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I took this picture with my phone today. I kinda love it.

I have a new affection for cats recently after I have visited some cat loving friends around the state. I think I like cats because they don’t care unless they want to care.

I think that’s pretty groovy.

How’s this for innovation.

Good video doesn’t always need a great video camera. A still camera, imagination and a lot of hours can also get you there.

Cesar Kuriyama, a New York animator and lighting technical director, has directed a visually arresting music video using an interesting technique.

Eschewing a video camera, he took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera and stitched them together to create the illusion of video.

Fat City Reprise – Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.

Amazing.

H/T Kip Gordon

This is funny and by golly, I missed it.

Here’s the story:

Crime Prevention Specialist for the Botetourt County Sheriff’s Department, Sharon Coleman, is on vacation at Holden Beach near where Hanna came ashore. Well that’s not all she said that washed ashore — Bigfoot!

Using super detective work (no doubt) Coleman discovered actually her neighbors crafted Bigfoot out of seaweed that washed ashore from the hurricane.

Bigfoot Mania, I’m telling you.

Image credit

Yup, this dog is pretty dog-gone ugly but his ugliness has won him acclaim. I introduce you to Elwood, the world’s ugliest dog.

Poor fellow.

Photo from AP 

Some photos from Monday that amused me:

Toy soldiers in a box, courtesy of Squirrel Queen’s nephews.

The glove that Squirrel Queen used her entire softball career. It feels wonderful, the leather is soft from years of use. When she put it on her hand earlier this week, she smiled a little and I could tell she was remembering things in a rush. Things I didn’t know about. Things that made her happy.

 The Twins. Always in trouble. And secretly, I think that’s just alright. When you are nine years-old,  you need to take life full on.  I love that they are so mischievous.

 Squirrel Queen and her mother at the river. There was laughter yesterday as we spread her father’s ashes at the Obion County River. We honored her father nine months to the day of his passing.

 Squirrel Queen’s family’s farm in Harris Station. This year, the crop is corn. Her parent’s home is in the distance

The river.

The final resting place of her father.

I like the river. It’s green and lush. It moves slowly, deep in some parts, shallow in others. Green lies on the top of the water. You can see life rippling beneath its surface. It’s sort of scary to me, as I’m a town kid. But I think it’s mysterious and beautiful. We laughed yesterday, we raised our glasses to SQ’s father and we cried.  We wished her father well and we said one last goodbye to what he was, what he meant to us and we toasted to him in his journey down the river that was his home for more than six decades. I love it out here. I could honestly become one with this world so different than my own.

I think it’s a fine place. These were her father’s wishes and we honored them.

“The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”

Hemingway

Everytime I see this picture, I cannot look away.

From Eat Liver via Monkeys for Helping.

Bear dreams of Idol. Of course, she has the wet hair in a towel thing going which I have never been able to do.

The new million dollar glasses. I have reacquainted myself with Ramon Noodles and Milwaukee’s Best to survive.

Mabel sleeps. That’s my tattoo. Shut up.

Go Cards. I even have baseball apparel. (I’m talking to both of you.)

The blind dog, Kirby, attempts to blog. Being that she has never been able to spell, even when she was of the sighted variety of canines, so her blindness has nothing to do with her lack of skills.

The cheeseburgers at KN will make you slap your mother. Yup, they are THAT good.

Here was my seat at the TSSAA Tournaments. Yeah, this is what I saw for days.

I finally tried Pocky and it was really great. Of course, there was beer as we dragged our tired bones back to the Country Inn and Suites.

March Madness, Late Friday afternoon.

Weird Shit stuff I’ve collected over the years. I love this.

Squirrel Queen at work with Gleason Basketball Coach Randy Frazier.

My absolutely favorite picture of Big Daddy.

Newscoma and Duff, the Skanky dog. Of Course, I look of the skank as well.