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Category: Everyday Stories

Tip: State Court Jury Duty and bored? There’s Scrabble and Backgammon in the coat closet

I phoned in and listened to the recorded message thinking I hope I don’t really have to be paying attention to any of this. No, such luck. Yes, I know it’s my sacred civic duty so tar and feather me already but one of the last things I wanted to do was to be honored…

February 21, 2005
Confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech

Betty’s winning job interview. Picture courtesy of H.o.p. Sat down at the computer at 2:30 and though I’d been working continually with no goofing somehow after three hours I’d not managed to get much done at all when H.o.p. puts on one of his new Betty Boop DVDs and Marty sits down to watch after…

February 19, 2005
At last the Dodo said, `EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes.’

Portrait of Roxie Portrait of Roxie Displaying Curiosity, digital photo Portrait of Roxie

February 18, 2005
Slaughterhouse Five probably had a drain in the floor too

I was going to start out with fun stuff, how H.o.p. and Marty went to see “The Adventures of Mighty Bug” at The Center for Puppetry Arts today, but on my way to get a link to the website I stopped in for some news and happened on this, a new old news story on…

February 18, 2005
Back then â€œfreeâ€ was a powerful word and the little arm hairs tingled positive not negative

More on Ward Churchill. Brief bio that calls to mind (for me) Lucas’ “American Grafitti”, a film that I am reminded of about once every two years at most so it’s not like my brain’s short list of synonyms equates all things 50s and 60s with Ron Howard. H.o.p. doing his online reading program becomes…

February 16, 2005
A song for Godzilla : Billy Pilgrim

A Song for Godzilla, digital photo Enlarge light box link A difficult decision whether to do this one in the Toyland Chronicle Series or The Child Experiments series. This is a H.o.p. and me co-production. He wanted me to take the photos of him playing with Godzilla, photos he was partly staging, and so we…

February 14, 2005