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60 degrees already (15-16 for you Centigradients.) A couple more higher later on. Blue sky. Puffy white clouds. Daffodils are starting to pop out of the ground, and some unidentifiable bush outside my apartment is starting to bloom with big red flowers (*).

I've been asking "Is it Spring yet?" all winter long.

It's looking like Spring.


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(*)It's a leafy bush, but stretched tall, about 6 foot, with round greenish buds a little smaller than a golfball. The flowers are dark red, like a rose, with longish, yellow pistils.

Botany Bay

Here's that flower bush I'm trying to identify.

( I'm under here... )

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Poe -- IMHO one of the most underrated artists of the last few years. Consider the soft femininity mixed with iron strength (a weakness of mine) and bald anger displayed with seductiveness most powerful in its purity of taunt:

I can do it you gently, I can do it with an animal's grace
I can do it with precision, I can do it with gourmet taste
But either way, either, either way
I wanna kill you
I wanna blow you...
Away

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So, I'm watching the Olympics tonight and they replay the now famously controversial Canadian double skating performance, complete with a live-ish milking of the opportunity by showing the performance in front of the Canadian duo (along with tight close-ups). Add to this a sensational interview with the Russian duo previous to this...I dunno. As of now, so many other bandwagons have joined this crusade, the whole situation looks like the Brigham Young wagon train.

I remember catching bits and pieces of the event while I was in Boston last week, but in a crowded hotel restaurant/bar, after the fatigue of work and travel, it was hard to pay attention at the time. I must say the performance was stunning. Not just in the technique of the skating, which was utterly flawless. Not just with the current knowledge of the controversy and the now-tangible drama of the event. The art, IMHO, was very well done. Though it may be a stereotype, there is a certain aura around male skaters these days -- they seem to be masculine-challenged. Pelletier and Sale were the essence of artistic masculinity and femininity. In a classical sense, they were the archetypal forms. The strength of Pelletier, his sturdy one-handed, almost casual balance of Sale above him, synchronized against the feline flexibility and shy grace of Sale...

It makes me wish I had been able to clearly watch it the first time around, free of the influence the controversy has generated.