Stacey Youdin
- Location
- New Mexico,
- Birthday
- July 03
- Company
- Oso Remote Studios
- Bio
- Veteran of the Southwest honky-tonk circuit. Married to a kindergarten teacher, weaver and glass artist. We built the home we live in. Cats Moesita and Jeanne Valjean round out the family. ************************************ A quick tip for those who may be overly dependent on the cover page "feeds" for their connections here. When on the cover page, select "most recent" and then filter with the drop-down menu for "favorites." You'll never miss a post because of "feed hogging" or some other form of glut. Then follow your favorites' 5 comment chain or their favorites' "updates" in the margins and you'll get to read some things you might otherwise have missed entirely. Just don't stress about it and have fun!
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The Subverting of
Patrick 1 2 3. I love
it.”
8:23PM - “If writing were the
determinant, you've found the
mansion on
the hill. I've
been…”
8:05PM - “Trig - I like your
aesthetic on that one.
Thanks.”
7:49PM - “Ms. Mission - I'm with
you on that first part. And I
thank
you for the next.”
7:48PM - “Owl - I've put in a
request to you know
hoo.”
7:45PM
A Google Trends Worth of Title
Soothing Our Savage Breast
The last few days I've been shooting a series of test images, getting to know my dslr: comparing lenses, zooming, exposure settings and the like. Much of it found the little waste basket icon on the display to come in very handy but I thought I'd share several I would call… Read full post »
Martha My Dear - Chuck A. Stetson's Open Call
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
Make it easy to be near you
Painting pictures for the children's holiday
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart
Martha my dear
Honey pie you are making me crazy
You know I can't sleep, I can't stop my brain
I'm sorry that I doubted you
Were/… Read full post »
Farewell, Adios and So Long
The minute I opened the door
It was Hello Walls - hello cat
And trash all over the floor
I could tell by the smell and some other signs
She was gone about a/… Read full post »
Five for Friday
No, I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.
Well, I wake in the morning,
Fold my hands and pray for rain.
I got a head full of ideas
That are drivin' me insane.
It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the/… Read full post »
Stupor Tuesday
Republican or Democrat, liberal or libertarian, gay or straight, lactose tolerant or intolerant, an overwhelming consensus has it that Mainers don't hate gays, tea-bagger usurpations were soundly rejected in upstate New York, Republican victories in two governorships and at least one mayoralty are a… Read full post »
Snow Day Baguettes
I think that I may just have seen
The inner workings of your spleen.
For everywhere the browser went
The topic was your need to vent;
And venting of this kind does make
My caffeinated torso shake;
The timer for the baguettes sounds
A not-so-subtle call to flounce?
But then a favorite'/… Read full post »
After All the Jacks Are in Their Boxes
This place can just plain beat you up sometimes. You're hurting on the day everybody else is sharing an in-joke they pre-arranged on facespacebookmytwitterspotdotcommie to make something mundane seem très important - or perhaps you're writing from the heart about your most joyous, orgasmitroni… Read full post »
The Meanings In Small Words
There was an editorial in the NY Times this morning referencing Buono v. Salazar. I hadn't been aware of this matter and was curious to read an article about this pending Supreme Court case at the Washington Post. I was all set to post on the subject here when I noticed… Read full post »
Letter to Senator Bingaman - Now an "Open" Letter
Stellaa has vowed "...I will not post about anything fun, till this is done. We cannot drop the ball." I know of no one here at OS with more passion combined with experience in service of the common good. Do yourself a favor and browse her recent posts, as the… Read full post »
Eliseo Lee Alcon
Thomas, Kerry, Joan et. al. surely have to be vigilant now that Open Salon returns beaucoup "hits" on the worldwide Intertubes.
Does your pit bull spam a lot? (I've never received one, but then again I have a pretty good firewall.) If this member's post had been an attack on… Read full post »
What a Day: My Senator is a Gang Member and Microsoft Sucks
What's more irritating than a Windows Genuine Advantage "fix" for Office xp pro which says it can't validate until you activate but your attempts to activate say you've already done it?
The slow march to a pre-ordained outcome in the Senate is high on my list of candidates. If you… Read full post »
This Place is Exactly the Same As It Ever Was

Turn It Up
I started to overspill on Cartouche's "This Place Has Changed" post, the 50,000th of its kind I've seen since I joined a while back. Okay, I'm taking hyperbolic license. So I withdrew all but a few words, as a courtesy; so here goes.
I don't have… Read full post »
Noone Should Die
" No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day." Any questions?
My recent health care reform posts...
He Might Say, She Might Say
I have only myself to blame, but the TV was set to MSNBC when I heard the most extraordinary interchange.
The host was the news bunny called Tamron something or other and the two guests were "once crossed-eyed Republican strategist guy whose new lenses correct for it now" and "gal… Read full post »
Green Chili, Chicken & Bean Burrittos
I was thinking of you all Sunday.

It's that time of year again, when we purchase about 160 lbs. (raw weight) of New Mexico's finest extra hots. Many think the Hatch chilis from down state are the definitive ones but we and many others prefer chilis from the
… Read full post »"Message War," Huh, Good God Y'all
ar, huh, good GodWhat is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Listen to me
essage war, I despiseBecause it means distraction
While innocents die
ar's essenceReduced to black and white
Reason must lose
Avant le Déluge (Fingers Crossed)
his could be the day. Our summer monsoon is all out of
whack, what with a wet June and early July, then the typical June
pattern settling in these past few weeks: very high temperatures
and high pressure cutting off the moisture from Mexico. When the
mountains get into the… Read full post »
The Middle Class Tax Increase is Here

ou don't need a background in statistics to see that because Iraq was off budget and since the Social Security side of the ledger has been raided to make the general operating budget side look better all these years, we've grown accustomed to cooking our books in ways
… Read full post »Stop Digging!

e have a remarkable history of going off to follow the proverbial shiny object - just when our most intense vigilance is called for.
The modus operandi of the conservative propaganda machine has been to work backwards from an outcome such that anything it said… Read full post »
Summer Snaps



This Stuff Gets in
Your… Read full post »The Last Whole Earth
omeone called Carrie Lauerman
wrote about the Whole Earth Catalog a while back. It ran on the
very day I was assembling some scans from my yellowed copy,
preparing to write about one of my most influential tomes.

e were living on the Pecos… Read full post »










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