2007 May - she's the one

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with her killer graces
and her secret places
that no boy can fill
with her hands on her hips
oh, and that smile on her lips
because she knows that it kills me
with her soft french cream
standing in that doorway
like a dream
I wish she'd just leave me alone
but french cream won't soften
them boots and french kisses
will not break that heart of stone
with her long hair falling
and her eyes that shine
like the midnight sun
she's the one
that thunder in your heart at night
when you're kneeling in the dark
it says
you're never gonna leave her
but there's this angel in her eyes
that tells such desperate lies
and all you wanna do is believe her
and tonight you'll try
just one more time
to leave it all behind
and to break on through
oh, she can take you
but if she wants to break you
she's gonna find out
that ain't so easy to do
and no matter where
you sleep tonight
or how far you run
she's the one
with just one kiss
she'll fill these long summer nights
with her tenderness
that secret pact you made
back when her love could save you
from the bitterness
she's the one

archive for May of 2007

Slight design change

Posted May 13, 2007 • Comments Off

The orange color of this blog (and of much else in my life) is sampled from the butterfly that is the application icon for Adobe InDesign CS2, my favorite tool.

It’s a nice butterfly. I like the secondary colors blending together. Orange and purple (and green) are more interesting than red and blue and yellow.

But InDesign CS3 is out now, and I like it, and it no longer uses the butterfly. Its icon (like all the new Adobe ones) is a square with letters in it, like an entry in the periodic table. And I’m not about to let my blog be decorated with a square (even if it is purple) that says “ID” in it. Not everything here comes from my id, for one thing.

So I found another image I’m going to use. You see it above (unless you’re reading via RSS). It’s a typewriter key with an E on it. We’ll see if it works out.

On FIRE, I tell you

Posted May 12, 2007 • Comments Off

I’ve gotten so much done today. Cleaning out the guest room in preparation for getting rid of my old computer desk, putting things on Freecycle, making room in the living room for my new drop-leaf table, and so on. Threw out tons of magazines after speed-reading them. Put some books away. Sorted out the silver I inherited into keep and maybe-don’t-keep. Just good work all around.

I even filed my 2002 tax papers in the right place. As opposed to where they were, which was in a giant completely random box of papers I packed in a frenzy when I had to unexpectedly move in late February 2003 due to my old apartment getting flooded with poo. Ah, nostalgia.

That box contained lots of great stuff, including the great stuff referenced at the end of this post. Also all the postcards and letters Lisa sent me from Florida in the time between when they moved down there and when I did. Much of this is addressed to Lainey Burdine. There are several cards made at those wonderful American Greetings kiosks they don’t have anymore. We loved those, back in the day. I think they were called Creatacard, the same as the software. The software unfortunately displaced the kiosks, which is teh suck because the machines had plotters, not printers, and would draw cartoons, a color at a time, while you watched. Marvelous.

I even found the photos from the summer of 1993 that I’ve been looking for since roughly September 12, 2001. The ones that document my last, and David’s and Lisa’s only, trip to the top of the World Trade Center. You have no idea how dearly I wanted to find these pictures, and now I have.

…also I made my very own Pirates of the Caribbean flag.

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That’s what I’m talking about. Make yours here.

In other news, I did something I’ve been meaning to do for ages and photographed some of Arwen’s old handmade Christmas solstice/new year cards, which were always too pretty to throw away. I’ll post those toward the end of the month on the photo site, with comments. Have you seen the photo site since I revamped the template? It’s awesome now. The link is always at the top of this page.

Dual

Posted May 10, 2007 • Comments Off

andertho posted a photo:

Sort of the same theme as the one below... I love capturing the interaction of people and art.

These two gentlemen are studying two versions of Monet's "Rouen Cathedral" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=46241+0+none

www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=46371+0+none