The White House canine cutie 'Bo' holds down the starring role in this promotional video with grace and ease! The puppy has grown into quite the adult!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Monday, November 26, 2012
Mine Kafon: Will Revolutionize LANDMINE Diffusion!!! AWESOME!
When I was kid, I spent every possible moment outside. Granted, I didn't have computers or videogames to lure me back indoors. It was still a time when from sun up to sun down or even later, all the kids in the neighbourhood would play ball at the park, ride our bikes everywhere or romp carelessly through any wooded area that was 'permitted'!
Never, ever once did my parents ever have to worry about us stepping on land mines. I cannot imagine what a childhood is like when it comes with such a cruel restriction.
Massoud Hassani grew up in Afghanistan and knows all to well the perils of landmines. And he has created an ingenious, inexpensive and ridiculously effective landmine diffuser!
INCREDIBLE and I'm sure you will agree, this inventor's idea needs support and needs to be in operation...to watch the evolution of 'Mine Kafon' see the story below!!! AWESOME!
Never, ever once did my parents ever have to worry about us stepping on land mines. I cannot imagine what a childhood is like when it comes with such a cruel restriction.
Massoud Hassani grew up in Afghanistan and knows all to well the perils of landmines. And he has created an ingenious, inexpensive and ridiculously effective landmine diffuser!
INCREDIBLE and I'm sure you will agree, this inventor's idea needs support and needs to be in operation...to watch the evolution of 'Mine Kafon' see the story below!!! AWESOME!
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Dog Days of the Weekend!
You probably know by now, I am a maniac about dogs...LOVE THEM....and I must confess, I think I have more photos of my dogs than my kids! (embarassed about that!) So, if you are dog-gone wacky for pups...this tri-fecta of puppy videos will hopefully smooth out any RUFF edges you've hit today!
Chihuahua has mad Salsa skills!
As Big Bang Theroy's Sheldon would say 'Bazinga'
http://youtu.be/hqwbAEAOlFA
And for the final and possibly best entry in today's post....
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The Fading Apple of Fiona's Eye
Founding member and tireless media-maven of the Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network, Janet Chernin posted on my personal Facebook page...encouraging me to share with you this beautifully-written post by musician Fiona Apple.
If you have ever had a close relationship with an aging pet, you will appreciate Miss Apple's wonderful depiction of her relationship with her dog 'Janet'....
When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.
She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.
I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people.
But I know that she is coming close to point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.
I just can't leave her now, please understand.
If I go away again, I’m afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and reveling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel.
And I am asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.
Love, Fiona "
If you have ever had a close relationship with an aging pet, you will appreciate Miss Apple's wonderful depiction of her relationship with her dog 'Janet'....
"It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet.
I am writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.
Here's the thing.
I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now.I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then ,an adult officially - and she was my child.
She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.
She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.
She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight ,or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.
Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact.
We've lived in numerous houses, and jumped a few make shift families, but it's always really been the two of us.
She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.
She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me all the time we recorded the last album.
The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks every 6 or 7 years.
She has Addison's Disease, which makes it dangerous for her to travel since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and to excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.
Despite all of this, she’s effortlessly joyful and playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago.
She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.
I am writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.
Here's the thing.
I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now.I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then ,an adult officially - and she was my child.
She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.
She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.
She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight ,or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.
Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact.
We've lived in numerous houses, and jumped a few make shift families, but it's always really been the two of us.
She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.
She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me all the time we recorded the last album.
The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks every 6 or 7 years.
She has Addison's Disease, which makes it dangerous for her to travel since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and to excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.
Despite all of this, she’s effortlessly joyful and playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago.
She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.
I can't come to South America. Not now.
When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.
She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.
I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people.
But I know that she is coming close to point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.
I just can't leave her now, please understand.
If I go away again, I’m afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to pick which socks to wear to bed.
But this decision is instant.
These are the choices we make, which define us.
I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love and friendship.
I am the woman who stays home and bakes Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend.
And helps her be comfortable, and comforted, and safe, and important.
Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life, that keeps us feeling terrified and alone.
I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.
I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.
I need to do my damnedest to be there for that.
Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.
When she dies.
But this decision is instant.
These are the choices we make, which define us.
I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love and friendship.
I am the woman who stays home and bakes Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend.
And helps her be comfortable, and comforted, and safe, and important.
Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life, that keeps us feeling terrified and alone.
I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.
I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.
I need to do my damnedest to be there for that.
Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.
When she dies.
So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and reveling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel.
And I am asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.
Love, Fiona "
To see Fiona Apple's original Facebook post click here.https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=486858768014508&set=a.195751057125282.46346.191278307572557&type=1&theater
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Genetics...You Can Deny Them, But They Will NEVER Deny You!!!
Ever hear that 'you look alot like your mom'?! Well, photographic artist Bobby Neel Adams has created a photo series matching moms with sons/daughters, grandfathers with sons and more combinations....each photo was taken with no special effects, just to scale and then RIPPED IN HALF ....then placed side by side....REMARKABLE!!! For the full series, hit this link!
Saturday, November 17, 2012
A Man's Dress Shirt- The Corner Piece of a WOMAN'S Wardrobe? Say Whaat?!
If you ignore her slightly suggestive sashaying and a flash of side boob, THIS VIDEO IS GENIUS!!
Who freakin' knew you could do so much with a men's shirt?!!!
Who freakin' knew you could do so much with a men's shirt?!!!
Monday, November 12, 2012
Watch A Man Use An Iron + MOST AWESOME Parade Floats ever!
These are floats created from dahlia flowers only in the small town of Zundert (Netherlands)...watch the whole STUNNING parade by hitting THIS! I fiqure this would be a wonderful stop on a European vacation, no?!
And I promised a MAN IRONING: better ye, how about a man weilding an iron over a bedsheet? Seriously, it happened...of course, housework wasn't involved...
And I promised a MAN IRONING: better ye, how about a man weilding an iron over a bedsheet? Seriously, it happened...of course, housework wasn't involved...
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Salad in a Cone Plus Pumpkins & Poody-catz
And who knew veggies were coveted by lions, tigers and such big cats ...these felines apparently LOVE pumpkins....Oh my GOURD, the savagery!!! Neat video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iJKRhy_fsM&feature=player_embedded#!
Friday, November 2, 2012
Body Painting TURBO-STYLE!!!
Some people are so wicked talented and visionary...and Emma Hack and Trina Merry are such souls! Below is a video 'making of' her human body paint sculpture of a crashed car and below this video is another making of her project of human motorcycles! Crazy awesome!!!
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