Howdy Howdy all, well it is me, your good friend and your power of attorney (don't you remember?) Environgirl here to taut the greatness of XM radio. My roommates recently got this service for thier motor vehicle and they swear by it for commercial free musical entertainment.  I have heard it in the car and it is really very nice. The get web access with their service so we can listen in the apartment. I have heard it on my laptop and the constant stream of music will make you slap your momma!

(Environgirl and Environgirl affiliates are not responsible for any mothers slapped as a result of this post)

There is a station called Bluegrass Junction that has bluegrass music on 24/7. I thought that I was gonna faint when I heard it! I LOVE,LOVE bluegrass people. I know that some might find it a little odd but actually I am from a region in Mississippi where "pert near" (almost) every channel has a form of gospel music but bluegrass combines elements of the blues with gospel and country and is like um uh well "music to my ears".

Anyway I am so stoked about my impending camping trip that I can hardly contain myself.

Oh I almost forgot to mention that I am now to be featured on the editorials page of the university rag. The next issue will have an entire page devoted to moi! And I got paid a decent wage to boot. I can't believe it ya'll.

So back to my hiking trip, I had to go and buy some provisions for the sojourn but I am constantly worried that I wont have something that I need.  But between me and my friend Lady J we should be okay.  Gulp I guess.

Okay sure, everybody knows that black women LOVE Bluegrass Music. So why was this station so astounding to me, why because Ididnt realize that there was a station created just for the black, thrity-something, female, Pagan. THANK YOU BLUEGRASS JUNCTION FOR MEETING ALL OF MY BACK WOODS NEEDS!

Oh and by the way black, thirty-something, female, Pagans have a deep and abiding love of Barry Manilow, nature and bears. Yeah, you thought it was a game when I said that I GO THERE when all things mundane are involved.

Oh well how about some poetry....here goes.......

What Women Want

I want a red dress.   
I want it flimsy and cheap,   
I want it too tight, I want to wear it   
until someone tears it off me.   
I want it sleeveless and backless,   
this dress, so no one has to guess   
what's underneath. I want to walk down  
the street past Thrifty's and the hardware store   
with all those keys glittering in the window,   
past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old   
donuts in their café, past the Guerra brothers   
slinging pigs from the truck and onto the dolly,   
hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.   
I want to walk like I'm the only   
woman on earth and I can have my pick.   
I want that red dress bad.  
I want it to confirm   
your worst fears about me,   
to show you how little I care about you   
or anything except what   
I want. When I find it, I'll pull that garment   
from its hanger like I'm choosing a body   
to carry me into this world, through   
the birth-cries and the love-cries too,   
and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,   
it'll be the goddamned   
dress they bury me in.--Kim Addonizio

Goddess Bless