Has been a day of excavation. Excavation of STUFF. Chris is in the basement trying to clear work space of the the accumulated bike-kipple, I've been in the attic trying to clear work space (and guest sleeping space as well) out of the heaps of art-kipple up there ( Read more... )

I hear tell there's a restaurant in SF that serves Indian food (curries etc) on pizza. Genius idea!

Am attempting that tonight, perhaps rashly, with an Okra Sambhar on pizza dough. Cross your fingers for us, friends!

Edited to add:

It

Is

Awesome.

"...[T]he hardest thing in the world--the supreme triumph, so to speak, of the human will--is to say what you want to say and do what you want to do."

--George Sand, that wacky Chopin-smoochin' cross-dresser, in An Open Letter to Monsieur Nisard, 1836.

Lately, I keep running to the brain message:

"Why the heck am I *doing* this?"

As relates to pretty much anything I happen to be doing.

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Feh.

Respond to this meme by shispering "Words!" and I'll give you five words that remind me of you, or failing that five words for which I want to hear your associations. Post your ponderings in your journal and, if you're so inclined, invite others to do the same.

bilunabirotunda gave me broccoli, bicycle, illustration, evolution, style.

Broccoli and Bicycles are ( Read more... )

My darling love is asleep on the sofa so I'm going to see if I can download some NPR into a little portable MP3 thing so I can make dinner (supervised by Karl Castle's authoritative voice) w/o waking the sleepy kitten dude up.

Yeah.

This video is by no means his finest work, but I am totally a fan of Dr Saplosky the awesome primatologist.

Doin' that crabby, impatient, feeling kind of swamped thing in my brain right now. Last night too. Note to self--cut it the heck out!

This is where our long bike ride ended up yesterday.


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Big faerie festival about to start up a mile north of my office at the arboretum this afternoon. Co-worker taking a quick break asks on her way to the restroom, "Do faeries pee?" I think a moment, respond with much certainty: "They tinkle."