This weather saps my strength, makes 2 p.m. feel like time to get up, 3 p.m. feel like time to go to bed, nighttime feel like the only natural hours. Steady rain, steady rain, days and days of steady rain. I’m expecting parrots to fly across the streets and giant, bird-eating spiders to catch them in their webs. I’m expecting trees to sprout up like mushrooms everywhere, leaves the size of beach umbrellas overlapping, turning the sky to a thick, dark green. This city is a rain forest, steamy humidity, rivers running in the roads, sun forgotten. I’m expecting little naked men with blow dart guns hiding behind lampposts hunting lizards the size of taxicabs. I’m expecting schools of piranha to flow along the gutters, devouring the ankles of people foolish enough to cross the street. I’m expecting millipedes that really do have a million legs to crawl across my pillow. I’m starting to believe in 40 days and 40 nights, and hope the man building the next arc is of strong-hearted genes. My eyes are drooping, my brain is smudging all of my thoughts, my coffee made me tired. There is no hope! Whoa! Rain, forgive me my sorrow at your presence! I love you, I do! And sky, please don’t tell the rain I’m asking… but won’t you please show me that beautiful face of the sun? Please! Will you undrown me? Will you wake me up and let me live again? Oh, rain, rain, go away. Come on back some other day.
Calendar
- 2008-11-20 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- 2008-11-21 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- 2008-11-22 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- 2008-11-23 Fall play @ RBR - Romeo & Juliet
- MSSB @ M Shanghai Den
Our monthly first Saturday gig. Awesome Schezwan food!
When: Dec 6, 2008 9:00:00 PM
Where: M Shanghai Den in Brooklyn,New York
Posted by:richardpetermorris
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- All Scientific Articles, Research, Landscape and Human Health Laboratory, University of Illinois - Human Health Benefits Of Natural Landscapes
- Natural Settings Help Brain Fatigue - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - Attention restoration theory suggests that walks in nature and views of green space capture our involuntary attention, giving our directed attention a needed rest.
- Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives | Video on TED.com - Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most.
- Pollan's Proposals - For the time-strapped who didn't get around to reading Pollan's recent NYT's magazine piece on food policy, here is a great overview of that article.
- Multitasking Can Make You Lose ... Um ... Focus - NYTimes.com - As our minds fill with noise ? feckless synaptic events signifying nothing ? the brain gradually loses its capacity to attend fully and gradually to anything,
- Mayor promotes traffic-calming aids - To slow traffic and to protect children who walk to school, Mayor Pasquale Menna wants to increase traffic-calming measures and pedestrian crossings on busy access streets in the borough.
- Cities rethink wisdom of 50s-era parking standards - USATODAY.com - Officials hope that offering the freedom to forgo parking will lead to denser, more walkable, transit-friendly development.
- Scott Russell Sanders - Just read "A Private History of Awe." Wonderful book that resonated on so many different levels.
- Paris-Brest-Paris randonneurs go for distance - someday.

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That song, I know it, I’ve heard it somewhere; “rain, rain, go away…”. Is that the Beatles?
if it were not for rain we wouldnt have the choicest barley, hops, rice, and beechwood which allow the good people at anheuser busch to make me cold budweiser and let me tell you something….if they dont give me my budweiser i turn into freeking godzilla and then i might come and step on you so be carefull what you wish for
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