Thanksgiving in Hollywood, 1981, I believe. My brother, me, mom & dad, brother’s then girlfriend Rita. Lovely Rita. SoCal stuff like the diner, and random pink Rambler, that was not ours. I like that we took pictures of the pumpkin pie. I want to make these into a quilt. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled exclude=”3010″]
An old friend’s comment on one of my Facebook posts got me digging through my old slides, looking for this hanging I made, I think in 1979: And looking at the slides got me thinking about how to digitize them. Of course, I could send them off and get them done for real; they’re 35mm … [Read more…]
There a 30+ year-old Bruce Cockburn song called The Trouble With Normal, and he sings, “But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse”. He’s talking about apathy and politics, but also how elusive “normal” is – and that’s pretty much how I feel. Behind on work stuff, not getting enough exercise, not eating … [Read more…]
I attended the Midwinter library conference, and it was a bit of an odyssey. I was supposed to leave on Friday, early, but there was a snowstorm, and everything going out of Chicago got cancelled. The best anyone could do for me was a 9:00 AM flight out of O’Hare on Saturday morning, and that … [Read more…]
The black cat wasn’t eating too well, and I was starting to think maybe she had the same thyroid thing the white one had. But then Friday night it seemed like her back legs were stopping working, and I thought she smelled a little like pee, and I started worrying that maybe she was starting … [Read more…]
We saw Alejandro Escovedo at City Winery, performing A Man Under the Influence, with a big band, some of whom were traveling with him, and who are on the original album, and some picked up locally. Like Eric Heywood on Pedal Steel, and Mitch Easter playing a Fender Coronado Antigua, and Chris Stamey, who produced the … [Read more…]