Archive for October, 2009

“2005 Kaboom,” from Studio H (Chris)’s photostream onFlickr.
That shero Liz Henry tracked down them durn rogue sub-pages, lassoed ‘em,  and brought ‘em back into the pen uninjured. (Just sneaked into this movie theater after your other one, lookin’ for a free double bill? This’ll catch you up.)
Then as her horse ambled off into the sunset,  its [...]

Direct from the Courage Campaign website (thanks to a reminder from hekebolos at DailyKos in “Action: Help the nationwide fight for LGBT equality” ):

Progressives are closer than ever to a victory on health care reform. As 2009 comes to a close, we’ve moved forward on other issues. But what’s looming up ahead could be a [...]

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The beloved just closed her youth music theater company’s production of A Chorus Line, and with that the swing shift part of our family life is slowly, gratefully, opening back to normal. Two of us to do (and trade off doing) what drove a menopausal monotasking Baba half-way up a tree to do solo for too [...]

Running boy, Berkeley, CA.
Image above taken a couple of weeks back by the Special Uncle with my camera, only it isn’t my camera but a dear friend’s, on extendo-loan, and (my, do I give it a workout).  What I like about this is how well this moment conveys this boy’s grace.  Maybe he’s not a [...]

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Blue, streak. Girl on the go, South of Market sidestreet, San Francisco, CA.

BPWP #2

Whoosh! ‘Round the zoo’s merry-go-round, Oakland, CA.
Blurry Photo Week Photo #2, cheating a bit on the blurry, since we have a bit of a kid in focus. But I think the pop-flash boy does have a now you see him, now you don’t kind of quality. Which is precisely what a child’s childhood is. That [...]

Madonna and kids, exiting the Castro Theater, San Francisco, CA.
Okay not that Madonna.
This week, in a valiant effort to continue to post fresh content here when I am feeling a lot more like the cat pictured on the most recent LD Weekend bonus shot, I have decided to tinker with and post an assortment of [...]

T-shirt, Old Sacramento, CA.
“A bit frontal,” my playwright mother-in-law might say.
This t-shirt jumped out at me when we were strolling around between our visit to the train museum last weekend and our train trip back home. “Jumped out” because (a) it scared the bejeepers out of me, and (b) once the fright subsided, I thought: [...]



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