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Saturday, February 22, 2014

What a day!

This weekend is the local sci-fi convention, called Galaxy Fest, in Colorado Springs. I went to the very first one, missed the next, and this is the third. Charlie and his friends, Pitchforks & Hammer-handles, played two sets, one Friday morning, the second this afternoon. I was there filming, but on Charlie's camera, so I don't have da goods to share with you yet. They did well, they have several very powerful songs, like "I'm Gonna Be" aka "500 Miles" made popular by the Proclaimers several... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 21, 2014

What to do with all that snow...?

These pictures are from the winter of 2012, and they were lost in the photostream for a while, but they are now found, and I thought you might like to see them. The link takes you to one end of the group: there are several more shots to the right of this one. Charlie and his former housemate, Tony, are responsible for this artistry. http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/6692006859/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

It's the Borgias' fault.

I haven't written for a few days. Blame it on The Borgias. It's one of those things I thought everyone had in their cultural vocabulary: one of the very most uppity women the world has known: Lucrezia Borgia, famed for all kinds of infamy including poisoning multiple husbands, mostly her own; incestuous affairs with her brother Cesare, and her father, Pope Alexander... Well, yes, the entire family was pretty dreadful. I was going to say, unconventional, but the conventions of Renaissance Italy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 16, 2014

It's quiet now...

The trees stand unmoving in their dignity, and everything on the porch is where I left it last night. Birds are speaking persuasively of the values of re-hanging the feeder that I took down during the great wind. In the indoor garden, more nasturtiums are blooming, one of them, a bright clear red. Half a dozen more buds wait their turn. The parsley perked right up in water, but now has begun to lose it's bright green, so I will cut it up small and add a little water so it can be frozen in an ice... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Squirrel thrill ride

All night, it shook the house, tossed around the big recycle and trash containers--one was across the street this morning, the other reclining 20 feet from where it was last seen, upright--and threw from my deck a window-box planter, full of dirt. I found it lying in the gutter in front of a car. Not a monster squirrel wreaking all this havoc, no: the wind. Weather report on the radio this morning mentioned "gusting to 60mph." Just before dawn this morning I looked out at the trees in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

reprise reprised

This is my Valentine's Day Poem, one that some of you have seen before. Love’s Not Always Pink Love’s not always pink-- It’s what you feel and live not what you think. Sometimes it’s what you give or are allowed to take or nothing you can have for someone else’s sake. Love’s not always song-- its voice not always heard or clear and strong. Sometimes it’s just absurd and makes no kind of sense Or it speaks without a word, has neither rhyme nor tense. Love’s not always glee-- It has its moods and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Another show

Last night I went to the final dress rehearsal of SPRING AWAKENING, the latest production that Charlie is in. The show is a rock musical based on a German play first written in 1891, and banned there because of it's uncompromising content of society's dysfuncitonal conventions around child-rearing, adolescent sexuality, suicide, homosexuality, and abortion. From what Charlie had told me, I went for him, but not expecting to enjoy the show itself. The show itself was amazing! The kids in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Beautiful morning

Some people don't get up for mornings. I don't mind sleeping in, myself, but when waking comes early, as it did today before 6, there are compensations. Looking out at the leading edge of dawn, high in the tree behind the house was brilliant Venus, the only spark in the sky as the stars faded into daylight. A little later, opening the front curtains, there was Pike's Peak, once again glowing bright pink under a sky of grey-blue and pink. In my teens, I got up and dressed and went out to the top... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 10, 2014

Cookin' again...!

I made a Thai style soup today. Started with chicken broth, added cream of chicken with wild rice soup, coconut milk, and a stack of vegies: shredded carrots, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, shitake and standard mushrooms, leek, fresh basil--lots!--and lime juice. Then I added just a dollop of Chinese hoisin sauce. A little sriracha sauce spices it up a bit, too. I'm thinking how good it would be with a few prawns in... Yum! Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Talking with Game of Thrones guy

Today at the theater there was a presentation with one of the producers and writers of the HBO series GAME OF THRONES, Bryan Cogman. He is the husband of one of the stars who has just finished a run of THE WEIR, which I am sad to say, I did not see. If you have never heard of GAME OF THRONES, nor seen it, nor read the books, then none of this will mean much to you. I have read all the ones George RR Martin has written so far, and will read the next eagerly. The guy can write, and creates... Sign in to see full entry.

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