August 22nd, 2010 ethereal
passing through my neighborhood on a evening walk, i saw a middle-aged man sitting on his stoop, garden hose in one hand and a can of beer in the other. he arced a single stream of water over the green grass, back and forth, and stared somewhere just beyond. he wore black plastic headphones that just covered his ears, and had a cd player perched on his lap. i noted the absence of ear buds or iPod. the moment registered to me as a habit, carved into his daily life. he didn’t look up and i kept on walking. i thought about the things i do daily as i circled the last block to my home, again.
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August 20th, 2010 ethereal
state fair, summer 2010. i had a grand time, albeit short. we closed the last day of the fair with funnel cake and fireworks. i felt like something was unfinished and left feeling vaguely like a missed opportunity was hiding in the gears of the ferris wheel.
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October 11th, 2009 ethereal
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June 23rd, 2009 ethereal
i walked past the burned house just now. four cats waited for dinner that will not arrive on time. the house is empty, in many ways. charcoal and smoke have taken the place of red paint and trinkets. there were roses in the fence the city put around her house to keep everyone out and maybe, to keep what is left inside. i assume the flowers were for the woman who died there. twenty-four hours ago she was inside, now she is gone. will i see her ghost in the alley?
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May 22nd, 2009 ethereal
the night birds were singing. i miss them in the winter. the delta breeze brings in a delightful chill.
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May 20th, 2009 ethereal
this evening i sent a piece of myself to be encased in concrete and buried in the foundation of a new building. an old cell phone will be my contribution to the time capsule placed by a certain group of art professors at a college nearby to here. with some hello kitty stickers, a note explaining a cracked display, a phone charger and a memory card containing text messages that serve as cryptic chronicles of my first semester of my first year of graduate school, i said goodbye a farewell to an obsolete piece of past technology that contains a bit of who i was at that time. godspeed to your dark holding bin … metal/message/missive.
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April 7th, 2009 ethereal
like layer tennis, i tossed a cut kitten pic to kmmk and she tossed it back all lol’d up and super fab typophile-geeked out. designer lol-dom fur realz!
and anyone who knows me knows the coincidence here with cats in pink casts after akzidenz. : )
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April 7th, 2009 ethereal
i have a million things i want to post … but by the time i get home i am too tired of sitting in front of the computer to do so. but, i have been collecting some images of fun packaging and tonight i thought … i will just post one, and start to form a little blogging habit again.
here is a fabulous popcorn package from the local low-budget grocery. seriously, this place is zero frills. but, it has cheap food. and snacks that bring jolly happy fun yum times for everyone!
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February 22nd, 2009 ethereal
this one is for you valentina … today at goodwill gioia and i found an “ingrid party ball” picnic set. in one word, fabulous. i have very little information about when it was made or who ingrid was, but as an object and a picnic set its super!
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February 4th, 2009 ethereal
I am not sure how well this works, but I love the idea (thanks joshua for the link!) I especially like the idea in the write-up of a device that scorches the paint off of the cars parked in the bike lane. Can it also incinerate yard waste that people love to leave in the lane too, like tree branches.
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