A Siren’s Gong

If it ain’t one thing it’s another. Today, the 5th largest earthquake ever recorded rattled Japan to its core at the magnitude of 8.9, sending an estimated thousands to their deaths, and tsunami warnings that continue to raise the hair on the back of the necks of Hawaii and U.S. West Coast inhabitants. Mother Nature is at it again. Who or what set her off this time around?

Methinks she grew tired of mankind getting all of the attention for destruction in Libya and elsewhere, and definitely had enough of a certain Warlock in California sucking all the air out of the news, and chose to remind us one more time that she is in charge, she is #winning, and don’t anyone forget it! You can’t if you live in areas where sirens are blasting their warning songs.

Humbling to view nature’s destruction, isn’t it? We may focus on wars, seemingly unfair political machinations, the latest hits and disses on celebrities, but nothing will ever compare to the ground literally moving under one’s feet or mile-high waves of water enveloping everything in its sight/path/route/view. Mother Nature will always have the last word. She’s stubborn that way….

Except when it involves the ageing process of this guy:


What is Prince doing (or not) to look so young at the age of – what is it now – 53? Yes, he does look a bit older than he did in the ‘80’s, but hey – he’s looks velly, velly good. Did he make a deal with the Prince of Darkness or something? I’m beginning to believe in Vampires. He may not be drinking Tiger’s Blood, but he sure looks like he’s been drinking from someone’s Fountain of Youth. He and Mother Nature must have made a pact of sorts. He won’t make waves with new recordings to party until it’s 2099, and thus she won’t tell gravity to rip his face apart.

What else is happening? Not much beyond what I’ve already written today and yesterday and the day before…

A summation of the week would be redundant, which is another reason why I chose to slip Prince into the mix. The above picture was taken at the 2011 NAACP Image Awards held on March 4, an often over-looked by mainstream media’s news cycles event.

In addition, it crossed my fevered mind to insert an unexpected visual into the post just to distract from the never-ending round of distressing, depressing news. (Well, perhaps seeing how little Prince has barely aged may cause a few of you to run from the mirror in horror and out to the corner drug dealer or liquor store for an elixir or more.)

Yes, I’m rather silly (or banal) at the moment. Following yesterday’s rather baffling post on the U.S. Constitution and Wisconsin’s slight-of-hand trick, as well as another natural disaster, I’m in the mood to be light as the feathers in my Down comforter. How about you?

Let’s all take a collective deep breath and carry on with our lives and party or knit or whatever fits your schick until it’s at least dinner or sighing/crying time.

Bon Aperitif!