 Happy Spring All!
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 3-27-2004:
We are honored and privileged to have our own "BlueDog" Ra
win the Humane Society of the U.S. Best Friend Photo Contest.
Over 4000 wonderful pets entered but Ra took the Grand Prize
and gave us our honeymoon! That is no small gift and we are
grateful to the organization and to our wonderful boy.
What
a big, golden soul he has and it shined through the virtual
world of pet lovers. Best of all, besides the Caribbean cruise
we won, a pitbull from Oakland won and this will go
a long way in educating America on this misunderstood, but
loyal and sweet breed.
We
wish you all a wonderful spring and send our abundance out
to all of you and your relations threefold. Much love. We
will toast the BlueDog community from our honeymoon cruise!
Also, at the bottom of this page is a link that feeds abused
animals. It's free and you can hit it once a day.
Also
for more pix of our boy, the rest of the temple beasts as
well as our furred, feathered and scaled friends, visit our
gallery
page.
Please feel free to send pix of your own animal friends and
we'll post them there. Blessed be all our
relations.
Peace.
Elisabeth and Mike.
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Tyson - The Skateboarding Bulldog |
 04-22-2004:
Seems that SuperDogs are everywhere! You absolutely must check
out Tyson - and his skateboarding talents. He's giving Tony
Hawk a run for his money! The following is from his website
skateboardingbulldog.com
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Tyson
has been around skateboards his entire life. As a puppy, he
watched his human friends and family ride their boards, and
enjoyed being pushed on a skateboard on the carpet. When he
was out on walks, he would go nuts anytime a skateboarder
would pass by him. We originally misinterpreted this excitement
for fear/hatred, as he would jump and lunge at people on their
boards (now, of course, we know that he was simply trying
to catch a ride himself). After about six months of this behavior,
when he was about a year old, we let him play with a skateboard
in the backyard -- and, before we knew it, he was riding it.
Not long after, we bought him his own board, and he's been
pursuing his hobby ever since (and, yes, it truly is his hobby
-- no coaxing from his humans is required!). It would not
be an exaggeration to say that Tyson truly "lives to skate."
Click here
to see Tyson in action! (757
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PetFest America 2004 - Columbus, OH |
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We're
back from PetFest
America - our two day trek to the mid-west where Ra got his
fifteen minutes of fame and we got to take home the grand
prize he won in the Humane Society of the United States Photo
Contest (see below).
This
event was truly a spectacle we wouldn't have missed. We shared
the stage at Ohio State University Buckeye arena (where Prince
played the night before) with Ronald McDonald and his really
big shoes and really big check to local animal shelters. Ra
was given kudos as his winning picture was projected to the
families of Columbus while the Vice President of the HSUS
sang his praises.
A little nervous beneath the spotlights and very amused, we
seized the moment on behalf of our golden boy. Mic in hand,
we pointed out that a pitbull from Oakland won and addressed
the issues of the breed being abused, misunderstood and discriminated
against. It was our chance to educate just a bit - and it
was our time to show off our dog. Great fun.
The
Iams SuperDogs
performed just after we finished. While the show was a little
silly, mostly put on for the kids, we fell in love with the
dogs who ranged from Chilibean the hairless Chihuahua to Bernie
the 120-pound mountain dog. They performed with the commitment
of Olympians, catching frisbees, leaping amazing heights and
mastering agility courses. The animals were outstanding and
were certainly a credit to their owners and handlers. It's
wonderful to see people working harmoniously with their dogs.
 Speaking
of harmonious work, we were overjoyed at all the great exhibition
booths at the event. There were lots of great organizations
doing wonderful work for all animals. One which stuck out
was Team
Greyhound, who rescues these beautiful dogs when they're
done at the racetrack. They estimate as many as 15,000 racing
Greyhounds are put down yearly when they are no longer profitable.
These two dogs were on-hand with two more of their friends,
and you could feel the love pouring out of them. It was like
a herd of Greyhounds. They were majestic, relaxed and happy
creatures, who deserve better than a career feeding the greed
of racetracks. All doubt about taking in one of these dogs
was gone the moment one of them came in for a "heart hug".
Truly wonderful dogs. Take one look at that beak, and you'll
want to put a hot dog in it right away!
While
Ohio was a bit far to bring one of these dogs back, we will
definitely be looking into a Greyhound from a local
Greyhound rescue in the future. Check out some of these websites
for great information on adopting these awesome dogs.
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Why We Call Ourselves BlueDog & Our Love
for the Dog |
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We called ourselves
BlueDog because the Dog is a sacred, loyal animal who has
chosen to work and live with humans, more so than nearly any
other animal. We consider that no small sacrifice and no small
gift. Historically, the Wolf was Teacher and Brother to ancient
people because Wolf society was an example to man of how to
live in a family-tribal structure.
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| Clues to Our Origin |
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Berkeley professor
says 160,000-year-old remains found in Ethiopia lend weight
to humans' roots in Africa. The skulls of two adults and a
child may likely be near ancestors of a primeval but very
human Adam and Eve who roamed the lush shoreline of the lake
and nearby hills and savanna, slaying hippos and crocodiles
for meat.
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Mawu: Incredible Traveling Embodiment |
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So.....I'm on
my way up to Sebastopol to study the work of Archeologist
Marija Gimbutas with my teacher Joan. I've been turned on
to the Neolithic art that was illuminated by Gimbutas' intense
scholarship, which appears
to depict the sacredness of the female body. Symbols on the
artifacts include sublime swirls, meandering chevrons and
pelvic triangles. The study of this art is part of my graduate
work...
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| Madonna - American Girl |
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Madonna makes a point with her racy and provocative American
Girl video. Originally slated for release during
the Iraqi war, this video never found its way to MTV. According
to madonna.com, she stated the material in the video was inappropriate
during "the times at hand." This copy of the
video - recorded from a foreign television station - was posted
on several websites for weeks, before it was removed.
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| Photography & Wallpaper |
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Check out some of these photographs, taken at various locations
around the Bay Area. These also make excellent Desktop
Wallpaper for your computer, and hey, they're just cool to
look at!
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Hellhounds in Action |
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See what's
for breakfast! A short and amusing clip of our wonderful dogs,
Ra & Grainne, snacking on a log.
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| My Teacher Was a Trantula |
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Recently, I
had the opportunity to rescue a tarantula. He came to me,
incredibly pissed-off, in a peanut jar. A friend found him
walking across the road in a hotter part of the state and
decided to catch him. I happened to be there when he brought
him home. There he was, large, hairy, and scared, propped
up, pink fangs exposed, stuck in a jar too small to even put
down all eight legs.... |
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Is This Globular Cluster Our Ancestor? |
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You are looking at about a
half million stars orbiting their own center. This phenomena
of gravitationally bound concentrations of stars, is called
a Globular Cluster. This one is M13 and is visible in the
Hercules system. M13 is actually moving away from our point
in space toward what the astronomers call the "Galactic Center"
of the Universe... |
| Mt. Shasta - Experiencing Ascension |
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During last October's full
moon, my friend Aphrodite dragged me by the hand to a healer's
conference in Mt. Shasta. It's funny how we resist the very
thing we need. And boy, did I whine! "I can't go because of
money, of time, of the inconvenience...," and my now famous
and laughable temper tantrum of the xenophobe, "If I get abducted
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| Winter Solstice '01 - A Timeless Message |
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What an exciting
time to be alive. And an exhausting one! If you are like us,
you've experienced some of the deepest disappointments of
your life, as well as some of the most awe inspiring epiphanies.
The old paradigm is dying and something new and wonderful
is being born. We are witnessing this in our personal lives,
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| Yes We Are... |
And
we will continue to be unless you make a difference... please
no matter how you feel... vote.
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 "Our
enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They
never stop thinking about new
ways to harm our country
and our people, and neither do we."
MSN
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 "You've
heard Al Gore say he invented the internet.
Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin
with 'W'?"
-10-28-00 Headline News |
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 "Families
is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
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 "If
you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!"
-11-02-00 Bellvue
Community College, Seattle, WA. |
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 "I
mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial
profiling, which is illiterate children."
-10-11-00 Second Presidential Depate |
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Good Wife's Guide |
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Here's
a hilarious and sobering relic of American culture.
This article explains exactly what it takes to be a
good wife. It's pretty scary to realize that this attitude
was considered "normal" only about fifty years
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| Interface Oblivion |
 Wonderful
poetics team up with trance groove tracks forming fantastic
sounds. Their entire album is available for free download
on their
website,
asking only to support them by purchasing their CD, if you
can.
My
people can't see that we're walking in circles like nomads
in a foreign land
In boxes in bubbles like oxen we'll work so hard
Idealistic visions of a world removed from separation
In darkness, indifference, we'll all have our conflicts and
our weakness
Look within at your own divination and you'll see that we're
all one.
Like insects, shedding our skins
What kind of insect trap have we gotten ourselves in?
Metamorphosis given us wings!
What do we do with them why have they given us these things?
Adapting to infinity and the energy therein
Until the boundaries between us start to wear thin
Waiting, wanting something solid to stand on
I'm getting anxious, feeling restless.
I'm aching with laughter
Awaiting disaster.
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Interface Oblivion |
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