wut the hail?

May 22nd, 2009

Why aren’t the comments working on that last post? Will this work?

friday

May 22nd, 2009

Here’s me and Shawn again. He’s the one with the five o’clock shadow. Thanks to all the people who expressed interest in the website helper job. We’re narrowing things down and Shawn will contact everyone soon. New Jersey is still backwards.

I’m sorry I don’t have anything more interesting to report. There was a red breasted grosbeak outside my window the other day.

And I spotted this trillium while hiking last Sunday.

Oh yeah, and here’s a movie of my cat watching that talking cat on the computer. She’s not particularly interested.

want ad

May 14th, 2009

Here’s my new assistant Shawn and me, puzzling over how to fix up this website. (In case you’re confused, I’m in the blue.)

Does anyone out there have the skills to help us? We’re looking for someone with knowledge of html coding, some knowledge of wordpress, and some graphic design skills (and programs, like Adobe Suite).

It’s a small freelance commitment, but there might be future tweakings required.

Send some links to your work and/or a resume, and your rate, to velvetpatsy@gmail.com and we’ll get back to you!

dateline Dayton

May 12th, 2009

I’m just about to fly home from Dayton. I spoke at Wright State University last night. I was alarmed to discover, upon my arrival, that I was part of the Presidential Lecture Series, Read the rest of this entry »

Pic

May 7th, 2009

ferro-grumley awards

May 7th, 2009

Here I am blogging not from the woods, but from Manhattan. With my good old friend Sarah Van Arsdale. We’re on our way to the Ferro-Grumley fiction award ceremony. The Essential DTWOF is a finalist! Wish me luck!

Moosewood

May 4th, 2009

Blogging from the woods! Was looking for for the elusive shad tree to show you its blossoms, but couldn’t find any. So here’s an Acer Pennsylvanicum Hol found.

iBlog, youBlog, he/she/itBlogs

May 4th, 2009

I finally have the blog set up so I can post to it from my iPhone. Now you can look forward to curt, misspelled, and even more irrelevant and solipaostic–I mean solipsiatic &$@”? SOLIPSISTIC posts than I already make, starting with this one.

Sarah Waters is in the country

April 30th, 2009

Remember how I was losing sleep over her new book last month?

Now she’s on tour with it. Go see her in NYC tonight, or Cambridge tomorrow. Or check this schedule. Then read the book. Then let’s talk.

rodent composting, iowa

April 27th, 2009

Here’s a little movie I made the other day. I had smelled something terrible the previous night, which I traced to a skiboot on my basement stairs. Tucked inside it was a dead chipmunk. I dumped the sad little thing into the weeds, but Holly suggested that a much more respectful and practical solution would be to compost it. So I did. Warning–contains footage of cute dead rodent.

Also, I just got a phone call from my friend Ruth. She was at the gym this morning, watching CNN. They were showing footage from a Christian Broadcast Network report on the gay marriages happening in Iowa today. For a second, she saw me and my ex Amy Rubin on the screen, getting married on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco five years ago. The Christian Broadcast Network? What were they doing at my wedding? It reminded me of this panel from a cartoon I once did about lesbian-specific phobias.

Since the chipmunk incident, I have put a collar with three bells on the cat. So far this has stemmed the tide of wildlife that had been flowing into the house.