Flower with Insects, 2008
Marker on paper

Private collection
My nephew sent me this!
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Ten television shows on which James Rebhorn has appeared as a guest star:
I like James Rebhorn. I'm watching him as a defense attorney on Law & Order right now, and last week I saw in the movie Baby Mama, in which he delivered a very funny line: "That's the worst closing argument I've ever heard." Which isn't all that funny out of context, I guess, but at the time it made me laugh out loud.
Ten things in my freezer:
Nos.. 1, 8, and 10 belong to my roommate. Hot dogs are one of the two things he knows how to cook. (The other is scrambled eggs.)

Yes, I do feel like a visitor,
a tourist in this world
that I once made.
I rarely talk,
except to ask the way,
distrusting my interpreters,
tired out by the babble
of what they do not say.
I walk around through battered streets,
distinctly lost,
looking for landmarks
from another, promised past.
Here, in this strange place,
in a disjointed time,
I am nothing but a space
that sometimes has to fill.
Images invade me.
Picture postcards overlap my empty face
demanding to be stamped and sent.
"Dear . . ."
Who am I speaking to?
I think I may have misplaced the address,
but still, I feel the need
to write to you;
not so much or your sake
as for mine,
to raise these barricades
against my fear:
Postcards from god.
Proof that I was here.
Imtiaz Dharker (born 1954)
Doctor Who and/or Star Wars fans may be interested to know that this poet is the mother of Ayesha Dharker, who played the Ood Operations P.R. executive in "Planet of the Ood" and Queen Jamillia of Naboo in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. I thought it was kind of interesting, anyway.
Ten characters who have appeared more than ten times on Law & Order, and the actors who portrayed them:
A fun McCoy quote in an L&O rerun I watched tonight: "I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks. What I'd really like to do is take 'em up to Battery Park and hang 'em by the scrotum." Best part was the extremely worried expression on the face of the extra who walked to deliver a motion just as McCoy said the last few words.
Ten of the original thirty-one flavors offered by Baskin-Robbins:
Irvine Robbins, the co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, died Monday. His first store, opened before he teamed up with his brother-in-law Burt Baskin to create Baskin-Robbins, had a mere 21 flavors. A funny anecdote from his obituary:
Some were short-lived and created to mark specific events, such as Lunar Cheesecake for the moon landings and Valley Forge Fudge for the 1976 bicentennial.
When the Beatles were to arrive in the United States in 1964, a reporter called to ask whether Baskin-Robbins was going to commemorate the event with a new flavor.
Robbins didn't have a flavor planned but quickly replied, "Uh, Beatle Nut, of course."
The flavor was created, manufactured and delivered in just five days, according to the Web site.
Ten grocery stores I've been to:
This was a lot harder to put together than I thought it would be.
Ten musicians who have appeared on Sesame Street:
And speaking of which, my brother showed me this video the other day:
My niece is pretty much obsessed with Elmo right now.

Ten soap opera parodies:


Love endures hardships at the hands of the Beloved.
Through love bitter things seem sweet,
Through love bits of copper are made gold.
Through love dregs taste like pure wine,
Through love pains are as healing balms.
Through love thorns become roses,
And through love vinegar becomes sweet wine.
Through love the stake becomes a throne,
Through love reverse of fortune seems good fortune.
Through love a prison seems a rose bower,
Without love a grate full of ashes seems a garden.
Through love burning fire is pleasing light,
Through love the Devil becomes a Houri.
Through love hard stones become soft as butter,
Without love soft wax becomes hard iron.
Through love grief is as joy,
Through love Ghouls turn into angels.
Through love stings are as honey,
Through love lions are harmless as mice.
Through love sickness is health,
Through love wrath is as mercy.
Through love the dead rise to life,
Through love the king becomes a slave.
Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī
Ten books I read during the month of April:
Ten people for whom counties in Maryland were named:
