Category: Media

This is a container category for media reviews and related drivel.

Hearing Red

As I slowly work my way through tagging my digital music library with ratings marks to ease the process of making random playback of excellent music possible on any given PC, I’ve noticed that only two albums in my collection start with the word “red”, and they’re both by Midnight Oil: “Red Sails In The Sunset” and “Redneck Wonderland.”

It occurs to me, in fact, that these are among the Oils’ strongest records, leaving aside the landmark smash-hit “Diesel & Dust.” So… what do you think? Am I nuts, or am I right?

25 September, 2009
Look! Up In The Sky!

So, on the heels of my somewhat-down little posting yesterday, I offer what I consider to be one of the most beautiful skies I’ve seen in a long time:

Most folks, I suppose, prefer a pristine blue, or maybe mostly-blue with an occasional white puffy cloud. Me? I want a lot of different shapes and shades of clouds as far as the eye can see. No, I’m no more fond of the solid mass of flat gray than most people, but this? This is lovely. Truly.

Cheered me up, this morning, it did.

1 September, 2009
What’s this, the Iditarod?

Here’s another dose of “English FAIL” for your amusement:

Sometimes, the spellchecker isn’t enough to save a sign’s maker from embarrassment.

These have been up on a residential block near Kyla’s place for months while an ugly-as-sin lump of condominiums goes in. I finally remembered to take a picture before construction completed…

27 July, 2009
Trailor Spot

Oh look, it’s a bit of English FAIL on the way to work this morning! This, near the Washington County Fairgrounds…

In other news, my new phone’s camera seems not to suck nearly as much as the xv6800’s… nice, eh?

24 July, 2009
Shiny Distraction

I’m feeling rather “blah” lately, especially today what with the phone bill showing up and stressors being piled on at work. I haven’t had much to say about much of anything this past couple of weeks, not even about the wedding I took pictures of eight days ago.

So, here, look at what the Spud gave me, bought with his ticket winnings at the nickel arcade:

Nice, isn’t it? It’s actually a piggy ducky bank, I just didn’t take the picture from an angle which shows off the coin slot.

29 June, 2009
As The Dust Settles

I started my day with some cleaning. I emptied the garbage cans in my bedroom and bathroom, then started in with clearing off the main desk. Why? Because it just might make a workable set for photographing rubber ducks, of course! (As if anything else would motivate me to wading through years’ worth of paperwork and other detritus. Seriously!)

Eager to show off the fruits of my labors, I reached for my camera.

Say, why don’t we get some ducks into that shot?

It took five minutes for me to locate one of the nine, however. Turns out that he’d been forgotten in my backpack for a few weeks, since the last time I took the ducks out-and-about (intending to do some outdoor shooting which never quite happened). Oops. Adding injury to insult, he’s a bit the worse for wear:

Some of the paint on his bill rubbed off from being jostled around in my bag all that time. You can imagine how delighted I am at the results of my own negligence.

The show, however, must go on. We’ll deal with it. Now I just have to convince him not to eat my brains while I sleep by way of retaliation…

27 May, 2009