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When Every Day Is Christmas

My sister sent me an email recently, and in it were several cute quotations. This one in particular caught my eye:

“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.”

Fits me to a “T”.

If there ever was an oxymoron that often describes my normal conditions and feelings, it must be something like “he smiled sadly”. I must drive people nuts, and on more than one occasion, okay, on more than several thousand occasions, I have been reminded that the world is not ready for a truly happy person!

In my life, almost the only thing that makes me feel down is the sadness or anger of others. On those occasions I mentioned, I am often reminded that people don’t usually see things as I do. Of course, I can’t blame them.

After all, here’s what it is like to live with me. I am 62 years old, and every morning of my adult life, no matter how terrible things were, and there have been some terrible times, I have opened the front door of wherever I lived and looked out on the world as if it were totally new and a wonderful thing that I have never seen before.

At the same time, I was perfectly comfortable with the simultaneous feeling of looking at an old familiar place..even if I had just moved in.

We recently moved (again), and by day two in the new place, my wife, who loves me dearly but is of a Mediterranean temperament, was ready to toss me (the mad Irishman) to the wolves, or sacrifice me to Etna…whatever! I could not wait to open the same boxes we had packed just days before with things we had owned for years! I even secretly opened one today just so I could see what was in it.

Get my excitement fix, you might say. Let’s see; there was a bag of chips, a bottle of vinegar (unopened), a box of pasta (opened but in a Ziploc bag), a veritable plethora of tea bags of various sorts and smells…and other goodies too numerous to mention.

I actually enjoyed it. However, it was over all too soon. I think I will have to secretly rip open another box tomorrow to get my next fix. We have several stored in the shed nearby. Maybe I can slip down there after she’s asleep.

You see, the problem is, she thinks we are supposed to open boxes and put things away in an orderly fashion, while I just like to open boxes, ooh and ahh over the contents, and then open another box. If I put things away in an orderly fashion, I would miss out on half the fun of my life…finding long lost wonderments on my bookcase, in my desk drawer, under the desk (dresser, bed, and assorted other pieces of furniture).

To me, every event is something to be savored and admired, no matter the smallness in the minds of those around me. I have actually had to restrain myself from pointing out garbage that made an interesting collage along the side of the road.

Sometimes these are seen on planned routes, but often I am just enjoying the scenery on a detour…or while lost…which happens a lot, for some reason. The really interesting part is that when I was in the army, they used to take me to places where I didn’t know where I was, give me a map and a compass, and expect me to find my way back home, or to some appointed spot.

No problem. Did it every time.

However, send me to the grocery store one mile away for milk and eggs, and I will be back in two or three hours…probably without the milk, or the eggs, or both. I will have picked up something at the hardware store, had a cup of coffee somewhere, bought another notebook…because I can’t find the other two thousand I own.

A few months ago, my wife and I watched “Finding Nemo”. If you see it, I am in there, only I am a female fish named “Dory” and have the voice of Ellen DeGeneres…which is as confusing to me as it is to you. If you have not seen the movie, Dory cannot remember anything for more than a couple of minutes and is continually having to be reintroduced to the life going on around her and which she has been a part. I can relate.

I guess I had better wrap this up. I was supposed to be checking emails and then joining my wife in the living room, but then I got this great idea for this article…

Well, at least I didn’t leave the garbage can in the bedroom like that other time.

Hmm! Sounds like she’s in the kitchen. There’s the kitchen drawer…wait a minute! That’s where the knives are!

Gotta go!

Donovan Baldwin is a Texas writer and a University of West Florida alumnus. He is a member of Mensa and is retired from the U. S. Army after 21 years of service. He owns an online cell phone store located at http://TexasPrepaidCellular.com .

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Alexis Bledel, Gilmore Girls And Its Undervalued Dialogue

Gilmore Girls is famous for its dialogue. Yes, we all know this to be true, But, what this great BuddyTV article points out is to what degree this dialogue is important. Not only important, but just how unique it is for a show to rely entirely on its dialogue. And, going further, not only how unique it is, but how large of an overall accomplishment it is to achieve such a high level of quality when you are a show based entirely on the greatness of you dialogue.

Amy Sherman Palladino created the Gilmore Girls and gave it an unmistakable feeling. The dialogue she wrote for every episode was a signature that not only defined the series, but what made it good. The themes and stories on Gilmore Girls are tailored specifically to incorporate such high-minded speak. The shows work as well as they do because the dialogue allows the plots to be realistic and different. Can you imagine what the show would be like if the characters spoke like they did on most shows?

Also, the dialogue on Gilmore Girls is simply entertaining in itself. If every scene were wholly unrelated, audiences would still enjoy it. That’s how good the dialogue actually is. Is Palladino the only driving force here? No, not at all. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel have equal claim to the show’s signature trait. They have created incredible voices in their characters. No matter how good the dialogue is, it’s still difficult to recite.

Gilmore Girls succeeds not only because of this dialogue. That’s not the argument here. BuddyTV makes a great argument that the show has not received the acclaim it should for succeeding based almost entirely on the dialogue. It’s a fine line, sure, but a valid one. Gilmore Girls is as unique a show on TV because of it.

If you want to din out more info about Gilmore Girls or Gilmore Girls and Its Undervalued Dialogue, please visit this link http://www.buddytv.com/

Alexia Bledel’s Bio

Houston, Texas native Alexis Bledel made her television debut in “Gilmore Girls” (2000), after spending years in front of the camera as a model. Bledel’s parents encouraged her to try community theater in Houston when she was 8 years old, hoping it would help their daughter overcome her shyness.

She went on to perform in productions of Our Town, The Wizard of Oz and Aladdin, and later was scouted in a local mall to model. She began her modeling career while still in high school, traveling all over to locations like Tokyo, Milan, New York and Los Angeles. After graduating, she enrolled at NYU as a film major.

In the Spring of 2000, Bledel landed a manager through her modeling agency and headed to Los Angeles for her first pilot season, where she quickly landed the coveted role of Rory on “Gilmore Girls” (2000). When she’s not working, Bledel enjoys writing, reading, shooting photography, going to the movies and spending time with her family.

Quotes by Alexis Bledel

[On getting recognized by fans] “It always happens in places where you’d rather not be recognized. Like one time, I was just getting ready to go to bed, but I had this craving for a glass of milk. So I go to the supermarket, and I have like no makeup on, and this couple comes up to me and they’re like ‘Thursday night!’. They sort of yelled it across the vegetable bin, and I’m like, ‘Okay, don’t look at me, I look awful. I’m going over here by the celery now.’”

[About her “Gilmore Girls” (2000) audition] “It was very unexpected. I was nervous and didn’t know what I was doing. It just happened to work out”.

You hear all these great stories about kids starting their own businesses and getting involved in their communities and politics and foundations - all kinds of things. And it’s so much easier for kids to get motivated and do that. - on her belief that teens are motivated to effect change.

Last year, I was driving to work at 5.30 in the morning, and I ended up right next to a bus that had a huge picture of me on the side of it. They were all over L.A. but it was the first time I’d seen one. I don’t know if it was because it was so early or what, but that freaked me out.

[On talking about her relationship with Milo Ventimiglia]: “It’s your stuff, and if you share things that are too personal with a magazine or with your public, it’s sort of like it’s not really yours anymore, it’s shared information and it’s not special to you anymore. I don’t like that. I think people with personalities who like to talk about what’s going on in their lives, they’ll talk without really knowing how it’s going to come back and bite them, and generally, it does. And luckily, I have the kind of personality where I am extremely private. I don’t really like to tell everyone my business. I’d much rather people wonder or not know”.

“Well, I remember it was 5 in the morning. I’m leaving my house to go to the set of “Gilmore Girls” (2000). I’m really tired and just when I walk outside, a bus slowly goes down the street with my face on the side of it as Rory Gilmore. I thought, “Ewwww”. It’s so early. I just can’t stand seeing me”.

“Before I got “Gilmore Girls” (2000), I was modeling. I went in for a call and was told, “Sweetie, you need to lose two inches off those hips”. I was 14. So I just replied, “I have more jobs than I can do. I’m in high school. I can’t go to all the trouble of losing the two inches, so I’ll pass”. Someone might tell you to lose weight, but you can say no”.

“Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person’s body. I’m boring. I go to movies. I read. That’s about it.”

“The success of the show is overwhelming. It’s like being Alice at the Mad Hatter’s tea party because you never know what’s going to happen next.”

“I was at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for a year and I loved it. There are a lot of really creative people, there is a constant exchange of an ideas. We talk about what’s been done [in film] and all the rules for filmmaking and then we talk about how to break them.”

Source: IMDB

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Uber Snarky UrbanDictionary Quip on "Mid Term Election"

Typing “mid term election” into UrbanDictionary.com yields the following definition,

^^^^

mid term election isn’t defined yet, but these are pretty close:

1. losah

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The state of the Republican Party and all their supporters after the 2006 mid term elections.

As a result of the 2006 mid-term elections, Dennis Hastert, Republican House, George Bush, Dick Cheney and all their supporters (including Bill O’Reilly and all Fox Anchors) are instantly bestowed the well-earned title of “losah”.

“You’re a republican? What a losah!”

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by Byll O’Rylley Fox Republican Headquarters, NYC Nov 7, 2006 email it

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I Carry Your Heart With Me, A Discussion of the Poem by E. E. Cummings

The poem, “i carry your heart with me,” by E. E. Cummings has been a favorite love poem and a favorite selection at weddings for many years. The poem has gained renewed interest since being featured in the film, “In Her Shoes.”

It is used with devastating effect in the film’s climactic wedding scene and again to close the movie. Countless fans have been inspired to review the touching words of “i carry your heart with me.”

The Poet

E. E. Cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died in North Conway, N.H., in 1962. Cummings earned a B.A. degree from Harvard in 1915 and delivered the Commencement Address that year, titled “The New Art.” A year later he earned an M.A. degree for English and Classical Studies, also from Harvard.

Cummings joined an ambulance corps with the American Red Cross in France during World War I. The French imprisoned him on suspicion of disloyalty, a false accusation that put Cummings in prison for three months. He wrote the novel, The Enormous Room, about his experience. Many of Cummings’ writings have an anti-war message.

Cummings was a fine artist, playwright and novelist. He studied art in Paris following World War I and he adopted a cubist style in his artwork. He considered himself as much a painter as a poet, spending much of the day painting and much of the night writing. Cummings particularly admired the artwork of Pablo Picasso. Cummings’ understanding of presentation can be seen in his use of typography to “paint a picture” with words in some of his poems.

During his lifetime Cummings wrote over 900 poems, two novels, four plays, and had at least a half dozen showings of his artwork.

Contrary to popular opinion Cummings never legalized his name as, “e.e. cummings.” His name properly should be capitalized.

The Poem

E. E. Cummings’ poetry style is unique and highly visual. His typographical independence was an experiment in punctuation, spelling and rule-breaking. His style forces a certain rhythm into the poem when read aloud. His language is simple and his poems become fun and playful.
Cummings’ poem, “i carry your heart with me,” is about deep, profound love, the kind that can keep the stars apart and that can transcend the soul or the mind. The poem is easily read, easily spoken, and easily understood by people of all ages. The poem could almost be called a sonnet. It has nearly the right number of lines in nearly the right combination. But, typical of a Cummings poem, it goes its own direction and does so with great effect.

The poem makes an excellent love song when set to music. The outstanding guitarist, Michael Hedges, has set “i carry your heart” to music on his “Taproot” album. Hedges himself sings the lead, but the backing vocals are sung by David Crosby and Graham Nash.

More than 168 of Cummings’ original poems have been set to music.

Enjoy the words and the sentiments of this famous poem.

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

Garry Gamber is a public school teacher and entrepreneur. He writes articles about politics, real estate, health and nutrition, and internet dating services. He is the owner of http://www.Anchorage-Homes.com and http://www.TheDatingAdvisor.com

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A Scary Word - Ribaldry

Ribaldry is the third and somewhat neglected genre of sexual entertainments, something different from either pornography or erotica, yet is often confused with them. It could also be referred to as bawdiness or bawdry.

Unlike either pornography or erotica, which play sexual intercourse or sexual fetishes “straight”, ribaldry aims at humor. Sexual situations and titillation are presented in ribald material more for the purpose of poking fun at the foibles and weaknesses that manifest themselves in human sexuality, rather than to present sexual stimulation either simply or artistically. Also, ribaldry may use sex as a metaphor to illustrate some non-sexual concern, in which case ribaldry may verge on the territory of satire.

Like any humor, ribaldry may be read as conventional or subversive. Ribaldry typically depends on a shared background of sexual conventions and values, and its comedy generally depends on seeing those conventions broken. Depending on your attitude, viewers can perceive this either as poking fun on the poor souls who suffer the consequences of breaking the taboos, or as flouting the taboos themselves.

The ritual taboo-breaking that is a usual counterpart of ribaldry underlies its controversial nature and explains why ribaldry is frequently a subject of censorship. Ribaldry, whose usual aim is not “merely” to be sexually stimulating, often does address larger concerns than mere sexual appetite. However, being presented in the form of comedy, these larger concerns seem to censors to be un-serious. Moreover, the presence of satirical content in ribaldry tends to arouse the wrath of authorities, who may overlook more explicit sexual entertainments in order to prosecute comedians whom they perceive as attacking conventions they wish to maintain.

Etymology of Ribaldry

The word ribald was originally a noun and referred to a military unit found in French and Italian armies in the Middle Ages. Ribalds, led by their “king”, were vagrants or other lower-class members of society, who fought with little or no clothing, and whose main objective seems to have been to expose themselves to the enemy in order to disgust or shame them. They were usually massacred by the enemy, but they were considered an expendable unit, to be used before the real battle began. They were also in charge of any prostitutes following an army, and were responsible for pillaging enemy camps. By the 16th century, the more familiar definition of “ribald” had developed, to the dismay of those who remembered them as a respected military unit.

From a sneaky Wikizen

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Heroic Wikipedia vs Encyclopedia Britannica

The WSJ hosts an interesting interview between Jim Wales, founder of Wikipedia and the chief editor of Encyclopedia Britannica. Lookout for the tirade against sneaky links, the value of selectivity and the hazards of impulsive editing.