Late afternoon briefs (not the kind perpetually at war with boxers). In other words, what the heck am I doing besides obsessing about health reform.
Posted at Hell on Earth, but worth a mention here, is a Sudanese Woman’s willingness to take a flogging in order to change things.
Lubna Ahmed Hussein, a journalist working for the UN mission in Sudan, was charged with wearing “”indecent” clothing”. Having recently waived her rights to immunity, so the trial could continue, giving her a shot at changing things, the BBC quotes her as saying “she wanted carry on with the trial because she wanted to get the law changed.”
From Sudan Watch “The BBC’s James Copnall in Khartoum says Ms Hussein is determined to generate as much publicity as she can.”
It may seem minuscule to some, but good for her for standing up to something she wants to change.
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Looking up recipes for zucchini.The Absolute Best Zucchini Recipes
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I’m also heading slowly down the slide of disbelief over our varied state of literacy. A great big WTF, instigated by the following comment, from a site where I was looking up the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit.
“I presume that Alice in wonderland was made before this song and in thinking that I’d say Walt Disney probably did some drugs to come up with that idea in the first place and Jefferson airplane just made the song to go along with it. That’s a presumption.”
Am I just an ornery, old before my time, curmudgeon for finding this offensive?
Maybe it’s my proclivity for all things Alice, but not knowing Alice in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), was written by Lewis Carroll, and is somewhat of a masterpiece, would be a notarized cardinal sin if I started a religion.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and the manuscript Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, are all available online.
If you haven’t read them, skedaddle until you do. Need I have to remind you, we’re all mad here.
Hey, welcome to the club, Coop. I’d give you a warm hug if we weren’t so mean.
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I’m just happy to have finally made it into “the club”.
Oh you and Doug….
Not knowing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll is beyond sad. Of course I knew that White Rabbit was written by Grace Slick and can’t believe I saw lyrics on the Internet and…
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Thank goodness, or I’d never have found that comment about Disney. Anyhoo there are more than a few people who think she wrote it I think because she sang it at Woodstock.
Thinking Alice and Wonderland was conceived by Disney is beyond sad, but the block quote was entertaining . People do ask if Carrol did drugs. At least that part was acceptable.
It’s too bad taking a flogging is the only way to change things. She wants some dialogue in her country on the subject and this was a good way to get it.
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Can’t blame them for asking but it seems people didn’t need drugs to write stuff like that in the past….
Those recipes look good, at least there is no zucchini bread listed. I hate that stuff.
Alice is done in 5th grade upper level reading here. The symbolism is not as easily understood as it will be when they are older but that is the great fun of Alice, and part of the genius.
I look like tht picture in the morning. Is that scary or what?
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Yes you do, lol. Not as scary as what’s in my mirror.
The Disney reference is kind of sad/funny. Even though I know who wrote it, and when, I haven’t read Alice In Wonderland. That is a scary thing to admit here.
I eat my zucchini raw, it’s easier.
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It’s better for you too but in Linguine with garlic and red pepper, is pretty good.
I continually experience disbelief at the lack of knowledge so many have of the “great stories” – Through the Looking Glass, Peter Pan, etc.
I can never quite believe it when I reference them in passing and people invariably say “oh, I never read that…”
The same goes for banned books too – the likes of Tropic of Cancer, and Lolita. So many people damn them, but have never read them…
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I take it that your children will be reading it then?
Good.
There are more books than we can ever read, but we must try.
Coincidentally, I had a three-minute argument the other day at work over whether or not curmudgeon was a word. Because it didn’t appear in our noticeably (to me) abridged dictionary, my co-worker vowed it wasn’t a word. I started to look it up online, but by that point, I had lost interest.
Alice In Wonderland. Now that’s the one with the Tin Man, right? :)
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Well I knew it was a word because my dog said so.
Bone, get thee a copy immediately.
It’s not insignificant – the willingness to take a flogging. I hope it starts the ball rolling over there.
It wasn’t until I married that I started eating vegetables. I do have a couple good zucchini recipes, I’ll send them your way.
The Alice in Wonderland boo boo isn’t a shocker, but it is sad.
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No, not a shocker and with some entertainment value.
Send them along.
Flogging is dangerous business.
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For who?
The Alice comment is both depressing and frustrating.
*sigh* I wish someone could get people to both love reading and also to love reading something OTHER than Harry Potter.
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I admit to reading the first Harry Potter, but non since.
I’m doing these in reverse order. If I wasn’t already tired from commenting above I’d do a spiel.
Alice looks dyspeptic in that illustration, must have read the comment too.
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I love those original illustrations and lucky the copyright is no longer.