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TALKING FISH

Cobalt Skink went to Tybee Island. She has a wonderful, lyrical, comic, meditation-inducing drawing of a Talking Fish she did while there. Plus some musings on the trip, Sand Idles, with their vivid centerpiece a woman in a sari building a Hindu temple sand castle on the beach. Eventually, she walks into the waves, the…

August 20, 2007
Windows To The Soul (If They Can Blink)

Dorothy and Dylan in Sepia, 2 Light box enlargement When we first got goldfish, it freaked me out that we had pets that didn’t blink or close their eyes when they slept. They just stared. What were they thinking? Marty still sometimes stands by the aquarium, regarding, and asks, “What are they thinking?” I don’t…

July 29, 2007
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,…

July 9, 2007
Hey, you! The ones who were properly, socially adjusted in school and think homeschoolers are "overly rugged individualists who lack the impulse or skills to mix in as collaborative members of everyday society!"

I read that kids who win spelling bees Google their names like crazy. If that’s the case, to this year’s winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Evan O’Dorney, congratulations! But I hope he never Googles this page and that his parents have some child filter on their computer because man I wouldn’t want Evan…

June 8, 2007
So when do we get that hot new Broadway musical where Alec Baldwin and J-Lo somehow represent the new Camelot and George and Laura never waving from its turrets because it’s not that kind of brave new world?

Where’s the picture of the new fucking huge American embassy in Iraq I saw a couple of weeks ago. This isn’t it, or maybe it was. Never mind, the image will have to serve as there seem to be almost no photos of something so big. Some AP photo At 104 acres and $592 million…

May 30, 2007
Wow! That's black Okefenokee soot all over the windowsill!

T Rex at Fire Dog Lake describes what it’s been like here in Georgia with these out-of-control wild fires. Incredible that they’re causing problems up here in Atlanta. Playing hell with my allergies, sinuses and lungs all week. Though we’ve no current air alert, I can swear I smell a hint of acrid smoke. Some…

May 28, 2007
The Mug Show

For the blog – mugs Originally uploaded by idyllopus. Saying Yes informs that The World’s Fair is wanting to know what kind of mug you drink from for the purpose of interpretations of the cultural and environmental philosophy of your mug. The World’s Fair has a set of questions and well, sure, why not. 1.…

May 18, 2007
Domo-kun vs. Karen. Domo wins.

Japanese national public television gave the Japanese Domo-kun in gratitude for their contributions. I can’t locate a pic of her right now, but Georgia Public Broadcasting most frequently gives us someone named Karen thanking us during the telethons and cheering us on to give and give more. Karen is fuzzy in a Southern drawl, hairspray…

June 25, 2006
Phenomenal virtual tour of microcars

Wow. There’s a microcar museum in Madison Georgia and it has an incredible website. Check it out. The museum is open Tuesdays through Thursdays, 1 to 4 pm but is closed through June and July (noting this for myself as I’m thinking it would be a cool place to visit). But…the website is open 24…

June 23, 2006
The sky swelled and swelled…

I have on my desk, Kate of Broken Window’s “Sky/Map, an Earth Work Diary”. It is on Indian Burial Mounds. Beautifully presented and filled with beautiful photographs. The entry below the first photograph reads, The birth of the universe was slow and arduous. The sky swelled and swelled over decades and centuries, as stars were…

October 5, 2005
PTSD (maybe death) is finding out war isn’t like it was in the army’s hot fantasy combat video games

Note: Excuses for all the graphics. But that’s what this post is about. Sheldon Rampton’s War is fun as hellarticle, posted at AlterNet, begins… Years of writing about public relations and propaganda has probably made me a bit jaded, but I was amazed nevertheless when I visited America’s Army, an online video game website sponsored…

August 2, 2005
Road to Stone Bridge

The below is from Stone Bridge. So in any case I went to college in 1959–maybe the problem was education–and quickly became a an activist in anti-segregation demonstrations, then soon enough a little bit beyond liberal, and by the end of the 60s a full-tilt revolutionary socialist. Though I have long since mostly reverted to…

March 16, 2005