Archive for December, 2008
So I’m up in Kansas hanging out with Granny at the nursing home. They had beets at lunch the other day and we got talking about a day that I was visiting for the summer and helped her harvest the beets from her garden. And I remembered I had recently scanned the above picture from that day.
As you can tell by the smile on my face, this was BEFORE I had actually TRIED a beet.
Cleaning up the hard drive on my ailing MacBook Pro I found another previously unprocessed gem.
I took this photo facing East from my room on the top floor of the Embassy Suites in Hot Springs where I was staying for a convention I was working. I actually spent the first day of the show passed out in that room instead of on the convention floor thanks to a horrible flu-like bug. The second day I woke feeling remarkably better and greeted by this sight.
What a difference a day makes, eh?
I just wish the window had been cleaner…
(Much better viewed BIG ON BLACK)
Oh, and for those who are counting, it’s 2oF in Kansas right now.
I’m about halfway through reading Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates
Oh, and the book is fantastic. It’s about Puritans. Not the ones who were on the Mayflower or the ones who burned witches. Just your regular old, run of the mill John Winthrop style of Puritan. Not that any Puritans could really be run of the mill. Anyway, I highly recommend it.
I loved this old boombox. Dual cassette decks with high-speed dubbing. I’d stay up late into the night recording songs I liked off the radio. (Back when they played more than a handful of songs each day.) I still have a big box of those old mix tapes in my music room. I need to dub a few of them over to MP3, because I really did have some great stuff.
The mix tape is a dying, and subtle art. Many do’s and don’ts. First of all, you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel. This is a delicate thing … There are a lot of rules.
I searched around for a video that I love which explains this, but I couldn’t find it on the old YouTubes. This is as close as I could get:
Anyway, back to the picture. There are a few other little nostalgic nuggets worth pointing out.
- Notice the rollerskating bear in Santa garb. Classic late 80s kitsch.
- That Auburn Tigers cap was a mainstay in my collection well into high school when it was no longer close to white and probably supported an ecosystem of its own under the brim. I now occasionally wear a similar “Cotton Bowl Champs” variant. But it’s much cleaner.
- Those golf balls were likely all lost by March.
- The most sure-fire way to date this photo is probably the “fiber optic” tree sitting on top of the cable box.
Jesus is my sommelier
Dec 13
Inspired by a bit of wit in a conversation this afternoon, I’ve created a blasphemously fun t-shirt I thought I’d share.
Get it HERE.
OK, so it’s taken me a month to post any more pictures from the fall races at TMS. I know I’ve been delinquent in that regard. Actually, I haven’t blogged at all since the races, have I?
I’m sorry. I’ve had a lot going on. A couple of trips, a holiday, all sorts of business. I’m sorry for that. I’ll try to be better in the future. And Nostalgia Tuesday will return soon, I promise.
Anyway, I spent a couple of hours tinkering with pictures from the Craftsman Truck race, so here are those. I’ll get to the other two races as soon as I can. (Most likely next week.)
Overall, I’m not nearly as happy with these as I am with the shots from the Nationwide Series race on Saturday or the Cup race on Sunday. I was using a lens I hadn’t tried before and it took me a day or so to get comfortable with it. Also, I’ve learned I simply don’t have the gear to shoot the night races properly. (Or at least how I feel it should be done.) If anyone wants to send me a new Canon 5D Mark II and a massive f/4 or lower L series lens I promise I’ll do better next time…