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Man. I love these.

From http://www.flickr.com/photos/39580174@N07/3692239181/in/photostream/

Monkey got really sick. But she’s on the mend. Almost good as new.

Saw this piece at the Nixon Art Mash in September. Super nice eh? Here is the artists blog..

Lisa Kowalski

I was walking the dogs.

I saw someone routing around in my car.

I ran after him. In high heel boots.

Almost caught him. But he was about 14 and way faster than me.

He didn’t take anything from my car.

Not even my ipod.

But I lost my favorite necklace pendant while I was running.

So I searched for it with a flashlight.

And I found it.

If they were women..they would have their periods at the same time.

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Sometimes I surprise even myself. Loving this song. I don’t know. Super hot.

Ok my two fans….and me. I have a few things in my back pocket. Let’s start with this….a little bit of irony..

I ran into this kid at a park while I was house shopping in the ghettos of Denver..and this park had a stream..where he caught this fish. Rock huh?! Kid caught the fish with a stick, a string and a hook. I’m serious. Old school fisher in the heart of Barnum. So..not only did this little go getter catch a fish, he found an old gatorade bottle, also compliments of the stream, and stuffed his fish in head first so he could take him home and put him in his fish tank. Which, is kinda cruel, but that’s the irony or the point of this story. Here is the fisherman, and his haul, in a piece of trash..

Now..here comes the irony part..this kid put his fish in a piece of trash he found floating down the river..the river that dumps into another river which dumps into a lake..NOW..if we lived anywhere but here..the river most likely would have dumped into the ocean at some point. Somewhere. And those of you who know me well..know I was upset about the Great Pacific Garbage patch a few years ago and after alerting everyone I thought would listen to me..I tried to adjust my life to not purchase anything in plastic and realized in despair that it is pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to do this. You try. Everything is packaged in plastic it seems.  I also felt morally responsible, making handbags of plastic, and considered quitting. Did for awhile actually. I tried hard, for awhile,  to change my lifestyle. Plastic is prolific though. Anyway, a fantastic photographer Chris Jordan has released a series of images he has taken of bird corpses on a island near that floating Gyre and which show the impact that floating, delicious looking, mass of our old gatorade bottles and combs and plastic trays from that pack of Oreos I bought, has on unsuspecting birds. Check it..