Part tragedy, part comedy, check out The Blotter. Here are a few of the complaints called in to the police in Taos, NM, my favorite town on earth.
3:09 p.m., Shoplifting, 200 block Paseo del Pueblo Sur – Complaint that a woman with long blond hair, sunglasses on her head, and wearing all black took of organic items and frozen items and left without paying. She was seen heading onto Los Pandos, driving a bright orange car.
Read on for a few more of my favorites!
| You Are Expressionism |
 At times, you tend to lack perspective on your life, probably as a result of looking inward too much. This introspection does give you a flair for the dramatic. And it's even maybe made you cultivate some artistic talents! You have a true artist's temperament... which is a blessing and a curse. |
reveler: (n.) one who engages in uproarious festivities and merry-making
Jeeps full of kids with super-sonic water pistols that look like they came straight out of Star Wars pump streams of water on passers-by. Loud speakers from the pandals pump techno-beats, rock and roll, and 80’s remixes, especially the remix of “What’s Up.” Street venders sell deep-fried crickets, barbequed sparrows, and hot samosas.
The wildest, wettest festivity in the world doesn’t happen in Thailand or South America’s Carnival, but in this country Somewhere in Asia. It’s four days long, and promises to bring out your inner child. Or inner monster. Or a little bit of both.
The garden. After school. A glass of chilled white wine. Free Spirit, fresh in from Hanoi, has just arrived, her guitar slung around her shoulder. Behind me, in my artist's studio, all sorts of pastels, and oil paints, and paint brushes sit waiting for next week's art class. Creativity seems to flourishing these days in this city "Somewhere in Asia."
I’ve always wanted to sing in a band. After all, it's one of my 43things. Last night, I made it happen.
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"A Retrosexual man can chop down a tree and make it land where he wants. Wherever it lands is where he wanted it to land."
- from Grau Magus in his anti-metrosexual manifesto, The Retrosexual Code
Want a good laugh? Want a real man? Read on, dear readers. Read on.
(image via Laura Smith Art)
Happy hour is an cross-cultural experience, no matter what your time zone.
image via Anne Taintor, Inc.
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Because Shamash says so.
That's why.
The Persistence of Vision:
Go here. Take the 30 second exercise. This optical illusion freaked me out! (Thanks, Brown Belt, for sending me the link and to John Sadowski for being brilliant.)
I also hooked another brain exercise over at Musings from the Void, who snagged it from the book Brain Age:
Say the color of these words as fast as you can:
Green Red Blue
Yellow Blue Yellow
Easy, yes? Now try this one, say the color, not the word:
Blue Yellow Red
Green Yellow Green
Did you go notice the lag? It's one of the exercises used to assess your "brain age."
My brain has aged quite a bit over the last few weeks of studying here Plymouth. I've living on only a few hours of sleep, and after staring at the computer screen for hours on end and learning new programs, the whole world begins to look like John Sadowski's photo BEFORE you move the mouse over the image!
