Feb. 20th, 2010

gurdymonkey: (pretties)
Please go enjoy "Another California" at http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/PICS/AnotherCalifornia/

It's entirely because I saw his photos from the Salton Sea and Joshua Tree that I decided I had to detour through there on Monday morning.
gurdymonkey: (pretties)
The Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto is running a Kurosawa festival starting this week with The Seven Samurai. The retrospective includes classic jidaigeki as well as films on modern subjects such as Scandal, Ikiru and Drunken Angel.  Tickets are $7 adults.
http://www.stanfordtheatre.org/stf/calendars/Kurosawa.html

Seven Samurai is an epic two hours and forty minutes. Anybody out there interested in trying to catch tomorrow's 2 PM matinee?
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I got a phone call this morning from my nephew. Not much of a conversationalist on the phone, I suspect the concept feels like the person he's talking to is not really there. Anyway, it turns out he read a book in school on the Civil War and that's how all this got started. He did sound excited and rather disappointed that he can't have his "soldier coat" Right Now!  And of course, after I've bought the fabric and the buttons he wants a "general" coat.  I can rationalize some junior officer insignia for a shell jacket, I suppose.


The apartment looks like a blast zone, but I just did not feel like staying inside today. I had a bowl of oatmeal and went up to Moe's in Berkeley, where I acquired copies of The Book of Incense and The Kimono Inspirations. I also found a copy of The Art of Japanese Paper for only $9 across the street at Shakespeare & Co.

I grabbed a chai latte at Peet's and virtuously did NOT have a spicy ginger cookie with it. Hit the Michael's in Emeryville and found more of the metal monkey-with-the-peach charms to add to my token stash. I also picked up some wooden plaques to replace the "guests welcome" sign that was in the stolen sugoroku box.

The sky was doing interesting, stormy wintry things without actual precipitation, so I went the back way down Mandela Parkway to Jack London Square, parked on the Embarcadero next to the lot across from BevMo and pulled out my camera. You can see what I got here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70104978@N00/sets/72157623475504552/



I do think I need to create an icon with this saying on it though: 

I think I'm going to give [livejournal.com profile] trystbat 's party a miss though. I just started some laundry when I got back, not realizing the time so I'm kind of in it for the duration right now.  And I just realized I haven't eaten since that oatmeal....
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"Blah blah negative self talk blah blah meme to make us poor unempowered wimmens feel good about ourselves."

Nope. I am not going to pat myself on the back five times. (I have people for that, you know.)

I don't need to.

I don't have to.

You can't make me.

Yes, I am being a pain in the ass. Of course, I am being a pain in the ass. I am Pain In The Ass, Hear Me Roar.

Pride and Vainglory were two out of the seven deadly sins. Modesty is a virtue, as is humility. I need more of the latter in my life, not less.

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