You click ‘play.’

You marvel at the nearly audible brightness of the angular high-‘80s mall fashions sported by Bea Arthur’s alpha-Golden Girl Dorothy.

You reminisce about how shoulder pads and Aqua Net were that era’s great generation- and class-spanning feminine equalizers.

The repetition begins. You mildly curse yourself for clicking ‘play.’

You become annoyed, but you let it continue.

Becoming entranced despite yourself, you dim the lights and turn the volume up to neighbor-hate levels.

It becomes part of the background of whatever else you’re doing. You ponder the works of Reich, Nyman, Branca.

You think to yourself “This is no ‘Sheets of Easter.’”

You become annoyed again.

It’s no “Come Out” either.

Still, you keep listening.

You close your eyes. Hours pass.

YOU ACHIEVE SATORI.
 

 
h/t to Terry Andrews for this find!

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
10 hours of Paul McCartney singing ‘Yesterday’
12-hour ambient music pieces from ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘Alien,’ ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Wars’

 
By now, I’m sure you’ve all read about the “controversial” 1991 painting “Bea Arthur Naked” by artist John Currin that sold for $1.9 million at Christie’s yesterday. It’s been all over the blogsphere.

Well, if you linked to Currin’s now infamous image on your Facebook page and featured Bea Arthur’s naked breasts, for all to see, you might have received a notice from Facebook implementing a 24-hour ban from posting on your page.

The Daily Beast is reporting this happened to them and so are a few other websites and journalists.

According to The Daily Beast when they contacted Facebook they were told by a spokesperson, “Our policy prohibits photos of actual nude people, not paintings or sculptures.”

The spokesperson laid the blame on the company’s “dedicated User Operations Team,” and reviewers in “several offices around the globe,” who look at “millions of pieces of this content a day.”

“As you might expect,” she concluded, “occasionally, we make a mistake and block a piece of content we shouldn’t have.” She said Facebook has an appeals process in place for anyone who thinks they’ve been wrongly banned, and directed me here.

 
 
The Daily Beast’s Facebook page was back to normal as of 2pm Tuesday.

Bea Arthur’s Boobs Got Us Booted From Facebook

 
In celebration of the great Bea Arthur’s birthday (the “Golden Girl” would have been 91 years old today) here she is demanding “some marijuana” by YouTuber DewFuzz.

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
WTF? Bea Arthur and Rock Hudson sing about coke, meth and weed

 
As James St. James says over at the fab World of Wonder site this “Must be seen to be believed.” Rock Hudson and Bea Arthur sing about acid, weed, cocaine and booze in the song “Everybody Today Is Turning On”, a toe-tapping moment from Bea Arthur’s Emmy-nominated TV special, aired on 19 January 1980, on CBS. The song comes   from the 1977 Broadway Musical I Love My Wife.
 
Previously on DM

 
Via World of Wonder
 

 
“You dismissed me! No one should be treated like that.”

“Huh?”

Via Lady Bunny Blog

 

 
Here’s an inexplicable photo-blog dedicated to Bea Arthur, mountains and pizza?
 
Previously on Dangerous Minds: Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
 
(via Cakehead)