Baruch!

This is a friend of mine. You may have seen me post it before (on my social media sites) but if you think it's funny please like it on YouTube. This is part of a contest that will let the winner publish a collection of work.


 I think he's pretty funny.

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Seattle EMP

My desire to blog about my little trip is miniscule right now.  I feel the smallest need to document it but I do enjoy looking back on these things so here's the whirl wind photo tour;

The EMP has a guitar room full of oddities from the past and if you get the audio tour you can hear all of these cool instruments being played.

ooh look... it's a stanky old t-shirt that a member of Nirvana colored on with a sharpie...

There was a Horror movie display that had some cool props like Mr. Pointy (the stake that Buffy killed Angel with)...

Edward's scissor hands...

a Thriller zombie costume...

and I really loved this three story kenetic guitar sculpture;

This sculpture is outside the EMP and the Space Needle, I have no real place to put this photo but I liked it a lot.

Ok that's enough... onward to the present!

Melting Music Museum!

This is the EMP (Experience Music Project) Museum in Seattle.  The building was designed by aliens Frank Gehry. I had to steal this aerial shot from the internet to really show you vaguely what this organic metallic structure looks like. 

This is the side entrance by the monorail

 Inside the walls are reflective like the exterior, it's hard to tell from the photo what is window and what is wall.

 Colors are not enhanced by photoshop... it really looks like an amazon butterfly.  A metal butterfly.

Next up; inside the building...

Quiet.

Yes... I escaped!  It was a glorious four day Seattle excursion.  I had an amazing time, saw people I love, spent a day in a museum, tried new foods, met new people... it was good... but I am feeling rather quiet, perhaps just tired, so I am afraid the real blogging will be coming soon.  Sorry Mom and Dad, I'll call or blog soon-ish.  Jacquie says I'm a bad daughter for not calling to let you know my plane didn't crash into the ocean, so yea maybe so.  All is well, I took a surprising amount of photos... please stand by.

The collective has spoken.

Despite the well meaning people who think clowns are fun, the Google auto-fill knows what is really on our minds.  By Merely typing "clowns are"  This is what you get;

The European version of clown (not full white face, no Bozo talking) is slightly less scary, but really perhaps it's just time to retire this cultural phenomenon.  Balloon animals are just as enjoyable when they are made by someone not wearing any make up at all.

Lightning!

A local photographer caught this image during the rather turbulent storm we had yesterday.  I was safely bunkered in my shop cleaning...

March 30th

Since I don't have any photos of my Dad's birthdays as a kid, I present this photo montage re-imagining of what one of his parties could have looked like...

Happy Birthday Pop! I love you!

March 27th.

Arm chair travel

Google Maps' little orange man provides me with so much satisfaction.  I can explore the world for free.  I can also look around many major cities to find the places I should add to my "must see" list...


Here are my favorite finds this week;
Ok this one was Seattle, the woods by the lake is nice and all but the bisected woman amused me greatly;

Apparently Seattle has a really cool museum I need to go see...

Dublin Ireland has a place called Booze2Go... love it!

 This is also Dublin!  Oh gosh n' begorah I want to spend a good long vacation in Ireland.

And this one is Puerto Vallarta Mexico, such a pretty beach city...

Ok, that's it.  I am burnt out from work this month and am planning on taking my first day off in about three weeks tomorrow.  The knots in my back are terrible.  One day isn't going to be enough but it's going to need to suffice, much like the way that although I cannot travel, I can at least Google and that is going to need to tide me over for a bit.

Sigh.

Beards (reblog)

This is for my Pop... and probably a few other fathers who read my blog...

Click HERE.

Stuffed.

I went to the store this morning with the intention of buying some pan dulce and coffee only to discover that the massively heavy bag I've been carrying around didn't have my wallet in it. When I got back to the shop I decided to play "What's in your bag!"

First thing in my bag was a smaller make-up bag

Contents of the make-up bag included;
 4 lipsticks
1 pencil sharpener
1 Neosporin,
2 eyeshadows
1 lip brush
1 acne spot treatment,
1 70spf sunscreen
2 hairbands
1 hair clip
2 wig pins
1 corset lace

But wait... here's the rest of the contents of my (shockingly small) bag;
3 receipts
1 BART ticket
4 chapsticks
trash
1 spray hairgel (not for me)
1 roll of elastic
1 package of needles
1 origami needle holder
1 digital camera
1 cell phone
1 pair fingerless gloves
1 waterless toothbrush
1 package hot cocoa
5 snaps
1 reproduction Victorian button hook
1 skirt bar
1 toupee clip
1 wig pin
1 pair 8" scissors
1 pair thread scissors
1 fabric swatch
2 highlighters
4 art pens
1 eraser
1 mechanical pencil
2 gel pens (1 black, 1 blue)
6 spools of thread
1 ipod (not pictured)

Sometimes during Tech I just keep stuffing things in there "in case I need it".  There is a point however when there is no way to find the things you need.

The bag now contains;
 wallet, phone, camera, ipod, scissors, 1 chapstick and well...
  most of those pens (I need a lot of pens, don't judge.)
Much better.