Random Visuals

I have a file on my desktop called "to blog" for moments when I have more time than things to do, or for when I just need to be self-indulgent and procrastinatory (I LOVE making up words). Anyhow, since I can't seem to sleep at 4:20am, even though I'm tired, I just rifled through and pulled out a bunch of random images I have been setting aside to post. Some are mine, some, I stumbled across in the internet...all are completely unrelated. Since I don't have the mental energy to write anything much right now, I will just identify them for you, and hopefully that will take long enough to make me sleepy...........


1. Very rare, empty subway moment. I could practically hear the cricket's chirping. I thought I had been sucked into another realm. At the very next stop, about 18 people got on.




2. New shoes for me and the boy. Mighty flashy! Haven't really ever met a straight boy who likes to shop (and who shops as well) as he does! Let's call me mildly suspicious ;)




3. Buddha baby! My niece Lexy, at about 8 months. She's 15 months now...



4. Here I am performing a very sexy sock-removal strip tease... RAWR!!!!



5. All my homies, at Graffiti's. The place has such a warm feel. Today I walked in off the street and offered to play for an hour and they said "Sure! Here's a microphone and the keys to the piano!" It was quite nice. There was one person there besides me and the bartender.



6. These are my friends, "Red Trackpants" a.k.a the Gagne Brothers (Mike and Randy) and Jonathan Jackson, playing on College Street. Coincidentally, we bumped into them in the middle of the street in the little tiny village in Costa Rica that we were staying in. I was like "hey, there's Spanish Randy! hehe" and then I was like, "wait a minute!!!???" Bumping into them was one of my favourite moments in C.R.



7. This is Duke. He has a dog named Guinness and his wife Judy just gave birth to two 15 POUND twin babies. Poor, poor soul. This photo is here because he is wearing a sweater made out of retired hockey socks. It is his "cottage sweater" and I love it.



8. This is an image from stuffonmycat.com



9. This is a picture of a man that I found when I googled "old man" in image search. I have named him Gilbert, and I think if I was 75 and living in a "retirement community" and he moved in next door, there might be some granny fights on our floor! I heart him, and he's mine, so BACK OFF Agnes!!!



10. This is me as a "Simpsons" character, clearly: broke, two crazy, mean old, cats...who else could it be? This was a gimmick from "The Simpsons Move" and I think had something to do with Burger King? I dunno...everyone else was doing it...





Not tired yet, but out of easy posts. See you next time!

the stacking kitties

So I am about to start scanning in photos from my last 2 trips-- Whistler in October, and Costa Rica in March...I have only just had both rolls of film (yes, I know..rolls of what now?) developed, and am quite happy with a few of the shots.

In the meantime, here are a couple pictures of my cats. For those of you who don't know, they are twin sisters, and 14 years old, and they stopped enjoying each other's company about 9 years ago. If they were a married couple, they would be divorced and prowling the single's bars long ago (cougars, hahaha) (oooh, just had a mental image of that awesome scene from Team America: don't be afraid, my sheva sisters! Your captors are behind that glass...)

Anyhow, one is submissive and passive aggressive, and the other is butch and alpha. They regularly compete over who gets the lap when I am sitting on the couch. Rufus, the butch, usually wins. Freaky, the other one, has recently begun to fight back with a little move I like to call "the stacking kitties". She very casually jumps up onto the couch, and slowly climbs over Rufus and lays down pretty much on top of her. As if she "didn't notice" Rufus was sitting there already. She has done this a few times in the last few months, and I managed to catch them on film recently:





Pretty ballsy, Freaky. I'm impressed.




Note Rufus' extremely displeased expression. I'm surprised she allows it. but I guess that's the thing when you're alpha: you don't give up that lap under ANY condition!