Red Sky in Morning

The weather was shockingly hot yesterday and everything is dry.

I woke up at 9am today, but it felt like sunrise. The light shining through the window was red - deep red. I pointed out to Julian how our white sheets were almost salmon, and peered out the window. The sun high up in the sky looked ominous, incredibly pink and tinged with red. I instantly said " Something is wrong." At that instant I heard fire engines wailing outside several trucks seemed to be going in several directions. As I gazed up the sun suddenly grew and brightened and I cried out "oh god, we're dead." It seemed like sun was going nova, or it was armageddeon, or equally something awful. I was not alone in feeling this way, the emergency lines were clogged. It was a cloud passing, way high up, like a regular cloud, but full of smoke that scented the air, and everywhere people were calling in to 911 about the smell. A search for "Red Sun San Francisco" brought me to this page.

www.insidebayarea.com/argus/l..._6815620

The smoke color and odd weather are caused by a fire in Nevada, hundreds of miles away, and sometimes by another fire at least 75 miles away. I am not in any danger. These things are all happening far away, in wooded or grassy areas - not near cities, it wont spread to SF, but we are all affected.

weather.cbs13.com/cgi-bin/f...etForecast

the Lick fire is down south in california, by Gilroy, and is also contributing to the whole lurid scene. It is growing to be the size of San Francisco.
www.flickr.com/photos/sea...california/

1,700 of our local Bay Area fire fighters have gone off to beat the fires. Brave guys. send them good vibes.
www.flickr.com/photos/kev_g/406519880/
* note that while other shots are contemporary this one of firefighters is from february

I start joining woven things

manhattan was a trip - I walked everywhere and lost pounds, but now I am home to gain them back

i spent 20$ that I dont have at the fabric store, nice folks though!
www.yelp.com/biz/6GFe7LO7236VtTsL-bkKfg

and then went to scrap:

www.yelp.com/biz/9MmEddCB75q3H1ewMqnImQ
and bought 5x the amount for..5$. Also i picked up some discarded carpet - long bits of blu rug. i have a hankering to do the stairs over - they've had the same carpet since the 1970's and its dangerously slippery.

It's a huge project with much footage of rug in the home. julian will be annoyed...maye I can do it while he's gone? I'd need like three people struggling with a rug with me, so it'd depend on my both working and absent hoseumates. sigh..in a week i'll ask if anybody wants a nice blue rug collection?

In the meantime, I began trying to quilt. right now I just cut out pieces. i've always wanted one of those of my own - and i am really just using it to teach myself how to machine sew. so, maybe it wont make me cry with frustration. here's hoping :)

I'm in Manhattan

I went to Manhattan to see my uncles memorial service and I'm staying a little bit longer than I planned. Say hi if you are in the area.

I went to nicole's white trash party

It was actually Dan's party - he missed out on all the white trash parties people had in the 90's. I had a hard time talking to people that I didn't know, because i kept getting this subconscious message that they were idiots. They were of course, not idiots. I wasn't dressed too stupidly myself - just very crass. I had on panties that had Oscar the Grouch on the front, and on the back said "I love trash!"

there is a ghost cat in my house

She was there in the corner of our minds for a while, we would see her crossing a hallway or some boring typical non-moment like that. You'd see that while occupied with other things. This is because you only see things like these if you are both not paying attention.

I said maybe the house desired a cat so much it was manifesting one. Then we got a cat - Jezebel. As soon as little Jezebel moved in, the ghost cat vanished from our lives. Jezebel moved out recently, though, so now we have a ghost cat again. People report seeing her here and there. "Do you have a cat?"

Ghost cat woke eso up this morning by nuzzling her friendly fuzzy face in our friend eso's hand, which woke her up.

Our ghost cat is a completely uncreepy thing, but I like this creepy little picture, because it shows something very true about cat personalities and looks a little like Jezebel.

Protek Da Fourf Estate

Newspapers are crap, absolute crap, and its awful. TV news is worse. The only people providing any substance are freebie journalists who do it for the Love of the Happening.

Hopefully the internet will crush the old corporate news media and give rise to the newer more personal stuff. in which case, this guy Josh Wolf is our little forerunner of freedom. he's had 144 days in jail, for an actual just cause. This aint no controversial moment, whats right is obvious and I'd like to raise awareness and support whenever possible.

www.joshwolf.net/freejosh

I heart the Constitution of the United States, a citizen document if there ever was one, and G.Bush wouldn't know it if it bit him on the ass, which it will. Thats where the Fourth estate of the press is defined as a protected bunch. it's like a wild and weird branch of the gummint, somehow. See, because you cant have a free and edcuated people without information, and that info has to NOT be coming from the goverment.

that this kind of technical legal stuff fascinates me is proof that I'm a closet Libertarian. Sorta.

party photos

I have a crappy camera, but so does everyone else.

Bryan's pictures are better. go look!
www.flickr.com/photos/gen...4506112742/

Boomer and Number Six

Candid shot of actresses on BSG - no good shots of Lucy Lawless as a Cylon yet. Tricia Helfer, on the right, is the best actress of her generation that I have seen.

I love this show

Battlestar Galactica is the best show i have seen in 10 years. so intense. But although the plots are fantastic the main reason i watch it is for yummy yummy Starbuck. I am in love with her smile. This is the only picture of her smiling that I can find. Seriously though, if you like smart hot dykey maniacal women who ride fast planes, this is your show.