Guardian of the Non Sequitur

Everyone needs a souvenir at an inauguration. Which one will you choose?

Something just struck me as humorous as I walked by this mostly full board of inauguration souvenir buttons in 1997.

Mr. Shirley and Big Al.

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Here’s a nice shot. One of the Dancing Sisters took this one. Not sure who had the camera at this point.

I was cleaning out my overburdened in-box and came across an old email from Kim. A photo of a rat snake they found while doing yard work at her mother-in-law’s place in Palacios, Texas. It’s a quite impressive snake.

Palacious is on the Tres Palacios Bay, a small inlet off of the Matagorda Bay, and is about half way between Houston and Corpus Christi.

I bought some bargain bin bubble bath at the drug store. It’s 3•in•1: also shampoo (uh, no thanks) and body wash (I have a bar of soap).

But the most super special thing about this product: its

“NEW! FLAVOR!”

I can’t speak for its taste, but it does have a nice Jolly Rancher smell.

Friends are good. Friends who mail you stuff are very good. Friends who mail you their art are excellent!

A week ago or so I received two artworks in the mail from two different friends.

Julie presents me with an Altoids tin with my likeness as a beer drinking skeleton on it.

Lisa sends me a sketch of porter and a working of a picture I took on my birthday weekend: Drinky Crow at the farm. Done on velum (I think), and I don’t know what media.

Friends from different times of my life, and across the country from each other, but timed within a few days.

Pretty nifty, and both absolutely brightened my days.  Thanks, chicas bonitas.

There is a great pool on flickr called “DRM is like…”

Digital Rights Management. It’s only on legally purchased music and keeps you from doing things that are legal to do with purchased music. It’s what makes “squirted” music on Zunes only play three times. It’s what makes NBC’s new “free video service” (with commercials) only allow you to view a TV show for a week. (How long will that VHS tape of Heroes last?)

How long till it dies out? I’m really interested to see the end game. Open media is the only answer.