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Joy Harjo, “Grace”

For Darlene Wind and James Welch

I think of Wind and her wild ways the year we had nothing to lose and lost it anyway in the cursed country of the fox. We still talk about that winter, how the cold froze imaginary buffalo on the stuffed horizon of snowbanks. The haunting voices of the starved and mutilated broke fences, crashed our thermostat dreams, and we couldn’t stand it one more time. So once again we lost a winter in stubborn memory, walked through cheap apartment walls, skated through fields of ghosts into a town that never wanted us, in the epic search for grace.

Like Coyote, like Rabbit, we could not contain our terror and clowned our way through a season of false midnights. We had to swallow that town with laughter, so it would go down easy as honey. And one morning as the sun struggled to break ice, and our dreams had found us with coffee and pancakes in a truck stop along Highway 80, we found grace.

I could say grace was a woman with time on her hands, or a white buffalo escaped from memory. But in that dingy light it was a promise of balance. We once again understood the talk of animals, and spring was lean and hungry with the hope of children and corn.

I would like to say, with grace, we picked ourselves up and walked into the spring thaw. We didn’t; the next season was worse. You went home to Leech Lake to work with the tribe and I went south. And, Wind, I am still crazy. I know there is something larger than the memory of a dispossessed people. We have seen it.

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Joy Harjo, “Remember”

Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away to night. Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form and breath. You are evidence of her life, and her mother’s, and hers. Remember your father. He is your life, also. Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth brown earth, we are earth. Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the origin of this universe. Remember you are all people and all people are you. Remember you are this universe and this universe is you. Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you. Remember language comes from this. Remember the dance language is, that life is. Remember.

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“To be myself I need the illumination of other people’s eyes and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.” — Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

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I’m in love with the sofa on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Anyone know where it’s from? 

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Apparently some people can have a thought like “I need to do this” and then they actually have no problem getting up and doing it.  What a weird way to live, how strange, wonder what that would be like.

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“I have access to the top level of the MI5 archive-” “Yes that’s where I’m looking.”

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I really want a copy of the Spectacles audiobook but I can’t buy it because I’m not in the UK.  How is this fair? I really really really want it. Boo.

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Would anyone be willing to upload video of this? I would love to see it.

��And the brilliant then-controller at BBC Two said, “Um, I think you should think about it.” And I went “Still, no.” And then she was very effective at just removing all other work. So I then said, “It will be an amazing idea!”’

Sue Perkins on her reaction on first being asked to present The Great British Bake Off on The One Show, 16 October 2015

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A four-episode American version of Bake Off for Christmas, hosted by Nia Vardalos, with Johnny Iuzzini and Mary Berry as judges? No. Just no. Won't someone think of the children? Won't someone save Mary Berry?

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Just posted my links for Giles and Sue Live the Good Life and Giles and Sue’s Royal Wedding here: http://polite-egg.tumblr.com/post/131936378182/giles-and-sue-live-the-good-life-giles-and-sues

Hi! i'm new fan of sue perkins and giles. do you know where can i watch Giles and Sue Live the Good Life? i only can find a good christmas on youtube, but none of the others. thanks!! :)

We get this question quite often and I hope I can upload them myself sometime. 

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Giles and Sue Live the Good Life / Giles and Sue’s Royal Wedding

I've been meaning to post this for a while, but I saw someone was looking for it, so figured I'd upload everything now. Enjoy! Giles and Sue Live the Good Life Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 (Christmas) Giles and Sue's Royal Wedding

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I would post this on Facebook but I can already imagine the amount of shit I would get. Crazy funny, though.

Twilight has been genderbent, and now it’s time for the tznius police to get the same treatment!

You are like a prince, a jewel, a diamond, and just like a precious gem, we want to protect you and keep you safe.

We urge all men to increase their adherence to laws of modesty. The current rise in terrorism in Israel and indeed, anti-Semitism around the world, is entirely due to the fact that some men are wearing revealing clothes, trousers that are too tight, or have shirt sleeves rolled up too high.

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Yup.

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I want this to be my Christmas card this year. If only you could buy it in packs, and if only everyone I know wasn’t American. 

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During Bake Off tonight, my partner called Tamal a cinnamon roll. My work is done.

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Complete Supersizers Episodes

I finally have my very own set of Supersizers episodes, and I offer them here for your enjoyment:

Pilot:

Edwardian Supersize Me

The Supersizers Go:

Wartime

Restoration

Victorian

Seventies

Elizabethan

Regency

The Supersizers Eat:

The 80s

Medieval

The French Revolution

The 20s

The 50s

Ancient Rome