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Because I received a fortune cookie fortune that said my first and last love would be self-love (in bed). Here ya go:

♥Weaktwos and ♥Weaktwos

Are rumoured to have had a e-girl. Resent having to play all kinds of games amicably. Make beautiful music together.

Orchestrated by ianiceboy

Amusicalment

I'm listening to some music and reading currently.

I have spent the rest of the morning straightening up the domicile a bit. I need to do a bit more, but I'm taking a coffee break.

Then a Zevon tune popped up. The lyrics are below. It is also interesting to note that all the characters in the song are the songwriters.

Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Written By LeRoy P. Marinell, Waddy Wachtel and Warren Zevon
c. 1991 Zevon Music administered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing corp
LeadsheetlandBMI/Tiny Tunes ASCAP

I called up my friend LeRoy on the phone
I said, Buddy, I'm afraid to be alone
'Cause I got some weird ideas in my head
About things to do in Denver when you're dead

I was working on a steak the other day
And I saw Waddy in the Rattlesnake Cafe
Dressed in black, tossing back a shot of rye
Finding things to do in Denver when you die

You won't need a cab to find a priest
Maybe you should find a place to stay
Some place where they never change the sheets
And you just roll around Denver all day

LeRoy says there's something you should know
Not everybody has a place to go
And home is just a place to hang your head
And dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead

You won't need a cab to find a priest
Maybe you should find a place to stay
Some place where they never change the sheets
And you just roll around Denver all day
You just roll around Denver all day

Globalization

Globalization has been presented as purely a trade issue, but it is actually about appropriation of resources. It makes property out of things that have never before been owned as property. Native plant life replenishes itself and belongs to communities. The idea of patenting seeds, plants and even genes of certain organisms threatens to change this. Similarly, water, which has alwasy been recognized as a commons, is being privatized. This confilict involves nearly all of humanity--and all the species on this planet--versus a handful of corporations.

Why is this happening now? Because capital has reached its limits. Capital accumulation always needs new domains, new frontiers. During colonialism, the frontiers were other continents. Europeans came and took the land that belonged to the native communities in India and Africa. Now the frontiers are water, plant life, and life itself.

The limits of capitalization have been reached in teh wealthy, industrialized North: how many more suvs can you sell to families that already have two of them? In the Southern Hemisphere, people are poor. You can't sell them suvs, so you create new markets in teh necessities of life, items that even the poor must have daily. Thus you have a mechanism with which to suck capital from the poorest people of the world.

--Vandana Shiva

Now, if we challenge the notion of property, that has an affect on the validity of ownership in the past. Not that I have done research significantly in the past, but you owned property based on whether your government acknowledged you owned that property. Before organized government, you owned it by virtue of being able to defend it from others. Is the only thing making property valid is that you merely have a powerful authority acknowledge that it is yours?

Discuss.

More Amusicalment

My ipod randomizer normally does well, until it decided to mock me with a reminder that I purchased a Shania Twain album in my past and proceeded to pelt me with three songs in a row from that album. My iPod is a stern taskmistress. That reminds me, I need to name my iPod. Perhaps I'll dub her iRene....

Anyway, relief came soon enough with an appearance of one of my favorite Indigo Girls tunes, Three Hits:

Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion
One could send you down the river three's a strange way to be delivered
Would you trade your words for freedom that's a barter for a blind man
Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion

Are you leveed like a treasure only words can help me find you
And this world's a fickle measure I will painfully remind you
From a wise man to your red hand you lay covered in our best sins
Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion

Well I dream you constant stranger with your best bloods and your anger
You say mother do you claim me my beloved do you blame me
Well the first two might release you but the last one sings in me son
Three hits to the heart son and it's poetry in motion

Three hits to the heart son and the last one sings in me

Has anyone seen the "Fog of War", yet?

I would be interested to hear your thoughts on it, for I have seen it.

Michigan folk, and any political minded folks...

...take a look at this post from reannon.

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Ms Tao came over for the afternoon. She watched the final episode of Sex and the City and then we went shopping at Le Target for some goodies. She introduced me to Lime Coke.

Holy hand grenades, Batman! That's good stuff! In fact, it's the best of the flavored sodas I have had. It's much more refreshing, and not as overpowering in flavor as the vanilla or lemon varietals.

( And then I wondered... )

Then I got a call from the Vet that gave me Maximus. I want to offer her a chance to visit Maximus since she was always rather fond of him. I want her to see how much he's grown. They want to go see a movie, too. Perhaps we'll catch the 10:15 showing of the Triplets of Belleville.