Anyone else notice those strange full-page megalomaniacal pseudoreligious screeds that have appeared in The Stranger (weekly Seattle alt rag) lately ( Read more... )

A couple weekends ago we acquired two works by local artist Tony Angell. His sculptures can be seen around the Northwest, including a cormorant at the Edmonds ferry terminal, various birds in the healing garden at Highline Community Hospital in Burien, other works at the Woodland Park Zoo, various public libraries, a large raven recently dedicated ( Read more... )

A couple of records I'm enjoying lately:

( The Blackouts and The Arms of Someone New )

My cat has a new theme song.


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Decision-making time! I have numerous familial travelling priorities this year, but this lineup has me thinking about how I could fit in a trip to southern California. I am not one to categorically hate reunions. I have seen some stellar ones. Gang of Four (!) I knew was a strong possibility but Bauhaus (!) came as a complete surprise to me this ( Read more... )

Every time I turn around lately, I hear either Sting or Cyndi Lauper. In stores, offices, movies, television, and probably elevators. Cyndi Lauper is ok but she's just played out in my toleration gauge, I've heard the songs too many times. But Sting, now, he's the height of pretentiously bad. He doesn't even have any camp value. At least the Police ( Read more... )

One of my goals for my trip to Australia was to see flying foxes. And did I see flying foxes, lots of them. Yay! Although one of my regrets was missing out on the Bathouse along the road to Cape Tribulation ("Meet a Friendly Flying-fox"). To our disappointment, the place closed at 3:00 pm, and after a hike and a swim at Cape Trib with White-Bellied ( Read more... )

Today a strange storm came through, and I discovered Catster, an "excuse for sheer ridiculousness." My cat Frankie is in there somewhere ( Read more... )

Where did wellsofmoonbeam go? That was like temp-o-journal! And alf! If you are out there alf, hey. It's been a while.

Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Vancouver, BC-based gonzo rock interviewer extraordinaire, has a fabulous archive of video and audio interviews at http://www.nardwuar.com/. This nutjob has a grating voice and an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, and can reduce any hair metal joker to petulant shreds in the space of a few spot-on, hilarious ( Read more... )