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Spanish quest to identify black soldier who fought against fascism in civil war | World news |

SerenityLife
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Spanish quest to identify black soldier who fought against fascism in civil war | World news |

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/...

"All we know is that he arrived with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade of American volunteers and that he died in the battle at Brunete [in July 1937]," said Sergi Centelles, whose father, Agustí, took the picture.

Sesame Street's Olivia - Alaina Reed Hall-is in eternal rest. We LOVE you, Olivia!

Sesame Street - Listen to the Wind Blow

2009 has been way to much for me emotionally in dealing with the deaths of people within popular culture who I adored. My heart broke when Michael Jackson died and now, Olivia, from Sesame Street died.

Today, I found out Brittany Murphy, died and I can't fathom at 32, why? She MADE the movie, "Clueless" for me!

Please embrace, love and cherish those that you love.

My friend, Wandra, died in March at the age of 34 and I'm still grieving for her because she was a part of my soul. Now, she has some of my favorite pop culture personalities in heaven's kingdom with her.

Pray! Even if you don't believe positive energy is needed from everyone!

Alaina Reed Hall-Amini, long-time Sesame Street cast member, dies

Actress Brittany Murphy dies aged 32: report | Reuters

QotD: Naughty or Nice

Making a list, checking it twice... How's your holiday shopping going? Who's left on your list?

Thanking God, Gamestop, and Sears sales...we are done all shopping for Christmas. Thanks to Amazon, Best Buy, Gamestop, and our dear friends: we have all our family presents for us 3 for Christmas.

Snow is here

After seeing and being out in all this:

a jamaica vacations is looking better and better. I am totally not beat for trying to hibernate through this crazy weather. We are looking at about 18 inches being dumped on us before this storm is totally done tomorrow night. We won't be going back outside until Christmas. Hopefully, the deep freeze will not have cemented the snow around the truck so we can actually get out of our parking space.

Roadshow Archive | Augusta Savage Sculpture, "Gamin"

SerenityLife
3 days ago

Roadshow Archive | Augusta Savage Sculpture, "Gamin"

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/arch...

GUEST: My mother had a friend, Miss Foster, and Miss Foster was 90 and going into a nursing home, and mother said, "She would like you to come over and pick out something from the apartment." And I saw this young boy, and I said, "He's darling; may I have him?" And Miss Foster said, "I'd love you to have him." APPRAISER: This is a sculpture by an artist named Augusta Savage. And she was a black artist who worked in New York in the 1920s and '30s. And this is her most famous work. It's called Gamin. And it's actually inscribed on the front, "Gamin."GUEST: Uh-huh.APPRAISER: And the piece is signed on the back with her name, "Savage." And what's interesting about this piece is that while it looks like it's bronze, it's actually made out of plaster, and it's painted to look like bronze. And if you look on the bottom here, you can see the white plaster. She didn't have the money to cast them in bronze. It was a very expensive process. This is a wonderful piece, it really capture the spirit of the young boy.GUEST: It does.APPRAISER: It comes in this size, and there's another version that's slightly larger.GUEST: Oh, did she make many of them?APPRAISER: No, not really, because there just wasn't a demand for them, and I think even if she made a lot of them, because they're plaster, they're very fragile. In fact, yours knocked over and cracked.GUEST: Yes.APPRAISER: Well, I think you might be surprised. This is worth between $15,000 and $20,000.GUEST: With a crack?APPRAISER: With a crack, yes. Isn't that great?GUEST: That's wonderful. I cannot believe that. I...APPRAISER: It can even bring more. GUEST: Thank you very much.

Bad Lieutenant....Bad Movie

UGH! My husband and I watched this movie last night and I was not impressed. It was like Nick Cage took his Face Off character and went retarded with it. It is not for children at all. I do not recommend anyone to see it ever. I think it should be burned. Just because Nick Cage and Eva Mendez are in it, as well as a few other good actors, it isn't worth the time. It was horrendous, and I can't even tell you all the details as to why. It was just BAD in general. The ending was worse. Just terrible. The only good part about the movie was the twist in the story, even though you couldn't really understand all the stuff around it, and the credits rolling.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Trailer

QotD: Starting from Scratch

What would it take to get you to start a new life on a new world?
Sponsored by AVATAR. In theaters December 18. Buy tickets now.

The end of the one I currently live in... LOL

Just hand me a toothbrush and an extra pair of skivvies and I should be just fine :P

what I want to do

kitty
5 days ago
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Ok, I don't have an income or any idea of how I am going to have one over the next year, BUT I would like to take 6 weeks to travel in Europe next August/ September. Iceland Air has ridiculously cheap airfare. I would start with 5? days in Iceland, then fly to London and take the train to the south coast for my friends' (The Wedding Present) music festival in Brighton on 8/28. Then fly to Copenhagen and spend up to 2 weeks at my uncle's place in southern Sweden, reading, writing, and relaxing. Then maybe Paris? It has been a few years.

All I need is several thousands of dollars and a birdsitter. I've got 9 months to find those things. No problem.....

Friends of friends will sing me @AmberRubarth songs to prove a point.

Rammi
6 days ago
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Today, I got a friend request on Last.fm from a user named Socratesv1. I've been using the website since 2006 to keep up with my changing music taste, and occasionally get friend requests from friends and/or people who have a similar music taste to me. The username didn't seem familiar to me, but we did share a "very high music compatibility". The music we had in common was Imogen Heap, S Club 7, ABBA, Owl City and OK Go.

@Synoiz sent me a CD of ABBA's greatest hits for my birthday yesterday (because I realised I owned no ABBA music ;_;), and this means that all I've been listening to today is that. This probably explains why we're "very high" on music compatibility.
[I tend to listen to "new" music obsessively until I get sick of the sound of it.]

Anyway, I soon realised that I *did* know the mysterious Socratesv1, and that he was a friend of a friend of mine who I had spoken to on Skype before. So I logged on, and we talked about the music we had in common (quickly skipping over the S Club 7). Soon, conversation turned to my obsessive listening habits of the day... Which I quickly diverted by picking a random song I liked, to try and make it seem like I listen to other music too.

This song just happened to be You Will Love This Song, which I promptly sent him a link to. He seemed to like it, despite my annoyance at not being able to sing the phrase "You said you love it when all the words in a song move really fast and your ears have to choose just one little phrase to hold on to" in the song fast enough.

He swore that he could, and that he could actually record a new version of the song for me just to prove it.

I called his bluff (because I like this song a lot).

And so, this "challenge" of sorts began.

Alex (this friend of a friend) says that he'll record me a version of the song by the new year, in the same style, playing multiple instruments (as a one-man band).

This is going to be awesome.

[I wrote this blog post to remind myself to get around to meeting him in January and glare at/glomp him for failing/finishing the song.]

Originally published at rammi.glomp.me. You can comment here or there.