Archive for October 2009
eek!tober 2009: stuff moving when it’s not supposed to move
For Eek!tober, I’ve collected some random thingies of a YouTube nature that may cause thrills, terror, shivers, nightsweats, chilblains, hysteria, rickets, and/or the vapors. I’ll be presenting them throughout the week. There’s a scene in The Shining that first introduced me to the concept of ghosts that could do more than just “woooo00000” and wander…
Read Moreabsence and presence
Last night I had a dream that I was late for the reception for this show — the show in which my Junk Quilt is entered. In the dream, my mother appeared at my door, ready to take me to the event. She had my grandmother and aunt in tow. This is a little weird…
Read Morequick and dirty costume bonnet tutorial
Here’s a fairly quick and fairly easy tutorial for a bonnet that I whipped up today. If you are planning a pilgrim/pioneer/villager/amish costume, read on. The rest of you, tune out — then come back tomorrow when there will be less specific and more accessible Halloween fun. As part of a group costume, I’m going…
Read Moreeek!tober 2009: living dolls
For Eek!tober, I’ve collected some random thingies of a YouTube nature that may cause thrills, terror, shivers, nightsweats, chilblains, hysteria, rickets, and/or the vapors. I’ll be presenting them throughout the week. This episode is fairly self-explanatory. You stupid dolls, coming to life and causing mayhem. I don’t like you. Magic. I had been pretty indifferent…
Read Moreeek!tober 2009: repurposed horror
Three years ago I celebrated the spooooky Halloween season by reminiscing about movies that scared me for traditional (and nontraditional) reasons. October 6th 2006: screamtober: dr. cyclops October 12th 2006: octobrrrrr: nightmare (1964) October 24th 2006: octNO!ber: interiors October 28th 2006: acktober: don’t look now This year, I’ve collected some random thingies of a YouTube…
Read Moreshow off
I made a big quilt out of advertising circulars and paper bags. It got accepted into a show in Ventura — I hope this early victory bodes well for the other shows in which I entered the Junk and Science Quilts. My friend Turquoise’s painting “Summerhouse” got in to the show, too. Come to the…
Read Morewhat’s confusing you is just the nature of my game
Cardiogirl invited me to be Guest Guru on her blog today, wherein I shall provide guidance for any and all pressing matters, questions, queries, and/or issues for her readership. Free free to ask the unaskable in the comments section! Using my singular skills as the daughter of a psychiatrist, a bullshit artist supreme, and an…
Read Moreaftermath
Part one of my account of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake can be found here The day after the earthquake, I got back to my flat to find my roommate Tracy, her boyfriend, and a couple friends starting the major task of sweeping up. There were giant X cracks on every wall that ran east…
Read Morethe shakes
It’s the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake today. I’m thinking hard about it. I’m grateful to my friends who were my friends then and who are my friends now. We’ve been filling in the details of that crazy night together. Here’s my POV. I was working downtown at an art school. That day,…
Read Moresome interesting people i’ve met briefly at parties
One of the “Ours” kids from Yours, Mine and Ours, that mega-blended family that spawned a movie with Lucille Ball A lady who, at the time, was the voice of the Hidden Valley Ranch commercials A guy who had had his kidney replaced two weeks before I met him Henry Kissinger’s kids, who I refused…
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