For the past couple months I’ve been chipping away at a little art project, inspired by Rubén Guzman’s Oaxacan woodcarving class and by Pat Tong, who is ever doing creative things that pique my curiosity. I finally finished painting it yesterday. It is sort of a frog-turtle. With all the free time I have, you’d think I’d be cranking out artistic creations like there’s no tomorrow. I still knit the occasional unneeded item now and again, but that’s about […]
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Homemade things
Shredder
This afternoon I was lying on my bed, in the same pajamas I’ve worn for three days now, baby Ember peacefully asleep on my chest, when I realized suddenly what I had to do. Right away. I lifted floppy Emmy and handed her to her mother, and descended immediately into the basement. In dark corners dwell scores of teetering boxes: camping gear, baby clothes, reels of quarter-inch audio tape, framed paintings, thirty years of tax […]
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Here’s a video of my teacher of my Spanish class for extranjeros. I understand most of what she says, but I can hardly produce a word myself: inconvenient when lost. [flashvideo filename=wp-content/video/extranjero.flv image=wp-content/video/extranjeros.jpg /] Here are two drawings done by two of my young students of their favorite deportes. I totally blew my class last night. I had no idea what I was doing, and when you’re like that in front of a group, it […]
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Sorry to do this to you, but there’s just too much amazing political stuff whizzing around out there for me to let it all fade into my memory. There’s the exceptional Don’t Vote video that Lulu forwarded me (which Sarah Silverman hopes will go viral, “rampant… like herpes— but for… positive”) and another that Lulu found at boingboing.net about Palin’s brain: Here’s one my second exhusband scooped me on. Matt Groening just gets more brilliant, […]
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