"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Adventures, Costumes and disguises, Distractions, Family, Party, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Nov 6th, 2009
I said something recently about writing more frequently…and once again I did a lot of fun stuff, didn’t write about it, built up a backlog of postable material, got overwhelmed, and will be babbling forth a disjointed and photo-heavy entry…AGAIN. So. We went to Nebraska this past weekend-ish. We left town Halloween night, did a […]
Posted in Distractions on Oct 25th, 2009
We went and listened to these ladies last night, and it was lovely. There’s no better word for it. Lovely. Their voices harmonize gloriously, forming chords that paradoxically seem to have a texture and shape. It’s not just music, sounds, but more like an aural sculpture. They chose a series of pieces from the convent […]
Posted in Distractions, Utter Silliness, videos on Oct 3rd, 2009
I guess you all probably know the Bert & Ernie “Banana In Your Ear” sketch: I never considered that the “banana in your ear” bit might have come from somewhere else, so imagine my surprise when I encountered it during a bit of Grand Ol’ Oprey schtik research:I’d fortuitously come across an entire episode of […]
Posted in Distractions, videos on Sep 27th, 2009
for being a bottomless font of covers and novelty tunes, which bring me boundless joy: A while back I expressed great enthusiasm for the Dollyrots’ “Brand New Key,” which at the time I had no idea wasn’t original to them. I’ve since learned that a sweet hippie folk singer named Melanie Safka was the originator […]
Posted in Distractions, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 26th, 2009
A little AP blurb on a dude with a metal detector who found a massive Anglo Saxon treasure hoard mentioned in the “Share and Enjoy” section of The Usual Suspects has reignited my fascination with all things Early-Medieval-To-The-Point-Of-Damn-Near-Prehistoric. A metal detector hobbyist trying his luck in a friend’s field stumbled upon the largest to-date cache […]
Posted in Distractions, Photo entries on Sep 17th, 2009
We’ve been finding these big ol’ garden spiders all around the back yard just lately. They’re huge-o-normous and build the burliest webs which quickly fill up with dried fly husks. This one wasn’t garden-spidering so much as in-Joel’s-workshop-spidering, so he caught it and put it outside where it belonged. This picture was a team effort, […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Sep 4th, 2009
IMG_0511, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I pushed my way through a home-made revolving door into a diaphanous, amorphous, rustling pink antechamber. It was not unlike being encapsulated in a gigantic chewing-gum bubble. This was the entrance to Jaime Burkhart’s conceptual installation project, “Great Accommodations!“ The piece takes its form as a large, inflatable maze, a […]
Posted in Distractions, Utter Silliness on Aug 30th, 2009
I downloaded some tiny animated GIFs for the sheer and utter hell of it. Basically so that I can, if the spirit moves me, add cutesie little touches to this blog. I’ll try to use them in moderation, so that this site won’t become a nauseating eyesore I’d hate for people to come here and […]
Posted in Distractions, Garden, Well I'll Be Darned on Aug 29th, 2009
We planted eggplants! Who knew?, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I didn’t realize that I had an eggplant plant until today. I was weeding after about a two-week lapse (shameful) and saw, lo! Eggplants! I don’t remember planting eggplant, so Joel must have, unless this is somehow a volunteer. This is the eggplant that tipped me […]
Posted in Distractions, Fashion, nostalgia, Utter Silliness, videos on Aug 28th, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYkWMAbFVc0] ABBA and I have a slightly stormy history. I loved them as a kid, of course. Their sprightly, catchy, danceable tunes get young and old alike up and moving. When I was in college (undergrad) we used to play ABBA’s Greatest Hits in the costume shop when we were working on costumes for plays. […]