i'm locking down comments/notes/tags on all my flickr photos that are older than one month in preparation for the yahoo signin requirement sometime in 2006.
as you can see, i'm quite serious about abandonning flickr except as an old photo repository. (i'm keeping the account alive for photo storage only. i'll be breaking many, many links if i let it go at this point.)
it's a sad, sad day. but i'm sure i'll get over it.
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
test one two one two
testing out blogger's photo ability for when flickr requires a yahoo login.
seems to work.
oh! that photo is of my new gloomy bear print! hooray!
seems to work.
oh! that photo is of my new gloomy bear print! hooray!
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
happy days of holi
so, how are your holidays going, gibblets? nursing a hangover? counting down the days until the new year when the whole holiday season will *finally* be over?
yeah, me too.
xmas day at casa rakkaleff went according to plan. SANS hitting my head, thankfully! although, i broke my toe again.
but it's been broken and rebroken for four months now so no news there.
leff, d and i saw king kong
and it was good! (for those of you keeping score, the 1976 version of kong is the first movie that i remember seeing. i also auditioned to be an extra in 1986's "king kong lives" but i was told that i was too young. also also, whenever i watch "king kong vs. godzilla", a rock legend dies. (i watched it the day kurt cobain died and also the day that joey ramone died. spooooooky!! (haha)) so, yes, kong and i go way back.)
after kong, we headed to the international district for chinese food.
i got the vegetarian mu shu and it was fantastic! (note to self: we need some hoisin sauce.) leff got a garlic eggplant dish that was yummy but he ate all of the leftovers while he was waiting for the xmas "dr. who" to finish torrenting so i only ate a few bites of it. (the eggplant not the dr. who)
we're heading back to the id this week for vinyl. leff saw a toy store while we were searching for parking and even though we have a huuuuuuge order in at kid robot (which includes a pete fowler monsterism figure but i can't remember which one), one can never have enough vinyl.
one can't.
i'm not sure what's on the agenda for the rest of the week. (leff's on holiday so that means 'sploring.) maybe capitol hill? maybe freemont? maybe more drinking?
if i was placing bets, i'd go with more drinking by three lengths.
yeah, me too.
xmas day at casa rakkaleff went according to plan. SANS hitting my head, thankfully! although, i broke my toe again.
but it's been broken and rebroken for four months now so no news there.
leff, d and i saw king kong
and it was good! (for those of you keeping score, the 1976 version of kong is the first movie that i remember seeing. i also auditioned to be an extra in 1986's "king kong lives" but i was told that i was too young. also also, whenever i watch "king kong vs. godzilla", a rock legend dies. (i watched it the day kurt cobain died and also the day that joey ramone died. spooooooky!! (haha)) so, yes, kong and i go way back.)
after kong, we headed to the international district for chinese food.
i got the vegetarian mu shu and it was fantastic! (note to self: we need some hoisin sauce.) leff got a garlic eggplant dish that was yummy but he ate all of the leftovers while he was waiting for the xmas "dr. who" to finish torrenting so i only ate a few bites of it. (the eggplant not the dr. who)
we're heading back to the id this week for vinyl. leff saw a toy store while we were searching for parking and even though we have a huuuuuuge order in at kid robot (which includes a pete fowler monsterism figure but i can't remember which one), one can never have enough vinyl.
one can't.
i'm not sure what's on the agenda for the rest of the week. (leff's on holiday so that means 'sploring.) maybe capitol hill? maybe freemont? maybe more drinking?
if i was placing bets, i'd go with more drinking by three lengths.
Friday, December 23, 2005
words! i got words! get your hot words!
still on package patrol. last night's holiday bootay brought, among other things, a panda z from leff's dad.
panda z loves tokyo circa the 1980's. i think he'd like it now too but i couldn't find a current photo of toyko in our library.
and my padre sent seasons 5 and 6 of seinfeld complete with a puffy shirt! EEEEP!
d just invited leff and me to a sparkly, tinkly new year's party so i have to get a new party frock and some new shoes. i haven't bought a party dress in a while (look, live in memphis and baltimore. see if the need for fancy party clothes ever comes up. i assure you, it won't.)
i don't normally get excited about clothes shopping but, for some reason, i'm absolutely hepped up (without goofballs) about getting some grown up dressy clothes!
seriously, between the new couch and this new outfit, i don't even know myself anymore.
(that would be a joke. i know, humor might've helped you recognize it as such.)
xmas will be spent the same as every year. pizza in the morning, lots and lots of booze, my annual whacking of the noggin (i hit my head *really* hard every xmas. it's the tradition that i try to avoid but, alas, concussions and xmas seem to go hand in hand. must be the booze....). then some rest (i just hit my head, remember?), the familial phone call, a movie (this year, king kong!) and chinese food.
ah, the perils of being raised methodist. (add a wink, a nudge and we're out, people!)
panda z loves tokyo circa the 1980's. i think he'd like it now too but i couldn't find a current photo of toyko in our library.
and my padre sent seasons 5 and 6 of seinfeld complete with a puffy shirt! EEEEP!
d just invited leff and me to a sparkly, tinkly new year's party so i have to get a new party frock and some new shoes. i haven't bought a party dress in a while (look, live in memphis and baltimore. see if the need for fancy party clothes ever comes up. i assure you, it won't.)
i don't normally get excited about clothes shopping but, for some reason, i'm absolutely hepped up (without goofballs) about getting some grown up dressy clothes!
seriously, between the new couch and this new outfit, i don't even know myself anymore.
(that would be a joke. i know, humor might've helped you recognize it as such.)
xmas will be spent the same as every year. pizza in the morning, lots and lots of booze, my annual whacking of the noggin (i hit my head *really* hard every xmas. it's the tradition that i try to avoid but, alas, concussions and xmas seem to go hand in hand. must be the booze....). then some rest (i just hit my head, remember?), the familial phone call, a movie (this year, king kong!) and chinese food.
ah, the perils of being raised methodist. (add a wink, a nudge and we're out, people!)
Thursday, December 22, 2005
cute bunny!! cuuuuute buuunny!!
i know i've already plugged cute overload but jesus h. effing christ, you HAVE to look at this bunny!
do it!! click the link!! look at the bunny!!
do it!! click the link!! look at the bunny!!
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
big al saves the day!
big al's got a great song to download on this, the shortest day of the year in my hemisphere.
i hate christmas. bloody brilliant!
i hate christmas. bloody brilliant!
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
here are some words in english for you to read
ever have one of those days where you don't feel quite so cool? you know, like when you answer the door wearing a kerchief around your head all pirate style 'cause you've been cleaning and your mailman looks at you like you're some sort of freak, hands you a package and asks if you're from england?
of course not, kitten. this could only happen to me.
i had managed to shake off that not so cool feeling (which is totally different than that not so fresh feeling) until the ups lady delivered a package right when i'd been eating a blue stick of candy. so when i answered the door not only were my teeth and tongue blue but also part of my lips. i tried to mumble my way through the entire thing hoping that she wouldn't notice, but she kept smirking and staring quizzically right at my pthalo stained mouth so i was forced to show her the blue candy stick lest she think i had some weird sort of smurf related dental problem.
so totally not cool.
but enough about me, let's talk about things. cool things. like this hk radio
leff's mom got it for me for thanxmaskwanzikah. i love it! and the package that it came in was fun to play with too!
while we're looking at aqueous things, you simply MUST see the snowglobe that vaguely artistic sent to me!
omg! isn't it beautiful?
while we're on the subject of things sent in the mail, i'll show you all of the other rockin' things that arrived via post this week!
a fantastic mix cd and holiday card from wasted papiers!
wp is a mixmaster extraordinaire!
larry dimick sent a cuuute card with gentleman deery me included!
gentleman deery me is the red chap hanging out with luther and the playmobil deer. it's a good thing that ld found him because, according to her, he'd always wanted to live in seattle! what luck!
i also got this silvertastic card from t eh shed.
and it don't know how he did it, but he managed to send holiday greetings from not only his cat but also his as yet unborn son! shed's channeling abilities must be B3Y0ND L33T!!!
ok, enough about things. i have been doing other stuff besides being on package patrol lately. really, i have.
like, i proclaimed my love of cup noodle all hardcore style.
and i ate some vegetables because i cut cute shapes out of them.
and i finished addressing all the holiday cards
but i haven't mailed all of them yet. yes, i suck.
also, i ate at cafe minnie's
but i didn't eat their holiday decorations. i had an omlet called the clara bow. for some reason, clara bow tastes like chicken.
ok, so in retrospect that's not a lot. but i've been on the phone, like, nonstop, velvetcakes, because it's the holiday season and people like to talk during the holidays. and i've been reading, like, a lot because i only have ten more days left in 2005 to read 150 books. (it's not going to happen. i'm at 96 tomes and counting right now. hey, the move kind of cut down on my available reading time. shuddup!)
and, i know i did something else. grocery shopping? buying toys at tower? standing in line at the post office even though i only needed stamps because i forgot to bring my debit card and the automatic stamp machine doesn't take cash?
yeah, that last one. definately, the last one. le sigh...
k, it's that time for me to awkwardly end this post. so, uh, smell you later? don't take any wooden nickels? (who the fuck manufactures wooden nickels? i mean, is that even fun in a novelty way? wooden nickels are *SO* 1934. *eyeroll*)
of course not, kitten. this could only happen to me.
i had managed to shake off that not so cool feeling (which is totally different than that not so fresh feeling) until the ups lady delivered a package right when i'd been eating a blue stick of candy. so when i answered the door not only were my teeth and tongue blue but also part of my lips. i tried to mumble my way through the entire thing hoping that she wouldn't notice, but she kept smirking and staring quizzically right at my pthalo stained mouth so i was forced to show her the blue candy stick lest she think i had some weird sort of smurf related dental problem.
so totally not cool.
but enough about me, let's talk about things. cool things. like this hk radio
leff's mom got it for me for thanxmaskwanzikah. i love it! and the package that it came in was fun to play with too!
while we're looking at aqueous things, you simply MUST see the snowglobe that vaguely artistic sent to me!
omg! isn't it beautiful?
while we're on the subject of things sent in the mail, i'll show you all of the other rockin' things that arrived via post this week!
a fantastic mix cd and holiday card from wasted papiers!
wp is a mixmaster extraordinaire!
larry dimick sent a cuuute card with gentleman deery me included!
gentleman deery me is the red chap hanging out with luther and the playmobil deer. it's a good thing that ld found him because, according to her, he'd always wanted to live in seattle! what luck!
i also got this silvertastic card from t eh shed.
and it don't know how he did it, but he managed to send holiday greetings from not only his cat but also his as yet unborn son! shed's channeling abilities must be B3Y0ND L33T!!!
ok, enough about things. i have been doing other stuff besides being on package patrol lately. really, i have.
like, i proclaimed my love of cup noodle all hardcore style.
and i ate some vegetables because i cut cute shapes out of them.
and i finished addressing all the holiday cards
but i haven't mailed all of them yet. yes, i suck.
also, i ate at cafe minnie's
but i didn't eat their holiday decorations. i had an omlet called the clara bow. for some reason, clara bow tastes like chicken.
ok, so in retrospect that's not a lot. but i've been on the phone, like, nonstop, velvetcakes, because it's the holiday season and people like to talk during the holidays. and i've been reading, like, a lot because i only have ten more days left in 2005 to read 150 books. (it's not going to happen. i'm at 96 tomes and counting right now. hey, the move kind of cut down on my available reading time. shuddup!)
and, i know i did something else. grocery shopping? buying toys at tower? standing in line at the post office even though i only needed stamps because i forgot to bring my debit card and the automatic stamp machine doesn't take cash?
yeah, that last one. definately, the last one. le sigh...
k, it's that time for me to awkwardly end this post. so, uh, smell you later? don't take any wooden nickels? (who the fuck manufactures wooden nickels? i mean, is that even fun in a novelty way? wooden nickels are *SO* 1934. *eyeroll*)
Saturday, December 17, 2005
it's a ds cake!
so here's the mystery cake!
it's a nintendo ds! hooray for me and d!
blogger ate my previous post about the party so apologies if you get a double post about the cake. stupid fucking blogger.
it's a nintendo ds! hooray for me and d!
blogger ate my previous post about the party so apologies if you get a double post about the cake. stupid fucking blogger.
Friday, December 16, 2005
home cake and the new mystery cake
hey, ducks! i know that i mentioned in november that i'd be making a mystery cake and then, horror of horrors, i failed to come through. but this time, i'm not yanking your chain. tonight by 9 pm pst d and i will have made a new cake for her friend's bday party!
see, we even went to home cake to get some honest to goodness cake supplies.
home cake rocks. the only two downsides are that it's small and veeeeerrry crowded. but everything you need is in the space and the lady that owns it is very knowledgable and helpful so i'm not complaining.
we got a REAL CAKE PAN!! some piping bags, REAL food dye (as opposed to the crap you can get at the grocery store) and some edible glitter.
yes, edible glitter! no, i won't tell you what i'm using it for. just wait a little longer, honeycake, it'll make sense soon.
we've already baked the two halves of the cake. here's the batter from last night.
it's a chocolate guinness cake! we used this recipe. the batter was fantastic! i'm going to make a batch of cupcakes using the same recipe because 1) we need two cupcakes for the candles 2) i want a guinness chocolate cupcake.
k, i'm off until later. i have to crumb coat the two cake halves, make the aforementioned cupcakes and do dishes before d gets here to help decorate the cake. also i have to figure out how the hell to transport the beast once it's finished. (the cake, not d. d's not a beast! silly person!)
updates coming as available. i think this cake is gonna' rock!
see, we even went to home cake to get some honest to goodness cake supplies.
home cake rocks. the only two downsides are that it's small and veeeeerrry crowded. but everything you need is in the space and the lady that owns it is very knowledgable and helpful so i'm not complaining.
we got a REAL CAKE PAN!! some piping bags, REAL food dye (as opposed to the crap you can get at the grocery store) and some edible glitter.
yes, edible glitter! no, i won't tell you what i'm using it for. just wait a little longer, honeycake, it'll make sense soon.
we've already baked the two halves of the cake. here's the batter from last night.
it's a chocolate guinness cake! we used this recipe. the batter was fantastic! i'm going to make a batch of cupcakes using the same recipe because 1) we need two cupcakes for the candles 2) i want a guinness chocolate cupcake.
k, i'm off until later. i have to crumb coat the two cake halves, make the aforementioned cupcakes and do dishes before d gets here to help decorate the cake. also i have to figure out how the hell to transport the beast once it's finished. (the cake, not d. d's not a beast! silly person!)
updates coming as available. i think this cake is gonna' rock!
Thursday, December 15, 2005
i may be hearting fred meyer
as some of you may know, i've been boycotting target. (this little chart may help to explain why. i try not to overpoliticize things on the blog but, well, looks like i let the cat outa' the bag on this issue.)
i've been looking for a replacement store and had heard good things about fred meyer. although it's not as trendy as target, i'd be willing to send my money their way simply because, as broadsheet reports, at fred meyer emergency contraception is available without prior prescription.
whether or not they are simply following washington state law or not at this point remains to be seen. if i find out that their parent company supports the opt out policy, you can bet i'll be cutting off any of my cash flow to them. but, for the moment, i can purchase toilet paper with a semi-clear conscience.
i've been looking for a replacement store and had heard good things about fred meyer. although it's not as trendy as target, i'd be willing to send my money their way simply because, as broadsheet reports, at fred meyer emergency contraception is available without prior prescription.
whether or not they are simply following washington state law or not at this point remains to be seen. if i find out that their parent company supports the opt out policy, you can bet i'll be cutting off any of my cash flow to them. but, for the moment, i can purchase toilet paper with a semi-clear conscience.
cute overload!
you know i love cute. it is, therefore, logical that i would love cute overload (found via mefi).
it's so cute it'll make your teeth hurt!
it's so cute it'll make your teeth hurt!
some more words and some more pictures
i think i might hire the robocommenter to handle all blog entries until after the holidays.
anyway, "what's the story, morning glory?" you might ask if you were still listening to that oasis cd. which, uh, i was this morning. shut up.
leff got us a new monitor.
you can't tell from the photo but it's a 19" flat screen swively model. and it's wonderful! our old monitor had gone all fuzzy and would buzz and get lines on the screen until you hit it, so we really needed a new one.
we're now using the old monitor as a coffee table until we can get it recycled.
hopefully, we'll be doing that soon. we might have to buy it a bus pass since the thing's so huge.
i saw narnia!
i wasn't disappointed! nope, not one bit! tumnus looked exactly as i'd always imagined him and i'm in LOVE with tilda swinton. (she's, like, the most beautiful woman! and i just found out that she's playing nico in the new movie about, well, nico. could this MAKE me any happier? (the answer to that would be "no" in case you can't stand rhetorical questions.))
here's another photo of some pocky that i ate so i can kind of segue into something else.
the black sesame pocky may be my favo(u)rite ever.
yesterday was nice in small ways. the bus to upper queen anne had a busted meter so it was free ride all day. (not that $1.25 u.s.d. is going to break the bank. remember, these are nice small things)
i also discovered that there really is an hono(u)r system at the uqa branch library. i was checking out my books and one of them wouldn't show up on the computer. i asked the librarian what i should do since the chip wasn't reading and he said "oh no, see, there isn't an rfid chip in books with this sticker (*pointing to an orange sticker on the side of a book*). we don't keep track of these. just take as long as you need with the book and bring it back when you're finished."
i guess i looked really stunned or something because he just laughed at me and said "yeah, it surprises people to know that we have an hono(u)r system like that. but we haven't had problems with the books not being returned." see, another small, nice thing.
i can't remember what else happened that was nice. maybe it was sunny or something.
i finally made holiday cards!
yeah, they're in the oven. fujiko likes to walk on wet ink. she thinks it's funny to have different colo(u)red paws or something.
will i have the cards mailed before the holidays are over? probably not since i haven't even mailed out the stupid mix cds of mine but you never know. i might find some time to run to the post office when i'm not doing something else.
which means, try not to expect your cards or cds until feb. and then try not to expect valentine's cards until some time around june. i work on the lunar calender or maybe some ancient one that predates the roman one. so, again, shut up.
ah, looks like i've come full circle by demanding that you shut up so perhaps i'll stop rambling now. i've got to write another to do list and do some of the things on it and then feel guilty about not completing some of the other tasks.
anyway, "what's the story, morning glory?" you might ask if you were still listening to that oasis cd. which, uh, i was this morning. shut up.
leff got us a new monitor.
you can't tell from the photo but it's a 19" flat screen swively model. and it's wonderful! our old monitor had gone all fuzzy and would buzz and get lines on the screen until you hit it, so we really needed a new one.
we're now using the old monitor as a coffee table until we can get it recycled.
hopefully, we'll be doing that soon. we might have to buy it a bus pass since the thing's so huge.
i saw narnia!
i wasn't disappointed! nope, not one bit! tumnus looked exactly as i'd always imagined him and i'm in LOVE with tilda swinton. (she's, like, the most beautiful woman! and i just found out that she's playing nico in the new movie about, well, nico. could this MAKE me any happier? (the answer to that would be "no" in case you can't stand rhetorical questions.))
here's another photo of some pocky that i ate so i can kind of segue into something else.
the black sesame pocky may be my favo(u)rite ever.
yesterday was nice in small ways. the bus to upper queen anne had a busted meter so it was free ride all day. (not that $1.25 u.s.d. is going to break the bank. remember, these are nice small things)
i also discovered that there really is an hono(u)r system at the uqa branch library. i was checking out my books and one of them wouldn't show up on the computer. i asked the librarian what i should do since the chip wasn't reading and he said "oh no, see, there isn't an rfid chip in books with this sticker (*pointing to an orange sticker on the side of a book*). we don't keep track of these. just take as long as you need with the book and bring it back when you're finished."
i guess i looked really stunned or something because he just laughed at me and said "yeah, it surprises people to know that we have an hono(u)r system like that. but we haven't had problems with the books not being returned." see, another small, nice thing.
i can't remember what else happened that was nice. maybe it was sunny or something.
i finally made holiday cards!
yeah, they're in the oven. fujiko likes to walk on wet ink. she thinks it's funny to have different colo(u)red paws or something.
will i have the cards mailed before the holidays are over? probably not since i haven't even mailed out the stupid mix cds of mine but you never know. i might find some time to run to the post office when i'm not doing something else.
which means, try not to expect your cards or cds until feb. and then try not to expect valentine's cards until some time around june. i work on the lunar calender or maybe some ancient one that predates the roman one. so, again, shut up.
ah, looks like i've come full circle by demanding that you shut up so perhaps i'll stop rambling now. i've got to write another to do list and do some of the things on it and then feel guilty about not completing some of the other tasks.
Monday, December 12, 2005
creeeeeepy!
i know it's a bit late for creepy things since it's not been halloween for so long, but trust me, you want to watch this.
click here, scroll a bit to "innocent escapes" and chose "pre-made" under "select a greeting". oh....mg! totally creepy stuff! (thanks to d for sending me the link!)
click here, scroll a bit to "innocent escapes" and chose "pre-made" under "select a greeting". oh....mg! totally creepy stuff! (thanks to d for sending me the link!)
a big THANK YOU!!
Friday, December 09, 2005
laptop battle
ooooh!! laptop battle is tonight at chop suey! it's super geeky and super cool which means that i should be there and/or be square!
reminder to self
oksana badrak opening tonight at roq la rue.
if you can't make it to the opening, hit the show before it closes.
also, take your vitamin.
if you can't make it to the opening, hit the show before it closes.
also, take your vitamin.
de.lic.ious might start tasting like crap
you probably know this but in case you didn't, yahoo bought del.icio.us.
you can defend yahoo to me until the cows come home or whatever other little phrase you'd like to use to designate that a significant amount of time has passed, but i won't buy it. because i've seen what happens when yahoo purchases a company--it quickly turns to shit.
*cough* flickr *cough*
yeah, i coughed it. flickr annoys the fuck out of me these days and that makes me sad because it used to be wonderful.
oh well, de.lic.ious was tasty while it lasted. i hope this merger doesn't leave a bitter taste in everyone else's mouth.
you can defend yahoo to me until the cows come home or whatever other little phrase you'd like to use to designate that a significant amount of time has passed, but i won't buy it. because i've seen what happens when yahoo purchases a company--it quickly turns to shit.
*cough* flickr *cough*
yeah, i coughed it. flickr annoys the fuck out of me these days and that makes me sad because it used to be wonderful.
oh well, de.lic.ious was tasty while it lasted. i hope this merger doesn't leave a bitter taste in everyone else's mouth.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
tee vee loves mee!
tonight i'm watching colours of infinity about mandelbrot sets on pbs and the season premier of season two of project runway!
eeeep!!
eeeep!!
as if i have time for this
i've just started a myspace account. drop by if you want, there's probably chips and dip.
more updates and stuff
looks like it's been a while since i've updated this thing. sorry about that. i've been oot and aboot as my canadian exbf used to say.
he said other things as well but "oot and aboot" was the best.
let's see...what's new? well, d and i went to the dog park that's on lake washington last week.
it was *so* much fun i can't even tell you! the dog park is huge and there are lots of cute puppies running around wagging their little tails!
i met this guy
at the shoreline. isn't he beautiful? he almost made me want a dog! that is until he licked the lid of my coffee mug. bastard dog!
the same day as the dog park, d and i also went to burgermaster. i got a banana shake because i love artificial banana.
an aside: most places in seattle that serve fries/chips also serve tartar sauce regardless of whether or not they also happen to serve fish. because almost everyone in seattle eats their fries/chips with tartar sauce. this is a local custom that i have adopted as it's quite tasty.
also in the same day, d and i went to archie mcphee, more archie mcphee, cookies where i got more cutters like this one
(not pictured are the letter "x" and a small elephant cutter)
and we also managed to go to cupcake royale where i got one of their winter seasonal cupcakes. (a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing! *fainting*)
another aside: have i mentioned that life in seattle is, like, super hectic? i sometimes feel like all the dead time that i've had until now has suddenly been repaid in full. with interest. it wears me out. seriously.
j is now a katamari damacy convert since he came over for chocolate chip banana bread and games the other night. (yet another aside: i'm extremely jealous of j at the moment as his father used to own a showbiz pizza and, as a result, j got UNLIMITED TOKENS when he was little! *seething with jealousy!*)
oh! a hearty CONGRATS to the jam master j as he got third in a juried show! AND he sold the piece!! so, rock rock on, jp!! youse da man!!
uh, ok, where was i? sometime leff and i managed to squeeze in a trip to upq (upper queen anne) and all i can say is "wah??!?" because there's an assload of stores and food places that we didn't know about because we didn't finish walking down the ave the last few times we'd been up there. (we're a bit stupid sometimes.)
there's a great little toy store up da hill that has a rather large selection of playmobile. leff got an astronaut and i got an anthropomorphic rabbit that came with a chicken and a deer.
the solid brown deer, not the one with spots. the spotted one would be luther. perhaps you know of luther?
and on sunday, leff, d and i made it to uwajimaya (persimmons $1.29 a pound!!! reverse pocky!!! yummy house bakery!!! *SHRIEKING*!!!) and i heart rummage.
i didn't buy anything at rummage this time since i'm currently low on funds but i got a lot of business cards so i can order later!
also i've somehow managed to get addicted to "the gilmore girls" and the first sly cooper game and i've almost finished reading got game: how the gamer generation is reshaping business forever by john c. beck and mitchell wade and what video games have to teach us about learning and literacy by james paul gee.
i'm such a nerd.
today i'm making more chocolate chip banana bread and trying my hand at ina garten's twist on julia child's apple tatin because we got some granny smith apples in the organic produce shipment last week and i don't feel like baking an apple pie. because that would be all american and stuff.
oh, one last thing, pants is on the radio tonight 8-10 pm est. i'll leave it up to you to figure out what that might be for your time zone. (i'm having a hard enough time subtracting three hours to get my own time zone correct.)
he said other things as well but "oot and aboot" was the best.
let's see...what's new? well, d and i went to the dog park that's on lake washington last week.
it was *so* much fun i can't even tell you! the dog park is huge and there are lots of cute puppies running around wagging their little tails!
i met this guy
at the shoreline. isn't he beautiful? he almost made me want a dog! that is until he licked the lid of my coffee mug. bastard dog!
the same day as the dog park, d and i also went to burgermaster. i got a banana shake because i love artificial banana.
an aside: most places in seattle that serve fries/chips also serve tartar sauce regardless of whether or not they also happen to serve fish. because almost everyone in seattle eats their fries/chips with tartar sauce. this is a local custom that i have adopted as it's quite tasty.
also in the same day, d and i went to archie mcphee, more archie mcphee, cookies where i got more cutters like this one
(not pictured are the letter "x" and a small elephant cutter)
and we also managed to go to cupcake royale where i got one of their winter seasonal cupcakes. (a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing! *fainting*)
another aside: have i mentioned that life in seattle is, like, super hectic? i sometimes feel like all the dead time that i've had until now has suddenly been repaid in full. with interest. it wears me out. seriously.
j is now a katamari damacy convert since he came over for chocolate chip banana bread and games the other night. (yet another aside: i'm extremely jealous of j at the moment as his father used to own a showbiz pizza and, as a result, j got UNLIMITED TOKENS when he was little! *seething with jealousy!*)
oh! a hearty CONGRATS to the jam master j as he got third in a juried show! AND he sold the piece!! so, rock rock on, jp!! youse da man!!
uh, ok, where was i? sometime leff and i managed to squeeze in a trip to upq (upper queen anne) and all i can say is "wah??!?" because there's an assload of stores and food places that we didn't know about because we didn't finish walking down the ave the last few times we'd been up there. (we're a bit stupid sometimes.)
there's a great little toy store up da hill that has a rather large selection of playmobile. leff got an astronaut and i got an anthropomorphic rabbit that came with a chicken and a deer.
the solid brown deer, not the one with spots. the spotted one would be luther. perhaps you know of luther?
and on sunday, leff, d and i made it to uwajimaya (persimmons $1.29 a pound!!! reverse pocky!!! yummy house bakery!!! *SHRIEKING*!!!) and i heart rummage.
i didn't buy anything at rummage this time since i'm currently low on funds but i got a lot of business cards so i can order later!
also i've somehow managed to get addicted to "the gilmore girls" and the first sly cooper game and i've almost finished reading got game: how the gamer generation is reshaping business forever by john c. beck and mitchell wade and what video games have to teach us about learning and literacy by james paul gee.
i'm such a nerd.
today i'm making more chocolate chip banana bread and trying my hand at ina garten's twist on julia child's apple tatin because we got some granny smith apples in the organic produce shipment last week and i don't feel like baking an apple pie. because that would be all american and stuff.
oh, one last thing, pants is on the radio tonight 8-10 pm est. i'll leave it up to you to figure out what that might be for your time zone. (i'm having a hard enough time subtracting three hours to get my own time zone correct.)
Thursday, December 01, 2005
colds taste like cherry
they do. because at the first sign of a cold, i take zinc. and the zinc i take tastes like cherry.
why do i mention it now? because i've caught leff's cold. thanks, leff. *shakes weakened fist at leff*
why do i mention it now? because i've caught leff's cold. thanks, leff. *shakes weakened fist at leff*
i lose my mind over my print gocco. you are there.
remind me to not update about the weather because it's now been snowing for about two hours. none of it is sticking, but still.
despite winter spittle, it's been a fairly good day. remember me going on and on about my gocco? you know, this beauty?
well, today i made my first prints! and it was *SO* easy, i can't believe that i made prints! (seriously, printmaking likes to make me its bitch. and it often succeeds.)
here's a photo of what an one color inked up gocco master looks like.
i adore that version of the robot! it makes me want to get out my oils and get messy.
and THIS is the photo showing orig drawing vs prints!
(you can view it larger by clicking on the photo and viewing all sizes, original, on flickr if you need to.)
the orig drawing is in the spiral sketchpad. i made the second drawing on top of it with the riso pen just to make sure that the image would transfer correctly to the master screen.
all of those other robots? they're prints! in total it took about 10 minutes! i'm totally hooked on the gocco now! it's so damn easy!
yeah, ok, there are smudges on some of the printed images but that's my fault. i've never been a clean printmaker since i don't necessarily view prints as a finished product. (it used to drive my prof, a master printmaker, quite mad. sorry again, wayne.) and i did cut off part of the image. but again, my fault for not correctly placing my drawing.
in summation, viva gocco!! long live gocco!!!
despite winter spittle, it's been a fairly good day. remember me going on and on about my gocco? you know, this beauty?
well, today i made my first prints! and it was *SO* easy, i can't believe that i made prints! (seriously, printmaking likes to make me its bitch. and it often succeeds.)
here's a photo of what an one color inked up gocco master looks like.
i adore that version of the robot! it makes me want to get out my oils and get messy.
and THIS is the photo showing orig drawing vs prints!
(you can view it larger by clicking on the photo and viewing all sizes, original, on flickr if you need to.)
the orig drawing is in the spiral sketchpad. i made the second drawing on top of it with the riso pen just to make sure that the image would transfer correctly to the master screen.
all of those other robots? they're prints! in total it took about 10 minutes! i'm totally hooked on the gocco now! it's so damn easy!
yeah, ok, there are smudges on some of the printed images but that's my fault. i've never been a clean printmaker since i don't necessarily view prints as a finished product. (it used to drive my prof, a master printmaker, quite mad. sorry again, wayne.) and i did cut off part of the image. but again, my fault for not correctly placing my drawing.
in summation, viva gocco!! long live gocco!!!
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
doe-jo, collage and harry potter
looks like i got my dojo workin'
because i made a new collage today for scrapiteria!
it's for the topic "dance" and is titled, rather appropriately "lapdance". (*whispering* because they're dancing on lapland...geddit? *sighs audibly*)
last night d, leff and i went to see "harry potter and the goblet of fire" at the pacific science center.
no, that's not harry potter. those are the arch things outside of pacsci. silly rabbit!
i think that "goblet" is my favorite hp movie to date. i won't discuss it here on the front page in case there are people who haven't seen it (or read the book), but if you want to talk potter, meet me in the comments.
pacsci had the greatest set up for seeing the movie. it was imax and they'd decorated the entrance to the theatre with a fake stone wall and a hogwarts coat of arms! d told me that there was also a moaning myrtle in the women's restroom too which means that i'll have to see the movie again just so i can check it out!
and a quick weather update: no snow in seattle! HOORAY!!!!
because i made a new collage today for scrapiteria!
it's for the topic "dance" and is titled, rather appropriately "lapdance". (*whispering* because they're dancing on lapland...geddit? *sighs audibly*)
last night d, leff and i went to see "harry potter and the goblet of fire" at the pacific science center.
no, that's not harry potter. those are the arch things outside of pacsci. silly rabbit!
i think that "goblet" is my favorite hp movie to date. i won't discuss it here on the front page in case there are people who haven't seen it (or read the book), but if you want to talk potter, meet me in the comments.
pacsci had the greatest set up for seeing the movie. it was imax and they'd decorated the entrance to the theatre with a fake stone wall and a hogwarts coat of arms! d told me that there was also a moaning myrtle in the women's restroom too which means that i'll have to see the movie again just so i can check it out!
and a quick weather update: no snow in seattle! HOORAY!!!!
Monday, November 28, 2005
wtf??!? SNOW??!? HERE?!? TONIGHT?!??!
i keep hoping that the weather people are just fucking with me when they say there could be 3-5" of snow by tomorrow morning. i mean, everyone keeps telling me "oh no, it NEVER snows in seattle."
for the sake of my converse clad feets, i'm hoping that conventional wisdom is true. otherwise, i might have to kick mother nature's ass.
oh, i'll do it.
in other news, i was one of the lucky people that got one of the limited run katamari shirts!
aaaaaaaw yeah, jerome!
also in today's mail was a fantastical mix cd from pants and another package of magazines from joyce! (my mailbox overfloweth! seriously, i had a hell of a time trying to get it open!)
pictures soon!
for the sake of my converse clad feets, i'm hoping that conventional wisdom is true. otherwise, i might have to kick mother nature's ass.
oh, i'll do it.
in other news, i was one of the lucky people that got one of the limited run katamari shirts!
aaaaaaaw yeah, jerome!
also in today's mail was a fantastical mix cd from pants and another package of magazines from joyce! (my mailbox overfloweth! seriously, i had a hell of a time trying to get it open!)
pictures soon!
Sunday, November 27, 2005
happy bruce lee day!
today is officially bruce lee day in seattle! (it has been since 1979!)
yesterday leff and i visited his (bruce) and brandon lee's tombs since i couldn't make the official ceremony today.
i really do love bruce lee. (and brandon too, i just had more of a bruce lee connection since padre and i used to watch his movies together.) but, i'm embarrassed to admit, i didn't realize that he was buried in seattle until yesterday morning. (i thought he was buried in l.a.! now i know better.)
i'm going to watch "fists of fury" before i head off to work. although i wish that i had a copy of "game of death". why don't i have a copy of "game of death"?
yesterday leff and i visited his (bruce) and brandon lee's tombs since i couldn't make the official ceremony today.
i really do love bruce lee. (and brandon too, i just had more of a bruce lee connection since padre and i used to watch his movies together.) but, i'm embarrassed to admit, i didn't realize that he was buried in seattle until yesterday morning. (i thought he was buried in l.a.! now i know better.)
i'm going to watch "fists of fury" before i head off to work. although i wish that i had a copy of "game of death". why don't i have a copy of "game of death"?
mono derail
planning on visiting seattle and riding the monorail, my lovlies? better think again! this is the closest you'll be getting to the inside of it for a while.
apparently, both trains collided last night, injuring two people.
i was wondering about the excess of sirens last night. and now i know.
also, i'm *REALLY* glad that the monorail expansion was finally shot down during the last vote. because between this crash and the seemingly constant fires on the trains (plus the fact that the new route would have gone from no where to no where with no stops in between), i just don't understand how it could have possibly been a viable form of transportation.
oh, and dear future seattle tourist? the 15 or the 18 bus will get you closer to the pike place market anyway.
apparently, both trains collided last night, injuring two people.
i was wondering about the excess of sirens last night. and now i know.
also, i'm *REALLY* glad that the monorail expansion was finally shot down during the last vote. because between this crash and the seemingly constant fires on the trains (plus the fact that the new route would have gone from no where to no where with no stops in between), i just don't understand how it could have possibly been a viable form of transportation.
oh, and dear future seattle tourist? the 15 or the 18 bus will get you closer to the pike place market anyway.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
anata mo watashi mo pocky!
this morning i was trying to help auntnanny find a distributor for pocky since she doesn't have a store in her area that sells it. (i was also looking for reverse pocky for me because i don't remember seeing it at uwajimaya. (although i could be wrong.))
well, i found reverse pocky and this ad for pocky decorer at jbox.
i do use my pocky as a weapon quite like the lady in the ad. i wonder if there are any other ads that show people using two sticks of pocky to become a pocky vampire? (which is also something that i do.)
well, i found reverse pocky and this ad for pocky decorer at jbox.
i do use my pocky as a weapon quite like the lady in the ad. i wonder if there are any other ads that show people using two sticks of pocky to become a pocky vampire? (which is also something that i do.)
Friday, November 25, 2005
nachoes, mashups, deer, pocky
happy day after thanksgiving! i hope you had plenty of antacid at hand!
just to make you hungry again, here's a photo of my thanksgiving feast.
aaaah, nachoes! aaaah, quesadillas! i give thanks for maize and laugh at that joke at the same time. (even though it tends to be an inside one with myself.)
i just got my hands on a copy of "me and this army", the remix/mashup of radiohead that's on all the internets right now. i like!! i really like! (but i superheart radiohead so i'm more than a bit biased. (oh the version of "creep"! it's so fucking special! i wish i was special!!)) i'd link to a torrent here, buuuuuuut i'm a bit afeared of the riaa these days.
there's more fawn-a at my house. i'm sure i mentioned finding a plush deery lou at uwajimaya. well, now here's photographic evidence.
oh, and here's the pocky shot i've been promising.
imho, the melon flavor is the best of the lot. but don't eat the chocky erasers. eeeew, plasticy!
and now i must brave the potential crowds at the grocery store since i'm out of soda and i neeeeeed soda. i'm hoping that all of those insane day after thanksgiving shopping people are at the mall and not at safeway. that's a safe assumption, right?
just to make you hungry again, here's a photo of my thanksgiving feast.
aaaah, nachoes! aaaah, quesadillas! i give thanks for maize and laugh at that joke at the same time. (even though it tends to be an inside one with myself.)
i just got my hands on a copy of "me and this army", the remix/mashup of radiohead that's on all the internets right now. i like!! i really like! (but i superheart radiohead so i'm more than a bit biased. (oh the version of "creep"! it's so fucking special! i wish i was special!!)) i'd link to a torrent here, buuuuuuut i'm a bit afeared of the riaa these days.
there's more fawn-a at my house. i'm sure i mentioned finding a plush deery lou at uwajimaya. well, now here's photographic evidence.
oh, and here's the pocky shot i've been promising.
imho, the melon flavor is the best of the lot. but don't eat the chocky erasers. eeeew, plasticy!
and now i must brave the potential crowds at the grocery store since i'm out of soda and i neeeeeed soda. i'm hoping that all of those insane day after thanksgiving shopping people are at the mall and not at safeway. that's a safe assumption, right?
Monday, November 21, 2005
my favorite letter is "zzzzzzzzzzzzz"
hi, everyone!
it's been quite a week! as you may or not remember from a previous post, one of leff's college buddies came into town this past week. what i might not have mentioned is that our mutual friend from baltimore who now lives in st louis, was also in town the same week! eeeep!
i loved visiting with everyone but i should have heeded the magic 8 ball in this photo.
when i asked "will i get a pony for xmas?" it replied "you will be very, very tired on monday. now stop asking me questions!"
rude little magic 8 ball.
but it was right. it's now monday and i'm exhausted. why am i so exhausted? well, just keep reading and you'll see!
one of the first things that we did when stace got into town was head to twice told tales, the used bookstore in queen anne with three cats. we're all book nerds so all three of us (that's leff, me and stacie) spent about two hours perusing.
we were there so long that the cats did some catrobatics on stacie.
according to miss s, the bookstores in st. louis are shit so she bought $150 worth of used paperbacks. which is funny when you consider that she had to repack her bag. several times.
friday also saw a trip to ballard where we ate at thaiku,
(uh, that's a wooden deer head at thaiku. the food was so good that i ate it before i realized that i hadn't photographed it.)
had cupcakes at cupcake royale
(that would be a chocolate cupcake with lavender icing. mmmmm!)
and made a pitstop at cookies, a cookie supply store with every cookie cutter shape you can imagine! (there's a skull and crossbone one that i MUST go back for!)
i got a cat, a rabbit and a star. the star's not in the photo.
i told the owner of cookies that i'd found her shop through, i think, not martha and she seemed pretty happy about it. when i told her that i was going to blog her too, she gave me a sticker.
if you need a weirdly shaped cookie cutter, some cool sprinkles or anything else for cookies, go to cookies, the store. they'll have it.
and i'm not just saying that because she gave me a free sticker and changed a dollar for me so i could catch the bus. seriously, i'm not.
oh! how could i forget! we also went to archie mcphee where stacie plunked down around $200 and i got these creepy things.
they'll eat whatever's left over of your baby that the dingo didn't eat.
oh, uh, here are some at-ats.
so that was friday. and now here's saturday!
let me just start by saying that we unwittingly went to the univeristy of washington's campus on the fucking day of the apple cup
stacie's thinking about applying for jobs (she's almost finished with her phd) and i'm thinking about grad school at the udub. buuuuut the apple cup crowd changed my mind. because, you know, i'm weary of drunken undergrads. i was one myself for waaaaaay too many years and i'm quite bored with it now, thanks.
anyway, udub. it's a pretty campus! and they have a building just for mean people.
for lunch, we were going to eat at the ethopian resturant in the area. but after walking about 20 blocks (and i should mention that at about block 15 i rebroke my toe by stepping on the sidewalk the wrong way. *anger!* *pain!*) we found out that the place had closed. like, closed for good.
but we did find the vegan pizza joint that leff wanted to try and the chinese tapas place that we'd read about. plus the buffalo exchange where i got a much needed scarf. so i can't complain too much. (but my toe still hurts.)
later that night we had the "indian food debacle aught five" where every indian place we tried was closed. but not, like, closed for good. just not open. so we ended up getting thai again. this time at phucket.
yes, phucket. but you don't really pronounce it that way.
and that was saturday.
sunday was a half day for me since i had to work. we went to the international district which, of course, means uwajimaya and kinokuniya but will now alwaysalwaysalways include something from yummy house bakery.
their pastries are to die for!! and they're reeeeeeally inexpensive! just don't forget to bus your table when you're finished.
should i mention how much stacie spent at kinokuniya? *cough* $155 *cough* have i mentioned that she had to repack her bag? several times?
leff and i got lots of stuff at both places, most notably the aforepictured catbus shirt, a plush deery lou and some fantastic pocky!! but i don't have photos of the pocky and deery lou yet, so you'll just have to live with some shots from inside uwajimaya.
this shrimp's kung fu is better than yours.
stacie and leff went to capitol hill that afternoon and it sounded like lots of fun. but i'll let leff tell you about that since he was there.
oh! and a friend of mine let us tour the children's museum after it was closed. they had a painting of a deer.
it's all staggy and stuff.
stacie left at 3:45 am today (monday) and now i'm utterly exhausted. so i'm going to take a nap (after i clean the dishes and make dinner and buy cat food and pick up some books from the library and move the car again and figure out the thanksgiving menu and...man, i need to hire a personal assistant!)
it's been quite a week! as you may or not remember from a previous post, one of leff's college buddies came into town this past week. what i might not have mentioned is that our mutual friend from baltimore who now lives in st louis, was also in town the same week! eeeep!
i loved visiting with everyone but i should have heeded the magic 8 ball in this photo.
when i asked "will i get a pony for xmas?" it replied "you will be very, very tired on monday. now stop asking me questions!"
rude little magic 8 ball.
but it was right. it's now monday and i'm exhausted. why am i so exhausted? well, just keep reading and you'll see!
one of the first things that we did when stace got into town was head to twice told tales, the used bookstore in queen anne with three cats. we're all book nerds so all three of us (that's leff, me and stacie) spent about two hours perusing.
we were there so long that the cats did some catrobatics on stacie.
according to miss s, the bookstores in st. louis are shit so she bought $150 worth of used paperbacks. which is funny when you consider that she had to repack her bag. several times.
friday also saw a trip to ballard where we ate at thaiku,
(uh, that's a wooden deer head at thaiku. the food was so good that i ate it before i realized that i hadn't photographed it.)
had cupcakes at cupcake royale
(that would be a chocolate cupcake with lavender icing. mmmmm!)
and made a pitstop at cookies, a cookie supply store with every cookie cutter shape you can imagine! (there's a skull and crossbone one that i MUST go back for!)
i got a cat, a rabbit and a star. the star's not in the photo.
i told the owner of cookies that i'd found her shop through, i think, not martha and she seemed pretty happy about it. when i told her that i was going to blog her too, she gave me a sticker.
if you need a weirdly shaped cookie cutter, some cool sprinkles or anything else for cookies, go to cookies, the store. they'll have it.
and i'm not just saying that because she gave me a free sticker and changed a dollar for me so i could catch the bus. seriously, i'm not.
oh! how could i forget! we also went to archie mcphee where stacie plunked down around $200 and i got these creepy things.
they'll eat whatever's left over of your baby that the dingo didn't eat.
oh, uh, here are some at-ats.
so that was friday. and now here's saturday!
let me just start by saying that we unwittingly went to the univeristy of washington's campus on the fucking day of the apple cup
stacie's thinking about applying for jobs (she's almost finished with her phd) and i'm thinking about grad school at the udub. buuuuut the apple cup crowd changed my mind. because, you know, i'm weary of drunken undergrads. i was one myself for waaaaaay too many years and i'm quite bored with it now, thanks.
anyway, udub. it's a pretty campus! and they have a building just for mean people.
for lunch, we were going to eat at the ethopian resturant in the area. but after walking about 20 blocks (and i should mention that at about block 15 i rebroke my toe by stepping on the sidewalk the wrong way. *anger!* *pain!*) we found out that the place had closed. like, closed for good.
but we did find the vegan pizza joint that leff wanted to try and the chinese tapas place that we'd read about. plus the buffalo exchange where i got a much needed scarf. so i can't complain too much. (but my toe still hurts.)
later that night we had the "indian food debacle aught five" where every indian place we tried was closed. but not, like, closed for good. just not open. so we ended up getting thai again. this time at phucket.
yes, phucket. but you don't really pronounce it that way.
and that was saturday.
sunday was a half day for me since i had to work. we went to the international district which, of course, means uwajimaya and kinokuniya but will now alwaysalwaysalways include something from yummy house bakery.
their pastries are to die for!! and they're reeeeeeally inexpensive! just don't forget to bus your table when you're finished.
should i mention how much stacie spent at kinokuniya? *cough* $155 *cough* have i mentioned that she had to repack her bag? several times?
leff and i got lots of stuff at both places, most notably the aforepictured catbus shirt, a plush deery lou and some fantastic pocky!! but i don't have photos of the pocky and deery lou yet, so you'll just have to live with some shots from inside uwajimaya.
this shrimp's kung fu is better than yours.
stacie and leff went to capitol hill that afternoon and it sounded like lots of fun. but i'll let leff tell you about that since he was there.
oh! and a friend of mine let us tour the children's museum after it was closed. they had a painting of a deer.
it's all staggy and stuff.
stacie left at 3:45 am today (monday) and now i'm utterly exhausted. so i'm going to take a nap (after i clean the dishes and make dinner and buy cat food and pick up some books from the library and move the car again and figure out the thanksgiving menu and...man, i need to hire a personal assistant!)
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