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Oh, Hell

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:22:28 GMT

You know, some days I think I should have been a whole lot more careful when I set up my LJ friends list; having existing long-standing interpersonal conflicts of which I knew nothing when I friended people is bad enough, but seeing the beginnings of what could be a really lurid piece of wankery starting in locked posts is... pretty much like belonging to a large and contentious extended family, which, you know: have any, don't need some.

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:01:24 GMT

Carl and Jadine at the Smith Family 4th of July Party, 2007 (photo by Mr. Space)

http://www.clcookphoto.com/
Carl's photo site

I've known Jadeen since we were in 4H together; I met him at the founding pot-luck for KAOS-FM, The Evergreen State College, where he had a show for years before going professional on KGY. Carl was a friend of my Cousin the Biker and my husband the radio crazy since the early seventies. The year before last he showed up at the 4th of July party at my cousin's, thinking he'd be seeing crows and found, instead, that he was among old friends in a place where he'd first worked on honing his photographic skills. He was, then, three years into his struggle with esophageal cancer. And now he's gone.

I'd link to the Olympian's story but it has really off-putting ads.

Julia, mortality sucks

Eggs is Eggs

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:22:07 GMT

I have just been thumpified for discussing the biology of hens' eggs and how that effects the need for refrigeration.

Grow up, woman: you eat stuff that's part of living tissue. Get over yourself.

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:01:13 GMT

Dear oh-so-helpful members of my home message board,

How about, when you're spreading reminders of a TV premiere all over the board, you might mention, once in a while, that you're in the central time zone of the US? You know, as in the "Nine O'Clock, Eight Central?" all of us have heard since we were wee TV watching people? Especially since the location under your icon doesn't reference any real geographic area, and all?

Even more especially specially since there are people in many other time zones on the board, and one of you spent the larger bit of the past year in one of them.

You are not in the least undermining the patronizing assumption of those of us on the coasts that the midwest is full of the incurably clueless.

Signed, have to vent somewhere, might as well be here

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:48:32 GMT

Head

Desk

(and no, dear reader, ther Grateful Dead didn't stop touring after the seventies).

Signed, stopped being cool , certainly.

Better Late than Never, eh?

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:11:37 GMT

Long ago, I mentioned "The Swing Years and Beyond" in one of those rambling off-topic threads at OTF wank, and mentioned that it was streamed live at kuow.org. The person I was talking to was on the other half of the planet, and didn't think she'd be able to catch it at 7pm-Midnight Pacific Time on Saturdays.

Well.

The show now streams 24/7. For anyone with a taste for big band music, it's what I like to think of as a cheap fix: five hours a week of everything from early jazz to space lounge. The current host has a strong preferrence for Louis Prima, often stuff I havn't heard since childhood.

So, anyway: Music! For Free! Different than what you can make at home!

(Side note to our Canadian readers: does anyone really listen to The Vinyl Cafe? the hour it's on is the only hour we turn the radio off, at my house).

So, just to put an end to the madness

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:09:27 GMT

Darlow's Enigma, center, with a single Golden Wings in the left foreground, Cl. American Beauty in the mid-distance, and a sickly (Roses of Yesterday and Today origin, virused) New Dawn and a healthy Ghislaine de Feligonde in front of the DE. Last June; I do believe I'll go take a photo for this year now.

Wonderful what I'll do to avoid writing

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:02:22 GMT

Felicite et Perpetue, early 19th Century French Noisette Rambler

Bill Grant, named for Jackson and Perkins great hybridiser, bred by John Clement, modern landscape rose. Thorny bastard, quite unlike Mr. Grant himself, who was a member of the wanky rose list I mentioned earlier, and who was not involved in the wank at all, sweet man.

The hits just keep on coming

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:56:20 GMT

Blame OTF Wank

Also, yell at me and I'll cut these, but I'm sort of revelling in just throwing up pics without writing long descriptions or coding anything.

Ispahan, Damask, way before 1848. This plant is 25 years old, and is one of the last unvirused crops from Will Tillotson's collection, aka "Roses of Yesterday and Today" before the owners got sloppy using virused root stock and nearly destroyed their usiness (now, there was a rose wank).

Longer view of Ispahan, with the modern shrub "Golden Wings" in the foreground and the climer "Russells Cottage Rose" at left background.

More Roses, why not?

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:50:28 GMT

The Wichuriana Hybrid Climber Cl. American Beauty, one of the few roses I've ever actually propagated.

Things were tidier once, by I'm not supposed to lean over to weed, and apparently I'm not scary enough to get my offspring to do it.

Abraham Darby, Austin.

More Roses

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:43:48 GMT

Pompon de Bourgogne, very old miniature Centifolia. with the old version of David Austin's Prospero.

Stanwell Perpetual, very old reblooming sport of the Scotch Briar Rose, with Hemerocallis citron and Geranium "Brookside"

Rose Photos, for the hell of it

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:32:58 GMT

These are from earlier years; this years crop in the coming days.

President Herbert Hoover, very old Hybrid Tea propagated for me by Malcolm Manners.

Pat Austin, English Rose, with the usual infestation of prunus leaf hopper messing with the foliage, darn.

Darlow's Enigma, actually purchased from Michael Darlow, for what it's worth

Dark Lady, English Rose, with Pacific Coast Iris