CARADHRAS
by the Dunharrow Dead

This fellowship
Has to make it on time
Left Rivendell
With walkers nine
Hits Eregion
All emptied out
There's no Elves, no Men
And Sauron's at it again

Climbing that pass
High in morass
Caradhras, you better
Watch your snow
Blizzard ahead
Warg-wolves behind
And you know that Moria
Just crossed my mind

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MINAS BLUES AGAIN
(from Strawhead on Strawhead)

by Hob Dylan

Oh, Saruman draws circles
Up and down Isengard
I'd ask him what the matter was
But I know that I'd get scarred
And the Dwarves treat me kindly
And furnish me with cramBut deep inside my heart ( Read more... )

DESOLATE MORDOR
by Hob Dylan

They're selling fireworks for the party
They're making the Ent-lands BrownThe ships are filled with Corsairs ( Read more... )

THE AGE IT IS A-CHANGIN'
by Hob Dylan

Come gather 'round Hobbits wherever you roam
And admit that the ruffians
Around you have grown
And accept it that you'll be
Turned out of your homes
If your Shire to you is worth savin'
Then you better start scourin'
Or you'll sink like Orod-na-ThônFor the Age it is a-changin ( Read more... )

This evening we went to see this Egyptian movie, دنيا Dunia, at the DC Muslim Film Festival (followed by a live belly dance performance by Katarina Gala). Directed by Jocelyne Saab and starring beautiful Hanan Turk, Dunia is a major achievement of Arab women's cinema, stunningly visual and carrying a powerful meaning.


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Your Score: Romeo & Juliet

You scored 37% = Tragic, 39% = Comic, 46% = Romantic, 25% = Historic


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RED ROSES.

A cool red rose
and a pink cut pink,
a collapse and a sold hole,
a little less hot.

--Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

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1. I know you've explored many spiritual paths. What themes tie your journeys together?
Feminism and yoga. I see the two as sharing a deep connection.

2. You wrote right now I see the world facing an irruption of wakan such as has not been seen before ... I'm thinking this would make a great Neil Gaiman novel! Say more, about what that novel would ( Read more... )