Archive for November 2010
Morning Dew
Yes, friends, it’s a meme. Not only a meme, but one I put together more than a year ago. Hellooo, end of NaBloPoMo! I don’t know if it’s been obvious but a large number of my posts this month were ones that have been living in the “pending” folder for ages. There were over 50…
Read Morebugs at bay
While not necessarily riddled with neuroses and phobias, I have a few. Blood. When I am near blood spilt by another, especially when the blood gets on other things, events can kind of darken and even go black for me. It’s a completely involuntary reaction — I don’t get all “eek! ew!” worked-up squeamish beforehand,…
Read Morewordless weekend: images of things past
This is Thanksgiving Day 2006 in San Francisco. I like the strange, shadowy souls on the beach. It matched the way I felt that day. I mark 2006 as one of the (if not the) worst year of my life, but instead of feeling the pain of my losses on that Thanksgiving, I was sensing…
Read Morewordless weekend: that’s what friends are for
This is Darling Andrew a few years back, when I asked him to repeatedly splash himself in the face with glasses of water so I could take pictures. It was for a collaborative project I was doing with someone on flickr. What a friend! Thanks, Andy, for indulging me. Although judging from this look he…
Read MoreMore tiny!
My love of the tiny flows in my veins. Here are some wee little adorabilities for your perusal. Althea Crome, knitter miniature items; creator of Coraline‘s knitted goods. [direct link] (thanks, Craft) Edie’s Big Adventure! See more here Wee felted cuteness from Etsy seller Pipapiep Perfectly detailed tiny sampler, only 1-3/8? x 1-3/4?! [link] (thanks,…
Read Moregiving thanks to art of all kinds
Happy Thanksgiving! Today marks what would have been Patrick Nagel‘s 65th birthday. What would we have done in the 1980s without him? Not to mention all the nail salons in America, with the Nagel-esque window illustrations of lovely ladies with lovely nails, often holding roses? The big shocker is that Nagel died in 1984! How…
Read Moreflicks
Terms of Endearment is coming up fast behind All the President’s Men as my most-watched movie ever. I like cancer flicks and Watergate, what can I say. I’m guessing viewings of President’s Men is hovering at 30 times, and Terms is at around 40-45, easy. If not more. Obviously, I can’t not watch. The last…
Read Morethis is what happens when you try to get between me and cake
My recent Facebook status, after yet another weekend (eating) in San Francisco: Monday is Denial Day after eating like an insane person this weekend in the City of Fatty Deliciousness. Who had pork belly, cake, milkshakes (twice), bacon (thrice), eleventy-seven desserts, a meatball parm sub, and (i think) an entire family of eight? Me did…
Read Morei found a source of the rot
If you’ve ever done any freelance creative work, then I know you know the type of client: utterly clueless, but with a seemingly endless arsenal of jargon and and must-haves and fake know-it-all-ness. A closet technophobe that obscures his/her ignorance with demands and buzzwords and words of “advice.” Where do these people come from? How…
Read Morewordless weekend, grass is always greener edition
A photo from a trip to Sequoia National Park in 2008. It’s raining today and so I’m thinking of summer, especially summers other than 2010 (when we were gypped out of nice weather.) I should be happy it’s finally wet outside (a rare thing here) and that I can finally wear my fall clothes without…
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