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Crossing the River

jmags — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:46:52 +0000

There Will Be No Shame

jmags — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:50:03 +0000

So we have returned to something more in keeping with general expectations, but for a while on Tuesday night it was really snowing.

Temporal Sequences: I’m over ‘em

jmags — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:40:31 +0000

Now that we’ve talked about NYE, I’d like to go over the 5 days previous that we spent out at Ocean Haven. Basically, it was great. Soggy and great.

The first day we were there, the sis and I noticed a couple trying to push this thing back into the ocean. It was beautifully futile. The next day, I went and took pictures of it.

Before we left, we decided that we needed to pose with it.

Runup

jmags — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:37:18 +0000

So before the whole Christmas thing got underway, my dad came up to visit. We went to Oak’s Park, which C and I hadn’t been to in ages. By coincidence, they had the organ going. It was totally fantastic.

Here is the locker we kept our stuff in whilst being overcome by insouciance.

(Man, that is so insouciant!)

Here are the beskated feet of me and C.

(Man, those are so beskated!)

We also went to the Portland Art Museum to check out the rather remarkable The Artist’s Touch and the Craftsman’s Hand exhibit. Unfortunately, everything in that exhibit was (understandably) behind glass, so my photos from it are crap. Instead, check out these pictures of “special” babies from the Renaissance.

Now we’re at Ocean Haven again, and I’m sure I’ll have something to say about that soon.

Some Things

jmags — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:13:13 +0000

In this compelling work, the hydrant represents the edifice of inhumanity upon which man (represented here by a shoe) teeters precariously.

Here are a couple of shots of Yoshi watching his favorite film.

Here is the latest in a series that I like to call “What the Hell is Going On with My Head?”

Character

jmags — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:32:34 +0000

So we went to a charmingly goofy opening at Monograph. While we were there, availed ourselves of an old typewriter by the door. True to form, Hazel wrote something sweet, and I wrote something standoffish.

(standoff fish?)

Pictures from that cool little park at the end of Skidmore.

Here is Yoshi stepping on my face.

I Dare Not Meet in Dreams

jmags — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:30:25 +0000

I wore my hat to the Albino Press, and this happened when I took it off.

Also, I love the guy in the background who has basically the same expression as me.

This is Yoshi, watching me hold a bottle cap over his head. It’s like something out of Wegman. Only with a cat. And the cat is a total lunatic.

Life is hard, but I bought myself Jaffa Cakes to make up for it.

Things I Have Seen

jmags — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:21:17 +0000

This appears to be graffiti of a yakking bird, over stencil of a raccoon head.

I’m not sure what exactly this sculpture that someone near Alberta had in their yard says about man’s inhumanity to man, but it’s certainly something.

I got a rather severe spider bite on my ass last week. Attributing the incident to pants that had been sitting in the back of the closet for some time, I took everything out and washed it. Unfortunately, there isn’t a conveniently-located dry cleaners, so my 1960s Brook’s Brothers suit is still sitting around for Yoshi to use to demonstrate his habit of sitting in the worst possible places.

Halloweekend

jmags — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:15:45 +0000

When Hazel came up on Friday we went to some early thing at Holocene and were the only people who danced. I took a terrible picture of the pictures we got from the photo booth there (meta!) I like the third one, because I think I look like Bertie Wooster in it.

On Saturday we went to a Halloween party. Hazel dressed as Rosemary form Rosemary’s Baby. It was widely conceded that her costume was the most frightening.

I went as Frank Bullit, but there were no good pictures.

Manly Weekend

jmags — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:52:54 +0000

Last weekend was the Mighty River Classic, where I gave out the trophies mentioned here, and even got one of my own, although it was for 3rd place, which isn’t exactly what I was hoping for.

Both of these are of my first bout. Between them, the guy had to sort of sit and recover from the rib kick that he would have avoided if people had only noticed that I had already knocked him in the head with my fist.

This was my loss. I was trying to circle out and punch him, when I should have been circling in and away and kicking him. Sad emoticon.

This was the 3rd/4th bout, which I also won.

On Sunday I engaged in another incredibly manly activity: plumbing! I have been putting off fixing the pipes under my kitchen sink and flush with, umm, defeat that wasn’t as sound as it could have been I finally convinced myself to get around to it.

Just to round things out, here’s Yoshi demonstrating his civic pride by posing as the Jantzen girl.