JANUARY 23, 2012 10:00AM

Whiteness and Witnesses, II

 

The lady who runs the art department where I teach kids in in the afternoon put a sign on the bathroom in the classroom, "Clay CLub,  Please use the bathroom in the hall.  -Thanks!"   It made me feel really bad.  I kept thinking of how bad the kids must… Read full post »

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JULY 5, 2011 1:54AM

On What Should We Dine?

The Modern Question:  What should we dine on?  In three bite size pieces. 

 

Part I:  Dogs

 

 

It's still the potatoes that haunt my ethical thoughts, but lets begin with faster moving, more doe-eyed living things that some people still eat, dogs.

 

 

I ha… Read full post »

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JUNE 30, 2011 2:31AM

Illegitimate Marriage

The "legitimization" of all marriage and all people will be the sign I am looking for to know that we have finally grown up as a culture.

 

"So...let me get this STRAIGHT....Kelsey Grammer can end a 15yr marriage by phone, Larry King is on divorce #9, Britney Spears had a… Read full post »

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JUNE 21, 2011 4:15PM

Summer Solstice

 

 

 

 

 

 

deepest darkness

lets go

moments upon moments

piling softly towards

The Spring

and then The Brink

stretched to its limit 

inviting us to again recede

pulling softly

one moment lost and then 

another

untumbling eternity

 

 

 

 

&

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JUNE 18, 2011 4:21AM

Romney-Bachmann, 2012!

I have finally diciphered the Bachmann enigma.  She has no intention of being president, she is running for Vice President.  

Everyone knows that she would not make the cut for the nominee for the GOP.  BUT they would love to have another woman on the ticket.  

Romney may just… Read full post »

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JUNE 8, 2011 10:19AM

Happy Birthday Bush Tax Cuts!

The Bush tax cuts are 10 years in. Can we agree that they did not have the intended consequence and face reality?


Basic economics says that you have to pay for the resources you use to make money.


Here is a logic stream to illustrate:

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010 10:21AM

National Health Care Plan

 

Perhaps part of the answer to health care is for the people serving in congress to be the last in inverse seniority order to get health care.

Until every child in America doesn't has to be disfigured or toothless because of poverty or inadequate parents, not one person serving… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 14, 2010 12:48PM

OMG! Miley Cyrus is Sexy!

 

She may have inherited her acting talent and smarts from her father, but the girl got her looks from her mom.

People are freaking out because there was no Mickey break, the time when young girls go underground and grow breasts and long hair and learn to wear less clothing… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 13, 2010 1:30PM

Angry Militant Feminists


If I wore bras, I would be burning them!
 
I am becoming something I never have been, angry and militant.
Feminism is part and parcel when they give out the vaginas.  
 
Having a kid and seeing the theory that it is overwhelming emotionally, physically, and logistically is… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 8, 2010 12:25PM

Women in Clay, Thin air on Mt. Everest

As a woman working in pottery for 28 years now, I can tell you that this is a male dominated industry and profession.  As soon as you hit a certain level the whole field goes male.

And the reason is the previous generation, not the talent of men dominating the talent of/… Read full post »
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OCTOBER 6, 2010 2:17PM

Gay Cop and Gay Marine: It gets better...


 
 
 
 

 

A friend of mine made this in reaction to the college

hate crime that resulted in the kid killing himself.

 

 

...  Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 9:37PM

Love Your Suit!


A friend and I were arguing about whether prostitution should be legal and whether it would help or hinder gender equality:  control over your body includes the right to sell it on one side and the objectification and endangerment of minors on the other.
 
It digressed into a discussion… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 11:32AM

Fat Ethics: What shall we eat, then?

The Modern Question:  What should we dine on?  In three bite size pieces. 

 

Part I:  Dogs

 

 

It's still the potatoes that haunt my ethical thoughts, but lets begin with faster moving, more doe-eyed living things that some people still eat, dogs.

 

 

I ha… Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 7:17PM

Eating Animals: Part III, Plants


 
They would eat us if they could!  And some of them do, or would if they were big enough.  Molds and fungus eat our bodies once we slow down enough for them to get to us.   Morbid?  Exactly!
 
If you think that is gross, consider that everything
… Read full post »
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 12:57PM

LiveBlogging Hurricane Earl-Day 2

 
 
from the beginning here, fresh updates at the end
typos are due to the nature of the beast, EARL
started yesterday, Wednesday evening
update 7 at 9 pm 
 
It's been five years since our last serious storm.  I live in the Graveyard of the Atlantic.  When
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 10:43PM

LiveBlogging Hurricane Earl


 
It's been five years since our last serious storm.  I live in the Graveyard of the Atlantic.  When you see North Carolina on that map with the spinning hurricane heading toward the little hook sticking out into the Atlantic?  That's where I live.
 
I have lived here 16… Read full post »
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AUGUST 31, 2010 2:45PM

Am I an X-man?

 

Am I a potter, writer, artist, craftsman, or any other sort of hard to pin down "x"-man?

 

Making things is like looking into the abyss.  Making things, in turn, makes you. 

 

All artists go through this and the idea breaks into two camps.  You either own it, or… Read full post »

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AUGUST 23, 2010 7:06PM

Eating Animals: Part II, Pigs

 
 
Many land areas do not tend toward good grazing, the geography more disposed to chicken or hog farming than raising cattle.  Pork is the most common and beloved meat of China for historical, cultural, and geographic reasons, the same as in the American South.  I had some of th… Read full post »
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AUGUST 20, 2010 12:23PM

Eating Animals: Part I, Dogs

 
 
It's still the potatoes that haunt my ethical thoughts, but lets begin with faster moving, more doe-eyed living things that some people still eat, dogs.


I have to kill my dog.  I killed my most beloved dog.  I don't care as much about this dog.  It isn't… Read full post »
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AUGUST 18, 2010 11:29PM

Gorge, Proselytize, Stalk

 

( Insert Your Image Here)

 

Go large or go home!

Gorge, Proselytize,  then Stalk

American Way 

 

 

an interactive Haiga post  Read full post »

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AUGUST 18, 2010 10:23AM

Clarity

 
 
 
I think I had a "Fuck it, then" breakthrough about three weeks ago.   There has been minor fallout in my personal life and minor social contacts.

But I am writing better and more honestly than I ever have before.  

I am going to just… Read full post »
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AUGUST 10, 2010 10:51PM

Whiteness and Witnesses


 
My mother's bad decisions in her subsequent life did not account for the beginning of her ruination.  We lived in the south, although she tried to leave once.  In a tiny southern town of about 400 people, a saw mill, a Purina factory, and a sewing factory, in
… Read full post »
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AUGUST 9, 2010 1:57PM

How the hell did we wind up "like this"?


Whether jazz listening, gourmet liberal or gospel listening, burger loving neo-con, it just comes down to a lexicon of activities designed to fill the gap and your yap.

Something to talk about, something to eat, some way to fill the day.

People get indoctrinated in many ways.  They usually

… Read full post »
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AUGUST 9, 2010 7:26AM

Haiga for other people: Hyblaean-Julie


 
 
 
 
julie hyblaean
 
 
 
 

solid horizons

rough-hewn cathedral ceilings

without clear cutting 

 
 
 
... 
 
 
 
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AUGUST 8, 2010 7:43PM

Haiga for other people!

 

 Fun so far!  Let's go again!
 
I would like to write some haiga about other people's pictures.
If you are curious in what I see through your eyes, link to one of YOUR pictures and I will write a poem about it from my POV.
 
It needs to… Read full post »
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