Took me a long time to learn that I am precisely who i'm s'posed to be.

 A lady stopped me outside our gig today. "Yes, excellent...you look so...." I said, "Authentic?" "Yes yes, your costume looks so..." Me: "Natural?" "Yes, yes, like something you wear everyday." I thanked her. Then she asked "Who are you s'posed to be?"

parx pee-poes

 Yesterday I ran thru a park to catch a bus (to my son's school meeting) I past two couples enjoying the same thing in different ways. It's what I love about the diversity of Ptown. The "sweaters and capris" couple "It's not too cold, OMG these leaves are so beautiful" then i ran by a goth looking couple "It's finally cold enough...and look at all these lovely sticks."

Abalasaurids Arms

 In the land of gondwana

Far from the Laurasian forests

lived Ableasaurus

Neighbor of Tyranosaurus.

It had a tiny arms great big horns, 

it was the Cretatious unicorn 

six five million years ago it lived

This is what this therapod's favorite song is...

Magunga junga junga junga junga-saourus.

X3

Smaller than t rex, elephant skin 

if it got hungry it might eat it's kin.

it's head was so big, it's arms were so small

This carnivore remained after all others were gone

 Magunga junga junga junga junga-saourus. X3

Yeah they were so cool but I'm glad they aint around.

Surly they would eat Dingo the clown.

We don't have to worry about that thing

but it fun to study and sometimes sing

Magunga junga junga junga junga-saourus.

X3

bus foibles

 Waiting for the bus today a young man approached me "Excuse me Sir. I hate to ask but would you go into this dispensary and get me some weed?" I have done what he is doing a lot back in the day. Even after I was of age I never could keep an ID with my rough and tumble lifestyle. I asked people to buy me beer and cash checks well into my 30. "I can't (I said pregnantly) My son is getting out of school and i have to pick him up." He understood and bid me farewell. I wouldn't have done it anyway so i'm glad circumstance gave me an out. When i met up with my son and his friend another kid walked up and said "Are you Angus's dad? Angus has a cool Dad!" and he ran off. My son is used to people freaking out sometimes when they see me but not in that way. "I have no idea who that kid is Dad." I was like "Great. Now i gotta make sure not to talk to a single kid the whole time my boy is in school. If there is a rumer that I'm cool, the last thing I wanna do is muss it up by letting them know I'm a Dad as far as they are concerned. My boy and his friend started talking about pop culture. I couldn't relate. Luckily I spotted something most familiar. The latest model Jay and Silent Bob. They may not know who that is but I know that's who that is...my tribe. I noticed from the Kiss shirt and scheming body language. The bus showed up already packed with kids from another school. We all crammed in. My Boy hung out with the chess set while I nudged my way near Jay and S-Bob. They rightfully ignored me (as i would have) and it was a pleasure to get up to date on the latest hoodlumry. I was extremely entertained by the expressions of people waiting for the bus as they noticed it packed like sardines. I was laughing because that's the face I made when first seeing that parade.

I'm so not a fan of these goofy joystick style faucets.

 

Up is hot, left, hotter, right scalding. Found the cold setting somewhere around Botswana then lost it immediately. I don't know what's up with this thing but I hope the inventor gets stink eye in his pink eye. I don't want to need a helicopter pilot's license just to fill a water jar yo.

GROSSeries

 I got a free dose of stink eye at the Food for less. An elderly lady wasn't feeling the Dingo love. It was great. I wasn't in clown drag and I didn't look like a gutter punk. Her disdain was pure, organic, perfect. In a world full of fake sentiments I appreciated someone who disliked me for who I was wholesale. I love that. Of course I wondered if maybe her face just looks like that. Then thankfully she smiled humanly at another human then went back to resting Eff-U face. She had a little stink eye for Olive but mostly gave both barrels to me. I almost laughed out loud when I saw what she was buying. 60 hard taco shells and 5 cans of Pringles. She don't like me but in some circles apparently she is the life of the party. BTW what's up with Food for less? I got a big box of porkchops for under $3 and six boxes of cereal for under $5. Either this place is stuck in a 1990's time continuum or maybe there is something wrong with this food. It seems ok. Is this the groceries they scrape off the dock?

New pad update:

New pad update: Our room is still a fiasco. We are now basement dwellers and I been down here the last few days working on it.

Our bed didn't fit down the Hobbit hole so we are using a big cushion we found in one of the rooms and an air mattress. Turns out we like it. Every day something in the house changes for the better. People have been working on stuff at all hours but there is still a ways to go. I have never seen our son happier. The custody unpleasantness is still continuing so I'm glad this house is so grounding for mah guy.

We need lots of hangar space so I cut some fabric and made struts to hold up some poles I found in one of the back buildings. Olive likes it. "I love that those cloth pieces perfectly match my favorite curtain." Me: (Oops)

Hey Olive, How ya like doing Yoga in the studio building?

We decided that all food was fair game except for the supplies of one roomie who requires better dietary accounting. We hung out with Sam the electrician all afternoon as he installed new lightning faucets. He showed us the breaker box pointing to the hose above it. "See that clowns? Don't be digging around in there." I love that in his mind we would be poking that thing with forks if the lights ever went off.

 

Tonight we had the first house meeting.

Operation "kitchen concerns" Our cohorts built us a larder out of lumber scavenged from the craigslist. Now we were all about deciding how to combine households into a smalish kitchen. Everyone brought tons of kitchen stuff but there is only room for a little bit of it. We dumped all 9 mustards into a jar, combined 15 baking sodas into bricks and filled a milk jug with all the cooking oils (Ok maybe none of that happened) We did each pick two or three mugs, bowls etc. and packed everything else away to donate or stow in storage. I like having a box of goodies in the car ready to go. Then when i see a sappy, crappy, garage sale I can say "Hi can I donate these lovely goods to your cause?" The one time i did that it went over swimmingly, I strongly recommend. Go be that garage sale guardian angel.

Facebook is down! It's cool, i got memes.

Facebook is down! Luckily I saved some memes before it sank under the waves.

oliveanddingo.com/donate 

 

our backyard studio

 

Family gathering for Olive's bday.

 Family gathering for Olive's bday. Her whole tribe came by. It was great to come home to family after doing gigs. Olive's whole tribe was there, The Sackville Bagginses, The Gamgees, The Tooks, the Buckleburys everyone. The birthday feast was chili and margaritas. Little boys and a puppy ran amok in the yard for hours it was so entertaining. After all the festivities and merryment it was back to the grind assembling our homestead. Right now the sisters are constructing a wooden pantry they found on the Craigslist.

Trip to the dump!