Living with Ed

Last night I acquired a righteous headache around 9:30 and settled on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate. What a nice surprise to find this hilarious show when I was thinking I’d just watch some home improvement TV and drift off. The show focuses on the home life of Ed Begley, an accomplished actor who’s appeared in several Christopher Guest movies, and his wife Rachelle Carson. They argue constantly: he is crazy and begins random and inconvenient home projects that make the house more green, and she is also crazy, but mostly because he’s always getting in her way and messing up the house with all the random projects. Given that it’s also clear that they love each other, it’s a very hilarious thing to watch, while at the same time teaching easy things to do around the house to make your carbon footprint more friendly.

I totally read a book

Here it is. . . a friend put it directly in my hands a couple of weeks back. Force feeding, but I really needed to read something. I think it was about my speed – a little thought-provoking here, a little romance there – and a very quick read. I enjoyed it very much.

Viki, Wiki, etc. pedia

Within the past few months I’ve discovered that Wikipedia is my favorite thing to read. This, and the mullet page, are two of my most favorite.

Though then again there is also the Heavy metal umlaut page.

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Originally uploaded by Bearolyn.

Here’s a little something that I whipped up as a holiday gift.

Yoko Ono

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Originally uploaded by Bearolyn.

So I’m totally in love with Yoko Ono. I think it started when I was studying postwar history in high school, but it was confirmed once I realized that she was such a talented performance artist. I know very little of her work, but I choose to believe that she’s wonderful.

I don’t think it was meant to have this effect, but one of my memories of love for Yoko is from when I saw Dar Williams in concert once in college. Dar described how she had the reverse opinion of Yoko from everyone else she knew—evidently Dar studied performance/abstract art in college and knew of Yoko primarily in that vein. When she heard about John Lennon, Dar was upset that he and his band were distracting Yoko from her art!

I think that charming story sealed the deal for me. I shed a couple of tears this summer when I was reading a Vogue article about the (by the way, amazingly young-looking and not afraid of showing leg) Ono . . . she said that everything was generally fine, especially when she was around people, but that she still mourned John every day. This was really moving for me. I also saw her accept an award on television once, not too too recently–I think it was right after the war broke out in Iraq. Through lots of tears she talked about how her late husband’s words were still very applicable today . . . all you need is love, etcetera. For me it’s always really comforting to see an established American icon like that, especially a woman – Alison Kraus, Bonnie Raitt, Glenn Close, Lily Tomlin, etc. all have a similar effect on me.

This post is a masterpiece of bad writing, but in light of the current troubles with her driver, and the accusations flying everywhere, I thought about Yoko today and felt a little sad about the whole thing.

If you want it, you can have it.

Originally, I thought of calling this blog “mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away” – for photography reasons. I changed it to “If you want it, you can have it” – because this is more writing rather than streams of photographs. It’s a quote from the Weezer song “Photograph” – and I take it pretty literally – “If you want it (oo-oo-oo), you can have it (oo-oo-oo), But you’ve got to learn to reach out there and grab it.” Ah, Weezer.

Also, it felt weird to have the name Kodak in the title if I’m a dogmatic, strictly-Fuji user (and if I were to ask Mama not to take it away from me).

My ideas for this blog:

entertainment reviews. Reviews, experiences, recommendations, etc. for concerts, museum shows, weird movies, lectures, all that.

learning. What non-work stuff I’m curious or excited about. This could include humor material, whether it’s something that happened to me or something that I encountered while reading.

Oh, and stuff I’m making. Crafts, paintings, happenings, photographs that I’m especially excited about. That is all.