Rebecca Flowers

I got invited to a friend’s birthday party, and I have to say, I love her invitation:

bad gift ideas: stuff i hate- please don’t bring me this crap:

scented candles, fancy chocolates, alcoholic beverages, potpourri, a picture album or cutsey mirror, anything wool, fancy bath crap-except bubble bath ( i love), self help books ( i’m beyond help), diet books ( no comment), a treatment from lucky nails, i hate that place, weird jewelry that you wrongly might think i would like, concert tickets ( that means you a****), a free work-out session, garden stuff ( that’s for the gardener, not me), a relaxation cd, a sex toy you can’t also eat

GREAT gift ideas: stuff i love-

any kind of perfume especially love’s babysoft and flower bomb by victor and rolf, a bag of peanut m&m’s, hershey kisses or any type of hershey milk chocolate products, a gift certificate to marshall’s, k-mart, lane bryant, woman within or roman’s, a gift certificate to betty’s pizza, old in on the green, fin, bizen, the berkshire co-op, guidos, mill on the floss, a big, floppy hat, weird sunglasses, a multi-colored summer purse,

anything from cranwell except golf stuff..i don’t play

Now there’s a party I can’t wait for!

I did a piece a while back for the glorious Hearing Voices project, which does the best audio out there (in my HMO).  I remember recording it in the closet of my study while I was pregnant with Four.  It was aired on NPR’s Day to Day, and now the lads at HV have brought it back again, with video by Max Darham.  Cute ‘lil network timekiller!

Take a listen to this interview broadcast yesterday on WFCR — it’s a bit of the piece Stef and I did for NPR’s Storycorps. It’s not long. Stef talks about growing up surrounded by extended family, and a little bit about her father and Rudolph The RR RD. They left out the part about Gene Autrey possibly being drunk during the recording, as Stef’s sister Judy asserts in her tell-all book on the subject!
Listen HERE.

Fun Meme, and I never do this, but some just turn out so cool. Mine is ‘eh’ – others, below, are excellent.

What would your own album look like if you were in a band?

Follow the directions below and find out…Here are the rules:

1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random”or click here
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations”or click here
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
3 – Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”or click here
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.

I don’t have Photoshop, so I used Picnik.
Here’s mine:

TOTALLY remainder-bin material.

The other two are from blobby’s blog. First is Kris – I would totally buy her album!

And here’s Jon San’s, which really is perfect for him (he can be a little, how shall we say, critical?):

What’s yours?

This is just a lovely video that I cribbed from Michael Arzen’s blog, The Popular Uncanny. As Michael points out, the puppets have a totally organic quality. Of course you notice all the mechanics and the people working the figures, but it works.