CAUGHT! Sean P. Mouse!

Scooter and Bob chased the wee varmit under my Teva sandals again and I was able to herd the critter into my handy-dandy empty Kleenex box. I escorted the mouse to the vacant lot across the street, where I let it go near a big pile of bricks.

The hole where my rodent friends gain entrance was sealed yesterday afternoon, so I expect this little mouse will be enjoying his new brick condo.....as long as he can steer clear of the Cooper's hawk that frequents the neighborhood.

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Scooter caught this wee critter, brought it into my studio and then let it go. It is still at large.

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Finding Healing Music in the Heart. A professor who teaches music healing and jazz improvisation classes researches the relationship between music and the human heart. By By COREY KILGANNON. [NYT > Health]

Let the music soothe and heal your troubled hearts, y'all.

"People with ailments would attend my performances and tell me they felt better afterward," he said.

Curious about the heartbeat as a primary source of rhythm, he bought an electronic stethoscope and began recording his and other musicians' heartbeats.

"I wanted to see what kind of music my heart was making," he said.

In his basement, he converted the heartbeats to a higher register and dissected them. Behind the basic binary thum-THUMP beat, he heard other rhythms - more spontaneous and complex patterns in less-regular time intervals - akin to a drummer using his four limbs independently.

"A lot of it was like free jazz," Mr. Graves said one day last week in his basement. "There were rhythms I had only heard in Cuban and Nigerian music." He demonstrated by thumping a steady bum-BUM rhythm on a conga with his right hand, while delivering with his left a series of unconnected rhythms on an hourglass-shaped talking drum.

I think I'm gonna put some Miles on the iTunes and start to mend my broken heart.

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A rant of beauty, by "Pit Viper" from Table Talk:

Well, all I can say is, if there is a god, I hope I'm around when some of you that voted the "moral issue" crap die and end up at the Bureaucratic Angel Judgement Desk. Because the Bureaucratic Angel is going to hear your name and page Mr. God, and Mr. God is going to emerge from his pearly office and whup your ass up one cloud and down the other for a combination of stupidity, cupidity and moral laziness. Then he'll ask you where you were when your brethren were starving and homeless and needing a job or at least a school that didn't leak and wasn't asbestos-ridden and you'll say..."But I voted against the abomination of gay marriage and made Jerry Bruckheimer movies!" And then he will whup your sorry ass some more.

Can I get an AMEN?!?!

AMEN!

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You Are a Liberal for Life

You've got a bleeding heart - and you're proud of it. For you, liberal means being compassionate, pro-government, and anti-business. You believe in equality for every person, and you consider yourself universally empathetic. Helping others is not just political for you ... it's very personal too.

Via that liberal Republican Patrick

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