Harmonious

I'm concerned about the very poor

2012-02-04T16:35:00.000-05:00

"Using the official measure, the ten states with the largest percentage point increase in poverty since 2006 are … and North Carolina (+3.6 points)."
-At Risk: America’s Poor During and After the Great Recession, January 2012

Won't you be my boyfriend

2012-02-04T00:34:00.001-05:00

Donald Trump Endorses Mitt Romney

2012-02-03T18:34:00.003-05:00

Mitt Romney : I'm not concerned about the very poor

2012-02-01T12:13:00.000-05:00

Imagine if you only had access to information others wanted you to have access to ...

2012-01-18T10:38:00.000-05:00

(bring) The Boys (out)

2011-12-24T18:54:00.002-05:00

In cold words

2011-12-07T21:32:00.002-05:00

"No government in the world kill its people, unless it’s led by crazy person." –Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, Interview with Barbara Walters, 12/7/2011

Merry Christmas

2011-12-01T00:34:00.002-05:00

專利機車雨衣

2011-11-26T13:33:00.000-05:00

I gotta get one of these <(^.^)>

1023

2011-11-11T23:11:00.014-05:00

11 11 11 11 11

1777
3ff

93rd Armistice Day

2011-11-11T14:45:00.001-05:00

Isn't near time to declare war over?

Eleven

2011-11-11T11:11:00.000-05:00

Eleven Eleven ElevenEleven Eleven

Psychopaths reward

2011-11-08T07:43:00.000-05:00

If it seems that your boss is a psychopath, well maybe there's a reason for that:

"… if you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a poor family you’re likely to go to prison. If you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a rich family you’re likely to go to business school."

- George Monbiot The Self-Attribution Fallacy

Giant Xenophyophores

2011-10-23T12:26:00.000-04:00

Doom Doom! Giant Xenophyophores found hiding out in the Mariana Trench!

Lily says it well

2011-10-22T23:21:00.003-04:00

All Our Tomorrows

2011-10-22T18:33:00.001-04:00

Tomorrow seemed so far away,
When did it become yesterday?

Nyan Cat

2011-10-15T23:34:00.002-04:00

Swing out back

2011-09-24T16:44:00.000-04:00

drowsy dusk
resting in gentle arms
back porch swing
slow southern
back and forth
sonorous breath
humid night air
brushing skin
back night sounds
dreaming

Next Up

2011-08-30T10:54:00.001-04:00

Good bye Irene

2011-08-28T21:15:00.000-04:00

Irene good bye Irene good bye
Good bye Irene Good bye Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

Last Friday night, she blew into town,
stormy girl would not settle down,
Now me and Irene have parted,
I'll have to clean up G-Vegas round town

Some time she blew through the country,
Some time she blew through the town
Some time she took to the notion
Morpheus take up the river and drown

I love Irene, Devil knows why,
I'll love her till her winds blow dry
But if Irene should come back round,
I'd break down on my knees and cry

Stop blowin', stop winds throwin'
Stop screamin', threw the night
Go settle down on a mountain side
Leave us by our homeside bright

Irene good bye Irene good bye
Good bye Irene Good bye Irene
I'll see you in my dreams

Carnyx

2011-08-06T19:02:00.004-04:00

Quote of the Day : On Americans

2011-07-31T13:46:00.001-04:00

"it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice."

Francis Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans Vol. II (London: Whittaker, Treacher & co, 1832) 12.

When the credit breaks

2011-07-28T10:20:00.001-04:00

If they keep on fightin', credit's goin' to break,
If they keep on fightin', credit's goin' to break,
When the credit breaks the last jobs will go away

Mean politicians taught me to weep and moan,
Mean politicians taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to kick a workin' man from his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't they make you feel mad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way they go?
If you're goin' to DC
There's no good work they do,
If you don't know about Mexico.

Resolve won't help you, tryin' won't do you no good,
Now, workin' won't help you once the jobs are gone for good,
When the credit breaks, you and mama got to move.

All last month they screwed up the credit and moaned,
All last month they screwed up the credit and moaned,
Thinkin' about my baby and my foreclosed home.
Going, going to Mexico... Going to China... Sorry but I can't take you...
Ratein's down... credit down now... going down....

Hand me your stella and fly

2011-07-23T13:28:00.003-04:00

You cheated yourself,
Like you knew you would
You knew you were in trouble
Now you're gone for good

Beware of loonies!

2011-07-15T10:18:00.000-04:00

Full Moon 100% of Full Fri 15 Jul, 2011

CURRENT MOON

moon phases

Home of the big fluffy tax cut

2011-07-14T19:58:00.004-04:00

There certainly were big tax cuts.

The super rich got very big tax cuts.

It was a big tax cut mania.

It's very rich people tax cut mania.

but

Where's the jobs‽
I don't see any jobs‽

If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it you're a dumbaß

2011-07-11T19:48:00.001-04:00

Dominic One

2011-07-01T00:34:00.003-04:00

One is the onlyiest number that at first you'll do
Two, you'll be terrible badder than one
It's the baddest number after number one

Know is the gladdest experience as each day is new
Your life, it's the experience that you daily do
But one is the onlyiest number at the start you do
One is the onlyiest number, worse is two

It'll be so good someday when she comes to stay
Then you can spend some time making rhymes of yesterday

One is the onlyiest, number one is first time the number
One is the only first number that you'll ever do

One is the onlyiest, number one is first time the number
One is the only first number that you'll ever do

It'll be so good someday when she comes to stay

(Number) One is the oneliest
(Number) One is the oneliest
(Number) One is the only first number that you'll ever do

(Number) One is the oneliest
(Number) One is the oneliest
(Number) One is the only first number that you'll ever do

Some things make sense

2011-06-30T22:30:00.000-04:00

"Sec. 2923.121. (A) No person shall possess a firearm in any room in which any person is consuming beer or intoxicating liquor in a premises for which a D permit has been issued under Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code or in an open air arena for which a permit of that nature has been issued. ..."

"(B)(1) This section does not apply to any of the following: ..."

"(e) Any person who is carrying a valid license or temporary emergency license to carry a concealed handgun ..."

—Ohio 129th General Assembly Substitute Senate Bill Number 17

Signed into law by Ohio Governor John Kasich
Thursday, June 30, 2011

June 30

2011-06-30T01:40:00.001-04:00

At 1:30 am a rain
a smell like the marriage between
a sauna, a magnolia, and a camellia

Must bed leave
to write this down sans
glasses.

It Gets Better

2011-06-28T03:45:00.017-04:00

It Gets Better

It's getting better all the time
I used to get mad at those fools (though, I can complain)
Authority figures weren't cool (no, I won't complain)
They were holding me down (oh Oh)
Tried to turn me around (oh Oh)
Filling me up with their rules (Oooh)

I've got to admit it's getting better (better)
It's a little better all the time (can't get no verse)
I have to admit it's getting better (better)
It's getting better
Since I don't mind

I used to be an angry young man
Was hiding my head in the sand
Supporters gave me the word, I finally heard
Out, Doing the best that I can! w00t!

I've got to admit it's getting better (bitter)
It's a little better all the time (it can't get no worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (better)
It's getting better
Since I made up my mind

Getting so much better all the time!

It's getting better all the time
Bitter, badder, better.
It's getting better all the time
Bitter, batter, better.

They used to be cruel to myself
Beat me and kept me apart from the ones that I loved
Man was so mean but the changes I've seen
Helps me doing the best that I can (ooh)

I admit it's getting better
A little better all the time (it can't get no worse)
Yes, I admit it's getting better, it's getting better
Since he's been mine

Getting so much better all the time

It's getting better all the time
Better Better Better
It's getting better all the time
Better Better Better

This is kinda fun

2011-06-26T21:28:00.000-04:00

a Google a Day

Gay marriage

2011-06-26T00:34:00.000-04:00

I just don't understand people who are against gay marriage‽

Why would anyone want their marriage to be

depressed, discouraged, sad, unhappy, upset, and worried

instead of being

alert, animate, animated, blithe, blithesome, bouncy, brash, carefree, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, confident, convivial, devil-may-care, festive, forward, frivolous, frolicsome, fun-loving, gamesome, glad, gleeful, hilarious, insouciant, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasure-seeking, presuming, pushy, rollicking, self-assertive, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, wild, and zippy

‽

I sure hope my marriage is always gay!

Little Bits

2011-06-23T10:19:00.001-04:00

bit a bit a bit
bit a bit a bit a bit
bit a end a byte

Netflix Botch-it Job

2011-06-19T11:07:00.000-04:00

New and improved (Not functional)

Old and unimproved (Function and much better than poor redesign)

Mais pourquoi est-il si méchant?

2011-06-12T21:15:00.000-04:00

Harmonious MS Tag

2011-06-11T06:11:00.001-04:00

A Reflectorism a day keeps humour in play

2011-06-10T08:57:00.001-04:00

"The Greenville City Council rezoned 11.34 acres on the north side of East 10th Street/N.C. 33 to allow commercial development on Thursday night."
- The Daily Reflector, June 10, 2011

I wonder since the commercial development will only occur on Thursday nights, what will go on the other days of the week‽

Harmonious QR

2011-06-10T00:34:00.001-04:00

Regular layout:

Mobile layout:

Make your own

Employee steels from Burger King

2011-06-09T08:49:00.003-04:00

Yet another classic Reflectorism:
Crime: Employee steels from Burger King

some days, it's like they just can't stop themselves:
Working his way back to the bigs

Man for Fish

2011-06-07T00:34:00.000-04:00

It is hard to teach man to fish
When there are no fish

Fish for Man

2011-06-06T00:34:00.002-04:00

It is hard to teach man to fish
Who starved for want of fish

Pyramid

2011-06-02T13:53:00.002-04:00

Now round.

Shred 'n' Bash O

2011-05-30T23:12:00.003-04:00

drippin' manic pond
jumpin' froggy purple haze
jimmies depression

Rapture

2011-05-21T18:01:00.000-04:00

rapture
noun
When the end of the world did not take place.

What's your gut feeling on this?

2011-04-21T15:40:00.000-04:00

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

Feeling a little testy today?

2011-04-14T19:27:00.002-04:00

FCC Consumer Broadband Test
Some others

Поехали

2011-04-12T14:12:00.004-04:00

“The main thing is that there is sausage—to go with the moonshine.”
—Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин 12 April 1961

States Rights

2011-04-12T04:30:00.001-04:00

The cause of the Civil War
had nothing more to do with slavery
than facts have to do with reality.

Kōan

2011-04-08T17:42:00.002-04:00

SHUT 'ER ¡DOWN!

Cookie Jar

2011-04-05T13:16:00.000-04:00

"A CEO, a union worker and a Tea Partier are at a table with 12 cookies. The CEO takes 11 and says to the Tea Partier: 'Keep an eye on that union guy, he wants your cookie.'" - unknown

穿越搜索

2011-04-01T14:09:00.001-04:00

Possibly available today only: Google Teleportation

Metrics

2011-03-30T07:12:00.002-04:00

How do you know your data do reflect
the truth that lies behind the shadow scene
and not mere side-effects of your technique
a stagnant pool reflecting not enlight?

Shocking New Information Revealed

2011-03-27T16:19:00.006-04:00

Captured members of the forces of القذافي‎ are shocked to discover they are fighting fellow Libyans rather than agents of Israel's Mossad, and Tunisian, Egyptian and Syrian fighters on hallucinogenic drugs.
from The Times of India

Next up ... Disappointed Bombers Distressed (to learn the truth about the virgins awaiting them in the afterlife)

Harmon's First Hypothesis

2011-03-27T14:10:00.002-04:00

ἀξίωμα If you defer choice on anything to anyone else, they will always choose whatever they perceive to be in their own best interest.

ὑπόθεσις Regardless of what they choose, they will never make the best choice for your own self interest.

Jimmy Wong Library Song

2011-03-24T18:10:00.027-04:00

Jimmy Wong

Alexandra Wallace

古琴

2011-03-20T15:47:00.001-04:00

ブリーチ

2011-03-19T11:54:00.008-04:00

Big Moon Rising

2011-03-19T10:33:00.004-04:00

I see the big moon arising
I see trouble go away
I see earthquakes enlightening
I see good times today

Go outside tonight
Well, it's bound to change your life,
There's a big moon on the rise.

It is so tiny now

2011-03-12T15:57:00.000-05:00

http://tinyurl.com/harmonieux

Entrenched Stupidity

2011-03-08T12:21:00.003-05:00

Phrase of the day:
"... entrenched stupidity ..."
-Adam Gopnik
Just think of the myriad ways you could use this phrase.

News

2011-03-07T19:45:00.000-05:00

It all sucks and is sooo depressing that my new year's resolution is to completely ignore it.

My Partner's Brandy Manhattan

2011-03-07T19:30:00.002-05:00

Cocktail glass
Orange twist
Cointreau wash
2 oz. St-Rémy VSOP Brandy
¾ oz. Martini & Rossi red vermouth
dash Fee Brother's Old Fashion Aromatic bitters
Luxardo Maraschino Cherry
3-4 ice cubes

Place 3-4 ice cubes in pitcher or cocktail shaker.

Add bitters, vermouth, and brandy.

Rinse cocktail glass with Coinreau, press oil from orange twist on rim and discard, place cherry in glass.

Stir liquids and strain into glass.

Sip and enjoy!

Hypnagogic

2011-02-24T16:45:00.001-05:00

Can you pare the story of your life to six words or less.

Two eleven two thousand eleven

2011-02-11T09:33:00.000-05:00

Happy two eleven two thousand eleven! (2/11/2011) :)

Shimotsuma Monogatari (Shimotsuma Story)

2011-01-31T20:34:00.007-05:00

Current favorite movie: 下妻物語

No, I can't tell you why.

Project Management Too

2011-01-28T10:04:00.001-05:00

Q. Why are vegetarians so poor at project management?
A. They're made too nervous by all the steak holders!

Project Management

2011-01-27T08:36:00.001-05:00

Q. Why are vampires so poor at project management?
A. They're made too nervous by all the stake holders!

Are you exhausted yet‽

2010-12-11T09:08:00.000-05:00

Freyja dag nótt

2010-12-10T18:23:00.003-05:00

An oðer Freyja dag nótt
and I ain't got no body
Got no money
ðo I just got paid

For Tea Too

2010-10-10T10:10:00.000-04:00

Q. What's Joie de vivre?
A. 101010

Mr Winston

2010-10-09T00:34:00.001-04:00

10-9-1940

Entropy

2010-10-01T22:10:00.000-04:00

Things Fall Apart

¬℈ς

2010-09-24T12:34:00.000-04:00

not scruple s

Some Cats

2010-09-23T21:32:00.004-04:00

Left in the Twentieth Century

2010-09-14T21:37:00.002-04:00

I left the Twentieth Century
and you lay there beneath me your
words, unhappy when you fell asleep.

Hear is everything I can do about it.

Feel hopeful. Face your
beauty that I must start
to rescribe it, hope here the thing
I do will make you happy while
you sleep.

To have and to hold till death does ðe part

2010-08-28T07:57:00.005-04:00

Haves argue amongst themselves over the best method of preserving what they have stolen from have-nots and stealing whatever little remains to them; however, in the end they always manage to do it anyway.

Have-nots always argue amongst themselves over the best method of stealing what little they have from each other; however, in the end haves take all of it.

Still
death comes calling to take it all
not one atom of matter remains
not one glimmer of thought remains
not one passing spirit wind remains
not even remains remains

and our little speck of dust in the middle of nowhere
keeps hurtling along to the nowhere
where not even s he remain s till

Xificurc

2010-07-17T00:34:00.005-04:00

Don't cry for me, Argentina, seeing me so grave

This little space was hollow and thundered
By Lucid eccentric, ice broken ground
Father, Father, are you ‽
Mother, Mother, cry, cry!

Michael struggled, cried, moaned
Peter sank deep the golden lance ...
Only One, We're an other alone,
None dare cast the true chance ▽

Ordo Præditorum Priorities

2010-07-16T22:40:00.005-04:00

Art. 5

The more grave delict of the attempted sacred ordination of a woman is also reserved to the [Roman Inquisition]: ...

Art. 6

§ 1. The more grave delicts against morals which are reserved to the [Roman Inquisition] are:

1° the delict against the sixth commandment of the Decalogue committed by a cleric with a minor ...

—NORMÆ SUBSTANTIALES

Song of my sort

2010-07-16T00:34:00.000-04:00

Let the snake wait while
the weed
the writhing
bee

slow & quick
sharp & strike
quiet & wait
sleepness—

threw
met a four two wreck on I'll
the man & the stoned

Composing no ideas
but the thing itself

Revent!

Sex I rage is my power
that splits
and rocks

Misses Hippy

2010-07-15T00:34:00.000-04:00

Striving 4
precise ambiguity

f just achieving

muddy waters

well ...

Muddy Waters was petty good

Cocu

2010-07-14T00:34:00.000-04:00

Woody, so long, bare

Cuckoo!

Up and woody, I know where
Two ones fall.
Yet I and him are all
His phantasy.

Cuckoo!

I too,
here,
I sing merry as can be
I who dare,
Great and careless love, I laugh at care,
And since
You're gone

Cuckoo!

In woods grow weary,
In scented woods, drowsy, call

Cuckoo!

Woody, so long, bare

A is for

2010-07-13T12:34:00.015-04:00

A is for Ass
B is for Bum
C is for call me when you want to come

D is for Danny
E is for Ed
F is for (guess this one!)

G is for George
H is for Harmon
I is for my self I guess I'm this one

J is for Jack
K is for Kool
L is for Love which makes all a fool

M is for May
N is for No
O is for OhOhOhOhOhOH O!

P is it self
Q is so queer
R is behind it self in the rear

S is for someday
T is Tom or row
U has now left behind me in sorrow

V is so Vexing
W is so Why
X is the rating for life by and by

Y is still Y
Z en the end

Spirit of 76

2010-07-13T00:45:00.002-04:00

Happy Birthday Kongi!

L'amour fatigué

2010-07-13T00:34:00.001-04:00

I'm tired of money all the time

I still love love
I still love rhyme

A little twist,
another shout

enraptured pleasure all the time.

The Even Load

2010-07-12T00:34:00.000-04:00

I will not try broad reach again,
I will not sale before the wind,
No more my place bereft of men
Earda's farm wi' men thinned

Butt I will sit beside the fire,
And there, to fill my heart's desire,
Put my hand between my thighs,
The last of all our youless he's

Quiet evening kept his tryst:
Beneath an open sky we rode,
And passed into a cloudy mist
Along the perfect even load.

The salt even load that needs
Met O's gush to near the sound
Of waters mingling in the Reids,
And binds my heart to share his ground.

A lovely river, all alone,
He lingers in the hills and holes
A hundred little scents of tone,
Are gotten in the best end roles.

Baba Zumbi

2010-07-11T14:30:00.000-04:00

I never liked hip-hop.

Of all the hip-hop I've previously heard
since some time in the '70s
there were two songs I liked
and I've forgotten both of them.

Hip-hop, basically dance music, I always hated disco.

Current commercial hip-hop is basically misogynistic шitty disco with foul language and buggery thuggery attitude.

So, someone had to come along an' prove me completely wrong.

Here he is: Baba Zumbi & here Zion I Crew

No, I'm not saying he's sell-out commercial, I'm saying he's made music that's witty not шitty and I enjoy listening to.
Three of the first songs of his I've listened to gave me the spine-tingling-emotion thrill thing and off hand I can't think of any current musician that's done that.

AMoral Alphabet (excerpt)

2010-07-11T00:34:00.006-04:00

D: The Dashing Danny Boy he
Will he do his best for D.
The early bird observed with awe
His back, glistening sweat he saw.
His look was gay, his voice was strong;
His tail was neither short nor long;
His trunk most elongated nose,
Was large enough I would suppose;
His teeth, as O. the Wilde allows
With tongue he covers like a cow's
He often liked and swished to pass
Long peaceful nights smoking' the Grass,
A splash of brute, mad love preferred
To pop in baths without a bird
His creature slimier than the snail
You see at once it will not fail
To joy gladly when he slid
And tumbled (as he nightly did).
Then leave off with the morning light
Returning home; served up just right.

MORAL
If you were born to walk the streets
Remain there; fool around.

E stands for Ego

Algernon

2010-07-10T00:34:00.002-04:00

Young Algernon, the Proctor's son,
was playing with his loaded gun
pointed towards space
aimed violently and
blasted there!

His friend who was studying near,
the loud exaltation close heard
and recommended Algernon
be playing with his loaded gun.

A Trinity

2010-07-09T00:34:00.000-04:00

Of three in One and One in three
My open mind was doubting thee
Till Bobby, George, and Kenny met
And all were one in body sweat

Forever Boo

2010-07-08T00:34:00.000-04:00

Spirit spinning
on top of bottom
all haint
time you
live within
me

Nine things without space

2010-07-07T07:51:00.000-04:00

Hisknight

Thunder ParT Not in Lightning

2010-07-06T21:13:00.002-04:00

For sake 'n' forking from the old
love for the other lost
runny mouth
complaining all the time
unlike so manly
people
we respect

US Treaty with Tripoli, 1796 - Article 11; first phrase

2010-07-04T12:23:00.005-04:00

Article 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; ... —US Treaty with Tripoli, 1796 - Article 11

U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875
Annals of Congress, 5th Congress
Pages 3095 & 3096 of 3970

The Barbary Treaties 1786-1816
Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796

To my partner’s queerying eye, I reply

2010-06-28T00:34:00.002-04:00

To my partner’s queerying eye, I reply
since we met there’s been no one other than you
and old Writey.

When just a boy his acquaintance I made
his strength held my youth and he gladly gave
since then we’ve been inseparable.

Even you knew when we met long ago
he’d never able keep his hand off me
and time to time
you’ve made his acquaintance too.

Now is he old, gnarled, and worn from long use
I can not abandon him, nor would I
I hope he'll be with me rest of my life
I could not bare it any other way!

Harmonious Law of Secrets

2010-06-16T17:51:00.001-04:00

For a secret to have any value, it will be know by a sufficient number of people that one or more of them will reveal the secret.

Christianity Today

2010-06-06T17:55:00.001-04:00

Chapter and verse

2010-05-30T12:46:00.005-04:00

“ως και εν πασαις ταις επιστολαις λαλων εν αυταις περι τουτων εν οις εστιν δυσνοητα τινα α οι αμαθεις και αστηρικτοι στρεβλουσιν ως και τας λοιπας γραφας προς την ιδιαν αυτων απωλειαν”

“As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” (2 Peter 3:16 KJV)

Green Fairy

2010-05-22T19:25:00.004-04:00

Tonight the fairy's green.

My Martini (Dirty)

2010-05-18T21:05:00.004-04:00

Cocktail glass
1¼ oz. Bombay gin
¾ oz. Noilly Prat white vermouth
generic green olive & liquid
3 capers
6-7 ice cubes

Wash hands with soap.

Place 6-7 ice cubes in pitcher or cocktail shaker.

Add vermouth, gin.

Stir.

Strain into cocktail glass.

Pick olive from olive jar by hand with slight amount of liquid and drop into glass.

Pick 3 capers with spoon handle from jar and drop into glass.

Sip and enjoy!