Mar 06 2008
Bunny heads abound: They’ve turned out much better than I anticipated, this being the first time I’ve tried using Fimo for an actual clay project. Susan warned me about how different its properties are compared to Sculpey (III and Premo). Fimo definitely conditions slower and almost to the point where I wasn’t sure if it’d […]
Mar 05 2008
Ghosts I-IV released under a Creative Commons license. Yet another step in the right direction. Nine Inch Nails is also offering the first nine tracks of Ghost free of charge. DRM free MP3s LAME encoded. Maybe it won’t topple Evil Empire #1XX (the RIAA), but maybe it goes a long way in showing that piracy […]
Mar 03 2008
One of the ladies from CC challenged other poets to answer why it is we love poetry. It took a lot of thought, but this is the response I gave: I gravitate towards poetry because for me, it’s often the translation of a world I rarely understand into words that I can understand. Short stories, […]
Mar 03 2008
Inspired by Susan. When I look at them, sometimes I see my mother. At other times, I see my father. I’ve not always liked them, finding fault in the size of my fingers, the shape of my nails, or the often calloused, rough-hewn texture of them. These are the hands of a survivor, a warrior […]