I finally digitized my project from the Super 8 filmmaking class I took 7 years ago. It features squashed fruit moving in reverse, teeming ladybugs, teevee, and titles formed from found words. The soundtrack is Rasputina's "Stumpside"

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Got the flu on Halloween! You know when you get that fevery, prickly skin feeling that makes any item of clothing you may be wearing feel like burlap? Luckily the worst of it was over within 12 hours. But somehow, this thing is sticking around long enough to make me feel sufficiently fine to host a party and talk my voice completely hoarse within a ( Read more... )

A few things learned on recent 1-week trip to Boston & New York City ( Read more... )

Today's bus ride downtown was free because someone shat on the bus, making the front door inaccessible. The woman next to me was acting like we all should evacuate because, like, Biohazard!!! I just snickered to myself and quickly plotted what I would splurge on to celebrate saving $1.50. Hmm, how about a medium Slurpee? Or perhaps a tiny organic ( Read more... )

If you ever need proof of the essential role of grease, try the new Kettle Honey Hickory Baked (minimal oil) potato chips. They did an admirable job with the spices, and especially the thin crispitude, but I could not stop eating them, hoping that the next morsel would be the one that finally made me feel satisfied. No such luck. With regular chips ( Read more... )

In two days I'll be receiving an upright piano into my home. It's the same one I played as a teenager. I am also acquiring all the Chopin sheet music I can handle, which has been passed down through the generations. I am hoping that by surrounding myself with piano, guitar and cello, I will not miss the television that I have unceremoniously ( Read more... )

The other day whilst making a sandwich, I pulled out half a tomato from my fridge that I had wrapped in plastic a couple days before. As I got ready to start slicing it, I peered inside it and thought "Weird, I don't remember buying sprouts..." There were all these robust-looking sprouts growing out of my tomato. It was a revelation for me. I ( Read more... )

Here is something I did not know until this week: The post office requires 13 additional cents above first class postage to send your letter if your envelope weighs LESS than one ounce. So, please keep this in mind when you are sending your single sheet-of-paper-backed-with-styrofoam moving announcements ( Read more... )

I took a look at my new oven this morning, and the sunlight was shining just right for me to see all the potential LED messages on the iridescent display at once. You know, that tight little grid of letter and number segments, packed in so efficiently? Anyway, amid all the AUTO-COOK-PREHEAT-BAKE verbiage, I saw this word ( Read more... )

One of the main benefits of changing web hosts is my dramatic drop in spam. By losing my "flea" address, and getting rid of the "info" address link on my website, I am miraculously spam-free for one day and counting. I don't expect this condition to last all that long, but hopefully I won't even get close to the hundred or so spams I was receiving ( Read more... )