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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:37:25 -0800

Meanwhile,

in another

part of the forest . . .

John (aka foresthippy) keeps me at least partially sane and helps make transitioning to v4 bearable. He, along with his cohorts (def: any band of warriors or associates - which definition I like, they are The Warriors of Stumbleupon and I think they're fucking brilliant), has written scripts to enhance SU, giving back or improving on popular features. They are simple to use even for computer-illiterate stumblers like me.

John's scripts are at the link. Others can be seen at the SU Extensibility Group.

P.S. Look for the haikus . . .

Photos by Sarah Moon
at Stanislav Belyaevsky's PBase gallery.

Cooking green | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:57:37 -0800

Biographia Literaria

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:07:11 -0800

During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. These are the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such, as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them, when they present themselves.

In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth on the other hand was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible treasure, but for which in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
On The Suspension of Disbelief

Sin city: show celebrates the Paris brothel that was loved by Cary Grant - News, Art - The Independent

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:36:32 -0800

It was sleaze all right, but sleaze of a refined and exclusive kind. Throughout their long heyday, the brothels of Paris were as alluring and luxuriously chic as any gentlemen's club or aristocratic salon.

And now the lost world of these establishments is being brought back to life in a retrospective exhibition, curated by Nicole Canet who describes herself as an "archaeologist of eroticism". With hundreds of rare photographs shown alongside phallic door knockers, whips and other instruments of the trade, the show recreates a world where money and class put moral judgements in abeyance.

~ from the page
A gallery of photos accompanies the article.

The Panel Play

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:23:35 -0800

Wonderlawn's lost us for ever.
Alis, alas, she broke the glass!
Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain.

~ James Joyce ~
Finnegans Wake

Click the pix for photo sources.

hello kitty sticker graffiti on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:56:36 -0800

the picture

Ario, cover your daughter's eyes!

Serina, not "barf-a-licious" (unless of course one takes things too far . . . but I'll just stop right there.)

http://frenchtwist.stumbleupon.com/review/37304039/

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:26:11 -0700

I'll choose the mask to suit my mood
Radiant, lovely, mysterious, lewd,
And dance by the light of a midnight moon
With a pleasing exactitude.

~ frenchtwist ~

Happy Halloween

Photos by Kristamas Klousch.

dipsomania

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:36:47 -0700

~ Thomas Hardy ~
The Woodlanders

Dipsomania: Being a study of alcohol as seen in the fine arts.

Luis Scafati

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:03:41 -0700

Luis Scafati

Extraordinary work from the Argentina-born Scafati;
this site has an excellent gallery of his work including his book illustrations.

There is a very short biography in English here.

Mary Roach: 10 things you didnt know about orgasm

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:13:19 -0700

Did you know that seminal odor can be detected on a woman's breath an hour after intercourse?

Or that "the semen of a young man has a fresh and exhilarating smell while the semen of a mature male smells remarkably like that of the flower of the Spanish chestnut, sometimes quite freshly floral and then again sometimes extremely pungent."

An enlightening and amusing 17 minute piece; it's a TEDTalks video so you know it's good.

Thanks to Comely1 for the stumble.