Shari

The Intellectual Curiosities and Perseverations:

Philosophy, absurdism, astronomy, Galileo, Russia, Croatia, religion, Vesta, the Hesperides, the collective unconscious, sudden fiction, Santa Muerte, religious iconography, Poine, philosophy, Olympias, metaphysics, mythology, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, maritime history, Medea, language, Latin, Lizzie Borden, Rasputin , Ireland , Scotland, the Hetaera, Jack the Ripper, Greek, enlightenment, death rituals, semiotics, American Pragmatism, Existentialism, Mary Magdalene, Saint Patrick of Ireland (okay, pretty much all the Saints), fiction, poetry, the relative usefulness of the terminal comma, arguing about the relative usefulness of the terminal comma

The Creative:

Photography: abandoned structures, non-traditional portraiture, nature, urban and street photography, rural, photojournalism

Songwriting, acoustic guitar, sudden fiction, poetry, creative writing in general, drawing, painting

Photographers on MySpace:

Cary Whitley , Ryan , Lithium Picnic , Holly , Ghouldaddy , Electric Coyote , Lopix , Josh , Dorothy Shoes , Ostanine , K4RM3N , Nikola , Kristine , Lisa , Thann Clark , XN , Xero , Rockstar Myth , Josh McKague , Violator 3 , Jens , Absinthe , Jerome Sevrette , FotoPoesia , Jingna , Petitescargot , Antoine Willaey , Fabienne Cresens , Eelmika , Dan , John Santerineross , Alain Hanel , Denise Lecusay , Jason Thrasher , Justin Evans , Michael Anthony

Graphic designers and other artists on MySpace:

Empathetic Designs , Miss Billie , Vaughn Belak , James Devereux , Kat Von D

The Masters:

Michelangelo , Pierre Auguste Renoir , Van Gogh , Henri Matisse , Claude Monet , Pablo Picasso , Salvador Dali , Caravaggio , Leonardo da Vinci , Maxfield Parrish , William Blake , Rodin , Gustav Klimt , Diego Rivera , Georgia O'Keeffe , Frida Kahlo , Toulouse-Lautrec , Alphonse Mucha , Andy Warhol , Keith Haring , Jasper Johns , William Bouguereau , Edward Gorey , Ansel Adams , Kandinsky

The Ethics:

personal accountability, the dignity of life, the right to suicide, pacifism, advocacy, human rights, animal rights, counteracting the sedation of the masses, law, reason, justice

Channeling The Furies:

acrimony, wrath, vindication, visualising the crosshairs, vendetta, vengeance, The Morrigan, The Valkyries, The Erinyes, sabotage, reprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, rectification, omerta, Nemesis, malice, justice, frenzy, funerals, furor, fury, ferocity, crime, bloodlust, bloodletting

The Hedonism:

absinthe (never had it, but love the subculture, the history, the mythology), gluttony, pride, envy, lust, wrath, cheese , breads, cooking, vodka, valium, sin, smoking, red meat, toast , red wine, sour cream, onions, garlic, bread, piracy, passion, PBR , obsession, The Hetaera, hallucinogens (back in the day), food love, desire, drinking, orchids, Godiva chocolates, The Globe , Feast, James Joyce Irish Pub, The Clermont Lounge , Speakeasy, Clocked! , Atkins Park , Sin City Social Club , Manuel's Tavern , Athens Georgia Menus , Mama's Boy - Southern Fun Dining , Lenny's Bar

Mental Illness and Advocacy:

autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, the history of psychiatry, antipsychiatry, bischizotism, suicide, mad pride, Madness and Civilisation by Foucault

The Activism and Causes:

Amnesty International , Doctors without Borders , United for Peace and Justice , DATA - debt AIDS trade Africa , Autistic Advocacy , The One Campaign , NCADP - National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty , OxFam , ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union , Armenian genocide recognition , homeless advocacy , AIDS advocacy , Meals on Wheels , Free Leonard Peltier , American Indian Movement , Religious Tolerance.org , Sensible Drug Policy , Greenpeace , Save Darfur Coalition , The Humane Society of the United States , Planned Parenthood , National Organization for Women , Atlanta Animal Alliance , National Wildlife Federation , Big Cat Rescue , Eartworks , Save the Tiger , Ocean Legacy , Department of Peace , Athens Humane Society

The five biggest arms dealers in the world are the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia and China.

They are also the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.

Read more here: Amnesty International: Terror Trade Times

The Personal

my ankh, my Daughter, my Son, my family, my tribe, The Detroit Tigers , megalomania, the mechanics of desperation, death watch beetle , Saint Patrick , updating my enemies list, lucid dreaming, abandoned asylums , world domination, Ireland , Scotland , Russia , Croatia , Hungary , survival, spiders , societal masks, ritual, baseball, rosaries , the claddagh , Russian tea glasses , redemption, religious iconography, spirits, ghosts, and hauntings , reason, prayer, pen and ink correspondence, meditation, magic, futility, enlightenment, defying expectation, all things Celtic, cemeteries , honoring my dead, horseback riding, camping, hiking, swimming, homeschooling , my chef's knife, my crushes, what's left of my mental faculties, my crosses, my dead, creative writing, automatic writing, ghost hunting, hair dye, thrift store shopping, et al.

Linkage:

Since 2007:

Cause for Beatification
and Canonization of John Paul II
National Gallery of Art
The Pulp Gallery
Tallulah's Classical Nude Paintings
and Vintage Erotica
World Water Day
Modern Ruins and Urban Exploration
Detroit Tigers Baseball
Unlikely Stories
KungFuOnline.org
Center for Responsible Lending
Skulls Unlimited International
Electric Coyote Designs
Anthony Bourdain
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The American Library Association
The Guggenheim Museum -
Arts Curriculum Online
NASA - Human Space Flight
American Social Hygiene Posters
Louisiana Digital Library
Irish Dictionary
Modern Drunkard Magazine
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Virgin Mary in Art
Text Kit - Greek and Latin Language Learning Tools
The Antipsychiatry Coalition
Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites

March 2008:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Latin Quotes and Phrases
The National Gallery of Art
Photographers of Genius at The Getty
Photoarts - Fine Art Photography
Historic Asylums
Cill Dara Historical Society - Saint Brigid

More to come...