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I felt terrible. He crashed into my window and I’m sure it’s my fault for loving clean windows. He hung out here for a while before flying away, so I’m telling myself he’s fine. He was just stunned.
I tried to look up what kind of bird he is, and he looks kinda vireo (never heard of that) and kinda warbler, but I couldn’t find a bird with that yellow stripe on his head. Oh, I think I found himâmaybe he’s a Golden-crowned kinglet!
On Tuesday night I’m participating in a panel about singing in public. Apparently, in addition to talking about singing, actual singing will be involved. I have explained that in order for me to sing in public I need to be surrounded by around 100 people who are hiding me, so we shall see.
My terror aside, this should be pretty cool, and it’s FREE. The other people on the panel are John Brophy, and I’m guessing he will be leading the singing portion of the evening. He’s a KJ working out of Portland, and I’ve read about the kind of work he does (AWESOME).
Also on the panel are Slate culture blogger Aisha Harris and Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield, who also has a new book, Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals Of Love & Karaoke.
The panel is being moderated by Dan Kois, a senior editor in Slate’s culture department, and editor of the Slate Book Review, he also writes for a million impressive newspapers and magazines and websites, and he wrote Facing Future, a book about the late Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.
A sad Halloween sign. This was in the yard with the scary girl on the swing though, so no one cared. They were fixed on the awesome set-up.
The Tardis now has a Dalek lurking beneath it AND that scary girl on the swing??? Check out my short movie below. She’s the third stop in. Beyond belief. I was blown away before, now I am speechless. You’ll see.
The picture after the movie is of the women who made the Dalek. She’s at the bottom right. I’m trying to find out her name and will post it when I have it. But her husband, Daniel Neiden, made the Tardis. He’s a composer, writer, producer, actor. She is a set designer. Thank you to Di Margolin for alerting to me to the Dalek!
My friend Howard Mittelmark has a new story in The Awl today, titled A Scary Halloween Story. Enjoy! (I love The Awl, so I think it’s cool to get a story published there. I’m jealous of my friend Howard now. Must let loose some spiders in his apartment or something.)
Here is a not-so-scary, actually kinda cute Halloween spider.
After the crashed Tardis, of course. But I was just bemoaning the fact people in my neighborhood didn’t seem to be making as much of an effort with Halloween decorations this year when I came across this. Update: That little girl on the swing got even better. Another scary little girl below …
I mean, come on. Have you ever seen better Halloween decorations?? These were both within a block of each other. Thank you whoever is responsible for them. You are awesome.
