turn, turn, turn

here are some of my wind turbine pix. i just thought i'd compile them in a single post. they are fun to look at, anyway. they are all licensed through Creative Commons as attribution only, so if you would like to use any of them on your blog or website, all you have to do is link the photo back to my Flickr account.

dear internet,

cynicism. it's the affliction of our generation, a personal affliction of mine, and it is an absolutely useless trait. Conan took the time to stomp on cynicism during the last few minutes of his final night as host of the Tonight Show.

"All I ask of you is one thing(and I'm asking this particularly of young people that watch): please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen."

wow. i felt like he was talking straight to me. and then i thought this whole mess with NBC might be good, not just for Conan, but for every young person who tuned in and heard his appeal.

sew, sew

i have been sewing a lot lately. here are some pix of my most recent creations. i have a lot more, but for the past few days i have had trouble uploading pictures to any website. so these will have to do.


baby bib


pillow case




camera cover

clearly, i really dig this paisley fabric which i was able to pick up for $2/yard.

i really want to make some of these baby footies with some cute fabric.

our first roughly recorded tune.

conspicous sparkler

the new name of my hypothetical band is.....

suicide by conspicuous sparkling.

i imagine it would also be a great name for a song, album, or record label.

moon dog

not recent, just cool.


yeasayer "ambling alp"

wyoming

so, i like wyoming. it's not that bad of a place. even evanston isn't that bad. the people aren't super-nice, like in the south, but they aren't a-holes like certain people in certain towns in idaho can be. they seem to be used to transients. and everyone in evanston seems to know each other even though it is a sizable town (relatively speaking). when i was in wal-mart (i am boycotting them, i swear. just as soon as it's convenient for me to do so.) there were people that knew the employees well and struck up conversations. this happened four different times whilst i was in wal-mart. i also like how there is a liquor store on every street. and that they are all drive-thru liquor stores. we went for a drive and came upon a town (population 150) and there were three liquor stores in the town. i thought that shit was hilarious. the state really is buck wild (relatively speaking)and there is something refreshing about that. i didn't get any liquor store pix. or fast food pix. or broke down trailer pix. (some documentarian i am.) here it is:












truck run. if you look closely you will see some one has used it and they went quite a ways.

chris' mind is blown by the historical marker in soda springs







i was trying to make the hills look miniature too bad i forget about the blur the speed of a car would cause. mountain view, wyoming.









sort of helps. not really though.








through a car window. like most everything else.

mama bear.





waving at a chick biker in evanston

reflection in the glass of a genuine red london phone booth in the middle of evanston.



the ride home.

-_-

if they could calculate what percentage of our gross domestic product is chewed up by dogs, we might find the answer to our fiscal crisis in a one way trip to the vet.