Fail 9000

Kidnapped by Gnomes!!!!

Kidnapped by Gnomes by Kathy Peterson
My new favorite web comic!

So Many Fools...

Yet another great cartoon from .Savage Chickens and particularly apt today!

Photos by AndyT13

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Benefit For A Cancer Victim

Fuck. Fuck Fuck Fuckitty God Damned Fuck!

My very dear friend Lori (the one we were helping to send stuff to Iraq for US Troops?) posted today about her sister Teri's cancer. The prognosis isn't good. After finishing the treatment they scanned her again and said she had MORE tumors, not less, and they are inoperable. Fuck. GO HERE to donate to their benifit to help pay their medical bills in the many thousands of dollars. GO HERE if you want to read Lori's far more elegant and eloquent post about it. If you can't afford a few bucks (and remember every little bit helps) remember that prayers are very welcome also.

JOY HNT

I'm taking a little break from HNT this week. Maybe I'll be back next week. I dunno. I haven't missed many but I'm not feeling it today. Even though I got a speeding ticket this AM I'm still feeling grateful. I'm alive, sober and I have everything I need to live, thrive and survive another day. Truly blessed.

NY @ Night

Here's a nice shot I took of NYC @ night. I thought I'd share it with y'all. More photos HERE. The jam went well again last night. We had a huge crowd and that's always fun. The female backup singers were my favorite part. :-) Got gigs Friday and Saturday night and the big photo shoot in Brooklyn Saturday afternoon. I'm pretty excited. It'll be my first time in a real pro photo studio. Recording studios don't impress me much anymore but this is something new. Hope everyone's having a nice Wednesday. Cheers!

Post Of Lime

I must point you to THIS wonderful post by the inimitable Lime. She is ever a rock of strength, sanity and calm in my often emotionally tumultous life. It reads in part, "Mahatma Gandhi, Corrie Ten Boom, Martin Luther King, Jr., Imaculee Ilibagiza - These are people who have all adhered to nonviolence and insisted that we must not return evil for evil, that we must return good." It was Lime who wisely reminded me that you should never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty but the pig enjoys it. It's much easier to delete and, having deleted, move on. Peace out.

Apples and Oranges

Well, I wanted to post something today so you get this picture. I have one that's ACTUALLY apples and Oranges but I like this one better. More HERE.
But I'm here to tell ya
There's something else...the afterworld
A world of never ending happiness
You can always see the sun
Day or night
So when you call up that shrink in Beverly Hills -You know the one
Dr. Everything'll be alright
'Stead of asking Him how much of you're time is left
Ask him how much of you're mind, baby
'Cause in this life things are much harder than in the afterworld
In this life...you're on your own!
And if the elevator tries to bring you down,
go crazy...punch a higher floor!

Happy St. Pats/Wearin Of The Green

Well, these Lillies are MOSTLY green...more pix from the Philly Flower Show HERE.I have mixed feelings about St. Pats. I'm more proud of my Irish ancestry than ever but being sober now I feel it's a bit of a shame that the thing my countrymen are best known for is getting pissed. Have a look HERE for a bit more about Irish culture besides a Pint O' Guiness. No tha thar's aught wrang wi thae! Even when I was a proper drunk I didn't much care for Guiness tho. I couldn't readily drink 30 of them at a sitting so...
As for The Saint himself well...I've heard it said that the legend of him driving snakes from Ireland's shores is a metaphor for his persecution of Pagans. Not sure if that's true but I will go so far as to say that the Catholic Church has much to answer for in Ireland and abroad, but then again so does all of organized religion.
A dear friend at the doctor for her 2nd mammogram in a week. Apparently they wanted another look. Since she already survived breast cancer once we are none too happy about them wanting another look. Doubly so as they won't say WHY but apparently they never do. Anyway I'm worried and I'm praying hard for knowledge of God's will and the strength to carry that out fearlessly no matter what. It is not easy.
EDIT: THE BOOBIES ARE OK!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU GOD!

Fighting a cold again

Well, I have that "You have a cold coming on Jack." feeling. I am Jack's failing immune system. I'm letting Jack down. Actually, last time I felt like this I managed to fight it off with some Airborne and a good night's sleep so we'll see. My schedule always gets fucked over the weekend. The jam was good on Tuesday night, Thursday's solo show in Milford, CT went well. I'll be at Sloppy Josés every other Thursday now and Saturday night's surf show made me a few bucks too! I got a modeling gig for myself next Friday, next Saturday is the big photo shoot in Brooklyn. Four models, a makeup artist, a pro studio and ME! Woot! Between music and photography I'm starting to come close to paying my rent with my art. In NY that's no mean feat no matter WHO you are! Sunday I hope to convene The New Gearjammers band complete with keyboardist!

Drama Free HNT

If there's one thing I've been working on in my life it's cutting down on drama. I used to swing at every pitch but lately I'd rather walk. I'm powerless over others and there's really no point in getting upset about the things they think, do or say. I try to be kind, honest and forthright with everyone in my life. That is best I can do. I am not perfect but I try to be good. If that isn't enough for some people that's really too bad. This is a drama free zone. Seemingly everyone I talk to wants to fight today. I wonder why that is. Anyway HHNT

Glowing Birds Of Paradise

Some of you may remember sometime back when I had this yogic vision of a glowing bird of paradise flower.

Imagine my surprise when going through the photos of my recent trip to shoot the Philadelphia Flower Show I saw THIS:
OK, it's a coincidence. Except there ARE NO coincidences. God is giving me a message. And the message is "Listen to me: Follow your heart." OK. I get it. At least I think I get it. Why is it always harder to DO what's right than KNOW what's right? Especially when KNOWING what's right can be so God Damned Hard to begin with sometimes? Anyway I only put up a dozen or so pics from the trip so far. I'm trying not to innundate my Flickr account with fortyleventeen and scaighty-eight flower pictures. There's some good street stuff from Philly too. Visit My Flickr Account

NOTE: THE BIBLE, THE WORLD’S BEST-SELLING BOOK, IS ALSO THE WORLD’S MOST SHOPLIFTED BOOK.

Talking Fish @ The Philly Flower Show

I went to shoot a flower show and yet I met this talking fish. "Fish," said I "what do you here? Did you not know it's a flower show?" But the fish came up and breathed the air and "I don't care at all!" said he. "What you all do up there my friend is rather naught to me!" "Isn't that a rather odd thought?" thought I, "That all that I should do or see is rather naught to a fish that lives and breathes and swims beneath the deep blue sea?" And so if you should ought to see a fish that lives beneath the sea please tell him that I said hello for though all that I should do or see is rather naught to he all in all I have to say he was rather nice to me. After all, how often can you say you had a nice seaside chat with a fish that swims and lives and breathes beneath the devil's deep blue sea?

photo phreak

I made some changes to www.AndyT13.com - I'm hoping the headshot icons look more pro and give a better tease so people click. Please look. I uploaded a pantload more pictures of the runway shoot for Seventeen Magazine and well as some more night shots of NYC like this one. I needed an external flash with its own power supply for that shoot. I had to use too high an ISO (800) or the "sports" setting to get any light at all and stop the blurriness from them running down the freakin catwalk.

I thought it would take me a year to start bumping up against the technical limitations of my "one-step-below-professional-SLR" camera. I should have known better. It's been a month and already I'm like "Fuck, my aperture won't allow a deep enough depth of field for these large-scale low-light night shots I want to do." They won't tell you that kind of shit at the camera store LOL OK, so it was Best Buy and when I went back to buy all the accessories (like lens hood and lens adater and hot shoe flash attachment and external flash) they were like "You want WHAT now?" Clearly in the field of digital photography the overlap between technology, art and craft are overlapping in a jagged and uneven fashion at best.

Everyone knows what a player HE is! LOL

I'm not a MAC fan to say the least. That's a DELL LAPTOP running windows XP you see there that I got for $300 running on my wifi network and that little piece of shit kicks MAC ass all over the floor.

I didn't say much about it but the 40th birthday party and 500 days sober celebration and jam session went fine. My face broke out like a teenager from the stress of having a houseful of relatives and organizing a big ol' get together but hey we should all have such problems. 25 people came to my 40th birthday party. I aim to double that number next year.

Says It All

Image originally from Here
Enough of my bitter blather. Here's something meaningful.

PLAYER PLEASE

I'm bummed today because someone has been impugning my character to someone I care about. I've had plenty of female company but I'm hardly "a player". I try to keep my karma clean and make sure everyone knows where they stand. I NEVER tell two or more women at once that I love them or that they're the only one if they aren't. That would be MY definition of "A Player". I could strike back but I know who I am and I know I have integrity. If you DON'T know me then you have no right to talk shit about me and you should mind your own business and shut the fuck up. BECAUSE I treat people with respect it's pretty rare that this type of thing happens to me so it throws me off. Anyone else ever have a relative stranger slagging you off?

Madness

Sometimes it DOES howl however. Sometimes it spins and flails about. Sometimes it breathes you in, sometimes it takes you out.

Eve Ex Cathedral

I wish I could lay claim to this image, but I can't. It's Jordan Matter's. I admire genius and commitment, but I never fail to envy the living shit out of it.

Seventeen Magazine Fashion Shoot

Seventeen Magazine Fashion Shoot. I'm really starting to love this fucking job. Really, no foolin'.

How I Got Kilt in AZ

I wanted to do unspeakable things with this girl in AZ. She had the only yellow kilt (and a boyfriend 6 feet 2) and I was absolutely smitten. She was a gymnast and was casually doing backflips which made my heart do the same. A foine Scot's beauty she was!

Madison Sq. Garden has a nifty new feature on their website that lets you see where your seats are in relation to the stage. Here are my seats for Van Halen. I'm pumped!
Also I just found out I got Police tickets for my birthday. W00T!

The Scarlet Pumpernickel Rides Again

Alas!
When you were languishing in rooms I built to foul you in
And when the wind set down in funnel form and pulled you in
When the ghostly dust of violence traces everything
And when the gas runs out just wreck it, you insured the thing
But I can't sigh now that you made the move
It has gone and gone to dogs, lay down on the floor
For the right price I can get everything
Slip into the car, go driving to the farthest star

HHNT my lovelies!

Teddy's Lake

I took quite a few pictures out the window of the airplane on my trip to Phoenix. Here's a lovely one of Theodore Roosevelt Lake on the Apache Trail. It's the only body of water like that in the whole area and I sure wish I had gone there because MAN is Arizona ever DRY! Two days later I still feel like the mummy LOL! I never thought I'd say so but I'm glad to be back in NY. I'm a Sea Dog, not a Prairie Dog!
I had a good time seeing my friends though and I took enough pictures for a month! I finally got some sleep last night but yesterday was brutal. No more redeye flights! Nothing like an all nighter to make you feel your age LOL

Bees Like Honey

I'm quite proud of these two images. Just the sort of thing that makes beginner photographers cream their jeans. I hope you like them too. Arizona was one giant photo op but I'll be weeks sorting through the pictures. These I had to post now though. Before going straight to work after flying home on the red eye. Bleah. No sleep 'til Brooklyn!

Scary Monster HNT

The BEAST Never Sleeps. Recipe for Big scary Monster HNT:
Take one (1) Keyser, one (1) red big-nosed Mardi Gras mask, one (1) big assed sword, one (1) background sheet provided by Z and one (1) expensive camera and tripod. Mix well under low light and under expose with high contrast. Now...CLICK. OK now I ask again. Please visit ANDYT13.com and opine about the new design please. Thanks.

Fuck's SAKE!

I know you can't hear me over the whine but god dammit only TWO comments on the NEW SITE DESIGN??? You force me to use much stronger methods.

New Web Site Design

OK, so my main website ANDYT13 has long been overdue for a revamp. It's always been sort of graphically challenged and that seems like a bad thing for an aspiring photographer. Since I'm trying to get more photo jobs and the competition in NY is fierce it seemed better to send people to my own website rather than straight to Flickr. If you'd be so kind how about dropping be there and letting me know what you think?

Clear Retainer

So I have this thing in my mouth now. I also have two little post glued to my left fang outside and inside. So I put in the retainer, loop n elastic over the inside post, OVER the retainer and over the outside post thereby pulling the tooth OUT of my head and into the retainer. This is not painful but it IS irritating. It's VERY hard to put on these stupid elastics! Tougher than tying a hair ribbon on a bolt of lightning! That's a good simile. Anyway it also annoys me that I feel it pulling (which is what it's SUPPOSED to do!). Anyway it's in. Three to six months. Then my smile will be straight. I hope.

The Fella In Red HNT

The Fella In Red, the ladies are crazy for The Fella In Red! For the second time ever I am actually with the theme! Shocking, I know.
I liked this pic a lot. As soon as I saw it I said "Wow! I'm actually kinda HOT!" :-) Usually I totally hate the way I look. So just to see what would happen I measured me. No, not THAT you pervs! Anyway here's what I found:

Wrist: 7" Neck:18" - Biceps: 15" - Chest: 45" - Waist: 32" - Hips: 38" - Height: 69"

Then a weird thing happened. I plugged those measurements into google and found THIS! Body measurements of the Grecian ideal! Lo and behold, I have nearly the same measurements as a famous bodybuilder from the turn of the century! Wow! I guess I'm not so fat after all! I need to build up my legs a little and the waist could still use some trimming but...not bad! So following on the Grecian ideal (and the theme) I decided to make myself a satyr for Valentine's Day. Let's go into a shady glade and I'll show you my pipes!

Tombstone Generator

I always wanted to die in my sleep.

CLICK HERE

Needs a pig

I'm really pleased with this image I took this weekend. IT just looks so...professional! There's something...I dunno...STOCK looking about it. It's the quintessential power plant picture. It needs a flying pig ballon though. I had a productive weekend seemingly. Got a lot of chores done, and tied up a lot of loose ends. Updated ANDYT13 to include my new FLICKR account and generally got on with a lot of stuff I was meant to get along with. Yay me!

Models? Where?!?! HHNT!

OK, for a change I have something new so here you go. These shots are from the photo shoot I did with my new camera Jan 27th with all the models and makeup artists, etc... Please go HERE and check out the results. If I say so myself they came out pretty awesome. I should have thought of this years ago. Take pictures of hot women for fun and profit? HELLS YES! There are some pretty hot guys up there too, so there's something for everyone.

I Am A Camera - I am what I play

You pisces are a walking talking camera. You take pictures of everything. You are then very influenced by what you just took a picture of. Movies can affect you like a real life experience. Be wise about what you let into your mind because you can be controlled by your subconscious. You may think you need to escape reality by movies or eating or sleeping or drinking or drugs. Why? Because you fear. You came into this life to face fear, not be overcome by it or dwell on it as in horror movies. You can not afford to get lazy. Or spacey or think you have this problem or that. You have to get tough. Hangups are your own creation and you can uncreate your problems through spiritual developement. You would do well to work in hospitals or glamour professions. Or the movie industry. Photography music or art are places in life you can contribute if you keep on the high side of morals, values, intrigrity. The horror movie is not the answer but may be an attraction to you because it is a way to work out your fear so you think. You have to be so careful of what you put your attention on because your a sponge. You can be subliminial seduced so watch and show discipline about what you allow to go into your minds eye. You are a camara. You open up your aura and the demons come on in when you put your attention on wrong things. You can also walk such a path of sainthood that the world is saved by your presence. You are happiest when you serve without hope of reward. You came to heal others. SO get out of self and get up and doing. You can inspire the lowest of the low with your compassion and mercy. The world needs this from you. You can absorb others pain as if it was your own. But learn to keep yourself separate from theirs, so you do not get blinded. Still help them because you are the only one who can. Stop playing records of the past. Be honest with your self and others and see how they run to be held by you. Take off the rose colored glasses and overcome your fears. Deal with your psychology and if you have done all these things then go save the world. It is your calling in life to heal.

WTf?!?!?! Jesus, when did I become Jesus with a camera??? All I want is to have lots of fabulously raging sex, and have fun pursuing my creative muses. Why the hell I have to save the world? Bah! Didn't I have enough of a messianic complex as it was? Damn Jean Hart Astrology.

New Band!

Introducing the newest act on the Lime-a-paloozza Concert Tour!
Ah, Ça Ira! supporting their new CD "The End Of The"


Here's how it goes. You are about to have your own band's CD cover. Follow these directions to the letter. It's fun and requires no thought at all. Go to......
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result.

BLUE?!?!?!?

I took this little personality test here: The Color Code and guess what I discovered? I am BLUE. BLUES are motivated by INTIMACY. They seek to genuinely connect with others, and need to be understood and appreciated. Everything they do is quality-based. They are loyal friends, employers, and employees. Whatever or whomever they commit to is their sole (and soul) focus. They love to serve and give themselves freely in order to nurture others' lives. BLUES have distinct preferences and have the most controlling personality. Their personal code of ethics is remarkably strong and they expect others to live honest, committed lives as well. They enjoy meaningful moments in conversation as well as paying close attention to special life events (e.g. birthdays and anniversaries). BLUES are dependable, thoughtful, and analytical; but can also be self-righteous, worry-prone, and moody. They are "sainted pit-bulls" who never let go of something or someone, once they are committed. When you deal with a BLUE, be sincere and make a genuine effort to understand and appreciate them.

Happens to be my favorite color also...

Never Before Published HNT

Never before published mainly because it is T3H 5UCK. But it's all I got. I certainly ain't gonna take a new picture whilst I am the massive fatness. H to the H N fuckin T.
Edit: it seems no one has t3h sympathy for my body/weight issues. :-) I forget that I live in America, home of the morbidly obese. It was brought home to me as I sat in an Italian restaurant that almost everyone in there was FAT. Not fat like ME fat, I mean F to tha A to F.A.T FAT I'm only 8 pounds overweight and that's based on the CDC body mass index which is way low for muscular people anyway. I'm just perturbed that I can't seem to get the look I want. Lapis Ruber (AKA Redstone) pointed out that compared to a lot of people I look like a Greek God. Eh, Greeks are swarthy and I'm not but I'll take it.

Ridin With The King

I'm having a very decadent lunch today. I'm fucking tired of stressing over food. Fuck it. I'm gonna be 40 and fat and there's nothing I can fuckin do about it. I know my limitations and evidently sticking to any sort of healthy diet is one of them. I've been trying like a motherfucker since October to eat right and excercise enough to get down to 170 lbs and 6 pack abs. It fuckin can't be done. I am thwarted at every turn by holidays, illness and injury. 177 lbs is IT. No abs for me. FAIL. Only through surrender and admission of my powerlessness have I ever accomplished anything. Therefore I give the fuck up. Note: this bellyaching doesn't take into account that I quit smoking in September. Most people gain weight. However, being superhuman, I'm unsatisfied with having lost only 10 pounds since I quit. Because I'm, you know...sane.
I've been in a bad mood for days and nothing seems to lift me out da funk. I'm hungry, angry, lonely, tired, fat, sick, sorry and full of hate and self loathing. My best ideas are sleep and suicide. Two more weeks of this retrograde Mercury shit. I hope it goes by fast. This shit is wearing me out.
I am actively seeking a new rhythm section for The Gearjammers. Thing 1 and Thing 2 have once again passed their sell-by dates. I'm way past going out and performing with fuckups. If it's not slammin I'm not bringing it out there. There's too much competition to be suckin it live. It needs to be kicking and that means guys who CAN play and WILL practice. There will be no more half-fast performances. Bah.

For The Love Of God

Love "bears all things" and "endures all things". These words say all there is to be said; nothing can be added to them. For we are in the deepest sense the victims and the instruments of cosmic love. ~Carl Jung~

Those of us who've fallen in love can never forget the tender adoration of and the seeming perfection of our beloved, nor the complete abandon we felt. Later, when familiarity cleared our vision, we began trying to control the relationship and,
of course, our beloved. To bind them to our will, we wrap our loved ones in ribbons of care and concern. Or, if we are the least bit insecure, we become restrictive and possessive. Yet, as we experience the love of those who are helping us find our way and, through them, the love of God we come to understand that love must be free. God's love does not insist on fidelity, good taste, or common sense. Why then should we demand more of those we love? No person is my private possession, no behavior the price of my love.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
~Abe Lincoln

I learned a few chords on the banjo as the key to life.
~Vince Gill

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
~St. Augustine

No matter our circumstances today, let's thank God.

Manic Depression and The Bi-Polar Bear

Well Mercury has gone retrograde:MercurySince everything to all outward appearances is fine and yet I'm thoroughly depressed I'm going to blame it all on that (as if I needed a reason!) It's been a long time since suicide was the first solution to occur to me when I felt sad so I knew something was up. Totally lethargic? Check. Unable to focus, concentrate, sleep or even care? Check. Wishing you owned a gun and a bullet? Check.
OK then! Typical symptons (sorry, SIDE EFFECTS) of anti-depressent drugs?
Nausea
Dry mouth
Diarrhea or constipation
Problems with sexual health
Dizziness
Problems sleeping
Drowsiness
Weight changes
Anxiety/agitation
Yeesh! Yeah, thanks. I think I'll go fuck myself instead. "When masturbation's lost its fun you're fucking breaking." Last night I caught myself singing "I'd rather have a bootle in front of me than to have to have a frontal lobotomy". Not good.

Boggling efficacy..er...blogging.

What is the point of this thing? Eventually I hurt or piss off my lovers and friends with the stuff I write, even when it has nothing to do with them. It has certainly caused more grief than it was ever worth. It was meant to expand my base of friends and fans so I could sell more art and music and to date I've sold exactly one CD as a result of the fucking thing, meanwhile it's caused endless fights and aggravation in my personal relationships. What the fuck? Why the hell am I still here? Clearly I'm fuckin stupid. Fuck this.

New dreams of Wichitaw

As 40 comes rolling down on me I find myself repeating a line from a U2 song. "We need new dreams tonight." Not that mine ever came true, but at this point they're well past their "sell-by" date. Fame and fortune on a rock star/movie star level, a stable of fine women, houses on the coast in several countries, cars, guitars, studios, the best booze and dope that money can buy...almost but not quite. So much of my life has really been "almost but not quite". I'm not complaining. I'm fuckin lucky as hell to be alive and doing what I'm doing where I'm doing it. I could easily be dead of in jail 100 times over. I make 6 figures doing a job I don't hate too much with all the perks, I have studios to paint and make music in, a collection of art and music, a new car, I'm getting laid periodically, there's food on the table and a gym to work out in. All my problems are luxury problems. Shall I dream of being a better man to better serve my fellow man? Yeah, that's it.

New Challenges and Peevishness

Coke Zero
I have an addictive personality. I drank Budweiser and smoked Marlboro reds for 25 years and did whatever party favors came my way without hesitation. Even after 15 months sober (466 days but who's counting?) I readily substitute other addictions. When I first got sober I drank coffee like water, doubled my cigarette intake and lost 12 pounds working out every day. Then I switched to coca-cola and immediately put the weight all back on. Then I quit smoking, switched to coke zero and took the weight back off but it's a struggle to hold it down to 175 pounds and I really want to get down to 165. I know I shouldn't bitch because everyone ELSE who quits smoking GAINS weight, but this is ME. I'M DIFFERENT! Right. Same as everyone else. So, I've been trying to maintain a hi protein low carb diet without much success. I last all week and then binge on pop tarts and donuts. Oh well. Progress not perfection. It came up that even zero calorie coke is a hindrance to weight loss. It seems counter intuitive since IT HAS ZERO FUCKIN CALORIES, but that's what I'm hearing all over. Something about the sucralose making my body ACT as if it was sugar and fuckin up the insulin & calorie burning. Sometimes I think no one knows ANYTHING about diet and weight loss and it's all made up. Skinny people are fuckin skinny and fat people are fuckin fat and that's that. I know that's not true, it just FEELS that way sometimes. When I drank every day people would say "You wouldn't sit down and drink 12 Cokes at one sitting, would you? At the time I said no but evidently that's false. At any rate that's the next thing on my quit list. It's 6 pack abs or die! That means starting real soon (tomorrow! :-) It's ALWAYS tomorrow) NO MORE SODA. Gah! That creeps me out just to WRITE! Yeesh! Pray to the junkie maker. BTW I commented on EVERYONE'S HNT and nearly no one commented back. So to those comment hogs who can't return the favor? YOU SUCK!

Yogic Vision

HERE is the flower I saw while meditating Saturday. As close as I can come anyway. Namaste! HNT below.

Unused HNT

Well I somehow missed this pic. I never posted it and since I've been sick and went off my diet (again) I feel fat and bingey and poptarty & donut eating slothy so I shall NOT be using my new camera to take a new HNT this week. So. Fuckin. There. This shall have to suffice. HHNT!

Yoga visions and a meme

At yoga on Saturday while meditating and chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (by which I mean "I submit myself to the Mystic Law of the universe" see link at the bottom) to myself I saw a bird of paradise flower such as this made of golden light. It was facing the other way and tilted 45 degrees to the left and shall, I think, be the subject of a new painting. It was quite the thing. I guess you could say it was my first yogic vision, if there is such a thing. Meanwhile I got tagged by Zoely over at http://prana.typepad.com/ I don't usually do these but for Zoely I'll oblige so here it is.
1. Chocolate or Whipped Cream: Whipped Cream
2. Leather or PVC: Leather
3. Outdoor Sex or Indoor Sex: Indoor
4. In the Jacuzzi or In Bed? Jacuzzi!
5. Bad Sex or No Sex: Bad Sex is a contradiction in terms for me.
6. Dominate or Be Dominated: Switch
7. Thigh highs or Bodystocking: Thigh highs
8. Fast or Slow: Alternate
9. Rough or Gentle: Alternate
10. Bite or Suck: Suck
11. Role play or Reality: Both
12. Dirty Talking or Dirty Talking To: Both
13. Edible panties or No Panties: None
14. Spanking paddle or Bare-handed: Paddle , belt, whip, flogger
15. Landing Strip or Kojak: Bald or furry. No stubble!
16. Multiple Sessions or One Good Fuck: Multiple
17. Moaning or Screaming: Both
18. Older or Younger: Both, at once if possible.
19. Threeway or No Way: Threeway
20. Swing or No Swinging: Swing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_Myoho_Renge_Kyo