http://www.npr.org/2012/12/04/166519644/qatari-poet-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-writing

This piece was broadcast last night into my kitchen as I washed dishes.  I haven't heard Andrei Codrescu's voice for awhile. It unfailingly makes me grin a little.  I believe a good number of the people happening on this site are searching Pussy Riot.  Andrei mentions them here.  

This is also me in another format trying to open my mouth to speak two years ago:


http://open.salon.com/blog/annonyme/2010/10/05/hi_my_name_is

Heliotrope demonstrating the link between love and intelligence.

eloquent final statements from the artists of Pussy Riot   <------  LINK


I am moved and inspired by these young women's use of their minds and creative spirit to protest the abuse of the law and of the edifice of the church exclusively to carry out the will of Corporate interests.  Sounds very familiar.  

I just checked iTunes.  Their work can be purchased there.  

a sense of success

I've been working on adding this music for ummmm...... over an hour.  Originally I'd used Playlist but they have restricted their format so that music cannot be embedded on a blog any more.  This cool new company, and they really do seem to be pretty darned cool and professional, is PodSnack.  It took forever to find them but one can install a little jukebox with 5 songs for free!  They have other tools for building web content for which fees are charged. I predict they will do very well.  I would be checking into investing in them if investing was something I did.


The music selected here is from the cd my daughter created for our car.  We call it car music spring 2012.  I love her taste in music.  She didn't select the Cat Stevens.  That was me.  

This is sort of everywhere but I can't tell where it came from originally.  I like it.