He hadn't been all there for years, because he'd been into heroin all that time. In fact he actually ODed once and they had him in the morgue in San Jose with a tag on his toe. All of a sudden he got up and asked for a glass of water. Now he was snortin' big clumps of coke, and nothing would happen to him. We couldn't have him around because he'd be pacing the room, describing axe murders. So we got him a little place of his own. He had a little white rat named Oswald that would snort coke too. He'd never washed his dishes, and he'd try to get these little grammar school girls to go into the house with him. He was real bad. One of the parents finally called the cops, and they took him to the County Mental Health Hospital in Santa Cruz. Where they immediately lost him, and he turned up days later in the women's ward."

In a while I'll find the time to make the sunshine mine (my)

In a smile I saw a single eagle in the sky

Wheeling, soaring, gliding by

On a hill there lived a man with many shining things

Shiny pool, shiny car and shiny diamond rings

Wining, dining, shining king

And the eagle flies in clear blue skies

Breathing in the clear blue air

Back here on the ground another dealer coughs and dies

And fifty more come rolling off

The Ford production line

Then a man appearing like a mirage on the sand

In his hand a moving picture of the crumbling land

Screaming, dealing, movie man

Here we go, hold your nose and see if something blows

Close your eyes, count to ten and see the sunrise rise

Climbing high into the sky

By the ornamental lake a diamond lies

Upon the finger of the king

On high, the eagle spies the glitter of a gun

Then wheeling in a climbing turn he flies into the sun

Process is key.  Once you know the rules of a process you can effect continous change with no continuing attention.

Virtual reality approaches objective experience by the creation,design and operation of rules. The greater the detail in rules, the deeper the  reality.

There is no ultimate speck of matter but only a rule or process at work. At all levels until the vacuum origin, the universe(s) is process, a series of rules,  

e.g.                                                      

 on/off    

yes/no    

0/1, 

  

and by combination of these selections facilitating  greater and greater choice and thereby complexity.

Yet it remains the vacuum.

“TRICKS OF THE TRADE”

MOUTH CLOSURE

Properly set features are vital to the best appearance of the deceased. A little care exercised during this phase of preparation will help ensure a good final outcome.

First relieve the rigor mortis if present, and then disinfect. If you do not disinfect the oral cavity, after the case has been embalmed a greenish or dark look can form around the mouth. This is a most important step that most embalmers never take the time to do. To disinfect, the Champion Company makes a product called Metriguard (a bactericidal, fungicidal, viricidal, pseudomonacidal and tuberculocidal disinfectant). It works better than any other product on the market today. You should always remove dentures before disinfecting the oral cavity; also clean and disinfect the dentures before replacing them.



Next, clean and dry the mouth, and pack the throat with some cotton with massage cream on it. This will help prevent the cotton from acting as a wick and help control purge and odor arising from the stomach or lungs.



Examine the lips and clean and remove all loose skin. Dodge makes a product called Dry Wash, which works great for cleaning off the lips. If the lips have scabs, massage cream will help in loosening them so that removal is easier. Observe the “weather line;” remember your basics you were taught in school. The expression of the deceased can be one of the most criticized areas of the embalming.



Secure the mandible. There are many different ways to do this, and I believe it is a personal choice of each embalmer. However, as a trade embalmer, I believe it is best to suture the mouth closed. You never know who might get your case ready; many unlicensed preparers have the tendency to drop the head back, and, when using the needle injector, the mouth will pop open. If this occurs, the embalmer will be told that his job wasn’t satisfactory. It will never be the fault of the person dressing and bouncing the body around; it will only be the fault of the embalmer. This is also why I prefer a full macue, or, as they call it today, a Mandibular Suture.



A mandibular suture is made by opening the mouth, inserting a threaded needle (I prefer black thread, it is less obvious) at the center of the mouth, at the base of the tongue behind the lower teeth. Push the needle downward, exiting about an inch or so past the point of the chin (see diagram below), and come out in the soft tissues on the base of the chin (NOT as close to the sunmandibular area as most have been taught - that’s the reason most of you have big dimples when suturing a mouth). Reinsert your needle into the same small hole at the base of the chin and guide your needle upward carefully, just in front of the left side of the center of the mandible (feeling or scraping the mandible with your needle as you go upward). You will then come up in front of the bottom teeth, where the lip attaches to the gum. Now the suture has passed completely around the mandible. Next, gently pull on both ends of the suture string (in a sawing motion) so you will saw through the soft tissue until it reaches the mandible. Place the palm of your hand under the chin and push it up with a forward motion from the neck to the chin. This will help you to not dimple the area.



Now you can insert your threaded needle into the left nostril at a point where the upper lip joins the maxilla under the nostril. Make sure you keep your needle as close to the bone as possible. Direct the needle into the opening of the nostril, making sure you don’t come out into any flesh (if you come out into the flesh this will cause a pulling of the nose, a big no-no). Then repeat the same step on the right nostril except, after you come out into the opening of the nostril, pass your needle trough the septum (as low as possible) of the nose, and come out the opening of the left nostril. I personally prefer to go from the right side to the left so that my liguature is tucked away in the non-viewing side of the nose.



Use your hand to hold the mandibile up into place (do not use your string alone to pull the jaw up), check out the postionings of your mouth closure, and, when you have it at the proper position (the mandible doesn’t have to always be pulled all the way shut for a good mouth closure), then tie off both of your free ends of the suture string in the nose to hold it gently snug. Place some Vaseline or massage cream on the lips to help hold them in place. It also helps to keep them moisturized while embalming. Tie your suture in a bow. I leave my string hanging out of the nostril while I am embalming so that if I need to adjust the mouth closure again after I am done embalming, I can do so.



When I have completed my embalming, I tuck the string down into the nose so it won’t be seen; then, if an adjustment is necessary, one can be done. Also, place a dab of massage cream on the hole you made under the chin so that dehydration won’t occur. This hole can be waxed in very easily when cosmetics are done.

Jon Snyder, author of this month’s tip, wishes to acknowledge the work of Mr. Bob Mayer, embalmer and textbook author, for some of the information contained in this description of correct mouth closure. The illustration used is from the textbook The Principles and Practice of Embalming by Clarence G. Strub, L.E. and L.G. “Darko” Frederick, L.E.-L.F.D.



 Things are good and the future looks bright.



Onset is from 10 minutes to several hours, beginning with facial muscles. Greatest stiffness may be 12-48 hours after death, and rigor mortis may last up to 72 hours. The bottom line is that the muscles remain contracted until they start decomposing.

Does she dig Rimbaud?

Friday, January 25, 2008


LIZ SMITH reports on Joe Russo-Paris Hilton!!


PARIS HILTON, whose sense of "history" is what she did

the night before last, turns out to be a big fan of

the late Jim Morrison, charismatic lead singer of The

Doors. Hilton's '60s pop culture crawl has led her to

N.Y.-based Morrison look-alike singer Joe Russo. She's

picking his brain to find out where she can purchase

Morrison artifacts. Hilton has already made

pilgrimages to his gravesite, the fabled Pere-Lachaise

Cemetery. (Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Frederic

Chopin and Gertrude Stein keep Jim company.)


Paris' great desire is to own the gold-plated

microphone Morrison used in various concerts and

during his notorious 1968 Ed Sullivan appearance,

singing "Light My Fire." (Sullivan demanded that Jim

change the lyric "girl we couldn't get much higher."

The rocker said, "Sure." Then he went right ahead and

sang it his way. Sullivan was furious; The Doors

didn't care.)

Comments:

Yeah...I still don't like her. She should at least get a boob job at least she would have something



Sorry! I hate her guts. With all that money she should be helping the folks in need instead of walking around with hair extentions looking for best friends in england.


At the risk of getting my ass kicked in this thread, why can't Paris be a fan like anyone else? What excludes her from being a Doors fan? Why do some of you get to decide who is a Doors fan and who is not? She didn't choose being born into wealth anymore than someone would choose being born into poverty. If she was photographed wearing a Doors t-shirt a few years ago and is obsessively seeking memorabilia today with the help of Joe Russo, a name that is probably known mostly to serious Doors fans, that hardly constitutes a phase. I'm amazed that when it becomes popular to beat up on somebody, the masses just line up. I know virtually nothing about this woman. Neither do any of you. Yet, you all come down on her like she's the second coming of Hitler. Somebody wrote that she has nothing to offer. Perhaps she has something to offer those that are close to her like many of us who are not in the spotlight do. Somebody wrote that it would be blasphemous for her to acquire memorabilia. Why? Is it because she happened to have been born into wealth or that the cameras of the paparazzi are trained on her 24/7? What excludes her from being a Doors fan? Is it because she is perceived as being an airhead? I highly doubt that she is as stupid as her public persona suggests. More than likely it is an act. The public has a perception of her, and she is exploiting that. Paris has more than likely been manipulating the media and, in turn, the public, and she has been successful at it


Paris is just an example of young Hollywood at its worst. She's just one of many. That Lohan chick is another example. Having money is not really the issue here. She "flaunts" her wealth and feels that she is "above" the laws of society. There are plenty of examples of people who have money but they do not put themselves above everyone else. Those people I respect.


It is no different than the jerks who go out and dig up sacred Indian burial sites throughout America and then sell the historical artifacts they have stolen from our ancestors.

Paris can not be allowed to get ahold of Jim Morrison's 'golden microphone'


Artifacts are things that were actually used by Morrison or The Doors and played a part in the band's touring or song creation. Examples include: a container Morrison kept his heroin in, a hand written draft of 'Celebration of the Lizard', Jim's writing desk, a bottle of his booze.

Richard Ashcroft

One of the lines in Judas he says is based around fact. I was in New York City and I always found it intriguing that in the big coffee shop, just on Columbus Circle, just because it was so busy they would always ask your name so they could write it on the cup and I’m always intrigued by the power of any word and specifically names obviously.

There’s not been many Adolf Hitlers born post the Second World War and there’s also not been many Judases, perhaps none. It’s a name that’s been vilified, so when I was in this coffee shop I decided that I was going to order a latte, double shot and she said, ‘What’s your name?’ I said, ‘Judas,’ because it was packed and I wanted to see the reaction when she said, ‘Latte, double shot for Judas,’ which she did and it does and it causes this like, ‘Who on earth would be called that? You know, and it’s incredible that that word two thousand years later could still have such power and at the end in the chorus of Judas it goes into, all it says is ‘Let it go, let it go,’ because surely that is the message and that’s really the motivation for that song but it’s an example of where, this is reality, this is just a funny social experiment, you know.

$5,000 per American

What is proposed  by the change administration is not health care reform. The care is generally fine. 

 What is needed is  Insurance reform. 

Insurers are spending  300 million lobbbying Congress  not because they care about healthcare.  They are protecting their profits, their way of doing business. 

Only in the healthcare way of business,  unlike online travel, music, books, cars and other evolving industries, is the consumer so distant and removed from selection and price  negotiation with  the doctor or even the insurer since care and coverage come  through the  employer.  The consumer is left with little if any discounting leverage  and thus prices go up in the absence of his ability to reduce demand and hold them down.

Insurers are a single payer system, this  is already a  "socialistic" system   but instead of a bureaucrat at the top you have a profiteer.   The insurer recieves all the money, decides with arcane fraud what service it will provide, and then pays the doctor and hospital what it likes. The old communist party had less control and more concern for you then Humana.

They pick and choose who they will cover and can't be sued for their conduct.

Who has really come between americans  and their doctor?

Because the new plan is not in writing insurers can scare people with big brother threats from the people who are trying to create and maintain Big Brother. 

Obama needs to offer each american insurance for five thousand a year.  Pool all the money and hire a bunch more people to run the plan exactly as they have run medicare for thirty years.   Most americans know what they will  get with medicare and if  they  don't like it they can go with  private coverage.

What is new in the plan, competition.  The gravest threat to any business.  Real money is made by monopolies.

Insurance premiums would drop below $5,000  ahead of the plan's  passage and you would start to wipe out some of the 40% pork you're paying for now with insurance's administrative costs  and corporate jets.

No public option leaves no competition.

Chris' and my hangout before second grade  and then for  later generations of kids was an A framed  church  built in the 50’s as  a commune like  barn.  Noone from the neighborhood went there for service and  it was empty most times except for two hours on Sunday.  As kids we skirmished like mites across every stair and corner, attempting  the roof peak which rose  three stories and punished  with broken arms and  bruised  faces.    

Behind it was a row of run down frame cottages from the 20’s and 30’s,  one of which dropped me  through its roof, landing me  in a bathtub with my foot run through by  a nail.   We were unsupervised for ten to twelve hours and given no direction from our mothers except to "go outside".     

Jumping off three story bridges into marine traffic, skiing narrow canals, running  biking and driving to collision with retirees, gigging alligators,  lobster trapping in 8 foot seas, roof diving,  and skateboarding  spiralling ramps at the Burdines often ended  with  sunset  naps aboard ditched riverboats easing  into the New River's bottom.

knottings

I am, prone to death over immediate time. I need to guard my arachnoid granulations. My dreams are fish swimming in fast rivers underneath my skull in the dark.



The regions of the brain are named poetically the same as regions of the moon:

                Aqeduct of sylvius ;     
         Foramen of monro;

      a mammilary body,

 pyramid of medulla

for they are products of a romantic age,
 named like islands in the caribbean for their discoverers.



Neural evolution working out design barriers at the line of living neural tissue and non-living construct.

 The cerebellum branches look fluffy to the touch  like delicate coral
and perhaps they are, in the dark, and  not on the bright steel lab counter

 pickled in glass morton jars.






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Controversy of Spheres

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so who gave you the mic?



sit down, give someone some room


always standing in front


let someone else speak


give someone else silence.






doesn’t always have to be about you


looking at yourself in the mirror


i’m hear too…honey


and will always be here


so you better start sharing more


i can do just as well as you ever did


what will happen



when you open up


can’t be predicted


i’ve at least learned that

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Beard Years

1965- Mid-February 1969: No Beard

Mid-February 1969-September 1969-beard

Mid-September 1969-Early June 1970- No beard

June 1970-March 1971-Beard

March 1971-July 3, 1971 (death)no beard.

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Many travels since.



Monkey mind, dancing, nodding your head


tapping the branch, smiling at your reflection


Alone but a nut, sunset your friend,


Many trips to go,


Too many days to trip






Im not saying its got to be



 Confusion


All my life a calm circus


Course in jeopardy


Laughing baby


Prettiest flower


In my window


Of my moving car

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"The first stage is like ordinary drinking, the second when you begin to see monstrous and cruel things," wrote Oscar Wilde of absinthe, "But if you can persevere you will enter in upon the third stage where you see things that you want to see."