By Booker B on 5/24/2009 10:35 PM

I enjoyed hearing a new band this afternoon/evening -- the Informants. (Like every band everywhere, they have a myspace page with samples for the overcurious.)

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By Booker B on 5/21/2009 7:13 AM

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By Booker B on 5/1/2009 11:14 AM

Well whadaya know! There's finally a cow involved.

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By Booker B on 4/25/2009 7:20 AM

Wake up!

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By Booker B on 4/23/2009 8:11 PM

Yeah, my mood's busted, for sure. This latest assault from the Happiness Police has me spitting useless invective and grinding my teeth. I hope they're happy.

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By Booker B on 4/17/2009 9:31 PM

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By Booker B on 4/13/2009 7:39 PM

So I needed a cite for an article I had published back in the day, because it would be a relevant addition to the resume for a job app I wanted to submit. Google will turn that up, right? Or some other online searchbeast will, right? Yeah, right.

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By Booker B on 4/12/2009 7:28 PM

The quilt top is pieced together. It fits the bed just about as expected. Time to think about the batting & backing and how to do the quilting

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By Booker B on 4/11/2009 2:37 PM

The ad on Craigslist called this trailer a teardrop. The photo posted with it made clear that that was not the case, but it's clearly a cozy-sized vintage eminently towable little thing. Cute even, or so it seemed from the ad. So I took an hour's drive past the ruins of mining days casually decaying to see the thing in Central City.

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By Booker B on 4/9/2009 7:57 PM

After the long break for the work/fun trip to SF (whee!!) I'm thinking about a more "gathered" less scattered pattern of quarter-circles in my quilt background. I still don't want to just orient them all the same so it's a plain old pattern, but the self-consciously random arrangement had an overly jangly feel for me. So here I'm looking for a calmer but still free-form arrangement. Not sure whether or not I'm there yet.

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