Mail From the Peep Fairy!

Mail From the Peep Fairy!
Originally uploaded by baseballpajamas

Today we got surprise mail from the Peep Fairy! Does she deliver to you too? Somehow she find me every year. Thank you Peep Fairy!

...And I too am concerned about the new Peep colors.....

The Rock Album Challenge

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit "random... Read More... Read More" or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The FIRST random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. (alternatively, if the first article you hit is short, hit Random Article two more times.)

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days" or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or Picnik.com or other photo editor to put it all together.

Welcome To Vermont, February Style

...At any minute the priest from the Exorcist will step under the streetlight...

Admission and Plea

It's time admit to you all that 2008 was a very difficult year for me, and 2009 continues to be equally rough. You can see it on my face, I think, and it's time I let you know how I've changed. If you think it's appropriate, feel free to pray for me. With your help I know I can bounce back from this.

50 people see sadness and happiness

50 people see sadness and happiness
Originally uploaded by flipzagging

Stumbled across this little experiment on Flickr. This fellow created some sort of thingie for merging 50 "flickr" images together, all with the same descriptive "tag". On the left: sadness. On the right: happiness.

They are remarkably similar in tone. But happiness seems to have more...form.

Hmmm.

To Continue The Theme....

Jonathan Coulton: "Lady Aberlin’s Muumuu"


Also see: Jonathan Coulton swoons because Betty Aberlin commented about his song.

Bonus note: Betty Aberlin has actually written a rather cool-sounding book--a kind of poetic dialog with a 19th century Scottish poet. Kind of intriguing.

Windstorm in Bubbleland

Oh man.

I first saw this with my then-one-year-old, and in the fog of young parenthood I think it blew my mind.

Its bizarre mix of surrealism, kitsch, and charm sent me running for a blank VCR tape (this was 8 years ago), but I only captured the last 2/3 of it. And my VCR died 4 years ago. So I haven't even thought of it in a long time. At one time I even emailed the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood production company to try to get a copy--to no avail.

It didn't occur to me until this morning that someone must have posted it on youtube by now. So here it is, in three parts. Enjoy, but please don't write a lengthy appreciation of it--that's something I've been wanting to do for years. It's mine.