I got some solar birds from Ikea for the back garden. Here’s a pic of them all lit up! I know I should post here more often, but I’ve been very busy writing fiction. I figure the solar birds rate a post because they look sort of fictional. I’m still creeping toward the end of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Do You Believe in Monsters? How About Woolly Mammoths?
I’m always happy when a new episode of the Monster Talk podcast pops up in my podcast feed. The new one deals with the recent Wooly Mammoth hoax, but I’d like to talk a bit about why people often believe. I learned a new word today: pareidolia. Maybe I’ve heard it on previous episodes, but [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What A Week! Mutant Chocolate-Covered Fortune Cookie Included
I had oral surgery a week ago today, jury duty on Monday, and Valentine’s Day yesterday (which means chocolate for breakfast this morning, Yay!). I’ve had to eat regular meals because of taking the antibiotics and pain pills—but the last pills were accompanied by Valentine’s Day chocolates. All that’s left is for the stitches to [...]
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I’m coping with the ongoing drought in the best way I know: I’ve returned to work on a project of field recordings of rain. I do field recordings of various things, natural sounds, noise, rhythm, odd sounds. It’s something I enjoy and usually spring finds me recording more hours of rain than I have time [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Music for reading, writing, gardening
I should’ve written a post about music before now—a couple of them at least—since I’m a musician. So I’m going to drop a lot of stuff on you all in one post. It’s all good (and some of it is free). If you’re a bookworm, author or gardener, I’ve got music for you…not all of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Best of 2010 in <140
The first year I had this domain I pasted some of my tweets in occasionally. This has been a fairly eventful year for me as an author and musician, but what that’s meant in terms of tweets is fewer personal and poetic tweets. I thought about just posting those, but decided that if I’m going [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Wondering what I’ll have to do to appease the Evil Table Of Contents Fairy who runs amok whenever I look away. (Facebook status that should’ve been tweeted.) Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Woke up bright-eyed & bushy-tailed this Monday morning. So much to do—so much I *want* to do—that I don’t know where to start. 8:17 AM This does not seem right: that I’m losing momentum at the same time the dogs are gaining momentum. 3:14 PM Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Neighbors are building a patio awning. The ping ping ping of hammering on metal is surprising, pleasing pitch & rhythm punctuates birdsong. 8:47 AM I think I may have folded the space-time continuum to do 2 days of work in 1 day today. Time-lagged, space-happy, relaxing now. 7:55 PM Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The morning has escaped me and run amok like a wild animal. Ever the optimist, I still hope to catch it… Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
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Spent the morning with fictional trees. The afternoon? Dogs and garden! How are you spending Earth Day? - posted on 22/04/2013 11:57:46