Category: Everyday Stories
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Tales of Obstructing Justice
The landlord’s assistant relates that one of the women who lived above us (just moved out) looked out one night recently to see the police preparing to tow the car of her roommate who was out of town and was parked unknowingly in a no parking zone that was unmarked. She went running outside and…
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BIG EYED GOJI GIRLS (BLAST FROM THE PAST IN A TUBE)
Look what arrived in a box from my mom, 4 mass-produced lithos in pretty much pristine condition from 1965, ordered from “Great Art Treasures” at 420 Lexington Avenue in New York, bulk rate, US postage paid, still in their original mailing tube. These were probably destined for my bedroom wall but never made it there.…
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SORRY, BUT I TRIED OUT SECOND LIFE THEN REMOVED IT FROM MY COMPUTER
Saturday morning I went in and tried out “Second Life” just to see what it was like. I chose my name and basic avatar. Then landed in an antiseptic welcome area, some other “guy” birthing into Second Life beside me at about the same time. I took this as a sign there would be plenty…
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Unbalanced
Thursday we were listening to Beethoven’s 7th symphony as done by the Orchestra of the 18th Century, conducted by Frans Bruggen. Just beautiful. Which means I rented “Zardoz” through Netflix. Had not seen it in a long while and had forgotten how bad much of it is. Marty is encouraging me to send it back…
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Pointless
Pointless (in sepia) Pointless hermit crabs. Under cover of simulated night they come out to play and eat. Shhhh! You might scare them back in their shells. Site Search Tags: hermit+crabs
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Too Much Knowledge about Hermit Crabs
Too much knowledge about hermit crabs. I’m now into what kind of sand and how this and that sand is bad and what sand may be good and you have to prewash sand? How in the world do you prewash sand and get it to dry? Did you know play sand has metal filings in…
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GIVE A NICE WELCOME TO JERRY AND SARAH
We draped a towel over the hermitage last night to make sure Jerry had appropriate darkness (the room was lit) and this morning when I took off the covering the back climbing wall had fallen over. The crab was solidly tucked away in its shell but there was sand in its food dish so it…
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THERE IS NO ICE IN GOLF HEAVEN
Holy hell. The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists said last night. Experts said they were “stunned” by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as Britain disappearing in the last…
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Is Just Plain Insipid Enough to Elicit Tears?
Have been working on the website revision and while working I’ve been listening to an XM channel on the Direct TV that H.o.p. had turned on to help him sleep. It’s mostly very soothing, fairly insipid synth harpy windy music. We’re not talking Brian Eno. Mostly meandering stuff, very even in temper, and sometimes tinkly…
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Commercial Break
Several days into the Direct TV experience and I”m avoiding the BOX. The commercials creep me out. About thirteen years ago I pretty much stopped watching commercial television, and I’m remembering why. The commercials. Nearly everyone one of them feels like a person in a white coat is approaching with needle and syringe, grinning, “This…
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Animated Shorts – I Love Buster Keaton
Animated Shorts – I Love Buster Keaton 19.19 by 12 inches, digital painting J Kearns 2007 Lightbox enlargement I decided the thing to do, the first night of having Direct TV, was to not fiddle with redoing the botched running of cords but to spend hours watching Buster Keaton. Because I’m crazy about Buster Keaton,…
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We are WIRED
The ATT guy who came out when we moved in several years ago was the same one who showed up this morning. I was thinking about him last night, hoping it wouldn’t be the same guy, because he was huge, tall tall tall and football player muscular broad, he makes regular chairs look like they’re…