it’s said you can learn a lot from animals, but you can also learn a lot from animal shows, especially if they’re produced by the BBC. it’s been a flu and cough ridden season so far at our house, so we’ve been streaming endless episodes of All Creatures Great and Small, full of great animals, [...]
on the day after Thanksgiving i wrote a post about our dinner (crispy skin duck, brussels sprouts, sour cream apple pie, bottle of Chinon) and a highly intellectual conversation regarding narcissism, psychosis, and the Peter Pan Complex, or Puer Aeternus in Latin (meaning Eternal Boy). unfortunately our guest asked me to please refrain from posting [...]
happy thanksgiving everyone… here’s a little ode to Tarkovsky, New Mexico style! [ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ]
last night i went to see a tribute to Bob Mould at, of all places, the Walt Disney Hall. ahem. that would be a celebration of Hüsker Dü’s main man, at the venue where an usher wearing a forest green blazer and gold vest + lapel pin will tsk you for snapping gum too loud. [...]
Canine Sherman’s fentanyl patch… this week surgery is definitely in the air. the coffee grinder needed fixing… the WOPR got checked out, and i swapped out my laptop’s old hard drive for a new crazy fast solid state drive. wowee! it’s like driving a Prius. no moving parts. silent. the only thing i will miss [...]
It’s the end of summer, and Canine Sherman is happy to share her summer reading list. She’s busy writing her summer vacation essay too, titled “My Trip to the Soft Touch Plus.”
my mom, in between taking me to assorted rock concerts as a kid, also taught me how to sew, knit, and crochet. sometimes she combined the two: i came home from a Rush concert once and drew her a picture of the black/white seersucker jacket Geddy Lee had worn, and she made me one. kick [...]
i am thinking, and i know it’s stupid, to close up shop and do something other than computers. not that i can do anything BUT computers, (seriously, what good would i be to anyone?) but there’s a field of sheepdogs out there waiting to be trained, a garden of organic dirt waiting to be planted, [...]
a friend of mine who is traveling the world for a year just blogged of all the amazing things that can be seen in Paris at night. hukas, chocolate pencils, astrolabes, men holding signs that say “Cherche nympho.” the world being “flat” i thought i could do the same thing, as i just spent two [...]
this morning i took a hike in the Elena Gallegos Open Space Wilderness just at the base of the Sandia mountains. though i might be a little feverish from a head cold there sure are some funny similarities between hiking here and hiking the Big Wild in Santa Monica. ABQ is already a lot of [...]
