What's the best present you gave this year?
I already showed her the "L" for the "1" and where the apostrophe and quote marks are and how to use the carriage return, but it's been awhile and I am sure there are other nifty typewriter tricks I'm missing -- if you remember any [if you're old enough to have used one], let us know.
Remember awhile back I asked you to vote for my photos for inclusion in JPG Magazine? Thank you, one of them was accepted and is in issue 7, which is out now and their first wide-distribution issue so available at chains and the like. If you like pretty pictures and are interested in subscribing, they sent contributors a special discount code to share, it's just $15 for an annual subscription [6 issues] instead of $25. Good deal there.
My conundrum: I just received my $100 check for the shot [I know, life's hard] and am trying to figure out what to do with it. I'm tempted to frame it as being paid for taking a picture totally blows my mind, but obviously, it's photography fun money from me to me! and should be spent accordingly instead of being thrown into the usual bill-daughter-bill-daughter abyss. Any suggestions? [My birthday is Saturday, so I might pass it on to Chad to add to the present kitty, so it's not strictly limited to $100, but don't go nuts.]
And if you need something else to do: I submitted some photos for the next edition, and if you like them, I'd appreciate a positive vote for them. Or you can click around and see some other bang-up shots and vote for them instead. Or you can vote no on every single photo on there, art's subjective like that. These are mine:
Intimate
Tourist
Embrace the Blur
2. Yes, no one in Alameda except those two leering contractors got it at all.
3. Yes, I'm wearing slippers.
4. Yes, we only had about 15 kids come by all night.
5. Yes, I got totally sick off leftover Dum-Dum's.
6. Yes, I do like wearing a cape while riding my bike.
7. Yes, Gary Barker took this picture.
8. No, I never came up with my lucha name.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? Why?
Submitted by abcdefg81.
I'm going to stay right here in Alameda
1. DESTROY THE EARTHQUAKES SMASH SMASH
2. Disperse half the population to the reddest corners of the country to make the congestion more bearable here and the politics moreso there.
3. I was going to say raising the summer average temperature by about 5° but global warming seems to be taking care of that.
Or I'll take one of those deep-South Pacific wonderlands.
This post sponsored by voting no on 6, 43, and 85. And a big hearty yes-yes for 87.
Did you dress up today? See any good costumes?
I'm still figuring mine out -- as usual, everyone else comes first. I just finished sewing a Pocahontas dress for D'arby [yes, the Disney one, I know, I know] and converted some ugly polyester pants and a tiny women's early-90s jacket into some mariachi magic for Chad -- I think I did a good job, though it helps him being so darn fine.
Best I've seen and not made are George's Witless Who?-ston [oh. my. god.]
and the mucha lucha chihuahuas we saw Sunday
The summer between 5th and 6th grades, I spent several weeks in Seattle with some family friends. One morning we didn't have a chance to eat before we left for the Attraction of the Day, and had to make do with booth-fare when we arrived, which was the point when Patricia told me that it's okay to have Coke and chocolate cake for breakfast once in awhile, which is one of the best things anyone's ever said to me and can be applied to just about any situation.
When I was maybe 9 or 10, my maternal grandmother sent me an opal charm on a gold chain that arrived on or just before Halloween, though I seem to remember it being a gift in honor of some saint she somehow related to me even though I don't have a proper Christian name, and it fell off my neck while I was roaming the neighborhood gathering candy. I looked all over for it for weeks, and, close to 30 years later, I still experiences moments of regret over losing it.
