Swing
Wood and Glass
Wood is the raw form of glass. Glass is condensed wood. That’s how it is in the earth’s core, there’s layers of wood and then glass.
Headlamp headlight change
Last night I go out in the garage looking for Nami. She’s in the driveway, under the hood of her car, wearing the headlamp that I use for night bbqing.
“What’s up?” I said.
“I’m changing my headlight,” she says. Fiddling with the back of the light, trying to get it off. “Who knows the last time it was changed,” she says, fiddling more.
“Can I help you?” I said. Inching closer. I’m like a politician, I come for the groundbreaking and then again for the ribbon cutting.
She looked up at me. With the lamp, it was blinding. She had a look on her face.
“You can go inside because you are bothering me,” she said.
I squinted, glad to be relieved. A few minutes later she came back inside, job done.
Software
Is anyone working on butt recognition software?
Nicknames
My nickname in high school was, Fuck You Fatass.
I grew a lot during high school, in middle school my nickname was just, Fuck You.
2013 Hendry Chardonnay
This didn’t get opened at Mom’s 66th birthday last night.
Unoaked, the taste is in the front of your mouth and on the top of your tongue. It is very balanced, so much that you marvel at it a little. Tropical fruit mixed up in a pile of minerals. Medium acid. Clean. It would be good with vegetable pasta. Happy Birthday Mom.
Tomato Sauce
Tomato sauce recipe.
First I cook the tomatoes in their own juices. This was when I took them off, after about thirty minutes.
Pass the tomatoes through a food mill to get rid of most of the skins. Fry the garlic, add the tomatoes and other ingredients . Cook on low for an hour and a half. I let it cool and freeze it in deli pint jars.
They are organic early girls. They were a dollar a pound at the market, I asked the guy if he’d take five bucks for ten pounds of ones that were soft or split, but no mold, and he agreed. I made this the day after.
Resort
New painting, 8″x10″
Breakthrough
It’s not much to look at, but this is the second morning in a row. I’ve had a breakthrough. Since 2009, I’ve been making espresso mostly every day, and trying to draw anything, a rosette I guess, in the milk. I am the type of person who enjoys struggling without instruction. What I learned is that you can draw by pouring the thin milk from greater height, and then zooming in and pouring the foamiest milk closer to the surface, zooming out and pouring the thin milk again.