| HEY BEATNIK! |
[Mar. 1st, 2006|10:15 pm] |
question:
"Let all heretics know positively that their places of assembly shall be taken from them, whether these are designated under the name of churches, or are called deaconates, or deaneries, or whether meetings of this kind are held in private houses; for all such private places or buildings shall be claimed by the Catholic Church.
Given on the fifth of the Nones of March, during the Consulate of Arcadius, Consul for the fourth time, and Honorius, Consul for the third time, 396. Codex Justinian, Bk.1, Tit. 5.3, Concerning Heretics, Manicheans, and Samaritans."
answer:
greetings comrades, friends and relations!
this friday, march 3rd (the V nones of march), is First Friday and time for a very special Salon:
Grass Roots Salon!
...some of us have become dispirited about the near future of american activism. let us gather together and engage in small acts of solidarity and/or resistance, and enjoy some adult beverages at the same time.
as a salute to our local chapter of Food Not Bombs, a local grassroots effort, our own zoe swords (founding member), at ten p.m., will give a short performance explaining Food Not Bombs in an entertaining fashion that may very well involve sock puppets.
  
Sha la la la la la live for today
Sha la la la la la live for today
- the Grass Roots, 1967
!!!
you are cordially invited to bring
***a cash donation***
or
***a non-perishable food item***
to contribute to feeding, rather than the bombing, of folk round here.
as an added bonus, the salon staff will provide good proletariat
***beer***
***pretzels***
and
***origami paper***
so come one come all and bring your pals.
Sha la la la la la
"V nones march - This is one of the a dies comitiales, when committees of citizens could vote on political or criminal matters... This day was considered to be Mars' birthday... This is the third day of the Festival of Mars. The daily spectacle of the priests of Mars leaping and dancing through the streets of Rome would continue this day."
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| the hills ARE alive, blanche! |
[Jan. 30th, 2006|04:24 pm] |
there's a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
and the bells in the steeple too
and at the 405 an absurd little bird
is popping out to say "cuckoo"
adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu
faith is going to austria
do come say auf Weidersehn
friday 2/3 - 8 pm
vergessen Sie nicht! |
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| regret to inform |
[Dec. 3rd, 2005|05:24 pm] |
tomorrow i have to hit the road again: minneapolis, st. paul, rochester (minnesota), eau claire and madison (wisconsin). i have 1,000 amusing storeis but just can't spit em out, because i am on the road so many times!
stay tuned.
overheard in nyc
Guy: And she had the nerve; she didn't even ask me to be her friend. She just sent me her profile!
Chick: Omigod, you should so send her a frowny.
-Columbia University |
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| cookie salon tonight |
[Dec. 2nd, 2005|10:03 am] |
cookie salon tonight, with lights and crackles and swank tunes.
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| what if you knew her and - found her dead on the ground - how can you run when you know |
[Nov. 27th, 2005|06:51 am] |
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Four U.S. soldiers face disciplinary action for burning the bodies of two Taliban rebels... but they will not be prosecuted because their actions were motivated by hygienic concerns, the military said Saturday. TV footage... showed American soldiers setting fire to the bodies and then boasting about the act on loudspeakers to taunt insurgents suspected to be hiding in a nearby village.
Islam bans cremation.
and by the way
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NEW ORLEANS — Even in the desperate days after Hurricane Katrina, the news flash seemed particularly sensational: Police had caught eight snipers on a bridge shooting at relief contractors. In the gun battle that followed, officers shot to death five or six of the marauders. Exhausted and emotionally drained police cheered the news... [Now] on the city's east side, where the shootings occurred, two families that suffered casualties are preparing to come forward with stories radically different from those told by police.
...One of the dead was [a] mentally retarded man, 40-year-old Ronald Madison... The other was a 19-year-old man. Four others were injured: Leonard Bartholomew, 44; his wife, Susan, 39; their daughter, Leisha, 17; and their nephew, Jose Holmes Jr., 19.
...Bartholomew family's version: The Bartholomews walked from a Family Inns of America motel to the bridge. When they were about 100 yards onto the bridge, police began shooting. They dove over a concrete barrier to a pedestrian walkway for protection.
New Orleans police version: Police accuse Jose Holmes Jr., 19, a Bartholomew nephew, of being one of the snipers. Police say the shooters used the concrete barrier for protection and continued firing. A friend of Holmes, also 19, was killed.
Madison family's version: Lance Madison said he and his brother Ronald, who was mentally disabled, were crossing the bridge to reach the safety of a dental office owned by their brother Romell. Family and friends said Ronald Madison posed no threat to police.
New Orleans police version: Police say Lance Madison shot at them and then dumped his gun into the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. Police say they chased Ronald Madison, shooting and killing him when he made a threatening motion in a motel parking lot near the west end of the bridge.
fallout: "A colostomy bag now drains [Jose] Holmes' bowels. His left forefinger and thumb are frozen. Doctors told him the hand had nerve damage. Leonard, Susan and Leisha Bartholomew were also wounded by the police. Susan lost an arm to what the family believed was a shotgun blast. Relatives said all three — who evacuated to Texas after their hospital stays — were too traumatized to talk about the incident."
the daily news just astonishes me more with every passing year. |
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| first friday is coming. |
[Nov. 27th, 2005|06:21 am] |
   
first friday december 2nd
eight p.m. - midnight
featuring cookies, champagne, and lights
please do not be offended by mrs. henry's favorite holiday music
be assured the 405 is a como-free zone
the usual rules apply:
smokers, kids, friends of friends welcome
no dogs, cigars, or racists
bring champagne, poetry, cd's as you see fit |
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| warning: labor politics ahead |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|09:38 pm] |
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Milwaukee [is] ranked as the seventh-poorest city in the nation with 41 percent of its children living in poverty.
one place i'm interviewing:
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1/31/05 - Faced with mounting financial losses and declining patient volumes, St. Michael Hospital is closing 69 beds and consolidating other services... [on] Milwaukee's north side, a population already facing problems accessing health care... The closures will leave the hospital with 81 staffed inpatient beds... The hospital also will close 13 intensive care beds, leaving the hospital with 10. Also, Covenant [the parent corporation] will close an inpatient rehabilitation unit at St. Michael's.
and another place:
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11/16/05 - The 64 doctors and nurse midwives on the faculty at the Milwaukee campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health have until Friday to decide if they want to work for Aurora Health Care - a move that several contend will enable Aurora to cut back on services for the urban poor... Aurora's moves include forcing doctors to drop Medicaid patients from their practices and barring them from accepting new Medicaid patients. That has taken place in neighborhoods where doctors are already in short supply.
...In July, the doctors and midwives were told that in one year they no longer would work for the medical school. At the same time, they were offered jobs with Aurora... Several doctors contend that the tension between the medical school's doctors - many of whom have devoted their careers to caring for the poor - and Aurora has intensified over Aurora's efforts to cut back on services in the inner city. And, they contend, that tension is one of the key reasons for the pending change.
"In the last two years, the faculty has been battling the management of Aurora and Sinai," said Thomas Jackson, a doctor and faculty member who has worked at Aurora Sinai since 1975. The doctors contend that they will be less free to challenge Aurora if they work directly for the health care system.
...The change eventually must be approved by the UW Board of Regents. But by then the doctors at the Milwaukee campus will already have signed contracts - or not signed them. Just how many doctors won't go to work for Aurora will be known Friday. A request by the UW medical school on Wednesday to postpone the deadline was denied by Aurora.
the follow-up:
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11/21/05 - The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is losing almost one-third of the doctors at its Milwaukee campus after its controversial move to transfer the faculty to Aurora Health Care... Sixteen of the 49 doctors and two of the nine nurse midwives who were offered contracts with Aurora instead have opted to leave the medical school's faculty... The exodus includes some of the medical school's most experienced professors.
...The medical school contends that managing the physicians from Madison had become increasingly difficult.
...In a written statement, Aurora said the health care system and university would begin recruiting doctors to fill the positions now held by the doctors and the midwives who chose not to work for Aurora. "That's much easier said than done," said Tito Izard, family medicine physician on the faculty [and interviewer of mrs. henry]. The sudden exodus could mean a shortage of doctors in Milwaukee's central city.
...Twenty-three of the doctors and midwives have filed grievances or appeals with UW. Further, some of the doctors are considering suing UW, alleging it violated its employment policies and practices, said Jeff Hynes, an employment lawyer representing several of the doctors.
furthermore...
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Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager said Monday that she will file complaints against two Milwaukee area hospitals for allegedly engaging in unfair trade practices by overcharging uninsured patients... The complaints are based on the experiences of two patients, one of whom was charged $31,614 for a procedure with a Medicare reimbursement value of $5,000.
... The hospital systems targeted by those lawsuits - [including] Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee... claim that the lawsuits are unjustified.
in our town we are familiar with all this because both local hospitals recently had their tax-exempt charitable status yanked for jailing [yep, jailing] patients with delinquent bills, charging double to the uninsured, and making measly, tiny, miniscule charitable contributions to the public good, relative to their earnings and those of their CEOs. i figure dr. izard and i will have plenty to talk about |
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| three items |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|08:53 pm] |
1. new war news now posted at http://domystic.wildhunt.org/warnews/index.html here's a sample:
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DENVER - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm.
2. new cold, dark pandemic news now posted at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) the_long_winter here's a sample:
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Penny Salm, an AmeriCorps emergency medical volunteer in Phillips, [Maine,] is organizing an innovative project to keep people warm this winter. She hopes to bring three or four people to live together in one participant's heated house for perhaps a week. All participants then would rotate to another house, and so on, while the heat is lowered in the unoccupied homes. The effort could cut fuel costs for participants by as much as two-thirds, she said.
Salm's idea is being touted by state planners who are still somewhat at a loss as to what they can do for Mainers expected to be hurt by historically high heating oil prices, possible shortages and a Congress reluctant to boost heating subsidies... State officials are looking at the possibility of establishing a system of shelters where people who cannot pay for home-heating fuel can be housed.
3. i am leaving, with my glamorous S.O., for mil-wau-kee ("the good land") in the morning. so if i don't comment on your witty, yet somehow poignant posts, that's why. nothing personal! in the meantime... ( listen to marlys. ) |
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| back me up on this, jullili! (julillie? jululee? jillaleigh? jewelalee?) |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|02:27 pm] |
my number one son whines and begs for minneapolis, but milwaukee seems like the wave of the future to me.
for example, while a downtown loft costs a half a million dollars in ann arbor, here is what you can get for $139,900 in milwaukee:
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Taxes: $1,194 For 2004
Year Built: 1908
Lot Size: 100x34
The approximate monthly Principal & Interest payment for this property would be $923.88
This payment is based on a 30-year loan at a fixed rate of 8.0% with a down payment of $13,990
...it's apparently in this kind of neighorhood:
which kind of blends in with this district of funky-fresh hipness.
but since the taxes are like 1/2 of what they are in the rest of the city, it must be in a bad nighborhood or something right? and naturally one hundred and forty thousand dollars is a heck of a lot of money. but since it MIGHT be possible to secure a loan for such, as a newly minted doctor, and since the word on the streets is it's cheaper to buy than rent, then we are at liberty to regard $923 per month as within the realm of, you know, could be.
what else is interesting about milwaukee?
from Wayne's World:
Wayne: So, do you come to Milwaukee often?
Alice Cooper: Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers began visiting here in the late 16th century.
Pete: Hey, isn't "Milwaukee" an Indian name?
Alice Cooper: Yes, Pete, it is. In fact, it was originally an Algonquin term meaning "the good land."
Wayne: I was not aware of that.
Alice Cooper: I think one of the most interesting things about Milwaukee is that it's the only American city to elect three Socialist mayors.
Wayne: Does this guy know how to party or what?!!
..............also: Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is expected to unveil his ‘green’ vision for Milwaukee and discuss recommendations made by the Milwaukee Green Team in a speech on Monday, November 28th 11:30 a.m. at the Milwaukee Public Market, 400 N. Water Street... The Milwaukee Public Market is an exciting new icon and happens to be a ‘green’ building, with features that maximize daylight and other smart energy components. Mayor Barrett’s vision is about more than just buildings. It’s about our economy and about our environment.
..........and: Today Governor Jim Doyle called on Wisconsin citizens to submit questions to ask five top oil executives subpoenaed to testify at a Milwaukee gas gouging hearing on December 1st.
......however: Milwaukee Man found guilty of being drunk while operating an ice cream truck... will spend 150 days in jail. [The] forty-three year old... was also fined $1,000 after he showed up drunk during an earlier stage of the trial.
...well, it is wisconsin, after all - and my g-g-g-generation.
we class-say! |
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| and by the way i was BORN pro-choice |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|01:39 pm] |
being interviewed for a doctor job is a drag.
when you are not to the manor born, and you have already dangled an intriguing partial history before the gentry, you will naturally be obliged to fill in the details, and you had better have an entertaining horatio-alger version ready, too, or you will just sound sketchy.
"do you think, in your heart of hearts, that you will ever be free of it?" as crazy neurology guy is wont to ask his patients of their chronic pain. i don't think, in my heart of hearts, that i will ever be free of being buked and scorned, hit hard and mocked, a runaway and a thief, a high-school dropout and a pregnant teenager, a hater of doctors and of men, as anti-american as americans come.
one keeps these things under one's hat.
materially, the job is a good one; i would be a doc for poor people, mostly women, many french-speaking west african, in ypsilanti; hospital work would be performed in one of the largest citadels of american medical knowhow i've ever seen. chock-full of zebras, to keep life interesting. (you have to know what a zebra looks like to recognize a horse.) also, it's a research-heavy thang, with protected time and funds provided, which is why the program is ranked #4 in the nation, and why the family docs there are treated with respect and have an unusual amount of prestige. and research is entertaining.
the problem is that the residents, when they graduate, do not stay, and while they are there, they do not live in ann arbor. a downtown loft costs half a million dollars. one resident and her lawyer husband rent the third floor of a run-down college-student house for $1000/month. everybody else lives where things are cheaper. this is completely unsuitable for our needs; if i am not going to see my family for a year, i'd like for them to be busy and happy there at least. commuting half an hour to get thai food or go to the revivial theater - and so on - works fine for single folk, but is just not going to work for us. every single person i met, i asked the same questions about housing, and got the same answer. if i were going by myself or with one other adult, maybe i'd live in ypsi like the rest of the crew... but i ain't, blanche, i ain't.
to sum up, the material factors are a somewhat mixed bag, and i give the program a 77.6% approval rating according to my personal 30-item rating scale, along with a 65%+ pleasant-people rating. quelle geek, non? the material factors are separate from the nausea produced by being interviewed. the nausea is my own problem and i will get to work this weekend on reframing my alibi and tightening my patter.
i am a grown-up lady, in real life, and mostly unapologetic. but sometimes it takes one by surprise. sometimes someone who is actually your own age seems, by comparison, the real grown-up. mittens might recall the little play we performed, in which she portrayed the Evil Women's Studies Professor. what made the Evil Women's Studies Professor so bitter was lecturing in clinical and demographic terms about what she, like all of us, is obliged to regard as personal. in the world of professors and lectures, it is "sexual violence" or "child assault" or whatever, name that social problem, while in the world of the person, it is "what that one person did to me," "what became of me," and when both occur at once, a bitter tone of voice - or a whining, apologetic one - ensues.
i am painting this with thicker layers than the experience deserves; all i'm really saying is that the impostor problem is especially messy for me and i have to scramble now to decide how much of my darkness to keep under a bushel, and how.
as they say. |
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| moment of zen |
[Nov. 23rd, 2005|10:41 am] |
Guy: You know that song "If I Had a Hammer"? Who sings that?
Girl: The Carpenters?
--overheard in nyc |
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| lookit |
[Nov. 20th, 2005|04:58 pm] |
from a(n?) ypsilanti blog, http://www.ypsidixit.com/blog/.
i have a special interest in ypsilanti today. partly i just love the word ypsilanti. though ypsidixit is running a close second. in 24 hours i will be in ann arbor. |
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| dang she turns a phrase |
[Nov. 20th, 2005|04:52 pm] |
that rare genius jmhm writes:
I am become my mother, destroyer of worlds. Look upon my work, ye mighty, and shoot me.
if i were on a desert island with only one thing to read, i do believe it would be her livejournal! |
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| moment of truth |
[Nov. 18th, 2005|01:28 pm] |
overheard in nyc:
Girl: I hate clowns.
Clown guy: We hate you too.
--Church Avenue F station |
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| love and happiness |
[Nov. 18th, 2005|01:12 pm] |
juvenilia showed me this one place where you could make yourself a little slide show.
...yes, i KNOW you already know the html for this, but i did NOT. |
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| little boat CUT-TAG FREE for your safety and convenience. |
[Nov. 17th, 2005|03:52 pm] |
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i am telling you this for your own good!!!
note that the wrist bones are named,
from thumb-side to pinky-side and wrist to palm,
scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform,
trapezium, trapezoid, capitiate, and hamate.
the mnemonic for remembering these is
Scared Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle.
but if you only want to remember the ones that are likeliest to cause wrist pain,
it's simply Scared Lovers Try Positions Happily.
"scaphoid" is from the greek skaphos, little boat.
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The scaphoid and hamate are the most common bones to have nonunion after a fracture because their blood supplies are delicate and prone to complete disruption. Symptoms of nonunion and avascular necrosis may not become apparent for years after injury.
what is avascular necrosis?
it means the blood supply is cut off (a-vascular)
and the bone dies (gets all necrotic).
...When a scaphoid fracture or nonunion is suspected, a scaphoid [x-ray] should be obtained in addition to the routine views... Unfortunately, 20% of radiographs are initially negative for scaphoid fractures regardless of the view. Therefore, scaphoid fracture should be presumed in cases of anatomic snuffbox tenderness, and the patient should be treated with appropriate immobilization and follow-up radiographs two to three weeks after injury.
you can diagnose a scaphoid fracture by seeing
if it's tender in the anatomic snuffbox:
it's called that bc folk used to be just crazy about snorting powdered tobacco off the back of their hand. so much so that they had vending machines for it - note the populace loading up their anatomical snuffboxes here in germany:
i was reading that this craze led to a widespread hankerchief problem - ew, ugly brown tobacco stains on 'em. ker-choo!
here are the seven rules of taking snuff, from Dr. Ernst Pöschl:
1.Begin with small doses...
2.Take the snuff lightly...
3.After snuffing, wait a moment for the aroma too take affect. This gives a goose pimpling feel to the nose...
4.The experienced sniffer also sneezes...
5.You can take from the top of the hand or the point of the finger...
6.If the tobacco doesn't come out of the box easily, tap it on the table...
7.Take the pleasure to try all the different kinds of the Pöschl-Snuff.
one website notes: "Few if any schools have rules about taking snuff... You would probably get away with taking snuff in lessons." okay, enough about the snuff. the point is, you can tell if your scaphoid might be suffering avascular necrosis by seeing if it's tender in the anatomical snuffbox. you should do this why? because 20% of scaphoid fractures (or many more) do not show up on x-ray. and folk break 'em ALL THE TIME, usually by falling.
here is one result you get if you do a google image search for "avasular necrosis":
this is all i have to say. |
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| happy birthday! |
[Nov. 17th, 2005|05:52 am] |
today is spacethyme's birthday!
she is the Goddess of our House.
Happy birthday! another trip around the sun successfully accomplished!
I could not prove the Years had feet -
Yet confident they run
Am I, from symptoms that are past
And Series that are done -
I find my feet have further Goals -
I smile upon the Aims
That felt so ample - Yesterday -
Today's - have vaster claims -
I do not doubt the self I was
Was competent to me -
But something awkward in the fit -
Proves that - outgrown - I see -
- emily dickinson |
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