When the going gets tough, dragons gonna get going....
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December 10, Little Red Wagon at the Space at Greenstar.
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Glass half full gal introduced this favorite. It is so darn tasty and easy, esp. when you dump hot sauce on it. Boil 12 oz spagetti. Mix soy burger and pepperoni substitute into 28 oz tomato sauce and 8 oz rice fake cheese (you know I am a VEG right?) and add chopped onion and peppers etc. Mix all that with spice and the spaghtti in a 13 x 9 baking pan and then bake at 350 30-45 mins, covered. Maybe uncover for a bit at the end. OMIGOSH! (Stacey painted those cute little paintings and I won them off her blob, aren't they adorable?)
Havn't heard much from Celeste and Maurice lately, have we? You will recall my Canadian friends Celeste and Maurice? There was that party in Vermont 3 years ago. The charges were dropped. There was their visit here a year and a half ago. The state police were called.... And, thankfully for America, since Maurice has subsequently been legally BANNED, I mean it, BANNED from entering the US anytime soon (I am really not kidding about this) we met up with them on their side of the border, as you will recall, in Niagara, Canada last June. Look what happened last night with what they are claiming was MICROWAVE POPCORN. They tell me, and I swear I am not making this up, that they had planned to move out of that apartment this week anyway.
In other news, I dreamt I flew to Ireland to visit their warm beaches and there were little puppies who were cute but headless, because they grow their heads later.......
OK, dig Twisted Sister's rather excellent Heavy Metal Christmas :)
You could save a bundle for retirement, starting with this piggy bank, for sale now at my etsy shop! There is also a white and blue one listed. Snowing like crazy out there. Tis winter. AND The Pretenders kick azz, don't they?
Yaaaaay! Was at the Cornell Pot Shop sale all afternoon and all my buddies came over to gossip about YOU and the sale still has 3 days to go and has been a huge success, for me too, having sold a boatload so far... :) Norah makes egg cups and knits little hats to keep the egg warm, HA!
(wee little teapot by Gary Rith) Yesterday I send a pic to this gallery in Chicago that sells my things, saying I am doing a series of small teapot experiments, like this one, ready spring 2010. She replies back WE WANT THEM RIGHT AWAY. Oh. Well, I better get busy.... I have mentioned I am just making little teapot experiments, trying out ideas on little pieces. There are maybe 7 so far. (need a group shot...) and this is the first attempt at corduroy. Like pants. So, in other news, I am at the Willard Straight Art Gallery at Cornell today 1-6 selling pots, c'mon over! And finally, there we are at the breakfast table, me and Missus Hawtness, singing I GOT YOU BABE.....
man, you have to LOVE the blogosphere. Customer of mine Julie sent these groovy ornaments. And orders more of my stuff. DANG that's nice! Thanks Julie! Check out her stitchery shop! Of course, we are trying to figure out where to put them, as we are treeless, maybe hanging on the string of lights....
The Bravery, Slow Poison, has that mid-80s new wave feel I looooooooooove so much (cannot embed, click here) And dig some of my pigs :) Have a great afternoon!
Our vet also has a 13 inch beagle (the little and cuter kind!) and she tells us "Penny has unusally long ears for a beagle" and I would add she is unusally cute and sweet too. And a lot better behaved than the vet's dog, from the stories she tells! ANYWAY... I am a bit of a Christmas minimalist. I let everybody else in the world go nuts decorating. This year we are decorating with 3 Santa Snoopy beagles and a string of lights strung across the ceiling. Christmas is, of course, a celebration of Jesus, and I sometimes think Jesus would want us to keep it simple, hopefully including Santa beagles.
(pottery by Gary Rith)
And you totally dig Bjork's song here, and then the video is, of course totally odd...
Do you know what cow tipping is? Some sort of country prank where you push sleeping cows over at night....but HEY! You can play the COW TIPPING GAME! Then check out my rather cute cow pieces below....
(this person is NOT my wife) Goofy Kim, seen below here squashing Penny, came over to join us at the movies (see post below!) and twas a great time involving also green curry and you can see Buster in the snow and with me on the couch, Penny was cold and snuggling with me, and Missus Hawtness was playing with curlers and this was the cute result. Remember in the 70s when we were kids, like the neighbor's mom would be this old crazy looking creature in slippers and a house coat, chainsmoking with one hand drinking a beer with the other, curlers in her hair, standing in the driveway hollering at everything and nothing? (maybe you had different neighbors than me) Well, my wife wearing her curlers does't look ANYTHING like that.
We went and saw the movie Mary and Max is the animated claymation true story of a girl in Australia and her pen pal in New York. It is a slightly twisted cartoon, including the funniest scene with a mime you have seen in your life.....
Goofy Kim came over late in the day for movie and din din at Sticky Rice (more on all that later) but it was unexpectedly snowy this afternoon, although usually (not this year) it is snowy all the time. It has been super warm and mild this fall and winter so far, but I hear that it was snowing in Houston, Georgia and Virginia, and just enough here to make everybody feel festive :) Holy cats, Goofy Kim, a little snow, movie and Sticky Rice = heavenly day :)
I can say that can't I? I am making a series of small teapots--sorta quick tries at trying some shapes and textures. This is the second of 5 so far. I think there are gonna be a bunch of them. Dreamt that I was at a pond and a bullfrog bit my beagle and she disappeared! I was pretty upset and never found her...until I awoke and she was snoring in my ear then hopped off the bed and vomited on the carpet. I was quite happy :)
Before you admire that daring and awesome little froggy teapot below, dig my dream:
SO the wife, in this dream, gets her hair dyed black with white bits (skunkish???) and she never dyes her hair, but she has a new persona, and runs for Senator in New Hampshire (where we lived for years before moving to NY). And, just like the real elections of 2006 and 2008, although she is a total underdog and well-known progressive, far-left democratic candidate, she WINS, swept in on the tide of people pissed at W and his gang. It was a great dream. I love my wife and am very proud of her accomplishments, in my dreams and in real life. I was kind of figuring we would be going back and forth to DC and I would be her office helper or something, brewing the coffee and making the cookies, just like now....
(before and after, wee little teapot by Gary Rith)
I have a great post which as soon as the kiln cools and I can get a photo I will post. For now, lemme plot my weekend with you then you tell me what you are up to: --lessee, Chapterhouse at 4, c'mon over and join us at the demon lamp! Then, lessee, probably Goofy Kim comes up Saturday and we go to the cinema and then early Sunday I am helping a former student look at a used kiln for sale and later Sunday setting up for Cornell Pot shop's slae all next week....kinda busy weekend actually.
Let's say you spend part of the day flat on your back, nose running like Niagara. Let's say your main comfort is a friendly and clownish and cuddly cat named Spike. That would earn you BAMF of the week. Spike is VERY clownish and sweet natured. Like, he thinks he is so clever, hiding under the carpet and swiping at anybody that passes...until he falls asleep under the carpet. As if nobody could see his big azz hanging out the other side....
I was sorta wondering where that expression came from. Here is one answer:
'Sick as a...' is a phrase that has been applied to a whole variety of things and creatures...dog, horse, cat, parrot and so on. Even 'sick as a cushion'! These have been around for the past three hundred years. Presumably, the idea came about because dogs and cats certainly just do vomit whenever their bodies tell them to. Apparently, horses cannot actually vomit, so 'sick as a horse', strictly-speaking, meant a feeling of nausea whilst being unable actually to be sick. And the 'parrot' connection just came about relatively recently, particularly in circumstances of disappointment in football matches.
and further:
People use this expression to describe someone who’s very sick. It may have something to do with the fact that dogs will eat just about anything – and some of the things they swallow make them feel pretty sick!
I was thinking lately about how to, oh I dunno, make a certain teapot shape, and was walking the dawg and it came to me and then I came home and made it here :)
Well no, not really, but my pottery student Carol came along for coffee and errands with me this am, when I went to resupply stores and get money back and then, of course, I had to go to Nance's store in Groton and she always has this SAUCY look on her face when somebody pulls out the camera...
(elephant sugar bowl or whatever by Gary Rith) I was telling Christi yesterday that I want to make little gems. Not a truckload of identical bowls, but single, cute, perfectly made and sculptural pieces. A little gem. Exercise the flamboyant and most creative parts in the back of my muddled little head.
Hadn't seen our best pal Christi in a couple of months. She is a painter and illustrator, and like me, she is working hard to make moola before the Christmas sales season is ovah. She came over to SWAP art for pots, and of course have the cookies and see the dawgs who LOVE their auntie Christie. YOU could come over here too and have cookies. Just email me :) On the other hand, you could also go to my online store and buy some pots, like these babies down below....
My pal Stevo somehow took a pic of himself staring into his fridge. Sort of a fun challenge, eh? Except, I dressed in my cat in the hat tee, grabbed the cat (although sadly you can only see an ear) and put the little Felix doll into the fridge. ARTSY! Once, long ago, like 1994, we were getting ready to move Chicago-Boston area and were loading junk onto the wagon for the Salvation Army and the wife sez: "I won't have to get rid of my Felix doll will I?" and it's like "Holy cats, you can't donate FELIX!!!!!". Last year on about January 1 Dan and Kai of Ohio, bloggers who kinda disappeared, starting filling a change bottle to see where they were at Christmastime. At that time I had a massive metal box full of years worth of change and decided to turn it in before it was too heavy to lift. It was almost 1000 dollars believe it or not. Then I started again, to see what 11 months might result in. On the upside: I counted 57 dollars! On the downside, well, it ain't a thousand is it?
(cat and mouse and dog and cat mugs by Gary Rith) I came home one day wanting to make basically a cat painted all the way around a mug, then added blue along the top...and of course, a mouse inside the cat mugs and a cat inside the dog mugs. The look, I think, tres cute and tres sweet. Even if the weather oustide is shirty you have GOT to love December 1. I gave the wife, as I sometimes do, a lottery ticket advent calendar. She scratched the first today and won.....another ticket! Ho boy, its gonna be a great month :)
Golly these are good jokes.....:
What do you get is you cross an elephant with a cat? Very nervous mice.
Momma mouse was getting food in the kitchen with her baby when the cat pounced in. Snatching up the kid Momma ran for the mousehole but it was obvious she wasn't going to make it. Finally in desperation she whipped around and shouted "Bark, Bark" at the cat. The cat skidded to a halt and ran away. Momma mouse turned to her baby and said, "You see how important it is to learn a foreign language!"
I was reading in the paper the other day that REO Speedwagon has a Christmas album and that it is fantastic. The thing is, you have to admit that like the band Boston they made some expert and super catchy music, like this one below. Funny though, the band is over 40 years old and has maybe as many as 20 EX members! Same singer all this time, of course.
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