PRIMA DONNA & M60

There’s so much to report on today and here I am on an old clunker of an imac having loaned my laptop to further the cause of the arts. So no nice visuals.

Naan’s nephew Rufus Wainwright has his very first opera debuting this evening July 10 at the Manchester Opera Festival in the UK. Check this out PRIMA DONNA
Congratulations on this amazing achievement Rufus.

Closer to home Syl and Lil and their friends are launching the 2nd annual Montreal 60 Sec Film Festival tonight July 10 at the Sala Rossa. The theme will be announced tonight and you must be at the hall to register to make a film.
For details M60Last year’s festival was an all-out success and this year’s promises to be also. Congrats guys!

the women of the lock

on tuesday of last week the lifeless bodies of 4 women (one 50 yr. old and 3 teenage girls) were found in a submerged car at a place called kingston mills locks, ontario, just northeast of the city of kingston. to say that i’ve been obsessed with this story is putting it mildly. details are scant. they were returning from a family vacation to niagara falls and according to the parents of the girls (they have 4 other children, 2 boys and 2 girls) they were travelling in two cars, the 2005 nissan sentra that was found in the water, and a silver lexus driven presumably by the father. the story is: they had stopped monday night at a motel/hotel in kingston and were to continue home to st leonard/montreal the following morning. after checking in, the eldest of the girls had asked her parents for the keys to the sentra saying she needed something in the car. the parents went to bed and that was the last they saw of her and her 2 sisters and the 50 yr old ‘aunt.’ on tuesday morning the parents discovered the sentra was missing and they alerted the police. a little while later the police were able to tell them about the grisly discovery of the submerged car. at some point the parents had returned to their home in st leonard and seeing as the police were looking for the lexus i presume they left thinking the women had already driven to montreal. by thursday they were interviewed by the press and tearfully offered as a possible explanation for the mishap that the eldest girl had a penchant for joyriding and had probably taken the car out without telling them. she was not a licensed driver and most likely had driven the car into the water by accident. (the ‘aunt’ also liked to joyride?) we also found out they were afghani and had lived in st leonard, qc for 2 yrs. since arriving from dubai where they had lived for 15 yrs.

anybody who has been to the accident scene says there is ‘no way’ the car could have been driven into the place where it was found without leaving some trail of destruction in the form of tire marks or broken barriers or scraped cement and stone of which there appear to be none.

i of course have a theory and i’m sure i’m not the only one.

today at thewhig.com a story about a woman who claims to have seen the 3 girls and their ‘aunt’ on the monday evening, horsing around the locks and laughing. the woman is an artist and she remembers that they were all dolled-up, though police say it could not have been them as they have ‘information’ that proves that they were never at the locks except for when the submerged car with their bodies was discovered on the tuesday a.m..whig story

Voodoo Dream – an inadvertent tribute to Michael Jackson and the old poem Who Killed Cock Robin?

From a few years back, a verse of the lullaby All the Pretty Little Horses that Lily and I recorded on an old Tascam cassette deck and to which I put some images. Though it was not intended as such it could be a tribute (low-rez) to this original and eccentric artist.

YOBM* Produckshins.

Hosted by * Yur Ol’ Black Mammie, another Naan altar eggo.

And this old poem could be appropriated by either his retinue of hangers-on or his devoted fans.

Who Killed Cock Robin

“Who killed Cock Robin?” “I,” said the Sparrow,
“With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.”
“Who saw him die?” “I,” said the Fly,
“With my little eye, I saw him die.”
“Who caught his blood?” “I,” said the Fish,
“With my little dish, I caught his blood.”
“Who’ll make the shroud?” “I,” said the Beetle,
“With my thread and needle, I’ll make the shroud.”
“Who’ll dig his grave?” “I,” said the Owl,
“With my pick and shovel, I’ll dig his grave.”
“Who’ll be the parson?” “I,” said the Rook,
“With my little book, I’ll be the parson.”
“Who’ll be the clerk?” “I,” said the Lark,
“If it’s not in the dark, I’ll be the clerk.”
“Who’ll carry the link?” “I,” said the Linnet,
“I’ll fetch it in a minute, I’ll carry the link.”
“Who’ll be chief mourner?” “I,” said the Dove,
“I mourn for my love, I’ll be chief mourner.”
“Who’ll carry the coffin?” “I,” said the Kite,
“If it’s not through the night, I’ll carry the coffin.”
“Who’ll bear the pall? “We,” said the Wren,
“Both the cock and the hen, we’ll bear the pall.”
“Who’ll sing a psalm?” “I,” said the Thrush,
“As she sat on a bush, I’ll sing a psalm.”
“Who’ll toll the bell?” “I,” said the bull,
“Because I can pull, I’ll toll the bell.”
All the birds of the air fell a-sighing and a-sobbing,
When they heard the bell toll for poor Cock Robin.

huffpuppy

Prototype for a blog I’m thinking of starting. Maybe this is all there is. Click on the thumbnails, the resolution is better.

Bless them all..bta, the long, the short and the tall.

It was curious how Ahmadinejad went running off to Russia the ‘morning after’ his election. And wow! Medvedev is looking as sleek and glowing as a Barbie doll these days in his corset and shiny suit (oilskin?) leaving Admadi resembling a shapeless Matryoshka doll minus the babushka. Could the countries of the World actually be aligned along the heights (or lack ) of their leaders rather than their ideologies? Technically speaking Sarko should be ‘one of them,’ but he prefers to play with the big boys and girls..and Carla doesn’t want to be Snow White (one ‘dwarf’ is enough.) Speaking as a short person I admit feeling threatened when surrounded by too many tall people.

Carrot Bombs

This blog is getting more carroty than I would like but hélas! the carrots have it.
Here we go again. Cute story about a Swedish artist and his Bunny Project.
carrot bombs

Préparez vos mâchoirs! with Carrot Lore

THE FOLLOWING WARNING HAS GIVEN ME ANOTHER EXCUSE TO USE THIS CARROT PIC.
The following is information from a farmer who grows and
packages carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic
bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots
which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them (NAUTILUS?
into cocktail carrots – most people probably know this
already.( I DID NOT KNOW THIS )

What you may not know and should know is the following:
Once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots
they are dipped in a solution of water and chlorine in order
to preserve them) this is the same chlorine used in your
pool). (TASTE LIKE MIKE PHELPS, CAROLYN WALDO)

Since they do not have their skin or natural protective
covering, they give them a higher dose of chlorine. (I THOUGHT SOMEONE IN CHINA WAS PEELING THEM)

You will notice that once you keep these carrots in your
refrigerator for a few days, a white covering will form on
the carrots. This is the chlorine which resurfaces. (WHEN THEY GET LIKE THIS, PUT A HANDFUL OF THEM IN WITH THE WASH)
At what cost do we put our health at risk to have
esthetically pleasing vegetables? (BABY CARROTS DON’T TURN ME ON)

Chlorine is a very well-known carcinogen, which causes
Cancer.. (IT ALSO KILLS NECROTIZING FASCIITIS)
I thought this was worth passing on. Pass it on to as many
people as possible in hopes of informing them where these
carrots come from and how they are processed.

I used to buy those baby carrots for vegetable dips (BEST IN THE RAW) I know
that I will never buy them again!!!!

Confirmed by Snopes

Ed.: I did buy these from time to time when my kids were small. Sorry guys.This is a terrible story. While the dark forces dicker around with carrots making them develop human traits (as shown above) to fill vacancies in the armies of the world in the war against Al-Falfa, supermarket forces demand the infantilization and forced-sterilization of adult carrots to meet the growing demand for ‘green’ finger food. If the NAACP is now redundant the carrot people should adopt the abbrv.

mcgarrigles.com

The new site is up and running. kATe & aNnA Thanks Neale.

I have been keeping people up to date with family-driven news at gardencourt but
this new page is devoted exclusively to ‘the sisters.’ The bio is a bit long in the tooth but Kate is writing something and it should be up soon.
Come visit.

The joys of being middle class.

Dane was reading Gertrude Stein’s ‘America’ and was struck by this excerpt✵ from the intro by Gilbert A. Harrison. “My sentiments, exactly.” Is what he said.

Gertrude Stein by Carl Van Vechten, 1935.

✵Gertrude Stein came of a well-to-do, middle-class family, and for her the middle class always remained “the very best the world can ever know. In ‘Things As They Are,’ Helen asks her friend to explain what she means by calling herself middle class. “From the little I have seen of you I think that you are quite right when you say that you are reasonable and just but surely to understand others and even to understand oneself is the last thing a middle class person cares to do.” Adele (Miss Stein) replies: “I never claimed to be middle class in my intellect and in truth, I probably have the experience of all apostles, I am rejected by the class whose cause I preach but that has nothing to do with the case. I simply contend that the middle class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.”

Serenity. What’s that?

Campbell Hendery comments on the Little Edie Beale look-alike carrot.

YOU DREW THIS Extra Terrestrial.
ET Drew ?
I’m Going To watch a show at Barrymores in Otter wah wah.
Wilno one join me ?
Cash or Bash U AH!