FLAMENCO BALLOON DREAM

Sometimes I go to the flea market not to shop but to take pictures. It's fun to pretend to be a little kid and let my imagination run totally loose. 

Walking outside among the buildings and tables, I spied something red on the ground. A shred of popped balloon lying in the gravel. 

Does that look like anything to you? What does it make you think of? 

To me it looked like a dress, a fancy red dress, a dress for a sexy woman who would be dancing and swirling, like a gypsy dancer, a flamenco dancer. 

Watch Eva Yerbabuena dance. She is surrounded by men intensely focused on her and she's HOT! No, she isn't the stereotypical celebrity in her twenties with the impossibly tiny waist, but she is all proud woman, flesh and blood and bone, sweaty and juicy. Look at the faces of the musicians around her, and look how she loves what she's doing. Miguel Poveda is the singer clapping behind her, singing as they've sung in Spain for centuries. All this ancient passion made me horny! Enjoy: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q6tQQ9NuxQ&feature=share

Next time you go out, lock the house door behind you but open your brain's door 

to what you will see and feel.

Money, Naked Neck, Shar-Pei, Jimmy Dorsey

So if things *happened* and then you found out you probably had a check coming to you for over $17,000, what would you do? 

Count the number of digits. That's five digits. 

I can tell you a couple of laws of money that I learned the hard way. The first is that you are wildly rich temporarily, and then it turns itself inside out and is fucking GONE really fast, right when you get used to having it. You have to be careful. But first you have to get used to the feeling of cool air blowing around your neck, as opposed to the hard, rough wood of the chopping block upon which your neck has rested for so long. 

So what would you do? I invite you to comment below what you would do if you got $17,000. 

I was dizzy at first, like, "WTF?" But now I'm thinking I can get the car fixed, get health insurance, replace my broken camera, get the dog his shots. Then what? I can actually pay my rent in advance for a year! 
I could. 

I want another dog, a girl. There is a crabby Shar-Pei/Beagle mix (known as a "Sharp Eagle") red girl at a local no-kill rescue sanctuary. Her name is Tangerine. I've wanted her for around a year. She came from a puppy mill and is not very sociable or socialized, so she is not very adoptable by other people's standards, but I don't care about that. If she won't attack my other little pets, she's welcome here. She can have all the emotional space she wants. The way to a dog's heart is food and walks. My other dog is a rescue also, submissive, grateful, peaceful, appreciative, and I think they would get along fine.

All that money, and what I would really like for myself is 
that bitchy little dog.  

Well, tomorrow, folks, I'll let you know if I got the money. Then I'll let you know if my landlord acquiesces to my taking home Tangerine if I pay a year's rent in advance. Then I'll let you know if the sanctuary will let her go if I donate a few hundred dollars. Then I'll let you know how she fits in with the other creatures in this house. 

I will sing to her:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdistoUW4CQ

"Unanswered questions." Guest blogger Don-Guitar.

I love questions that generate thinking. Thinking generates action, eventually, and that's what changes society. Here is a blog from a very special person who's been writing forever.

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FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010

Unanswered questions.

Until today I'd never heard of Epicurus but I was intrigued by this quote which is attributed to him:

“The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,
or, being willing to do so, cannot;
or they neither can nor will,
or lastly, they are both able and willing.

If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent.
If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent.
If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent.
Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?”

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I love questions which can't be answered. I'm amused by those who feel that such questions have been answered and disgusted by people who are frightened by the questions. I'm content to say "I don't know" but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying to reason out an answer.

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