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  • I cautiously try on a celebratory hat then replace it on the shelf for now…

    Around here, Bush is synonymous with Mega Evil Fucking Bad. H.o.p. has grown up hearing it…is well aware. Y’know the old cartoon where Gallant is Good and Goofus is Bad, in simplifying ethics for H.o.p. Bush has pretty much stood for All Things Bad. “Would Bush do it? Well then that’s just what you don’t…

  • Rumble!

    Sigh, all of us being down with the cold since the week’s beginning is fraying our nerves somewhat. And certain things are driving me bonkers. Like the rumble. We live in a near 100 year old apartment building and our wood floor is set directly on a concrete foundation. We think it’s this that makes…

  • The Michelangelo Antonioni cold

    What day is it? Tuesday I went to bed optimistic. I was feeling a little better. I’d had some laughs. The cold would certainly be gone when I got up. It wasn’t! In fact, I felt godawful freaking horrible when I woke up. Though not immediately. First I laid there and wondered what world I…

  • Autographs and a refuge-seeking cat

    Two events added a little levity to our tissue-packed day on Tuesday (H.o.p.’s working with me on a third roll). (1) When Marty got home in the evening a cat that belongs to a woman upstairs decided it’d had enough of being locked out of the building in the rain and zipped past Marty into…

  • The music for the day was Arvo Part’s "Miserere"

    For a few minutes yesterday AM H.o.p. woke up saying he was sick, something about his chest hurting etc. and fell back to sleep. Marty was worried. But on Saturday at acting class the regular teacher wasn’t there as she was sick and I’ve heard a lot about “sick” going around and I figured that…

  • "A Day at the Ticket Booth" went splendidly

    The Alliance’s Acting I class for 3rd to 5th grades ended today and parents/interested parties got to come in for the last hour and hear a bit of what had been going on the past 6 weeks and watch a little skit. H.o.p. was *very* excited to have us there, introducing me to the entire…

  • I guess this is the DSC-F717 white fog I’ve read about

    Several months ago I read of the white fog that will hit some Sony DSC-F717 cameras after about two years plus of use. I hoped this was something I’d escape but over the past couple of months the picture quality seemed to be degrading, was nothing like it was last year, and so I think…

  • Of Morris Dancing and Green Men

    Of Morris Dancing and Green Men

    Some lively Morris Dancing here. Got there by discussions with H.o.p. Thursday on the Green Man. For which he seems to have an affinity, which is why we were discussing it, as for some reason he came upon it again Wednesday night and said he wanted to know more about it. So Wednesday night I…

  • The Child Experiments with Being an Actor in Dramatic, Scary Stage Make-up

    The Child Experiments with Being an Actor in Dramatic, Scary Stage Make-up

    The Child Experiments with Being an Actor in Dramatic, Scary Stage Make-up 2006 View On White How are H.o.p.’s acting classes going?

  • Fresh pipe

    Wherein You Learn From My Mistakes, Hopefully, But Probably Not Because I Never Did (should be the name of this blog). Well, for several hours this morning our kitchen sink got needed attention from the landlord and his helper, G. (who I call the Super and for all intents and purposes is). Turns out there…

  • The outside makes its way in

    The rat population out back of the apartment building seems to have exploded. The rats have even eaten away the edges of the lids of the garbage bins…and now we have critters in the walls. Whatever they are I don’t know because they thus far remain in the walls and I can’t see them. But…

  • When Oscar was Bullied

    “Go back to bed,” Marty said before leaving for the studio yesterday. I tried but instead broke out the Throat Coat, hoping that might help. First cold of the season and I’m pissed. I don’t like Throat Coat, it’s so sweet. And it didn’t help. More money more money money spent on homeschooling materials but…