America's Got More Than Talent....

It's got cellulite, flabby asses, and too many 'talent' shows! Would I lie to you?

Hoagy......

Witch Doctor Photography: The Goddess

Witch Doctor Music: Which Witch, Doc?

"The Witch Doctor is in....."

I'm my own worst enemy, and I have a habit of nodding off over the computer's keyboard, and then suddenly falling off my chair, and landing, sometimes painfully, on the floor. Last time, I hit my head rather hard, and ever since have had a nagging pain along the right-rear side of my neck, and the neck joints now are making some disturbing snapping or cracking noises sometimes, as I do normal movements. So this is a little something about fixing all that....

Before pillows were popular, we had headrests..... plain and fancy ones...and they were custom-made for the individual's measurements if done right.

A plain one, such as might be used by "regular folks" 

A fancy one, such as Pharaoh 'King Tut', showing two lions, representing the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt over which he ruled, and a great god holding up the 'sky' upon which his head was supported, is an example of a fancy one. On this particular one, there's an inscription showing his five official and familiar names, along with a prayer which I presently can't recall exactly. Something about 'Ra' and the boat of the sun, and riding in it with him forever, I think....

Please click on this one to enlarge it. When I say above that the head should not touch the bed, etc., this is confirmed by no less an authority than Adolf Erman, former Director of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, and author of 'Life In Ancient Egypt', (page 185) in the section on 'The House'. However, I disagree with his assumption that the sole purpose of "this uncomfortable object" was to keep the sleeper's artificial wig from being damaged during sleep. 

I don't want to question such a famous scholar, but I think if he had done more homework, he might have discovered that many of those artificial wigs he mentions came off at nights, along with other items of fancy dress, just as our modern ladies would do today. And these headrests aren't all that uncomfortable if fitted properly to the user's measurements. He should perhaps have tried one or two before writing about them. I've tried them, and in fact have even used a smoothly rounded stone in place of one, and it worked very nicely. The trick is to get something exactly the right height, and then it will feel fine when placed in the correct position. If you doubt that, experiment yourself.
And don't equate 'ancient' with 'stupid'. They aren't even kissing cousins!  

Addendum:

Using a bottle with a watertight closure, and filling it with warm water works wonders for a sore neck. You really should try it. Would The Witch Doctor lie?
"Je, nguruwe Fly, Bwana?" being loosely interpreted, "Do pigs fly, Lord?"

Tuesday's Sunset: Two Views

Here are two views of Tuesday's sunset; one from my place here, 

and the other from Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, taken by

Alice Zhang, daughter of my neighbors across the street. And I

think Alice's photo is the best of these two. Her composition is

much better than mine.

My sunset

Alice's sunset

Very nicely done, Alice!

That was Then...

This is an old picture, suffering from the ravages of time and poor storage, and was taken before December 15th, 2006, because this still shows Stanley Park with all its trees, and half of those got trashed in the near-hurricane we had on the night of December 15/16, 2006. So I must have taken this either during the summer of 2006 or earlier. These trees in the foreground blocking the view have now been mostly removed, and it only took our Parks people about 30 years to realize we couldn't show our visitors our beautiful scenery if all they were looking at were these lush lackanookie trees!

"Stop the World, I want to get off..."

I was going to call this "The Ostrich Syndrome" but an Ostrich really doesn't stick its head in the sand. It only appears that way because it is sticking its head into its nest hole, to turn its eggs regularly.

But here we have a classic example of today's technology isolating us from real human contact with each other. Which isn't always a bad thing, considering there's over seven billions of us already, and no signs of any mass enlightenment about overproduction of the species. The average human having an I.Q. about three times his shoe size, that particular realization won't likely hit home until homo sapiens finds himself being trampled in the lineup for the bowls of mush being handed out to the starving masses by the last descendants of Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg.

Today, I'm going to the Dollar Store, hopefully to find myself a nice squeaky Rubber Ducky, and then I'm going to bring it home, run a nice hot bath, and
play with my Rubber Duck until I turn into a veritable prune, and the world at large can go take a Flying Friending off a short pier into the deep end of the harbor, for all I care! Old 'Uncle Albert' was right:"The commonest element in the Universe isn't Hydrogen, but rather Stupidity!" So stay where you're at until I come where you're to.

A little more 'Fats'

Today's 'Top Ten' (Where you are.)

Pour l'un des peuples fondateurs du Canada, le Nouveau Monde envoie Salutations et bienvenue sur mon humble blog. J'espère que vous l'apprécierez.

25 Pianists list...

We had to start someplace, and this seems as good as any and better than some... and you can read the whole story here, and you probably should!

This is a song about a girl named 'Brown' from Georgia, and The Count says "She's Sweet!" - and I believe you, Man! Do yo' thing with those three notes...

This one needs no introduction - just your ears....

Please! Write me a letter?

"Do, Do, Do what you did, did, did before, Baby!"

Now, the 'horseshit and gunpowder' ending...

"Flab-o-rama" Coming Soon!

"Americans are getting fatter and older..." - Isn't that what always happens to skinny Mexicans who succeed in sneaking through the holes in the fences? And really, what would you do without them? Your own dishes and housework?

You! - You Took Advantage Of Me!

They're Writing Songs Of Love...

...But Not For Me...

Somewhere......

Just Whistle While You Work....

The Real British Columbia: Not in town!

How to fix a dripping tap:

Replace it! They're making better ones every day.

The Witches Castle: Reprise

The upper parts of the highest peak of it look like this:-

And The Witch herself looks like this:-

And everyone should spend three days in an old volcano sometime!

 

Where you are: Today's Top Ten