I am quitting Fb in a matter of days, due to several reasons, none of which are too dramatic or worthy of some big explanation. The only reason I am sticking around it for another month will be explained- in about a month:) In the meantime, please find ways to keep in touch if you like, some of you who read this (about 70 or so last summer) I already have given you my digits etc. Fb has gotten a little weird lately, and I am not talking about any "friends" who I communicate most with on it, but rather other circumstances that I cannot talk about here (but nothing about any of you that I have friended on Fb, on the contrary). It is not a big deal, and I hope to see most of the people I reconnected with sometime in our lives- you all rock! And have done such great things, and I am so proud of you! Also, there are some of you that I just always wondered about over the past 20 years and was simply glad to know you were still around, making the world a better place with you just being there. The funny thing is, some of those people are just as private as myself, and I would like to get back to that. Others, I found strong connections with that are there forever, new ties and trust in people that I never was great friends with, but now have a strong emotional tie to. This is all good. And they are my friends, as I hope to be theirs if they ever need me. Facebook has reconnected me to many people I loved very much in my life, you know who you are, some I have just simply missed so much, and some I have built new bonds with who I never knew before that are just as important.
But, it will be time to cut the ties, if only for half a year, or so. No big deal. Just time to not feel so compulsive about sharing, and about debating. Lots of people out there want to argue, and I just don't have the time for that anymore, something I cannot keep myself from answering :)My blog will be open to any comments at any time though, and I welcome it!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Previous Josh Groban post
The reason why I posted this was not just because it included Josh Groban, who I am irrationally bothered by but also find super talented, but the comments that follow the post are worthy of discussion and reading. Is it the new way for racists -using "black music" to be acceptable to pop culture as some commenters are saying, or is it that West is deserving of so much mockery across the media board? Is it about the color of his skin that makes his music and ego so much easier to make fun of (to get away with, some might say) or is it that he is just as easy to make fun of like any other celebrity of eccentric, flamboyant and made for comedy fame? If are you confused by my topic, please watch the vid and read the discussions that follow on Jezebel/Gawker.com regarding the skit. Nobody is calling Groban a racist, but some are asking if it has not become more acceptable to be "racist" by using white singers (Ben Folds is used as an example) ironic/ wry/ silly remakes to allow sly racial mockery slide through the cracks. I have wondered about this also, the past decade. If someone takes himself seriously as an artist, and is not knowingly making music to make fun of, and they are "black", then is it ok to mock their music without being called a racist, or without anyone questioning your moral backbone?
Interesting thoughts, as racial divides are always there, created by most to make money or policy, but kept alive by those who project their own insecurities about the topic...which may not be a bad thing. As we all know, once we are told something is equivicated in our society, we know it's really under the surface, waiting to boil over (LA riots)...
I have to agree with several comments...I think West is talented to a degree. But his ego has made him a target just like Angelina, Tom Cruise, Lohan....their names are bigger than their talent at some point- they will be a SNL skit. It's showbiz.
Interesting thoughts, as racial divides are always there, created by most to make money or policy, but kept alive by those who project their own insecurities about the topic...which may not be a bad thing. As we all know, once we are told something is equivicated in our society, we know it's really under the surface, waiting to boil over (LA riots)...
I have to agree with several comments...I think West is talented to a degree. But his ego has made him a target just like Angelina, Tom Cruise, Lohan....their names are bigger than their talent at some point- they will be a SNL skit. It's showbiz.
Retired community gets Jim Morrison concert
Every so often in our senior citizen retired beach town of Dunedin, and in our little quiet code enforced neighborhood, someone gets loose. It's happening right now, and no, it's not me. I was just outside picking up stuff from the backporch, looking for our tiny owl friend, when the noise drifted across the hood- Jim Morrison singing "let it roll, baby roll..." along with some leftover fireworks and very loud drunken conversations. My elderly neighbors popped on their back light and investigated ( I could tell through our privacy fence) and I had to chuckle to myself. You can try to keep the lively ones out- but they always rise to the top on any given Tuesday night. It is Florida, it is only 65 degrees outside in January, and there are people under 80 who feel the need to party or annoy every one else in the hood, depending on your mood.
For now, it's fine. As long as I don't hear it at around 11 when I am trying to sleep. I am, after all, middle aged and need my beauty rest- yeah right!
For now, it's fine. As long as I don't hear it at around 11 when I am trying to sleep. I am, after all, middle aged and need my beauty rest- yeah right!
Monday, January 3, 2011
Special invite to my own soon to be purchased island.
How was your New Year's Eve and more importantly, your first day of 2011? I usually don't like odd numbered years, but 2010 was a doozy and although it started off uneventful, quickly turned into an oil covered, evil mess of a year. I enjoy making resolutions, and I don't stress about checking them off at the end of the year, just enjoy measuring any success and appreciating any discipline I used to help keep some of them.
Here's to a more positive New Year, and a true new decade.
Resolutions:
1. Wear perfurme every day. I LOVE good fragrances, and have a ton, just need to wear them more often.
2. To find even more ways to help local people in need, and to help international causes in some way.
3. Pick up more trash when I go to the beach, and to go to the ocean as much as possible.
4. To visit my grandparents more than just a few times a month. They need me, I need them.
5. Speak more softly to my children, and set bigger and better examples for them to learn from.
6. To stop ending sentences with prepositions.
7. Continue tutoring and strengthen the bond I have with my current student.
8. Be more "huggy" and "touchy"and stuff...I'm not a real cuddly type person, but I do feel so much better when I am in more physical contact with anyone! A real health booster.
9. To finally watch "Inception". I don't love Leo De Caprio...but like Christopher Nolan the director, so intend to watch this soon.
10. Buy an island, invite any friends and family who would like to come and live with me in a society that uses capitalism to it's best ability- you build, I buy, I create, you buy, it all works out. Included in this package will be a large fresh seafood dinner every night, live music by Band of Horses, and free wheeling/willing love to anyone who enters. It will be named "Margaux Key" and clothing is optional. During a full moon, there will be kaoroke wars and lots of umbrella drinks, sand castle contests, and jello wrestling.
That's enough resolutions for one year.
Have a good one, fellow Margauxians.
Here's to a more positive New Year, and a true new decade.
Resolutions:
1. Wear perfurme every day. I LOVE good fragrances, and have a ton, just need to wear them more often.
2. To find even more ways to help local people in need, and to help international causes in some way.
3. Pick up more trash when I go to the beach, and to go to the ocean as much as possible.
4. To visit my grandparents more than just a few times a month. They need me, I need them.
5. Speak more softly to my children, and set bigger and better examples for them to learn from.
6. To stop ending sentences with prepositions.
7. Continue tutoring and strengthen the bond I have with my current student.
8. Be more "huggy" and "touchy"and stuff...I'm not a real cuddly type person, but I do feel so much better when I am in more physical contact with anyone! A real health booster.
9. To finally watch "Inception". I don't love Leo De Caprio...but like Christopher Nolan the director, so intend to watch this soon.
10. Buy an island, invite any friends and family who would like to come and live with me in a society that uses capitalism to it's best ability- you build, I buy, I create, you buy, it all works out. Included in this package will be a large fresh seafood dinner every night, live music by Band of Horses, and free wheeling/willing love to anyone who enters. It will be named "Margaux Key" and clothing is optional. During a full moon, there will be kaoroke wars and lots of umbrella drinks, sand castle contests, and jello wrestling.
That's enough resolutions for one year.
Have a good one, fellow Margauxians.
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