messier objects
from a catalog of nebulae
"what aren't comets"
flammarion
uranie
lumen
I have a copy of Lumen
nebula
1655–65; < L: a mist, vapor, cloud; akin to Gk nephélē cloud, G Nebel fog, haze
nebulous
resembling a nebula
1. hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
2. cloudy or cloudlike.
I have retitled this blog I started more than 10 years ago to indicate the contents are opinions. I have temporarily returned to the "web log" style here. I am not seeking to market (see lack of tags), nor to "vent."
4.18.2009
4.16.2009
texture:
the visual and esp. tactile quality of a surface
the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric
the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts
4. an essential or characteristic quality; essence.
a. the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.
b. the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.
6. the quality given by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
7. a rough surface quality.
8. anything produced by weaving; woven fabric.
textile: to weave (texere)
text: 1300–50; ME < ML textus text, terms, L: text, structure, orig., pattern of weaving, texture (of cloth), equiv. to tex(ere) to weave + -tus suffix of v. action
the visual and esp. tactile quality of a surface
the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric
the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts
4. an essential or characteristic quality; essence.
a. the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.
b. the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.
6. the quality given by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
7. a rough surface quality.
8. anything produced by weaving; woven fabric.
textile: to weave (texere)
text: 1300–50; ME < ML textus text, terms, L: text, structure, orig., pattern of weaving, texture (of cloth), equiv. to tex(ere) to weave + -tus suffix of v. action
4.15.2009
Plain Weave
Chiffon
glad rags
chiffarobe
lilian gish?
(other crepe -- crepe de chine, ex.)
frays easily; needs seams
wear, fret, by rubbing, strain
Taffeta
taffy woven, taffy twisted, pulled
the first (cubic) balloons
iridescent (two color) taffeta
lampas: broadcasting weft
lampedusa?
"a fair hot wench in flame coloured taffeta" shakes
charvet -- clever
Chiffon
glad rags
chiffarobe
lilian gish?
(other crepe -- crepe de chine, ex.)
frays easily; needs seams
wear, fret, by rubbing, strain
Taffeta
taffy woven, taffy twisted, pulled
the first (cubic) balloons
iridescent (two color) taffeta
lampas: broadcasting weft
lampedusa?
"a fair hot wench in flame coloured taffeta" shakes
charvet -- clever
4.14.2009
I am a Miracle Gro woman. While I would never kill and till (or weed and feed, or sow winter oat in SoCal), a lawn, garden, or part thereof, and just pull grass and weeds in flowerbeds (des temps en temps), I spray poison on broadleaf weeds (I have a coexistence pact with blooming clovers). My flowers are low maintenance. They do not require me to labor at $75-150/hr. They do not take away from my ability to strip paint with toxic chemicals. They do not require anyone else to labor. They smell good, not like poo, or like low voc oil based paint disposed of properly.
If feed corn and soy were organic, that probably would have changed the health situation I have, and that of every woman in my hometown, but victory gardeners do not spray tomatoes with Treflan, poisoning the water supply. Those are weed killers, not fertilizers, anyway.
Don't get me started on soy paint.
I think gardens are cool, hate (and am allergic to) grass/lawns, but: NAFTA (what is food security? actually -- what does it mean? does it mean not having to exploit the providers of food?): why spend city (treated) water, hours, cages, etc., for tomatoes?
I think growing hot & specialty peppers is cool because anyone with a window ledge and an old tin can can do it. Plus those suckers are $8. a pound, even in California.
But if one lives in a desert, drip-watered raised beds full of imported bone meal and mulch for tomatoes; alfalfa in Wyoming emptying the Colorado River, and not only fetish lawns, but then fetish lawns that must be made without tools.
People at the 99 cents only store bought out the seeds, people at the hardware stores are buying veggie seedlings: tomatoes in season here in California are 10 pounds for a dollar. That's right: 10 pounds for a dollar. Like citrus in Florida in season. I hate to see post college kids (since we are privileged it is our responsibility to impoverish ourselves serving our basic needs at Whole Foods and overpriced greenmarkets) and really suffering people spending what is over $5 a pound for vegetables in labor & water (labor valued at minimum wage).
Remember the e coli recycled water deal.
If feed corn and soy were organic, that probably would have changed the health situation I have, and that of every woman in my hometown, but victory gardeners do not spray tomatoes with Treflan, poisoning the water supply. Those are weed killers, not fertilizers, anyway.
Don't get me started on soy paint.
I think gardens are cool, hate (and am allergic to) grass/lawns, but: NAFTA (what is food security? actually -- what does it mean? does it mean not having to exploit the providers of food?): why spend city (treated) water, hours, cages, etc., for tomatoes?
I think growing hot & specialty peppers is cool because anyone with a window ledge and an old tin can can do it. Plus those suckers are $8. a pound, even in California.
But if one lives in a desert, drip-watered raised beds full of imported bone meal and mulch for tomatoes; alfalfa in Wyoming emptying the Colorado River, and not only fetish lawns, but then fetish lawns that must be made without tools.
People at the 99 cents only store bought out the seeds, people at the hardware stores are buying veggie seedlings: tomatoes in season here in California are 10 pounds for a dollar. That's right: 10 pounds for a dollar. Like citrus in Florida in season. I hate to see post college kids (since we are privileged it is our responsibility to impoverish ourselves serving our basic needs at Whole Foods and overpriced greenmarkets) and really suffering people spending what is over $5 a pound for vegetables in labor & water (labor valued at minimum wage).
Remember the e coli recycled water deal.
red dress / blue dress
they say it is not powerful, it says sex
they say it is not sexy, it says cheap
the red dress speaks, they try for redress
redder than lips
so red, reflects onto skin, pinking it
the devil wears a blue dress (it is cold)
soldiers wear dress blue
each thanatos wears a color
a lie your eyes are blue, the sky
your gold dress
summer distilled, milleflores (sp)
light embodied
they say it is not powerful, it says sex
they say it is not sexy, it says cheap
the red dress speaks, they try for redress
redder than lips
so red, reflects onto skin, pinking it
the devil wears a blue dress (it is cold)
soldiers wear dress blue
each thanatos wears a color
a lie your eyes are blue, the sky
your gold dress
summer distilled, milleflores (sp)
light embodied
Death of Deborah Digges
I unfortunately was an early student of Deborah's -- she wasn't the great teacher and mentor that by all accounts she became, was, for two decades -- she hadn't written a memoir.
She was a good poet, someone with a good ear who wrote about form -- in fact, I felt that she'd been hired mostly because of this -- we had a few students very interested in form. She was enduring her Plumley divorce, I think. In the class were now-novelist James Conrad, Barbara Tran, Caroline Crumpacker, one of the two poet Sarah Kennedys (I think)....
What I keep returning to since I heard the news is the ways her poems are Plath obsessed; the ear, totally different, the approach to form-as-executed, I think finally more sophisticated. But the obsessions are there, and then I remember her focus on the repetitions of the repetive form to enact obsession, the knife poem, the big cuts/little cuts poem...
I unfortunately was an early student of Deborah's -- she wasn't the great teacher and mentor that by all accounts she became, was, for two decades -- she hadn't written a memoir.
She was a good poet, someone with a good ear who wrote about form -- in fact, I felt that she'd been hired mostly because of this -- we had a few students very interested in form. She was enduring her Plumley divorce, I think. In the class were now-novelist James Conrad, Barbara Tran, Caroline Crumpacker, one of the two poet Sarah Kennedys (I think)....
What I keep returning to since I heard the news is the ways her poems are Plath obsessed; the ear, totally different, the approach to form-as-executed, I think finally more sophisticated. But the obsessions are there, and then I remember her focus on the repetitions of the repetive form to enact obsession, the knife poem, the big cuts/little cuts poem...
4.13.2009
Boss
Tweed, harassing who?
"in the weeds"
a corruption of... (twill)
dyed with lichen, manna, moss...
this "too plausible" explanation may be folk etymology, noting a use of "twedlyne" in 1541, and suggesting "tweedling" in parallel to "twilling" as the origin of "tweed";
"chaise lounge" for "chaise longue"
wiki
False etymologies are a consequence of the longstanding interest in putatively original, and therefore normative, meanings of words, a characteristic of logocentrism. Until academic linguistics developed the comparative study of philology and the development of the laws underlying sound changes, the derivation of words was a matter mostly of guess-work, sometimes right but more often wrong, based on superficial resemblances of form and the like. This popular etymology has had a powerful influence on the forms which words take (e.g., crawfish or crayfish, from the French crevis, modern crevisse, or sand-blind, from samblind, i.e. semi-, half-blind), and has frequently been the occasion of homonyms resulting from different etymologies for what appears a single word
Tweed, harassing who?
"in the weeds"
a corruption of... (twill)
dyed with lichen, manna, moss...
this "too plausible" explanation may be folk etymology, noting a use of "twedlyne" in 1541, and suggesting "tweedling" in parallel to "twilling" as the origin of "tweed";
"chaise lounge" for "chaise longue"
wiki
False etymologies are a consequence of the longstanding interest in putatively original, and therefore normative, meanings of words, a characteristic of logocentrism. Until academic linguistics developed the comparative study of philology and the development of the laws underlying sound changes, the derivation of words was a matter mostly of guess-work, sometimes right but more often wrong, based on superficial resemblances of form and the like. This popular etymology has had a powerful influence on the forms which words take (e.g., crawfish or crayfish, from the French crevis, modern crevisse, or sand-blind, from samblind, i.e. semi-, half-blind), and has frequently been the occasion of homonyms resulting from different etymologies for what appears a single word
from Amy King
A couple of months ago, Amazon quietly
unleashed some sort of campaign to strip certain books of their sales
rankings. Unfortunately (& not so coincidentally), most of the books targeted fell under the
“Gay/Lesbian” category. Once removed from the sales rankings and
placed within the “Adult” category, these books no longer show up in
search engines or in Amazon searches. In other words, sales death. How
to kill gay books in one easy step? Watch while Amazon quietly removes
gay and lesbian titles and renders them invisible. Censorship at its
deadliest. Many good people have already been posting and protesting across the internet,
and though you may not rely on big name middlemen for your goods, much
of America does. Make it your business to send a word of protest
Amazon’s way!
A Petition -- http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy
A couple of months ago, Amazon quietly
unleashed some sort of campaign to strip certain books of their sales
rankings. Unfortunately (& not so coincidentally), most of the books targeted fell under the
“Gay/Lesbian” category. Once removed from the sales rankings and
placed within the “Adult” category, these books no longer show up in
search engines or in Amazon searches. In other words, sales death. How
to kill gay books in one easy step? Watch while Amazon quietly removes
gay and lesbian titles and renders them invisible. Censorship at its
deadliest. Many good people have already been posting and protesting across the internet,
and though you may not rely on big name middlemen for your goods, much
of America does. Make it your business to send a word of protest
Amazon’s way!
A Petition -- http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy
ok, failing the poem a day thing, I'm doing a revision aday, see if that helps
Twill
Twilight lines or ribs
with an extra eve
the pattern or its appearance
sim
Beneath, basic.
Beating heart, whelk, red sea, tyrean purple, beats
well, swinging, until it will
drill, locked in step, regimented,
woven double to a strong bias,
or sail.
Examples of twill fabric are chino,denim, gabardine, tweed and serge.
Even-sided twills include foulard or surah, serge, twill flannel, sharkskin, herringbone, and houndstooth. Warp-faced twills include lining twill, denim, jean, drill, covert, chino, gabardine, cavalry twill, and fancy twill.
Shallon
Cassimere
Serge
Blanket
Swandsdown
FlannelGingham
Gauze
Muslin
most delicately cheap
a bit of girl
petticoats
skirts
muslined, dressed
Denim
Serge de Nimes
Chambray
Boucle
blue clay
beaucoup
Burlap
course cloth
sack race
three=legged
flour bags
and ashes
rag jute hemp
Cambric
batiste
baste
camouflage
Trim
Soutache
Middy Braid
Frizette Gimp
Gimp Braid
this is from a series begun a long time ago; some of the poems have been published, including at petticoat relaxer. working off the premise that women are weavers.
Twill
Twilight lines or ribs
with an extra eve
the pattern or its appearance
sim
Beneath, basic.
Beating heart, whelk, red sea, tyrean purple, beats
well, swinging, until it will
drill, locked in step, regimented,
woven double to a strong bias,
or sail.
Examples of twill fabric are chino,denim, gabardine, tweed and serge.
Even-sided twills include foulard or surah, serge, twill flannel, sharkskin, herringbone, and houndstooth. Warp-faced twills include lining twill, denim, jean, drill, covert, chino, gabardine, cavalry twill, and fancy twill.
Shallon
Cassimere
Serge
Blanket
Swandsdown
FlannelGingham
Gauze
Muslin
most delicately cheap
a bit of girl
petticoats
skirts
muslined, dressed
Denim
Serge de Nimes
Chambray
Boucle
blue clay
beaucoup
Burlap
course cloth
sack race
three=legged
flour bags
and ashes
rag jute hemp
Cambric
batiste
baste
camouflage
Trim
Soutache
Middy Braid
Frizette Gimp
Gimp Braid
this is from a series begun a long time ago; some of the poems have been published, including at petticoat relaxer. working off the premise that women are weavers.
4.12.2009
roast duck: sweat duck for 3 hrs @ 250 degrees covered; I added some brilliant goose fat and 1/2 cup (all I had) cheap black olives (I wold add a can of chea black pitted olives in future, and onions if you can have them)
then put duck upright o guiness can and roast 1 hr (at least) until skin is crispy
sauce:
basil leaves removed from stems
pan drippings (not realy defatted, just the major fat drained off
olives
also the goosefat had some old chestmuts and pan drippigs therein
cuisinart
dish out on cooked lentils, but nuke 1-2 mins to crisp skin, heat pesto-like yumminess
then put duck upright o guiness can and roast 1 hr (at least) until skin is crispy
sauce:
basil leaves removed from stems
pan drippings (not realy defatted, just the major fat drained off
olives
also the goosefat had some old chestmuts and pan drippigs therein
cuisinart
dish out on cooked lentils, but nuke 1-2 mins to crisp skin, heat pesto-like yumminess
Irish linen is the brand name given to linen produced in Ireland.
To be Irish linen fabric the yarns do not necessarily have to come from an Irish spinner
to be Irish linen yarn the flax fibre does not have to be grown in Ireland.
the design and weaving skills must be Irish, and must take place in Ireland.
Finished garments, or household textile items can be labelled Irish linen, although they may have been made up in another country.
To be Irish linen fabric the yarns do not necessarily have to come from an Irish spinner
to be Irish linen yarn the flax fibre does not have to be grown in Ireland.
the design and weaving skills must be Irish, and must take place in Ireland.
Finished garments, or household textile items can be labelled Irish linen, although they may have been made up in another country.
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