Break

I will only be posting periodically during the next 2 weeks to allow for plenty of time to visit with a certain Aussie FFB while she is in LA.

So there you have it, and Bob's your uncle.

Celebrate

So today is the last day of International Friend Week and is also a part of National (USA) Pancake Week. So, um call a friend and go out for pancakes.

Basically, I had a great 'actual' blog to write for today about the meaning of friendship, respect, integrity and etc, but I am too tired and so I am wimping out and you'll just have to wait more for any real actual intimate personal disclosure, muah-ha-ha-ha-haA!
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I have no idea what to say, so here's a picture of a rabbit with a pancake on it's head.

Dieting Tips

Having trouble dropping that last 30lbs of 'Holiday Winter Weight'? Just tape these to your fridge.


Hello America, This is why you're fat.


Start the day with a DD Sausage, Egg & Cheese on a Glazed Chocolate Donut.



Pick up a little street vendor Hamburger Wrapped Hotdog Wrapped in Bacon for lunch.



Hit the Tombstone Deep Dish Pizza Vending Machine
during the mid afternoon coffee break.






Grab a quick dinner of Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf with Mac & Cheese Filling.












Before meeting the gals for drinks and ending the day with a McNuggetini, A McDonald’s chocolate milkshake with vanilla
vodka, rimmed with BBQ sauce and garnished with a chicken McNugget.


Some good motivation to eat our veggies and hit the gym. IJS©

Blog on Blog Action 2

My dear friend L referred me to this hilarious (and deffo NSW) blog Why Women Hate Men.

This blog is written by a guy and features real internet personal ads actually posted by guys who are pretty much clueless assclowns.

A sample of the acerbic and piercing wit:
'Philipe holds the weighty erotic appeal of an impotent meerkat with chronic back acne.'
'For his first magic trick, Erin will enter a convention hall full of ladies listening to erotica for women, and instantly transform their moistened vaginal walls into Triscuits.'
'P*ssy is so foreign to him he'd probably try to feed it potato chips.'
'P*ssy is an exclusive Hollywood nightclub Tom, and you're Bill Gates in a Thriller t-shirt and a Member's Only jacket standing outside the velvet ropes with a bag of glowsticks and a hula hoop wishing you knew what it felt like to be inside.'

So, um, yeah. If any of you fellas were a tad bit confused about how to do a personals ad, this blog gives you PLENTY of examples of what NOT to do.

Musical Flying Saucers

The Hang means "hand" in the Bernese language (pronounced "hu-ng") is a young musical instrument. It was created in Bern, Switzerland in 2000 by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer of The PANArt Company after many years of research on the steel pan and numerous other resonating percussion instruments from around the world such as Gong, Gamelan, Ghatam, drums, cowbells, and musical Saw.

This percussion instrument is comprised of 2 metal hemispheres bonded together: the top side contains 8 tone fields which together form the 'tone circle' (scale or mode). The circle surrounds the central dome, or DING, which sounds like a Gong. The bottom side has a hand sized hole, the GU, for resonance, which can be played like an udu or used to modulate the sounds of the DING (either with a hand or a wooden damper, a DUM).

The Udu-like sounds are produced with the air resonance, the sounds of the clamped shallow shells sound like bells or harmonically tuned steelpans. The inner note on the bottom dome is the bass note, and when played in a dampened way allows change in pitch like a talking drum. Seven to nine notes are tuned harmonically around a central deep note. The hemispheres are hardened by a process known as gas-nitriding (a thermal treatment process in which nascient hydrogen atoms diffuse into the steel and form nitride compounds with many of the alloys in the steel).

The Hang is typically played resting on the player's lap with the palms of the hand, thumbs and fingertips instead of mallets, so the sound is soft and warm. Depending on how it is played the notes can sound like a harp, bells, or harmonically tuned steelpans.

The PANArt Company was offering a number of Hang models and encourages each purchaser to participate in the design their own instrument since each Hangis tuned individually, which allows each person to choose their personal 'tone circle'. Word is that currently the creators are taking a break from making Hangs, so if you want to buy your own you may contact them via mail to be placed on the waiting list or hope to stumble on someone selling theirs.

PANArt Hangbau AG
Engehaldenstr. 131
3012 Bern/Switzerland
Phone international: +41 31 301 33 32
E-Mail: info@hang.ch



Hang

For more Hang vids see The Art of Fusion or Davide Swarup.

Blog on Blog Action

Since I'm too lazy to actually write anything this funny or interesting today, I will share a blog someone else wrote that I find amusing, accurate and informative.

All about 'The 20 Male Poses of Facebook'.

lol

Watch: Coraline 3D

Went to see Coraline today, it was very entertaining, but definitely NOT kid friendly. I recommend that you make it a point to see this in 3D, it really added to the experience.


Coraline

Humor Translates

Osaka Bang!

lol

Recovering...

from way too much fun at last nights Anti-Valentines Tequila & Porn Party. Smashing success. The adult theme entertainment offered endless conversation starters and opportunity for commentary. Everyones parting words were (circa 4:30am kick out time), "When can we do this again?!"

WARNING: this post is 18+ only, if you are under the age of 18, STOP READING now. k, thx

We watched a number of different films from various genres and time periods. I'm taking the time here today to review them and share some general impressions.

We started off with Vintage Burlesque which was a DVD burn of an old VHS tape of a collection of Burlesque dancers from the earliest days up to the 70's or so. It was both entertaining and informative. It allowed for easy viewing without interrupting conversation flow and was a great introduction to the nights activities.

Next up was some Hentai, which was, as I had been warned, rather strange and disturbing. Plant monsters raping young girls with their freaky tentacles. Eww.

After the creepy cartoons, we watched a DVD of some of the old Betty Page films, which were fabulous, of course. Then we segued into a vinyl/fetish film that explores various bondage related fetishes, which we viewed on x2 fast forward. It was mostly tedious, with drawn out scenes of flogging that moved on to electro stimulation via various attachments followed by some rather unengaging girl-on-girl-on-girl action involving saran wrap and some, lets just say, 'that ought not go there'. All in all the modern fetish vid was a bust, where as the previous vintage fetish was an all around hit. Just something to do with the energy of the participants I think. The Betty Page era participants had a much brighter spark and where clearly having fun, whereas the contemporary women seemed to be 'enduring' the process by focusing their minds on their paycheck.

When everyoen was fianlly ready for the 'real' porn, we popped in a vintage XXX film from 1976, Alice in Wonderland, a musical porno. It was fantastic and hilarious with several song and dance sequences and reasonable acting skills during the many non-sexual scenes, with good cinematography along with interesting scenes and costumes. Fun times.

We completed the night with Porn Wars, an adult film spoof of the Star Wars Trilogy complete with cheesey special effects to go with the cheesey dialog. The was fantastic and fabulous fun. My only complaint with it was that unlike Alice where they included several brief sexual scenes in a film, this seemes like they were merging an adult film with a bad C-level movie and the run time was excessively long as were some of the sexual scenes.

We also had a selection of tequilas as well as other libations, including: Don Julio, Cuervo 1800 Resposa, Milagro, Patron Silver and Corazon, which is my new favorite.

At future Tequila & Porn parties I shall include various games (with prizes!) to up the fun even more, such as T&P Bingo where guests are looking for specific dialog, actions, or situations like 'fingernails that long ought not to go there' or a few rounds of pausing the film at key points to 'Guess what happens next!'.

Good times ahead.

Peer Pressure

So I am finally on the twitter, heaven help me.

twitter.com/GoddessKasha

Now off to catch Push and then time for mucho party fun. More tomorrow.

Texting Your Way to Love

omg, it's like watching the 18 months I roomied with Stephanie

Transformers Goes Green

Someone with lots of imagination and too much time on their hands did a cute stop-motion film for youtube.


Transformers II

The film Transformers II, with the surprisingly attractive Shia LaBeouf(cake), is scheduled for release June 26, 2009. Check out the Trailer.

Cool Website: Safe Sex is Sexy and Stylish

In honor of the upcoming holiday when most couples (and many singles) will be planning on 'gettin wit it', I offer up for your perusal a great resource for Condom Reviews. Be cause the way to say 'I love you' is by letting your actions say 'I love you enough to be safe'.

Their best selling, most re-ordered, and Winner of Best Condom 7 years running is Crown Skinless Skin Condoms. They are made using the best technology to be thinner (0.00181"), without compromising strength, are odorless and tasteless. Slightly Wider and longer than average for comfort.


To the left is one of the 'Condom Couture' dresses created by Brazilian Artist Adriana Bertini for the Dress Up Against Aids Benefit and Exhibit.

And to ensure that you are just as stylish and sexy as you are safe, why not pick up one of these easy traveling Condom Boxes from Alessi (those folks who make those great stainless steel tea kettles) or for bedside a Condom Cube:

For those of use like to keep more accessories handy, perhaps an Adult Toy Box such as this one, which has a lock and key so you can be safe about being safe:

Music: Prem

Prem is a Sanskrit word for 'the way God loves you'. It is also the title to a CD by Snatam Kaur Khalsa.

Snatam Kaur is a Sikh who began her study of music and spiritual practice at an early age. Schooled in kirtan, meditation, and Gurmukhi (Sanskrit-based language of Sikh scriptures of Northern India), she began to develop the devotion and skills that have grown and blossomed into her compelling and profound talent.

She has a voice that invokes a sense of reverence and the sacred. It is simply impossible to listen to this album and not be deeply touched. I was gifted this album and everyone who I've played it for has been deeply touched, almost all to the point of tears at it's pure beauty and Grace. My Mother loved it so much, she specifically asked that this be played at her too soon to come funeral.

On Myspace

Buy it or Other Albums and Music Samples


Rehansabai - Smrath Guru Sir Hath Dhareyo

Where's Matt?

So there's this guy named Matthew Harding who took a trip around Asia and at the urging of a friend danced for a video.


2005

People saw it and shared it and eventually people at Stride Gum saw it and thought it'd be cool to pay for him to travel around the world and take video of him dancing at different places so off he went. 6 months and 39 countries later he had this:


2006

Then he thought it'd be cool to travel around the world and have people who had emailed him about his previous video come out and join him, so the folks at Stride Gum sent him off again. Now we have this:


2008

80 countries and counting.

This goes to show, you never know what little act will touch people or what turns life will take. So take that chance, be silly, have fun and always have your sense of adventure handy, because you just never know where life will lead you.

Books: Secrets of Water

Masaru Emoto is a Japanese author known for his work on the effects of energy/ intent on water. He photographed water via microscope at the exact moment it began to froze. His results began to show that water was affected not only by the levels of environmental contaminates and pollution, but also the energy around it. His work evolved to exposing the water prior to freezing/ photographing to various types of music where songs which were of an uplifting nature either musically or via lyrics produced images that were fully formed and beautiful ice crystals and water exposed to 'Heavy Metal' produced crystals that were misshapen and chaotic in appearance.


"Gratitude"

His books, The Secret of Water and The Hidden Messages of Water, show how his results with water from worldwide sources photographed after being exposed to thoughts/ emotions/ energy directed towards it as well as when various words in a variety of languages were taped to the outside of the container.

His work was discussed in the film, What the Bleep do We Know.

Books: The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The Tales of Beedle the Bard first appeared as a fictional book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final novel of the Harry Potter series. The book is described as a popular collection of Wizarding children's fairy tales and contains several stories meant to teach young wizards and witches various life lessons.

Even though the basic idea of each story was included as part of Book 7, this small collection was an enjoyable read.



Buy it.

Courage to Love

The Courage Campaign is an online network for helping organize grassroots activists to brink about positive change to California.

One of their current campaigns is helping to defeat Prop 8 and secure the same right to marriage for every adult couple.

You can help this effort by signing this online PETITION and sharing the video below.

The pictures sent in by Courage Campaign and Marriage Equality supporters, set to the song Fidelity by Regina Spektor, shines a beautiful light on the 18,000 couples that Ken Starr and other 'Gaycists' want to forcibly divorce. Tell the Supreme Court to invalidate Prop 8, reject Ken Starr’s case, and let loving, committed couples marry. DEADLINE: Valentine’s Day.


"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.
Courage Campaign: Don't Divorce Us/ Fidelity

Babies get along, why can't we?

Because I needed something to lift my Spirits today, here's a sweet video of a baby Deer & Kitten. If only people could be this kind to animals and to each other. It's nice to see something somewhere getting along with out hatred, selfishness, judgment and bigotry.

Great song by a Musical Master, Louis Armstrong.


What a Wonderful World

Music: Love Sucks

For those of you who break out in hives during the first half of February each year, or are just over all the bullshit and hassle of romantic relationships, here's one for you.

Love Sucks: Various Artists

1. Love Stinks -- J. Geils Band

2. I Hate Myself For Loving You -- Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

3. Everything About You -- Ugly Kid Joe

4. Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn'tve) -- Buzzcocks

5. Love Will Tear Us Apart -- Joy Division

6. Pictures of You -- Cure

7. Answering Machine -- Replacements

8. You're No Good -- Linda Ronstadt

9. I'm Not In Love -- 10cc

10. Love Hurts -- Gram Parsons

11. Who Loves the Sun -- Velvet Underground

12. Glad to See You Go -- Ramones

Buy the album here.

So tell me, what are your favorite 'Love can just fuck right off' songs?

Underrated: RocknRolla

Guy Ritchie, England's favorite cinematical punching bag, has his latest flick out now on DVD.

If you are looking for a fun and feisty film with a dash of humor and a modicum of intelligence, check out this fast paced trek through modern day London's criminal world.

Synopsis:
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player -- a drugged out rock 'n' roller presumed to be dead but very much alive -- has a multi-million dollar prize fall into his hands.


Rocknrolla Trailer

Of Interest: Swedenborg

Emmanuel Swedenborg (Swedberg 2/8/1688 - 3/29/1772) was a Swedish scientist and prolific writer turned mystic. He had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist, having mastered every known science of the time (and creating a few new ones). At the age of fifty-six, after failing to discover when in the body the soul resided, he turned his search inwards and thereby began his journey into mysticism in which he experienced profoundly revealing dreams and visions. During one of his extended meditations, which sometimes would last for days, he experienced a spiritual awakening wherein the thin veil between dimensions was removed so that he coud learn the truths of human existence and the work of souls here on earth. He was guided by various Angels and ArchAngels through the various realms of existence, including heaven and hell where he was allowed to communicate with Angels, Demons and other spirits. Some of the things he claims to have experienced are that there are Jews, Muslims and people of pre-Christianianity times in Heaven; the fundamental issue that love of self or of the world drives one towards Hell, and love of God and fellow men towards Heaven.

For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758), and several unpublished theological works.

Swedenborg's theological writings have elicited a range of responses. Toward the end of Swedenborg's life, small reading groups formed in England and Sweden to study the truth they saw in his teachings and several writers were influenced by him, including William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Baudelaire, Balzac, WB Yeats and Carl Jung. Many people during Swedenborg's time considered his writings, which were published anonymously to be absolute rubbish and in 1768 a heresy trial was initiated in Sweden in 1768 against Swedenborg's writings and two men who promoted these ideas.

By the early 1800's, the first Swedenborgian Church had been built in America. In addition to his legendary sowing of seeds in the Midwestern wilderness, Johnny Appleseed carried with him all of the Swedenborgian publications he could procure and distributed them wherever the opportunity was presented. Hellen Keller was also a follower.

The Swedenborgian movement is still active today (Peter Gyllenhaal father to Jake and Maggie, was raised within it), though mostly through the Retreat and Renewal Centers and maintaining the Emmanuel Swedenborg Library.

We've all been there

Microsoft Word. One of the most important tools of the average person's work day. Also, tool of the Devil.

Well, this may help make you feel better. Not Safe for Work.

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