Tonight I did some long-overdue tidying up around the house and came across a lot of my old prints (from film — you all remember what film is, right?). Of all of the film that I shot and printed before moving to digital (a bit more fully than I anticipated), the photo […]
Today I went sailing for the third time this year. The weather was looking poor earlier in the week, but come Friday the forecast said t-storms in the morning, isolated rain later in the day (20%). Good enough for me; I can take a little rain as long as it’s not cold. […]
This past week I’ve been listening to Aimee Mann’s new album, The Forgotten Arm. Beautiful stuff, perhaps even better than her previous outing, Lost in Space. And it wouldn’t be a half-review of an Aimee Mann album without mentioning that she’s really not singing about pleasant relationships. So when I say something […]
Wired has an article about a competition in which several groups are given one day to make a 3 1/2 minute movie which must include the following ingredients: “a close-up of a street sign, the words ’spirit world’ in conversation, and someone stepping on something” They start in the morning and turn in their […]
While catching up with Joe on the telephone tonight the topic of his horoscope came up, which he reported matched uncannily with his life’s challenges at present. I decided to check The Onion’s horoscopes to see if their astrological message corresponded as well: Taurus: (April. 20—May 20) Despite the urgent need for […]
