Category: Everyday Stories
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What in the world is this country becoming?
People write in response to abuses in Iraq and the death and destruction there, what is this country becoming. And some write that if the media showed pictures on the television of the infants and children being killed, that the citizenry of America would rise up and put an end to the war, demand it.…
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Dovetailing Mount Rushmore with everything, positively everything
I was reading again last night (this morning really), elsewhere, the tired plaint of what this country is becoming. It’s a well meaning plaint, facing pictures out of Iraq. But it is wrong. Atrocity is nothing recent. It is nothing new. It’s just plain ol’ business as usual. And that’s the thing, that Americans have…
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H.o.p. still blithely unaware of the attitude it takes to run with the herd
H.o.p.: I wish I had a t… dollars. Me: You wish you had what? H.o.p.: I wish I had a t… (mumble) dollars. Me: You wish you had what, a trillion or ten dollars? H.o.p.: I wish I had ten dollars. Me: Oh, OK.
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Not that I don't care about politics anymore
Some are asking why I don’t blog about politics any longer. Why? Several reasons. For one, I happened on the Hanford archive and started doing those digital paintings. Which to me are both human interest and political. At least to me they are. And that was eating up a good bit of what would have…
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Howard Hughes and his Kleenex box shoes?
OK, so the night before last we finally watched “The Aviator”. And afterward I went around the net reading up a little more on him, most all of which turned out to be the same few facts repeated over and over again. Seems no one could give an account of his four plane crashes in…
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The Cadence Chamber Duet – Just in case you think Baroque isn’t exciting
At the moment I’m listening to the most extraordinary CD. It’s the Cadence Chamber Duet. She is Olena Yergiyeva, the violin part of the team. He is Ivan Yergiyev, and he plays the accordion. I don’t always listen to music while writing because though music can fuel it can also falsely substitute mood which isn’t…
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Not-so-instant furniture (perhaps)
Well I’ve now in hand the “Instant Furniture” book the landlord was telling me about. Published 1976. It’s actually by a real arechitect/designer, Peter Stamberg, with designs by such people as Enzo Mari.  Using these designs, it’s said one should be able to make easily cheap furniture with only precut wood, glue and finishing nails. The designs are…
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LSD not good for war
Well, I’m glad I checked out Boing Boing today. They’ve a lilnk to an old film showing what happens when Britsh troops are dosed with LSD. They forget how to operate equipment and collapse in laughter. They become incapable of making war and start climbing trees to feed the birds. My faith in humanity is…
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What happens when stupid white people doodle on their napkins at the dining table after Thanksgiving Dinner
Wow! Imagine yourself riding the Flaming Arrow Express monorail at the proposed Trail of Tears Park in Tennessee. Imagine yourself visiting the Sacred Ground Pavilion. Imagine yourself in the seats of the Great Spirit Arena. What an amazing memorial it will be honoring those American Indians who walked the Trail of Tears from the southeast…
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The spring which is our bathroom (Category, this old apartment building)
Well, we will call the landlord again tomorrow with the news that it is very nice our sink now drains but that tearing out that part of the wall and replacing a corroded joint did not fix the flooding. Because the bathroom flooded again today and this time I was able to catch it in…
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Stupid lost skills department
I’m wondering tonight about idiosyncratic skills people pick up naturally and what might belong or have belonged to some individuals reading. The second place Marty and I lived after we were married was a second floor in a house that had a screened porch. We had no air conditioning of course, the house was ancient…
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The drone bee that wasn't kicked out in the cold
H.o.p. was mortified when he learned that drone bees are kicked out of the hive to die. In tonight’s story-play-game he is a drone bee who has made himself useful by making a map of the hive (so bees can find their way to the nursery etc.) and protecting the hive from intruders. He is…