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Archive for September, 2005
September 30, 2005 at 1:18 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Derek saw this cake on Boing Boing. It is a Katamari Cake! Katamari Damacy is a way cool game for the PS2, where you are a tiny prince that rolls a ball around and stuff attaches to it. By stuff I mean paper clips, sushi, cats, toilet paper. See, you are trying to make a big katamari so the king can turn it back into a star… Really, it is cool. And the music is so great, you can even by a cd.
This is so genius - adjustable hot sauce.
Baby Chick and mama are all over the place now, and baby is getting big. It is still difficult to get a decent picture… here they are enjoying the seeds that the squirrel drops…
For our Los Angeles friends and readers, a map of L.A.’s fallen fruit. Yep, an old law states that any overhanging fruit is public property. What I wouldn’t give for free avocados…
I heard this band on NRK called Nouvelle Vague. Their deal: “Nouvelle Vague” ( means « New Wave « in french, « Bossa Nova » in portuguese) revisits number of both Marc and Olivier’s favourite tracks of the early eighties, from Joy Division to XTC.
Their idea was to forget the initial punk or new wave background of each song,keep simple fundamental chords,work with young singers who never heard the orginal versions,and make the quality of original songwriting happen in a completely different way (bossa nova,jazz style and sixties pop).”
You can listen to a few tracks on their site, and I listened to A Forest. It is a song by The Cure, and the cover is awesome.
September 23, 2005 at 10:29 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
GWB better watch out on his next visit to the Big Easy…
Guardsmen Sense Ghostly Presence in New Orleans
September 19, 2005 at 2:25 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
I am lucky enough to be in another art show this year. I hooked up with 3 other stay at home mom artists for a show this weekend at the Oswego Pointe Clubhouse. Yes, it is called Desperate Housewives. All the art is different, so the show should be quite interesting. It is only up for the weekend, so if you want to see it, you have to do it fast! There is a reception friday night (9/23) from 7pm - 10pm at 5033 Foothills Road in Lake Oswego. You can also view it from 10am - 10pm on 9/24, or 10am - 5pm on 9/25.
September 15, 2005 at 5:20 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Looks like we will only have one baby… the other two eggs didn’t really make it. One was a little smashed, then later that day it had disappeared. ??? The other egg lasted a few days more, then I found it partially smashed with flies on it, and it looked like maybe the chick had stopped growing a while back (there was a thick membrane around it but I could see a little bit… pretty gross actually, sorry I don’t have a picture for you. 
). Anyway, a couple days later I went down to check on the chick and nobody was in the coop. Eek! I started to freak out, but O heard some peeping and we found mama and baby out under a tree, with mama having a dust bath and baby trying to sit on top of her. I guess they had to go outside sometime! They have ventured further from the coop each day, but the baby (named Cutey) sticks right by her side.
September 11, 2005 at 3:17 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Kevin Smith’s Company View Askew is holding auctions to benefit victims of Katrina. You too can bid to win a walk on part on the set of Clerks 2! Way to go Jersey Boy!
September 9, 2005 at 7:31 am · Filed under Uncategorized
We had to buy O some new underwear, and he insisted on Batman. I started to sing the Batman theme to him. He was getting frustrated at his inability to sing the “da na na na na na na na” part right, so we found the song on the interweb. He insisted on listening to it again and again. I found a site with many other tv theme songs, and we started listening to them too. Now I’m trying to make a playlist so we can listen to them in the car on the Rio. Said playlist will include such tv theme song classics as Fraggle Rock, Batman (’70s theme song, not ’60s), Super Chicken, Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Scooby Doo, Spiderman, Underdog, Winnie the Pooh, Yogi Bear, Flinstones, Jetsons, Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner, Smurfs, Inspector Gadget, and his favorite - George of the Jungle. This oughta mix up his current playlist a bit, which includes The Beastie Boys‘ Brass Monkey, No Phone and Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Cake, and The Wiggles.
September 6, 2005 at 2:33 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
So we have a hen that decided to sit on some eggs. Last friday we heard peeping, but didn’t see anything. That is when we learned that the chicks peep inside the shells a day or two before they bust free. The hen is a barred rock.
We had two chicks, born a day apart. I started this post over a week ago and the littlest black chick died right after I started… I think she fell. I was very sad, and Owen was very sweet, and we buried it and planted flowers. Anyway, we moved Mama and the 2 remaining eggs she was sitting on to the ground. She sort of abandoned the eggs… we had candled them to see if they had chicks, and they looked almost completely black inside. Anyway, one got sort of dented, and then later in the day it was completely gone but no chick in sight. Who knows what happened. I’ve been trying to get her to sit on the remaining egg, but she doesn’t do it often. I guess I’ll call it a loss in a few days if nothing hatches. Owen named the chick cutey, and he never shuts up (the chick, not Owen). I’m pretty sure it is a “he”, you can sex barred rock chickens, and it sounds like by his markings he will be a rooster. Great.
September 4, 2005 at 7:03 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
It is always amazing to see the dichotomy of the power of people to do good (and an 8 year old at that!!), vs. the power of Bushco to be such an asshat. Way to go Tessa, family, and Oregonians on the coast.
“Nehalem residents, hit hard by flooding in 1996, contributed two pickup loads of diapers and toothpaste, toilet paper, clothing, blankets and towels. “They were picked off the top of their barns with helicopters less than 10 years earlier,” Streeter said. “That’s what drove them — we’ve been there.”“
September 3, 2005 at 7:38 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Great article on reporters taking government officials to task on the botched Hurricane rescue.
September 2, 2005 at 7:44 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Ok, I haven’t been watching or reading much on the hurricane, what with work, and a kid, and a new PS2, but what I do read usually makes me feel helpless and enraged. Gah.
Here is a blog, from the heart of it all. I think the guy is holed up in his office.
What is with reports of people not being allowed to come back and help? I have a 3rd hand report of Harry Connick Jr on the Today show saying he could go an hour away from N.O. and get water and supplies, but “they” wouldn’t let him bring it back in to help. Our government is such a clusterfuck.
Michael Moore has a great letter to Bush called “Vacation is Over“…. Snippet: “Dear Mr. Bush: Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.”
MM also has links to Submit a missing persons report, Help victims, Searching For missing persons, a place for survivors to say “I’m Okay”, a way to Offer Housing to victims, and More.
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