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This object (near the ‘e’ on the word ‘the’) was in a package of powdered soup. I t appears to be a small rock or stone fragment. Imagine what would have happened if I had bit down on that object!
The soft focus of the image is due to the inexpensive digital camera I used. It has no manual focus and it remained slightly out of focus. Also the natural light I was using was quite low due to it being an especially dark rainy day in Seattle. I think it looks rather arty!  I could imagine it being a title of an off beat TV show on  the United Kingdom’s Channel 4. But maybe not.

Well here it is as requested from three years ago. The dreaded Chapter 19, “Sex Anomalies and Oddities” is now available for your viewing enjoyment. Be sure and take a look at my original post on this subject called “This Is Why I Exist.”

Here I am with “a Santa Claus” inside Capwell’s department store at the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center in El Cerrito, near my childhood home in Berkeley, California. Even though I was only five years old at the time, I think I had my doubts about the existence of Santa Claus. It didn’t make sense to me seeing Santa Claus in different stores in a fairly short period of time.

One side of the boxOther side of the box

These are pictures of a box of breakfast cereal I picked up a few years ago at the Seattle Grocery Outlet grocery store.

Years ago I owned one of these vacuums. If you don’t do it with Lewyt, you blew it!

I like saving money by not buying new clothes or cutting my hair. As you can see, I like electronic equipment. Behind me, from the left are JBL bullet tweeters a 2402H and 075, an H. H. Scott A 426 integrated amplifier, and a Marantz Model 23 AM/FM Stereo tuner. On top of the Marantz is a modified Radio Shack communications speaker and a home built sub woofer volume control and high pass filter. Next to the amplifier and tuner is a Pentium 4 computer, and sitting on top of the computer case is a wi-fi antenna, an external hard drive, and an off-air digital TV antenna. On the right side is a Samsung Syncmaster T260HD LCD monitor with built-in analog and digital TV tuner. On the far right is an Iiyama Vision Master Pro 502 21 inch CRT monitor which I got free on Craigslist. I know this sounds like a lot, but all of this stuff is either second hand or obsolete.
I think I may be back, pot belly and all. Be patient, “DUMB /How Dare You?” will gradually be getting back to normal.

Now Showing Back Cover!

Here is something I look at several times a year ever since my father bought it for me in 1966. Also, I’m trying out my new scanner, a Canon 5600F. How does it look?

Stereo/Hi-Fi Directory 1966 back cover

Here’s another version of the imaginary creature I call “The Super Cosmic Goose.” This version is probably the strangest. Notice the dark purple beak on the rear head is curved so it cannot open. Maybe it could even be considered “psychedelic.” You may be thinking that I must have taken drugs in order to come up with something like this, but I’m afraid this is not the case. I think I created this in the 1970s, and it is simply part of something I have thought about for some time. There are three other versions to compare here, here, and here.

Earlier this month, a squirrel chewed and damaged one of the cables to my outside microphones. How do I know? The noise woke me up and I saw a squirrel from my bedroom window. As soon as the squirrel saw me, it fell off the roof and made quite a thud when it hit the ground. I cut off about ten feet of the RG-58 cable I use for the microphone and soldered the same microphone back on to the existing good cable. I do have another new microphone (Radio Shack electret condenser model 270-0090) in case the old one fails. I have yet to get back outside to reinstall the cable and microphone to the eaves of my roof. Be aware, the stereo separation will be narrower by the amount of cable I cut off. Eventually, I may pull a new cable though to my room and put the microphone in an entirely new location.

This drawing is another of a series of “geese”creatures that I have created throughout the years, starting in 1966 with the “Original Super Cosmic Goose.” I’m really not sure when I made the drawing, but I would guess sometime between 1970 and 1990. In this one, I gave names to the anatomy of this creature. Of course, it is quite juvenile and I feel a little embarrassed, but I know some of you will laugh, and that’s what matters. Be sure and click the picture to see a larger image for all the silly details!

There was up to 4 more inches of snow overnight in Seattle from December 23rd to December 24th. Everybody thinks I’m nuts, but I am starting to wonder if my roof could collapse.

A few scenes around my home and neighborhood after more than a foot of snowfall.

Seattle Snowstorm

Frost Car

Bamboo and Snow

Light Post

Icicles

Little Mountain of Snow

Back Deck and Rain Gauge

Not Isis The Cat

The Original Super Cosmic Goose

Backside

Award for The Super Cosmic Goose

This is the original version of an idea that has stuck with me for many years. I have several other drawings of “geese” including one with two heads. From time to time I will post the others. Incidentally, there is another version of this already here, which I made in 2006.

This is the actual “tacky little pamphlet” which I discovered in my parents bottom dresser drawer. I believe it may have played a role in how I turned out. I probably don’t know what I’m talking about. What do you think?

When all else fails, this could be the (goddamn) answer!

This was from my favorite record shop in Berkeley, California and it shows someone (probably me) had just purchased some electronic music. It looks like it was “Cords” by Synergy.

Here is what the sky looked like outside my living room window on the evening of August 14th, 2008. What is strange about these clouds is that they appear to be higher than the already high darker red clouds near the horizon. Sunlight is being reflected more intensely off the lighter clouds for a longer period of time after sunset. Also the National Weather Service has issued an air stagnation advisory for the Puget Sound area.

When I was thirteen, I had my pet toads. I thought it would be fun to have them in the pet fair. I can’t remember if this was for Super Plumper or for Regular Plumper. You see, I had named my pet toads after grades of gasoline. I think the people running the pet fair might have thought the name was a bit too strange, so they settled on “Plumpy.”

I’ve always liked long hair on men. Words such as “longhairs,” “the longhair community,” and possibly “The GEICO Cavemen” come to mind. I thought it might be exciting if I became a “longhair.” But instead, (and of course) unfortunate words like “ridiculous” and “failure” are more appropriate for what we have here. Don’t get me wrong, I did have fun “doctoring” the picture with Photoshop.