Cathy

Cathy, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

We had Cathy & Adam over for dinner last night. Mary made spaghetti bolognese (excellent), Cathy brought cookies.

If Cathy ever offers to bake anything for you, by all means, let her do it. Then thank her.

Wet Napkin Doodles

Wet Napkin Doodles, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Out for lunch at Pho 84 yesterday with Mary.

How many squares can you find in this picture? What's the gender of the artist?

Here's a link the Enrique Chagoya show at Gallery Paule Anglim. Oops. Looks like it ends today. Never mind.

Enrique Chagoya drawing

Enrique Chagoya drawing, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Gallery Paule Anglim yesterday. Excellent show. Drawings, scrolls and large canvases by Enrique Chagoya. In parts consciously remeniscent of Philip Guston, while employing a much more lush font of imagerey. Ooh, typing that made my fingers hurt.

I asked if it'd be okay to take a photo or two of some of the drawings. I wanted to show them to Mary & Alex, both big Guston fans.

View

View, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

The old Goodluck Market in Oakland Chinatown closed suddenly in late July. Refurbishing has ensued, and it looks like it's just about to re-open under new management.

I'm so happy.

No Parking

No Parking, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Sign on 8th St, Oakland. I like the base that they made for it, out of a plank and barbed wire.

No Parking 2

No Parking 2, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Detail of the base of the No Parking sign

Stump

Stump, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

The tree next to my Tienanmen Tire Tree just got sawn down. It had split in a windstorm about a month ago.

Thank you, City of Oakland

Oh, lordy, I've edited a lot of video today. Exodus is shaping up nicely. I'm burning a DVD of version 1.1 now.

Pearl

Pearl, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Pearl is sitting on a satin comforter. Her brother Ray is nowhere to be seen, good. And that scary man who lives with her is pointing that lens-thing at her, which is a form of attention, good, and he's doing it from a safe distance, across the room, also good.

That's one complex cat right there. Gotta love her. Awww.

Extruded Polyethylene Heart

Extruded Polyethylene Heart, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Made from a tiny Ziploc turned inside-out, sort of. Happy early Valentine, Sweetie!

I've been walking all over downtown Oakland, but I haven't been able to get me a Hummer.

The reason that I haven't posted a bumpersticker on a gas guzzler entry lately is that I'm almost out of the bumperstickers that Kyle sent me, and I want this last one to count. So I'm saving it for a Humvee. Hummer. H2. I don't know what the distinctions are.

I do know that on a Humvee website, they talk about gas mileage, and give figures as low as 3.8 MPG.

They're not east to find, though. I don't think that people who drive Hummers are likely to park them where I can get at them, either. I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled, I guess.



Meanwhile, here's a legit Hummer bumpersticker. Fair & Balanced, right?

Cathy Birthday 04

Cathy Birthday 04, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Ray & Pearl's birthday card to Cathy. We're taking her out to Chow for dinner tonight. And tomorrow, out for drinks with Judy at some place called "The Feckless Ponzi Scheme" before the theater.

McDull

McDull, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Jesus I hate this interface. It's like wrestling with vampires to post anything. And God knows how you go about linking to another page. I'm going to try to figure that out during the course of this entry.

Anyways. After Tai Chi today (I haven't been to Tai Chi in, like, months now, but as usual, they were happy to see me, and I was glad I got off my lazy ass and went...) after Tai chi I did some shopping in Chinatown. Produce, a couple MiniDV tapes, and then I needed a bag for my camera.

A little bag, for when I'm just doing still photography, and I don't want to haul around all the extra crap that I need for shooting video. I finally found the bag shown here, with the famous Hong Kong cartoon pig, McDull. His name in Chinese sounds like "Tao-something."

I've sewn the bag into my backpack, so that my camera can feel safe & tidy when it's traveling with me.

Happy Birthday Tom

Happy Birthday Tom, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Lunch today at Puccini & Pinetti with Mary, Cathy, Richard & Tom.

We gave Tom a Quake Break Shake'n'Bake paperweight.

Thanks to MoFo for throwing the party!