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Month: August 2006

  • After the wreck were the brush fires

    So after we had cleared the wreck (only car remaining on the scene was a a white SUV on the bed of a tow truck, top pretty much caved in), then there was smoke overhanging the Interstate ahead. “What’s all that smoke?” I asked Marty. We didn’t know. My sister writes saying they’d left our…

  • What you don't want to see as you pass under Spaghetti Junction

    One thing you really don’t want to see when you are getting on Spaghetti Junction are cars on the overpass above you backing up–backing up on those high high spaghetti junction overpasses–to avoid what they can see just beyond that you can’t, and it’s too late now for you to do anything but sit in…

  • I'm glad for the person this didn't prove embarrassing

    This is hysterical. Marty was supposed to fly out this weekend for a Blues Festival but has been ill and needed to cancel. So this AM he gets several calls in a row. It’s one of the friends who was on their way out to the gig, the phone in pocket and something was hitting…

  • Rocketship X-M (yes, I blogged it)

    You’ll rain stones on me like the Martian stonepeople in “Rocketship X-M”, but having watched the movie I’m not convinced it’s intended to be misogynistic so much as it does a confused job of showcasing misogynism as an anti-nuke vehicle. Anyway, I blogged the movie because I know I’ll likely never watch it again and…

  • Nat

    Nat

    Two portraits of Nat based on a photo from her family. Digital painting of Nat Digitally tinted photo of Nat

  • Roxanne

    Roxanne

    Roxanne, digital painting with photo supplied, 2005

  • Two of Frank Baum’s descendants apologize for his racism

    Not many people are aware of the racism of Frank Baum, author of the much beloved “The Wizard of Oz”. I felt it important and devoted a few pages to it in Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin. As Marty says, it’s refreshing news that a couple of…

  • Answer me why…

    Everyone else can write about the important stuff. My blog is for asking pointless questions that no one either bothers to answer or simply can’t answer. (Oh, wait, I was informed the aloe vera was dying because it was getting too much water. I stopped watering it except when the soil was completely dry and,…

  • My parental duty for the evening

    My parental duty for the day has been locating old pipe organ music on the net for H.o.p. He wanted to hear and we don’t have a turntable to play the several albums of Italian, German and English renaissance organ music that we used to have which got all scratched up and are either in…

  • OK, so I've read up on Netflix and throttling…

    H.o.p. woke up sick and has been down for the count all day. Marty’s out being filmed for a BBC documentary (I’ll describe later). Oh, here comes H.o.p. now. And I’ve been reading about Netflix and throttling. Will we end up being disappointed in Netflix as well? Probably. Because I’m a new customer may be…

  • Well, we shall see how this works

    Despite some of the things I’ve read, I went ahead and got a Netflix subscription. We don’t have cable, the movie rental places closest to us are very slim on anything but current flicks, and I wanted to make available to H.o.p. documentaries/educational DVDs without having to purchase them. We must be very dull people…

  • Just getting new materials for H.o.p. in line for the year, that's all I'm doing

    Books, books and more books. That’s what I’ve been up to. Ordering books for H.o.p. for this coming year. Math books and history books and science books. Books, books and more books. And plenty of books now waiting in the Wish List for ordering later. I never know what’s going to catch H.o.p.’s interest. Unexpectedly,…