simon says stop

when the law says 'Stop', it's best to stop, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

-- Chuck Palahniuk

home

 

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

-- Maya Angelou

very nearly answering the call of the flippists

building up to the eyelid flip, originally uploaded by McBeth.

You. Yes, YOU.

Let's clear the air right this very moment, shall we?

If you're one of the persons who has been looking for more (more? how about any) eyelid flipping pictures, you're going to have to be patient with me. You see, lid-flipping is not something one should just launch INTO, no! Instead one must build UP to it!

Ahh! A-ha! Yes.

I tried, I really tried, but I couldn't get into the boogedyboogedy-feeling groove that is necessary for an A+ form eyelid flip.

The outtake shots, which shall never be viewed by anyone -ever- but me, are a little bit freaky ('oh dear, does it really look like that? In real life?!') and a laugh riot.

I am not daunted, never fear.
I shall one day prevail ... I SHALL flip my lids!

my $ .02

Confidential to you, the dear sweet soul in Raleigh, North Carolina:

Yes. The definitive answer to the question you posed in the search bar of your browser is YES, cherry-tying is indeed a rare talent, though it's probably worth mentioning that I believe the fact that one can tie the cherry using only one's tongue is less of a compelling factor than the potential future non-cherry applications.

I spent one of my birthdays figuring out how to do it using the guaranteed Tappy Tibbins system and just look at me now!

I Want To Marry A Clockwork Orange Lighthouse Keeper

these ain't yer gramma's tv commercials, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Lyrics by Eigen Erika


I want to marry a lighthouse keeper
And keep him company.
I want to marry a lighthouse keeper
And live by the side of the sea.

I'll polish his lamp by the light of day
So ships at night can find their way.
I want to marry a lighthouse keeper
Won't that be okay!

We'll take walks along the moonlight bay
Maybe find a treasure too.
I'd love living in a light house,
HOW 'BOUT YOU?

The dream of living in a lighthouse baby, every single day.
The dream of living in a lighthouse,
the white one by the bay.

So if you want to make my dreams come true,
You'll be a lighthouse keeper too.
We could live in a lighthouse
The white one by the bay, hey hey.
Won't that be okay.

Yada tada ta ta ta.

the beverage

hot buttered rum lattes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

--Woody Allen

withholding love

leave your dignity at the door, originally uploaded by McBeth.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

-- C.S. Lewis

humble beauty

two stacks, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

--Camille Pissarro

fashion choices

freshasa, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

-- Albert Einstein

friends

happiness is having a someone else to play with., originally uploaded by McBeth.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

sharing

frisbee standoff, originally uploaded by McBeth.

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

-- Buddha

winter shadows

lost child, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!

-- Charles Dickens

imagine it

the white pills made her hungry for candy canes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

-- Albert Einstein

confidence

2sexy 4u, originally uploaded by McBeth.

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” -- Peter T. Mcintyre

music

not your little brother's air guitar, originally uploaded by McBeth.

"I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us."

-- Martin Luther

fashion

gettin' wiggy with it, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. -- Coco Chanel

all that is life

four barres, originally uploaded by McBeth.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

-- J. Krishnamurti

carry-on

bag o'pup, originally uploaded by McBeth.

awol

I hope you are well and good.

Me? I've been struggling a bit with the black dog.
I'm headed to Washington, D.C. today to visit a good old friend, who has repeatedly proven to be mood altering in the very nicest of ways.

I'm leaving in two hours; I should probably pack.

clean it up

whale size, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Do I believe that for $.75 I can procure for myself a towel large enough to equal the expanse of a whale? Will I be able to unfold my new towel from the towelette sized dispenser in such a way that when done properly will loving enfold my vehicle in its towelly goodness?

Sure, why not. I'm nothing if not flexible in my thinking.

Do I believe that the inexpensive 'whale size' towel will actually be all purpose?

Hmm, I'm going to have to think about that one.