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Monthly Archives: November 2004

Strike Me Down

These are some of the blog entries that I’ve bookmarked in the “struck me” folder that I’ve been keeping off and on since March…

December 2004 Print Calendar

Your Beans for Breakfast Print Calendar for December is here. Print it out and pin it up…

Ash

My family stopped at a park or a rest area somewhere for lunch and my mom went off to gather Mt. St. Helens ash from the shoulder of the highway…

We Don’t Want Your Nuts

We were just walking out the door, and the squirrel was foraging in the little patch of landscaping past the mailboxes. The squirrel would have gone unnoticed, but it jerked into motion just as we walked past. It spiraled down the tree trunk and scrambled across the ground, disturbing a flurry of leaves. [...]

Hopkin Found

Mike Whybark has brought some closure to the Hopkin Green Frog story.

It’s the Alternator

My car stalled out in the middle of an intersection after limping up the steepest part of the hill, through five lights, and around three turns with a failing battery. (I avoided signaling the turnes.) Two short pushes landed the car in an illegal parking space that was marked poorly enough that I [...]

Do You Realize?

New rule: Whenever I hear The Flaming Lips’ song, Do You Realize?, I’ll stop and make a note of what’s happening.
I’m at Bauhaus avoiding working on the NaNoWriMo novel. All but two people in the upstairs area are working on laptops. Both are women in their early twenties. One is wearing plastic [...]

Hopkin: Still Lost

These photocopied “Lost Frog” fliers turn up infrequently in different neighborhoods around Seattle. The two or three times that I’ve seen them, they’ve left me confused. These posters are more disorienting than an impossibly positioned Cold K tag.
The web got ahold of the flier two weeks ago, and it’s been circulating among different [...]

Why

There’s a guy sitting at the window-facing counter at Top Pot. He keeps swearing and stumbling around, shuffling papers and spilling coffee. He only calls attention to himself occasionally, so he hasn’t been a nuisance. He’s talking to someone on his cell phone now. He just said, in a sort [...]

Giveaway and Takeaway

John offered to give a free print of one of his photos to the first five people to ask for one. I claimed one, and now I think I’ll pass the deal on. I’ll send out five 8″x10″ prints — one to John and one each to the first four people who ask for one.