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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    Jeanwah wrote:

    I thought this was worthy of posting: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-cultu ... aires-list

    J.K. Rowling's charity giving knocks her off Forbes' billionaires list

    To think that being a billionaire just isn't that important and that giving the money away is much more. Warms the heart. :D
    J.K. Rowling's one of my favorite ex-billionaires! I hear she has a new book in the works! :thumbup:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Jeanwah wrote:
    God, I loved that show. Just recently HBO played the show in its entirety, and of course I soaked up every minute and cried at the finale. I don't think any show ever is as good as Six Feet Under.

    I thought this was worthy of posting: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-cultu ... aires-list

    J.K. Rowling's charity giving knocks her off Forbes' billionaires list

    To think that being a billionaire just isn't that important and that giving the money away is much more. Warms the heart. :D
    Ha! Me too, every Monday evening since they began re-running it, I had a date with that show. And the finale, oh man. I was a sobbing mess during that end-scene. Absolutely beautiful, pretty much every bit of the whole series.

    And the story you posted...go, JK! That's got to be one of the best parts of making/having so much money...knowing what you need, want, for yourself and your family, is covered. The extra donated can help so many others.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    Something good? This thread is good! :thumbup:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Well thank you! I like this counterbalance.

    Good this evening here at home is we watched a couple hours of Blue Planet on the Science channel. Talk about another world.

    You think life above sea-level is bizarre? It's beyond that below. The creatures that bloom - that HAVE bloomed for so long and look like something dreamed up on acid - I don't know. It's humbling and blows my fucking mind.

    Also, it's just begun raining here :)
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    OK, ix-nay on the ain-ray for now...good pot + dirty-ish window = :oops:

    :mrgreen:
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    hedonist wrote:
    OK, ix-nay on the ain-ray for now...good pot + dirty-ish window = :oops:

    :mrgreen:

    :lol:

    Reminds me of the time a friend had me over for brownies and I remember admiring her cool Micky Mouse wall paper. Only the next day they were just plain painted walls. :lol:

    We've got the rain going here, a good old Columbo episode and some nice vino. Here's to a good weekend!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    hedonist wrote:

    Good this evening here at home is we watched a couple hours of Blue Planet on the Science channel. Talk about another world.

    You think life above sea-level is bizarre? It's beyond that below. The creatures that bloom - that HAVE bloomed for so long and look like something dreamed up on acid - I don't know. It's humbling and blows my fucking mind.

    Also, it's just begun raining here :)

    We were watching that last night too, definitely bizarre beings down under the sea. I love the Science channel.
  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    hedonist wrote:
    Antidote (or not?) to the shit here, there, and everywhere.

    Topic's wide open; share yours, if you want.

    This story's a few months old but has stuck with me since I first read of this little spitfire.

    Sweetness!

    http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44617504/ ... arns-walk/

    (for the life of me, I couldn't figure out how to post his photo. However, once you see him, guaranteed you'll agree that is the face of true happiness)
    sweet story. sad at first but picked up for the better.

    the dude selling the puppies outside some store with the bad off puppy in a garbage bag should be thrown in jail for cruelty to animals and for being a nasty bastard
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Columbo! Peter Falk makes me nostalgic.

    Yeah, it's raining pretty good here now. I love it! Our staying in and avoiding the St. Pat-celebrating drunk-driving dipshits on LA roads is the way to go. And tomorrow's the marathon with the road in front of our place closed for most of the day.

    It's gonna be a cozy weekend.

    And chadwick, I agree. Zero sympathies from me toward anyone who treats animals this way. Like garbage.

    The photo of smiling happy Harper is now my desktop :)
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    ONCE DEVIDED wrote:
    With the amount of crap passed arouond here
    I hark back to times when each of us have asked for support and gotten it.
    I look to the love and support I have gotten over the years from you guys n gals
    Perfect strangers with a united passion for this bands music.
    Sure we argue
    But there is also much support as well
    Meant to reply to this earlier...much agreed, on the support front.

    When I first joined the PJ board in late '99, the community was much smaller and as such, much tighter-knit. A big aspect of what made me want to become a part of it. Hell, I met my sweetheart there - along with others I still hold close, no matter how much time passes between our connecting.

    As you said, perfect strangers with a united passion for this band's music. I'll always love them for that...the role they played in my life. And those (im)perfect strangers as well ;)
  • DopeBeastie
    DopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    hola hedonista... it is nice to see a familiar name... it's been some time since i've come round here :)
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Howdy back :)

    Here's something good. Well, beautiful, actually.

    These gorillas...how alike we are.

    And how majestic they are.

    The big dude reminds me of Ishmael.

    While I'm so envious of this man being in this position - how many get to experience that in life? - I think I'd probably shit myself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWjBlzA ... re=related
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    hedonist wrote:
    Howdy back :)

    Here's something good. Well, beautiful, actually.

    These gorillas...how alike we are.

    And how majestic they are.

    The big dude reminds me of Ishmael.

    While I'm so envious of this man being in this position - how many get to experience that in life? - I think I'd probably shit myself.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWjBlzA ... re=related

    This is so cool! I was just reading last night in Henry Rollins excellent book, Smile, You're Traveling a passage where he describes being in Africa. He's just arrived and is staying in a camp and has his own tent and sees a group of baboons and isn't sure what to do and goes in his tent and takes stock of his provisions and wonders how long he must stay hidden. Later, he is told the baboons are more interested in the foliage around his tent. You can tell by his writing that Rollins is quite taken with the animals and the natural beauty of Kenya and his descriptions are vivid snapshots. (Yes, I'm totally immersed in this book- it's amazing in it's honesty and clarity and fullness of life. First rate!)
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I like Rollins so much, and have been looking for a good read. Thank you, I'll search this one out!

    On a sidenote of goodness, today would've been my dad's 90th.

    He's my barometer of what makes a good man, a good person. This isn't said via childhood nostalgia, but through the clarity of an adult who sees her father, faults and all, and knows his decent character outweighed them.

    He introduced me to and nurtured my love of music. Mostly classical at the time and some musicals of that era. Then, my sister and I reciprocated with "our" music. Love on both sides!

    But, when I try to associate a specific song or piece with him, I can't.

    It's a ribbon, a tapestry - all connected.

    I wish we'd listened to Neil together. He would've dug him :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuPNLFUuJw
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I was in search of a particular quote and came upon this instead. Guess it's not so much about hope - partway though, I suppose it can be - but more about what's yours, as Andy says.

    Such is life - such is music :)


    Red: I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.


    Andy Dufresne: That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music?
    Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here.
    Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget.
    Red: Forget?
    Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours.
    Red: What're you talking about?
    Andy Dufresne: Hope.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    See, I just had to go here now...

    Fits me.

    It's my "yours".

    One of blessed many :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQkfAcXm5w
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Great story about organ donation - incredible how it worked out despite being such an unusual situation.

    My brother-in-law needed a kidney transplant a few years ago, and a co-worker of his (not even a close one, at that), donated one of his.

    How fucking amazing, kind and generous is that?

    Anyway, this is from last year, but it doesn't matter. Good stuff, and I hope it makes folks think about becoming a donor themselves. I am!

    http://www.burbankleader.com/news/tn-gn ... 9779.story

    Bless both of these men.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    hedonist wrote:
    See, I just had to go here now...

    Fits me.

    It's my "yours".

    One of blessed many :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQkfAcXm5w

    Tradin' stories with the leaves, yeah. I can dig it!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    I needed - really needed - to read something uplifting this morning.

    Found it!

    http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... ishing-net

    A California gray whale is moving freely after rescuers spent seven hours untangling it from a discarded fishing net off the Orange County coast, local media reported.

    The young whale was spotted Friday night off the coast of Dana Point Harbor, Calif., covered in nearly 50 feet of fishing wire. Rescue crews suspected it had been dragging the nylon netting, which was filled with dead sea animals, for nearly a week.

    "We had a sea lion, we had several sharks ... the whole ecosystem, you know, was in that netting," Dave Anderson, who works with DolphinSafari.com and was part of the weekend rescue, told NBCLosAngeles.com.

    Anderson got permission from the National Marine Fisheries Services Friday evening to attach a buoy to the mammal to monitor it overnight as a team of wildlife experts assembled for a rescue attempt the following morning, The Los Angeles Times reported.

    The challenge: to cut through the netting without hurting the whale, which they named "Bart" after one of the boaters who stayed with the whale overnight as it drifted up the coast, reported The LA Times.

    The rescue involved seven tiring hours of sawing through the nylon as rescue crews followed the whale for mile after mile out to sea.

    "It was getting very frightening towards the end of the day because we were running out of time," Anderson told NBCLosAngeles.com. Crews were using grappling hooks and lines to reel in the mammal and a knife to cut away debris, according to The LA Times. Then, at last, a line snapped as the whale dived down, pulling buoys down with it.

    "Those buoys just went under the water all of a sudden," Anderson told NBCLosAngeles. "And when they went under the water, I mean, it was like a scene from 'Jaws.'"

    When the whale came back up, he was free.

    Anderson, who does whale-watching tours, told NBCLosAngeles.com that many dolphins and whales die in fishing nets each year, and he's grateful to have saved one.

    "He came right up to our boat and almost mouthed, like, a thank you. It was pretty awesome."

    According to The LA Times, Bart was last seen four miles off Corona de Mar, and appeared healthy.
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Sometimes the simplest things are the best.

    Cats are passed the fuck out on our bed. Like dead-weight out.

    I cozy up to George, and those spots on his sleepy belly. Nectar! He smells of fruit and springtime and animal.

    We adopted him from Petco in September 2010 when he wasn't quite three months old. He and his sisters were found in a tirewell and fostered. (I love you, Kitten Rescue of LA!)

    I never had a male cat before but once I saw him and we properly met, that was it, on both sides. We went through the paperwork, were deemed fit "parents", got the necessary supplies and went home to wait.

    Few hours later, they show up. George is snuggled up inside his foster mom's hoodie.

    This was...a year and a half ago. At that time, he was like a new potato. A fingerling. Tiny, sweet, fresh.

    Now, I look at him, and I see a fucking yukon gold potato - doublestuffed and loaded with butter, cheese, bacon and sour cream :mrgreen:

    His meows are not those of one with his heft.

    Still, utterly sweet, gentle, loving. Gives the softest head-butts like nobody's business.

    I think he'll always be kitten-like.

    So yeah. Goodness in our pockets :)

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