew she was right, that my sleeping with him was inevitable. when i have a dream like this, it makes me feel like i could write a novel. why can't i tap into the endless reserves of my dreams, the ease of character creation and vivid believable weirdness -- but while awake? or perhaps i should just use my dreams as starting off points and sort of lull and hypnotize myself into an alternate stream-of-consciousness creation that i can later revise and polish. i did this once (used a memorable dream) to make a short silent super 8 movie and it worked well. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:19:55 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/24c5377a-5226-4bb3-ba00-90b049ddda6e#da70297a-176d-4e75-9ab4-9fbeaaa3762e Amy 2007-04-06T02:19:55Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#89e343d4-d864-4ae2-ba55-7d297d1aa711 i hope it's cool to post it as the main photo for a time. i like it too. i love de chirico too: http://www.gmfilm.co.uk/de_chirico_pic_02.jpg Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:08:47 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/4ae6192e-77a3-4742-8efc-fbaf7b748905#89e343d4-d864-4ae2-ba55-7d297d1aa711 Amy 2007-04-06T02:08:47Z http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/dbb6ee51-6231-4e5d-b061-e7dc4c93178c#edd2ce47-5c96-481c-a2b5-48c44df23231 i saw my one an only great horned owl in the urban woods of pelham bay park in the bronx. an awesome sight, perched majestically in the crook of a tall tree. yes, i wish the coyote hadn't have died too. where do i find that "Wild Nights" essay? it sounds interesting. Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:02:39 GMT http://strangeobservations.tribe.net/thread/dbb6ee51-6231-4e5d-b061-e7dc4c93178c#edd2ce47-5c96-481c-a2b5-48c44df23231 Amy 2007-04-06T02:02:39Z