what an ass

Rush Limbaugh had this to say about Michale J. Fox

"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease," Limbaugh told listeners. "He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. . . . This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting."

Right, cause none of those are the effects of disease....aagh!

i missed this last week...

Washington's Theatre Lobby Shutting Down The organization existed as a performance troupe from 1950 to 1972, then reconvened in 1985 as a theater support organization. Now most of the 15 Lobby members are in their 70s and 80s, some living in retirement communities. Seeing the plays, voting on the awards, raising funds for the small cash prizes and the event to hand them out has become too much. Washington Post 10/18/06

Oh me Oh My

Again, things get so complicated as we get older huh!?

The only silence I get is when I am asleep

When I look at my life - I like the journey – I do not see the end point at all...this is good.

Yet I crave to know when I will catch my breath rest my head without being asleep.

I want just a little compassion. I need someone to talk to – and not just dump on those handfuls of people that sure get an ear full – but maybe that is the way things play out with communication.

I am not a plain Jane – yet some times I wish I was. My shadow appears to be pretty plain…not sure what I mean by that.

I am patient with how things progress. I hold hope for all that things that are said and are hoped.

So, yes, I guess its alright.

okay, so, I have been listening to imogen heap for about two years now...and their new album came out on the 16th...I realized come the 13th that i was half counting the days...I do not think i have had a favoirite band in some time...they are really creative and thoughtful...yep I like them.

fall

no money in my pocket - YO!

yet i am pretty happy...but if i had more money I would be happier I feel...or so I have been thinking over the past few weeks...and today as my bank account bleeds red...i read this article in the Boston Globe....more money, more problems

jon and i went to see scot's show last night - went out for drinks after and mr. fancypants jon was hit on by both sexes in a too bright - neon - painoish bar. He was rawkin a shirt that just drew them in...it was like fly paper.

saw arturo ui last night. ah, whoa...wow! scot wastes nothing - all is ui. i was not ready or wanting for it to end - i mean i knew it must. the whole movie feel... i am at a play - yet it costs as much as a movie - and oh, i smell popcorn...i felt it was shameful in some way at first - raised my brow. But, man it works the whole package of the evening worked.

go - go to it now...

my grandpa brienza did this logo - all growing up I thought the B was for our last name - seriously, it was only about 2 ro 3 years ago i realized I was wrong.

does metro think of people as cars?

i seriously spent 4 hours on metro today. it was for a good cause - but none the less I read the entire express and two short stories in the book i am reading.

On the back of the express today they had this metro newsletter of sorts...in the bottom column entitled metro buzz - they had this to say: " with smarTrip only aisles, 32 customers can pass through a fare gate each minute, compared to 22 per minute currently. The SmarTrip express lanes are similar to E-ZPass lanes on toll roads." They are thinking of people as cars - right...that is really disturbing to me.

best thing said to me today

i got this in an email from a friend in philly ( all of you who spend sunday...all sunday at sugarmoms know what he is saying): "Sugar Mom's will be the death of me. I may have drank close to a bottle of whiskey there last night by 9pm. I woke up and my gut and what I can only imagine to be my kidneys and liver hurt. I should probally take a break, and I will, because they don't open for another hour and a half."

okay, this may be a bit of rant...but here goes. Why do humans always need to compete? What is that? Now, I am not saying that I am not competitive – I am to a point – but without real respect for oneself and human nature mixed in with that competitiveness – oh, my what a bad trait this is. This type of person seriously makes my skin crawl – like used car dealer: never really getting to see the real face of the person – always putting on masks to give people what they want…ick!

the best health news!

Marijuana may block Alzheimer's

The compound may protect the brain

The active ingredient in marijuana may stall decline from Alzheimer's disease, research suggests.

Scientists showed a synthetic version of the compound may reduce inflammation associated with Alzheimer's and thus help to prevent mental decline.

They hope the cannabinoid may be used to developed new drug therapies.

The research, by Madrid's Complutense University and the Cajal Institute, is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

We would warn the public against taking marijuana as a way of preventing Alzheimer's Dr Susanne Sorensen

The scientists first compared the brain tissue of patients who died from Alzheimer's disease with that of healthy people who had died at a similar age.

They looked closely at brain cell receptors to which cannabinoids bind, allowing their effects to be felt.

They also studied structures called microglia, which activate the brain's immune response.

Microglia collect near the plaque deposits associated with Alzheimer's disease and, when active, cause inflammation.

The researchers found a dramatically reduced functioning of cannabinoid receptors in diseased brain tissue.

This was an indication that patients had lost the capacity to experience cannabinoids' protective effects.

The next step was to test the effect of cannabinoids on rats injected with the amyloid protein that forms Alzheimer's plaques.

Those animals who were also given a dose of a cannabinoid performed much better in tests of their mental functioning.

The researchers found that the presence of amyloid protein in the rats' brains activated immune cells.

However, rats that also received the cannabinoid showed no sign of microglia activation.

Using cell cultures, the researchers confirmed that cannabinoids counteracted the activation of microglia and thus reduced inflammation.

Drug target

Researcher Dr Maria de Ceballos said: "These findings that cannabinoids work both to prevent inflammation and to protect the brain may set the stage for their use as a therapeutic approach for Alzheimer's disease."

Dr Susanne Sorensen, head of research at the Alzheimer's Society, said: "This is important research because it provides another piece of the jigsaw puzzle on the workings of the brain.

"There is no cure for Alzheimer's disease, so the identification of another target for drug development is extremely welcome.

"The Alzheimer's Society looks forward to seeing further research being carried out on cannabinoid receptors as drug targets for Alzheimer's disease but would warn the public against taking marijuana as a way of preventing Alzheimer's.

"It is now generally recognised that as well as providing a 'high', long-term use of marijuana can also lead to depression in many individuals."

Different receptors

Harriet Millward, of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, said there were two main types of cannabinoid receptor, CR1 and CR2.

"It is CR1 that produces most of the effects of marijuana, including the harmful ones.

"If it is possible to make drugs that act only on CR2, as suggested by the authors of this study, they might mimic the positive effects of cannabinoids without the damaging ones of marijuana.

"However, this is a fairly new field of research and producing such selective drugs is not an easy task.

"There is also no evidence yet that cannabinoid-based drugs can slow the decline in human Alzheimer's patients."

random thoughts

Who tattoos their face?

I saw Dan T. on the metro last night.

Why are relationships so complicated as one gets older…oh, the baggage we carry.

My oven doesn’t work.

I really am loving U2 more that usual.

I think I need to go on a trip.

I should recycle paper more.

Fall is a great season.

Am I supposed to own where I live? This really has never crossed my mind…no joke.

It will be a cold winter.

Amish shooting!

Fenty and Dan T…it feels like Clinton hope..good.

I really do not drink beer.

Why does the heat just turn on in my house?

I need office furniture. Anyone!!!???

Leggings are good!

My home is the USA not just a city in the country.

I need to go to Iceland.

Hitler was crazy..yet really fucking brilliant

who i want to meet

I have read nearly all of Haruki Murakami novels and short stories. I am powering through the 24 short stories in Blind Willow Sleeping Woman. There is something about his writing that is at one point so familiar - like a thought you had but never came up with quite the right words to express perhaps - or maybe not even formed it into a thought cause words were not what it was - in saying all of that his stories are also surprising and take you on such a journey. It is like a dream when you first wake up you remember portions - splashes and all day you keep going back to it all day to connect the dots.
I do not have a lot of time to read....or at least to way I woudl like to. I do wish and hope that some day I could meet Haruki and talk to him about his process.

best thing said to me today

"you know it is just a magic grass trick", thaddeus phillps.

Listen to this song. Click on the first link sandbag search:http://www.luciditysuitcase.com/music.html

this is from a show called earth's sharp edge. in the scene where this song is played a man's suitcase is being searched by airposrt security- inside they find sand. Once the sand is poured out the man whos suitcase it is walks a small camel over the pile of sand on the table - slowly - it is one part beauitful and another part heart wrenching as you know his homeland - how he knew is gone forever.