I still haven’t had a chance to go buy swimmer’s shampoo but I read a few articles about home remedies so here I sit eating a popsicle with a can of tomato paste in my hair. I smell so yummy and look even better. Hopefully this won’t react with my months-old dye job and turn my hair blue or something.

With all the swimming my hair has become really gross and tangly. I’ve been meaning to get a swimmer’s shampoo but kept forgetting. We were down at the in-laws’ house last night to do more tech support and get Cody a haircut. On a whim I asked Ruth to give me a pretty short cut too.

On the way home we went to the store to get a few things and were going to get yet another disposable camera because we’ve been too lazy to use the 35 mm or get the digital camera hooked up. Cody spotted a 20 dollar digital camera and just had to get that instead of another thirteen dollar disposable one.

Pika posted some photos from her trip to the New Mexico State Fair including the toe ring tent.

You are the Justice card. Justice preserves the harmony of the world. Working with opposite forces, Justice does not seek to criticize or condemn but rather to accept. The idea behind the card justice is that opposite forces are complementary; you could not have good without evil or light without darkness. Justice’s position is to make sure that if a thing is out of balance, the weight of its energy is realigned with its opposite force. This card is also a card of humour, for it is in pointing out contrary positions that humour is often found. The attitude that is found in the humourous person, being able to shift perspective and flow with an instinct, is important in the maintenance of good balance.

Image from The Blue Moon Tarot Deck.

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found at motor city bad kitty

Greenskeepers

The night is very cold
I’m feeling kind of weak.

It rubs the lotion on its skin.
Or else it gets the hose again.

snagged from waxy

was not as bad as I expected it to be. It’s always a love or hate thing for me with Cohen brother movies. LOVED Fargo (hon? prowler needs a jump) and The Hudsucker Proxy - didn’t like Blood Simple or The Big Lebowski much. Still haven’t seen Miller’s Crossing or Barton Fink in their entirety. O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Raising Arizona, well, they were genius in their own not quite true about the part of the world they’re set in but damn good nonetheless ways - guess the same could be said about Fargo but I’ve never been there.

So I was surprised that I enjoyed Intolerable Cruelty as much as I did. The plot was so-so but some of the dialogue was incredibly funny. Especially in the first 45 minutes. Love that 1930s comedy rattattat rhythm - think Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday - where you *really* have to listen to what they’re saying. And shockingly Clooney and Zeta-Jones pulled it off.

I’ve never been a big fan of George Clooney really. I don’t usually like my men that chiseled and tanned. I’d heard vague things about his politics that I liked but that was pretty much all the thought I’d given him. But he seems to *get* the Cohens’ humor and express it fairly well. They seem to like giving him a weird-ass narcissistic physical obsession though - his over fop-ed hair in Oh Brother and blinding pearly whites in this one. Kind of an oversimplified way to create a character but I like watching the man act like a goofball it makes him human. Dare I say like Cary Grant with his vaudeville background?

So turn me over and paint my ass blue, folks, I’m as shocked as you are but I kind of enjoyed it.

I’m thinking about rejoining netflix. We used it when it first started but canceled it because we usually only ended up watching about three dvds a month between my lazy ass and the postal service. But there have been some releases lately that I’ve wanted to see without buying them and I hate to bum a ride just to go rent a video.

Excite News

Article about Johnny’s partisanship.

For every family of Baldwins there’s a Stephen, right?

But, hey, I can forgive him being a right wing mutherfucker. He was smart enough to help start one of the world’s best bands. But hanging out with Vincent Gallo? That’s just nasty.

Ramones - My Brain is Hangin Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitsburg)
Ramones - Chinese Rock
Like em? Buy the album

This is interesting..

Rosemarie Fiore rides the whirligig and plays pinball - and turns the experience into art. Cool.

Pop art, motion theory, spirography, and amusement park pop psychology.

Rosemarie Fiore
Documentation of the artist playing pinball and creating a painting
Evel Knievel pinball maching, oil on vellum
2001

and I can’t resist quoting this-

Show a kid a real hedgehog and, believe me, they’d be charmed. Take it from someone who’s done it with the most world-weary cynical little teenagers you’ve ever seen They cannot resist the weird cuteness of the hedgehog.

1. What year was the best year of your life?
1997

2. One animal or insect that Noah should have left off the ark?
the hissing cockroach

3. Do you make a wish before blowing out your birthday candles?
Yep

4. Do you generally open your bills on the day that you receive them?
not usually

5. How many pillows are on your bed?
about eight I think - two king sizes, four standard sizes, and two or three old squished pillows

6. Favorite ice cream flavor?
coldstone cake batter

7. What is the most dominate color in your wardrobe?
black, grey, white, and khaki I’m not very creative with clothes

8. Have you ever seen a ghost?
a few

9. Would you rather go to a carnival or circus?
carnival

10. Favorite meal: breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
breakfast

11. Your favorite fictional animal?
happy bunny

12. Have you ever flown first-class?
yes a few times

13. Would you go on a reality show?
not for under two million dollars

14. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic about the future?
depends on the day

15. Pancakes or waffles?
waffles

16. If you could own a home anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Tuscany or Manly again

17. Your favorite Soup of the Day?
green chile chicken enchilada soup

18. What site is a must see for all visitors to your city?
sandia mountain - heh can’t miss it

19. Can you recommend a good restaurant in your city?
to me the definitive new mexican restaurant is in this small town south of albuquerque called Teofilos.

20. You go to the zoo; what is the one animal that you want to see?
sea lions

21. Potatoes, rice, or pasta; Which is your favorite?
pasta

22. What is the best movie that you’ve seen this year?
Love Actually was pretty good. And Under the Tuscan Sun was quite nice for several reasons. Yeah. Girly flicks.

23. One of your favorite books when you were a child?
No flying in the house

24. What in your life are you most grateful for?
Mr Man. My parents and sister.

25. You are home alone and use the bathroom; do you close the door?
No I don’t like upsetting the dog

26. What is your favorite small appliance?
my shiny cordless kettle

27. Salty snacks or sweet treats?
salty!

28. Are you usually a little early, a little late, or right on time?
a little early

29. What is the most daring thing that you have ever done?
I’ve slept in a homeless shelter for teenagers in new orleans. Long, long story

30. Have you ever met someone famous?
Rudolph Nureyev who was very charming

31. What was one of your favorite games as a child?
house

32. At what age have you looked your best?
Depends on what you mean by best - the most attractive by magazine standards was about fifteen-sixteen. Most attractive in a natural way - my early twenties. Now I’m usually just well dressed and kind of blobby.

33. One person that never fails to make you laugh?
jon stewart

34. What was the first music that you ever bought?
Duran Duran - Rio

35. If you could change one thing about your family life when you were a child, what would it be?
Dad being home more and not being so stressed about work. Me not being a whiny little shit.

36. What is the one thing that you cook that always receives compliments?
green chile chicken soup. I never use the same ingredients but it always turns out well.

37. From what news source do you receive the bulk of your news?
the Daily Show and fellow weblogs

38. In the last calendar year, how many people have you told that you love them?
five? I think?

39. Who received your first kiss?
good lord I have no idea. I *think* it was a son or nephew of one of Dad’s friends from work at a barbecue.

40. The single most important quality in a mate?
genuine affection

41. What do you value most in a relationship?
honesty and humor

49. Do you believe in an afterlife?
sometimes

50. What would you like to accomplish with the remaining years of your life?
just being a good person and trying to have fun

Fun things we did today

Walked around and saw all kinds of cool Hispanic religious art and Native American art - including a nice piece by little John’s dad we have a kitchen saint retablo of his