sooooooo. it's been a minute. what can we say; well, we WERE at the Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary celebration last night.... along with several thousand other people last night. seriously hoofing it all the way back to BART from the Marina Green was a task that has left us all slept in 'till noon around here. but look closely at the photo. this fireworks display was something to see in a lifetime. the opening fireworks were something out of a movie... truly. the bridge lit from two fuses of fireworks that traversed the bridge from north AND south ends to meet in the middle, THEN to cascade down into the water in waterfall of fire. bada$$. it was absolutely killer. flick by Lance Iverson of the sf chronicle.

Over Anything Frank Niao Beat Tramples Found...

this is, more like WAS the March psa. life got a little REVAMPED. so, it's time to open the music floodgates. Springtime Savant podcast will be released in the next few weeks. Summertime Savant (marbles, jacks, rhymes and hopscotch...) the b.phlecksi parmella ep looks to be released by digital download, ONLY mid July. it's been a long time coming. 3 of 75 cuts from the bwlp's 'phernalia' songbook. about to set it.

Prometheus. Time to Go Back to the Movies, June 8th!!

I love summer movies.
(who doesn't love a dark cozy place to do sci-fi and smooch popcorn?!)
If you can't wait 'til summer, you can always take Hayao Miyazaki up on his rendition of the Borrowers in his 'The Secret World of Arrietty


- if you can stand Disney's not-so-age-appropriate trailers for stories of fatherless boys, island nations soon-to-be-underwater, and ditched monkey babes (at the movies when you go...)

but i digress.

And with the school year winding crazy up before a heckuva down,

seeds of fanciful distractions, by Ridley Scott, down the line are much welcome...
no worries.
there'll be tears before cocoa yet.

-bwlp

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"Honey my name's Slick Rick, not Foster Friess!"

You Couldn't Make This Isht Up.


John Amato Reports On The 'contraception' Comment...

Andrea Mitchell had on Rick Santorum's Super PAC money man Foster Friess this morning during her MSNBC telecast. Mitchell asked him about the potential problems Santorum could have with women voters because of his stance on contraception and women in the military. Foster's response was so stunning that it froze Andrea in her tracks.

Mitchell: Do you have any concerns with some of his comments on social issues, on contraception on women in combat and whether or not it would hurt his viability in a general election campaign were he to be the nominee?

Freiss: Well I get such a chuckle when these things come out. Here we have millions of our fellow Americans unemployed, we have Jihadist camps set up in Latin America which Rick has been worried about and people seem to be so preoccupied with sex, I think it says something about our culture and maybe we need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on the real issues are.

This contraceptive thing, my gosh it's such inexpensive, back in my days we used Bayer aspirin for contraception, the gals put it between their knees and it wasn't that costly.

Mitchell: Um, excuse me I'm trying to catch my breath from that Mr. Friess, frankly....( Friess chuckles) ...

I'm speechless too. Why was Friess chuckling? He could use a ton of therapy sessions, not the country. Women have been continually degraded in this Republican primary season and ever since the GOP took back the House. How has the national dialogue on women's reproductive rights get so degraded now that now GOP supporters bring up "aspirin-between-the-knees" as a real method of contraception?

It's a mad house.


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