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What it's like....

 

This story from the Hyperbole and a Half website gives a great sense of what depression feels like, and the frustrations that we sufferers feel when we are in the pit of despair and people try to solve our problem. It's a bit long, so be sure you have the time to take to absorb it fully.

And I Quote ~ Dana Scully

"Nothing happens in contradiction to nature; only in contradiction to what we know of it. So that's a place to start. That's where the hope is."

~Agent Dana Scully, FBI

Sometimes?

What it means

And I Quote ~ Fox Mulder

We are but visitors on this rock, hurtling through time and space at 66,000 miles an hour. Tethered to a burning sphere by an invisible force in an unfathomable universe. This most of us take for granted, while refusing to believe these forces have any more effect on us than a butterfly beating it's wings halfway around the world. 
~ Special Agent Fox Mulder, FBI

Restoring your faith

Why

Concerning Violence

Frantz Fanon, in his article, “Concerning Violence,” declares that in the course of decolonialization, there is no place for the self-centered person who looks out for himself. As he puts it, “the motto ‘look out for yourself,’ the atheist’s method of salvation, is, in this context forbidden” (Fanon – 38).  Once the process of decolonialization begins, all members of the indigenous populations become members of the resistance – whether in actual fact, or merely as guilty-by-association. Gillo Pontecorvo uses this concept in “The Battle of Algiers” to show how even the seemingly innocent act of participating in a work shutdown draws all members of the community – willingly or unwillingly – into the struggle. In the film Ben M’hidi reminds Ali that all workers who participated in the strike are now known by the police and are therefore suspected members of the FLN. In the same section, Fanon describes how the act of faith that the native intellectual engages in as a given part of the struggle. “Egoism, recrimination that springs from pride, and the childish stupidity of those who always want to have the last word,” (ibid.) are things that must be destroyed in the life of the intellectual. In the film, Ali La Pointe, prior to joining the FLN, smashes a man in the mouth in retribution for a slight offense, yet later, he leaves this response behind and becomes a disciplined fighter. Likewise, the women who once adhered to the code of sharia, not appearing in public without their bhurkas and veils, now adopt western dress in order to carry bombs into the businesses of the occupiers.

Me

A Goose gives me the stinkeye

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Originally uploaded by rraabfaber

A goose sitting her nest along the Rio Grande, near Alameda Bridge

REPOST: An explanation of Albuquerque's seasons

Albuquerque, contrary to popular belief is actually a nine-season city.

1. Winter: Generally begins on New Year’s Eve and lasts for approximately three eternities. New Mexico winters usually dip to below freezing at night and rise to 70° or 80° by noon, resulting in extreme schizophrenic fashion selections. (i.e. mini-skirts with snowboots and sleeveless parkas.)
2. Spring: Four months of constant wind, dust, and pollen.
3. “Ahhhhh”: Three days of gorgeous weather that occurs somewhere between February and May.
4. Nine Circles of Summer: The nine sub-seasons are Hot, Extra Hot, Picanté, Dry, Supersonic, Nuclear, At-Least-We’re-Not-In-Phoenix, Oh-Dear-God-Kill-Me-Now, and Death. Sweet, Merciful Death.
5. Monsoon: The rainy, stormy season. Many sacrifices are made by the locals to get it to stop.
6. Chilé: Locals buy, clean, bag, and freeze several pounds of roasted green chilé that half of them will never eat.
7. State Fair: The season in early September when “Carnies” may literally and figuratively take the “Rubes” for a ride without fear of legal action.
8. Balloon Fiesta: Beginning in early October, Balloon Fiesta Season is a highly controlled and mediocrified event sanctioned by the city as appropriate for tourists and yokels alike. Sponsored for years by a major film manufacturer, the fiesta attracts hundreds of balloonists and thousands of spectators from around the world. It has been called “the most photographed event in the entire history of humankind.” This is according to official city data (Source: www.CityofAlbookirkkey.gov). In point of fact it is not the most photographed event – only the most prints purchased. In 1997, film processing facilities realized that they could pass off the same set of prints to thousands of customers. Due to a mechanical glitch, thousands of rolls of pictures taken at the Fiesta and dropped at a Photo-Go-Round were fired at high velocity towards a beer can pyramid using a Wrist-Missile™ slingshot by two inebriated night-staff film technicians out back on their break. In an attempt to deliberately cover their tracks, the pair accidentally reprinted thousands of sets of a single roll of film shot by Emmaline Jimsky of Sioux City, South Dakota. Working feverishly through the rest of the night, they stuffed thousands of envelopes full of identical sets of balloon fiesta photos. Not one complaint was received and soon the word – and duplicates of the “Jimsky Negatives” – spread throughout the film-processing underworld. Since that day, no new balloon photographs have been printed.
9. X-Mas Shopping: Begins at midnight on All Hallows Eve with a traditional pre-season High Mass and runs through Easter.

Man of Steel

I'm not big on Superhero movies, but this one looks like it has promise. Hell, the trailer alone is epic. 

Get on board!

RE Cycle

RIP Martin

And I Quote ~ James Joyce

The 25 Greatest Quotes About Writing, From Thought Catalog

"I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality." 

~James Joyce

good v. evil