Another still day with the still life. A good day. No full-blown vertigo spells, a little general dizziness. Thanks for all the love! Now some drying time for the little painting.

Thanks to all for the good wishes. My vertigo gets less and less every day. Today I set up a little still life with the honey pot and stayed still all day. I didn’t have any of the bad vertigo spells, just a little general disequilibrium. I’m done for the day, but I’ll put some […]

Well, faithful Night Note readers, I’m going to be away from my desk for the week, because I’ve got a case of benign positionally induced vertigo — an inner ear problem in which calcium crystals form in your inner ear, shift around when you turn your head a certain way and make your brain think […]

I recently started using a new knife — an old knife I used to use all the time, one I learned to cook with.

For a long time now we’ve had a nice set of kitchen knives. We use them all constantly, and I’m pretty adept. But they’re not the kind of knives I started with.

Val e-mails from work to ask if I hear the black helicopters, because People for the American Way used my protest photo in their new video against illegal domestic spying by our government. Val’s in there too. Check it out:

From the People for the American Way: The Senate passed a FISA reform bill last […]

There’s a lunar eclipse! Right this minute! Here’s a pix of how it looks from Covina Avenue. [thx for the heads up, Laur]

Happy birthday to my mom Libby Barclay Buuck. We are so happy you were born into this world! Here you are on the steps of the little house on Birch Street in New Orleans — as cute and fashionable then as you always are!
For her birthday, Val and I have given mom a cool Netflix […]

Californiaauthors.com is celebrating the paperback release of Ed Humes’ Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America’s Soul with a cool giveaway. We’re having a drawing! And, two lucky winners will get an autographed copy of Ed’s book. Visit CaliforniaAuthors to learn more. And get on over there, because the drawing is Friday. […]

Finally getting there, just a few more sessions to go. I took Ilana’s great suggestion for an Iron Oxide glaze. Thanks! Now some drying time before the next round.

New LAT editor Russ Stanton (?!) addresses his newsroom:
I have grown tired and am now hopping mad over this seemingly endless “Groundhog Day” nightmare. And that is why I decided to take this job. We in the newsroom need to figure out how to break this self-defeating cycle before it does indeed result in our […]

Okay, dragging my ass home from Fluklahoma — as slow as the Greyhound local, stopping at every little bumfuck town from here to Wellville. I got a euro-postcard from M&M. Yeah, got to keep in touch. So here’s a little news from the road back to Normal (wherever the hell that is).
Listening to: Amy Winehouse. […]

Had to do a little something or go loco from flu-based cabin fever.

Okay, need a test to see if you’re truly over the flu? Get dressed, drape yourself with a glittering and heavy collar of Mardi Gras beads and walk the 6 blocks to your polling place to cast your vote for your candidate for President. Shaky, clammy, icky? Crap!
No! It’s not because I voted for Barack! […]

Check it out! Michelle and Mark visit The Night Note from Paris with a little update.

Well this was the first shaky-kneed day back for me. All day I felt like a wet chick. Val’s doing much better and is back at work. I’m wading through e-mails, washing pajamas, paying bills, thinking I’m gonna need to lay back down. I just wanted to thank everyone who commented and called. It is […]