Monthly Archives: December 2003
Today, I was gonna accomplish Things! I was gonna see the old year off right by getting art done and packing done and working on repainting this old planter, and generally finishing the year off with a productive bang so that I went into 2004 feeling good about myself. And instead I got a aura […]
After eight months of balmy AZ temperatures, it finally dipped into–horrors!–the mid fifties–forcing me to drag out my faithful steel-toed boots instead of sandals. Eight months of sandal wearing means that I now feel like I’ve got cinderblocks strapped to my ankles. I pick up a foot. Ungh. I set it down. Thunk. I feel […]
You know, I think the net is becoming nicer. A coupla times in recent memory, I have laid the verbal smack down on someone bein’ an idiot, hit the relevant buttons, and leaned back, anticipating either a good fight or (more usually) dead silence. This is one of my hobbies, and forms a vital part […]
Free speech means that you have the right to say whatever you want. And nobody can take that away. It also means that I have the right to laugh at it. And nobody can take that away, either. I am terribly tired of people brandishing the First Amendment and thinking that it means that their […]
The spurious accusations of art theft have gotten outta hand… +————————————— – | At Mon Dec 29 06:28:43 2003 | Streea | () | IP#:67.250.111.66 | Referring to: ursula.html | “Well your your art work is great im not saying anything | agenst it but your not stating where you get it… I can | […]
So back when I first moved to Arizona, my folks got me a housewarming gift–this very cool piece of leather wall art, made of various types of–get this–fish leather. The main piece is tuna leather. And damn, it’s cool, and the leather is this wonderful pebbly stuff with a really neat texture–not scaly, per se, […]
James’s folks are in town, so we’re hangin’ out with them. And that’s cool. Yesterday we went to the botanical gardens, which were snazzy and cactusfilled, and I took a lot of photos. Last night, as I was in the throes of sleep, James finally came to bed. “I dreamed about plants,” I told him […]
Show today on NPR on smallpox, historically. They’re describing a woman–Lady Mary–who went to Turkey in the–I wanna say late 1700’s, but I could be wrong–and discovered a proto-vaccine for smallpox there, being practiced largely by Greek and Cyprean women. As vaccines go, this was pretty crude (and icky!)–dip needles into “ripe” smallpox sores, and […]
And a merry Dies Natalis Invicti Solis to all!