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April 20, 2006
while jogging
This morning, in a quiet neighborhood just a couple of blocks away from my house, I came across the Pig Mobile (and no, this picture was not taken by me, near my house...it was taken in Tampa Bay, FL a couple years ago):
I did some checking into it and an old True Majority Press Release describes it best:
The “Pig Mobile,” conceived of by Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s, consists of three different-sized piggy banks strung together to illustrate just how big a financial disaster the Iraq war has turned out to be.The largest pig (by far) shows the financial cost ($200 billion)[1] of America’s attack on Iraq, including the projected minimum cost of reconstruction. The smaller pig illustrates how much the federal government spends on K-12 education ($34 billion)[2]. And the third pig, which is a wee little pig, shows America’s dedication to lessening world hunger and poverty ($10 billion).[3]
Except those figures were two years ago so the numbers on the piggy have changed. And its belly is packed full of dollar bills.
It was so so quiet, not a soul around, just me, the birds, the squirrels and the pink piggy mobile. It made me feel very very sad.
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April 18, 2006
spring run-off
Southern Idaho is having its rainiest season in nearly 50 years. Here's a picture of Shoshone Falls, right outside of Twin Falls, where my grandfather and aunt live. Joe and I were here a couple of years ago but it was in the midst of a drought and barely any water was flowing over. Not quite the same this week!
Posted by crystallyn at 07:57 AM
April 17, 2006
lately
** vivid crazy dreaming, including a house that was haunted/alive, with walls that slowly turned to stone and tile, peeling the wallpaper from the ceiling off in huge massive strips
** standing room only tickets for yesterday's Red Sox game. Awesome game. Too many people running around with bunny ears. Great lunch at Eastern Standard
** new Morrissey, Imogen Heap, Goldfrapp and Bitter:Sweet on my iPod
** dark cherry red hair that glows really bright in the sun
** saw the fattest cat ever this weekend. Our friend Jess acquired a 28 lb kitty. He's so big that he can't clean most of himself... Sweet kitty but oh my is he a beast!
** juju has the most adorable leather bags. While you can't order online, its worth the call to order one. I have two and can't wait to get a third!
** going to a David Allen seminar on Wednesday...very excited about that. Maybe I'll finally feel organized.
** weather is nearly warm enough to start thinking about flowers for the back porch. We picked up a table at IKEA a couple of weekends ago...oh oh I love that place.
** in a couple of weekends we'll be celebrating spring in the Berkshires and hopefully can go to one of my favorite places, MASSMoCA. Gallery 5 (which is a massive warehouse) has Carsten Höller's installation exploring midway carnival rides!
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April 13, 2006
rant rant rant
These are my rants for today.
1. Friends who think they are corresponding with you/know what's going on in your life because they read your blog. Honestly, it makes me want to delete my blog altogether sometimes.
2. When people you care about get sick and they don't bother to tell you because they don't want to "worry you." Who the hell are they to determine how I should or should not feel? It's my perogative to worry or not worry, isn't it? Like the time my mom told me months and months later that she had to go into the hospital for some sort of procedure that was life-threatening. Never bothered to tell any of us kids, even my sister who lived just mere miles away. Usually it's old people. WTF? I don't get it. If I were ill I would want the comfort and love of friends to surround me. And it saddens me that my love and support aren't wanted or needed in those circumstances.
3. That running on pavement is so so much harder than running on the treadmill.
4. That the taxi driver who was (definitively and without a doubt--we can prove it based on the timing of the lights), speeding and took our lives in his hands a year ago and nearly killed us, has decided that since he was also in the accident, that he's entitled to the miniscule amount of money that we have coming back to us, despite the fact that he's ok but my husband is permanently disfigured and I'm scarred and still missing feeling in my upper lip. And that because of this jerk we have to wait even longer for our money because we have to sue him (which will probably eat into more of our money). Our only saving grace is that we literally have the best lawyers in town (thank you Paulette).
5. That American politics is like a trainwreck that everyone is too ashamed to watch so they just turn away and pretend that nothing is happening while their freedom, environment, economy and privacy are being obliterated.
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April 03, 2006
HEY YOU GUYS!
I WANT I WANT I WANT