Month: June 2008

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iowa underwater

holy cow. major flooding in iowa city, coralville and cedar rapids— my friend kristin, a book conservator, reports that they're evacuating the UI library and that the art museum has moved its artworks to chicago for the duration. news websites are populated with photos of rescue workers and business owners cruising the coralville strip in small motorboats and canoes. they've implemented the 500 year flood plain plan, for goodness' sake. parts of interstate I-80 are drowned and closed, and I'm not altogether sure I'll even be able to reach town for my visit next weekend. thankfully, so far it sounds and looks like my friends' homes are not among those underwater– but I'm sending out my best wishes and hopes for dry land to all those affected– I cannot even imagine the loss and slog…

Taftspdwy
Taftspdwy

Bilde
Bilde

(photos care of iowa city press citizen)

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fare thee well, big teddy bear dog

I have some very sad news– still pretty new to me, so I'm still kind of trying to process it– today mister george, akita and friend extraordinaire, died. the whole ordeal was pretty awful, actually, involving bloat, emergency taxi rides, visits to multiple animal hospitals, large bills, and, in the end, a phone call over bi bim bop not an hour after we left (once they had him stabilized and we'd decided to watch and see for 12 hrs) that he was on his way out, if we could make it there in 10 minutes I could see him, but he was going fast. a 15 minute drive away, I burst into tears, not for the first or last time today– but that was it.

my george is gone.

I am enormously grateful to and for chris, who was there beside me, helping me through the worst of it.

I am grateful to all the vets and techs who worked so hard to help george and who eased his pain and took such good care of him in his final hours.

but most of all I'm grateful to have had seven and a half years with my dear, dear friend. a truer heart I have never known.

faithful passenger
faithful passenger

Georgehead
Georgehead

good dogsso tired

Georgehead_only2who could say no to that face?

Mengeorge
Mengeorge

Georgesnow2
Georgesnow2

Satinhatngeorge
Satinhatngeorge

een & george
een & george

georgehead!
georgehead!

Handsome
Handsome

constitutional
constitutional

Cutepartdeux
Cutepartdeux

Floorgeorge
Floorgeorge

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0227080725.jpg

family bed 1
family bed 1

mister george
mister george

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0510081653a.jpg

fuzzy boys
fuzzy boys

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I miss this place

for quite awhile there I was a happy little digital poacher– siphoning wireless access off my neighbors without paying a dime– kind of lame, I know, but I saw myself as a mostly benign parasite. and then a couple weeks back, quite suddenly, both of the connections I'd been so blithely and habitually using simply vanished– and there I was, cast adrift, disconnected from my wee online world, from vox, from my mornings and middles of the night lying in bed tip-tap-typing away random noodlings into this space. kaput. well, truth is, now I AM actually managing to sit my distractable self down at the art-play table and make some stuff, some little boxes and whatnot. but I miss this here. I miss you all. I miss feeling connected.

xo.

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weekend at the swap-o-rama!

off at the crack of dawn to alsip to unload some cable ties with chris's dad…

burly candy-striped money-takersmen of the familyselling cable tiesmiles o' crapit goes on forever

where you can get anything you want…

accordian for sale!scary exploding/laughing/evil overlord babyum, displaymini zoom zoomda bear, uh, lamp

a real slice of americana. I almost, but didn't quite, buy any number of not-entirely-necessary items, from knockoff designer sunglasses to a commercial vacuum cleaner. mostly it was just fun being a gawker and enjoying the beautiful spring sunshine.

swappin' fool
swappin’ fool

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