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Month: May 2007

  • Mundane Story About a Three Day Gig at a Movie Theater

    Originally uploaded by eman59. The photo to the side isn’t mine. It’s by Eman59, whose photography I’m following at Flickr right now. I love the photo, which is universal (for all who’ve interacted with a box office window), but it also reminded me of a job I once had. Post pop-psychedelia, a movie theater opened…

  • What in the hell brought this up?

    What in the hell brought this up?

    H.o.p.: So without anything in my body, I would be kind of hollow? Me: Yep. H.o.p.: And I could hit it like a drum. Me: Yep. (If you could move, which would be a unique event in history.) H.o.p. (reading my mind): Well, I couldn’t. But you could.

  • Indeed, Virginia, You CAN Nail Jello To A Wall

    Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello To A Wall AKA “Jello Christ” Which is how art works. First Stelarc makes an art installation of himself, hanging himself from hooks, appending an ear to his arm. Then H.o.p. says, upon glimpsing a pic of Stelarc’s ear, “Let’s make a jello man!” So, he makes a jello…

  • Parenting a nine-year-old, after you stop wondering if you have a poltergeist, you start wondering if you’ve lost your mind

    WHERE DID IT GO? We’ve had problems with lost items in the past, in this apartment, which have nothing to do with H.o.p. I had long ago concluded there are teeny tiny blackholes abounding that science knows nothing about, which suck up random belongings and very occasionally spits them back out a few months later,…

  • Just checking

    H.o.p.: Dad, do you know what it’s like to stand in front of a gigantic spaceship?

  • The Jello Man Tragedy

    Making a Jello Man was harder than H.o.p. thought it would be. Those are the two shots I was able to capture before H.o.p., hysterically laughing, doubled over on the floor and that was that. Was time to step in and make sure we didn’t end up with jello all over the rug. Well, we’ve…

  • One thing has nothing to do with the other

    Today people are hearting No Impact Man for baking bread. With natural gas. With an electric kick-start natural gas oven. (When he discovered that the oven needed that electric kick-start he had to cut that circuit breaker back on.) No Impact Man. Remember, the man who strains to make ZERO IMPACT and is letting us…

  • Bigger, Smaller

    To the person from Indiana who got here Googling the two words bigger, smaller (imagine, I’m in the top 10 search results for those two words), just what the hell did you have on your mind? What kind of search is bigger, smaller? If you have a three-year-old and are trying to figure out how…

  • Stelarc’s Ear PORTRAIT taken by nina sellars

    Hmmm. Came upon this story via Boingboing of artist, Stelarc, having this ear implanted in his arm. H.o.p. comes up behind me and asks about it. Me: An artist had an ear implanted in his arm. H.o.p.: A fake ear, right? Me: A cultured ear. It’s real. Kind of. H.o.p. turned around and walked off.…

  • Approaching the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, There Is a Mountain, and Vultures…

    Approaching the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, There Is a Mountain, and Vultures…

    Approaching the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, There Is a Mountain, and Vultures… View larger

  • Sunset, Cottonwood, Arizona

    Sunset, Cottonwood, Arizona 2006 Light box enlargement

  • Wild Boy of Montezuma’s Castle

    Wild Boy of Montezuma’s Castle Light box Enlargement H.o.p. doing his thing of acting the zombie every time I point the camera at him. H.o.p. says now, “Hey! Get me out of this pose! I’m frozen!” He’s suggesting I call it The Scream. I can’t tell if the man on the left is kind of…