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Month: July 2007

  • America Bowls

    America Bowls Light box enlargement Went to a kiddie’s birthday bowling party this weekend. Out in the suburbs. H.o.p. had a great time. I took photos. Of people bowling. Yes, you who were there who will never find your way here, I was the older lady squatting on her haunches with a camera or right…

  • I so loathed the film adaptation of "Bladerunner" that I didn't watch "A Scanner Darkly" until today

    Stutter out a few words. That’s probably all I’ll do for a long while is stutter a few words here and there. Writing (off-blog, y’know) is, for the time being, like there’s this field filled with little shards of broken glass, some surface, some muffled by the earth, and my chore is cataloging each tiny…

  • Some comments on a photo by Eman59

    Originally uploaded by eman59 Eman59 posted a beautiful photo at Flickr (here shown) that I mentioned in the comments reminded me of the Dionysian/Christian story of the release from the prison. He’s unfamiliar with the story and asked me to blog it. In Euripides’ “The Bacchae” (about 410 BCE) we have: Servant: We are come,…

  • Yes, yes, I'm watching C-Span

    I’m sitting here writing and watching the filibuster or procedural block or whatever on C-Span 2 on my computer (don’t have cable). Had been listening to music earlier (yes, Bowie) on the headphones then gone away for a while and returned. So I picked up the headphones before I went to C-Span and put them…

  • Bad parenting

    I was in the next room and heard H.o.p. questioning Marty endlessly on something and heard also a note of exasperation entering Marty’s weary voice. Then… Marty: How many times have I told you the answer? Why do you keep asking me that? H.o.p. (with a laconic touch of extremely dry nonchalant humor in his…

  • They have slumber parties??

    I’d no idea that the Marines have slumber parties for potential recruits. Settling a highly publicized case in which two military recruiters were accused of rape, the U.S. Marine Corps has agreed to pay two young women $200,000 and change its recruiting practices in Northern California. The assaults allegedly occurred in 2004, when the two…

  • At least I don't get trolls…

    At least I don’t get trolls. But I do sometimes get confused people, who confuse me. Jordan has confused me. I think he’s for real and not joking.

  • "This is going to be fantastic!"

    I’m ashamed of my son. I shouldn’t be. I should be accepting, I know. But…here he started making this wonderful clay Brachiosaurus and a T Rex last week for another stop animation attempt, and was making backgrounds as well, and stopped. Y’know what he’s spending his time doing? He knows nothing about IPods and he…

  • Cheap or resourceful is sometimes just a matter of perspective

    No, no. I’ve been tagged again on the Eight Random Facts About You Meme. This time by Lavonne at Born Famous. I’ve done it before but will give another shot at randomness, supposing my mine of randomness hasn’t been exhausted. 1.) I keep on my desk what used to be a nice Orchids of Hawaii,…

  • Homage to the Ultra Green Pot

    Well, it was like a BIG PARTY here yesterday, with nearly 800 unique visits via No Impact Man’s site. I was very impressed by the reserve exhibited as there were only two comments left behind by new names (thanks). When I realized NIM had linked, I’d taken comments off moderation so that if anyone new…

  • Yes, I do like to have some fun occasionally…

    Hello and welcome to any individuals wandering over today from No Impact Man’s site. I see he linked to me today and put up a video of mine with the following comment… By the way, Idyllopus, a writer who apparently would rather procrastinate by writing mean things about me on her blog than finish her…

  • The Ultra Green Hobo Bindle Bag

    Thanks to Jennifer at Saying Yes for today’s Obviously Ultra Green idea of the Hobo Bag, taking our cue from No Impact Man’s Ultra Green Reusable Mason Jar which I first blogged about here. As response to yesterday’s videoblogging of The Alternative to Ungreen Plastic Disposable Cups at Parties was heartwarmingly overwhelming, I have decided…