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.

"a cholesterol free food"

laura lynn brand Bac'n Buds

ingredients:

soy flour
partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil
salt
natural smoke flavor
caramel color
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
natural and artificial flavor
hydrolyzed corn gluten
soy protein and wheat gluten
red 3
disodium inosinate
disodium guanylate

that is it.

how can this be approved to be sold as edible to humans? it blows my mind.

tea leaf green raise up the tent

a message from the DGold:

Tea Leaf Green's new album Raise Up The Tent will be released on Tuesday July 22.

Members of the TLG forum plan to host 2 online listening parties. Please join us in the chat room, on the forum, and following the links below (at the times listed), for music and conversation. BYOB. Virtual party favors will be provided. All times listed are Pacific, 7-22-2008. Spread the word.

6 PM. [1] Tune in Honest FM "Raise Up The Tent" radio show (hosted by me) for an audio pre-cast including the radio debut of songs from Raise Up The Tent.

8 PM. [2] Tune in "Live From The Garden Shed" on Ustream (hosted by AG and JamBase TV) for a special album release party webcast, live from San Francisco. Video potentially featuring members of the band, music and chat.

To join the Chat Rooms, go to the Tea Leaf Green Forum Index and click "Join Chat" at the bottom. Also note that Ustream has a chat window, and you can customize your forum name on there by getting a ustream login. We will chat there too. Hope to see you all there.

[1] http://dgold.info/radio/webcast2008/music334

[2] http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-from-the-garden-shed

my tent is raised up & i will be chatting online with babes all night
usually #6 is my favorite track on the cd
'not fit' starts and ends with some of the best lyrics i've heard-

"i'm not fit to be in the company of women
i drink a bit & smell like the jungles of india....

i'm no good at asking please or saying thank you
i'll lick your knife, butter your toast with a rusty spoon
i'll talk all night and i won't even tell you how pretty you are
i'm impolite, i'll drink you up in a dirty jar......
but don't be down on me..."

dragging ass

dragging ass, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

that bike wheel is scraping the highway

anybody tired?

survival and evasion tips

i'm reading a field guide put out by the US Army in 1969 called "Survival, Evasion & Escape" full of tips for soldiers who found themselves trying to survive behind enemy lines. here's a couple things i picked up:

• when dealing with natives, leave a good impression. other men may need this help
• if caught in an avalanche, use swimming motions to stay on top
• take care when crossing thin ice. distribute your weight by lying flat and crawling

festive

festive, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

nothing like a good old jewish wedding to spice up the weekend!
bunches of nice long islanders, marble halva from brooklyn, hava nagila chair dancing, a FUNky dr. seuss wedding cake, appearance by batman, blessed challah bread, lots of friends and lots of love.

white brown black

white brown black, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

here's a cute picture of behaving pups to balance out the pissiness of the last post.

devil dogs

holden kowe nacho, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i'm dogsitting this weekend for friends who are getting married, kowe is 1 and a half and full of energy. she and nacho are on the same wavelength. they're all sweet, they look like demons here. her face whiskers are amazing. she's always had a dog door, which i don't have, we'll see how this works out.

fall

it feels like fall already here. is it just me? it might be the angle of the sun or the strength of the sun or the humidity or breeze or how blue the sky is but something here feels like fall already.

i woke up full of vinegar ready to snap
i've seen only the worst greediest bastardliness in everything since then
dont try this at home

last week my neighbor brought over peaches from her mom's tree in tennessee that were so juicy i had to eat them over the sink

that was good

i love to dance

langhorne slim + trombone - guitar strap in brooklyn, 'i love to dance'



talk about crowd pleaser

99notebooks.com

99notebooks.com, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i got a blank notebook in the mail and i just wrote in it.

it's part of a project my friend spencer is doing called 99 notebooks.

if somebody gives you one of these notebooks you have to do 3 things - read everything in it, write something in it, and pass it on.

check out www.99notebooks.com for more details, and watch as 99 marble notebooks make their way around the world!

quissy's engaged!

2.6, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

my little brother proposed to his wonderful girlfriend angela in front of the eiffel tower and she said yes. they are spending the next 5 weeks walking 500 miles along the camino de santiago de compostela pilgrimage route through northern spain.

(this photo is not angela, it's tina from the cherokee trading post in clinton, oklahoma)

update - thanks MOM for the photo of the real chris & angela - and an email update from chris on the santiago trail =
"she going to be Mrs. Bugs Bunny...

walked 18 more miles today and tomorrow to Pamplona...little tired but trekking like champs so far."

struts and frets

i've come to think that drama is a choice. as in - you can choose to create it, maintain it, encourage it, or you can dispel it, be transparent and real and honest, and rise above & not allow it to continue. yell cut.

i think a lot of misunderstandings turn into major grudges because they are not either aired out completely at the start or risen above. you can't let them fester. it gives a negative issue too much power in your life. life is too short to worry about what someone might have meant when they wrote or said or did whatever it is. either tell them they hurt you and ask why, or take a step back, understand where they may be coming from, forgive them whatever their intent, and get past it asap.

i think a lot of us go through life like it's a 'three's company' episode full of misunderstandings and miscommunications, secrets and deceptions, pretending to be gay so the landlord lets you stay. and it's not really necessary.

in my experience some misunderstandings turn out to be funny when both sides realize where the communication broke down.

and tragic when they don't.

so do your best. and follow the golden rule, and if everyone does good will be done to you.

secret fluff safe

secret fluff safe, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

it was just a matter of time. i made a couple marshmallow fluff safes to go with the peanut butter safes i've done. now it's possible to make fake fluffernutters while stashing stuff.

in related news, a human being can eat nothing but 3 nectarines and a half a jar of marshmallow fluff in a day and still wake up the next morning.

mini me's

a lot of my friends are procreating, and damn their kids are cute!

here is liam and dan's kellen -



and here is chris and erin's casey -



heartbreakers!

at the stoplight

at the stoplight, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

just a normal everyday occurrence in downtown asheville

most popular

broken toes, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

flickr keeps track of how many people click on your photos

i checked it yesterday and this photo has had 725+ lookers since i posted last month

for reference, most photos i put up there have 1-5 people look at them

the next closest is 120 lookers at a sneak photo i took last summer of a pregnant girl eating gummi bears at the airport

people are funny

they love to look at broken toes in a cast

waiting for my clothes

waiting for my clothes, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

how about when you're doing laundry and get all the wet clothes into a dryer and put in 4 quarters and start it & a lady comes by telling you that one doesn't work.

thanks lady. why didn't you put a sign on it?

i put a sign on it.

and moved the wet clothes to another dryer

and put in another 4 quarters

i feel poor when i go to the laundromat

so it's probably good for me

happy sorry

happy sorry, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

a friend of mine is a good friend of the rock n roll band turbine & asked me to make a shirt for them, as they are booked to play a birthday party and a funeral in the same day.

vintage vantage blank t-shirt + alphabet stencil stamps + fabric paint = easy as pie

happy fourth

happy fourth, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

wear a helmet

wear a helmet, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

jj hearts planet earth

jj hearts planet earth, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

the scrap paper they have out for testing colored pencils at mast general store

the crappiest unicorn

crappiest unicorn, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i seriously drew this trying to look like a unicorn in 2nd grade

i woulda drank it

he comes in
looks at my bar
says wow i thought you didn't drink anymore
i say
i dont really
if i did
all that wouldn't be there

a dog's life

waterfall on sally's head, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

a hot day at a swimming hole with a waterfall

who can complain

the rest of the photos are here

thunderstorm is here

thunderstorm is here, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

this weekend has been wild! purple bus adventures, porch cavorting with neighbors, lovey fun bachelorette party hiking to waterfalls in nantahala national forest, and i'm about to go man a station at the botanical gardens for an urban adventure bike race.
enjoy the sabbath!

evidence

i posted on may 8, quirk, about the skating mexican wrestler at the post office

sweetashvegas got a photo!

why?

MANY SiGNS AND BANNERS DO THiS

baking

freedom tastes like crabapple pie

portals

portals, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

holden is cured!

i'm looking forward to

going camping this weekend to celebrate love and friends and see waterfalls

going on the purple la zoom bus later this week for someone special's birthday

jutrut is doing a extravaganza of a mountain biking weekend that i hope to witness firsthand at some point sunday - enduro de ocho

my friend teamuck took this amazing photo & click to see the ones around it: Gold Gate/Black Hill

longest day

food lion skate park, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

happy solstice

no turning back now

i like the other solstice way better

jen & the juice

jen & the juice, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

had a most delightful lunch hour listening to the sweet rocking sounds of jen and the juice in pritchard park downtown.

they're doing free music weekly through an arts 2 people program.

this is good stuff.

yard of the season

yard of the season, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

somebody's resting on their laurels

computers for christ

computers for christ, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

he loves to email

computers for christ

computers for christ, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

unbelievable

black mountain, nc

tree around the wire

tree around the wire, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

another reason to bury power lines. a tree claimed its territory & was cut down.

soup recipe swap update

there has been no discernible progress:

today's menus

greenlife asheville:

Miso

Clam Chowder

Broccoli Cheddar

Spicy Dal

Chicken Noodle

Spicy Lebanese Garden Vegetable

greenlife chattanooga:

Black Bean Chili

Simply Chicken

Farmhouse Soup

Parmesan Chicken Artichoke

Spinach and Chickpea

Chicken Cacciatore

Thai Coconut Salmon

dare

brush and floss your teeth with your eyes closed. if god forbid you went blind you'd have to do this every day.

3 little birds

3 little birds, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

this is my message to you-hooo-hooo

happy father's day!

bonnaroo webcast

so you don't have the time, money, or immune system to make it to manchester tennessee for bonnaroo music festival this weekend?

there is a live webcast - great sound quality, lots of close up camera angles, it's better than being there.

stream it live


right now it's the drive-by truckers passing a bottle of jack around stage. you can see them spit when they sing the picture's so clear.

raconteurs, les claypool, metallica, two gallants, tons more all weekend long

if it's not one thing

i got to the bottom of the swallowed bone mystery.

a couple weeks ago i was pulling out of my driveway when an old man who lives at the end of the street walked by.

he asked me if i liked poke sallit. i said i never had it. he said his old lady keeps asking him about the poke patch in my yard, and if i planned to eat any of it. i said no thanks, i had no idea, he's free to pick whatever he wants out of it.

i saw him last night & he told me as a thank you he's been leaving bones for my dogs.

i showed him the 20 staples on holden's stomach & he started to cry.

he said he left some chicken wings and a pig's neck yesterday morning. they were gone from where he left them and nacho must've eaten them when i let him out.

nacho threw up last night at 2 am. and again at 5 am. i haven't slept since 2, i've been staring at him waiting for him to throw up or his stomach to bloat up.

i called the vet the minute they opened and told the story & said i'd like to get him xrayed to see if there are bones stuck in him and got an appt. for 1pm

since then he's seemed fine, i fed him a little at 8 & just walked him around the block & hasn't thrown up again and he seems ok.

it is probably crazy of me to take him for xrays. but jesus christ.

googling tells me poke salad is a southern delicacy similar to collard greens, but is actually toxic to humans and should not be made or eaten.


*****UPDATE*****
nacho is gonna be fine, the x-rays showed the bones are passing through his system, he has gastroenteritis & he's on prilosec and semi-liquid diet for a couple days.

dios freakin mio

like riding in the car

like riding in the car, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

fan on full blast

from an email i got from dennis kucinich:

Articles of Impeachment Dear Friend: Under circumstances that can best be described as "suspicious," the www.kucinich.us website was crippled early this morning a few hours after Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 extensively documented Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush. Until we can restore the website and implement additional security measures, you can find the full list and detailed Articles at http://www.democrats.com/files/amomentoftruth.pdf and http://chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amomentoftruth.pdf If you would like to show your support for the Congressman's efforts, please go to myinfo.kucinich.us to offer your comments and provide us with contact information so that we can continue to keep you informed. Thank you Committee to Re-Elect Congressman Kucinich

PO Box 110475 | Cleveland | OH | 44111 | 216-252-9000

naked bike ride

"If you do encounter police or any other aggression do not reciprocate the aggression, keep it light, our best weapon is humour. It's tough getting angry at a colourful naked person on a bicycle. Anger and aggression only returns anger and aggression."

linked on the asheville naked bike ride site
it is this weekend, i hope they go near my house, from the past photos it looks like they will.

they're doing it all over the world - chicago, seattle, denver, black rock city, huntington... check it out

odd business practice

9:30 PM, need a drink, run up to the corner gas station, bring drink to register, say "hey," the cashier is behind the counter looking down counting money...for a long minute...without acknowledging me.

me: what time do you all close? (thinking it must be very soon if he's already counting)

him: 10:45

me: hmmmm...that's kinda random time...

him: yeah it's so we can close up and have everything ready and can get out of here at 11.

me: what about the people who see your lights on at 10:35 and figure you must be open til 11 and come try to buy something at 10:50?

him: (blank stare)