Das Tagebuch Murnaus

On the weekend, I realized a long-standing ambition of mine - to have a cup of coffee I made all by myself!
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So, after 13 years and a lot of jokes, I finally got my cuppa coffee! You want anything done right, you gotta do it yourself....

victriviaqueen gave me "P", so now I post ten things I love beginning with that letter.

Ask me for a letter in the comments, I will give you one and you post the response in your own LJ.

pantzooka - I gave form to this minor (very minor) legend of Burning Man. One must give Pants to the Pantsless.

papermaking - I've done a bit of this and woudl like to do more. Been saving lots of dryer lint against the day.

Pee Wee Herman - I loved his show, and would love to believe in a conspiracy that brought him down, but I think it was just loneliness and hubris. He will return.

Pere Ubu - O I would have loved to have seen these guys in concert, back in their Cleveland days. I know someone (through wargaming) who, concidentally, lived next door to the house they used to practice in back then. "My Mom threw me out till I get some pants that fit/ She just don't approve of my strange kind of wit--"

Philip K. Dick - not the easiest SF writer to get into. I like his short stories best.

Pizzicato Five - Japanese commercial music! So cool! Let's big the amenity!

poppies - I grow them, when and where I can. Only flower I have much of a use for. I like them when they bloom, and then they are gone.

postcards - I grab up weird ones when I can, if they are cheap. I don't collect them but when it costs almost a dollar to mail one to the US, there's less and less impetus to share them.

block printing/printmaking - I liked to make my own postcards and small prints, like Artist Trading Cards. Again, the high cost of postage has kind of killed this off.

puppets - I love puppet shows but will never me a puppeteer myself. Not coordinated enough.

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We saw 300 on the weekend. I think Yukio Mishima would have loved this film. Otherwise, there once was a country called Sparta and an empire called Persian, and a place called Thermopylae - the rest of this film is all invention.

Also on the weekend, we did a major reorganization and cull of our videos. They are now stacked in a couple of cabinets, organized by genre. Will make finding things a lot easier, or it should. Hauled out six or seven bags of old, unwanted, or duplicated VHS films.

My coffee tree has had no fewer than four blooms in the last few days! One fell to my desk and I ate it. Very sweet, like clover - remember sucking the nectar out of the clover blooms when you were a kid?