So, DABROOTS, your LiveJournal reveals... You are... 1% unique and 7% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing ). When it comes to friends you are a total whore . In terms of the way you relate to people, you are wary of trusting strangers . Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is intellectual . Your overall weirdness is: 34 (The average ...

native nations and barack obama - the poster

Democratic National Convention 2008 - Native Nations - Uniting for Change , by Ryan Red Corn I'll swear, at no time in my life has a contemporary political figure caused so much original art work to be generated as Barack Obama. There are hundreds of buttons, bumper stickers, tee shirts, and posters to choose from. It's become an industry. I'm currently taken with this new poster by Ryan ...

Madame Spock?

by Mr. Brainwash, at Neu Black

manual windows desired

I just now brought car home from the shop. My right rear window will now stay closed forever unless I want to either (1) Pay about $350 for various switches to be replaced with new ones, or (2) Visit junk yards in search of used switches to replace the old ones, saving some bucks, but not on labor. At least the mechanic was able to take the door apart and activate the wiring to get the window...

r. crumb and his banjo

Speaking of squirrely sorts who play banjos, I'm pretty much done reading and listening to The R. Crumb Handbook and R. Crumb's Music Sampler CD . Recommended? Yes, although several of Crumb's cartoons reproduced in this volume are so small in this 7.5 x 5.6 inch page format that their entries are practically unreadable. Making the book highly worthwhile are Crumb's autobiographical pieces,...

x-files mutant in dream

... for me to see that someone was coming my apartment through the transom, so far just a set of very long arms, shoulders at the top of the door. This invader seemed to be slipping in backwards. That's when I woke up shouting, waking myself, but hopefully not waking anyone else here. Dr. Horney? Scary dream, dabroots ! You should know better than to watch The X-Files late at night!

the animated userpics

I don't think I've ever put all my animated userpics together in a small space. They're under the cut. Not that many, really.

celestial toilet

Last week while doing my "prep" for a colonoscopy, I hurriedly dropped the seat on my toilet and caused it crack to an irrepairable degree. I replaced it with this item from K-Mart for eighteen bucks. I'm not a big fan of padded toilet seats/toilet lids, but I made an exception for this guy, Style "Celestial." Other style selections were "Tropical" (tropical fish swimming around coral reefs) ...

Dufresne's "Haircut; Spaghetty; Music & News"

Leonard Dufresne's Haircut; Spaghetty; Music & News (photo of a poster on my kitchen wall) This is the painting by Leonard Dufresne that I described in this post, yesterday . In keeping with most of his work, this 1988 painting depicts a working class, domestic scene in a household furnished with objects of an earlier era, or maybe it was based on a household the artist lived in, thirty...

the woman who kept peacocks

Today's a good excuse to bring up Flannery O'Connor because today is the day she would have turned 83. Alas, she made it only to 39, when she died of lupus at a hospital in rural Georgia. O'Connor was born with the first name "Mary" but chose to distinguish herself any other Mary O'Connor and also to throw off potential publishers of her stories into thinking she might be a male author, ...