We’re selling our reliable old Tercel. He’s been more than a car, he’s been a sidekick. If Nerd’s Eye View were a sitcom, selling Theodore Terzel would be the equivalent of a beloved character actor leaving the show. If you know me personally, you’ve probably driven Theodore at some point. “What the hell is up …
With Mom in Eugene and Brother in Portland, we run up and down the interstate more than we’d like to admit. The drive doesn’t get any better, though there are some pretty stretches when you get to the bridges in southern Washington and right now, you can roll your windows down and fill the car …
Again: I’m showing my collage work at Ginomai, a community space in an ex-preschool associated with West Seattle Christian Church. One night only, tonight, 6-8, just northwest of the Alaska Junction. I’ll have a few prints for sale, too, 75 bucks each, and they’re swell, just swell. “Ginomai (gee-NO-my) which is a Greek term for …
I shot some studio photos for my pal Nia on Saturday – her site is up and her work is really really really nice – go have a look. Seriously. It’s so nice I have one of the pieces in my home. And speaking of artwork, I’ll be hanging my collage work for art walk …
Me: What the hell are you doing, Claude? It’s 6am! Claude: Ze light on ze hedges! She is, how you zay? Ztunning! Ah am eeeenspired! Me: Claude, jeezus. Go back to Giverney, wouljda? (Walking away muttering.) Claude: (Enthusing in French about the light, then turning to me) You are a philistine. All you Americaines are …
We hit stop on the DVD player about 10 minutes in to the second episode of Jennifer Fox’s Flying, Confessions of a Free Woman. The documentary filmmaker had just said, in the voice over, that she’d spent 20 years in therapy working on – what exactly? I can’t remember right now. What was clear at …