Hmm, just talked to my brother and he's selling a piece of Disney concept art from the Peter Pan movie in an auction on Monday. I'm not sure I'd ever seen that one before, although he says it had been hanging in his bedroom. I am not nearly anywhere near as much of a Disney fan as he is (I tend to refer to the amusement park as Dismalland), but ( Read more... )

Wow. From oppressive heat to pouring down rain; weather is bouncing like a rubber band...*

Well, I had been putting up mylife_onceaday photos that I'd posted to the community here, but then I got sidetracked by the scavenger hunts they started doing, and Sackboy Travels and other things. I still carry my camera around everywhere, but I guess I haven't been ( Read more... )

Doug called me to ask for some of Avalon's measurements - from the back of her neck to just below her elbow - because he was making her a poncho, and he was almost finished with it. It sort of looks gray below, but it's actually pink and blue; that sort of yarn that gradients from one color to the other. Then he emailed these photos to ask how ( Read more... )

So a week or two ago, Doug called to see if we wanted to go to the Mouse Place, and I told him we couldn't because the passes had expired the week before. He declared that was a perfect time for him to renew them (as what's become his traditional gift), and then we could watch the tradtional Dismal Xmas Show, which they only do the first or second ( Read more... )

My silly brother called from freaking Bristol, England, on Boxing Day morning because he was trying to tell his hosts that trout was the same thing as salmon. Heh, had to disabuse him of the notion, although they are related. He was thinking of a steelhead, I think, which is a sea-run rainbow trout ( Read more... )

What a busy weekend ( Read more... )

Doug came down last Monday bearing gifts, among which were books for the kids; The Boy Who Cried Fabulous and Walter, the Farting Dog. The first he insists is about a little gay boy (actually he just has a rather florid vocabulary - let's wait and see about the other) and the second is self-explanatory. Both perfectly delightful books ( Read more... )

The balance of the spout and handle of of a teapot, with each other and with the body of the pot, is an aesthetic problem to which no artist need be ashamed to devote his attention.
- Sir Herbert Read, art historian and critic, from Art and Industry

(The teapot is) one of the great fetish objects of our time.
- Arman
Last Saturday was pleasant - ( Read more... )

Wow! My brother just sent me this link.

Live Wood!

This is his classical recorder group - they do weddings, parties, anything, usually during the holiday season. I think I especially like "Bach - Motet "Lobet den Herrn," but the "Washington Post March" is pretty fun, too. My grandmother always used to refer to this as playing his "whistles."

( A short visit to Palm Springs )