another year that I have missed Prarie Home Companion live. It would be nice to see some time.

so it was pretty cool being called "mate" by everybody as soon as I got on a plane to Perth.

And all of the "no worries" relaxed me too.

Apparently only guy call guys mate? Women don't seem to call women anything?

my dog bit me on the leg today

my cat clawed my eye...

whats the deal with people who say they go to a Bible based Christian church?

How many are not Bible based?

in the news today...

I can't type worth Boston Baked beans.

http://orangepenguins.keenspace.com/

forgot how good this was.

And its nice to see the way the drawing changes.

brilliance

shining everyday

bright light diffusing

into space, moving outward, forgetting its source

merging with other light, appreciated but still unknown

and then off.

I'm really annoyed with the commercial that NYC has for the Olympics.

It twists around the whole "give me your tired, your poor..." completely into a sports commercial, and cheapens the image of NYC, NY and the U.S.

so much of public tv time now seems like an infomercial :(

apparently the trick to Robert Rankin's style is a short story with a heck of a lot of footnotes that usually actually appear in the body of the work