Our digital camera is pretty crappy actually but I tried to make do with what I got by messing around with the basic of most basic elements color adjustment & brightness & contrasting. Which mostly just consisted of me sliding the slider bar back and forth until it gave a result that looked interesting to me. Yeah, skills, I have none. LOL
Here are the results.
Here she is, playing the part of Gothic Tween Red Riding Hood, Miss Gabrielle. I wish I could've done the picture in my head justice. I loved the idea of her posing pensively near that red tree. The middle one is my favorite of of Gabby.
And playing the part of the plundering pirate, Benjamin. ARRRR!
I had to gently remind him that we do not stab the neighbor's boo globe. LOL
Yeah, she's all that! :-D
This one is my favorite of Ben.
Gosh darn it she's just so freaking beautiful! Yeah I know, I'm not exactly impartial but hey...
To Grandmother's House!
The Driveways Are Alive With The Sound of Pirates!
Some attempts at "artistic" photos. LOL
Wow, how cool is this? I knew John's doggie clothing line was going to turn some heads! Please pass this post along to any and all who love doggies. These outfits are great gift ideas for the Holidays!! He will do custom orders.
Read The Daily News story here.
As I have mentioned before, my good friend John Vega has started his own doggie clothing line, fleas&biscuits.
He is going to be featured at a doggy fashion show, Pawject Runway, tomorrow night in Astoria at The Jumping Bulldog. Yay! His Oscar gets to be a model...
One of my best friends, Connie Smith, the creator and author of Local718, a blog about Queens, interviewed him recently as the first in a series of videos Connie will be producing about inspiring and creative people in Queens.
Enjoy!
What's your favorite Beatles song? Bonus points if you share it with us.
My favorite is "Something"
This is yet another example of why 1) You should verify all facts before spreading them far and wide, Even if said so called "facts" come from someone on a news channel. Yes, just because Limbaugh or Olberman says so doesn't make it fact.
Oh noes! Teh internets are holding kittehs captive while their pictures are downloaded onto a silly website with ridiculous, misspelled, grammatically incorrect captions over their heads!! Or at least that’s the theory in the highly entertaining musical, “I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL”. This show, which feels like children's theater for adults, is featured as part of The New York International Fringe Festival 2009. It is directed by Karina Bennett with the book, music and lyrics by Kristyn Pomranz and Katherine Steinberg. What can I say? These are my kind of women.
Inspired by ICanHasCheezburger.com, this show is one of the most absurd, off-the-wall, bizarre, messed up pieces of theater I’ve ever seen. It is many levels of wrong and I loved every second of it. Sure, it needs work in places but what new work doesn’t? One particular musical number went on a little too long and considering the plethora of internet inside jokes the website ICanHasCheezburger.com has helped to create, there are even more themes that could be included…but I admit I was getting ahead of myself with ideas, being both a theater person as well as a big fan of ICHCB. This show currently borders on chaotic, so perhaps it’s best left the way it is. The use of media helps as most of the “set” is projected onto a screen along with a variety of LOLcats that move the story along. I enjoyed the actor’s performances immensely. This material is extremely delicate, as is any absurdist piece, and the cast has the imagination it takes to make a story such as this come to life. They strike a balance between taking the story seriously and not too seriously. This is no easy task.
One could argue that LOLcats are simple, lowbrow entertainment. But the genius in disguise is found in how they’ve been keeping people like me sane at work for over two years now. I take cute breaks several times a day at the office with ICHCB.com and Cuteoverload.com. These sites provide a short-but-sweet respite throughout the day for many a worker all over the world, hence their incredible popularity. If someone has never been to the website ICanHasCheezburger.com and goes to see this show, they won’t be too horribly lost after the first few minutes. The internet phenomenon of LOLcats is an acquired taste but once you catch on, the logic (or lack thereof) and humor behind it all soon falls into place. That being said, this show is riddled with inside jokes shared by fans of ICHCB.com and that, coupled with the simplicity of LOLcats, is what makes this show work - it charms both LOL virgins with a sense of humor as well as die-hard fans of the site who have been following it since the beginning (like me).
The silly romp takes you on an adventure in the ever expanding world of the internet. An LOLcat (aka “Happy Cat” – though that’s not his name in the musical for some reason) gets downloaded onto the cheezburger site after he adorably makes a play for his owner’s cheeseburger in real life. Finding himself lost in the internet, he’s now on a quest to find his cheezburger, his one true love. He runs into familiar faces for us ICHCB fans including LOLrus who lost his bukkit, Drop the cat who hides in a box waiting for the cheezburgers to drop, Epic Win and Epic FAIL, the owl who cries *head tilt* O RLY?, a kitteh who adds up all the sumz for buying moar cheezburgers and last but not least, Mr. Wrong, a kitteh with a slice of cheese on his head who was once told “Cheez - You’re doin’ it WRONG” in his caption as a kitten and never recovered, thus leading him to cause evil mischief for all eternity. (I have to say here that Clint Carter’s performance as Mr. Wrong is brilliant.) In the land of teh internets, “Jodie’s” is where you go for cheezburgers. Jodie is a mouse with a slick business sense and a strong desire to find love. You know, “Just someone to eat cheese with” as the adorable musical number goes. When LOLcat stumbles onto Jodie’s corporate headquarters he learns that he’s in the wrong place for the actual cheezburgers. Thanks to the confusion caused by “sumz”, Jodie’s piss poor accountant who cannot tell him how much monies he will need for the cheezburgers, LOLcat finds himself lost once again. He falls into the evil paws of Mr. Wrong who convinces him that “Jodie’s” discriminates against cats and that in order to get cheezburgers he ought to mousenap her and demand equal accessibility to cheezburgers for cats...or something like that. (Are you following me? Because I’m not.) As expected the plan goes horribly wrong when LOLcat discovers that he has a forbidden love for Jodie the mouse and cannot bring himself to sacrifice her dignity and freedom for the cause…or will he?
Find out, if you can, by seeing the show Wednesday August 26th at 9:15 PM or Friday August 28th at 4:45 PM at The Cherry Lane Theater. Buy your ticket online in advance as these shows will sell out. Even if they don’t win at Fringe, I smell a future run of some kind for this play. Go to fringenyc.org for more details!! KTHNXBAI!!!!
http://web.mac.com/joelallenschroeder/DMW/main.html
Just heard about this from Twitter.
I wish them well!
Some of you know this .. some of you don't . But here it is..Magneato has crossed over the rainbow bridge it is just over a month since I laid her to rest. July 3rd 2009 I will try to get through this post as best I can, I have waited a month because it makes my heart ache beyond belief. I thought I was prepared to do it but I started crying when I looked at the pictures just now so we will see how it goes,
Back at the beginning of June Magneato got sick and stopped eating and when she did eat she kept throwing her food up. This started late in the week and by Saturday morning I was gravely concerned and took her to the emergency vet. They gave her antibiotics and she came home and seemed to recover but a week after stopping the antibiotics she got sick again very quickly. she went from running around to barely moving.
This time she went to her regular vet. She got more antibiotics and lots of tests. but the antibiotics weren't stopping the vomiting and I could not get much food into her even hand feeding so back she went for a liver biopsy and a feeding tube. Then Home for the weekend and some major family time.
She got set up in the guest room with her own litter box, her favoirte basket and water dish. She seemed to be getting better but then she vomited up the feeding tube. Back to the vet to reinsert it.
I was just leaving work to pick her up to come home when I got the call ... Maggie had liver cancer and it was very advanced. She would be comming home and if all went well we could expect maybe a month or two with her.
Unfortunately that was not what we got ... she was fine for one day but began throwing up everything .. water food and then the feeding tube again. I saw her throw it up this time... poor kitty it was aweful.
I called the vet on Friday morning July 3 to see what I should do...but really as the vet spoke to me it was really just not going to be good..she would not be getting much better if at all and in fact would probably just continue on back to a feble painful state. THe pain meds she was already taking were only relieving part of her pain so after much talk we decided to end her suffering, poor little sweet heart... These photos are her last day with me. her last few hours.. I took her outside in the sunshine and breezes for a cuddle on her favorite lawn chair in the flower garden and a sun bath in the grass,,,,
Keeping an eye on Bongo who is jealously trying to horn in on some attention.
A dappled sun nap in her favorite chair.
She was the favorite while she was at the vets she got showered with love there.
Just goes to show how ill she was as she was always my ferocious calico tiger kitty!
a final look at the flowers and a listen to the birds..
anmd then blessed peace.
Her bouquet.
I laid her to rest in the flower garden near Darin. I will be getting a small perenial probably a salvia to place over her.
I will always miss her.
I miss cuddling with her and I miss her following me to the barn and sleeping with me every night. I miss her bossing everyone around and I wish she was still with me she was just ten years old.. a young cat..
Rest in Peace Magneato .. my champion cudler and gopher catcher. You will be missed.
Hello All!
I'd like to introduce you to a BRAND NEW doggie clothing company Fleas&Biscuits (Click link for the etsy site!)
My dear friend John, known to a lot of you as Oscar's daddy, is a remarkably well rounded artist. He paints, draws, decorates, designs clothing, you name it. So when he told me a while ago that he was starting his own clothing line for dogs, I knew it would not disappoint. And sure enough...I saw his sketch book and fabric samples, oohed and ahhed (and SQUEEEED - I totally squeeeed) and could not WAIT to see the finished designs.
They are finally here! I just had to share them with you. I am thoroughly impressed with the unique items he is starting out with and I'm sure you'll agree. Each design is one-of-a-kind. In John's own words:
"Inspired by the 1920's, Fleas&Biscuits aims to capture the delicate sensibility of children's clothing of this era. Using rich, organic fabrics such as wool, cotton, linen and cashmere, Fleas&Biscuits was not only able to bring forth a functional design but also one of high-end luxury."
Enjoy!
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