OUR SLEEPING GIANT

http://www.wildfiretoday.com/news/2009/9/27/photos-of-yellowstones-arnica-fire.html
This photo was taken in September of this year! Don't you think that it is a little scary knowing that we have a sleeping SUPERVOLCANO that seems to be about to wake up?

R.S. Connett BIO

I currently live in Los Angeles, California USA. I was born in San Francisco, Ca. In the year 1951. I come from a middle class background with no artistic family influence. There are no artists, musicians or creative types of any kind in my family. One exception, My younger sister, like myself, is an artist. My father was an insurance broker. My mother, a housewife with no hobbies. In spite of being brought up in a family where there was never a single picture on the wall for decoration, I was always drawing.

I was encouraged to draw and recognized as having some ability to do so when I was very young, perhaps 5 or 6 years old. Although my family did not appreciate art, they did encourage my ability and helped me by gifting me pens and papers with which to draw.

I feel that, concerning my art, there have been 3 stages of importance in my life. First, as a child, being recognized to have some talent in drawing, I was encouraged and so became interested in making art. This made art an important thing throughout my childhood, young adult and adult life.

The second important stage occurred with an event in 1978. At that time I was working in my fathers insurance business and was terribly unhappy. I had a depressive meltdown because I was drinking too much and felt as though my life was pointless. I decided the answer was to make art again. I had not made much art from my teenaged years to that point, when I was 27. It was then, to preserve my sanity, that I began making art as a serious hobby. From that time forward I worked on my art in all my spare time. Of course, I was young, so "spare time" came after social interactions. As time went on, and social interaction became boring to me, the time I devoted to my artistic hobby grew.


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(I am so sorry that I do not know where on the internet I got this wonderful comprehensive autobiography of this very talented artist but please know that I did not write it nor did I edit it in anyway!)

Website Hoaxes

here are some website hoaxes that i think are a hoot:

http://www.dhmo.org/

http://www.water4gas.com/

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/giant-water-slide-video.shtml

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/bluewater/
http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/shop/; 

The Real Story of MIFFY

“Miffy is a small female rabbit in a series of children's picture books written and illustrated by Dutch artist Dick Bruna. Miffy's original Dutch name was Nijntje, which stems from a toddler's pronunciation of the Dutch word 'nijntje' meaning  'little rabbit.' The first Miffy book was produced in 1955 and almost 30 others have followed. In total Bruna has sold over 85 million copies, and it even inspired a television series and clothes and toys which featured the character.”  (Wikipedia)

Even though many people think that Miffy is one of Hello Kitty's friends, she is not associated with Hello Kitty nor is she Japanese.  Though Miffy is drawn with the same simple style as Sanrio's Hello Kitty, she is in fact very much a Dutch creation.

"WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN" by James Whitcomb Riley

WHEN the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock,
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock,
And the clackin' of the guineys, and the cluckin' of the hens,
And the rooster's hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;
O, it's then the time a feller is a-feelin' at his best, 5
With the risin' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

They's something kindo' harty-like about the atmusfere
When the heat of summer's over and the coolin' fall is here— 10
Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossoms on the trees,
And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzzin' of the bees;
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days
Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock— 15
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of the corn,
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves as golden as the morn;
The stubble in the furries—kindo' lonesome-like, but still
A-preachin' sermuns to us of the barns they growed to fill; 20
The strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed;
The hosses in theyr stalls below—the clover overhead!—
O, it sets my hart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Then your apples all is gethered, and the ones a feller keeps 25
Is poured around the cellar-floor in red and yaller heaps;
And your cider-makin's over, and your wimmern-folks is through
With theyr mince and apple-butter, and theyr souse and sausage too!...
I don't know how to tell it—but ef such a thing could be
As the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me— 30
I'd want to 'commodate 'em—all the whole-indurin' flock—
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

                                                    

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!

It should be nothing new to anyone to know that BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING US!  Who is BIG BROTHER?  What if BIG BROTHER were UNCLE SAM? Everyone should know about the "listening in on us" that the US Gvt has been doing for years and then more recently that the US Gvt is now reading our e-mails but have you also heard that THEY might be using our our cell phones to "listen in on us"?  Did you know that your cell phone can be accessed as a listening device AND REMOTELY?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujosfSkHFrQ&feature=related