"She told it to me, and… like Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great, I occupied it.  It was real estate that I wanted to be part of so I just marched in and became part of it."

A cat playing a theremin.  God, but there are some days I just love the Internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE

My favorite bit may be the end, though watching the moments when the instrumentalist plans his next move are pretty fabulous also.

My flickr friends are having a ball with flickr’s new video hosting service.
My friend Kim, for instance, put together this little gem.  The only downside to the flickr video thing at this point is I can’t seem to make its embedding feature play nice with WordPress - when I tried to embed, it broke my [...]

Spring is truly upon us here.  We may get a few weather surprises in the next few weeks, but the trees are budding, pansies are blooming, and bulbs are forcing their way toward the sun.  Landscape crews have been out in force for the last couple of weeks, prepping gardens and medians for the floral [...]

Fear not - this isn’t going to be one of those posts that wafts about the idea of whether knitting is an “art” or a “craft” and what that particular semantic exercise means in terms of intrinsic or perceived value of the pursuit or of the finished object, the role of gender differential in determination of worth, [...]

But recent discussion with friends has shown me how much I’ve fallen away from some things I used to enjoy. Namely, creative stuff. Yes, I do this, and I twiddle with sticks and string and come up with (mostly)wearable stuff. But once upon a time I used to fiddle with watercolors and [...]