I have a life, but it's not on Twitter. Twitter is for fandoms mostly.
Joined April 2009
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Helen Ketcham retweeted
Happy Bastille Day! I premiered this inexplicable little movie—a remote pandemic collaboration with @YoYo_Ma (with an accordion cameo by "Weird Al" Yankovic) 5 years ago today. I'm proud to say that it's just as irrelevant today as it was then.
Well, that didn't go well. Couldn't use my ticket for @PacificSymphony last night because I couldn't get into @IrvineGreatPark. Left LB at 6:10, found traffic backed up & stopped on fwy @ Sand Cyn, both N & S... (1 of 2)
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Happy World Hippo Day to all who celebrate! Let's sing the anthem: "There's a hippo-potamus, a hippo-, a hippo-potamus in my pool!"
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Ever have one of those days when you realize you missed telling people yesterday that it was National Ferris Wheel Day, but then you think maybe that's okay because today is World Hippo Day and you could combine the two, but then you realize that you have no idea how to draw a Ferris Wheel? #TheresNotEvenACoolHashtag
Helen Ketcham retweeted
As a cancer survivor, I keep tabs on the latest cancer research papers. One that especially caught my attention was a team of South Korean geneticists. Applying a computational Boolean network, they identified certain master regulator genes and found that the simultaneous knockdown of these master regulator genes can revert colorectal cancer cells into normal cells. Cancer is where normal cells turn into tumor cells. The South Korean team showed how tumor cells can be turned into normal cells. You can read the open access paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Well, that's sorted. I'll be spending some quality time with @sparksofficial (or at least with their oeuvre) on New Year's Day.
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Helen Ketcham retweeted
I’m the former lead FBI Hostage Negotiator.
These days I teach negotiation and communication skills for a living.
Retweet this if it would be helpful for me to come on X Spaces and teach people how to communicate with those who disagree with them politically.
#Sparkstember2024 Playing catch up for Day 22, The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman. Had only listened to the Limo Driver before,
buying the album now. Wow. Enjoy this screencap from the YouTube comments. Couldn't agree more, except for the bit about the plot.
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#Sparkstember2024 Day 21, Exotic Creatures Of The Deep. Very challenging songs if you're not named Russell, ergo very few covers. So, being easily amused (again) I opted for "Lighten Up, Morrissey" feat. Morrissey (unbeknownst to him).
youtu.be/0TDbw16PA8E?si=qUTx…
#Sparkstember2024 Day 20: Hello Young Lovers. I reluctantly passed up a vid of Perfume sung in Ukrainian for this cover of Waterproof & its very nice black and white video, w/ cameos from two youngsters who might almost, save for the hair, be baby Maels.
youtu.be/VbOXZwSmEDM?si=c3bh…
#Sparkstember2024 Day 19, Li'l Beethoven. Not many covers, except for a few Usual Suspects; I'm saving those in case I need them later in the month. But this is interesting: The Rhythm Thief as interpreted by a live dance ensemble.
youtu.be/r3EM61Ay74U?si=ohEt…
#Sparkstember2024 Day 18, Balls. I could have posted a good cover of "More Than A Sex Machine," but I am easily amused so you get this instead. Yes, it's a knockoff of "It's A Knockoff."
youtu.be/UC8zFp-ci0k?si=Ikx1…
#sparkstember2024 Day 17, Plagiarism. I've been post a cover version of a song from each day's album, but what to do when the album IS covers? Maybe repost this official Plagiarism video. I love it. Atmospheric and poignant, but not cloying.
youtu.be/Ro5iI-RhKxM?si=_tjf…
![Sparks - No. 1 Song In Heaven [Plagiarism Version] (Official Video)](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2117875008949067776/nBqK8jbh?format=jpg&name=1200x627)
#sparkstember2024 Day 16, Gratuitous Sax, part B. Not senseless violins, but a backyard guitar. A short snippet, but it's lovely.
youtu.be/Uqdx1_MKNsM?si=M08v…
#sparkstember2024 Day 16: Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins. I'm drawn toward the simple covers (assuming they're done creditably) because they really show off the songs' good bones. So please enjoy this flight instructor from the UK and his piano.
youtu.be/OCWTrWV9CcE?si=4CqM…