Month: December 2010

Which means I can write all day and night. Or, all day at least. Okay, maybe for a minute before I watch Buffy reruns until I pass out. No, shut up! Don’t do that!!

I am this close to giving up on our government. All of them. It’s just beyond insane. Not repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Come on. Is this how you want to be remembered by history? You do know you’re like the guys fighting until the bitter end to keep slavery? You are George Wallace standing in front the school house doors, preventing black children from entering. You threw things at the women marching around the country demanding the right to vote. And refusing to vote on the 9/11 health bill because giving tax breaks to those who are doing better than any of us is your priority? How did we get here? And where is your Christmas spirit??

I want every one of you to watch every version of A Christmas Carol repeatedly until you understand the message.

Light pretty. (I took this walking home from the library the other day.)

I’m going back up to the library this afternoon, I forgot a few things. (Ah, aging.) I took this picture of one of the windows my friends Marianne Petit and Matthew Belanger did for the library branch across the street, at 40th and 5th. Information about their windows follows the picture. (Yeah, that’s me. Look how long my fingers are, what a freak.)

Ada’s Shop explores the world and work of Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), the daughter of Lord Byron, who is recognized today as the first computer programmer. If you bring your phone you can listen to excerpts from her notes and correspondence with Charles Babbage as well as activate things that spin.

Ada’s Shop will be up from December 1st, 2010 through January 3rd, 2011 and is on view both day and night. There will be an artist dialog on Saturday December 18th at 2:30 pm.

The video is by Daniel Houghton and it’s for the song Third of Life from the band A Weather. The album is called Everyday Balloons. I just watched it again. Almost cried.

I clearly can’t pass up taking a picture of a pack of dogs.

So, I’ve started the next chapter of my book … late. I was supposed to start on December 1st, and the goal is a chapter a month so I now have less than three weeks for this one. The race is on! Chapter—you’re going down. No, I kid. I love you chapter.

Oh right, Tuesday. I’m going up to the Met today because my choir sang there twice (I did it once) and I want to describe the room we sang in. I’m in such a good mood now, I love going up there. My plan is to get up there early and walk back. It’s in the 80’s at 5th so that will count as my exercise for the day (I’m a few blocks west and 70 blocks down).

This is the view from my friend Peter’s apartment. (Lucky Peter, right?? Also lucky me because I get to visit AND Peter is a fabulous cook.)