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I wound up driving to Mt. Wolf yesterday to attend the York Symphony Orchestra with brother Joe, an event notable because they played the overture to Rossini's La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). That didn't ring any damn bells for me in the program book and though the director pointed out that this was also the music for Heckyll and Jeckyll, I haven't ever paid much attention to Heckyll and Jeckyll, so I got no twinge of recognition there, either. When they got to playing it, though, I knew the music quite well. Along with that other stuff, it was also, also, also the music from Clockwork Orange although the director guy did not mention that for some unaccountable reason. It's great music for beating people up by. Not, mind, that I do anything of the sort. If I did, though, I'd certainly be able to assemble a suitable soundtrack o' classical music.

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This is probably going to head directly into TMI land for many readers, so fair warning up front: This post is going to discuss menstruation in graphic detail. If you think that might bother you, don't read it. Probably we're also going for gender issues on display and technological solutions to mental problems but what the hell, I try to give full value for the money.

( You might get cooties from the girly talk behind the cut!!! (Spock voice)Interesting, Captain. This organism bleeds profusely yet does not die.(/Spock voice) )