Dish Daze

Big Foot, Little Foot

Veer to cute here.

Beautiful Science

Huntington Library exhibition

The shoe less traveled

If I had never become a parent, I would never have found myself saying, "Please take that shoe out of your mouth." Life is full of surprises.

It's a Barbie shoe, by the way.

Swedish Viking Dance Band

Movie pitch: Swedish dance band travels back in time to confront their own ancestors (it could happen). Despite the polyester bell-bottoms and flashy rhinestones, the band members befriend a gang of blood-thirsty, axe-wielding Vikings. This newly-formed extended family sails far and wide in the North Sea of the 10th century, looting and harmonizing as they go. It's "New York, New York" meets "The Seventh Seal." I'm thinking of naming it, "No One Plunders Solo." Part two involves a freak time travel accident of some sort in which the Vikings return to the present and do a show at a swap meet in Southern California (or, Copenhagen, if you prefer). No one in the audience notices anything unusual and our intrepid gang finds fame and fortune in the new, new world. The former band members, meanwhile, are very cold and confused and tired of drinking mead, but, they will survive (possible Gloria Gaynor cover here). To be continued . . .

My daughter, the poet

The oasis,
most pleasant of places.
There are plants, food, and a tree there.
The camel wants to be there.
The oasis.

Dreams and peels

The oozing kitty

It began like any other day. The alarm. Coffee and eggs. The crossword.

I thought I saw promise in a brillant blue sky, but, yet, there was something. Something was up there and it was coming for me. I spun and looked with horror as the evil-eyed cat began to ooze down the stairway. Horror. The horror . . . everything was furry. The End.

It's gold, I tell you!

Gold was first discovered in California not at Sutter's Mill in 1849, but, rather, at a place in the San Gabriel Mountains called Placerita Canyon.

Halloween happiness