Music Monday Right Now

Chris Hadfield is my hero.

He's out of this world. 

The Canadian astronaut takes the black space of confusion and anarchist elements from the ungoverned terrain of the digital revolution and fills it, with music. Every time one of my peers throws their hands up in defeat over the great, shifting tides under our feet ("no, I don't use Facebook. Don't get it. No, I don't use Twitter. I want my privacy. Can you figure out my phone for me?" ), I look to the simple, human connection that this highly creative guy provides from space and just point. Upward.
There.
There is proof of the possible, our future, our connected thread to a collective, great imagination. Technology working without any nuance,without any subversive agenda, a purpose we can all understand.

Today, at 12:30 pm, Commander Hadfield will take part in a live webcast from space to mark the ninth year of Music Monday, an annual initiative to raise awareness of musical education for young Canadians. Hadfield will link up with Ed Robertson ( Barenaked Ladies) and students gathered at the Ontario Science Centre to sing a song the two co-wrote for the event. Across the country, students will link up for the singalong in an effort to send a clear message to school board officials: don't cut our music programs!

Play hooky from work and school and go online right now. Here is the the link.

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Get Rid Of Parkinson - Make Muhammad Ali Smile!

How Do You Get Parkinson's disease? A serious question, off course. It's different from when you have a cold and someone asks you about it. The first question is not the one to be answered while giggling just to show to others that you only need a minor treatment.

Most people might know Muhammad Ali, the boxing legend who suffered parkinson's disease. How did he get it? A stupid disjointed answer might be: anytime you see the man who bullies you, don't run, mock him so that he becomes irritated and then give you a black eye. If he's not satisfied, you can give your head too.

It's not about how to be like Muhammad Ali who used to sting like a bee in the ring, it's about the precaution. So how about it? We should know first the symptom, why parkinson can attack a man, at what age, and what is the best treatment for this disease.

There are a lot of information you can get from the Internet regarding this. But if you search: what causes Parkinson's disease? All will answer the same; No one knows for sure about it. No one knows what makes the nerve cells break down. What affects the way you move is this cells breakdown. Yes, it happens when there is a problem with certain nerve cells in the brain.

So, now you get the point, right? And you are invited to assist or replace the current scientists who are doing a lot of research to look for the answer. They are studying many possible causes, including aging and poisons in the environment.

A funny question today now: How to be a scientist who is free from parkinson's disease? If you can make a breaktrough over this, not only you make Muhammad Ali proud of you, you'll also answer the world's request.

One is stop spoofing!
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Stop Eating! Bulimia is awaiting!

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leaping greenly

House robbed, basement drains seeping sewage, and I've ducked outside to peer at the buds.

Can't help it, it's the default setting on this whacky '64 model. Spring is the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky  (e.e cummings), love hot and bothered in the back seat ( not me, never!) and black under your fingernails. 

dirt

A dump truck leaves a mound of earth on my driveway.

 It sprawls there in misshapen form. 

The girls abandon the bubbles and bound downstairs. 

Bare and dripping on the steps, they stare,

pink bums longing to leap in the dirt 

to rid themselves of clean.

Wheelbarrows later, 

virgin soil cuts a black ribbon through the yard. 

Moist from the dusk rain, it is an expectant bed

 beckoning my toes in.

 Soon too, my hands, arms,

 body burrowing down, down.

I am a root taking hold,

 my fetal blooms encased.

 Warm, ready, I'm a lover in wait.

 Sun rays ripple through the sod. 

Send my colours exploding, 

wild and bright against the jet ground.

Through the window,

my breath forms a steam cloud.

A garden.

    Finally.

 from my 2001 collection " Holding Glass"

  For a little Goodfellas and Dickens, read: Guarding the Nest

 

 

 

 

 

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Is Bulimia Treatment Effective?

One thing for sure, bulimia treatment is for anybody who cannot stop eating in an uncontrolled way. It is how to stop them from vomiting a large amount from their body as well. And it is not for you to take if you just want to lose weight. How effective is it, anyway?

The tendency for eating much is normal for human being, but when it comes to gluttony you need to concern that you may create a serious problem later, that you may drop, and therefore you need a series of bulimia treatment if you suffer from this as you can't stop your gluttonous habit. This time, you'll find whether it is effective or no as to how to answer the above-mentioned question.

So, don't eat much. Does this sound like a warning to you to prevent you from doing your "hobby"? Like someone urges me to stop writing about parody, you and I will surely say, "no way," right? The difference is that I still can write about bulimia treatment as spoof rather than describe the effectiveness of it. On the other hand, if there's no control of your eating habit, surely you'll suffer such a disease.

Bulimia is a mental illness, something that happens because you have gone to far with your taste and it never occurs to you such a treatment when you're trapped in gluttony. So, first, what is the effective way of not getting it?

Before it's too late, you should find the way of how to lose weight as best as you can. Then you can do as I do; write a parody about your condition as if such misery had befallen you. If you think that's funny it means you are not doing your best to avoid it, you're not serious. The effectiveness of the treatment should begin as a prevention. Bulimia is hazardous and there's nothing funny about it to put down in your diary.

Except you contact and ask me to post it here in an amusing writing.
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Got A Problem With A Long Distance Relationship? Stop Eating!

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Long Distance Relationship Problem: Just Take It Easy

How to cope with a long distance relationship problem? Just take it easy. First, you know what to do, where to go and how to settle each other down and how to cope with the messed-up affair.



You do? If not, think about the second point. Second, you don't know what to do, where to go and how to cope with each other problem. Having a long distance relationship should not distress you, so that you feel as if it sucks your blood: Just take it easy



Better not feeling it alone even though you think it is too personal and it is too risky to trust someone to solve your problem. But, it's okay if that what you think, don't trust these people to help you cope with your long distance relationship problem:



1. Lawyer



You're not divorcing someone, you're not even married yet. You just need a pal around and therefore there's no need a professional to interfere with your business.



2. Security Guards



In spite of their main job to protect their clients from risks of safety, it is not recommended that you use their service for the sake of your own security. You're not keeping belongings



3. Tour guide



Is he a spiritual consultant? You're not going to India to see the celebrities and dance with them. Okay, that will make you forget your partner, but surely, it will take a lot of money.



4. Blogger



Especially the one who likes rewriting or spinning an article of your long distance relationship problem and make it a parody or spoof ... Like me!!!



What?!

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Guarding the nest

It was the best of times and the worst of times.

  We were robbed Friday night while at my nephew’s last jazz concert before he graduates from high school. Just another “b & e,”* so banal and ubiquitous that we waited an hour for the police to make an appearance.

Apologies to Mr. Dickens, but confronted with the urban duality of crime and community, I'm borrowing from the best.

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Storytelling in a new age

It's part of my morning ritual to wake up with another man.
My husband's ok with it.
He's lived with me long enough to understand my needs.

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