abandoned cities
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yamamanama4 days until the vernal equinox
I wasn't planning to post until later in the week, but this is important.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-color-exchange--2
If any of my readers want to donate to this, that would be wonderful. Have two strangers pick cards with a question that looks beyond the conflict and focuses on their shared humanity and a color. Have them sit down and discuss their answers for a while, and then mix the colors and fill in part of the map. Make a timelapse video and post it on Youtube. I love this idea and hope she can apply it to other places. Preferably Boston but if anywhere else needs it, definitely do it there. She's right: there's this great distance between us and we're losing our sense of human connection despite our physical proximity, and it's even worse in some places because people there all go from point A to point B in their little bubbles, and they don't even get a chance to interact with someone else and we do a lot of shopping online now and that definitely cuts down on human interaction further.
I'm confident that she could pull it off without my help. That's cool, I guess.
As long as there are people like Emma in the world, life is worth living.
http://ragpickinghistory.co.uk/2013/03/30/into-the-forbidden-zone-varosha-ghost-city-of-cyprus/
I think Aleppo might be the largest urban ruin in existence.
This would totally be Happening World if Livejournal existed in the 1970s but now it's just Context. Here's what happened to Cyprus: Certain factions planned to remove Turks from the government and unify with Greece in the early sixties. When the military took power in Greece, even the most hardliner Cypriot Greeks were no longer super-duper peachykeen about enosis. In the mid 70s, Greece had a brand new military dictator who stripped all the illusions of benevolent dictatorship over when he took over from the previous regime and his first act as dictator was to annex Cyprus and overthrow the democratically elected government. Then Turkey invaded back. Two days later, the Greek junta collapsed on itself. Same year the Carnation Revolution happened.
See, I don't believe there's a such thing as a benevolent dictatorship but that didn't stop Greece from portraying itself as one.
Also, the play Othello takes place there.
***
Emma was confused when I told her about how Emma was going to Cyprus to make art, not war. I didn't have time to explain things to Emma so I just wrote down some stuff on a card. I checked and she should be able to find the right thing, and she put it in her coat pocket and fastened it shut so she shouldn't lose it. I had to warn her about the pocket gremlins, though. Spoiler alert: The Color Exchange is a hair salon in Illinois and a band from North Carolina.
Things are finally calming down after a winter where animals came in to us malnourished because they couldn't find food. We have a screech owl and someone needs to look at his eyes just to make sure they aren't messed up. Screech owls hunt insects and usually hunt near light sources because that's where moths hang out, and this oftentimes causes them to get hit by cars. There are two hawks with rodenticide poisoning and since rat poison fucks with their ability to clot, we give them lots of vitamin K and then we look at their blood after a normal diet and if it clots the way it should, we release them.
On the other hand, our first baby squirrels arrived and a swan came to us, underweight and lethargic. When swans are underweight and lethargic, it's safe to assume they have lead poisoning.
Speaking of naming European countries, Jean said she was the worst person to ask and things like that are why she went into science and not geography. Zack blanked, thought of France.
Jean went to a concert that began at six PM and the headlining band didn't play until midnight. I know what she means.
***
None of these bands were recommended by Emma. Justine recommended Morning and I think Christine recommended the rest. I've only listened to Morning.
http://darklandspvd.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/morningsounds
http://dreamtigers.bandcamp.com/
http://singlefemalelawyer.bandcamp.com/
I'm recommending them because of their name alone. Single Female Lawyer, fighting for her client! Wearing sexy miniskirts and being self-reliant!
***
I have some other thoughts but don't think they fit amongst such idealism and beauty, so they'll have to wait.
burning question: who liked a spam comment 233 times?
I wasn't planning to post until later in the week, but this is important.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-color-exchange--2
If any of my readers want to donate to this, that would be wonderful. Have two strangers pick cards with a question that looks beyond the conflict and focuses on their shared humanity and a color. Have them sit down and discuss their answers for a while, and then mix the colors and fill in part of the map. Make a timelapse video and post it on Youtube. I love this idea and hope she can apply it to other places. Preferably Boston but if anywhere else needs it, definitely do it there. She's right: there's this great distance between us and we're losing our sense of human connection despite our physical proximity, and it's even worse in some places because people there all go from point A to point B in their little bubbles, and they don't even get a chance to interact with someone else and we do a lot of shopping online now and that definitely cuts down on human interaction further.
I'm confident that she could pull it off without my help. That's cool, I guess.
As long as there are people like Emma in the world, life is worth living.
http://ragpickinghistory.co.uk/2013/03/30/into-the-forbidden-zone-varosha-ghost-city-of-cyprus/
I think Aleppo might be the largest urban ruin in existence.
This would totally be Happening World if Livejournal existed in the 1970s but now it's just Context. Here's what happened to Cyprus: Certain factions planned to remove Turks from the government and unify with Greece in the early sixties. When the military took power in Greece, even the most hardliner Cypriot Greeks were no longer super-duper peachykeen about enosis. In the mid 70s, Greece had a brand new military dictator who stripped all the illusions of benevolent dictatorship over when he took over from the previous regime and his first act as dictator was to annex Cyprus and overthrow the democratically elected government. Then Turkey invaded back. Two days later, the Greek junta collapsed on itself. Same year the Carnation Revolution happened.
See, I don't believe there's a such thing as a benevolent dictatorship but that didn't stop Greece from portraying itself as one.
Also, the play Othello takes place there.
***
Emma was confused when I told her about how Emma was going to Cyprus to make art, not war. I didn't have time to explain things to Emma so I just wrote down some stuff on a card. I checked and she should be able to find the right thing, and she put it in her coat pocket and fastened it shut so she shouldn't lose it. I had to warn her about the pocket gremlins, though. Spoiler alert: The Color Exchange is a hair salon in Illinois and a band from North Carolina.
Things are finally calming down after a winter where animals came in to us malnourished because they couldn't find food. We have a screech owl and someone needs to look at his eyes just to make sure they aren't messed up. Screech owls hunt insects and usually hunt near light sources because that's where moths hang out, and this oftentimes causes them to get hit by cars. There are two hawks with rodenticide poisoning and since rat poison fucks with their ability to clot, we give them lots of vitamin K and then we look at their blood after a normal diet and if it clots the way it should, we release them.
On the other hand, our first baby squirrels arrived and a swan came to us, underweight and lethargic. When swans are underweight and lethargic, it's safe to assume they have lead poisoning.
Speaking of naming European countries, Jean said she was the worst person to ask and things like that are why she went into science and not geography. Zack blanked, thought of France.
Jean went to a concert that began at six PM and the headlining band didn't play until midnight. I know what she means.
***
None of these bands were recommended by Emma. Justine recommended Morning and I think Christine recommended the rest. I've only listened to Morning.
http://darklandspvd.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/morningsounds
http://dreamtigers.bandcamp.com/
http://singlefemalelawyer.bandcamp.com/
I'm recommending them because of their name alone. Single Female Lawyer, fighting for her client! Wearing sexy miniskirts and being self-reliant!
***
I have some other thoughts but don't think they fit amongst such idealism and beauty, so they'll have to wait.
burning question: who liked a spam comment 233 times?
