cartoon day yay!

 

 

where i found that nifty cartoon :
i nabbed that nifty cartoon from anita marie

where that nifty cartoon comes from :
that nifty cartoon comes from icanhascheezeburger

dances with coyotes

 

 

I just really like that photo. That is from AJ.

Fortunately, AJ is a friend as well as a damn good photographer so even though I make off with her photos all the time she does not press any charges.

[I rule!]

Probably you should have a story to go with that photo too though so here is a story :

 

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:::dances with coyotes:::

 

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from white eleven

where that story comes from :
that is from other thoughts on seemaxrun

feng shui mosaic

 

This is the feng shui mosaic. It is an experiment in imagery. It came about because Christie tagged me with another mosaic on Facebook and it was interesting to me the nine squares could be a bagua so I did a bagua. [Oh the shame, I created a tag, ahh!] The results were interesting to me though.

 

 

To do the feng shui mosaic —

Fill in a response for each word on the list below [no do not copy mine you goofs sub in your own] :

1. Fortune: Busted
2. Fame: Pretty Lights
3. Love: Censored
4. Family: Ow
5. Health: Striving
6. Creativity: Still Striving
7. Wisdom: Absolutely Striving
8. Journey: Tired shoes
9. Friends: Good thing

Keep these in order, placement is important. Then —

1. Type your response to each of the words into Flickr Search.
2. Using ONLY the first page, pick an image.
3. Copy and paste each image’s URL into Mosaic Maker. [Be sure to change rows to 3 and columns to 3 in Mosaic Maker to make sure there are nine spots : Mosaic Maker.]
3a. If Mosaic Maker gets tiffy, grab your own graphic program and build a mosaic.
4. Save the mosaic image and post it.
5. Link back to this post so I know to come see your mosaic.

 

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*i am not tagging anyone here just do it if it looks fun to you

 

1. Dakota Bust – Sheldon, Birmingham, 2. Tree With Pretty Blue Lights, 3. TRESPASSING HANNOVER, 4. Freckles, 5. Love for sale, 6. The Impossible Dream, 7. “new” tea kettle, 8. Anomaly, 9. Tender Love and Care

dear psycho batshit crazy helicopter guy

 

Dear Psycho Batshit Crazy Helicopter Guy :

I am not sure whether you are aware of this or not but West Hollywood is not a war zone.

I am trying to work with you here. I shut all my windows to block your noise out.

But —

You are flying so low to ground and so close to my building that just results in me being smoked out by my own cigs while my windows and walls still shake from your batshit crazy flight plan.

And —

IT HAS BEEN THREE FUCKING HOURS NOW OF YOUR GOD DAMN ROTARS SHAKING MY WINDOWS AND WALLS.

It is not just tonight either Batshit Crazy Pilot Guy. You do this every night. That is a pattern. A rut. It is not good for you. Don’t you want to get out of that pattern? Don’t you want to get out of that rut? Don’t you have family? A home? A girlfriend? Somewhere, ANYWHERE else to be but here?

Please go raptor another neighborhood for a little while. Just a little while off would allow me to recollect my composure and maybe even delicately overlook YOUR GOD DAMN ABERRANT FLIGHT PATTERN.


Love and Kisses,

Your Please Stop It Adams Girl

 

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*By the way, just a reminder, hello, homosexuals are not terrorists. Also I am not even homosexual so how wrong is it I have to bring that up?

 

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*By by the way, am I unsane or did Channel 2 News just say President Clinton was impeached? [Hint, I am not unsane, Channel 2 News just did say that. Wrong Again Channel 2 News.]

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from alsay

foil sunday

 

Miss Adams cannot post today.

She has to foil her hair.

Ahhhh!

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from ajpscs

mary janes

 

I wonder —

If I should start dating again.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from kristamas is abducted by aliens

things not to do at the computer

 

Thing Not to Do —

At The Computer #3,426 :

Get really annoyed at that strand of hair that keeps working free of its clip and brushing against your neck.

 

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Thing Not to Do At The Computer #3,427 :

Whip nail scissors out of the desk drawer and whack that baby off.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from kristamas is abducted by aliens

the crest of the wave

 

So the building manager —

Called yesterday and left a message he needed to come over today.

With most tenants that just means letting someone know you are coming and need access. With me it means I need to be sort of presentable. The time he said he would show was between 10 am and 12 noon. I left him a message, I will be here.

My work is when I have it and when I do it, and when I have and need to do a lot of work I do a lot. [When I have no work I play a lot of Tetrizz. Oops.] Right now I have a lot to do. Enough to do so that I did not actually break off till 8 am. At which point, what was I going to do, sleep 2 hours and stumble up for the manager guy?

So, I just went and did other work. 10 am rolled around. No manager guy. So I went and did other work. 12 noon. No manager guy. At which point I thought maybe I was too brain dead to do more work and I went and spoofed on facebook.

At 1 pm I called and said, Hey manager guy, I just pulled an all nighter and you are an hour late and I am about to keel.

He said, Be there in 5 minutes. And he was. And he and a savvy technician guy showed and did something to the garbage disposal with myriad fancy tools only manager and savvy technican guys with myriad fancy tools can do.

The problem is.

It is now 2 pm. And I am beyond sleep. Insomnicacs know this place. Where you keep going and keep going and hit the sleep wall and if you keep going past that? You are out of luck till the next crest. It is like you just crested a huge wave at sea body surfing head on into that you had no business making it through but somehow you did make it through and now you are on the other side and not going anywhere till another big wave comes?

That crest.

I did two of those crests last night.

And one this morning.

And am not going anywhere till another one hits.

Wow tonight is not going to be pretty.

 

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[also, aj, where is the green curl? damn, no other photo is that good and you pulled it you are in so much trouble]

[also if there are mad cap typos in here i have mad sleep deprivation that is not my fault :::grrr:::]

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from r and b

questions with no answers

 

I wonder sometimes —

What I appear to be.

There is never any knowing about that.

I post about moving desks. Eating cats. Strangers in restaurants. Messages in bottles. The loss of love. Salt water crocs. And trying to find a bathing suit I like.

And sometimes I wonder, what overall image does that paint to other people of me?

I have no idea.

 

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A smart blogger would attempt to be one thing. So would a smart writer I think. Present one image. Build on it. Use it.

I am maybe not smart.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from kristamas is abducted by alients

chinese chicken

 

This is so wrong.

Yet still I post it.

[Psst, turn on your sound.]

:::chinese chicken:::

 

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[ps : stiletto sent that to me she and i are still cracking up way too hard]

 

continental desk drift

 

So my desk keeps moving.

By itself.

This is really annoying. I am very big on the placement of objects and my desk is perfectly square to the wall beside it and the glass doors behind it and it keeps going kitty cornered. Not huge moves. But a couple inches. And I keep putting it back. And it keeps moving again when I am not watching.

The first couple times it did it I thought, Hey, why is the desk off? Oh well maybe I just did not square off the desk the way I thought I did?

You think dumb stuff like that when there is no explicable reason for something being off. But that is not it. The desk is on carpet and when it gets moved, the old spots where its feet rested are depressions in the carpet right there showing where the desk was standing before it got moved.

This desk is heavy. It is real work for me to move it back. It is not like this could just be simple continental drift of a desk. Something has to be moving this desk.

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from crazy beautiful 22

u is for underwear

 

It is past time —

For a new survey but I cannot always lean on Rachael for surveys [Rachael always does the best surveys but she has not done one in a LONG time] so I went and hunted one up. I am just all pro-active like that [not really but it was totally time] so —

The A to Z Survey. Yay!

 

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A is for Allergies~ Grapefruit, Vaseline and, um, [okay just do not ask] Nanoxynol-9.

B is for Beer~ Becks. Yay!

C is for Career~ Writer, teacher, girl wonder.

D is your dog’s name~ Okay I am so stealing my friend’s dog Oscar here.

E is for Essential item you use everyday~ A tiara and a prayer.

F is for favorite TV show~ What is The Untitled Max Adams Project Alex?

G is for Game~ Man Hunt Yay!

H is for home town~ Highway 101 : Population California.

I is for instruments~ Um, musical, world domination, or mass destruction?

J is for juice~ Merlot.

[What? It has grapes.]

K is for whose butt you’d like to kick~ Um. Answering this question is what we in the assassin ninja biz call “telegraphing.” We do not do that.

L is for last place you lived~ Hollywood Baby.

M is for marriage~ Come back with a bigger diamond and we might talk.

N is your name~ Max Dammit Adams.

O is for overnight hospital stays~ Is “more than I can remember a count on” bad?

P is for passion~ I lusted after Simon Baker during a TV break today does that count?

Q is for quote~ “I am tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want an adorable pancreas?”

[Jean Kerr rocks.]

R is for regret~ I totally regret REPEATEDLY not winning The Publisher’s Clearing House Sweepstakes.

S is for status~ 10 cigarettes, 1 glass of wine, 117 pounds. But the day is young and there is more wine in the fridge — and ice cream yay!

T is for the time you woke up~ Hello? Crazed artist here? We do not check clocks when we rise we check clocks when we set.

U is for underwear~ That is a pretty frisky question coming from someone asking marriage questions with no ring.

V is for vegetable~ Um. No offense but I only date in my own weight class.

W is for worst habit~ Hey. I look damn good in a habit.

X is for X-ray~ Foot ankle shin knee [are we counting MRI’s or just straight X-rays?] wrist shoulder forearm skull neck spine teeth jaw lungs stomach — oh hell let’s just figure my chromosome count is a little off by now and call this bad boy done.

Y is for your favorite sport~ Hockey yay! Okay not really hockey. Hockey players. Yay!

Z is for zodiac~ Aquarius. But I have this thing for Virgos….

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from chaovsky

living will

 

A friend sent this to me —

It cracks me up.

 

I,__________________, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.

Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians who couldn’t pass ninth grade biology if their lives depended on it, or lawyers/doctors interested in simply running up the bills.

If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:

Glass of wine
Cup of coffee
Margarita
Sex
Martini
Cold Beer
Chocolate
Chicken fried steak
Cream gravy
Sex
Mexican food
Chocolate
French fries
Chocolate
Pizza
Sex
Ice cream
Cup of coffee
Chocolate
Sex
Chocolate
Sex!
[And a cigarette dammit]

It should be presumed that I won’t ever get better. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my appointed person and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes, let the ‘fat lady sing,’ and call it a day!

 

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*yeah, i edited it, sue me

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from tresselboard

the afghanistan writing project

 

A fellow teacher —

Masha Hamilton is organizing this and I think it would simplify things if instead of me answering individual questions the information just were all up in one place so here is the info from Masha Hamilton on the Afghanistan Women’s Writing Project :

 

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Hi guys, in response to a real need, I’m starting up the Afghanistan Women’s Writing Project, working with young women in Afghanistan, in some of the most conservative provinces-Farah, Kandahar-as well as in Kabul and Herat,
to develop their writing. These are women who, when permitted to attend school, are often NOT encouraged to seek a higher education. They have such strong voices, [and what a wealth of experiences], and they just need development. Some are young journalists; others have studied briefly in the
states but are now back home, others hope to study here at some point. They all have workable English [sometimes excellent English] and access to a computer.

I’m seeking women writing teachers who might agree to rotating work online for three weeks or so with these young women over the next six to nine months. This is pro bono, but very rewarding. So much is happening in the country. We have no Afghan women writers that I know of, and I think that’s a loss… I was in Afghanistan in November and met some of these women, but most I do not know personally. If you might be interested and willing to work online with, say, six young women-giving them exercises, encouragement
and critiques-send an email to masha@mashahamilton.com.

What it would involve: connecting with the women by giving them your brief bio. [If they have not already filed bios, you will ask them to do the same.] Then once per week, say every Monday, offering a smorgasbord of exercises, maybe five or six for them to choose from — some less formal freewrites, some more formal exercises they might revise before offering.
Then going online once every day or other day to respond to their work. I would ask for a three — or four-week commitment. For scheduling purposes, let me know what weeks or months might work or not work for you. If you would be ready to jump in immediately, let me know.

I’m also seeking blog master who would be willing to set up a blog where we could acknowledge those teachers giving up their free time to be involved, linking to their websites or blogs, but where primarily we could get “out there” the works of these young women. The idea is that teachers who feel
they have student work ready to share could post it on the blog.

I know how busy everyone is; thank you so much for considering giving some time to this woman-to-woman project.

 

about masha hamilton :
mashahamilton.com

where the art work comes from :
that is from jefg99

that workshop thing

 

There is a chair —

Open in the 5150 online screenwriting workshop. Anyone interested should check the info at :::workshop:::

 

where the art work comes from :
that is from the scattered image