Amy
Weekly Picture 123
Upside Down, Austin, TX, 4.30.2008
For Sheila
And Daryl, who both asked. Daryl first, “What I grow that [we] eat.”
My wee basil, last year by this time they were well on their way to being, by end of season, three feet tall and lush. You can also see Mom’s sage, the chives and if you squint you might see oregano and a couple baby sprigs of Rosemary. (The coral bell, far right, was given to me last year by my employer, kristopher, because it’s called a “Lime Rickey.”)
And for Sheila:
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Orgasmic Birth, the movie
Izabella
July 10th, 2008
8 lbs 3 oz
Weakened in Paradise
I always believed my best bet for employment was the service sector, but it hasn’t worked out the way I expected. I’ll never give up intelligence-gathering, covert surveillance, and stalking as hobbies, of course, but ever since Big Government became more deeply involved in those fields I’m finding it much more difficult to make a living pursuing the observational arts.
Carson
He made a rosewood box from a single piece of wood. I had no idea the technology behind it. I could tell something was wrong. Mother or father looked askance at him. The box was waxed or oiled. The edge of the top was routed or carved — it sat inside the hollow. I looked at him and wondered why it was.
overheard
A man to his 13 or 14 year-old son, “I know, it’s going to look even more gay, but that’s what your mother wants.”
Old? Hell, Let’s See it Again Anyway
But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.
‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.
‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’
I mentioned this to some McCain supporters the other day and, surprisingly, they hadn’t heard the story of how the man came to be married to his present wife. As the whole story here indicates, Carol was disfigured in a traffic accident and lost her looks–so hubby dumped her and set out to help the world of himself.
via Praxxus
Dear Clusterflock
What are the best things and the worst things about having children?
Gender Blender
Joe and Harry Gantz, creators of Taxicab Confessions, have created a new documentary series on transgender called Gender Blender. The series is being hosted by Crushed Planet, a new “unrated and uncensored” internet television network. All of this via Susannah Breslin at Reverse Cowgirl.
from the contact form
Barry Kwok writes:
On a hot summer day, Barry went to the said beach with his family thinking of having a cool dip in water. However, Barry admired Bruce Lee, the greatest Kung Fu fighter and martial arts movie star in the world, he was eager to have a tanned complexion like Bruce so he spent 4 hours lying on the beach enjoying the burning sunbath without applying suntan lotion to his body. It was really a painful experience to him. A few days later, Meaco, his younger sister, who was ten-year old then, took 90 minutes to peel off from his chest the largest skin in the world (8.5 x 4 inches) off my chest with her hands (without using any equipment) in the shape of a China map representing Hong Kong residents are patriots and very much longing for returning the sovereignty to the mainland China. The feeling is so warm, which seems like an adopted child having a reunion with his bioparents. The skin specimen has carefully been kept in a stamp album for more than 27 years and will be passed from generation to generation.
Cyrus
Dear Clusterflock
You look nice today.
Amy
Zoe
Mom
Derek
Speaking of Memorial Day…
My grandfather, second from the left on the bottom, who made a career of the U.S. Air Force. In this picture dated between 1968-69, he is a Colonel in 16th SOS at Ubon. It startles me a bit to see a man now passed was once so young.
Nieces and Nephews
Memorial
“Birthday Cakes of the Past”
I give up. I cannot select The Representative Image from among 231 photos currently posted to a Flickr pool devoted to found and family photos featuring birthday cakes. This one, titled My Second Birthday 1940, is awfully good, and there are 230 more at Birthday Cakes of the Past.
I Love Texas
Where else will you find a naked mother arguing with her son who accidentally shoots herself in the finger?
it’s only — a year — a-way!
Y’all. We’re a year away from clusterflockstock.
Chris Burden, What My Dad Gave Me
Performance artist Chris Burden, famous for Shoot, in which he had an assistant shoot him in the arm with a .22, and Trans-fixed, in which he was crucified on a VW Beetle, will install a 65 foot skyscraper composed of over a million pieces of facsimile erector set in Rockefeller Center called What My Dad Gave Me.
