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BBP
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We have six vacuum cleaners right now, can we help?
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aquagoat
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well, maybe, we'll see in a few days.
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BBP
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Finished knitting a beautiful jumper for my sister, with a lot of cables, took 30 hours... and now I have to wait for two more weeks for her to come
over and see it.
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DED
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pictures please I'm curious. ????
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Bonny, why do you have six vacuum cleaners? Isn't five enough?
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To tell you the truth we don't have enough money to buy a seventh one.
No reallly whe had two. a small one and a bigger one with a lot of noise and less prestation. Therefore ZAZ left us her vacuum cleaner. Than we had
three.
Our late aunty had 4 one on a steel, one for the crums, a normal one and on the attic an almost antique Nilfisk (the powerful Norman). It stll works
wonderfully. So we end up by having 7 vacuumcleaners, like every normal household  
[Edited on 8-2-2011 by DED]
[Edited on 8-2-2011 by DED]
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BBP
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Sister and I are pleased as punch to see Primus coming to Europe, she'll buy us tickets as soon as they come out!
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Today I received a form from Chartis. Over 1 year after my tumble I finally get my ex-boss's insurance to examine me!!
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Bonny, I forgot that you're a big Primus fan. Well, you might like this: Primus did a run of shows around New Years at the Fox Theater in Oakland.
They had the Residents open one of the shows.
A good friend of mine also happens to be friends with the Residents, so he got backstage passes and hung out with both bands. He had never seen Primus
before, and was quite impressed.
Here's a really nice picture of Claypool from that show. It was taken by a news photographer named Josh Keppel:
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polydigm
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That sucks, big time.
(I couldn't resist)
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BBP
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Nice!
Of course, we can't go to Primus now. Some asshole companies bought up all the tickets, and they're now sold out. Sure, you can buy them off those but
at three times the original price. I'm angry.
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Sorry to hear that.
But here's another picture, from backstage at that concert. You've got Les Claypool, Josh Keppel (the photographer of the last picture), And Josh's
son Lazlo.
Josh has some amazing pictures on his Facebook page. You can see them here:
https://www.facebook.com/joshkeppel#!/joshkeppel?sk=photos
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BBP
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They are great photos Mental! Thank you!
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I've started learning Italian, and it's going well!
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Some of this is specific to US like I said but it reaches across the west in many ways. You saying you're learning Italian and knowing the anger that
Italian women are showing Berlusconi today reminded me of this I wrote last November- hope you can enjoy some of it. I'm on the side of the women
here!!!
I am constantly reminded how the US has no mommy. It's all about daddy who would rather take the kid to go hunting or shoot off rockets than scold
him for not doing his homework or 'clean your plate, wash your hands, don't lie'.
Think about it. We've never had a mommy to do this here. The church acted like that for much of our history, but when there's a chance to make lots
of money or go fight a war, we always ignored her anyway.Oprah's not our mommy, nor is Hillary. Martha Stewart? Nope.
Britain may be the example that proves the rule. Victoria and Elizabeth so overshadowed the British for the
18-1900's, she IS the state and everything maternal values stand for.
Russia has them in her history, Germany too. Italy, Spain, France all still have some form of a Mary, still an amazing figure and they all at least
have sense enough to have state healthcare.
I'm not saying this as a lark or a joke. It's rather serious and getting worse all the time. Glenn Beck seriously needs his mommy.
But in at least three big ways have I seen this maternal role being played out in our American history
)Churchly community-oriented models and methods, like hospitals the way they used to be
)the culture of the university -- one that used to teach distinctions like between self-interest and enlightened self-interest as some point out and
which now measures things in a strict cost-benefit analysis -- no longer has a collective understanding of what is meant when it's graduates are asked
'Where did you matriculate?' Of course, Matriculation has been replaced with a superior sleaker, business friendly model that works students like the
products and strict resource producing assets they are. So long as they pay.
)the media in her watchdog capacity, with a history of popularizing things like abolition, even actions against Tamany Hall, for Abstinence, for
Prohibition, Suffrage, later the growth of Labor Unions and so on.
In short, the Nanny Culture, though folks will hate the term. We don't have it. Absent.
Oprah may have seen this best and maybe did her best. Made a lot of money by ... comforting people.
But the country hasn't had even a surrogate, besides television since ... I don't know when.
Not Elanor Roosevelt though she was probably the last nation-wide descendant of that set of cultural waves borne out of Suffrage, out of Prohibition
rallies and so on.
Nobody to tell us to wash our hands, wash our mouth out, or even 'don't take your guns to town'
[ahem]
"Amen, pass the ammunition "
This is no indictment either of half the population, not at all. In fact, it is the cue I see taken by many amazing women all over the country
standing up and saying what's on their minds, pointing out what's so often very wrong that I see so much real hope of what there is what we can be
that's out there.
I know Europeans who love Rachel Maddow for example or think Elizabeth Warren could act as a popular and thereby even necesary corrective to what ails
so much of American CW about just the economy. And just for the record I think Nancy Pelosi has done a wonderful job, despite what others may say.
Yay Nancy!
Y'know, Jon Stewart has a mommy and it shows. The Right is building one or is she self-grooming already? Gosh how fast they grow up.
Silvio Berlusconi is instructive here. Today's story -- Thursday's scoop
[http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131251668/italy-s-berlusconi-embroiled-in-fresh-sex-scandal]
has him saying he likes beautiful women. But I don't think he respects them so much as he shown a pattern of acting like he owns them or perhaps,
even more important to him, to then own the story.
Hence so much trouble. Ahh, he's a politician so he means the opposite of what he says. I Bet he didn't learn that from his momma.
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There's definitely something lacking in American culture in general. Mind you, I'm not saying Australia is much better, there are plenty of people
here who would like to emulate the American example.
A quote from a movie I saw recently, forget the name, from a character who was very "American", as close as I can get it: "America is shit, but then
at least, everyone else are the flies on our shit". Very depressing image.
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Anyway, on a much lighter note, after not having my teaching contract renewed from last year and falling into a bit of a slump while waiting for work
and wondering how our financial situation would survive, I got a call today for four weeks work starting next monday. Wahoo. (I just watched that
Einstein comedy the other day)
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punknaynowned
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glad you're working again!
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BBP
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That's great news Poly!
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Thanks for your thoughts guys. It's not just the money, I need to be working again. Music is an engaging past time but when you don't have a way into
the business like FZ had it's hard to maintain your self respect in a vacuum. Anyway, teaching is part entertainment which is one of the reasons I
keep doing it I guess.
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