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Young Actress with Roses (digital painting)
Young Actress with Roses 14 by 28 inches digital painting 2005 Our power went off last night. Off and on. Off and on. Off and on. We were all just getting to sleep and I heard this wild distant sound and the power went off. Then the power came back on. Then there was again…
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Fast Food Hell
“Find Furby at BK! You can collect all 100 FURBY toys!” That’s what it reads on the little blue box which today’s Furby came in. H.o.p. had been hoping instead for a King Kong at Burger King. Instead the Furby arrived with the meal. “Did you tell them I’m a boy?” H.o.p. asked. Burger King…
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Yeah, I know most people don't, but I like Albert Finney's Scrooge
Last week H.o.p. said, “Childhood is a lot like a long field trip.” He wasn’t saying that this week. We have had colds. H.o.p. had a bit of a fever with his the first couple of days and then was left with with nose misery and a cough. This is the best he’s done with…
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Now, you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did
“Now you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did,” says my husband. I’ve been going through pictures of new lemur species and the find of the ancient mososaurus found in Texas and the ancient sea monster Dakosaurus andiniensis, reading the news stories to H.o.p. We look at a…
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The day before the day when many will be dozing on turkey
Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. If you look back a couple of posts you’ll see the picture of a dead turkey and a comment on Edward Curtis. That’s my sideswipe version of a Thanksgiving commentary, I guess. But I hope everyone who drops by and reads this post has a good holiday weekend. Right now I’m deep in…
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I fail on the song meme
Tild hit me with the following song meme. It doesn’t matter what genre they are, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog. Then tag five other friends to see what they’re…
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Dear upstairs neighbor
Dear Upstairs Neighbor: I didn’t mean it when I told the landlord that I didn’t care about your chickens one way or another but that, after months of them wandering the narrow back courtyard-alley under the fire escapes all day, I would rather them in a chicken coop than out pooping all over the place…
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Monday – dead bird blogging
Turkey at the Fernbank, 2005 Everyone else blogs pics of pretty live birds sighted from their lovely home environ which has the kind of things (trees, food) that attracts avians other than asphalt-nibbling pigeons. But there’s no point my missing out on the prom, so I dug up a date. At the Fernbank Museum of…
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Museums and ants
At the Museum of Natural History Digital painting (with photo by artist as reference) 25.09 high by 22.56 inches wide 2005 Lightbox enlargement Detail.
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The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls
The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls are those big-eyed waif pictures from the 60s and 70s that went so well with Tang, the space-age powdered orange drink choice of astronauts. The prototype were those painted by Margaret Keane, and despite the cutesy factor, the world looked cold for those parentless children. When I was…
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I suppose I can identify with aiming for good in one’s own tortured way
Oh, and just in case I thought I’m not interested in that kind of thing (which I’m not), I will sometimes say, “Ok, yeah, let’s walk right over that cliff!” as in if the rest of the pack is going, “Ooo, fun,” I will taste the day’s item on the menu because once I tried…
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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…