Did everyone go to the home opening game for the Travs? Yes, they lost, but it was still a great game! If you like the Travelers, you should check out the best Travs blog on the Web: Travelerocity. Go take a look, even though the blogger hasn't returned the favor by adding a link to my blog (but has no problem e-mailing me "friendly" reminders to update!)
These are scans of manipulated Polaroid SX-70 prints. The first photo was taken/manipulated about two weeks ago. The second one was done a couple of years ago. Polaroid has stopped making SX-70 film, so whatever is on the market now is all that is left. No more photo-squishing fun for me! If anyone finds any boxes/cartons/crates of SX-70 anywhere, let me know!
No observations, astute or otherwise, today. Just something I've been debating with myself: Is Pee Wee Herman scarier as a doll, or as a live human?
I'm sure everyone has stopped checking for entries here (all three people who ever read this blog), but surprise! Here I am again.
I cheated with the photo above--it is not from the most recent Little Rock "ice storm;" it's from 2000, when we really had some ice.
And on that note...a little bit of advice for Little Rock drivers (except me, of course): If you don't know how to drive on ice, STAY HOME. Thank you.
Now, I should explain that icy roads in Little Rock are a lot more dangerous than icy roads in Peabody, Mass., because in Peabody, the sand trucks are eventually going to come along and soon you'll be driving on brown mush instead of ice. Here, if you don't see a sand truck ahead of you, and there isn't one looming in your rearview mirror, ain't none coming.
Oh, I saw a couple of the trucks driving down the street when the sleet started late Friday/early Saturday, but they weren't spewing any sand out the back. I don't know what they were doing. Enjoying the scenery, I guess.
If you live in Little Rock and only drive on ice once every two to three years, yet absolutely insist on going out to get that six-pack of PBR you forgot when you went out for bread-milk-eggs-and-oh-yeah-corndogs-will-be-yummy-when-we're-iced-in,heed this advice:
1. If you're going to brake, brake to slow down before you get to the ice. Brakes don't work on ice. You slide.
2. If you're already sliding on ice, don't step on the gas. Acceleration doesn't work on ice. You slide more.
3. If you have 4-wheel-drive, practice when it's warm and sunny, so you'll know what to do when it's icy.
4. If you own a pick-up or SUV, stay home so you don't wreck my car with it.
I couldn't believe the first winter I was here and we got, oh, 8 inches of snow. I was driving to work and saw all these abandoned pick-up trucks slid off the side of the road; so many that I thought it must be a joke or some kind of Southern "yay it's snowing" tradition. Nope. The drivers just didn't know what they were doing. You don't even want to hear about the SUV's I've seen flipped upside down.
Shouldn't natural selection have killed off all these people by now?
So, in other exciting news, my refrigerator quit working today. I have all my food in two friends' refrigerator/freezers until it is repaired. Which is funny, because it's been warm all winter until this weekend, when it actually dropped below freezing. Yet my freezer won't keep anything colder than 50. I realize I could just put everything in my car and it would stay chilled, but who wants to drive around with a grocery store in the back seat?
Oh, what wonders will tomorrow bring?
I wish they had "sleepy" listed as a mood, because that's what I'm feeling right now.
I'm taking an infrared photography workshop at the Arts Center. The photo above is of a little shack behind a burned-out nursing home on Highway 5, going toward Hot Springs. The photo needs some work (haven't been to the darkroom yet, just scanned the negative), but I still like the way it looks. I think I'll need to burn a few more rolls of film before I start to get the hang of this.
It's actually snowing two days before Christmas. In Little Rock!
As soon as it started, everybody downtown decided they needed to leave work and go home. They got in their cars, and it was worse than rush hour traffic. It took people 20 minutes to drive 4 blocks, and 2 hours to drive 3 miles. They probably bought the stores out of bread and milk, too, for a 3-inch snow that'll be gone tomorrow.
On days like this (and there aren't many) I'm glad I live a four-minute walk from where I work!
This photo is from last Saturday's Race for the Cure in Little Rock. It had been raining, so there weren't as many people as last year, but still a lot. The view is right after the start line on Broadway, heading toward the Broadway bridge over to North Little Rock. Even with fewer walkers, it still took an hour and a half to go a measley 5k. That's some slow walking, people!
Visited lovely Pine Bluff, Ark., last night. First we went to dinner, and saw a woman wearing fur-lined boots with her mini skirt and bare legs. Let me remind you that September in Arkansas, and especially in Pine Bluff, is about the same weather as late July/early August in Massachusetts. Not cold enough for fur-lined anything. I suppose some people would disagree.
Anyway, then we went to the Pine Bluff Film Festival and saw Thoroughly Modern Millie, followed by an interview with Carol Channing. She's still funny and told a bunch of hilarious stories.
After the interview, Ms. Channing (who is 83, by the way!) performed some songs from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly. That's her wearing the red suit and pigtails in the photos above. She even did a little dance with her husband, Harry.
The theater, an old, somewhat-restored one, only held 180 people and it was packed--we sat 3 rows from the back. By the time we waited in line to get our programs autographed and our photos taken, then made the drive back to Little Rock, it was 2 a.m. I was ready to just fall into bed and go to sleep, but no...Sydney had left a little present on the bed. Two yummy fur balls in a puddle of puke that soaked all the way through to the mattress. That was a fun mess to clean up in the wee hours of the morning!
