Category: Everyday Stories
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National Geographic Kids magazine has a mission – to prep a child to spend, spend, spend
H.o.p. was reading his “National Geographic Kids” magazine the other night and yesterday got up and asked me about a cute rabbit he’d seen in it, which he believed was like the Microsoft Agent, Peedy the Parrot, only this creature would text-to-speech “email and blogs!!” which he thought was great. “Can I get it?” H.o.p.…
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500 Songs for Kids Benefit
Smith’s Olde Bar has been holding a Songs for Kids Foundation “500 Songs for Kids” benefit. Which is quite a marathon. 500 bands/artists are given a different greatest sing-a-long song to play. 50 bands/artists play a night! Imagine. Equipment is already set up but some bands still drag in their own. Non-stop sing-a-long entertainment. You…
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Go, There's Nothing to Read
A couple have questioned, aware I was hit hard with some evil cold-flu combo, if this is why the blog has been silent. And this is partly the case, it’s partly due to that Big Ol’ Walrus of Reckoning that thwacked me hard and nailed me to the bed. My blog also went down this…
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Big Ol' Walrus of Reckoning
Big ol’ walrus of reckoning (didn’t know there was such a thing didja) slapped me down last Friday. Thwap. Sat on me hard. And it hurt. Lots of pain. And it was hot. Feverishly hot. Maybe it swallowed me, I don’t know. But Marty insists it wasn’t a whale of a reckoning. On Saturday, I…
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Yoga enlightens me (or not) with dreams
I was at a spaghetti western yoga retreat in a courtyard of one of those beautiful Spanish style villas. With a pre Dirty Harry Clint Eastwood. There we were, Clint Eastwood and me and a bunch of other people, in this lovely courtyard, doing sun salutations, and it was so nice, the light of the…
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What they did opening for Todd Rundgren
I wasn’t at the Variety Playhouse yesterday, where Marty was playing, but I’m still going to try to provide a basic description of the scene, via his telling of it. Not only was I not at the Variety Playhouse, I didn’t do my yoga yesterday. It’s the first time in the nearly seven weeks since…
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Then we headed home
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One— I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds. [clear] On July 16, 1945, the first test of a nuclear weapon, Trinity, an implosion-design plutonium bomb, the type dropped on Nagasaki, took place…
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The Real Wild Wild West
The last leg of the trip is the return. East of Phoenix, we passed through mountains filled with monolithic Easter Island rocks into mining territory landscapes of pityless or pitiful Golgothas, I don’t know which, and the surrounding communities look none the richer for it. Open Pit Mine, Miami, Arizona, 2008 Google Earth view of…
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An Unintentional Comedian at Taliesin West
Taliesin West, Tour Guide, 2008 View On White We went on the Taliesin West tour back in 2005 and did it again this trip.
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You can do me a favor, the next time you’re in Sedona
And then we went to the old Douglas Mansion in Jerome where H.o.p. (who carries his sketchpad with him everywhere) drew a gargoyle that was leering down from a bookcase. The Artist at Work, H.o.p. sketching at the Douglas Mansion, Jerome, Arizona, 2008 And we watched one of the worst and yet one of the…
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In which I torch any future I could have had as a psychic in Sedona
Sedona – Above is a Psychic Expo, next to Crystal Castle and a center for Sedona Toruist Information and Activities. Across the street were art galleries. Light box enlargement Yesterday, I should have been getting ready for my brother-in-law spending the night but I decided this time he could face a dirty apartment, because I’d…
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Into The Petrified Forest
Closed for Businesss, the Museum of the Americas Dinosaur Park Enlargement Sleep was tough at the Holiday Inn at Holbrook.