From there, after six days and seven nights, you arrive at Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound about themselves as in a skein. They tell this tale of its foundation: men of various nations … Continue reading
Text modifications are minimal in WordPress, so I set the text up in word, then cut and paste to see what special fetures will and will not follow the transition.Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Quisque sed felis. … Continue reading
“When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”–that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need … Continue reading
This is probably the ugliest car in America. Camille says it looks like a shoebox with wheels, I say a toaster. I know how to use Photoshop, so I win. The Almighty: Designed in Legoland. It would look complete if … Continue reading
God, what an ordeal it was to put this shed up. In between the time I built the form, and the day the concrete was poured, the form got knocked out of square somehow. Sooooo… When the cement hardened I … Continue reading
The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell John Crawford ISBN 1-59448-201-2 I read this one the way the Almighty does – in one throw. (I got home from Barnes & Noble at 11:30, and turned out the light at three.) … Continue reading
Packing up is when you find all the nooks and crannies that you’ve been shoving crap, telling yourself “I’ll deal with this later.” Well… It is officially “later.” At least the library is finally packed.
Camille and I visited the Henry Art Gallery to see the new exhibition by Maya Lin, called Systematic Landscapes. (Her most famous work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) Really cool stuff – 2×4 Landscape is a vast hill built of … Continue reading
The floor coverings are in, including the carpeting, the millwork completed… the only thing left to install is the hardware on the interior doors. It seems hard to believe we started this process four months ago, and that we are … Continue reading
Camille and I watched a few things over the weekend: Memoirs of a Geisha (four of five stars) Arthur Golden’s fictionalized story of Nitta Sayuri, who tells the story of how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of … Continue reading
I had a job down in Enumclaw today (NY Readers: think Buffalo => Salamanca), and on the way back, I spotted a sign that said “Flame Geyser State Park.” Anything that has “Flame” and “Geyser” in the same sentence simply … Continue reading