swim

My boyfriend's fish!

fly

This is a music box. The birds move with the inside mechanism because they have magnets on their backsides. Magnets on your butt!

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There is a train that runs alongside the bike path I take to school every day.

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Okay so the bedroom is the bird room now. I've got 6 framed drawings of birds, birds at the birdfeeder curtains that I made, and some big fake crows up on a shelf. I want more bird stuff but it has to be representational - I think it's more weird that way. (Yeah, I know it's weird to want a weird bedroom but it's the only room that's totally mine and I wanted to try out this idea that birds, en masse, are creepy. Just one bird? Cute! But a lot of birds? Get outta here!)

Anyway, the drinking bird (below) is the star of the bedroom even though she is not representational. But she's allowed because she's got chutzpah! She's the life of the party. But she's always thirsty! We cater to her every need. We are slaves to the drinking bird, we are.

mnftiu

David Rees is awesome.

choose

The following video documents a phenomenon which happens to be the very best thing about the town where I live. It is. I don't care what anybody says.

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I love you but you need to remove the John Kerry sticker from your car.

We all failed to mobilize more people around John Kerry and the Democrats. Obviously, this is one of the reasons we lost. This nostalgia for a different course of events in 2004, while understandable, is not helpful because it prevents us from seeking clarity about who we are and what we want. And, by the way, what we want is more than "not Bush" or "not the neo-Cons". What in the heck is our vision?

Here are some instructions on how to remove a bumper sticker from your car.

Make your own bumper sticker to inspire change. If it applies to the 2006 elections, great. But it certainly doesn't have to.

Buy sheets of vinyl that you can use in just about any printer. Use Word to make your stickers (make the font big) if you want or go for Adobe Illustrator if you are fancy. Know that colors tend to fade on home made stickers unless you use a sealant. (Just plain old black and white will do fine for a while without sealant though.) Then load up your printer, print them out, cut them out, and put them on your car.

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Seasons Greetings

John designed this graphic using stuff he found on the internet, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Some of our friends got a holiday card from us with this printed on the front. Some had blue glitter. It was fun to put the glitter on them but I noticed it was all coming off when I put them in the envelopes. Sorry about that, glitter!

It's Byron Allen of "Kickin' it With Byron Allen" which is "Fast... Fresh... Funny... And always entertaining." Oh god. Shoot me. That's just insane because obviously he is a squid in real life! I thought everyone knew that!