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Poetry, Security

To Mrs. Reynolds’ Cat

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by John Keats (1795-1821)

Cat! who hast pass’d thy grand climacteric,
   How many mice and rats hast in thy days
   Destroy’d? How many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears – but pr’ythee do not stick
   Thy latent talons in me – and upraise
   Thy gentle mew – and tell me all thy frays,
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick.
Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists –
   For all thy wheezy asthma – and for all
Thy tail’s tip is nick’d off – and though the fists
   Of many a maid have given thee many a maul,
Still is that fur as soft, as when the lists
   In youth thou enter’dest on glass bottled wall.

History, Poetry, Security

Banana

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by the Aggrolites

The Aggrolites – Banana (Yo Gabba Gabba!)

Nice when “edge” bands do fun stuff for kids, although perhaps a harder group also would have woven in a subtle statement on the Banana Wars. Maybe when/if I see them live (they’re playing in my neighborhood in a couple weeks) I’ll ask if they had to self-censor to get on Nick, or if actually they don’t care about the connection. Seems like a Marley, Rancid, Clash, or even Police treatment of the topic would go so much deeper.

Everybody like it…ba-na-nana.

Poetry, Security

Hold On

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by Tim Armstrong, from A Poet’s Life

I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
And if you choose to leave me, girl, I’ll understand
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can

Just like the Mississippi
Our journey starts in Minnesota
Take I-35 to 90
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Big hi to that country girl.
Hope you gonna make it on down
She said yeah, Tim, good to see ya
Hope you all stay around

The future’s not hardest to see
Do what you do girl
But please don’t leave

I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
And if you choose to leave me, girl, I’ll understand
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can

Get down when I wanna, man
Get through the darkest night
We were born to ride, now baby
Ride until the morning light

Took a trip down to Kansas
Missouri, then Arkansas
Stayed with her sister
That girl’s above the law

The future’s not hardest to see
Do what you do girl
But please don’t leave

I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
And if you choose to leave me, girl, I’ll understand
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can

It’s a mad house, baby
Fast women, cocaine and booze
Toughest of the roughest
I got nothing to lose

Before I met ya
Everything was going wrong
It been a long journey now
Girl I wanna take you home

The future’s not hardest to see
Do what you do girl
But please don’t leave

I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can
And if you choose to leave me, girl, I’ll understand
I’m gonna hold on to you as long as I can

Tim Armstrong – “Hold On”

And then another favorite of mine…Wake Up. Kudos to Tim for making his songs free to download.

Food, Security

Seaweed Futures

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The BBC Science & Environment warns that we will have to adapt to saltier varieties of food:

Growing crops in salt water is becoming necessary to overcome shortages of fresh water, say researchers writing in the journal Science.

They suggest the domestication of wild plants that grow in salty conditions could help reduce global food shortages.

It seems even harder to me to keep water properly salted, but maybe that is only problematic with fish and seaweed makes a happy house plant.