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Does anyone know this artwork?There is this image I see clearly in my head, and I know I have seen this piece of artwrok more than once, but it is nothing that I own, I do not know what it is called, and I have tried to google everything I could think of relating to it, and cannot find anything.
It is this sort of art-deco looking woman, very sleek, wearing a black dress, and elegant looking, and she is walking a pair of either Russian wolfhounds, or afghan hounds (Both look quite similar particularly in profile) And it is very simple, not a lot of minute details. I think it is a fairly well known artwork because I know I have seen it several times before. If anyone can actually tell me the name of it, or a link where I can see it online, it would be much appreciated. I need a physical visual of the work for something I am working on. 11:38 AM - 8/22/2008 - comments {0} - post commentMy life as a horror filmI was taking a bath this morning, when I think I was moementarily entered into a Japaneese horror film. I was sitting in the tub while the water was filling up, when all of the sudden I saw this large dark object, or shadow, or something wash out of the faucet with the water, and than it was gone in like a second.
So I was sitting there thinking what it could have been. Could some hair possible have gotton in there somehow? Was there a bug in there that got flushed out. Than for some reason I thought of a dead rat, though I do not know if that would even be possible.
So I reach over to turn the waters off and I look in the tub and there is no sign of anything at all in the water. But I know just what I saw. 8:52 AM - 8/22/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekI thought this one was great
A man would create another man if one did not already exisit, but a woman might live an enterity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex--Joham Wolfgang von Goethe
Runner ups:
What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water--Galius Valerius Catullus 8:50 AM - 8/22/2008 - comments {0} - post commentNew WordsMy sister sent this to me and I just had to post becasue I thought it was hillarious
4:44 PM - 8/20/2008 - comments {1} - post commentWhat is the world coming too?I have recently joined up with this new book related website called Goodreads. A place where you can keep track of your books, read and write book reviews and join book discussion groups.
So I was bored and skimming through the different message board groups, and there are a ton of them for Twiligyt, and Stephenie Myers, I do not know how many of you have heard of her, but it is all the rage now. And they are books aimed at a teenage audiance.
And than I came across a book called Daylight, and it was a collection of pople that do not apporve of the Twilight series, and well I had mixed feelings about the group, becasue I agreed with them, but not for the same reasons.
What I mean is, well the Twilight books are all about vampires and this mortal woman who is in love with a vampire. So most the people in this group seemed very Christiny and not liking the books becasue of its dark aspects.
Now it goes without saying, that obviously that part of the books I have no problem with. What I do have a problem with is when I was a teenager and in highschool I was reading Anne Rice.
Though I have not read any of Meyers books, from what I have heard of them, well I can say with good confidence that the writing of those books is no where near up to par with the writing of Anne Rice. Whatever you might think of her books and her, she was a good quality, talented skilled writer.
So I am against the popularity of the Twilight books becasue they are cheeseball crap. Becasue they are not good writing. I would say that her skill level of wirting is probably something I would have read in like middle school. But not up to the level of the things I read in highschool.
If I were to attempt to read her books, it would be like my attemtps to read Harry Potter, and I know a lot of older people enjoy the Potter books and I do not mean to put them down, only that you have to admit that the writing level is a bit simplistic becasue the books were written for younger people.
So I am against the populartiy of the Twilight books becasue I think teenagers should be reading things of a higher quality of writing. 4:04 PM - 8/20/2008 - comments {0} - post commentThe Pale Horse RidesThe Pale Horse Rides There comes the pale horse across the glittering snow a sea of white, where ghost prints leave no trails. A shadow of a figure mounted upon its back undisturbed by winds despair it seems to glide as the pale horse rides. There is no escape when the faceless shadow extends a hand, a whisper lost to the souls come and ride away upon the pale horse Moved, quaking inside only coldness is the touch but there is no denying the draw to the darkness. To be swept away upon the pale horse and ride forever into the light of the moon come and ride away upon the pale horse There echoes softly in the still air not a sound heard, not a sound made you know the time is here. The time to ride into the darkness and sing the chorus of souls come and ride away upon the pale horse. 3:35 PM - 8/19/2008 - comments {0} - post commentTake the Bad with the Good or None At AllThe whole debate about God's gender is an age old one. Feminist, and women in general complaining about the fact that God is always portrayed in the masculine and referred to as "he" and philosophical essays, about God as a woman, or what gender God truly is, if God can have any true gender at all.
But the one thing you don't hear anyone complaining about is Death, The Grim Reaper, another popular figure who is always cast with a masculine identify. You do not hear any one trying to argue for the feminist version of The Grim Reaper, or questioning his gender. The feminists are perfectly content to let men have all the credit on that one. In fact if someone did try and create a feminized version of the Grim Reaper, that would probably cause outrage among women and be seen as anti-woman in some way. But if women truly were concerned with equality than shouldn't they be as equally upset about the fact that the personification of death is always in the masculine. Does not the idea of trying vouch for a female God, while rejecting the idea that there should also be a female Grim Reaper, only further stereotypes about women? 11:53 AM - 8/17/2008 - comments {0} - post commentCode of EthicsYes I am judgmental and have very rigid principles about certain things, and though I do not expect anyone to be perfect there are some things of which I find unforgivable and thus try and distance myself from and not be associated with in anyway. On the few things I do have principles about, I am very unyielding.
So where is this all going? Well I happened to be reading this blog, and debating if I should comment upon of their entries. The reason it was a debate was because I remember her blog and someone else's I use to get mixed up with each other. I think there was something similar in their blogs title, or usernames, or something, I cannot remember, but I just know I would get the two confused with each other. And so the reason why this even mattered, is because I remembered one of the blogs was this woman, who was prone to discuss in her blog various illicit liaisons which she endeavored in. And unfaithfulness is one thing of which I cannot abide by. So I refused to leave any sort of comment upon the blog if it was the hussy. So before I would comment on the blog I began to skim through past posts, and well though I did not read every single past entry, I am pretty sure, it was the other blog. So I decided that it would be safe for me to comment. 9:38 PM - 8/16/2008 - comments {0} - post commentBut if our love be dyingBut if our love be dying by Michael Field {Pen name of Englishwomen Katherine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and her niece Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)}
8:36 PM - 8/16/2008 - comments {0} - post commentThe Feel of You, Taste of You, Scent of YouThe Feel of You, Taste of You, Scent of You
Close to you
I feel your breath
warm; tantalizing
The scent of you
lingers in the air
the touch of you
a caress in the darkness
Your fingers lead me through
trusted wholly to you
flesh upon flesh
set aquiver and afire
The taste of you
upon my lips; my tongue
skin upon skin
you find all the right places
Falling into you
your thighs
hold me still
your heat radiates
Thrills ripple through my body
you know just where to kiss
each stroke
of tongue and fingers
awakening
My love, my lust
set me free
in the ways of love
Your body instructing mine
naked in sin
naked in innocence
Limbs wrapped up in each other
hushed words, whispered names
rhythm of two bodies
friction; heat; sweat
body to body
yours and mine.
8:00 PM - 8/15/2008 - comments {0} - post commentBlack Oak
9:52 AM - 8/15/2008 - comments {0} - post commentQuote of the WeekThere was just something about this one I really liked
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage ~ Benjarmin Franklin
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What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her ~ John Churton Collins
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies ~ John Donne 9:08 AM - 8/15/2008 - comments {0} - post commentSoul-SickSoul-Sick
Too many lives
left behind
to be brought to this point
upon the trail of dust and bones;
death in the wake,
but only a death of the body,
yet what becomes of the soul
when the world makes it feel
insignificant
With so many changes
born witness,
so much pain and sorrow,
and yet when one no longer belongs
what is to be done
There must still be a calling
to lure the soul back into body
but this currant state of being
so miniscule compared to
what had once been
A longing for a place
that can never be returned to,
a world that was worth so much more,
such things praised today
eat away at the soul
that still remembers
Remembers a time of meaning
those who exalt the shallow glories
of today are those who forgot
or never knew the power that once
sung true
When every rock and river was sacred
the trees wise teachers
when man knew how to be grateful
for a life that was not by birth-right due
but earned in every act
How could any soul
that once remembered these bygone
days of yesteryear
truly be content
in a world
where all meaning is forgotten.
4:41 PM - 8/14/2008 - comments {0} - post commentSoul RythmSoul Rythm
I feel the internal hum
Speaking to me in depths
But carried within
It has no language
A spasm of sound
But far from silent 9:15 AM - 8/14/2008 - comments {0} - post commentYeah I said itEvery now and than I will read a blog and feel the strongest desire to leave some sarcastic comment to their post, but I usually end up deciding against it, because well in the end, it would not really accomplish anything. Though it may give me a momentary satisfaction, it is not going to actually change anyone's mind so I figure why bother, it is not really worth it.
But I was reading a blog today, and well sense their whole post annoyed me, I said what the hell I am going to go for it. And if they read this and know I am talking about them, well I do not really care. But anyway, she was talking about how she just started blogging, because she lost the journal she used to write in but she was undecided if she was going to keep her blog here on this site. But than she was going on this snooty little rant, about how like the fact she already caught some misspellings and run on sentences in some of the blogs here, and how she is thinking moving her blog elsewhere simply because not everyone here writes first draft perfected blog posts. I know, misspelling, or bad grammar in a blog? The horror. So if she wants to dis JH and its members because we do not write blog posts as if we were all College Professors preparing to turn in an important dissertation, I say screw that. So I said You know you could always just buy another journal, come to think of it is, I should have intentionally spelled journal wrong. And I should have used "U" instead of You.....ahh I could have done so much more damage, oh well. 3:32 PM - 8/12/2008 - comments {3} - post commentMirror ImageI just love this picture that I took. I love the reflection within the water and this picture to me just has such a romantic fairy-tale, Victorian feeling to it.
8:16 PM - 8/11/2008 - comments {0} - post commentThe Night Has A Thousand EyesThe Night Has A Thousand Eyes By Francis William Bourdillon
2:31 PM - 8/11/2008 - comments {0} - post commentCatch-22I have recently finished reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it to be a very witty, clever, humorous and gritty book. One of the things which had caught my eye about this book was the style in which it was written reminds me of one of my favorite authors Tom Robbins. Heller's writing in Catch-22 is like a milder and saner version of Tom Robbins, but they have the same sense of humor. A sharp wit, with a dash of the random thrown in, to make you say huh? I also love the satire which they both offer up ruthlessly.
One of the things I loved about Catch-22, is that behind the humor I think you can still find truth, and in spite of the ludicrous that he salts upon the pages, Heller does not shy away from the cold hard truth and brings a sharp realism to the story. The book is about WW2 and normally I am not into war stories, but the great thing about this book, is that it was not so much about the war itself, it was not about some great heroic mission, or some historical event. It was about the people, it made the soldiers into real flesh and blood. It told the stories of their lives, featuring the unlikely hero Yossarian. It also reflect in humorous fashion both the incompetence and corruption of the military leaders. But as I have said, there is a true to life aspect to this book, so Heller does not stray away from the realty of death in the war, so towards the end particularly it does begin to get sad. But the characters are outrageous, and outlandish, yet vividly alive. Some you will love, some you will hate and some you will love and hate. 6:23 PM - 8/10/2008 - comments {0} - post commentHelen's SongHelen's Song by Philip James Bailey
THE Rose is 3:26 PM - 8/10/2008 - comments {0} - post comment100 Greatest Books ~ UpdateI came acros this list of what are considered to be the 100 greatest books of the 20th century, I decided that I would reach each of these books, here is the list of books I have read. The numbders in front of the title is the order they appear on the list. The * are a sort of 5 star rating system for how well I liked the book. I will also list if any the books I am in the progress of reading. TBA = To Be Announced
2.The Great Gastby * * * *
10. The Grapes of Wrath * * *
41. Lord of the Flies * * * *
45. The Sun Alos Rises * * * *
48. The Rainbow * * * *
64. The Catcher in the Rye * * * * *
78. Kim * * *
88.The Call of the Wild * * * * *
93. The Maugs * * * * *
21. Henderson the Rain King * * * *
69. The House of Mirth* * * * *
13. 1984 * * *
20. Native Son * * *
9. Sons and Lovers * * * *
31. Animal Farm * * *
3. A Portrait of the Artist As A Yong Man * *
58. The Age of Innocence * * *
15. To The Lighthouse * * *
25. A Passage To India * * * *
65. A Clockwork Orange * * * *
34. A Handful of Dust * * * *
84. The Death of the Heart * * * *
7. Catch-22 * * * *
Books in Progress:
The Ambassadors 6:45 PM - 8/9/2008 - comments {0} - post comment
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