This is the second in the VirusHead Saturday postings of Laurie Anderson’s Public (Personal) Service Announcements. It’s about the response of a “bunny” at the Playboy Club, where protesters (including Anderson) were calling attention to the economic exploitation of women and the treatment of women as animals. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnS8Y4Qazhs[/youtube] So if you want to talk about women and money…. hmmmm.
Halliburton and KBR have broken up – and breaking up is hard to do. But no sad faces, y’hear? Everything’s A-OK for the billionaire war and oil profit set. They are diggin’ the new headquarters in Dubai – way better than Houston. Texas is so over. Everything’s bigger in the United Arab Emirates. Halliburton’s second quarter profits more than doubled. Halliburton Co.’s profit more than doubled in the second quarter, getting a $933-million lift from the separation of former subsidiary…
Children’s views on angels. I only know the names of two angels. Hark and Harold. ~Gregory, 5 Everybody’s got it all wrong. Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why, but scientists are working on it. ~Olive, 9 It’s not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to heaven, and then there’s still the flight training to go through. And then you got to agree to wear those angel clothes. ~Matthew, 9 Angels work for God…
Beautiful metamorphosis videos! Take a look. Women in Art [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs[/youtube] (Thanks Jacque) Women in Film [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEc4YWICeXk[/youtube]
I stumbled across a great post at live. laugh. love. As a person trying to do things to make this world a better place, it makes me very angry to read the glorification of violence and death in violence as something done out of love and endorsed by God. Loving your neighbor as yourself does not include trying to kill them in the first place. In a global sense, aren’t we all neighbors? Aren’t we all brothers and sisters? Seems…
Strangely, I find that I am a bit sad to hear that Tammy Faye (Bakker, Messner) has died. In appearance, she was more artificial than artificial, but there was something endearing about that to me. I found her very likable, and I think she meant others well – especially as she got older. I think she was a little pathological, and of course she had terrible taste in men. There was something so odd about her, but still… I liked…