there's a squirrel stuck in the chimney. or a raccoon. i heard banging yesterday and closed the glass doors on the fireplace. this morning i could hear it scratching its little claws against the metal trying to get out. i'm going to do nothing about it because i'm paralyzed by fear. i need clark griswald to come over and catch it in the coat, smack it with a hammer.
the aerogarden is doing great, italian basil is in the lead, the only one sprouting already.
the tar heels are looking okay this season, but nothing sparkly and spectacular like last year. last year i loved danny green, ty lawson, and wayne ellington. this year, i like marcus ginyard and ed davis. the freshmen have not dazzled me, and zeller looks like he should play for duke. and poor roy williams and his shoulder, looked like he was in a lot of pain as he won his 600th game the other night.
it's december first already, going to be 60 and sunny today here in charlotte, can't really complain about that.
Showing posts with label carolina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carolina. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
deer carcass
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
the road ends here
it wasn't the most exciting championship game, but the good guys won. frasor makes me nervous, the heels fall on the floor drawing charges too often, and hansbrough may be a robot in a family of robots, but other than that, they were the perfect team. ellington and danny green and and ed davis and ty lawson with his low center of gravity were so much fun to watch all season.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Saturday, November 15, 2008
tar heels opening day
there's a great article - "Depleted Tar Heels Ready For Opener( Carolina could be without four of its seniors on Saturday)"- about UNC's injury problems, which quotes Roy Williams telling the team: 'quit being a bunch of little wimps.'
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
red flag
wouldn't it be nice if all piles of shit came with red flags this visible?
(this is especially for john edwards, the lying slime besmirching the reputation of unc law school and north carolina in general.)
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Peek-a-Do, Jill's salon for kids in Durham!
remember jill?
check out her salon for kids in Durham, NC - Peek-A-Do!
Children the mane clientele at this salon Child-friendly Peek-a-Do! hair salon caters to the kid in all of us ... and they do it with style
Elizabeth Shestak, Correspondent
Noah Triplett sat on his mother's lap Wednesday morning, tears streaming as he yelped and fussed, squirming away from the woman who kept coming at him with those shiny things that made little hairs flutter around his face.
A few minutes later, the 21-month-old had calmed down and was sporting a dapper look, his thick, dark brown hair parted to the side, still damp from being spritzed down in the momentary mayhem that had just passed.
His mother, Karen Triplett, literally jumped for joy -- her toddler had finally gotten his hair cut.
It had been six months since his last (and first) trim, and it was just as bad when his grandfather, a retired barber, had a go at it, but he lived too far away to cut it again. Triplett said her husband just couldn't handle watching the fits Noah would throw when she tried to cut it herself.
Her last hope was Peek-a-Do!, a kid-friendly salon at 7011 Fayetteville Road. It's not just for kids-cuts - children are supervised and entertained while their parents get cuts too.
Owner Jill Simpson, a 31-year-old mother of two, opened the boutique -- the first of its kind in Durham -- in October 2005 with fellow mom Jan Sebway; business has been booming.
Simpson's original plans did not include owning a business. She wanted to be a kindergarten teacher and earned a liberal arts degree at UNC-Chapel Hill. She loved being a stay-at-home mom, too. But once the idea got rolling, she embraced the creative outlet.
"We can't do that, we're just moms!" is what they said to themselves at first. But as the logistics became clearer, "there was that moment of just like why not?" Simpson said. "We know what moms want and we know what kids want, and we'll figure out the rest."
The salon offers more than a barber's chair and a pair of scissors. The walls are decorated in an earthy green, blue, yellow and orange palette, and there are rounded edges on everything in the room. The mirrors look like puddles on the walls, and the receptionist's desk is an island.
In front of every seat (some are shaped like cars and planes.) there is an LCD screen with a choice of four animated movies playing at all times. Wednesday featured "Dora the Explorer," "Elmo," "Thomas the Tank Engine" and "Cars."
Katherine Hirsh brought her son, Alexander, 5, to Peek-a-Do! to have his hair repaired -- he had given himself a haircut a week earlier and it needed some touching up. They all seem to do that to themselves when they turn five, she joked.
Simpson only hires stylists who have at least five years' experience outside of beauty school.
"You can't learn to cut hair on a moving target," she said.
Patience and the kind of personality that makes the children comfortable are also job requirements.
Janice Glass cut Alexander's hair and said she relies on lots of distractions for the children. Anything that makes them hold their heads still and look down helps, Glass said.
Simpson even sells toys in the salon, making sure they are educational, fun and not apt to drive parents nuts.
"I don't think toys have to have lights and make sounds to be fun," Simpson said.
Simpson said they made sure furnishings would be low enough so that parents could visually keep track of their children no matter where they were in the salon.
There is a play area for siblings and friends waiting their turn, and when the children are finished, they get to choose a toy out of the "treasure chest" and also receive a balloon.
Little girls get a "signature twist" where a front piece of their hair is twisted back and tied with a ribbon in the color of their choice.
Simpson won't allow Duke blue on the premises.
The Colorado native said children's salons are all the rage in Denver, but there were none in the Triangle.
"It is such a need -- this is such a growing area with so many young families and there are just so many children and you know, they need haircuts," Simpson said.
She met Sebway, who they refer to as the "behind-the-scenes partner," as first-time mothers in birthing class.
Raising their children together (Simpson's daughter Lande and Sebway's son Zack were born just five days apart) brought them very close, and they started coming up with ideas from noticing things that would make the lives of mothers easier.
A pacifier that actually stayed in mouths was one fledgling concept, but it never moved beyond speculation. When their children were the age where they needed haircuts, it occurred to Simpson that there was no place that specialized in children's cuts.
It took two years, but after doing tons of research, hiring an ad agency for six months and an architecture firm to make her vision of a stimulating but not Chuck E. Cheese-esque environment, Peek-a-Do! opened and was a hit from the start.
Basic haircuts are more expensive than in most salons -- Peek-a-Do! prices start at $19, $22 for a wash and cut, and $9 for a bang/over the ear trim. They even offer manicures, which start at $15. Children's haircuts run around $12 at other places.
But Simpson strives to make the boutique a positive experience for children and parents alike, and she loves it when the children walk in the door crying from fear, and leave crying because they don't want to leave.
Published: Jan 27, 2007 The Durham News
check out her salon for kids in Durham, NC - Peek-A-Do!
Children the mane clientele at this salon Child-friendly Peek-a-Do! hair salon caters to the kid in all of us ... and they do it with style
Elizabeth Shestak, Correspondent
Noah Triplett sat on his mother's lap Wednesday morning, tears streaming as he yelped and fussed, squirming away from the woman who kept coming at him with those shiny things that made little hairs flutter around his face.
A few minutes later, the 21-month-old had calmed down and was sporting a dapper look, his thick, dark brown hair parted to the side, still damp from being spritzed down in the momentary mayhem that had just passed.
His mother, Karen Triplett, literally jumped for joy -- her toddler had finally gotten his hair cut.
It had been six months since his last (and first) trim, and it was just as bad when his grandfather, a retired barber, had a go at it, but he lived too far away to cut it again. Triplett said her husband just couldn't handle watching the fits Noah would throw when she tried to cut it herself.
Her last hope was Peek-a-Do!, a kid-friendly salon at 7011 Fayetteville Road. It's not just for kids-cuts - children are supervised and entertained while their parents get cuts too.
Owner Jill Simpson, a 31-year-old mother of two, opened the boutique -- the first of its kind in Durham -- in October 2005 with fellow mom Jan Sebway; business has been booming.
Simpson's original plans did not include owning a business. She wanted to be a kindergarten teacher and earned a liberal arts degree at UNC-Chapel Hill. She loved being a stay-at-home mom, too. But once the idea got rolling, she embraced the creative outlet.
"We can't do that, we're just moms!" is what they said to themselves at first. But as the logistics became clearer, "there was that moment of just like why not?" Simpson said. "We know what moms want and we know what kids want, and we'll figure out the rest."
The salon offers more than a barber's chair and a pair of scissors. The walls are decorated in an earthy green, blue, yellow and orange palette, and there are rounded edges on everything in the room. The mirrors look like puddles on the walls, and the receptionist's desk is an island.
In front of every seat (some are shaped like cars and planes.) there is an LCD screen with a choice of four animated movies playing at all times. Wednesday featured "Dora the Explorer," "Elmo," "Thomas the Tank Engine" and "Cars."
Katherine Hirsh brought her son, Alexander, 5, to Peek-a-Do! to have his hair repaired -- he had given himself a haircut a week earlier and it needed some touching up. They all seem to do that to themselves when they turn five, she joked.
Simpson only hires stylists who have at least five years' experience outside of beauty school.
"You can't learn to cut hair on a moving target," she said.
Patience and the kind of personality that makes the children comfortable are also job requirements.
Janice Glass cut Alexander's hair and said she relies on lots of distractions for the children. Anything that makes them hold their heads still and look down helps, Glass said.
Simpson even sells toys in the salon, making sure they are educational, fun and not apt to drive parents nuts.
"I don't think toys have to have lights and make sounds to be fun," Simpson said.
Simpson said they made sure furnishings would be low enough so that parents could visually keep track of their children no matter where they were in the salon.
There is a play area for siblings and friends waiting their turn, and when the children are finished, they get to choose a toy out of the "treasure chest" and also receive a balloon.
Little girls get a "signature twist" where a front piece of their hair is twisted back and tied with a ribbon in the color of their choice.
Simpson won't allow Duke blue on the premises.
The Colorado native said children's salons are all the rage in Denver, but there were none in the Triangle.
"It is such a need -- this is such a growing area with so many young families and there are just so many children and you know, they need haircuts," Simpson said.
She met Sebway, who they refer to as the "behind-the-scenes partner," as first-time mothers in birthing class.
Raising their children together (Simpson's daughter Lande and Sebway's son Zack were born just five days apart) brought them very close, and they started coming up with ideas from noticing things that would make the lives of mothers easier.
A pacifier that actually stayed in mouths was one fledgling concept, but it never moved beyond speculation. When their children were the age where they needed haircuts, it occurred to Simpson that there was no place that specialized in children's cuts.
It took two years, but after doing tons of research, hiring an ad agency for six months and an architecture firm to make her vision of a stimulating but not Chuck E. Cheese-esque environment, Peek-a-Do! opened and was a hit from the start.
Basic haircuts are more expensive than in most salons -- Peek-a-Do! prices start at $19, $22 for a wash and cut, and $9 for a bang/over the ear trim. They even offer manicures, which start at $15. Children's haircuts run around $12 at other places.
But Simpson strives to make the boutique a positive experience for children and parents alike, and she loves it when the children walk in the door crying from fear, and leave crying because they don't want to leave.
Published: Jan 27, 2007 The Durham News
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Monday, April 02, 2007
happy not birthday jim reilly
today jim reilly should have turned 31. here's a picture i found yesterday in my old desk from when he & his friend rob (i think) came down to UNC from william & mary for a night to see his brother and i'm not sure why else. i remember i didn't go out with them because i had an english exam the next day. stupid.
here's a link to what i posted last year with some drawings he worked on. let's all work on peace this year, whaddya say?
here's a link to what i posted last year with some drawings he worked on. let's all work on peace this year, whaddya say?Share Away :
Friday, January 19, 2007
dukie bingo
a game played at carolina by mcbabe wester & i & a few others mainly during an election law class taught by a wonderful professor whose voice reminded me too much of pat (it's time for androgyny - here comes pat!) from saturday night live to ever focus on what she was saying.
you make a bingo square (tic-tac-toe with a square around it), put the nicknames of fellow classmates who went to duke undergrad in each box, FREE in the middle. wait for them to raise their hands to ask/answer questions, cross off their nicknames X out their box and try to get 3 across, up down or diagonal - first one to do so says in street voice "BINGO" as the dukie is spouting and his or her box is x'ed and they win.
as i recall, i was the only winner and i won twice in 2 different classes and said bingo in my normal voice. many classes ended with nobody getting 3 across. sometimes it came down to the last box and so many dukies would have their hands up, a sea of dukie hands to choose, it was exciting.
it really made endless tuesday thursday classes okay.
you make a bingo square (tic-tac-toe with a square around it), put the nicknames of fellow classmates who went to duke undergrad in each box, FREE in the middle. wait for them to raise their hands to ask/answer questions, cross off their nicknames X out their box and try to get 3 across, up down or diagonal - first one to do so says in street voice "BINGO" as the dukie is spouting and his or her box is x'ed and they win.
as i recall, i was the only winner and i won twice in 2 different classes and said bingo in my normal voice. many classes ended with nobody getting 3 across. sometimes it came down to the last box and so many dukies would have their hands up, a sea of dukie hands to choose, it was exciting.
it really made endless tuesday thursday classes okay.
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
knockin round the carolina zoo in my mind
i spent a lot of time last summer listening to 'knockin round the zoo,' james taylor's song that widespread panic covers. i listened to a couple versions and also james taylor's 'carolina in my mind' pretty much on repeat & fingerpainted this:
here's a link to panic version of the song.
here's the picture with the lyrics pasted on top (it's about his time in a mental hospital - 'the zoo'):
and here it is hanging on the wall:
here's a link to panic version of the song.
here's the picture with the lyrics pasted on top (it's about his time in a mental hospital - 'the zoo'):
and here it is hanging on the wall:
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
fluff hunt 2001
what do you do when you're in chapel hill, north carolina, and you really need a fluffernutter? with real fluff, not marshmallow creme? you pick up another yankee friend at 11PM on a school night, both put on 2XXL denver broncos t-shirts and thermal legging pants and start driving.
first - west to greensboro. fluff at food lion? (click to see)
keep going west, fluff in winston-salem?
not looking good going west, we know they have it in maryland, let's head back towards the coast. huge fires on the side of the road:
fluff in roanoke, virgina?
fluff in baltimore, maryland?
that's the real stuff there:
what a rush
his name is jeff, he was a sous chef-
a couple of fluffernutters in the car and it's back to chapel hill. somebody's house fell off its trailer:
the end.
first - west to greensboro. fluff at food lion? (click to see)
keep going west, fluff in winston-salem?
not looking good going west, we know they have it in maryland, let's head back towards the coast. huge fires on the side of the road:
fluff in roanoke, virgina?
fluff in baltimore, maryland?
that's the real stuff there:
what a rush
his name is jeff, he was a sous chef-
a couple of fluffernutters in the car and it's back to chapel hill. somebody's house fell off its trailer:
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