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This came last night from one “Amie Koehler” addressed to “jmdomench” (?!?!)

Down the long course of the gray slush of things
So you can watch me watch uplifted snow
And half-starved foxes shake and paw
People might see to be the opening
This drizzling three-day January thaw,
Writhing their stunted limbs,
Left and right, and far ahead in the dusk.
XXI. Flying in the Arctic
Still has to be intoned, as in a lonely
Cascading snowflakes settle in the pines,
The weight of being born into exile is lifted.
References
As it sits there like an eventual
Sculpting each tree to fit your ghostly form.
As it sits there like an eventual
Still has to be intoned, as in a lonely
I do not betray you, I still go forward,
Covering the land
The weight of being born into exile is lifted.

What, exactly, is this selling? I’m confused. Thoughts? Interpretations?

There’s a very interesting article on The Storytellers about why artists always seem to fall left-of-center politically. I’ve always seen this and, I’m ashamed to admit, probably just assumed it was because artists and creatives were smarter, more in touch, more sensitive, and, therefore, liberal (I guess I have some conservative prejudices). I thought the concept of stories being inherently liberal was an interesting concept that offers a good explanation:

Stories, by their nature, have some sort of conflict. Otherwise, they would be boring. Conflict, by its nature, has at least two sides. To be able to write these two sides well, the artist has to understand, deep inside, that both sides are equally human. The more he portrays the other side as human, the better the story. The less human the other side, the more flawed the story.

 

Read the entire article.

As I’ve said before time and time again, I love HIMYM. Last night was the season finale and, to use the parlance of the show, it was AWESOME. Joel Keller at TVSquad wrote a wonderful review of the episode so I won’t rehash all the awesome details that made it so awesome save for the added personal awesomeness in the last scene when Barney and Ted were smoking cigars using the same lighter I use when I smoke with my friends.

Check this out though. After last night’s episode I re-watched ‘Something Borrowed’ (from last week). The set in the scene where Marshall shaves his head looked strangely familiar. I researched back and sure enough, it’s the same set they used for Barney’s tailor-in-the-back-of-a-pet-shop in the episode ‘Cupcake’. See for yourself:

Angle One:

Angle Two:

Pretty cool. I’m sure this has happened before (I think the bathroom from Stuart and Claudia’s marriage is the same one from Van Smoot House last night) but this is the first time I noticed so drastically.

My mom was up this weekend and one of the flopittyjillion things we did today (Can you guess the others? I’ll give you a clue, it wasn’t text messaging :() was check out the Lilac Festival for awhile. I snapped a few pics while we were walking that actually came out pretty well. Who knew?