DAY THIRTY FOUR

we reviewed a few of the early posts from my blog last night.

if you haven't read it yet, i'd highly recommend you read day two.

i really like good.is.

Remember that time the beer flooded all over and killed some people?

this is a good story about wanting to be wanted versus wanting to be needed. i love their dealbreaker series. and here's a cute comic about how you're not the light of my life and making you happy isn't my greatest dream.

oh! something that i'm pretty sure probably nobody else on my blog knows is story people! it's great. my favorite series of poems ever. some include (and this one goes out to kim harris for making a PHENOMENAL meal last night):

There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.

I'm just going to pick a few others I remember offhand, but there are so many great ones that are out there:

I have a friend who reads people's auras. He sees all sorts of colors like green & red & purple. He says anyone can do it. All it takes is forgetting everything you think you know & just looking. I've tried it & even though I haven't seen any colors yet, everyone I meet looks so beautiful when I stop knowing everything, that it's pretty hard to go back to the old way.

this one got me into them (i know, super sappy. but i <3 them)

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short.

shoutout to caity beth (and let's bring that nickname back in style), who got me this print a few years ago as a gift

We lay there & looked up at the night sky & she told me about stars called blue squares & red swirls & I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

and this

I leave it to other people to change, she told me. I spend my time just cultivating vices.

anyway i could go on with that all day. alls i gotta say is, i love this guy. and he's got some amazing art pieces. anyway, there's a handy collection of stuff he wrote in an easy to read format - but i still suggest you read the website. BIGRUSHOFAWESOMEPOEMSNOW:
“Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you. ”
“I saw them standing there pretending to be just friends, when all the time in the world could not pry them apart. ”
:( “I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it.
A nickel used to mean something, I said.
She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.”

anyways enough of that sappy crap.

there's a place that looks bomb ass (pizzzzzzza), and i really want to win this free night there, but i'll have to spam all my friends with email to win a free dinner. i'm halfway tempted to just do it, but only spam those folks that i either don't like or don't care about, and then just pretend it was a mistake. if you get are reading this and you got a message, it totally does not mean i don't like you or don't care about you... really. no i'm serious.

keep up the good work, turkey!

i like her work. except for this. and :( i sometimes prefer hearing about what happened afterwards from people like monique so i don't get worried about people i know who are there...

this is sick. i know it's old. but still. sick like ew, not like cool. mentioned in the headscarf one.

DAY THIRTY THREE

Fistful of Mercy. This one's going out to my family because I think they'll love it.

I love this art.

And I wish I lived in a city where there were routine and awesome shows.

I find it interesting that kidult says: "I don’t have anything against anyone; my approach with the spray gun aims neither to please nor displease." At the same time, earlier in the interview: "Agnès b. appreciated the first intervention and posted a photo and a thank you note on Twitter. I didn’t expect that reaction (it’s why I then did it a second time)." I wonder if the doing it a second time is because they liked it, or because it was liked to get a different reaction? My first gut feeling was that it was the latter, but it's possible he wanted to please them more?

Elsa - you gotta see this.

It's Miller Time!

Wow, I read a lot of webcomics.

This is one of my favorite websites. I think it's a fantastic way to showcase what makes Detroit Detroit. There's a petition to showcase photos from the site in GM's headquarters. Please sign up.

I <3 Google (I say, writing on my google blog. <3<3<3). What a beautiful graphical representation of data.

DAY THIRTY TWO

This video Amer shared is awesome - the history of English!! pickleherring! jobbernowl! fopdoodle! itneresting how animals come from germanic, while the names for the meats of the animals is french!

Heard something interesting about cracked.com - not a great website. it actually doesn't surprise me.

Reading the sartorialist makes me want to go shopping. reading the catorialist makes me smile.

omgomgomgomg makeup!

OH MY GOD TRAGEDY HAS STRUCK THIS COMPUTER. I'VE LOST WHERE I WAS ON XKCD. I FEEL ADRIFT IN THE WORLD. WITHOUT MEANING. guess i'll just have to start from the newest and go back???

but the day is saved! my favorite (terrible) blog has new entries!

i'm reading the kitchn and it's REALLY making me crave thanksgiving foods. now i want an apple pie, stuffing, stuffed squash, pumpkin soup, and about 1000 other foods. guess this means whatever cool parasites are swimming around my innards are looking to get fed!! though i suppose they probably subsist off of my blood or tissue, not the food that i directly consume. but maybe? for all my love of parasites, i got a lot to learn.

figured out the mystery of the missing earring. actually not that mysterious and makes sense. tried to pierce my ear last night but kept thinking about the horrible allergic reaction i was going to have to the crap painted metal, shuddered, and didn't do it.

DAY THIRTY ONE POST THREE

I'm going to add in that I'm a licensed professional.

DAY THIRTY ONE POST TWO

sometimes i get a bit mad at idiots online. for instance, this craigslist post:

Coffee Talk (Istanbul)
Date: 2011-11-12, 12:00PM EET
Reply to: figenbico@gmail.com [Errors when replying to ads?]
There is an expression in NY - Let's do coffee
This is usually a time for friends and acquaintances to meet up and talk about what is personal to them
Sometimes you just need to talk.
English based on your personal needs
More than speaking - the opportunity to express yourself
Your English speaking friend who is also willing to listen
Meeting for coffee or tea
50 TL per hour

Turkish New Yorker with holistic healing and communication background
Figen Bico
0531 835 1897

*A lending ear or general conversation on common solutions for common problems. If deeper issues arise, please note that we will have to discuss a more suitable approach for healing

My friend Rabia sent it, a bit confused about what it meant. Upon reading it, I grew angry. Most of the time, when I get angry, I end up getting companies to send me free things. I got a free flight in Europe once because BA lied about losing a veggie meal of mine. I got a *lot* of free Ben and Jerry's because a store in NY had messed up their ice cream and it was the first time I had eaten it in like 5 years because of the vegan thing and it was so sad and I was really upset. In the US, fine, rip off folks who at least speak English.

But this particular ad, for whatever reason, made me very annoyed. So, in retailiation, I posted my own ad. Everything contained within is true. I left out some of the more snarky responses to the other ad, if you can believe it:

Let's Do Coffee - a Listening Ear (Istanbul)
Tarih: 2011-11-22, 5:39PM EET
Yanıtla: serv-xtfbq-2715431940@craigslist.org [İlanlara yanıt verirken hata mesajı mı alıyorsunuz?]
Let's do coffee is a phrase that is common around the English speaking world and especially countries where coffee is frequently consumed. If people claim that it's a NY only phrase, they probably aren't from America, or are at least unwise enough not to unload upon. Signs that someone may only be good for a conversational class include leaving punctuation (periods) out at the end of sentences. If you read ads by other unlicensed, possibly non-ordained, non-doctorate holding individuals mentioning minds feeding off each other, please note that a mind feeding off the other feeding off of it (and so on) may be a sign of a neurotic individual.

I am an ordained minister and have two Bachelors of Arts and a doctorate. I don't have a holistic healing background, but I do read a lot of Psychology Today and my mom was forced to learn Reiki back in the day when nurses had to learn pseudo-sciences and I know a *lot* about energy healing. This interested started at an early age, when we used "light as a feather, stiff as a board" to magically lift individuals much heavier than us using only one or two fingers. I'm in a profession where I ethically must maintain client confidentiality.

Please note that such therapies such as Ayurki therapy have been developed by a single, unlicensed, non-practitioner. I have developed my own therapy, entitled "bitch, don't take no crap; get out of an effed up sitatuation; ain't no reason to worry about no thang; and you don't really need to be friends to everyone." It is supplemented by the "if you have problems, that's one thing; if you have clinical psychological issues, go to an actual doctor", which has thus far been completely successful.

I too can listen to you kvetch for an hour for money. To help subsidize my ministrial life, I ask for 40 TL per hour, plus one coffee.

DAY THIRTY ONE

It is a delightful note! From Gil Scott Heron.

Have I mentioned how much I love NYClean? Lets you read over the 20 article limit per month. It's a fantastic thing that just goes on the toolbar and when you open a locked article, just click it and the real article comes up.

It's not six degrees of separation, any more...

Also, I dunno, but I think the hairy hand is better than Hadley v. Baxendale. Then again, I hated contracts.

I think it's interesting the piece uses the example of this law review article "about the legal taboos of a well-known obscenity" as eduatinment. Yes, it kind of is -- and a recent article regarding a similar thing was in a blog featuring ridiculous legal articles (and many other similar incidents have been widely reported by news media, including one of someone rafting in water in MI) but:

One recent Internet
search revealed that fuck “is a more commonly used word than mom,
baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet.”61

Read it - I don't think it's just edu-tainment. Or maybe it is but it's well worth it. Genderspeak! I particularly like the section on linguistic taboos and substitution words. Politics! FCC! And interesting law, like

And even though a Jehovah’s Witness can’t call
the city marshal a “damned fascist,” a Black Panther can call the police
“mother-fucking fascist pig cops.”

my dad says this all the time.

DAY THIRTY POST TWO

welcome UAE and (shockıngly loyal) russıan readers of the blog!!! point anyone you know from low lying island states thisaway!

turns out eating and listening to podcasts about parasites is not always the best idea. ew.

OH MY GOD I GOT MY NAKUSP TRIP UPDATE THINGY FROM TRIPADVISOR. Nakusp, BC, Canada. I love you. You are tiny. You are named a funny name. You have a suspension bridge named Brilliant nearby. You purposefully flooded over some of your towns and combined two lakes into one. You have hot springs. You have a really awesome Japanese gardens. Despite being on an earthquake fault line, your most recent memorable disaster was a tiny prop plane that went down (and that, I think we can all agree, was due to the return of one of your more hedonistic former residents bringing God's wrath all up in your grill), you have mounties, you have a radio program that features abbreviations like "CAN POP" for canadian pop, you've got a basement geographer, your entire village is about as half the size of EGR's combined school system (and you've gone through quite the growth spurt recently!), you've got some insane sport called heli-skiing, you are really pretty, you have mountain goats nearby, and you briefly flirted with changing your name to nakusp hot springs. You have (or, had) residents who try to run over mentally disabled people. You measured how bad traffic was based on how long it took one particular resident of yours to drive down the main strip. You have a main strip. Your website really seems to indicate that the hot springs committee is more important than the (volunteer) fire department. Your city's .com website features a hipster retro-shabby-ugly-is-beautiful 2006 design (please, Nakusp, don't tell me that you paid for that, especially not from *that* company) and numerous easily corrected typos. You and I are meant to be, and I shall befriend many of the members of your tiny, tiny populace before I move there. We are truly meant to be and one day, one day soon, we will meet in person.

Speaking of typos all oer the place, THY wrote back and said they were sticking with their current editor and needed no more help for their poorly translated in flight magazine. I was going to point out specific problems with the magazine (obvious sentences being cut off, mistranslated, 'interesting' choices of how to phrase... everything... etc) but the email back included an emoticon. yep.

an emoticon.