These are in no particular order and more may be added in the future. Click or tap pictures for higher resolution images.

This was sometime in the late 1960s at my home in Martinez, California. I recognize a Knight Kit KM-15 monaural amplifier at the lower right.

Here I am, seven years old with an inflatable buddy in 1961. This at my grandmother’s house in Santa Rosa, California. Kennedy was president, I had my pipes and pet toads. What more could a boy want?

As a young boy in the 1960s, growing up in Berkeley, California, I wanted to be a plumber. Check my slideshow for a couple more images of my pipes.

Here’s one of many pieces of artwork and drawings I saved from my days as a child (early 1960s) at Thousand Oaks School in Berkeley, California.

Morning between 8 AM and 9 AM

Evening between 6 PM and 7 PM

On September 5th, 2017 smoke from fires burning in the Cascade mountains drifted west over Seattle and all of the Puget Sound area. It was so dense the temperature never reached the 90 plus degrees Fahrenheit as was predicted. It barely made it above 80 degrees. The smoke stayed up high, so at ground level the visibility was quite good. Here are a couple of pictures of the sun, one looking east in the morning from my deck and the other looking west in the evening from my living room window.

View or download medium size: Weatherman Phonographer Part 1

 View or download medium size: Weatherman Phonographer Part 2

While I was sorting though Negativland junk in my garage this little cartoon showed up. The author of this little gem is none other than Don Fields of thatDonOguy and Don-O’s Dump.
Here’s a link to a rototiller I recorded. By the way, clicking on the pictures should show a large high resolution image.

                                    VIEW FROM LIVING ROOM
                                             PINE NEEDLES
                                                   DECK
                         SNOW DEPTH MORE THAN FOUR INCHES
                                                   LEAVES
                                              RAIN GAUGE
Here is my rain gauge after the snow melted showing about 4.63 inches at the meniscus. Sorry for being so slow at posting.
 

Direct mp4 download or play:  Safeguard Soap

Direct mp4 download or play:  Palmolive Gold

Direct mp4 download or play:  Palmolive Soap

This one must be extremely rare. I was unable to find any image or video featuring this style of packaging.

Vintage Bath Soap

Thank you to Turd Furgison/Gorpisnorb for providing this collection of vintage soap.

Tide and All

Finally, a couple of additional laundry detergent bottles that screw together!

Xcel and Arm & Hammer

Here is what I think is a good way to insure that you do not waste liquid laundry detergent. To make this work, check the threads on the cap and note if they are on the inside or the outside of the cap. If the cap is threaded on the inside, then your next purchase of detergent should have a cap that is threaded on the outside. If your first bottle of detergent has a cap threaded on the outside make sure your next bottle of detergent has a cap threaded on the inside. So far, I’ve discovered that every time I have two bottles of laundry detergent with threaded caps inside and outside, I can screw the two bottles together exactly as if the bottles have their own caps in place.

When a bottle of detergent is low, I simply connect the almost-empty bottle to the new bottle and let it sit on top overnight, but sometimes the bottle on top won’t drain all of the detergent out as it sits this way.  After the detergent bottles have been sitting this way for at least eight hours, tip the bottles left and right, forward and back, up to about forty-five degrees while they are still connected, to allow any remaining liquid in the top bottle to flow to the bottom bottle. Once this is done and you are sure all the detergent is out of the top bottle, it can be unscrewed and placed in your recycling container. Of course, if you are fussy about laundry detergent and always want the same brand for example, all of this cannot apply.
Below(for your viewing pleasure) are four more laundry detergent bottles screwed together.

Nice! and Rite Aid Home

Sun and Ajax

This is a video still, showing me eating out of a frying pan at my home in Martinez, California.

Direct mp4 download or play:  David’s Mouth

Finally, here is the video from Christmas Day, 2000! It’s actually not a frying at all, but it is still quite dumb.

Somehow, years ago I acquired this, most likely from a Negativland fan. There is something I like about this, but I’m not sure what. It may have something to do with failure.

enhanced Bozette

Direct mp3 download or play:  I Am Not Dead

  Audio Commentary

Here I am in the front yard of my grandparents pink house in Santa Rosa, California. This is a scanned photo, probably from around 1970.

I apparently created this sometime when I was a young child, most likely sometime between 1958 and 1965. The only problem is that I have no memory of actually constructing this item.

These glasses may be as old as the early 1960s.

Here is my fifth grade class picture from Thousand Oaks School in Berkeley, California in 1965. The glasses may be the ones in the first picture, but these appear to be slightly more rectangular.

My old glasses, probably from the 1970s.

My old glasses from 2012 after I became extremely angry. I was angry because one of the very thick and heavy lenses fell out onto the stone flooring around the front door of my house and shattered.

Images from an early 1970s sales brochure.

Here is something I thought of probably in the 1990s and I just had to write it down, misspellings and all. If you don’t believe this be sure to check out “At Home With The Weatherman.” Go here  to open or download a smaller quicktime (.mov) if you prefer.