June 2007
9 posts
On Starting A Collection
I have started a collection. It happened by accident really. I was picking up clothes on my floor a few days ago, and I noticed some stickers on the ground. It was a pile of five or six inspection stickers. Today, I got lucky and another one came to me. It was the inspected by 76 sticker. If you have any suggestions on how to obtain them more quickly or how to contact particular people associated...
World Domination
I prefer Risk circa 1968 because: 1. I wish they still had pink armies. 2. It wasn’t a game of world domination but instead a “continental game” 3. The armies were made of wood 4. The big armies could double as food in my doll house because they looked like jelly beans. 5. They used color gradients on the countries and not just one solid color for the whole continent.
Keeping To The Theme
As I was looking at the last two posts, I realized how quickly my blog has turned into Oprah’s Book Club. So I thought perhaps a selection of themed postings would be nice. Obviously, this post will also be about bound pages we shall call books. photo: This book should not be confused with the following similar titles: Plants That Sometimes Bloom When Scientists Aren’t Watching, Plants...
Have You Heard Of Books?
If so, this is a good one:
Peach Boy
A friend of mine was wearing a peach and sumo wrestler shirt today and it reminded of how much I loved the book Momotaro. If you ever get a chance I do recommend reading it. Perhaps, it is the inspiration for James and the Giant peach. This beautiful version was illustrated by George Suyeoka. He also illustrated Urashima Taro and Issunboshi which are delightful tales as well. Wikipedia says:...
Victoria Beckham
I sure do like her. I liked her a little before today. Well, actually that’s not really true. In 6th grade, I was at home sick watching MTV music videos and a new group called The Spice Girls had a song out called Wannabe. Well, everyone knows what happens next. I believed I had super extraordinary girl rocking powers and together with the Spice Girls we would create world peace. Something...
Today, I found a bat.
This was right after I got in a battle royale with the eco-pass dude for not letting me take the bus paper back to the office. Anyways, I digress. I found a bat friend today. It was raining a bit on Pearl Street today and a bat friend came out to drink up the water pooling on the brick pathway. I’m now going to do a long, arduous Google search to find a bat that comes close to the one I...
Honeysuckles and Other Such Matters
When I was little I lived in a house that had a tennis court in the yard. I say this not to brag, because while having a tennis court sounds posh it was rather run down with cracked green paint which exposed the black, gummy tar below. Also, I am not a world class tennis player, which means I might be making up this whole story. Anyway, I spend my tricycle riding days on the tennis court, driving...
Bouldersauce
While most of the other people at Adcenter fill their summers with exploring huge cities, I find myself amidst nature’s finest offerings - boulder, colorado. Yes, it is true I have spent some time here in my past, four years to be exact, but I almost feel as though I’m re-exploring it for the first time. Except that I don’t need mapquest to find my way around. Highlights from my...
