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chicken tv
Nice moments from Summer 2009: While waiting for a lunch order, I looked outside to the sidewalk to see a lady staggering to her car. I was nervous that she was impaired and about to get behind the wheel. Then I realized she was walking barefoot, balancing on her heels, trying to maintain her brand-new…
Read MoreBecky Home Eccy
A compendium of creative crap, quilt-wise, I’ve been doing… QUILT ONE I remade the Science Quilt into a wee size (about 38″ x 38″). Well, almost. Even though all instincts were telling me to stop! on Saturday, after a long and hot day, I hurriedly sewed the binding and royally screwed it up. I’m a…
Read Moretaking it into hyperdrive at the end of summer
End of the Fair, 2009 I’ve been waiting to share this until I started feeling a slight bit melancholy, now that my wonderful summery summer is drawing to a close. I had to pull on a sweater this morning, after a block of blazing days, and I can’t ignore the deepening shadows that inform me…
Read Morevoyage of the goddamned
I need to preface this post to try to lessen my sounding like a complete asshole. The journey detailed below is in no way meant to taint the reason for the trip in the first place — to attend a wedding, a wonderful one, of two close friends. I had a great time and would…
Read MoreProtected: essay for DW
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Read Morehi you! you, who!
Nearly 20 years ago, I lost contact with a good friend. It was abrupt and mysterious. I called her from an airport, en route to visiting her. She said let’s talk tomorrow. That was the last conversation we ever had. Despite my repeated calls for weeks after that, she vanished. I’ve been thinking about her…
Read Morefair update and scavenger madness
If you’ve not been Facebooked nor Twittered to death about it (by me), I’ll tell you now: the Science Quilt did not win a prize in the Ventura County Fair. Instead, I got an “everyone gets one” Honorable Mention sticker. inadequately displayed. on the bright side, it was two quilts over from a NASCAR quilt!…
Read Moreno spoilers, but one great big spoilsport!
Let it be known that when I’m in a wonky weird frown-based mood, that’s the time I usually go to the movies. By myself. Just so that I can tell myself I managed to get out of the house (only to do the most passive thing possible — sit in the dark, alone, and watch…
Read Moresentimental old fool
SoMa by flickeruser niallkennedy Strangely, it was the anniversary of JFK Jr’s death that reminded me that it was ten years ago that I made a hasty move back to San Francisco — the second boing in three boings in which I’ve bounced from the Bay Area, to Ventura, to the Bay Area, and again…
Read Morequiltreport final: science quilt
The Science Quilt is done! If you’d like to read about the making process, from start to finish, you can hit the links at the bottom of the post. And there are lots of photos here. Recap: Last year, while working (as a civilian) in a university Chemical Engineering Department, I would pass a poster…
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