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gwydion* Turkish Protest Update: The police did finally clear Taksim Square, despite the tactic of scattering before the gas and cannons, then quickly reforming. The police re clearing the debris. In Gezi Square, the protest continues. There is supposed to be a negotiation later today. I'm not holding my breath, especially as the protesters have not been invited to the meeting. It looks like it's meant to be a photo op for the President with celebrities rather than any real attempt to solve problems.
I think I need to repeat that: They are holding negotiations supposedly to end the protests, but didn't invite any actually protesters, only celebrities. Looks legit, right?
* The Danube is reaching record levels. The Elbe is flooding as well now.
* "The accidental role of cow dung in history:" http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130607-the-accidental-role-of-cow-dung/all
* "Interesting Anasazi Ruins Found in Utah:" http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2013/05/31/isaacson-southern-parkway-road-construction-unearths-ancient-ruins-what-archaeologists-say/
* 8 Room Underground settlement Found in Anatolia: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eight-room-underground-city-unearthed-in-central-anatolian-province.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48404&NewsCatID=375
* "Qin Shihuang Tomb Overview:" http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4167
* "Kazakhstan archaeologists discover Saka princess tomb:" http://en.tengrinews.kz/science/Kazakhstan-archaeologists-discover-Saka-princess-tomb-19862/
* "Beheaded skeleton discovered next to Saka princess's tomb.:" http://en.tengrinews.kz/science/Beheaded-skeleton-discovered-next-to-Saka-princesss-tomb-19913/
* "Roman seawater concrete holds the secret to cutting carbon emissions:" http://phys.org/news/2013-06-roman-seawater-concrete-secret-carbon.html
* "Cave in southern Mexico holds remains, items from Mezcala and Olmec cultures:" http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2080991_cave-in-southern-mexico-holds-remains-items-from-mezcala-and-olmec-cultures.html
* "Archaeologists find Colonial and Pre-hispanic vestiges thought to be 500-1,000 years-old:" http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62980#.Ubf46ZyjL41
* "Ancient paintings revealed in Tibet:" http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4164
* "New North America Viking Voyage Discovered:" http://www.livescience.com/37189-new-viking-voyage-discovered.html
* "700-year-old antiques recovered from shipwreck:" http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/10359/700yearold-antiques-recovered-from-shipwreck
* "The first book of fashion:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22766029
* "The house that time forgot: Hundreds of antiques discovered in country mansion where little has changed in 100 years: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336354/Hundreds-antiquities-discovered-Northumberland-country-mansion-The-Hermitage.html#ixzz2VxuVWjI6
* Re: Steve Berry's Elizabeth I Speculations. I think that people who believe UFOs built the pyramids are really just saying, "I am so racist I can't believe that POC can do math and engineering." As a result, I give them serious side eye and assume they have nothing to say worth listening to. Similarly, when someone insists that Queen Elizabeth I had to have been secretly a man, I think they are really just saying, "I am so sexist, I can't believe a women can be that bright and competent." My reaction to that is similar to the UFO/pyramid thing.
* "Black Forest burning:" http://il-volpe.livejournal.com/36054.html
* I think it is a sad commentary on the state of the news media that Stephen Colbert's fake news piece on Turkey was significantly more coherent and all around better than the crappy ass coverage I'm seeing on real news:
* My memory is deeply associative and highly sensory. Correspondences chaotically connect and spin off all sorts of sensory based memory pearls. Something about the weather today gave me long brown toes picking things up like fingers, curling around pedals; long legs, surprisingly hot to the touch with the texture of peach fuzz hair on the touch upper thigh; blue hippy shorts with one of the types of stripes matching sky seen though branches; waterfalls and the wet green scent of growing things on the banks of the river; the steps of a particularly crappy church; the first time I read Persuasion; a loft bed; bluish afternoon light through a high window; hiding with a boy from his father in a bathroom while he ripped a room apart; sun warmed rock and skin; salty sweat (mine); salty sweat (several other people's); and nut butter and brie with french bread or matzo (various occasions). Each of these leads down more sensory side paths to other places. Persuasion leads to the first time I read the despised Mansfield Park to working in the upper stakes at the law library to the horrible endless last day we assembled metal shelves on the assault at the storage unit, our hands burning as the July afternoon heat soaked the metal to my last cross country drive to desert to.... You get the idea
Occasionally all at once, but mostly in clumps or single full sensory clips, haunting my thoughts, toying with me as I track the specific instances down to at least seven different time periods all of which randomly collide, colude, overlap, and dance with each other. I can trace the basic branches most of the time, but some of the connections and combinations get pretty strange and abstract. Particular elements run through it like the words at the end of the lines in a sestina, a poem made of time and sense memory instead of words, mixing and remixing emotions and memories into various patterns mysterious and revelatory all at once.
Is this how everyone's brain works or is it just me? I often wonder.
* The W. Kamau Bell quote is up to 1764 notes. I guess it struck a cord with atheists. I've had another flurry of folks discovering the Medieval Fantasy Sexism post so it's at 3774. Small by tumblr standards, but big for something I wrote.
* The Clutch:
I think I need to repeat that: They are holding negotiations supposedly to end the protests, but didn't invite any actually protesters, only celebrities. Looks legit, right?
* The Danube is reaching record levels. The Elbe is flooding as well now.
* "The accidental role of cow dung in history:" http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130607-the-accidental-role-of-cow-dung/all
* "Interesting Anasazi Ruins Found in Utah:" http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2013/05/31/isaacson-southern-parkway-road-construction-unearths-ancient-ruins-what-archaeologists-say/
* 8 Room Underground settlement Found in Anatolia: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eight-room-underground-city-unearthed-in-central-anatolian-province.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48404&NewsCatID=375
* "Qin Shihuang Tomb Overview:" http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4167
* "Kazakhstan archaeologists discover Saka princess tomb:" http://en.tengrinews.kz/science/Kazakhstan-archaeologists-discover-Saka-princess-tomb-19862/
* "Beheaded skeleton discovered next to Saka princess's tomb.:" http://en.tengrinews.kz/science/Beheaded-skeleton-discovered-next-to-Saka-princesss-tomb-19913/
* "Roman seawater concrete holds the secret to cutting carbon emissions:" http://phys.org/news/2013-06-roman-seawater-concrete-secret-carbon.html
* "Cave in southern Mexico holds remains, items from Mezcala and Olmec cultures:" http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2080991_cave-in-southern-mexico-holds-remains-items-from-mezcala-and-olmec-cultures.html
* "Archaeologists find Colonial and Pre-hispanic vestiges thought to be 500-1,000 years-old:" http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62980#.Ubf46ZyjL41
* "Ancient paintings revealed in Tibet:" http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4164
* "New North America Viking Voyage Discovered:" http://www.livescience.com/37189-new-viking-voyage-discovered.html
* "700-year-old antiques recovered from shipwreck:" http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/10359/700yearold-antiques-recovered-from-shipwreck
* "The first book of fashion:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22766029
* "The house that time forgot: Hundreds of antiques discovered in country mansion where little has changed in 100 years: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336354/Hundreds-antiquities-discovered-Northumberland-country-mansion-The-Hermitage.html#ixzz2VxuVWjI6
* Re: Steve Berry's Elizabeth I Speculations. I think that people who believe UFOs built the pyramids are really just saying, "I am so racist I can't believe that POC can do math and engineering." As a result, I give them serious side eye and assume they have nothing to say worth listening to. Similarly, when someone insists that Queen Elizabeth I had to have been secretly a man, I think they are really just saying, "I am so sexist, I can't believe a women can be that bright and competent." My reaction to that is similar to the UFO/pyramid thing.
* "Black Forest burning:" http://il-volpe.livejournal.com/36054.html
* I think it is a sad commentary on the state of the news media that Stephen Colbert's fake news piece on Turkey was significantly more coherent and all around better than the crappy ass coverage I'm seeing on real news:
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* My memory is deeply associative and highly sensory. Correspondences chaotically connect and spin off all sorts of sensory based memory pearls. Something about the weather today gave me long brown toes picking things up like fingers, curling around pedals; long legs, surprisingly hot to the touch with the texture of peach fuzz hair on the touch upper thigh; blue hippy shorts with one of the types of stripes matching sky seen though branches; waterfalls and the wet green scent of growing things on the banks of the river; the steps of a particularly crappy church; the first time I read Persuasion; a loft bed; bluish afternoon light through a high window; hiding with a boy from his father in a bathroom while he ripped a room apart; sun warmed rock and skin; salty sweat (mine); salty sweat (several other people's); and nut butter and brie with french bread or matzo (various occasions). Each of these leads down more sensory side paths to other places. Persuasion leads to the first time I read the despised Mansfield Park to working in the upper stakes at the law library to the horrible endless last day we assembled metal shelves on the assault at the storage unit, our hands burning as the July afternoon heat soaked the metal to my last cross country drive to desert to.... You get the idea
Occasionally all at once, but mostly in clumps or single full sensory clips, haunting my thoughts, toying with me as I track the specific instances down to at least seven different time periods all of which randomly collide, colude, overlap, and dance with each other. I can trace the basic branches most of the time, but some of the connections and combinations get pretty strange and abstract. Particular elements run through it like the words at the end of the lines in a sestina, a poem made of time and sense memory instead of words, mixing and remixing emotions and memories into various patterns mysterious and revelatory all at once.
Is this how everyone's brain works or is it just me? I often wonder.
* The W. Kamau Bell quote is up to 1764 notes. I guess it struck a cord with atheists. I've had another flurry of folks discovering the Medieval Fantasy Sexism post so it's at 3774. Small by tumblr standards, but big for something I wrote.
* The Clutch: