Category: Everyday Stories
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Wacom and plainchant
This is going to take some getting used to, but, oh yeah, Wacom! Listening to madrigals and drawing with the new Wacom, a fine way to spend an evening. Except I don’t have any madrigals, for which reason I’m at Amazon clicking over and over again on offered selections. And as it turns out, H.o.p.…
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The Grind
Let me put it this way. If my life was a parade that had been rained on, that would be one thing. Instead, I’m the guy with the stuffed toy monkey on his/her shoulder, playing the organ grinder in a shadow of the doorway on the corner. There’s not much point raining on the organ…
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Displaying a few musician genes
“That song is done with an accordion, isn’t it? And a piano. That’s really cool. I didn’t know that a piano could make it sound like something was about to happen in the darkness or in the big city. They had an accordion in the movie called Madeline. And that’s Russian music, isn’t it.” He…
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All ya gotta do is replace a few words
Not new news, that the government is spying on anti-war protesters. Why throw away perfectly good old posts when a couple of minor adjustments will do. See also Bush calling the constitution just a goddamn piece of paper. Old news in blogworld as it’s over a few days old but it suits. More Dissident Dick…
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Torture and Human Rights Abuses – we gotta stop thinking of ourselves as the good guys gone bad because if the bad sleep well then America has had more than its fair share of many well-rested nights
Over at Nightbird’s Fountain the other day was made this post linking to the very pink Torture Tree. Someone remarked in the comments area since when did we represent torture and human rights abuses and we needed to stand for freedom again. As I noted in response in the comments area, I always feel like…
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Swallow, don't spit! And sentimental reminiscing on an exploding CD Rom
I bypassed the Dole salad bag as it was down in the double digits (way down) in popularity. A curious sort, I clicked the link at Amazon to get a look at the top 100 gourmet items being ordered this Christmas. Lo and behold the 99 spot is occupied by… a $7.45 box of cinnamon…
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Ok, how about this?
You see, I typed into a search in Gourmet Foods (at Amazon) the search term “European” just to see what might come up, rather than, y’know, buying everyone Xmas steaks (haha) or something like that. The truffles came up. Too expensive. Next page was this gourmet European item. 10 ounces of Dole European Salad in…
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Young Actress with Roses (digital painting)
Young Actress with Roses 14 by 28 inches digital painting 2005 Our power went off last night. Off and on. Off and on. Off and on. We were all just getting to sleep and I heard this wild distant sound and the power went off. Then the power came back on. Then there was again…
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Fast Food Hell
“Find Furby at BK! You can collect all 100 FURBY toys!” That’s what it reads on the little blue box which today’s Furby came in. H.o.p. had been hoping instead for a King Kong at Burger King. Instead the Furby arrived with the meal. “Did you tell them I’m a boy?” H.o.p. asked. Burger King…
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Cameras steal souls
I love doing digital portraits, and despite that I’m one of those peculiar people who believe cameras have the capacity to steal souls. Something I’ve thought about since I was in my early 20s. Was reflecting on this only partly because of the death of Richard Pryor and reading a sundry comment here and there…
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Yeah, I know most people don't, but I like Albert Finney's Scrooge
Last week H.o.p. said, “Childhood is a lot like a long field trip.” He wasn’t saying that this week. We have had colds. H.o.p. had a bit of a fever with his the first couple of days and then was left with with nose misery and a cough. This is the best he’s done with…
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Now, you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did
“Now you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did,” says my husband. I’ve been going through pictures of new lemur species and the find of the ancient mososaurus found in Texas and the ancient sea monster Dakosaurus andiniensis, reading the news stories to H.o.p. We look at a…