Posts tagged summer 2012

largely-failed attempt at a group shot while exploring foliage tunnel.

largely-failed attempt at a group shot while exploring foliage tunnel.

morning glory, 8/24/12, Wildflour Bakery.

morning glory, 8/24/12, Wildflour Bakery.

Geraldine’s Corner feat. @manprano (Taken with Instagram) The one who makes me more me.

Geraldine’s Corner feat. @manprano (Taken with Instagram)
The one who makes me more me.

poor fleurs, subjected (as just about everything in this house must eventually be) to my mother’s scathing scrutiny. these were “more pink than [she] would have chosen for this time of year, and they can’t be a centerpiece at mealtime, but at least they’ll make the house smell nice.” (should i be grateful that she in her infinite clemency didn’t toss them on sight?) i now love them more than i otherwise would have, of course. they’ll be here for as long as i can keep them going.

poor fleurs, subjected (as just about everything in this house must eventually be) to my mother’s scathing scrutiny. these were “more pink than [she] would have chosen for this time of year, and they can’t be a centerpiece at mealtime, but at least they’ll make the house smell nice.” (should i be grateful that she in her infinite clemency didn’t toss them on sight?) i now love them more than i otherwise would have, of course. they’ll be here for as long as i can keep them going.

inothernews: Dickhead asshole Islamophobe takes out (Constitutionally-protected! We guess) anti-Muslim ads, which call Muslims “savages,” on San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s vehicles; San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency puts up its own ads, with arrows pointing to dickhead asshole Islamophobe’s ads and reading “SFMTA policy prohibits discrimination based on national origin, religion and other characteristics, and condemns statements that describe any group as ‘savages.’” Bravo, SFMTA, and Pamela Geller can fuck right off. (via Mother Jones) I acknowledge that steps have been taken to remedy the situation. The original ad is still just as repulsive as it ever was, and it would have been gutsier for the SFMTA to simply decline to post it rather than posting it and then playing hero by condemning the words that were spread all over town as a result of their (SFMTA’s) decision .

inothernews:

  1. Dickhead asshole Islamophobe takes out (Constitutionally-protected! We guess) anti-Muslim ads, which call Muslims “savages,” on San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s vehicles;
  2. San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency puts up its own ads, with arrows pointing to dickhead asshole Islamophobe’s ads and reading “SFMTA policy prohibits discrimination based on national origin, religion and other characteristics, and condemns statements that describe any group as ‘savages.’”
  3. Bravo, SFMTA, and Pamela Geller can fuck right off.

(via Mother Jones)

I acknowledge that steps have been taken to remedy the situation. The original ad is still just as repulsive as it ever was, and it would have been gutsier for the SFMTA to simply decline to post it rather than posting it and then playing hero by condemning the words that were spread all over town as a result of their (SFMTA’s) decision .

there were no blackberries, and are no pies. coffee proved to be first a prerequisite, then the focus of the evening. until the 30 Rock movement kicked in.

because what is bestfriendship if not a constant compromise on plans(or the absence thereof) as dictated by the severity of individual life-issues? (this is not cynicism. i’m being serious. don’t get used to it.) i’m just now making dinner, thanks to my neurosis re: eating alone-slash-in front of someone who isn’t eating. (yes, it’s stupid. let’s both turn down the commentary.)

i’m sorry that my world has been resisting depiction of late.

should i be worried that i apparently don’t have enough of a handle on it to pin it down with verbs, glorify it with adjectives and Name it with Proper nouns? it’s not for lack of trying (though perhaps i ought to try to try less). i’m wearing the scarf my sister brought home for me from Prague, and i’m surprised by how attached i am to it, upon putting it on for the first time. it’s a pretty thing, a fitting thing, probably more raival than August the seventeenth calls for, but Sonoma County defies seasonal reason, so my following suit is, if anything, an homage to this strangest of climatic microcosms in which i find myself much of the time.

anyway. i’m off to pick blackberries in my own little patch of pastorality. they’ll be pies by nightfall, but you can expect arful pictures to commemorate their feral existence and ritualized inclusion into the human experience.

new shirt. i love it, and ain’t nobody gonna tell me i can’t.

new shirt. i love it, and ain’t nobody gonna tell me i can’t.

why my desire to watch the Perseids tonight seems a laughable whim (“oh, how cute!”) or a frivolous luxury (“i don’t have time for that/i need my eight hours!”), i’ll never know.

this is the universe in action, didn’t you know? i’m so sorry these meteors didn’t call up your secretary before they team-huddled and planned their movement across “our” sky. 

in case this isn’t glaringly obvious: i dislike being trivialized.

montereybayaquarium: Next week is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! This weekend (August 11-12) the Aquarium will be hosting a special premiere of the film, “Great White Highway” in the auditorium, about shark migrations and conservation, followed by a Q&A with research scientists. We’ll also be giving away vouchers for a re-mastered edition of “Jaws” on Blu-ray Disc, as well as other gifts! View pictures and learn more about “Great White Highway” on the Discovery Channel.

montereybayaquarium:

Next week is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel! This weekend (August 11-12) the Aquarium will be hosting a special premiere of the film, “Great White Highway” in the auditorium, about shark migrations and conservation, followed by a Q&A with research scientists. We’ll also be giving away vouchers for a re-mastered edition of “Jaws” on Blu-ray Disc, as well as other gifts!

View pictures and learn more about “Great White Highway” on the Discovery Channel.