Laugh-crying: a man and his dog perform a 3-minute merengue routine.

i am laugh-crying after watching a 3 minute merengue dance routine performed by a man + his golden retriever.  I urge you to view the entire video as there are a few choice moves towards the end.  





thanks to alex for showing me this... you made my afternoon, and also inspired me to spend half an hour watching more dancing dogs on youtube.

i have a doppelganger

I officially have a doppelganger.

i hope she's not evil. Apprently, seeing your own doppelganger can be a "harbinger of bad luck" or can be an "omen of death".  However, her face is pretty friendly.  I think she may be saying something such as:

1. Hello there
2. Finish reading that book you've been reading for too long
3. Take your allergy pills (signified by the grass all up in her face)

I can't stop looking at her.  eek!

Cactus Crotch

My librarian friend Caroline Twittered (I refuse to use the word "Tweet". It makes me feel weird.) a link to a post on a blog called Awful Library Books.  The book below was written in 1991.

  

Here's another one...

Goodbye, I'm getting off the internet to listen to the riot grrrl comp "Free to Fight" compilation from 1995. Two 12" record where all the songs are about empowering women with self defense. You can download the entire double 12" compilation here. My favourite song on there is called "Target Practice".  It's kind of poppy.... the chorus is... "Eyes, ears, nose, throat. the eyes are easily poked, ouch!... i forget the rest" ... and says something about how to violently attack each body part.  

Riot Grrl was so awesome.  I need more of it in my life.  

In high school I copied this onto sticker paper and stuck it up in my high school.  Actually, Caroline and I would do this together.  We would also rollerblade a lot, pretending to be aliens (with our other awesome friend Amy). 

I wish I could go back to that tine when I had a more f-u attitude about my own body.  I wish riot grrrl was still alive or relavant so that my students could get that angry f-u attitude. I know I sound so adbusters right now, and it's not really cool to talk like this anymore, but I can see my students are being eaten alive with jealously and self-hatred. 

my name is lindsey and i live on lindsey ave

I've decided to be a bit more personal in my posts here.  I've decided to begin to show you some photos of my beautiful mini house, built with square nails, covered in layers flooring... sticky tile on worn oak hardwood.  I took the photo above from my front porch.  More to come...

I learned how to treat a stab wound today

Did I tell you that I am teaching an alt ed program for pregnant teens and teen girls with new babies this September?  I started a 2-day first aid course today so I feel a bit more prepared to deal with.... well, the numerous possible emergencies that may happen in my class of 14, 15 and 16 year old pregnant girls.  

Strange and beautiful colour photos from Russia 1900-1915ish

These photos are from the Denver Post website.  Here is the introduction that accompanies the photos.

"The photographs of Russian chemist and photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, show Russia on the eve of World War I and the coming of the revolution. From 1909-1912 and again in 1915, Prokudin-Gorskii travelled across the Russian Empire, documenting life, landscapes and the work of Russain people. His images were to be a photographic survey of the time. He travelled in a special train car transformed into a dark room to process his special process of creating color images, a technology that was in its infancy in the early 1900’s. Prokudin-Gorskii left Russia in 1918, after the Russian Revolution had destroyed the Empire he spent years documenting. To learn more about the Prokudin-Gorskii, the process he used to create the color photographs, and see his collection, you can visit the Library of Congress, who purchased his glass negatives in 1948 after his death in 1944."

gagging fathers, poop covered children....

i'm not embarrassed that I choose watching american's funniest home videos on Youtube over going out on a Friday night. :)

This video is a long one, but it's worth it. It includes:

-numerous clips of fathers gagging while changing their child's diapers
-many strange videos of children smothered in unidentifiable substances (lotion, pen ink and poop?)
-an amazing sequence of babies projectile vomiting into their parents' mouths

the solar system

These photos were taken from this website, Photo Tour of the Solar System.  Beautiful images, although I don't understand how such detailed shots are actually taken.  

Saturn

The Moon

This is what's called a Near Earth Object.  This one is called Eros.  :)

Now these images are of Jupiter, and they're blowing my mind.  

The south pole of Jupiter.  How did they take this perfectly centered image?

This is Io, a moon of Jupiter

Europe, another moon of Jupiter

Ganymede, another moon of Jupiter

esg

As my twitter post (my tweet??) read, I am feeling sort of moody and just wanted to hear the ESG song "Moody".  I looked it up on YouTube and found this amazing version from 2006, when ESG reunited.


and another one...


The I found a video of ESG from 1984


I just couldn't stop watching videos of ESG reunited.  this one is awesome....

Mammalampa big hair braids pendant lights. YESSSS!!!!

I came across these lamps in this Design Sponge post.

They're made by a company called Mammalampa.