black and white

Drove to Quincy Florida home of my favorite newspaper job. Would post pictures but silica based technology has failed. Laptop hard drive making cement mixer sound. Must fall back to home, make repairs.

Labels: damage, dissonance

Labels: environment

On the road. Greeted by this computer screen two days running.

Labels: damage

Labels: road, signs

Labels: motoring, road

Mr. Aaron Hammond

Labels: doll

Labels: doll, night

President Bush delivered his Kwanzaa Hanukkah Christmas messages a few days back. He covered a lot of bases, Virgin Birth, Light of Hope, Triumph over Tyranny, Those Lost in Freedom's Cause, Commitment to Compassion, Creativity, Collective Work.

The White House bows to diversity and simultaneously squeezes three takes on the Winter Solstice into the Bush Policy Bag. Impressive.

However the President failed to say words recognizing the Holiday of Commerce. Words for the Nutcracker, for Santa, for Frosty the Bleeping Snowman. Will his omission have a political cost?

Yesterday, Jose Luis Espinal of Washington Heights NY had his name changed in Manhattan Civil Court to Jesus Christ.

That, my friends, is Freedom.

Labels: culture, doll, three

Making a pdf book of street views for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. It is a rush project. Problems abound. What is a street view? At the moment much of the work is in color (gasp!). The current page count is 62 and I'm in day one of layout. Have 48 hours to finish.

Labels: Woolen Mills Village

In debt to the French.

Last month it was their machine, the da Vinci Robot, taking bad pieces out of me. This month they are sending me web traffic, 40 visitors yesterday.

How, in French, do you say:

"hey French people, come paint my house!"

Note- the nude photographs get more visits...

Labels: damage

Blackbird needs a dog, I am hoping that she'll selects a dog that is genetically disposed to regard other living creatures favorably. Blackbird likes 130 pound Shepherds and dogs whose last literary appearance was in Call of The Wild. My mantra is lab-mix lab-mix lab-mix. This has been a bad-press week for Labradors.
Over yonder in France: was the face-transplant patient's dog trying to kill it's mistress or was the dog clumsy at CPR?
French people are different than American? (not so fat...)
Maybe French Labradors are different than American Labradors?

Labels: culture, dogs

The photographers came to my house last night, from Kuala Lumpur, from Greensboro, from Charlottesville, from Tye River. Friends are a sweet thing. Looked at photos, drank scotch, laughed. Sophie ate a plate of cookies.

Labels: friends

blackbird on the streets of Davetown, Dave's birthday today

Blackbird flew south this morning after 2 weeks of being my caretaker, shepherd and everything through rain, night, frost, fugues, depressive interludes.
I haven't been easy, but I have rested easy, I have been cared for. A curative visit appreciated beyond words.

Amsel flew towards the south this morning after 2 weeks of the Centres my employee, sheepdog and all by rains, harms, freezing, Fugues, of Zwischenspiele depressing. I was not simple, but I have simple, me interested was stopped. A curative visit estimated beyond the words (english to german to french to english again, courtesy babelfish, the poetic translation machine)

Labels: family, urban