tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73203503583290056802011-12-16T22:36:36.117-08:00rustication - rain - river - rails - road - rock&rollMeow Blah IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16970977700390050619noreply@blogger.comBlogger3461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320350358329005680.post-4052371259778776192011-12-16T21:54:00.000-08:002011-12-16T21:54:52.135-08:00

Well, i might be clearer than mud on this one ... or it might just be winter solstice. But i want to drink. There is too much energy in the air not to. Not my energy. Not this time. But i resonate like an open string. You know what I mean. We're building a studio so I can vent this without killing. Anyone Anything.  For now....steam - punk. Channel it on the edge.  Rock -n-Roll;

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Cranky again.......that stuck, unproductive feeling.......My two personal spaces (trailer/cabin)  reflect the ongoing war inside me - the quiet spacious natural simplicity of Japanese wabi-sabi vs. the crammed-with-pretties hippie/gypsy wagon exuberant explosion of color and texture....... i guess this is why neither space is finished or being used as intended. Just now -  New idea --- make the

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http://oneroomlife.blogspot.com/2011/11/tyranny-of-stuff-ho-ho-ho.html

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1. Laura Ingalls - (Little House  series) 2. Ramona Quimby - (Beverly Cleary's series books) 3. Francie Nolan ( A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) 4. Katie John Tucker  (Katie John) 5. Jeanette Walls (The Glass Castle) 6. Menolly  (Anne McCaffrey's "Pern" books) 7. Carrie White (Carrie) 8. the unnamed Black girl character who has to stay with the white Mallory family (The Almost Year)

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 Jemaine Clement, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Laura Love,  Arlene the Cat ......and many more including lil ol nonfamous me... . Called all kinds of names and teased for funky gappy, big teeth, i reflexively covered my teeth when i smiled, ....even as I was attracted to guys with gaps.  Now it's in style. Oh puhleeze...... http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-

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....like a drunken clown on acid. Mein Gott, I am this old, this high, this many turns, and I grok and know my cyclical nature, enough to know that I cannot really ever control it, even with the little blue and white pills and all the willpower i think I ought to have. Difference is, now i don't feel like a defective for my differences. rather a detective on a dangerous mission..... the pills are

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Fall mania mania mania mania mania mania mania  mania mania mania mania mania mania.................... dear god let me not fuck up.

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I'm so sorry for ignoring you guys. The Facebook universe glitter has had me sucked in to the extent of my attention span for written words, but I'm edging back into the blogoverse, i have too much to say. Sure, I'm still on FB, it's a good place to keep in touch with my 147 fans/friends/family members, but I can't really let the shit out over there, dig? But, if they DO find their way over here,

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..... are catching up to me again. Sleep all afternoon, stay awake all night. I need gigs to justify this sort of aberration . :)

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Cool lyrics from Medium Troy, i can't help but sing it when the sun comes out. The only cemetery close by is McEnroe's grave, maybe I'll go blow a bowl for Pat before the FedEx truck gets here with my new used bass. So life is good. It has it's bumps and notches and washboards and cliffs, but the road leads ever on, and there are gigs out there waiting to snare us, with all the attendant hazards

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livin' on the edge on the inside never know what the weather might be today-yay-yay-hey-hey. Should i leave this damn blog up once and for all and start using it again, or should i start over somewhere else because too many people know me here and i might say something racy and delectable?

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, music, 

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TR Kelley on bass, Frank's place - Mapleton Oregon. Feb 2011. Kate Harnedy photo.

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Anya Lecuyer and TR Kelley of Clown Dancer, 2/6/11 @ Sam Bond's Garage, Eugene OR. Photography by Kate Harnedy.

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B&W photo: Older woman in hair curlers androgynous work clothes and canvas sneakers tending a wood stove with a tea-kettle on top. Behind her, a Singer treadle sewing machine stacked with four guitar cases. This is my great Aunt Ollie, sometime in the early 1970s. She didn't seem to like me very much for some reason, but I secretly admired her toughness, brashness, unfemininity and practical

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Collectors call them Crown Jewels of the Wire. Kids call them targets. I love the way sun looks through heavy round glass. How many voices, volts, dots & dashes,  passed over these little glass cones and domes? Do they remember, somehow, those vibrations ethereally encoded in the scoops of collet and silica slag and manganese made so long ago, reliquaries slowly purpling in the sun? I found

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FEBRUARY 6th - 2011 - Sam Bond's Garage hosts Deadwood's newest band, Clown Dancer, with Eugene favorites Mood Area 52 for a night of merriment and music in support of KindTree - Autism Rocks. Clown Dancer is centered on the songwriting team of Anya Lecuyer (vocals) and Brian Hodgson (guitar and vocals), joined by TR Kelley on bass and "RH+" on drums. These tricksters of tone play a danceable mix

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Life without the little blue life-raft, day 8 on land after 16 months adrift in a squishy soft forgetful placid blue sea..... I am having very intensely weird dreams, sleeping strange hours, having blasts of anxiety, cold sweats and episodes of seeing God in 3-D theater surround sound. This is your brain cleaning out from doctor-approved pharmaceuticals. Scream! Kick! Drink! Have STRANGE thoughts

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Wet chickens appreciate wood heat and radiant bricks as much as cats, dogs and humans. We're in the middle of a long set of very rainy days right now. We may decide to supplementally feed them, it's just too soggy to forage and all the worms drowned.

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{Peeks head around corner to see if there are any faithful readers lurking .....} Shit. I knew when i made snide comments about "blocked writers" a few months ago that I would have to pay for my smugness. But it's deeper than that. It's been months since i kept any sort of regular blogging or discussion group web presence.  Sure, I could point to Facebook and say that my urge to share with words

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Great News! Ari Ne'eman (autistic activist) was appointed by President Obama to the National Council on Disability (NCD), a panel that advises the President and Congress on ways of reforming health care, schools, support services and employment policy to make society more equitable for people with all forms of disability. And then, far away in a comment section somewhere in the Facebook universe

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Well here I am on the radio again. Much as i thought i might make a good on-air host, I really do my better work on the other side of the desk, behind a guitar. I might get better at reading the weather someday, but for now, they play my records. So so so much thanks to KLCC for letting me try all the wonderful world of radio options over the years. This time,  thanks to Dan Plaster and the Porch

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Yes, it's that time of year to drink holiday beer and share LeisureLand  artistic cheer. Act Now! For only a few weeks, these songs are available for free download. Burn a copy to share with your friends! We made it in 2009 right here at Holeintheroof studio and it's still  frosty-crispy-cool and rainforest fresh and perfect for holiday gift-giving and other stuff. Here's the rundown do you can

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"Honey the clowns you hired for the birthday party are here. And they're hungry."

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The very last puffula tree of them all. Makes me feel like putting on a barbaloot suit. The Once-ler thinks it's snergelly and gruvuulous. Do you need a Thneed?

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This little brown Americauna hen had not fully completed her yearly feather moult when the cold rain and snowy weather hit. Her inner fluffy down got wet and she was chilled. This can be very bad news for a chicken. A straw-filled laundry basket with a cat-proof cover and attentive humans, and the bird is back with the flock today. We'll keep a closer eye on her/precipitation till all the

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Today we packed up the show, Clown Dancer - the new album in progress, and went back to our funky clown shacks in Deadwood and Swisshome. We all would have liked to stay longer, but the owner had the place reserved for Thanksgiving and besides, there are other chores needing done on our farms. Got lots of good work done, the whole trip was a success on many levels. Back home with the snow, the

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I never win at poker and can't remember all the Tarot card meanings.... These are bass string envelopes. New strings on the SX Jazz, Rotosound Swing 66 shorties, light gauge, made in the U.K. I like England. I like the smell of new strings. I love nice crisp envelopes and playing cards and resume paper and new dollar bills. The Clowns are in the studio room working on some really fiddly details

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This is not a recommended breakfast, even if you are a clown. Amanita muscaria makes reindeer fly and Siberian shamans see God. It makes uninformed but curious white kids in search of a high time very sick. It grows out here on the coast like dandelions. OK, now off to find some real breakfast before the day's recording starts.

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Clown Brian kindly offering me a way to clean up my act.... or at least get the decade+ of fingerprints off the glossy black Zon bass. Our favorite string retailer sends presents to regular customers. I've only ever gotten little packets of promotional picks, which are too light for any of my instruments or styles anyway. I could really use a cleaning and polishing cloth. Or maybe some pint

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This is the view from our front window this morning. The rainbow is an extra special bonus. Going to be a good day to get some tracks down. Where's my bass? Where's my tea? Where's the engineer?

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Stay tuned.Literally. New strings and the damp coastal climate means that tuning is a fidgety thing today. Lots of slappy poppy funk stretched them into shape, finger-ease and popcorn grease take the zzzzzzing off. Tomorrow we'll get some of that buttery funk into the mix.Break for dinner, hit a few more. But the new environment and intense focus takes the sparkle off. Time for cookies and milk.

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RH defragging the Yamaha AW recorder hard disk in preparation for recording. Morning: A storm is blustering outside the window as i (the bass player) sit and drink hot tea. The guitarist and drummer are working on fixing some delicate piece of gear, the vocalist is meditating. Gotta make a run down to the store for fresh veggies, microwave popcorn and, of course, more beverages. We're psyched

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  Well, yeah, long time no write. No apologies. Art is not eternal or predictable. Now that it's winter, it's time to start drinking more caffeine, wearing wool and writing. It's a time-honored Northwest thing. So I'm in a new band. We've had a few small gigs, but haven't really launched yet, so no spiffy links to send you to. I'll not even tell you the name just yet. There are four people in the

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Seems like my urge to write has been sucked up by 420 character Facebook sound bites, hours of doctor dictations and the perennial blizzard of instantly lost lists scrawled on bills and junk mail and whatever.... But just add beer and all of a sudden there is an artistic urge, an itch, a need for a guitar or a QWERTY keyboard or an open mike in which to vent. Beware the ides of September. Alaskan

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This coop was built by Me0w Blah from salvage 1x6 lumber and pallets as an outboard accessory to the main coop in the lower field. No measurements were taken but the width of a chicken.

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Boxers? Briefs? Magic Mormon garmies? Some frothy froufrou from the mall? Nahhhhhhh. I Just finished sewing some authentic 1890's ladies' fine cotton drawers; calf-length, gathered to a yoked waistband, back buttoned. How comfy! Great-grandma's secret: Generously overlapping front and back leg pieces hiding a hemmed but open crotch seam. way easier than the salwar Indian pants or scrubs or

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Studying LeFort fractures and facial bones made me remember this..... In the fall of 1967 when I was 5, I calculated that if I just flapped my arms hard and fast enough when diving from a high surface that I would be able to fly just a little way across the living room. When my face hit the Zenith console stereo hard enough to leave dents, I realized that this assumption had been erroneous. My

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1. Don’t buy anything you don’t need. 2. Learn how to tell need apart from want. 3. If he left her for you, he’ll leave you for another. 4. One-sided “love” is obsession and addiction. 5. No other person can make you happy. 6. The only ways to lose weight are eat less and move more. Period. 7. Credit is for real estate purchases, not shoes on sale. 8. A job you hate is a prison sentence that

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As much as I like the idea of having a part-time, culturally enriching, music-scene-digging urban life, the reality just doesn't ever seem to match the idea. Noise. Socialization. Speed. Louder noise. Light. Pervasive electromagnetic hum. The strangling anxiety of unscripted socialization with strangers. Real memories finally block out the vision-wish, remembering the previous 3 times I've

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"Woody Under the Woodstove" 2001 - charcoal and colored pencils on brown paper

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Yeah, ODOT? I'd like to check current road conditions on the information highway. Do I still need studded tires on my laptop? Can I drive down I-5 holding this phone even if I'm not actually talking? Don't tell me where to go, I like paper maps, with cheese dribbles and beverage rings. That GPS unit didn't work well for me at all. No fold lines to follow till you drop off the edge. This

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American small-town values traditionally include thrift, self-sufficiency, neighborliness, support of local and independent business and industry. Today in casual net surfing, I found someone's personal travel site focused on small-town Oregon. I went in to see what they had to say about one of my local towns. The author had taken pictures of the usual quaint stuff, old stores, the bridge, the

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Saturday was a big day for Balthasar and I. We had many errands around the back roads of the county, one of which took us by our old house on Lorane highway. I'd heard it had been abandoned for awhile, and is now for sale. The entire Lorane valley is seen as a desirable place to live; small acreages, large vineyards, "horse property", gentleman's farm-ettes. The average price for a place out

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TRKelley - colored pencil on grocery bag, 1999

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From the Sunday 4/18 Eugene Register Guard story on the local Tea Party; "For tea partier Dane Smith of Springfield, the real culprits are people who “can’t even pick their nose and tie their shoes” — his way of describing people who receive public services. “I’m mad at, I guess you’d say, the socialist change,” he said. “I am not on this planet to give you social services. You’re an alcoholic

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Look at this bungalow! One among zillions lining the streets of the Northeast Portland, all eaves and projections and dormers and pillars and porches and windows. This one has had its original windows removed. This is where i stay when i am in Portland. I sleep in the little room behind the front dormer. The ceiling is a fascinating play of planes and angles done in celery green paint over older

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Urban antidote #7

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I may have more things to rant about in the future, but lately I just simply don't feel like living out loud anymore. Not driven to blog, gig, rant, activate or pontificate. I'm not depressed, quite the opposite. I care, I'm involved, but I've learned where I stop and the world begins. I feel more content and positive than at any time since 1967. There's credibility to the idea of Art springing

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"A life lesson is repeated until learned. It will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. You will know you have learned the lesson when your actions and outlook change."

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The Story of Many Rural Communities: “Dirt roads are too dusty - they should be paved.” “We need curbs and sidewalks here.” “It's too dark here - there should be streetlights.” "Those old cars and tractors should be cleaned up." "Did you hear Jane was hit by a speeding car?" "We need to be on city water, and put sewers in." “People shouldn't keep livestock or chickens here.” “I hear the old

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 Words from David Turnbull, author of Adventures of a Barefoot Geek. There are two challenges that people face when choosing to live a more simpler life: owning little and wanting little. Yet people fuse these challenges together into a larger “live simply” goal. Unfortunately, they’re two different beasts that need to be tamed in their own ways. Owning little requires a practical approach –

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(left: nap couch in my "office" trailer) When I was a kid, I preferred to live in a closet or curtained alcove, leaving the main bedroom empty but for dirty laundry and broken toys. All the good stuff was carefully arranged in the tinier space, with my nest in the middle. Later, I lived in vans, tents and even a cardboard box. Just as frightening, I survived a harrowing bout of consumerism and

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(Thanks to PS, my former political arch-nemesis in US Government Class, for inadvertently reminding me that lessons learned in high school sometimes do last forever. )I always liked A-minor, such a great sounding guitar chord. The way the guy in Kansas finger-picked it was cool beyond belief. I practiced it everyday after school. It takes patience to learn a song by ear from an 8-track tape. In

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Congratulations, Tracie!You've successfully completed the Lane Community College on-line admissions/readmissions process.Within 48 hours you'll receive a second e-mail providing you with your student "L" identification number. If you have already been assigned an "L" number in the past, the one we e-mail you will remain the same. If you do not receive this second e-mail, please contact

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And if a long drive and visit to the doctor wasn't enough fun for one day (additives were tweaked) we topped the night off with a surprise BAR GIG.... a local band that needed a fill-in rhythm section for a last-minute gig and here we are... i played bass, Balthasar on drums, brothers BH on guitar and BH on guitar and A. on vocals, and here we are ripping through a laundry list that includes

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Journalism Wannabe, The Early years:I started on a bigger version of this when i was 5. Mom let me use her Underwood to write letters to my Grandma.deer grama how ar you i am fine it is raneing.This machine is a cross between a pencil and a sewing machine. Everything works. I do need to get after the typefaces with some alcohol and an old toothbrush. The hollow parts of some of the letters are

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Irish-colored fiddling and a raging bonfire? must be the Celtic fire holiday of Bride/Imbolc/Candlemas. OK, also known as Groundhog Day.February is also the birthday month of our Moms.And the kids got home safe from Denver on a plane that did not crash and burn like the one in New York.The woods are not on fire like Australia.Obama is going to sign the stimulus package. "Stimulus" is such a

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Before you go writing for Helium, know all views of the scene; type the words " is Helium a scam" into Google and see for yourself. I'm certainly not putting anything really priceless or artistic up, and not even anything i wrote especially for the site. I'm just doing re-runs; cleaning up old blog entries and random essays. No one is going to get rich or even marginally self-sufficient on this

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Sorry i let the tea get cold there, been off on a voyage, typing on other pages. For fans of my word-slinging, or the wordly arts in general, you may want to go visit Helium. Enter from my home page first, it makes my score go up. :) Explore the rest of the site from there. Information!!! Frighteningly disjunct seas of amateur writing with islands of incredible coherence and meaning. Sound

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State approves $12.6 million loan to buy CORP rail line.By Winston Ross, The Register-GuardPublished: Feb 5, 2009 01:49PMPORTLAND -- The state's economic development arm came to the rescue of the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay on Thursday, approving $12.6 million in loans that will allow the port to buy the 120-mile rail line between Coquille and Eugene.The port was running out of time to

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Balthasar at the Sacramento train station.Back to the dominant reality of my Oregon life. Wake up, feed animals, build fire, listen to NPR, work on computer. But i'm not really back, because i changed while i was gone. Do i feel more like i do now than i did before. :)What do i really feel? I'm not really sure. I brought back fiddles, photos, stories, ideas, impressions, emotions, and lots of

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Here we are in Sacramento California. It seems more orderly and clean than last time i was here. Governor Arnold's doing?Down in old town, here on the Delta King riverboat hotel it's not quite 8 a.m. local time, there are geese honking in the Sacramento river right outside the door, morning sun glittering on the modern glass and steel architectural loveliness on the other side. From the deck

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We're still watching TV. We've been watching TV since 10 this morning, welded to the Inauguration Day festivities, a steady diet of interviews with people who came to Washington for the historic moment, pictures of people of all races and kinds hugging and waving flags and shrieking their joyful lungs out. Here at MB3 temporary headquarters in the Loess Hills of Iowa, the official TV-tearjerker

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Pessimist - My glass is half empty.Optimist - My glass is half full.Cat - It's raining.

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Yes, i too have been inundated with penis enlargement ads on every website, in every browser. Even respectable sites like npr.org were taken over by pop-eyed women fellating light bulbs, etc. Turning off cookies does not help, blocking sites does not help. All browsers are slowing down. Vimax is the Name of the Beast!However slow and clueless i might occasionally be, I am also patient nerd and i

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Today: Areas of blowing snow and a slight chance of snow showers before noon, then areas of blowing snow after noon. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny and cold, with a high near 3. Wind chill values as low as -23. NOAA forecast for 51555But it's BRIGHT here on the western edge of Iowa! Cheerful! Lots of flat horizon and big sky. Friendly people wrapped in layers of wool and sausage.

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"See, I'm totally able to sit behind my keyboard in the comfort of my dark, quiet, familiar home and blah blah into the computer all sorts of advocacy work. But when I have leave my home, go some place new, interact with people face-to-face, things change. I get confused. I dash after shiny things. People talk and I can't keep up or respond. Things can get dangerous. By the time I actually make

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Another sunny winter day in the American heartland, golden, spacious fields, bare trees and singing ribbons of rail carrying tank cars of corn syrup to food factories far away. Not a mountain to be seen. No deep valleys, no rain.I wake up in this little cottage alone with the sun. I truly appreciate and enjoy the indoor toilet and shower. I click the thermostat a notch higher for morning,

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This nugget of wisdom came in my mailbox:"In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running."Well, now what's so hard about that? (slurping tea)

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Another Year of MeowBlah! The possibilities stretch before me like that line of empty Leinie bottles in the kitchen. Balthasar has flown on to Amishland to visit his clan for a week, i remain here in the dry cold of the Loess Hills. The ancestors are restless, the family tree sap is rising. I hear the dusty old bones calling out with stories. Hey, KID! you're here now get to work!Today, i do

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Now, in our quietly understated Northwest snootiness about microbrew culture, we must not forget that beer is a German thing. Unfortunately, the American Midwest is full of German-descended folks who have been slowly trained to think of Bud Lite as actual beer. But not all is lost! Even on the shelves of FoodLand in Missouri Valley, Iowa, with a population that usually consists of more rail-cars

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Your host is still in western Iowa, despite the recently posted chimney video. Today's weather, sunny, mid 30's. Lots of brightness, horizon, dry crisp air. Bare trees, golden corn stubble, remnants of last weeks snow alongside neatly shoveled sidewalks. No moss, clouds, soggy mountains shedding mud & rock landslides, no dark walls of dripping trees, no raging chocolate foamy rivers. No

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It had to happen. And of course we had to make a movie out of it. :)

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Israel is a big nasty bully. Why aren't we kicking their arrogant asses? Why aren't we cutting off their aid? Huh? I was going to link to a story on the latest Mideast stupidness, but the first three Serious News Stories that i clicked on also contained really insulting sidebar ads for penis enlargement pills (women fellating light bulbs?) right along there with the death and destruction. What

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(still at remote location, this is MeowBlah3 reporting from 51555)Uh oh. Look what i got for Christmas. :) I've been joking about staying tuned far too much, so she's given me a challenge. Keep THIS slippery little fretless pioneer torture device in tune ya little smartass! :)My mom is carrying on the tradition of getting me musical instruments for gifts. She also knows by now that stock

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Hines, Oregon. 14 degrees & snowing. After a white-out blizzard-filled jaunt over the Cascades (in which the 4x4 feature was definitely useful) we're comfortably ensconced at the Knotty Pine Motel, which looks just like it sounds, a rustic mom&pop place from the golden age of vacationing. Brother Matt is invigorated from a day of technically demanding driving, his specialty....:) Balthasar & I

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Checking in before i leave for Iowa for a month. The cold snowy local weather lately has been great for testing out my newly purchased cold-weather gear. Fleece, wool, Goretex, waffle weave, etc.....Kudos to Central Lincoln PUD for keeping the outages minimal and the postal carriers for undaunted Christmas deliveries. Keep the woodstove fired up, the critters fed and the beer on the porch, i'll

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Well between the intermittent irritating, power outages, snow piling up on the dish, uncompletable unexecuteable scripts and other crap at blogger, etc, i've not been online much... Right now i'm sitting at my table watching snow flutter down like Santa beating the elves with pillows, or even whole swans..... Brother Matt is on his way out here to get us in the 4x4 sleigh. It figures that the

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OK Mom, you can listen now. (You other folks too if you want.) Do You Hear What I Hear? Brassy yodeling and tambourine-shod camels in the dunes? Click over here on our Raventones site to get your choice of hi-fi streaming, lo-fi streaming, or download for keepsies.

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I'm getting ready to spend a month on the high-plains & bluffs western edge of Iowa, a family reunion of epic depth and chewiness, over Christmas even! First time since 1977. I guess the weather gods think i need a little acclimatization, as if i didn' t remember the minus wind chills and white-out blizzards of my teen years vividly enough!An edited synopsis of uncoming LOCAL rainforest

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Right now this very minute we are in the studio. Balthasar is doing things with the computer and mixing board and i am too manic to sit still and NOT do something creative, so i transferred the pictures he shot while i was tracking some "Genie Guitar", a baritone technique that happens at the intersection of a handblown glass slide, a rectifier amp slightly overdriven, and a delay chorus effect

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Rain just started. Yay! Thank God. Happy fish! That's more like it. :) (drip drip drip)A Lane County Thanksgiving weekend with mild warm dry weather was very very weird. We reminisce and joke about cold snaps, rain "events", windstorms, snow, landslides, water catchment failures, downed trees and/or no electric power on Thanksgiving. Having experienced all of those things, either singly or in

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Another fun interaction between rural and urban. The title of this photo was something like, "Learn the Value of Patience and Wisdom". That's a smart dawg.I like skunks. They eat slugs, termites and yellow-jackets. They get respect from larger predators without shedding blood, they look cool, they always inspire great stories years after the Encounter.(obvious segue into story)Ten years ago

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Results of Death & Disposal poll: Most popular answer, Cremated and Scattered Somewhere Meaningful. Yikes. The thought of getting burned like a log in a hot gas fire completely creeps me out. Handling my father's dusty crunchy grey remains like the weekend's charcoal briquettes was so irreverent and......dusty. No monument. No flowers. Nowhere to visit but a public boat ramp next to Highway 126,

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Cloudy, 45 degrees. Thanksgiving out in the woods! Bach Cello music on the stereo, organic, fresh free-range local turkey in the electric oven. Pies in the gas oven. Taters on the woodstove, yams on the electric stovetop. Leisurelanders cleaning, organizing, enjoying the bold, cold bite of Alaskan Winter Ale. I really like seasonal beers that capture the essences of the yearly cycle. This beer

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....in Forks Washington? Waaaaaaal, sheesh, there's hope for the likes a' me yet. :)Listening to NPR this morning, i heard a story about one of my teeny old Washington hometowns up on the Olympic Peninsula. Seems the little ex-logging burg of Forks has become famous as a setting for a series of vampire fiction novels by Stephenie Meyer. The author is a Mormon from Arizona and had never actually

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Note for Followers, RSS'ers, feedburners and email update readers, make sure you visit the source page of the blog and take the Death & Disposal poll in the sidebar, ya hear?

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11/18/08, 23:20i was getting ready to write a blog, a couple letters and even a snappy bio for my third attempt at MySpace when the satellite signal went off. It's been getting a bit longer each day, but my prime surfing and communicating and creating hours are between 5 a.m. and noon and again between cat lockdown and zero dark thirty. SO now i am typing into text edit with nothing much to say

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Ahem.Dunno what got into me there with that hipbilly guard-dog shot, last entry. That there new shotgun just made me feel all Dan'l Boone rowdy & suchlike. So here's something peaceable to balance that out....Religion. I actually could start sharing my Visions with the world and become a Prophet! (profit) Well, if i had a charismatic salesman personality and a few prominent converts to lend

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If this don't skeer ya, i'll hafta git the banjer......

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Today we put on matching socks, drove the van off of our gravel road to Eugene and parked it and got on the ultra-chic Talgo train, the Amtrak Cascades and rode smoothly to Portland. Then there were some Tri-Met busses and fall leaf walking and now i am at the house of ZWK which a 1912 house in a suburb of 1912 houses; all flaming sweetgum trees and friendly front porches and gentle gentry

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The Bassist's 23rd Psalm(Author unknown, recently posted on a bassists forum.)------------The Lord is my drummer- I shall not rush.He maketh me lay out in tasteful places.He leadeth me beside cool meter changes.He restoreth my "one."He leadeth me in the right repeats,For His name's sake.Yea, though I read through the trickiest roadmapsI will fear no train wrecks,For You are with it.Your ride and

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Election Day 08:30 waiting for the internet to come on.Thoughts on the race with race.From the early 17oo's to 1865, the southern branch of my family tree held negro slaves.In 1956 in my Mom's Navy class picture at Annapolis, coloreds and whites sat together in uniform.In 1965 the black rage of the Watts Riots chased my family out of Inglewood.In the 1980's i dated a man of color.In 2008 my

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via TRAINS Magazine News Wire just released:Published: Friday, October 31, 2008The Surface Transportation Board announced today that it has orderedthe Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad Inc. to sell a 111-mile linerunning from Danebo, Ore., to Cordes, Ore., to the OregonInternational Port of Coos Bay. In a separate decision, the STBgranted CO&P authority to abandon a 94-mile segment of the line in

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I've been sitting here staring at the blank screen, trying to compose something offline to upload when the internet comes on around 12:45. But lately i just have nothing to say, having grown fairly bored of pummeling the world with ever-so-clever individualistic creative output, self-puffed yammering that always seems focused on my navel or some righteous opinion about whatever. Joni Mitchell

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