LyriqueTragedy

I've talked about this site on Lyrique Tragedy Reviews, and I thought it would be something the StumbleUpon community would appreciate. It's a quickly growing method of publicity for novels, and an interesting medium for short stories and social commentary. Check it out!

Edit: I'll return soon to give my treatise on this adaptation of language. Once I've figured out the way this influences the written word and the journey from and idea to a published work, I'll be sure to let you all know...

Fantastic background and information on not only the location of the work, but the painting itself as well as the author. Includes the text that appears alongside the work in the collection. Wonderful resource for Modern Art.

Perhaps it's a looming birthday, or that my 20's are about to be over, but this painting has been digging in my mind for the past few weeks, and I thought I would share it while I was stumbling. I'm sure many of you have already marked the MoMA, but it's still one of my favorite sites for information and details about art.

This page is only one of many that Theoi provides full of rich, detailed, well researched and documented information. The pages contain the etomology of the names, greek spellings, and direct translation. Contained are images of art, excerpts from literature, and a geneology of topic of research.

In terms of the Muses (Mousai), this site is by far the most informative, logically constructed and well documented.

I'm on another thematic kick this week. What's the subject? Muses, of course! Did you know that there were originally three muses, not nine? I promise! No lies! Seriously, though, this site is a phenominal resource for all things mythological. I personally like to see more information per page, but as a quick reliable resource, this is excellent.

From the page:

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said Wednesday.

The gunman burst into the Circo del Sol de Cali on Monday night and shot the clowns in front of an audience of 20 to 50 people, local police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Reuters.

One of the clowns was killed instantly, and the second died the next day in hospital.

"The killings had nothing to do with the show the victims were performing at the time of the incident," Henao said in a telephone interview. "We are investigating the motive."

With an entrance fee of under 50 cents, Circo del Sol de Cali attracts mostly poor Colombians. It pitched its tents in Cucuta, near the border with Venezuela, earlier this month.

"The clowns came out to give their show, and then this guy came out shooting them," one audience member told local television. "It was terrible."



I hate to sound like I rejoice in anyone's death (in this case murder), but seeing as I am caulrophobic to the point of catatonia when confronted with a face-painted, evil creature, I can't say I am surprised by the shooting. Clowns are evil. My children (yes, yes, my future-yet-to-be-had "children") will never, ever see a circus. There will be no clown birthday parties, and for the love of the gods, there will never be a clown who performs for my child's birthday party. There is something unquestionably wrong (and this might be the phobia speaking) with a grown adult dressing him/herself in frighteningly baggy clothing, prismatic wigs, and oversized floppy shoes that make a frightening echo when a clown stalks you in a dark alleyway, and shock white makeup who affects a disposition of happiness all the time. Evil, I tell you! I once had a list of resources linking to the origins of clowinging and the creepy makeup, but I can't seem to find them. Perhaps, if I can manage to get through pages without looking at the images, I will stumble a few historical links. Am I sad that two people have been shot? Certainly. Did they deserve it?.... probably not, but they ~were~ dressed as clowns... so... ya know... I'm just saying....

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I have currently undertaken the challenge to stop smoking--something I have tried 8 times over the course of the year 2006 with no great success. Behavioral therapy, gums, patches (which give me even crazier dreams than I already am subject to) and substitutes failed to work. But I have great faith in the homeopathy of Lobelia! I'll let you know how it goes...



From the page: "An active ingredient in the lobelia plant, lobeline, is similar to nicotine in its effect on the body. Like nicotine, it stimulates nerves in the central nervous system. In fact, lobeline has been used as a nicotine substitute in many anti-smoking products and preparations designed to break the smoking habit. In 1993, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibited the sale of lobeline-containing smoking products because, according to the FDA report, they lacked effectiveness in helping people quit or reduce smoking."

Now, just because the FDA says it doesn't work doesn't mean that it doesn't. Plenty of Homeopathic remedies have been successful (at least for me and many folks I know) without the thumbs up from the FDA. It also helps that I treat all Tobacco and government interaction with suspiscion. I'll keep you posted!