glitter pissing

two more days

2008-07-25T06:29:00.004-05:00

despite dealing with the annoyances of yahoo's minions (the less said about the better), it hasn't been such a bad two days. j and i attended "the boss of you" event at velocity.

yes, yes. it's blurry but here are the authors, emira mears and lauren bacon.

next month, i'll be one of the people presenting at the "bring and brag" lab. it'll be about suspect and fugitive. i'll post details closer to the date for those of you that care.

i know i say this every year, but i cannot believe that there are hydrangeas blooming so late in the year here.

that is absolutely one of my most favorite blues in the world. it's, like, phthalo blue mixed with titanium white. delicious!

what else? oh, yes! leff received a nice bonus at his job (i won't mention why because it'll embarrass him but he's awesome and i'm really quite proud of him.) so we've put a rush on spiffy-ing up the place. here are two pillows that he bought on etsy. peel loves them!

recognize the one on the right? it was on craft blog the other day. i have to admit to that having been a bit disorienting at first. but then i thought, to quote leff, "you snooze, you lose, bitches!"

k, it's time for me to get back to work. just remember, nobody fucks with the cheesus.

feast!

2008-07-23T00:13:00.002-05:00

i'm not going to go into how much i fucking hate yahoo. i'm just not going to do it.

i'm also not going to bore you with the details of my work filled monday and tuesday.

i will, however, show you the incredible sushi that leff and i had last night at shiki. every roll was super delicious.

tonight's velocity lab, sweet meats! be there or be a geometric shape!

a couple of days in the neighborhood

2008-07-21T11:15:00.006-05:00

thanks to "the blues brothers", mild weather and not leaving the boundaries of queen anne (but not venturing to the bite of seattle), it was an all around satisfactory weekend.

instead of the bite, leff and i attended the opening of the new counterbalance park. there were city council members galore (along with greg nichols) as well as many dogs. here is one of them.

it's appropriate really since the first passenger on the trolley was a terrier. for realsies.

who likes to rock the party? that's right! new zealand!

why were we in the new zealand section at larry's/metro? because leff and i bought quite a bit of wine this weekend now that we have a "wine cellar". you know, an ikea wine rack inside of the malkovich space?

my favorite of the bunch label wise? ('cause we buy primarily by the way the label looks) layer cake. although i'll probably be disappointed when it doesn't taste like cake.

no, that's not really a related picture. so what? this next one isn't either but it's divine.

really. it is.

i get pretty bitchy plus some photos

2008-07-18T12:49:00.003-05:00

i need to air a grievance, puptents. you know how i don't like to talk smack about people that i know in rl online. while i won't name names, today i'm making an exception to that rule. a certain someone (actually a few someones) who live in eastern standard and central time zones keep forgetting that i fucking live in the pacific time zone and am, therefore, SEVERAL HOURS BEHIND THEM.

so no matter how well meaning their texts and phone calls are when it's 8am their time (which, honestly, still too fucking early to call), it's FUCKING 5 A.M. MY TIME. i can't be bothered to give a shit about ANYTHING at that hour much less social niceties particularly if i've just finally managed to fall sleep. i've lived here almost 3 years now. how long is it going to take you to learn to do the simple math?!?!

so a warning to you few. CUT IT THE FUCK OUT#@!!#@#@!!#@ if it happens again, i'll call you at 2 am MY time just to shoot the shit.

ok. sorry to get all stabbity but, you know, sleep is a big deal to me. esp since i'm in the middle of another bout of insomnia.

moving on, jessie is awesome!

i tagged along with her to venue the other day. sadly there was a broken gnome.

but, happily, a cute puppy.

aww!

what else? um, i'm working on a lot of things that i can't talk about yet. like, a LOT of things. hopefully, i'll be able to tell you about them soon. until then, check out a sketch for a new project i've started working on. (yes, in addition to s&f.)

tigers are fucking awesome.

back on friday

2008-07-16T13:01:00.000-05:00

things are busy. back on friday.

openings and other things

2008-07-14T07:27:00.002-05:00

so what did you do this fine july weekend, chitterlings? did you attend a billion art openings? me neither. but i did manage to make it to two! the first of which was for hello, brute/jon knox's show at schmancy!

i adore jon and his roomie tim! if you guys are reading this back in san fran, it was a *lot* of fun hanging out on friday night! i hope that you got to see david cross!

also, thanks for all the beer!

while at jon's opening, leff and i were lucky enough to score some free tickets to the sp20 comedy show!

we were able to see both kristen schaal's and todd barry's acts! so hooray for us! and many, many thanks to the sub pop employee who slid the tickets our way! you rock!

wait, i just realized that if you're not in the seattle area, you might not be aware of the big 20th anniversary celebration of sub pop records that was going on this weekend. it was a sizable deal. don't believe me? check out exhibit a.

and for those of you who like motion, here's the city flyin' the flannel.

(yeah, yeah, i know that fIREHOSE was never on sub pop. shut up.)

in all honesty, i was fairly excited about this whole anniversary thing. in fact, the 15 year old me (that is, sadly, still not far from the surface all these years later) was beside her flannel clad, steel toed boot wearing, tad listening, grape kool aid hair dyed, sassy reading self.

you know what's even scarier than being a 15 year old trapped in a 35 year old's body? this!

archie mcphee can be so, so creepy at times.

anyway, let's move on to opening two! saturday night saw leff and me at venue for cakespy jessie's show! sadly none of the photos of her work came out. (you can go to her etsy shop, however, and get a good idea of what it's like!)

she made some *adorable* cupcakes. here's a blurry shot of her twinkie hot dogs!

and of the chicken ring.

sorry, inside joke.

sunday was, when compared to friday and saturday, quite dead.

but there were fluffy pink scooters

and we finally bought curtains for the living room.

(they need to be slightly adjusted but i'm happy with the overall look.)

k, i need to finish up the apt before wed (when leff has an old college roomie in town) so smell you later!

sweetness and light (with a second hand celebrity sighting!)

2008-07-11T11:16:00.009-05:00

first things first! here're a couple of opening announcements that should be of particular interest to you if you happen to live in the seattle area.

numero uno: jon knox/hello brute's opening for "a boy who won't be good" is from 6-9p tonight at schmancy. jon is already in town so please swing by and give him a warm pnw welcome!

secondly! cakespy jessie is the featured artist this month at venue! (more info) she'll be a part of the ballard art walk on saturday.

go give her a high five and have a cupcake!

speaking of cakespy jessie, she invited me to tag along to the daily candy book launch. (thanks, jessie!) it was exactly what i thought it would be but still managed to be fun. (i'll let you figure that one out on your own, gpiss sherlocks. *wink*)

i wonder if anyone ever ate any of these cupcakes...

okok, so sp20 is going on, right? there are several of my favorite people in town (the conchords, david cross, kristen schaal...)

speaking of kristen schaal, leff saw her last night when he was on the bus! i'm so jealous!

(kissten schaal for s&f)

i'm hoping to catch a glimpse of her and the other aforementioned people while i'm near the moore this afternoon. (it's weird! i've never been excited by the possible proximity of celebrity before. it's like i don't even know myself!)

in other not as thrilling news, i should have time to try out my new ceramic coffee cup.

i'm *really* into this thing! (esp since my coffee "cosy" fits around it.)

that pretty much sums up the past two days. i've been scattered because there's been a lot going on behind the scenes but i'm absolutely into all of the sunshine we've been having this week! (you were wondering when the "light" part of the title was going to happen, weren't you?)

when a wed feels like a mon

2008-07-09T12:20:00.007-05:00

today is off to a really slow start. not even this picture of leff with a tiny cowboy hat is making me laugh as much as it should.

in other words, i'm phoning this one in. have some ambient style ferry photos and a movie

and then decide if you'd like to use my new swurl page where you can keep up with everything that i'm doing at once. it's a pretty handy link, friends and family. hint, hint.

july 4th weekend = more photos (and vid) than you can shake a stick at (even if you had a really big stick)

2008-07-07T11:42:00.018-05:00

i honestly didn't think this weekend was going to be as jam packed and action filled as it ended up being. in fact, those adjectives made me feel kinda' like a super hero.

kapow.

speaking of kapow or, rather, kaboom, leff and i caught the jul-iver's fireworks from the lqa overlook on friday night.

they were ok but i enjoyed the chicago and chili dogs that we'd eaten earlier in the day a bit more.

contrary to the introductory paragraph, friday was rather laid back. we watched hitchcock movies. a *lot* of hitchcock movies. which, to me, is the perfect way to spend a patriotic holiday. you know, by watching the films of a british director and skipping all that apple pie nonsense.

saturday was all about the id. we had lunch at a great little place that leff is sure to write about on his food blog. after lunch, we dropped by uwajimaya in search of mangosteens but found geoducks (pronounced goo-e-ducks for those of you not in the pnw) instead.

that was the first time i had ever seen geoducks in person. my response? "fuck! what the...fuck! *camera sounds*".

i honestly hope that it will be the last time that i see one of them as well. i can't get my head around eating one of them (a KNIFE? i have to CUT them?!) but i should quickly add that i'm not a seafood eating person in general (aside from tuna in a can, crabcakes, prawns, tuna steaks and the odd scallop) because of a terrible case of food poisoning that i had when i was little that came from eating a sea beast.

that being said, please don't hate me because i hate geoducks. hate me because i have lychees ripening on top of my microwave.

i'll also allow you to hate me for getting this sushi platter for around $4.

and now we come to sunday, sunday, sunday. you'll never guess where we went!

yes, mt. rainier! sadly, the need for an arrow marker would turn out to be a theme for the day (it was so foggy that we couldn't see the mountain even when we were at its base in paradise.) but it was still a lot of fun.

well, except for puyalllup and its strip malls. but i digress. the mt. rainier park was beautiful!

and fucking snowy! in july! (yes, altitude plus record snowfall year. i get it. still, it's JULY!)

one nice thing about the trails is that there are no weapons allowed.

no, international readers, not all americans carry guns. in fact, i have never opened a ketchup bottle with a pistol at a picnic in my entire life! fact!

one big reason for our hightailing it out of seattle (other than the need to get. out. of. the. city.) was the fact that the old 60's information center will be closed this fall.

it's kinda' sad. i really like bizarre u.s. architecture from the 50's and 60's. it's got a lot to do with that sense of hope for the future. (this is that same reason that i adore the monorail.)

there's another picture of the interior in a moment (consider yourself lucky that i'm only posting one. i took almost 75 photos of it.) but let us consider the view.

like i mentioned earlier, the view was nonexistent on sunday. ergo, i had no need for distant viewing. in fact,this is how we saw rainier.

good thing i like plastic models.

k, here's the visitor's center again.

cool, huh? now let's get to the snow.

leff and i took this trail. did i mention that it was july? oh yes, i did.

just so you can see that i'm not kidding about poor visibility, here we are at the base of the mountain.

and, for the hell of it, a video.

do you hear that? the sound of nothing?

but, like i said, there was still plenty to do even though my favorite volcano decided to sleep in. things like the paradise inn lobby!

and blurry wildlife!

animal viewing tally: 10 deer, 2 marmots, 3 chipmunks, too many tourists to count

oh! and a bear!

at longmire, we took the trail of shadows

which was not only hobbity

but also had a geothermal spring!

i promised myself that i would limit the wordage regarding my love of tavertine mound so, i'll just say this: "fuck! what the...fuck! *camera noises*"

and throw in a video of the bubbling for good measure.

one last bit about rainier and i'll move on. there is water. oh yes, lots and lots of water. see for yourself!

the only other thing that i did this weekend was beat "professor layton and the curious village".

i'm telling you, drop what you're doing and get your hands on this game. it's simply wonderful! (and wonderfully difficult until you get your head back into logic problem mode.)

can i stop writing now? good. leff has another day off today and we need to go do something.

odds and ends

2008-07-04T09:23:00.002-05:00

happy 4th of july from your uncle spam, fellow 'merkins!

(uncle spam for s&f)

happy friday to the rest of you. you know that my hipster haired cat

and i don't normally celebrate patriotic holidays. (well, aside from drinking.) "uncle spam" was just too goofy of an idea to pass up.

so lessee, what's new? i have two new teeth! well, ok, part of two new teeth. my fillings are all new fangled and shaped to look like they're...uh, not fillings but teeth instead. this is incredible to me since my old fillings are a dark silver metal and hella' ugly. viva technology!

i picked up a few books for the nephew to be and, i'll be honest, i almost kept both miffy and bunnies' abc from which this deer is excerpted.

i also made one last onesie for my nephew to shake his booties in.

i was going to rant on about how much i still hate emp (and their current underwhelming robot exhibit) but, whatevs. i'm sure you all know by now what a huge waste of time and money (even on free first thursdays) that place is and you don't need me to tell you. if you do need for me to tell you, uhhh...it's a huge waste of time and money.

right, the beer in my fridge isn't going to drink itself! see you monday!

back on friday

2008-07-02T07:30:00.000-05:00

wed morning will see me back in the dentist's chair for a three hour procedure. but don't cry for me, argentina. it's all for the best in the long run.

anyway, seeing as how i need at least a day to get over these sorts of things, what say you meet me back here on friday?

conchords weekend, target

2008-06-30T10:33:00.004-05:00

this past weekend was rather swelter-ish. yet somehow, despite the heat and the general lack of ac around town, leff and i were pretty busy. (well, except for sunday when all we did was try to sleep.)

c, m and the twins came over for dinner on saturday. it was great seeing them all again but i have no pictures so i'm left to wonder...did it really happen?? ???

yes. it did.

it was also a conchords weekend for some reason. i made a flight of the concord grape juice shirt for s&f

and knocked out a boom king embroidery for leff since he booms the boom.

remember what i said about sunday? ok, well, we did go to target first for a large fan and some other stuff that we've been needing for a while. here are some possessed shopping carts in the parking garage.

did i say garage? i meant to say "car hole".

this week is when i switch into overdrive to try and finish the apt (i KNOW, why isn't it done yet?!?) because of a plethora of guests in august. i'll try not to bore you with fabric swatches and the like.

david sedaris, crush on plush, lots of movies

2008-06-27T10:09:00.001-05:00

grab yourself a hot cup of hoffee, bishes

'cause alfredo hitchcock presents this friday's edition of gpiss.

(alfredo for s&f, of course.)

so what've i been up to since i took an internet vacay? lots, actually. monday night i met leff downtown

to see david sedaris read at elliot bay.

sedaris's always very pithy and entertaining so it was a great evening. esp since we left when q&a started. (nothing annoys me more than q&a sessions. i won't go into specifics but if you think about it, i'm sure you'll figure out why i despise them so.)

anyway, photos weren't allowed so i'll let this dolma that i ate fill in for mr. sedaris.

they were both equally wonderful in their own ways.

wednesday night i met up with leff again, this time at velocity for crush on plush!

have an establishing shot, won't you?

i really enjoyed this lab 'cause i adore all three of the talented ladies who were on the panel. (moxie, kristen and hansi--see, they're all so freakin' awesome!) here's moxie pre discussion.

i love her new shade of purple, don't you?

yes, it was a great panel. very informative and supportive. i heart them all!

i also want to add that john (of velocity) is rocking this lab thing. many thanks to him for providing an outlet for creative discussion as well as the plethora of dry soda!

but let's move on to the movies in the title. i've been watching quite a few this week ("roman polanski: wanted desired", "rosemary's baby", "they live", "drop dead gorgeous", copious amounts of "flight of the conchords" which, i know, not a movie but still, awesome.)

and thursday, b and c dropped by to watch "teeth" but we went with a documentary on britain's worst teeth instead. (i couldn't watch it as i have to go back to the dentist on tuesday. it still didn't stop me from eating a few cookies and having a root beer float though...)

and that's been life without blogging. busy. oh my, yes. but fun.

back on friday!

2008-06-24T12:42:00.002-05:00

i need to take a vacation from the internet for a while so i'll see you on friday.

toys, cheap food and a fake vacation

2008-06-23T11:03:00.008-05:00

this past weekend? not so bad. i spent saturday at schmancy

instead of at the solstice parade because...do you really need a because? ok, i had a food...in the oven. (also, naked biking kinda' skeeves me out. the unprotected seats! the burning!)

one constant during the past three days has been the cheapness of food. for instance, this pizza and soda from paggliaci only cost $3.23. (paggliaci was having a 20th anniversary special.)

and this quiche from caffe d'art was free.

sunday i made the tiniest stencil.

(for suspect and fugitive)

which seemed to make clouseau happy.

also on sunday i played like i was on vacation

in synesthesia city.

in seattle, you can see the sound! what a country!

odds and ends

2008-06-20T07:23:00.001-05:00

once again i'm not into babbling on about what's up in my tiny life. i will tell you this though, pink cookies are fantastic for getting one out of a cloudy day slump.

also this comment by notes from the underwhelmed on jezebel has been making me laugh for two days.

When I asked my mom (an athiest) how the whole holy trinity thing, with Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit being the same thing was supposed to work, she said this: "Um... Have you ever seen Chinatown? It's kinda like that- 'She's my sister! She's my daughter! He's my dad! He's god! He's me! We're a bird!' while pretending to slap herself in the face. It was kind of amazing.

"chinatown" as the trinity. it's wonderful.

two more things and i'll let you go. "irene williams: the queen of lincoln road" is brilliant. watch it! now! i don't care how you do it!

"avenue montaigne" is just as good as pink cookies for killing the mean reds.

the two in combination will blow your mind. or, at the very least, your fda allotted amount of sugar for the day.

a wed worth skipping

2008-06-18T11:18:00.003-05:00

there's nothing that i want to talk about here today. oh yes, plenty going on but it's not the kind of stuff that i write about. sorry.

so, hey, have two photos for the road and maybe i'll have something to say on friday.

i'd like the last weekend put on repeat, please!

2008-06-16T11:23:00.009-05:00

drag out the punk ass balloons, chickens!

this past weekend was so magically realistic (it's what salmon rushdie and "knight rider" have in common. fact!) that i want to do it all over again today!

or at least after 4.

really though, this past grouping of friday night + saturday and sunday was great! leff and i met misterjt at top pot yesterday and it was wonderful fun!

jt brought the sun with him from cali and for that i cannot thank him enough! (in fact it's *still* sunny! thanks, jt!)

the rest of the weekend was pretty great too. well, aside from sleeping through the "pens and needles" opening (annoyed sigh...) oh, and the great pez hunt that was almost as difficult as tracking bigfoot or, i dunno', finding a worthy replacement for tim russert. (that's never gonna' happen, imho. teh press. i haz no respekt for dem.)

where was i? oh, i dunno. i'm not properly caffeinated yet. look at some sticker pics while i regroup.

nope, i'm not going to be able to reboard that train of thought. but! padre sent me photos from when he and my step mom volunteered at an obama town meeting! that's cool!

and clouseau has become fond of raspberries

which amuses me to no end.

no faces were bashed with bricks

2008-06-13T07:42:00.002-05:00

after watching many of my favorite movies ("evil dead", "the women", "bringing up baby", "princess bride", "kwaidan" "monster house", etc.), reading a lot and making this virginia tourist logo spinoff onesie that's guaranteed to piss off my step-grandma

i feel a lot better than i did last week. adding to the happiness was the arrival of noah's skull that i traded for!

luther deer loves it almost as much as i do! (thanks again, noah!)

i also cheated on my "no sugar" rule. sometimes a girl's got to self medicate.

also, about that...this *real* med (not the candy one) that i'm having to take leaves a bitter taste in my mouth (literally, not figuratively) that won't go away. it affects how food tastes. so, like, things that are good for me taste wretched but chemically, stongly flavored stuff like doritos and frozen mexican food are the only things that don't make me want to barf.

sad but true.

during my blog hiatus, leff and i hit (but not with a brick) the arboretum. it was our first time visiting but it won't be our last. i've got a lot of pics!

but first a question. how many pics does it take to get to the center of the post? i dunno'. seven?

what's done the most to make me feel better, however, is, of course, the sunshine that we had late on thursday afternoon. mai shadoh! let me show u it!

i feel like i haven't seen it in months. and, no, i don't have some sort of peter pan complex. (ed note: we probably do. a little bit. esp the part about doing dumb things frequently. pbbt.)

so right, uh, what? here's a pic of a stick-er of a phone.

since it was slightly warmer on thursday (i *so* wanted to call it sunday), leff and i went wading at the center.

there was a dog playing fetch.

and also the space needle. twice.

no, not really. i took two pictures of it, sillyhead.

anyway, summing up. things are better. there's a great show at schmancy tonight. "kung fu panda" was better than i thought it would be. (but that's still not saying much.)

now if you'll excuse me, i have to finish up a week of "the princess bride" on s&f. see you on monday!

back in about a week

2008-06-07T22:47:00.002-05:00

or whenever i stop feeling like i want to punch people in the face with a brick. whichever happens first.

almost better

2008-06-06T09:25:00.000-05:00

i'm a broken record these days with the tooth stuff. (for those of you born after records, i'm not sure how to explain that phrase to you. um...a short audio file put on repeat?)

no, i'm still not 100% but i'm also not bleeding any more so that's progress.

anyway, there's still not much happening at casa rakkaleff. wed night i put together a onesie that i'll never make because there's no way my brother will let his son wear this.

too bad really. could you imagine how awesome those baby photos would be in 2028?

leff picked up some david sedaris tickets for us.

do i need to reiterate how great of a bf he is? i didn't think i'd need to.

the last of my bday goodness has trickled in in the form of an agent cooper sticker

and a beardy ring. (ring from schmutzerland.)

no, c. the ring doesn't mean that i've become accepting of moustaches (except those grown for charity.) but nice try.

looks like it's time for more pain med and "the harder they come". can you believe that i haven't seen that yet?