Sara Ryan

I have recently become a fan of the Grilled Cheese Grill. Its sandwiches are delicious, and the mural on the ceiling of its seating area — a schoolbus — is fantastic. See:

The artists are Eatcho and Jason Graham. I’m particularly impressed by how they blended their styles.
Now for a tiny nap, and then to start [...]

For a while I was being very covert about my cell phone photography. Then I noticed that no one else was.

This woman and her baby are in the midst of breaking open their tomb.

I took this one because I never expected to see such a dramatically rendered cauliflower.

“Vexed Man.” That’s seriously the title on the [...]

I have been reading Paul Maliszewski’s fascinating book Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders, and learning about, among other things, The Great War of the Californias and its heroes, including this lady:

“Known for her persistence and ability to embrace difficult characters, Lt. Cmmdr. Rebbeca Jordan used speed and pugnaciousness in leading her [...]

Robots. Also, monsters.
Joe Alterio’s genius project: robots and/or monsters, designed based on three words. Here is Kingbot, aka typing, music, defenestration:

Nigel-Bramsford-2.0, aka outgoing, Victorian, bicycle:

Tubble — hedgehog, rumbly, tricky:

You owe it to yourself to see the whole set.

I didn’t come of age listening to WFMU. As a matter of fact, unless it was on without my knowing it at someone’s place sometime when I was within the range of its signal, I still haven’t listened (a situation I intend to remedy asap). But Best of LCD: the art and writing of WFMU-FM [...]

and found the Fraenkel Gallery. Fell in. So many gorgeous, haunting images. So many stories.
This is the one I was looking for –

doesn’t it look oddly like she has an iPod?

A few weeks back, after more than ten years in Portland, we finally made it to the Art Museum. The occasion: The Dancer: Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
At first, I found myself oddly resistant to what I was seeing. Then I realized that in order to look at the ballet-related images, I had to overcome a [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot  about the sense, as you’re experiencing something, that you’re simultaneously outside of the experience, observing details, judging your own reactions and those of the people around you.
I’d always thought of it as being particular to writers, that quality of being an observer, and I’ve often found myself grateful for the [...]

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Last night capn_jil and I were perusing a collection of Swiss painting. We found this:

and also the names for our new hip-hop duo: MC Allegorical Horseman and DJ Anonymous Master.