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H.o.p. and the Sphinx, 2007 Dec, MMoA

H.o.p. and the Sphinx, 2007 Dec, MMoA View On White Another version, before I photoshopped out a woman. But I rather like this one as well. View On White

January 7, 2008
THE FACE OF TOMORROW'S ART, TODAY

Despite my not liking The Nutcracker, I made it a point last week to sit with H.o.p. each night for Ovation’s “Battle of the Nutcrackers”. Well, except for the first night. Missed that one. My brain still hurts. To get me back it keeps repeating several bar snippets of Nutcracker music. * * * *…

December 11, 2007
The Child Experiments with Making Art on His Computer, 2004

The Child Experiments with Making Art on His Computer, 2004 View On White

November 28, 2007
Ant art installation on futile industry not showing much industry

“Fortunate Discoveries by Accident” described her ants as dividing themselves into morticians, executives and construction workers. Her ants, like those blogged about at Gearworks, were fully fledged up to fun not long after their arrival. H.o.p.’s ants are nearly all executives, running around not doing much other than discussing discussing, with several racing over to…

October 30, 2007
H.o.p.’s Ants Arrived

We sent off for H.o.p.’s ants from Uncle Milton Sept. 4th. The window for arrival had the latest date as Oct. 18th. Last week we received notice that they’d be mailing them out and they arrived today, first class mail, in an envelope marked “Temperature sensitive, Keep from Heat and Frost, Perishable, Handle with care”.…

October 30, 2007
The Alternative to Ungreen Plastic Disposable Cups at Parties

In another episode of “Writing Fiction is Tough And Here’s How We Entertain Ourselves Rather Than Staring At The Monitor”, I decided to go No Impact Man one better on the subject of reusable cups, which I posted about below, and VIDEOBLOG an alternative to landfill fodder plastic cups, like for parties, which may not…

July 3, 2007
The Spontaneous Emergence of Captain Beefheart II

Aaaah. My little H.o.p. says that he’s going to “do a comedy musical about a man with a fish head who runs around bumping into stuff”. And he doesn’t even know about Captain Beefheart. The above idea followed after his talking about the musical he was going to do about a banshee and a yeti.

June 10, 2007
Parenting a nine-year-old, after you stop wondering if you have a poltergeist, you start wondering if you’ve lost your mind

WHERE DID IT GO? We’ve had problems with lost items in the past, in this apartment, which have nothing to do with H.o.p. I had long ago concluded there are teeny tiny blackholes abounding that science knows nothing about, which suck up random belongings and very occasionally spits them back out a few months later,…

May 17, 2007
As H.o.p. runs screaming from the room

On one of the homeschool groups I’m on, an almost-war popped up over home science. One person had written in something about homeschool and science needs and how they were amazed at the materials some people had at home or had easy access to. The person ended the comment with a smiley, which indicates good…

May 7, 2007
The Child Experiments – H.o.p. and his Magic Computer

The Child Experiments – H.o.p. and his Magic Computer, 2007 Any excuse for a flying saucer op. H.o.p.’s computer has died. Over the past few days it started shutting down whenever he tried to do anything on it and finally refused to cut on. We ran diagnostics on it beforehand and nothing was helping. We…

May 2, 2007
wherein I tell H.o.p. he's dreaming…

No, no. A third time no. These are the other two castle Dover books we have on hand that H.o.p. wants to make, like tomorrow. Cut & Assemble A Crusader Castle in Full Color, The Krak Des Chevaliers in Syria, by A. G. Smith and Cut & Assemble a Medieval Castle: A Full-Color Model of…

April 12, 2007
Trying to not terrify H.o.p. with worries over sustainablity and resources, while endeavoring to nurture awareness

For many years now I’ve been trying to impress on H.o.p. an attitude of being somewhat content with not pursuing, in the name of Green, superconsumerism. This has fallen on deaf ears with respect to toys…and when he first saw the large houses in which his friends live, and their expansive backyards, I worried that…

March 26, 2007