Philosophical wonder woman

(from the Tom Robbins discussion group) "The moon can't help it. It's only an object. The moon doesn't mean to set things sloshing--in every ocean's basin, in every female's uterus, in every poet's jar of ink, in every madman's drool. `It's only a paper moon/Sailing over a cardboard sea.' The moon can't help it if the best toys are made of paper. And the best metaphors made of cheese. They say that lost objects end up on the moon. Is a siren responsible for a sailor's taste in song? The moon can't help it. It's only a fat dumb object, the pumpkin of the sky. The moon's a mess, to tell the truth. A burnt-out cinder the color of dishwater; a stale gray cookie covered with scars. Every loose rock in our solar system has taken a punch at it. It's been stoned, scorched, golf-clubbed, and inflicted with boils. If lovers have chosen this brutalized derelict, this tortured dustball, this pitted and pimpled parcel of wasteland as ...

I've been thinking a lot about pain lately. Pain is something we try to do away with and try to avoid, yet is an unavoidable part of life. In fact, often times we grow mentally, spiritually or creatively after periods of great pain. As a sufferer of migraines and all-around rather wimpy female (even though I like to talk tough) I deal a lot with trying to minimize physical pain and how to prevent it. My solution to overwhelming pain is to sleep it off, and I generally deal with physical and emotional pain the same way. I hate sleeping through entire days or sometimes even weekends -- and lately I've missed plans with dear friends and family. This is nothing new for me, but I think the bi-polar weather in Denver is to blame for recent difficulties. I'm hoping that after this winter, my body will be a little better acclimated to actual weather. I had a discussion with my AZ soul sisters the last time I was there about the relationship between pain and art. My singer/so...

I don't recall having seen this site before, and needed to add it to Ava 's list of links since she's this month's featured dancer. Looking through I thought it was all selling merchandise (that's most of it) but there are a lot of great articles too, such as: In Search of a Better Belly By Jasmin Jahal I took a workshop with Jasmin years back and was really impressed with her immense knowledge about bellydance culture, history, technique, fitness, etc. So I plan on coming back to this site for more research and will need to add it to shimmygoddess (which also needs a total redesign, le sigh).

I have no idea if I'll like this show, but I'm going to give it a gander tonight since I adore all things Nathan Fillion Here's a great article that briefly covers Nathan's career and an interview about Castle which begins tonight on ABC: http://www.avclub.com/articles/nathan-fillion,24795/ Castle starts Monday, March 9th, 2009 10 PM Eastern. USA Official site: http://abc.go.com/primetime/castle/ and if THAT's not enough, the lovely Summer Glau will be making a humorous guest appearance on The Big Bang Theory tonight (playing herself). Can't wait! if you want even more Castle goodies... (SPOILER) The first 13 minutes of the Nathan Fillion's CASTLE pilot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbSfB8VJYU&feature=channel_page Youtube of Nathan Fillion on Jimmy Kimmel Live 3/4/2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwdKHXkYLRM Youtube of Nathan Fillion on The View Friday, March 6th 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OcuHSQOjbE Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), ro...

Pleeeeeeeeeeeease watch it. I hear it's on Fox's potential ax list and I it deserves a shot, not the Firefly treatment. http://www.hulu.com/watch/61044/dollhouse-gray-hour

In searching for one bit of information (I forget what now), I came across a huge belly dance festival here next month hosting, Rachel Brice . (She's only one of the most amazing and mesmerizing bellydancers in the world!) I've never taken a workshop with her but seen her perform a lot - and I'm so excited! The event's called Elevation 2009 and has 3 full days of workshops with many people as well as shows in the evenings. In addition, I've made friends with a very nice woman who started a new dance studio in my area of town called Studio 21 . They have classes for all ages and even adult classes like ballet, hip hop, ballroom, modern and more. She asked me if I'd be interested in teaching a beginning bellydance workshop and I'm thrilled! I've always been a bit skeptical about teaching because I'm hard on myself and never think I'm in good enough shape... but I've been a student of bellydance for over a decade so I think it's about...

ever since I first read Another Roadside Attraction over a decade ago, Tom Robbins has been my favorite writer. He describes himself as a zen hedonist and writes differently than any other author I've read. People either love him or hate him, which is fine, but I think it's worth giving a shot since he inspires such adoration in certain people (like myself). His essay on the soul and other books like Skinny Legs and All and Jitterbug Perfume , gave me a new playful and whimsical view of life that makes it all a little easier to deal with. He has a new book coming out called B is for Beer, advertised as a children's book for grown-ups and a grown-up book for children. Check out the first chapter from the publisher here: http://www.noexit.co.uk/titles.php/itemcode/522 Also, Tom Robbins is including Denver on his book tour (I didn't even know he did those... he's fairly reclusive). At the Tattered Cover in LoDo - 4/30/09 - 7:30pm. I will certainly be there!! I ...

my favorite new web comic: http://hijinksensue.com/comics

after reading a very funny geek web comic: http://hijinksensue.com/2009/03/02/a-crisis-of-faith/ I noticed all the fan comments beneath... enjoy! "Our WHEDON who art in Hollywood, Hallowed by they words. Thy shows they come, Thy disks they run On CD as well as Blu-Ray. Give us this day our heroines and forgive us our fandom as we are the fans of shows before thee. And lead us not into teen angst and deliver us from mediocrity For thine is the action, the drama and the story Forever and ever. Gorram." whedon commandments 1. You shall have no other gods before Whedon 2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, cept those existing in thy Whedonverse. For I, the Lord your Whedon, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the FOX on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Buffy DVD box set. 3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your Whedon in vain. 4. Remember the scifi F...