damn chocolate

my neighbor brought over a giant chocolate chip cookie that she baked this morning. it was probably the size of 6 cookies. and i ate half of it before going to see my friends' band play a party tonight. it was a potluck dinner & i didn't have too much there & when i got home at midnight i had the other half of the cookie. i'm still wide awake and it's 5:41.

i need to remember this next time i want to eat a bunch of chocolate on an empty stomach at bedtime.

the party was great fun, i love live music, but i love it even more when it's my friends playing it, and they sound good!

here's video of a post-show unplugged acoustic jam, complete with playing of the spoons.

deeply missed

deeply missed, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

"Whoa whoa whoa, Miss Lippy. The part of the story I don't like is that the little boy gave up looking for Happy after an hour. He didn't put posters up or anything, he just sat on the porch like a goon and waited. That little boy's gotta think 'You got a pet. You got a responsibility.' If your dog is lost you don't look for an hour then call it quits. You get your ass out there and you find that fucking dog."

knock on a tree, my dogs haven't escaped in over a year. when they have gotten out, they stick together and someone has always seen a black & white dog roaming the street and herded them inside & called me. when holden was a puppy he ran away for an overnight at some strangers' house down the street where they had a chocolate lab. they called the vet & said they found him, and i called the vet & said i lost him, and i got him back. that's the longest he's been missing.

ratrace

ratrace
Originally uploaded by skippy haha

a little song on one string of a ukulele

laura reed & deep pocket

laura reed & deep pocket, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

this band is funky and groovy and laura reed does what she wants! there's an electric clarinet, there's a dready dynamo on harmonica, there's positive conscious intelligent energy flowing all over the stage. two thumbs UP.

http://www.myspace.com/laurareedmusic

greenlife soup update

time again to compare today's soup at greenlife in asheville to the soup at greenlife in chattanooga.

asheville:

• Chicken Noodle
• Lentil Soup
  
• Beef Chili
• Spicy Dal
• Vegan Asian Peanut
• Vegan Split Pea

chattanooga:

• Creamy Pesto Tomato
• Roasted Carrot
• Fennel & Potatoes
• Creole Chicken
• Roasted Red Pepper Chickpea & Sausage
• Black Bean Chili
• Szechuan Plum Chicken

i sent the asheville store an email in may about doing a recipe swap, but nothing has happened. i hope they google themselves and see this and get shamed into some new soup recipes.

firecrackers

firecrackers, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

make the most of the weekend even if it's sitting on the porch watching explosives miles away

great news

friday september 19
tea leaf green
the orange peel

calling to the south

calling to the south, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

my friend katie is moving next week to honduras to teach at a school there for two years. she is an amazing person with boundless energy, creativity, warmth and SPUNK. if homemade peach cobbler could be a person, it would be katie. some ladies went for a hike and a picnic to say goodbye to her last night. here anne was calling to the four directions. katie has the flower crown. i know katie and ethan are going to have irreplaceable adventures in central america, but i really wish they were staying here.

riddle

i will never take a picture of my camera's battery. why not?

morning moon

morning moon, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

why only sometimes

no outlet

no outlet, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

the red eyes are looking at me and they're saying

joan crawford - my way of life (1971)

i got this book at goodwill last week and it's pretty damn fascinating. mommie dearest wrote 200 pages about why she does what she does. here's a snippet:

Some working women do pay someone to help with the housework, and why shouldn't they if they dread the thought of scrubbing the kitchen floor after a day in the office? I feel a great sense of accomplishment though, when I get down on my knees and scrub my own floor. When I spend months without doing a movie or a TV show and spend all my time at my desk or on a dais every night I have a lot of surplus energy to use up. Scrubbing, for me, is the greatest exercise in the world. It gives me rosy cheeks, and I just have a ball.

and one more:

I always pack in daylight. In artificial light when I'm in a hurry it's too easy to grab the wrong accessories and find myself in Kansas City or San Juan with a hot pink dress and a shocking pink hat -- and that's a catastrophe.

she seems like a total control freak, but very intelligent and funny too.