Wow, if you ever want to put your brain on a light froth for the night, play Warcraft all weekend, then knock off about nine-thirty and read Stephen King’s “Misery” until midnight. I have had a copy of “Misery” in the house for about six months, and I have not read it. This is not […]
Monthly Archives: February 2005
Okay, okay…I resisted for quite awhile, but here’s the 10 things I have done (or had happen) that probably nobody reading this has done meme, which will undoubtedly just prove that my readers are at least as weird as I am and have done it all, too. 1. Was born on a naval base in […]
A big thank you to Laurel K Pendragon! Visitors to my studio (the poor bastards) are now assured upon entry that Smilegod Loves Them. It’s awesome. Thank you. (Anybody who missed out on Smilegod may wish to learn more of this peculiar deity at http://www.livejournal.com/users/ursulav/79081.html because Smilegod almost certainly loves YOU, too.)
Something is draining my feeder in the night. My feeder–one of those little hexagonal jobbies, with a little trough at the bottom, and a roof on top–is being absolutely cleaned out at night. I don’t mean just the food is vanishing at a surprising rate, I mean it is empty. Not a grain of millet, […]
A big thanks to my readers who insisted that kids deserved the truth–got quite a nice letter from the teacher of the fourth-grade class, who thanked me for not watering it down, and dug up a picture of “Saturn Devouring His Children” to show those members of the class who wanted to see it. Since […]
My ceramics class has been goin’ pretty well. Throwing on the wheel is not like riding a bicycle, unfortunately, so I am not at all up to my college days, but part of that is that after three years of manhandling clay, I had some serious forearm power in those long ago halcyon days, and […]
Took a nap. Woke up. Had some kind of dream about two shapeshifting blobby things, called the Ragged Thing and the Smooth Thing, (possibly my use of the word “thing” has invaded my subconscious in terrifying new ways) and a boy that one of them had made out of a tyrant flycatcher (a type of […]
At last, art! I finally found a middle ground that I like–mostly acrylic, but skin tones and additional bits of color added with oil pastel. Seems to be an okay combination. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15492680/
Female eastern towhee on the platform feeder. Male and female cardinals either. Hot damn. Now I really do need the bird blind…
It’s a great way to wake up, really–stagger forth from confused dreams of orchid pirates* and wander into the living room, to spot a strange bird grazing soggily under the neighbor’s feeder. Much checking would indicate that it was an Eastern Towhee, a new addition to my lifelist and yet another bird that I can […]