green power knuck

green power knuck, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

this weekend has been full of excellent people and excellent music, glitter, gold medals, corn pudding, and 14 hour couch naps.

fall has fallen. turn it up. call 1-889-spamsandwich

me as a toddler

me as a baby

xavier rudd

xavier rudd, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

a great way to spend a tuesday night is jumping and smiling at a sold-out orange peel while xavier rudd plucks and bangs and blows on his gadgets and sings about peace and love in a real real real way.

myxosarcoma

i heard from the vet yesterday after she got back holden's pathology tests on the tumors they removed. 5 of the 6 were benign lipomas, the 6th - the biggest one the size of the big mac over his heart - was a myxosarcoma. those have the potential to come back and spread. right now it's where the seroma is - the fluid build up - which is the size of a nerf football waterbed hanging from his chest.

she said if the tumor comes back the options are either radiation or another surgery with more 'aggressive' tissue removal. the closest place for dog radiation is in south carolina and he'd have to go back several times. i told her i would not have him radiated. i said i'd think about more aggressive surgery. she said it would be months or a year before the tumor came back and i said i'll monitor it & let her know.

because of the seromas and stitches he has been housebound for weeks now. he hasn't even gone for a walk around the block. i guess he's happy enough going from dogbed to dogbed but it seems like that's no life for a dog.

i think if it comes back, i'm not going to have him go through surgery again and i'll just let him go. you know?

i love you dog.

practicing confrontation

downtown asheville, walking past the jerusalem garden restaurant this morning, a man who looked to be the owner or manager was hosing down the sidewalk. spraying water on and in between all the cement blocks to wash cigarette butts into the street or in front of his neighboring businesses on either side.

he paused as i needed to walk on the sidewalk he was spraying

me: you know we're in a terrible drought?

him: (yelling) people should not be allowed to smoke on the street!

me: don't you have a broom? this is so irresponsible and greedy.

him: (glare)

scenic roots

scenic roots, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

scenic roots played a 'battle of the bands' today at the garage at biltmore & kicked ass! it's so much fun to watch talented friends do their thing.

the best part of this video is about 30 seconds in.

scenic roots is playing at the garage again november 6. see you there.

fluff jar

fluff jar, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

asheville gear stolen!

September 12, 2008

Dear fans, family, and friends,

Please forward this to everyone you know in Asheville NC....

So we played at show at the Garage at Biltmore last night in Asheville NC and had to leave our bus there because our fuel filter needed changing (and we were going to cange it in the morning) long story short...someone (or people) stole gear from our bus and below is a list of what it was. The worst thing about it is our lighting guy, Brian, had his recording gear from which he makes his living off of (valued at $8000) stolen. It was probably stolen between 3:30 and 8am. If you have any information about the gear below please email or call me as soon as possible. Luckly we still have all our instruments and lights so the tour will go on as scheduled with the exception of our alley katz show in Richmond VA tonight (9/12) which has been canceled so we can deal with this issue.

Stuff that was stolen

1. Brand new Red Ibenez Artcore Hollow body guitar, double humbuckers
In a epiphone case, semi scratched. Pocket Rocket headphone amp inside in console with $300-500 cash in it.

2. Macbook Pro silver. 15 inch. Not even a year old. Little bit of a dent on right front corner. In a foam silver and black gun case.

3. Macbook Black. Little beat up. One scratch in the middle of the screen.

4. Sound Devices 442 four channel mixer - Black

5. Sound Devices 744T four channel recorder – Silver

6. Schoeps condenser microphone w/ GVC & Cut 1 – silver

7. Audio Technica condenser microphone –Black

8. Sony 7506 Headphones – very used

9. Sony Cybershot camera 8.1 megapixels -silver

Total value approx. $12,000

**************************************************
Brett R. Wilson / Bombshelter Records
Management for Roots of Creation
Ph: 603-801-4477
rootsofcreation@gmail.com

Myspace: www.myspace.com/rootsofcreation
EPK: www.sonicbids.com/rootsofcreation
Label: www.harmonizedrecords.com
Booking: www.inthepocketartists.com

Sponsors:
Eastern Mtn. Sports - www.ems.com
Peterborough Music Company - www.peterboroughmusiccompany.com

Roots of Creation c/o
Bombshelter Records
PO Box 491
Rindge NH 03461

stealing musical instruments from a band? how low can you go? bastards! help these folks get their gear back!

palin is a fascist cunt. amen! vote!

palin is a fascist cunt. amen! vote!, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

bathroom wall graffiti in the preservation pub, knoxville tennessee.

i saw some of her interview with charlie gibson tonight. she winked at him. she is a pageant queen in addition to being a fascist cunt.

tea leaf green 9-19-08

tea leaf green 9-19-08, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

next friday, see you there. you will have a good time. guaranteed.

building model bridges

model bridges, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

well it's that day again, september 11, seven years later now. time to honor some big lights that were snuffed and pray and work extra hard for peace.

and peace starts with flicking someone in the face with balsa woodsticks.

cute couple

necessity is the mother of invention
curiosity is the father

come together with your hands

spoon, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

if you are looking for a handmade, one-of-a-kind present for somebody or yourself, might i suggest a spoon made by Wormwood Creations?

the spoons are super-high quality, made from an eastern red cedar tree branch that fell in my friend Estes' mother's yard about 10 years ago, and he has put hours and hours into making the smoothest, finest, most functional spoons you could imagine. they are simply beautiful.

he sells them sometimes outside the Grove Arcade downtown asheville, and is glad to take orders by email or over the phone.

if you give a spoon to somebody (your brother), you might get a message saying 'thanks for the spoon, i can't wait til i have kids so i can hit them with it!"

here is Estes booting ball last week while holding his 1-year old niece.

Wormwood Creations (note the branch missing from the tree!)
Functional Art for the Home
Estes Shell
828-275-1125
WormwoodCreations@gmail.com

neverending

poor holden. he had major surgery a week ago for his lipoma tumors, and still has stitches in for another few days, but the two biggest tumors look like they're back already. it's like the sites filled back up with fluid that didn't drain. he is going back to the vet this afternoon to get them looked at. if after all this he still has tumors the size of tangerines on his chest i will feel awful. i should have burned that $700 and just cracked him in the ribs with a sledgehammer.

in other news, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SH32! have a stupendous monday! yay being born in the year of the dragon!

not a flying squirrel

not a flying squirrel, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

my guess is that this guy made a misstep on a tree branch and fell 30 feet to his death on my driveway

wheeeeeee

butterflies suck thistle

butterflies, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

went into pisgah forest today to celebrate a sweet dog's birthday & it was beautiful!

home for retired church ladies

home for retired church ladies, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

well isn't that special?

koozies float easy to swim with

koozies float easy to swim with, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

somebody found this photo today of overbite nacho and grace on flickr with a google search of "do koozies float"

i want to say yes they do, and they are great for dogs so they can swim back with their mouths closed instead of wedged open with a ball and all the water splashes in and they choke.

and for koozies go to vintage vantage or check out your friend who makes drinking fun again - frosty beer man

physics partners

physics partners, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

my freshman year in college i had to take a science class, so the one that seemed easiest was physics for non-majors. this was the lab. the guys were lab partners but did not plan to match.

rule

if you buy bulk candy at the grocery store and eat it before you get home it never happened.

good grief

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” - Kahlil Gibran

civic duty

every year BlogAsheville gives out awards to local blogs. nominations are going on now until September 10.

from the official post at BlogAsheville:

Here's how the 2008 Awards will work:

- Nominations will open today in the various categories

- You can nominate any BlogAsheville blogroll blog

- You can nominate yourself

- Any BlogAsheville reader can make nominations

- A blog can be nominated for multiple categories

- Smart people will link to the blogs they nominate

- Nominations will remain open until September 10th at 1:34pm

- You can copy and paste the list of categories into the comments [at BlogAsheville, not here! - skippy] and go through them all, or just pick and choose the ones you'd like.

- If you don't want to leave your nominations in the comments, you can email them to me at scrutinyhooligans AT yahoo DECIMAL com


On September 12 I'll post the list of nominees, and folks can get to voting.

Here are your categories:


Best Craft Blog

Most Likely to Make Money by Blogging

Least Likely to Make Money by Blogging

Blogger I'd Most Like to Have a Beer With

Least Likely to Care About Traffic

Most Likely to Make You Laugh Out Loud

Best Art/Photos

Best Food

Blogger you'd most like to see naked

Biggest Slacker

Best Design

Best Local Happenings

Best Political

Best Blog Beginning with the word "The"

Makes Me Feel Happiest

Most Inspirational

Most in Need of a Redesign

Most Likely to Have New Material

Best New Blog (created in the last 12 months)

Most Deserving of Wider Recognition

Best Writing

Best Overall

i think there are a number of excellent websites being maintained in this town, i had a hard time narrowing the choices down but my list has been sent. anybody can nominate, you do not have to be on the blogroll or live in asheville or anything.

Jon Stewart and Colbert Mock Sarah Palin Choice

change of heart

change of heart, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

creeps in from the edges til all that was green turns to dust

frankenbelly

frankenbelly, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

holden is recovering like a champ. here he's posing with his new bird feeder that his wonderful great-grandmother (he calls her "Drezza") sent this week. it has a black lab under an umbrella with a bird on its head. i haven't gotten bird seed or a wire to hang it from yet, so it is hanging in the kitchen for now.

molds & mushrooms growing

salad wing?

salad wing?, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i thought this meant the section of the store is called the salad wing, and now has an olive bar.

salad wing and olive bar

salad wing and olive bar, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

but no, they meant a bar that contains salad, olives, AND wings!

do not mix olives and wings

do not mix olives and wings, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

one-way radio

i haven't received an email since 2 AM last night. the skippyhaha.com, vintagevantage.com, kitshickers.com, and merchata.com sites are all down.

my deductive reasoning says there's something down at our servers in LA

i sent them a couple emails that probably didn't go through, and i sent a message through the contact form on their site so i am sure they know there's a problem

it's so strange to be at a computer and able to see every webpage (other than those 4) and not be able to retrieve emails. i am sure there have been messages sent to me in the last day, but whatever could they be?

i hope they are all being queued someplace so i can get them later

and i hope it is sooner than later

how did i survive before cyberspace?

holden you got them crazy eyes!

holdie locks is doing great! his chest looks like frankenstein, and he's doped up on painkillers but he's home and has to chill for 2 weeks until stitches come out and then he's a new dog!

jill and lande on the TV

my friend Jill (it was her tights that got stuck in holden's intestines 8 years ago!) and her super cool daughter Lande were on WRAL this morning talking about eating Ranch dressing which is hilarious because when I lived with Jill all she ate was Ranch dressing and cottage cheese and she would do scientific taste tests with holden - cheese balls vs. munch ems.

jill has a kid's hair salon in durham called peek-a-do! - check it out.

happy birthday quissy!

poolboys, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

to the best little brother a girl could ask for other than henry. the big 3-0! hope it's as much fun as jumping onto a panda tube!

summoning of the vibes

tumors 2, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

at this time tomorrow, holden should be back to his lithe slinky cheetah-chest self. please cross your paws for him.

UPDATE -

thanks for all the paw crossing - holden made it through! they're going to keep him overnight because a few of the bigger tumors were attached (she used the word "fingers") to his muscles and he's extra sore and on an IV painkiller until tomorrow morning when i can pick him up.

prima facie

the man behind the counter at the post office
has a gray handlebar mustache
waxed up to points curving under
apple cheeks
he looks jolly but he's not
maybe he's sick of people asking
about it (i didn't)
or not asking about it
or expecting him to be jolly
because of his facial hair

rain!

la la la la la la lala la la laaaa. la la lala la la la lala la laaaa. (smurfs song)

grape tomatoes

grape tomatoes, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

have you ever had tomatoes so good they taste like lobster?

holey hell

i'm going back to the dentist because i can't chew on one side. i got fillings a couple weeks ago and one of them started hurting so badly last thursday i've been unable to chew on it. it doesn't hurt during the day, only chewing. i am upset about the whole thing for many reasons:

1. at my checkup in june i had a brand new hygienist, it was her first day
2. she used the new 'diagnodent' laser machine to test teeth for cavities before she cleaned my teeth
3. you're supposed to use it AFTER cleaning the teeth
4. i have never had pain or sensitivity in any of my teeth at all, but they diagnosed me as having SIX cavities
5. i had the top 3 drilled and filled last week
6. they filled it with plastic containing BPA - the cancerous ingredient in baby bottles and water bottles and that whole mess
7. afterwards i asked how long they should last - like 15 or 20 years? and the hygienist laughed & said no only about 5 years
8. they charged me close to $1000 for all this
9. there's icy hot deep nerve pain every time i chew on the left side

i'm fairly furious about a lot of this, and i have cancelled my october appointment to get the bottom three 'cavities' filled. they want me to let them drill holes into my unpainful/unsensitive teeth, fill them with cancerous/dementia-causing plastic, charge me a thousand bucks, and get me to come back and re-fill them in some goddamn emergency situation when they fall out in the next five years for another $300 a tooth? are you fucking kidding?

my dentist is going to check it out today but i may need a root canal now in the painful tooth, this is all so ridiculous.

obama vs mccain on taxes

from the washington post



note the set sign } "bottom three groups amount to 60% of taxpayers".

look who gets the biggest cut from each. this is stark

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html

outside lands webcast

currently rocking face at outside lands music festival in san francisco -
steve winwood
http://attblueroom.com/music/Outside-Lands-Music-Festival/live-webcast.php

inland seafood?

inland seafood, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

such as...? trout? and catfish? is that inland riverfood?

1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4

spots on the ceiling
things on the wall
when times get rough
stare at them all

trevor solo stream

Trevor Garrod's solo performance from Evanston SPACE will be webcast by BigAG tonight from 8:00 - 9:30pm CST.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/biga-space

Live Streaming by Ustream.TV

kickball

a lot going on, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

kickball in asheville is a lot different from kickball in san diego. it is much more laid back, there are no set teams, 2 new captains pick boy girl boy girl from whoever shows up every time. there are babies on the field. there are no uniforms or cleats or refs. it is absolutely just as much fun.

i tried to spread the catching technique of 'the tuckoop' yesterday. when a pop fly is coming, get in a tuck/scoop position, and finish with 'squeeze the pillow.' there's no reason to fear the big red ball!

spilled pepto

spilled pepto, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

sometimes from error comes pretty

follow thru

follow thru, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

going to get holden a blood test to make sure he's clear to have surgery next week. i finally got a tax refund yesterday and have money and his tumors are getting really big. he has about 8 now, two are as big as if his testicles regrew on his chest, and one is the size of a big mac. the other 5 are small like grape or cherry tomatoes.

sofa kingdom

sofa kingdom, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

trying not to be the queen of this

drought

everybody turns their head up
when stepping outside
to see if the dark sky
might get darker
and wash us all with rain
and soak us all with rain
or if again today
these stone gray puffed castles
will glide march overhead
with slightest far off rumbles
refusing still to cry

connect

connect the dots. click to see what it looks like when you make a big star made up of 6 little stars with one continuous line. i think this is how morning glories grow. this came to me in 7th grade math class.