Well, no one is laid up with cancer, or from a horrible car accident, or is being shipped off to The SandBox...

For a guy who had his neck filleted, a whole bunch of cervical vertebrae fused, and had everything stitched back together, Dad was in fairly good shape.  The tingling and loss of sensation has gone away, and his dexterity has returned.  ( Read more... )

Well, I ran the numbers, and I can keep my head above water in 2009.  Still looking for a part time job to give me some breathing room, but am now glad I chose registration over curating as a specialty.  Galleries and museum just plain don't run w/o us ( Read more... )

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I'm pinching myself, I'm crying...  I can't believe I'm seeing what I am seeing...  America now finally means what it says on the box!


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Or should that be SAD CEILING CAT... IS SAD???

What is most unsettling about Sarah Palin is the fact that her willingness to put in the work to get ahead is dwarfed her ambition.  Not only does *she* think she's too good for fancy-pants book learning, she thinks the same for the rest of the country.

Here's this little nugget from this past Friday, in ( Read more... )

It's official, Gen. Colin Powell has endorsed Obama!

Powell always seem like a steady minded guy; and is probably still steamed at this Bush and Co.for gutting his own credibility over WMD in Iraq.  The fact that Powell was not made Secy. or Defense, or even Veep is one of many signs that that these were a band of idiots that had no idea what they ( Read more... )

Snagged this off of Boing Boing...

I loved this video when I was a kid; it was one of first videos I can remember that actually told a story instead of just a whole lot of performance footage.

Now, and awesome video just got more awesome, and hilarious!


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An aunt and uncle of mine are in town for a visit, which means when drop by at their hotel room, I can watch cable TV (yay)!  Anyway, Auntie V is as big a Keith Olbermann fangirl as I am, so I was able to catch the beginning of McCain's headless chicken run WRT to "suspending" his campaign and single-handedly righting the bailout mess, despite not ( Read more... )

I can't really get my mind around the fact that it has been seven years since 9/11.

Here's a link to Sarah "Sars" Bunting's account of finding herself in the middle of it all on that day, from her blog, Tomato Nation.

Since moving here this past spring, I must say that Santa Fe, NM is a beautiful town.  It is actually rather small, population-wise about the same size as Altoona, PA, but with a totally different vibe.  I have joked with folks back home how a stroll down the street in downtown Santa Fe can be described as "Restaurant, Gallery, Spa, Restaurant, ( Read more... )