Art and shiny things…
The Maze Runner first trailer premiered last night on Teen Wolf, and why did no-one tell me it starred Dylan O’Brien??? I spent the weekend marathoning Teen Wolf, which I’d never seen before but found immensely addicting, and have a HUGE crush on whipsmart fast-talking Stiles played by Dylan O’Brien.
Gorgeous shots from the VM movie.
One of the best Veronica Mars fan videos I’ve seen, perfectly capturing the essence of the petite private eye dripping in snark and wisecracks
Love, please don’t lift me up to anywhere
Now that I think about it. I don’t lift
Up easily. I’m not “handle with care.”
I like ground, grass and gravity, a gift
Hallmark should hustle. Who is it who’s flying
Where the eagles cry (Do eagles cry?); and who
Wants Joe Cocker if they don’t plan on tying
One on, hot-boxed, until all birds look blue?
To be together is so overrated—
That’s not my style. Fragile is fine enough
To fracture, like an old, disintegrated
Leaf pulled from a worn notebook, perforated
To separate. The eagle’s wing is fluff.
The sky’s not high. Nothing’s exaggerated.
-Erica Dawson, Birmingham Poetry Review
Aveeno Active Naturals Daily Moisturizing Lotion – Hmm. Mixed feelings about this one. The texture is lovely – a light, almost transparent white cream, and blends in so well to the skin. It also smells wonderful and gives the skin a nice glow. As far as actually moisturizing however, I’m not sure this is effective for dry skin – it did not improve my skin’s condition over time and does seem like the kind of milder lotion which must be used EVERY day to be moisturizing. Not exactly what I’m looking for, but not a “lose it!” either.
Nivea Essentially Enriched Lotion – Lose it. Has the thickness and consistency of suntan lotion; not what you want in a daily body lotion.
Nivea Intensive Body Lotion. This is a good body lotion. The formula is thick and white but rubs easily into your skin without leaving a residue. It gives skin a healthy glow and moisturizes and gives relief to even the driest skin. I tried once on the face and don’t recommend (a little strong and made skin tingle) but as a body lotion this is very effective – and has a wonderful, light smell. I use this during the winter.
Nivea Smooth Sensation Daily Lotion. Jackpot with this one! This is perhaps slightly better for summer as it’s a little lighter than the Intensive, but it’s my favorite body lotion so far – great smell, moisturizes well, and blends in easily to give skin lovely light glow.
Jergen’s Ultra Healing – relieves dryness but left small, raised bumps on skin. Don’t buy.
Yes to Carrots Super Rich Body Butter – Great stuff – I was looking for a deep but not greasy winter moisturizer to supplement Nivea Intensive and this is amazing – very light but lovely smell, absorbs quickly, and seems to moisturize thoroughly – definitely a keeper
I have a weakness for impressionistic paintings of female figures (see my previous highlight of Msistlav Pavlov), and contemporary Russian romantic painter Andrew Atroshenko hits all of my affinities. The explosions of color, the emphasis on light and movement in the foreground and a background of deep, bold, muted earthen tones…just gorgeous. See more work here.
“Passion of Music”
“Ballerina”
“Into the Light”
Um. Yes. Premiering Saturday April 19th on BBC!
“It is not, in my view, a very good
novel,” asserted Anthony Burgess, ink-
slinger of A Clockwork Orange, whose pages
pontificate our need for the freedom to choose
evil. Is there any doubt Tony chose
the wrong wavelength, the wrong
produce? And besides, who wouldn’t,
given a choice, rather read about
Protestantism sewing itself into
Irish flags, an itty-bitty ant trudging around
the rind of a certain citrus to demonstrate
the universe is finite and forever, cheddar
manufacturing, or the manic Orange Bowl
helping to end the Depression? Oh, I sing paeans
for marigolds, Titan’s clouds, 10,000 male
Julias released, the insides of mangos, hummocks
covered in daylilies, apricot sherbet
on a Thursday, leaves on their last legs, Kenya—
where they call the color chungwa—on the globe
my Grandpa Guido gave me. Give me
sea pens, zest, cock-of-the-rocks, jack-
o’-lanterns with blazing eyes. Last October, Lisa,
the sarcastic love-of-my-life, got goldfish
and conferred the monikers
“Lime” and “Plum”; the innocent things
were belly-up and toilet-bowl
bound the next week. Don’t we give
our precious attentions to stuff bending us
blue? And don’t we slump on the sofa, waiting out
our little lives in a world as jaded and bruised
as we can stand it? Well, let my sunrays mix
with sanguine, let ten times more life taste
like peach meat, let mirrors reflect and release
that nanometer tint to things holding in
that hue like a breath, because the Lord, bored
with creation, bellowed “Let there be
orange!” and then there was—filling the sky
that first night, dotting trees the third day—
and it was good, so damn good
it could never, thank Heaven, be damned.
-Matt Zambito, Birmingham Poetry Review
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Old Cannery Door in Port Townsend, Washington. Just for the colors – love the deep blues, earthy browns and yellows.
Coffee and Irony 