Thursday, November 26, 2009
(Photo by Red-Star) Turkeys are such strange birds. Ugly-beautiful, and regal-ridiculous. Have you ever seen one flying wild? It’s like a giant feathered cannonball shot through the woods. Hilarious and shocking. We saw wild turkeys in Osyka Springs, Mississippi when we used to go camping there. They are huge! I feel bad about it, but [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Creepy cute lion babies, you hypnotize me. I cannot look away. You have me under your power. I will now paint everything I own gold! We had this giant preserved Alligator Gar specimen in the window at Uncommon Objects for a little while, before it was snapped up. Wish I’d gotten a better picture of [...]
One of the many things I appreciate about Texas weather is the constant mercurial shifting between extremes. Honestly! I am, in so many ways, a creature of habit. I can easily get bogged down in work and routines, so perhaps that has something to do with my insatiable craving for variety. I require a steady [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
A quick Magic Windows update from afar, these are actually all Austin related images that I’ve been meaning to show you for awhile.. Don’t worry, the New York edition of Magic Windows is shaping up to be pretty great. Just you wait! A friend of mine from teenage days recently dug up some pictures taken [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Oh my. It’s been a while since I was last in New York. I just dug up these pictures from the last time I was there, and I’m flooded by memories of how much fun we had.. Now I’m even more excited about visiting again- it really is one of my favorite cities, and I [...]
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
I am finally beginning to feel halfway human again after le disko deluge, (yes more on that soon!) As usual, it’s not quite Thursday anymore- but c’est la vie! So many things have been happening lately that my heart feels filled with stars and champagne, and despite disko-induced aches and pains, I’ve been breaking into [...]
We adopted a puppy! Well, she’s six months old- but that still counts, right? I was walking past the Austin Pets Alive adoption station after work the other day, and she caught my eye. She’s super wiggly, and thus really difficult to photograph- especially if you want to be in the picture with her! I [...]
Oh my lovelies, it seems lately I’ve been a deep sea creature- swimming far beneath the photic zone, lost in dark blue folds of water- oblivion lit only by my brightly bobbing lantern lure. I’ve been trying to fight my nocturnal nixie nature, and mostly failing miserably. One day, I will get paid to stay [...]
Recently we had a wonderful opportunity to spend some time with a very lovely snake named Sugar. Our friends Scott and Jen who are the founders of the Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata were married recently, and went to Costa Rica for their honeymoon. We got to take care of Sugar for them while [...]
I remember a few years ago, in New Orleans, I bought a carton of strawberries at the Farmer’s Market. I had become somewhat ambivalent about them over the years, having eaten far too many over-inflated, pale and watery mutants with no flavor to speak of. They left me disappointed and thinking that strawberries weren’t really [...]
