theology&geometry

I’m having another Hum attack. I am always bewildered by how many people my age have never heard of this band. My high school years ticked along mostly to a soundtrack of Hum, Radiohead, and Pearl Jam. And, foreshadowingly enough, Al Green.

I am behind on replying to comments and, I’ll be honest, some of that is intentional because I am reluctant to revisit some of the more painful things I’ve written here lately, but I want to say this to all of you who have reached out to me: Thank you. Thank you so very much. The positive energy you send in my direction makes a marked difference in my life and I will never be able to articulate just how precious that is to me. The internet can be such a cesspool of awfulness but then you all make it a source of strength for me. I’m so grateful to be connected to you in whatever ways I can be and please know that I am sending the best of thoughts to all of you as well.

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Oh, you sassy hot lips turtlehead. Your name makes me laugh and your face … well … makes me laugh too.

Can you just imagine: Being deep inside the earth and learning that your way out had failed, thinking you were going to die down there in the darkness while the usable air just disappeared all around you, and then, to the amazement and delight of the entire world, one day being brought to the surface to see your friends and family again? To get that kind of second chance?

Finally, after wanting to do so for a long time and just never really being able to pull the trigger on it, I’ve opened an Etsy shop. Right now there are photo prints available as well as one framed collage-type item, but I’m busting ass to add more things that, hopefully, people will want to buy. Eventually I want to add customizable stationery designs, but that’s going to take some time since the few designs I had started prototyping disappeared in the Great Hard Drive Crash of Aught Ten (Back Up Your Files, Please). Still, I’m excited about the possibilities and having fun figuring out how to set up the shop and price and market stuff (and reading about self-employment taxes, whee!). I’ve got lots of little creative projects kicking around in my head lately and it feels good to be working on things again after a museless (but still really awesome) summer.

So please mosey on over to the shop and have a look. You tried and true Etsy buyers and sellers may have tips for me. I’m all ears. And forehead. But ears too.

Open shower curtain, spray Clorox Cleanup blindly, yell “CLEAN THYSELF!”, leave.

He’s never going to vote for your stupid ordinance!

I’ve got one more pumpkin and only half an idea what to do with him.

I may never top last year’s Ryburn-o-Lantern, but at least my porch is looking all festive and snazzy.

Previous jack-o-lanterns: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004

INSTA-EDIT: Uhhhh, can anyone else see a face in the shadow of that uncarved pumpkin up there? Uhhhhh.

INSTA-EDIT ADDITION: Is that Anthony Keidis?!

I made this a long time ago but I figure it’s always a good time to remind people to join the club.

There was, apparently, lantana here under the ground before I moved in. It has popped up in yellow and pink alongside the things I added. A nice surprise for once.