conversations with my best friend Stephanie

"have you guys ever had Fighting Cock?

...that was the night i lost my virginity."

WHAT DID YOU EVER DO?

Life is pain. Pain is Suffering. The only Cessation from Suffering is Knowledge

With the cat missing I have been having a hard time finding something to help me relax. What to do? Sit outside on the back steps until he comes home? or perhaps crying in my room to the always comforting stylings of belle and sebastian!? No, No. Apparently you just have to wait it out. I put cat litter outside. The lost ad is in the paper for eight days. A very kind woman sent me a long check list of things to do/things that she did. She suggests a laser pointer. I do not have one but this sounds effing brilliant. I could find my cat if i didn't laser the retinas off of all the other neighborhood scabs. Another idea I liked was getting a cat communicator to help. OMG- a cat whisperer is exactly what I need. Which one of you will volunteer to help me go meet this woman- Sheila Trecartin? Sheila, Dr. Kiki Watson is on vacation in Jackson Ward meeting tiny thug cats and getting covered in street dirt, but how do I convince him that mommmy needs him home?
Well, anyway, thank you for helping me this week. I really am very lucky to have so many friends. It's Zatarans fault. Dumb cat.

MOVE IT MAMI

this song...plays in my mind..daily.

P.E.

I am going to the Y this afternoon. I do not want to.

the girl effect

I saw this video on the internet today. The website is interesting as well. What do you think?

Making it in the work world by Alex MacDonald

Good morning, Ladies. I get to sit at the big girl desk today as the substitute office manager. I made the coffee. Now, I'm making copies. Girl Power.

today at work while cleaning one of the professor's office i found the most amazing bumper sticker...


YES!

that booty thang

"can you see my ass-twat?"

Eggciting

the perfect fried egg:

Place a small non-stick frying pan over the lowest possible heat on stove

Add butter and let slowly melt making sure it doesn't foam and is not sizzling

When all the butter has melted, crack the egg into pan and cover with a lid
cook approx 5 minutes until egg white solidifies from transparency into snow-white cream; the yolk will thicken slightly as it heats

How quickly the egg cooks is dependent on how low you have the heat


ooooooh boy...

Hysterical Blindness

This is mostly for Alex because I'm worried, but can be a warning to all:

"Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday." --Courtesy Reuters

Please. be. careful.

In other news, here is a photograph of a chicken with teeth like I was talking about. Hey, pretty pretty, turn that shit upside down.

Also related, my mother used to tease my brother and tell him that he had butt teeth that would bite his hand if he didn't wipe quickly enough. So I don't know exactly what the moral of her story was, but I always kind of figured that the butt teeth thing was more of an asset (should they exist). Plus, unless my brother was digging in his heiney-hoo, how would the teeth bite his fingers (unless he had a jacked up butt grill)? Salud.

Look out, little starling

Oh look, these are birds.

so....

i am working on a collaborative zine right now and i want YOU to contribute!
this zine is dedicated to the idea of a woman named Charlene Stevens.

Charlene Stevens was my mom's mom who i never met, the idea is that some of the submissions will make it into a small thoughtful book to give to my mom.

the rest of the submissions will make it into a zine or a series of zines dedicated to the idea of Charlene Stevens.

maybe you imagine Charlene Stevens to be a young girl playing four square in front of her house.
or maybe you imagine Charlene Stevens to be a very wise pet dog...

whatever you imagine write a short story, a poem, do a photo essay, a comic strip, a diary entry, a sculpture, a fake obituary... whatever can be loosely documented - just use your imagination (duh!)

tentative due date is september 1 2008

if you are interested let me know so i have an idea of how many submissions to expect

also, if you have questions contact me at yourstruly.shayne@gmail.com

this will totally rule!

love love love,
shayne!

tell your pals!

everyone is an artist

“Only on condition of a radical widening of definitions will it be possible for art and activities related to art [to] provide evidence that art is now the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions of the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER.”- Joseph Beuys

color explosion

Either Watson or Crick was on Acid when they realized that DNA was shaped like a double helix. The acid guided him to his inner destiny! Ok, now buy me this coloring book:

Hey friends

from tammy's recent foot-modeling photo shoot

ladies first

Super Potent Peanut Butter Protein Bars, aww yeah.

Ingredients:
2 TBSP no sugar peanut butter
2 TBSP cannabutter, melted
1/2 tsp liquid artificial sweetener *saccharin, stevia, liquid Spenda*
1/4 cup Splenda or 4 packets Sweet n Low
One scoop vanilla whey protein powder


Melt peanut butter and butter in microwave or double boiler.

Mix in the sweetener thoroughly.

Add protein powder and stir until able to form a ball. Roll up in a ball and kneed for a few seconds. Separate into even four even portions and roll into balls. Place in refrigerator until firm. Makes 4 servings.

Remember how great our beach vacation. Look at this pic I snapped of Shayne and Tammy on the beach:

Yo Hawties!