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SONG: Stop on a Dime
ARTIST: Little Texas
ORIGINAL LYRIC:
So you fall in love and it picks you up And it takes your heart for a ride After too many bad roads this heartbroken fool knows That love can stop on a dime.
ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION:
So you fall in love and it picks you up In a sleigh that's pulled by reindeer
After too many bad roads this heartbroken fool knows
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| I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought |
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  by awalstraBolts From the Blue: The Electric Colors of LightningThough a lightning bolt radiates pure white light, various atmospheric conditions can tint the brilliant flash into a rainbow of electrical colors. Red, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple, violet, cyan, and orange are all possible lightning colors, depending upon the presence of water vapor, dust, pollution, rain, or hail. Just as lightning is said never to strike twice in the same place, no two lightning bolts are ever exactly the same color. In fact, different branches of the same bolt can exhibit different colors, due to temperature variations. The hotter the bolt, the bluer or whiter it will appear, and the cooler it is, the more orange or red. Because lightning heats the air as it travels, the presence of different gasses will also lend color as they ignite. Weather expert Dan Robinson explains that different film stocks, exposure times, and camera types can also bring color to lightning. "The same lightning channel can appear blue, purple, red or orange depending on the type of film, length of exposure, and other factors. Slide film is more likely to produce a more purple/blue image, while print film tends to give lightning a more yellow/orange tint." Fun facts: - A lightning bolt can travel 60,000 miles per hour.
- Lightning temperatures can reach nearly 30,000 K (55,000° F), which is five times hotter than the sun.
- In addition to thunder storms, dust storms and volcanic ash eruptions can trigger lightning. So can rock launches, aircraft flights, and nuclear detonations.
- The exact cause of lightning remains "hotly debated" in scientific circles.
A double rainbow and lightning bolt, by tenfrozentoes.
[Read the entire article in my guest blog at ColourLovers.com.]
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Lynda Barry has said, "Keep in mind as you read these words that you are paying no attention at all to the letters of the alphabet" ( What It Is, 2008, via DJMisc). We say, "Speak for yourself!" We pay all sorts of attention to the letters of the alphabet as we read, as our body of work makes abundantly clear. We thought everybody read that way! |
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"Children are often inclined to be over-fond of rabbits. They overlook their deplorable hygiene and vicious teeth." |
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Piecing together the secret of transformation . . . |
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From our friends at Crystalpunk: "Apes in the wild have language and it takes only a small leap of imagination to try to give them a second, human, language. For over forty years researchers have been trying to do this with increasingly good results. Our language, when it is passed on to a different species, becomes a new language. PrimatePoetics is born from the realization that this language should be appreciated in its own right, as the greatest revolution in literature since the invention of written Chinese 4000 years ago. 'PrimatePoetics is Here' is the first primer to this new field. It explains where it comes from, it gives an overview of the field on an ape-by-ape basis and closes with an extensive anthology of relevant scientific and artistic sources. But most of all 'PrimatePoetics is Here' hopes to give a feel for the outsider charm of the language of the apes."
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a handful of earth sweet and red / to clutch a world / in lands remote from here
a handful of earth, mute / yet bringing a touch of blue from the hills / of trees offering shade against the sun / of a sky filled with blue sun / and of ripening fruit
—Breyten Breytenbach, A Season in Paradise, on South Africa, 1980.
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A collaged story we assembled for a singular Ramesh and henceforth dedicate to all the Rameshes of the world. Click on the thumbnails below to view an enlarged version in a new window. |
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Piecing together the secret of the tower . . . |
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After so many cities of marble, dazzling white, here is one entirely pink — Jaipur. The eye, weary of excessive light reflected from white walls, rests on these palaces as on the softness of certain textiles faded by time. Our imagination finally finds the city of the legend that has inhabited our dreams since early childhood. . . . Everything is pink, with delicate floral patterns: houses, arches, domes, mosques’ minarets, pagodas’ spires — all pink.
—Guido Gozzano (1883—1916), Journey Toward the Cradle of Mankind, translated by David Marinelli, 1996.
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