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Pomplamoose!
nj introduced me to Pomplamoose a few weeks ago. Pomplemousse is French for Grapefruit. Pomplamoose are Jack Conte, the runaway train of energy who plays every instrument there is, and Nataly Dawn, a slender sylph with a Marilyn mole near her lip, a versatile singing range, and a lovely Bjorkish tremolo. They make videosongs and post them to ( Read more... ) -
Forest friends
My house overlooks a canyon view with a modest forest of coastal live oaks below my back yard. My upper deck is four stories over my back patio, no stairs to the yard like the lower deck, inaccessible to raccoons. There I have a couple of big, neo-French Provincial pedestal bowls. One I fill with water as a birdbath, and one I fill with bird ( Read more... ) -
The Great Hogmorph Rescue
My friend Jamie had spent his last vacation at the Island of Dr. Moreau, mostly to investigate the legendary cocktails that the human/animal denizens made for visitors, but surprised us all when he came home with three hogmorphs to work security at the DNA Lounge. The hogmorphs had the bodies of huge, ripped weight lifters. They had dappled and ( Read more... ) -
Your president too
My pomeranian looked at me intently, using his doggie eye-beams to burn his meaning into my brain, and then gave a low, important "whuff ( Read more... ) -
Fear and Loathing in Piedmont
Hard times are upon us all. It's June 2009. Though nj escaped the big layoff in December of 08, Adobe has finally cut his team too. We were so confident that with his talent and pay-grade that he'd always have good work, but we're being evicted. My deepest anxieties are made reality ( Read more... ) -
The garden
The backyard was a problem. Not a journey, but a ski-slope. All hill, no dale, dangerous and difficult to manoever. We pretty much ignored it for the first six months we lived in our house. Then our huge, three story oak tree with the breathtaking rainbow arch of a canopy FELL DOWN in the winter rains, breaking our back fence, so we had to do ( Read more... ) -
So many tentacles, so little time
A pretty nice photo of me in my halloween costume:
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OMG, BFF
anarqueso is super-keen and swell. I highly endorse this product or service. She came by and we ebulliently exchanged life stories, and I let her borrow some chemistry glass for the mad science cheese counter at Rainbow Market in SF. Sometimes you meet your friend of a friend from the internetz ether and it doesn't go as well as you'd hoped. But that' ( Read more... ) -
Stupid Nature.
I bought a couple of packs of halloween punchballs. They blew up like thick, high-quality, very round balloons, bright orange, each with a swell jack-o-lantern smile on it. I carefully edged out on the thin, one-and-a-half-foot wide, decorative veranda outside our home-office and put up a nice row of them on the railing. Smiling at the street, ( Read more... ) -
Pollyanna, the Quickening
It takes a special sort of girl with a herculean streak of Pollyannaism to find the bright side of having "a history of bronchial distress and pneumonia," but I AM that girl. The GOOD thing about my third bout of pneumonia in 14 months is that I get cred. Four days ago I called my doctor's office wheezing, my voice shattered and keening like the ( Read more... )