Saturday 6 February '10
For friends and family
… and especially my oldest friend Bronny. I really just wanted to say thanks for your thoughtful responses of support, whether it be concern or happiness for me. more…
Delicious Morsels
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Two kittens crossing a busy highway
Smoky, your description cracked me up, but I had to agree and so this post was irresistibly named because of you.
This is our safety place.
more…
Friday 5 February '10
Not just coffee at Folsom Street Coffee
So I’m working from a coffee shop here in Boulder Colorado, minding my own business for the most part. I noticed two unavoidable things. The guys in Boulder are very forward in a fixed-starey way, they make things pretty obvious. I realised early on that my usual response of laughing invites the next step and so I snuffle it, which is hard, because seriously those stares are so unsexy its hilarious. There have also been a few weirdos in the coffee shop today. This one was my favourite:
A guy swaggers in with large loping steps, very expensive European urban styling, his long scarf swooshing as he does a very affected walk. He is speaking very loudly in a booming important voice to himself, as if he is on Bluetooth, every now and then with jazz hands. He sits down for an hour with his coffee and proceeds to talk about every person he sees in the room including myself, in-between very important business-sounding discussions. The point I turned and realised he wasn’t wearing Bluetooth was when he announced, “Oh!! Do you want to see a magic trick? OK!” and proceeded to do the magic trick with jazz hands, to much applause on the other end of the imaginary phone.
I’m not getting much work done, but at least its entertaining.
Wednesday 3 February '10
Joseph, stirred, straight up with a twist
Before you read on, I should warn you that I reveal something a little shocking towards the end, though none of it is coincidental.
This morning I woke up 2 miles above sea level, toasty from nose to toes, in a snow covered log cabin, under a mountain of chocolate labradors and layers and layers of sumptuous thrift-store bedding. The pellet stove crackling in the next room beaconing me out of bed to make a healthy, tasty breakfast from the freshly stocked fridge. Life out here is unbelievably idyllic, even more so, and even simpler than the life I temporarily left out in the remote Chihuahuan desert.
I touched down in Colorado a little over 48 hours ago. As I made my way to the baggage claim Joseph texted me that he was incredibly nervous to meet me. I felt completely unreal, dazed, my belly all twisty with excitement as I walked off the plane. more…
Monday 1 February '10
Be You. Be Loved
“That’s what real love amounts to — letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending, performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act.”
~ Jim Morrison
Treat Me Like Your Mother
Don’t act like you can’t act
Stand up like a man
You better learn to shake hands
Treat me like your mother
Come on look me in the eye
You wanna try to tell a lie
I’ll bet you can’t and you know why?
I’m just like your mother
Friday 29 January '10
Are You Awake?
“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
~ Jim Morrison
Kinetische Skulptur – BMW Museum, München
A beautifully hypnotic, moving sculpture. sexxxy mmmmmmmmathematics.
Thanks Melissa!
Wednesday 27 January '10
Honeymoon
This really brings back some strange feelings from the past.
In Transition
This year I plan to roadtrip as much as possible via CraigsList Ride Shares. All the pleasure of a roadtrip with none of the footprint guilt – that vehicle was going anyway, with my butt in it or not. Plus Id get to meet new people along the way and get hooked up with randomly awesome, unforseen scenarios that make a trip unforgettable. So when I found this guys site I was enthralled! He’s taking it the max. Well, max in that its a non-stop roadtrip. This is so easily doable, and so I am rubbing where my beardy beard would be and thinking about it…
LivingCraigslist
One mans mission to live in 3 cities for 3 months, using only craigslist.
Date: 2009-12-27, 6:30PM
America/Los_Angeles
“I am very much in a transitional stage. But then, my whole life is in limbo. Aside from living out of a suitcase and sleeping in three towns in four days, I have racked up 730-miles, stopping for bathrooms, of sort, food, coffee and sleep. Life is very much on the road.”
Tuesday 26 January '10
Peruvian Dream
Here’s a peek into a big travel dream of mine for this year…
More to come..
Catching My Tailspin
What’s up with that? Where do I get this INSANE sense of URGENCY from? I feel like I only have 2 years left or something. Oh these plans for the next two years keep going around and around in circles in my head, I freak out about when I’m going to get it all done, how I haven’t been back to Cape Town in 10 years, how I’m going to save up enough to do the Appalachian Trail next year, get access to a chiropractor to fix my back… Late last night I was online chatting to my best friend Joseph, going on and on about this and that, trying to figure out where I’m going to settle for a few months to grow my garden, how I’m going to schedule and plan my garden’s seasons around all my travel plans just for this year, knowing the garden needs to be more of a priority as it will pay for all this travel. And its my first garden so I need to focus on it but if it goes too long it could tie me down… blah blah… fret, worry blah. Brain fart.
He just listened for ages. Nothing seems to rush him into a fluster, not even when I’m freaking out. more…
Demi Moore Before and After Photoshop
Ugh! She looks so much hotter without being covered in a layer of luminous plastic. This is the kind of crap so many guys and women buy into, a look no-one can achieve. Finding volumes of this sort of stuff online used to make me laugh at the unbelievable gall but these days I’m really just tired of it. We are all so lied to and all buy into it without even realising how insidiously it has crept in and reprogrammed even the best of us. The media is relentless and keeps us in a state of perpetual unhappiness with our bodies and everything we have. Its so twisted.
Saturday 23 January '10
RIP little Large
I wish I could have been there to say goodbye to you :(
At least Small and Meeds got to. I miss your fat little baby seal bod. I miss how you always fell asleep in the food bowl, smiling, with unchewed food still in your mouth. I miss your sweet, cheerful, always hopeful nature. I miss your scaredy cat crab-walk and big baldy eyes. I miss holding you upside down. I will never forget you, my baby. more…
South African Police Pursuit
Ohhhkay… so this is why I NEVER left the house or even moved a muscle when armed response were patrolling my property. Half of me wanted the intruder caught so he’d never come back, the other half was really scared for him and hoped he’d get away…
Thanks Ken!
Wednesday 20 January '10
Etsy Love
A few Etsy faves… don’t buy my faves unless they’re for me! hee hee
