Randomly Posting Stuff Cause You Feel Like It

[Angeltoes]

I have been informed that fennel smells like black licorice not carrots. Good to know. I don't want to smell like black licorice either -- red licorice, maybe. Black licorice smells like NyQuil. Does anyone still like it? This is not 1925...

Citrus notes and soft floral are good, but no black licorice.

[Daniela]

Originally Posted by A. Spectre

Reese's? You have some splainin' to do!

You have tried---and failed to make Christmas "tree" candy


Do you really believe all of us will be too full of spiked egg nog not to noticed these ridiculous lumps of wtf? Now here ladies and gents is truly the real war on Christmas.



THIS is how it is done Reese's.

I was hungry (and obviously desperate) at the airport a few weeks ago and I ate this:



...at least Snickers tried. The cashier was rolling her eyes that every other customer would ask her if they were "tree flavored."

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[A. Spectre]

Two Canadian brothers rescue bald eagle from a trap




"I knew this would never happen again, so before we let it go, I told my brother Michael, 'we should take a picture with it.' The bird had its mouth open, but he never tried to fly or bite or do anything," Neil told CBC.

Neil lifted the eagle to shoulder height and after a little push, the bird flew to a nearby tree. The brothers watched for about 10 to 15 minutes before taking off.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/new...g-bald-eagle-/

[storyspinner70]

Originally Posted by Angeltoes

You should believe in astrology because it's real! Except that I don't want to smell like fennel. Isn't fennel is in the carrot family? Who wants to smell like carrots? Not me. I get the part about about clean and crisp though..

True facts: I'm a Leo/Virgo cusp and my favorite perfumes are strawberry, orange, vanilla, coconut and "clean soapy" smells

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[A. Spectre]

This one, just cuz.

[kittygrrl]

The Fish Who Loved A Bird

A fish fell in love with a bird one day.
What was his reason I could not say.
The bird flew down its reflection to see,
the fish jumped high and cried "Marry me."
The bird simply laughed and flew away,
"Birds marry birds!" was all she'd say.

But while she flew nothing else came to mind,
save the face of the fish she was leaving behind.
No other had spoken to her such words of love,
not the swiftest falcon nor the sweetest dove.
To the beauty of his fins a bird could not compare,
or to the strength of his muscles as he lept through the air.

Suddenly she turned though she couldn't say why.
Back to the water she quickly did fly.
"Oh beautiful fish how can this be,
a bird of the sky and a fish in the sea?
We never could marry, our worlds are apart.
So why cruelest fish have you stolen my heart?"

The fish gave his reply, and his words sang true.
He told the lovely bird what in his soul he knew.
"Beloved my beloved, oh do not despair,
though I swim in the ocean and you in the air.
Nothing in this world could keep us apart,
if your love is as true as the love in my heart."

The fish thought about it as best he could,
till he had an idea that would do them some good.
"Sometimes before sunrise at the edge of the world,
I have seen a place where creation's unfurled.
Come with me my love and our fates we will cheat.
Come to this enchanted place where the sea and sky meet."
The bird and the fish both made their merry way,
and live happy and in love to this very day.

Now from the look on your face you think my tale a lie.
You don't believe a beast of sea can marry beast of sky.
These things that I sing, I can prove they are true.
The children of the couple are known to all of you.
A penguin is a bird that calls the ocean home.
What of flying fish? It is in the air they roam.

[A. Spectre]

Funny Christmas Stuff. Part One.


When you can't keep up with the Jones'





Sending Santa a clear message that you clearly don't want that new iphone in your stocking this year.





And this, simply brilliant!

[Orema]

America’s “Most Exciting” Playwright Takes on the School-to-Prison Pipeline

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You know her on-screen as Gloria Akalitus in Nurse Jackie, or as Nancy McNally in The West Wing, but these days, Anna Deavere Smith is onstage, solo. As part of an ongoing project she calls On the Road: A Search for American Character, Smith has written and performed at least 18 one-woman plays exploring social issues around the country. Topics have included women tangling with the judicial system, the Los Angeles riots of 1992, and the uproar in Crown Heights following a 1991 car accident involving a Hasidic driver and two seven-year-old Caribbean American kids. Smith has been called "the most exciting individual in American theater right now." A MacArthur "genius" fellow and a National Humanities Medal holder, she was recently selected to deliver the Jefferson Lecture, the federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.

For her latest play, Notes From the Field, Smith interviewed some 170 people—from California to her hometown, Baltimore—to inhabit characters based on individuals caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline. She's taken the performance from coast to coast, and will grace Baltimore's Center Stage on December 4 and 5. In the play's second act, which Smith calls an "interruption," she invites audience members to brainstorm potential solutions to the issues the characters raised. Smith sees theater as a unique way into social problems: "We're in the presence of one another. It's not like we can start texting or doing our taxes," she says. A live performance "manages to get undivided attention. In all the varieties of media, that doesn't happen so often."

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[Angeltoes]