Found in a secondhand store in the Plaza District. Features a performance by Johnny Cash, and the liner notes are full of photos of 1970s Jesus hippies.
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You never know when you’re going to see something cool. Case in point, I was leaving the house yesterday on my way to work and saw this fallen leaf sticking up out of the grass, all beautiful but kind of annoying, crying out, "PHOTOGRAPH ME!" And I was all, "But I have to go to work! Won’t you still be there later?" "NO I MOST CERTAINLY WILL NOT BE HERE LATER PHOTOGRAPH ME NOW!" And you guys, the leaf was right, because check it out.
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I found these guys hanging out together in a secondhand shop that was open during Plaza Live. Now, look: I have a whole cadre of friends who are professional comedians, very hilarious people, and maybe they can tell me otherwise, but, um, I’m not sure that anyone is still practicing ventriloquism anymore. And I think the reason is that OH MY GOD LOOK HOW FREAKING CREEPY THIS THING IS ARE YOU SERIOUS WITH THOSE EYES IT WANTS TO KILLLLLLLL YOOOOOOOUUUUUUU.
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This past weekend we attended Plaza Live down at Oklahoma City’s Plaza District with some very cool people. A great time was had, and though I took a bunch of photos of the Fanny Pack Fashion Show, none of them came out. It’s a wonderful little slice of urbana, that part of town, and if you haven’t been I couldn’t recommend more highly that you check it out, especially if Big Truck Tacos is ever down there.
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The first typewriter I ever had was given to me when I was a child by a friend of my mom’s who had failed to sell it in a garage sale. I was 8 or 9, and the keys looked just like this. By this time, of course, I was already spending every moment I could in front of the Mac 512 in my dad’s office, using Microsoft Word to write my little stories. But I really loved typing on the typewriter as well, especially because it had three different colors of ink. For Christmas in the 8th grade I asked for – and received – a new typewriter, which I loved, and on which I wrote my first "novel," a 40-some-odd page story about a kid in a post-apocalyptic world. You guys, it was so terrible. No copies survive.
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Commuter Dogs
A very sad story about urban dogs that have learned to use the subway to go scavenge for food in the more affluent suburbs before returning home the same way every night.
The Classics Reimagined
Some of the greats of classic literature re-examined as modern graphic novels. My personal favorite is Macbeth re-worked as a Mary Worth plotline.
Sorry To Burst Your Bubble
From The Daily Mail, a series of super-slow motion shots show a soap bubble, the kind you used to blow as a kid and still occasionally get to at weddings, when you pop it. Wonderful photography.
The Leaf
Nissan’s new zero-emissions car could use a better name (or the power to give you a raccoon tail and the ability to fly), but overall I’m glad the car companies are headed this direction.
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You guys, I am missing Ireland something pretty fierce this week. We’ve been back for a month and two days, though honestly it feels like a whole lot longer. We keep saying we want to try to go back next year. I suppose if I want to make that happen I should, um, sorta get on it. Money? Anywhere? Money?
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I have a friend who says that if she wanted to see a sunrise, she could just videotape a sunset and then watch it in reverse. In general I’m a fan of this line of thinking; who needs early mornings? Unfortunately, it seems, I do, as I’ve gained a bit of weight this year, and so every morning finds me struggling to drag my carcass out of bed and make it to the gym to do that thing … oh, Jeez, what’s it called … exercise. Move around. Turns out? It helps. Only the problem is you have to do it every day. I mean, we all know someone who smoked and drank every day of their lives and lived to be 98, but you have to assume this won’t be you. And as I have a few plans that involve not having to buy new jeans anytime soon, there I am, every morning.
I actually rather enjoy going. Which is to say, for me, that I try to keep a positive attitude about the whole thing. The other day when we pulled up in the morning, there was even more to enjoy:
Now. I enjoys my sleep as much as the next, and while a sunrise in and of itself will never be reason for me to see the non-dreamy side of 5:30 a.m., this did make it all worth it:
I’m not sure what they’re building down there, but there is a lot of construction, and I really loved the look of those cranes silhouetted against the sky.
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Though I already regaled you with stories of mine & Brian’s trip to Krebs, Oklahoma – the lamb fries, the Italian food, THE LAMB FRIES THAT I ACTUALLY DID EAT – I thought you might enjoy checking out the reason I went in the first place: I got paid. My article on the subject in last week’s Gazette has finally made it online, and I say go enjoy the read if for no other reason than to see with your own eyes how I used the phrase "nut up" in a paper with a circulation of around, oh, 60,000.
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This thunderstorm ran right to the east of us the other night as we celebrated my brother’s birthday in style, at Outback Steak House on I-240 in Oklahoma City. I especially love how well-defined the anvil of the storm is in this photo, as well as the high-altitude winds circling it all around. Late every summer Oklahoma experiences a sort of a secondary storm season, almost never as severe as in April, May and early June, but still fun nonetheless. I also really, really dig how the sky came out in this picture. Also, I’m not totally sure, but I think it’s possible that the barely-visible vertical streaks near the top of the photo are a bit of high-altitude lightning, which I personally think is Earth’s coolest atmospheric phenomenon.
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