Happy Holidays! We’re not doing too much sleigh riding in the snow–it’s a glorious day here at the beach! Enjoy your day however you might celebrate it!
Posted in literary arts, theater, video Tagged: Andre Bocelli, Jingle Bells, muppets

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Merry Christmas, ya’ll! Thank you very much for being part of my life these past three holiday seasons!
I’ll be taking some time off this week–lots to do to get [...]

Don’t even think about getting a puppy for Christmas. New research argues that your dog’s carbon footprint is bigger than your SUVs.
Hard to believe, but when you compare all those cans of dog food with what it takes to run your car, it’s not even close–your dog’s carbon footprint is two times that of an [...]

It was a rainy Santacon today in LA but judging from tweets from SF Santa and LA Santa a good time just the same (see tweetpics like this one or http://twitpic.com/ta1qj of elves in Pershing Square LA for evidence!)
Bob Dylan’s latest cd Christmas in the Heart will be the soundtrack for the Ventucky Santacon 12/20 [...]

A few simple steps and you soon will be decking the halls with a score of singing snowflakes! It’s that easy and they look that great!
They’d make a great stencil. Wouldn’t that be a fun costume for the Santa Ride–come as a snowflake!
Posted in art, how to Tagged: how to make snowflakes, snowflake costume [...]

This Saturday, October 24, around the world people are engaging in various acts to raise awareness and to encourage people to take action about climate change.
We’ll be taking our bikes that day wherever we go. It’s the ArtWalk around here so it should be fun.
Around the corner, we’ll probably drop by VCCOOL’s Rachel Morris is [...]

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One [...]

Now that WordCamp LA is over, it’s back to posting more about Burning Man 2009! This 2009 Burning Man video montage comes from the on-high vantage points of an airplane and then from atop a rickshaw. It’s edited from a day to night perspective. Check out the dust storms! From the shots of the fireworks [...]

The videos and photographs are starting to show up online as peeps get back from the playa and starting sorting through their materials. I’ll add the ones I find that are worth watching here. This one begins and ends with a plane ride and offers a nice overview of the city form different perspectives, high [...]

Last night, we had the joyous pleasure of participating in a Flying Yoga Playshop (similar to the video above) with Sarah and Whaka at the ArtBarn. And, we’re happy to note they will be playing and sharing this joyous yoga practice in center camp during Burning Man!
When we arrived at the ArtBarn last night, about [...]

On Weds. August 5, 2009, Radiohead released the song “Harry Patch (In Memory Of).” I love Radiohead, so I immediately stopped what I was doing when I heard on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic that they’d just received a new song. It took my breath away.
The video above offers a slideshow of images, mostly from [...]

Simpsons Family Burning Man from Aung T on Vimeo.
Funny for non-Burners, hilarious to Burners.
Aung also did last year’s Hitler Plans Burning Man. Here it is again, just in case you missed it.

Posted in burning man, burning mom, cultural events, literary arts, video Tagged: Homer says no to going to Burning Man, The Simpsons Burning Man [...]

Here it is the last few weeks before Burning Man and you really want to go, but you know everybody there is doing some way-cool art project, and well, you don’t have a tuba, you think you don’t have anything to contribute and no time to make that Art Car aka Mutant Vehicle, that special [...]

What do Superman, Mardi Gras and Omar Faruk Tekbelik have in common? They’re all at LA’s Skirball Center this August!
Thursday, August 6, at 8pm enjoy the Mardi Gras music of The Wild Magnolias See New Orleans’s acclaimed Wild Magnolias in action, showcasing irresistible, upbeat music and stunningly ornate costumes. More…

Listen to Sample All Skirball galleries [...]

You can watch this, the traditional way, by hitting play and watching and listening.
Or make your own sound poem. Start one video, then start the next one about 10 seconds later, so they both play at the same time, creating a new sound poem.
Posted in poetry, video Tagged: conceptual poetry, concrete poetry [...]

Whitman wears his Levis well to inspire a new generation, the millenials, the “Os” (for Obama) generation: http://goforth.levi.com/newdeclaration/gallery
OR hear here:
“America” (in MP3 format)
Bypass the Levis site and its accompanying ad campaign by clicking the link above to hear Walt Whitman’s original 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is thought to be Whitman’s voice reading four [...]

Above is a Muppet version of celebrating Independence Day. Below are a few of the many thousands of families who walked on Main from near our house to the July 4 street fair downhill in downtown; this photo is close to the tail end of the parade–the Big Monkey and the small boy are wearing [...]

Ahh yes, getting warmed up for playa bike rides with the First Friday ArtRide tomorrow night! Meet up with us at the Son Jon Road City yard parking lot before 5:30 or from 530-6pm, OR outside or inside the Artists Union Gallery or the bar at Aloha or C St restaurant along the Ventura Beach [...]

You’re Pushing Too Hard
My friend Ron Wells writes:

Amidst the passings of the King of Pop, the poster icon for Charlie’s Angels, and Johnny Carson’s sidekick, few will notice or mention the death of Sky Saxon, lead singer and songwriter for the  mid-60’s garage band, The Seeds. He died on June 25 in Austin, Texas. [...]

So his wasn’t the prettiest face on the page, I am sure he’d be the first to admit.
But anybody who knows Hardy, or gets to know Hardy, knows he’s a really Goode guy.
No surprise that Murphy-Goode snapped up the guy who flew across the country to be first in line in San Francisco to sign [...]