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Month: November 2005

  • Edward Scissorhands

    I rewrote a number of fairy tales for H.o.p. when he was little. Last night we watched “Edward Scissorhands” with him for the first time. I’d held off on watching it because I remembered best the last half of the film and worried it would be a bit intense for him, despite his love of…

  • Someone going by the name of Katharine DeBrecht doesn’t like sharing and she doesn’t like to barter–just thought you’d like to know

    Sunday, a woman honked at Marty and waved wildly for his attention. What was up? “I love you,” she shouted. As it turns out, she works for the ACLU here and was responding to our ACLU bumper sticker. The cover of Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! depicts some caricatured well-known faces crawling…

  • Will Pennsylvania be where it normally is come Monday?

    Oh goodness. Pat Robertson has gone and warned voters of Dover, Pennsylvania that since they voted out a school board that supported intelligent design they’re likely to be struck by disaster. “I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just…

  • Will it still bounce (and we’re still lousy scientists)

    Another We Are Lousy Scientists posting. We made a bouncing ball. You need borax, cornstarch glue and water. The instructions also tell you that you need a lot of other things like a cup that you mark as having your borax mixture and a cup you mark as having your glue-cornstarch mixture and things like…

  • Friday former cat blogging

    Friday former cat blogging

    Below is Woody (Woodrow). Back in the late 1970s, a Scottish singer Marty was working with gave us a call to tell us someone they knew had a couple of 3-day-old kittens on their hands, the mom had given birth and run off promptly so they were looking for someone to take care of the…

  • Another Bowling Ball Guy

    Another Bowling Ball Guy

    [clear] Coffee table This is our coffee table. Another one of the bowling ball head guys. I started doing them when H.o.p. was young, though wasn’t doing stick figures like this, but he did do those blazing suns that kids do. I just liked the idea of stripping things down to the bare bones archetype.…

  • Flower petals don’t just get up and walk off by themselves

    We are both sick here with the same symptoms so we are sick and isn’t just something we ate and isn’t simply a bad day. I pretty much literally crawled out of bed this morning and then pulled myself up. The bed is on the floor so that’s one thing, but my body hurt too…

  • When it’s all a game, Willy Pete is just another prop

    Denied last December and back for another round with fresh confirmations, the U.S.’s use of white phosphorous, aka Willy Pete, in Fallujah. A blog With a View is one of those that’s posted on it and I followed the link to the photographs of charred flesh and bone dressed up in unburned clothes, charred flesh…

  • A plasticene post

    Now, after that depressing last post, on a brighter note, we have loads of plasticene (for claymation), not all the colors H.o.p. would like, but we’ve got gobs and he’s now finding it difficult to think of what to do for his fledgling attempt at a movie. I quickly realized, as he went through ideas,…

  • King Mill and the Golden Cherry

    King Mill and the Golden Cherry

    King Mill and canal, Augusta, Ga. 1970s Marty worked briefly at the King cotton mill after we were married but I didn’t take pics of the mill until after he’d worked there. Across the canal from it was the bulk of the cotton mill neighborhood, the worst part of which, the tenements lining the street,…

  • Wonderings on something I know little about

    I’ve been reading these Egyptian love poems which seem to me to not be just love poems, though I could be wrong. In the 9th poem given from a selection of fragments, the lover enters the river to cross to his “sister” on the far side, a crocodile waiting in the shallows. The introduction reads,…

  • Portrait of Donna

    Portrait of Donna

    Donna Pastel, hand tint and digital painting over black and white photo 13 by 12 inches Donna (don’t recollect her last name) had the largest eyes. Very pretty, unusual looking girl with these huge eyes. Another person I have no idea what happened to. Will you look at those eyes? I had done a larger…