101

i have been waiting for four years to elect this man.

four years ago tonight, my stomach fell as i watched the results come in in favor of bush's reelection. i believed that kerry had picked up enough momentum and that the record amount of new voters was indicative of a new direction for this country.

feeling completely crushed, all i could do was passively watch the election coverage as it broke. in other national news that night, there was a lot of excitement in illinois regarding a newly elected senator named barack obama. exceptionally charming and intelligent, talking heads were already positing that barack might run in 2008 for president of the united states, but he was quick to dismiss the idea.

this entry marks my 101st post and i find it hugely fitting that it be about this momentous occasion. this is the 1st entry of the next 100 just as tomorrow is the first day of the next four years. for the first time in my short voting career, i can't wait to wake up tomorrow morning.

barack is giving his speech right now, and he is killing it.

pom-pom-athon

last night, i made pompoms for hours while watching dances with wolves. in addition to writing and producing my first short film this season, i am also making costumes for my friend maria's short the notes in the hat, a little love story about a waiter and a mime. i'll be sourcing a lot of the mime's clothing from goodwill, including a white baby doll dress that i plan to festoon with these lush red pompoms.

covetous

i had been eyeing these ranunculas in the gallery all week, and guess who got to bring them home!

press!

wha?! jenny at ciuccio was so kind to give me the heads up that one of my paintings was used in a storque article on etsy today! omg, guys. omg.

buzz

maybe this is news to you: i joined a film co-op earlier this month called scary cow. sunday was our pitch meeting, wherein all members gather to listen to pitches and then sidle up to whichever project they want to work on.

i pitched Eat Pray Whatever, a short about three friends who get distracted at an outlet mall on their way to an ashram. i received an amazing response and i am in the process of firming up my crew roster. we'll make it over the next few months and it will show at scary cow's second anniversary screening at the castro theater. you better be there!

miette

it had been a while since i'd visited miette in hayes valley, so i wandered over on my lunch break saturday to see what's new and lo, gummy alphabet! being a totally obsessive compulsive snacker, i loved spelling out as many words as i could with the random letters i was given. "quasi plum" was about the best i could do.

don't come back

nathan and i can't stand our building managers, and as you can tell from this photo, we're not alone. lucky us, kgb is out of town through the end of october. we might actually be able to drink beer on the back patio. and leave our windows open while we're at work.

many mondays

i've missed you, too.

last day

on my last day home, rick and i surveyed my parents' yard and started cooking up gardening ideas. our neighbor has a pomegranate tree and a mango tree that both have limbs that flirt with our property. i gathered ripe mangoes from the ground in our backyard. they are small and yellow and taste delicious.

nico the obscured

have you met nico? my LABF celine has two kitties, flash & nico. flash, as you might deduce, isn't much for having her picture taken. nico, on the other hand, is a man of leisure who will make love to the camera and then to your lap.

reunion aftermath

i got up early sunday morning after the reunion and went to TJs for flowers and brekkie fixings. jordan & marienne came over for pancakes and brought jordan's girlfriend monica. i wasn't sure if i knew who she was even though he told me we'd all gone to high school together. when they arrived, i recognized her from grade school! we had lots of fun cooking and making a mess. jennifer & her cool dude, alan, came by later to help us finish our mimosas.

that's jordan pictured above tickling the ivories. he's always had tremendous talent with regards to classical piano. i'm not being sarcastic.


a cat named mouse. she's our little alfa female.


the beautiful chocolate goose that is destined to never be eaten.


we all hung out long enough to digest brunch and grow hungry again. it had been a while since i'd been to oki's dog, so i had the pleasure of forcing my friends to go with me and watch me eat the signature oki's dog; chili, pastrami, and cheese on two hot dogs wrapped in a tortilla. it's under $4 and there's a signed glossie of en vogue on the wall you can stare at while your arteries cry. if you no longer have the will to live, have the oki's dog with chili fries.

10 years?

i headed to los angeles this weekend for my 10 year high school reunion. it was more of a mixer, very small and intimate; my old friend fredo organized it with a few other classmen in their spare time. it was very nice seeing those who could make it and daniel, one of my most prized high school friends, was my escort. we both went to different high schools and graduated a year apart, but we both had the same class song: in my life by the beatles.

collections

the house in scotts valley had lots of little random collections that i was compelled to document.

scotts valley

we got out of the shoebox and headed down to santa cruz where all kinds of my relatives were converging this weekend.

my aunt and uncle put us up with the rest of my cousins at a friend's house in scotts valley just north of santa cruz in the mountains. i woke up early on sunday and meditated for the first time in about a week. it was also my first time meditating outdoors! i thought it would be too cold, but it was actually nice and still. i brought my flea market ganesh, who is so cute and tiny. whoever made him even captured his broken tusk, no easy feat what with working in such a small scale. ganesh broke off one of his tusks and used it to help valmiki write the ramayana, one of southeast asia's most prized epic poems.

out of the closet and off to the flea

spent most of the weekend tidying the closet and going through tons of sewing stuff. it was exciting to be reminded of the fun projects i've worked on, partial and complete, especially this apple shaped pot warmer in progress for someone who can not be named because they read this blog and i would still like to give it to them some day.


after working saturday and spending most of my free time getting organizized, it was refreshing to get up early and leave the city for the alameda flea market, my first one this summer. my favorite find of the day was this little two year old version of carmen sandiego, apparently in hot pursuit.