Baby 'Bello may have Stunted Siblings

Clearly "my boy" is beginning to take on the physical characteristics you would expect out of a fine strapping young Portebello!

This morning after giving the happy box o'compost and mold it's misting, I noticed what MIGHT be little brothers and sisters...MAYBE? The next picture is focused on the compost surrounding my Bello Boy... look at it closely and tell me what you think, are these slow bloomers OR is the white mold trying to fashion its own version of mushroom?


Because Priscilla asked, and I wanted to be sure she sees the link i posted in the comments, here it is again: Mushroom Adventures!

thank goodness iyam not a mushroom murderer!

It is with a great sigh of relief that I am able to post these photos of my first baby portebello mushroom! The directions that came with the package said that I should see the first mushrooms within 7-14 days of setting up their "playpen." On day six the surface of the compost was covered in a white mold...i worried: is it too moist, did i drown them, too dark, too light, too hot??????? oh lordy! the pressure!

The first lil' shroom appeared on day 15. Yep. Iyam a happy camper because i have one lonely survivor...despite my inability to be a good 'shroom mommy, there it is in all it's yummy glory! I'm positively beaming! Infact, i think iyam beaming strong enough to ward off the fastly approaching freeze the weather-peoples say is gonna hit us. I don't know about youze, but fer tonight all is well and good in the world here with me and my fungi! Cheers and goodnight!

Michelle was here...

AND YOU wrote! YAY! I do want to paint something together again... Michelle, I hope you and Massoud are bundled up over there because its gonna get cold tonight! Don't be sorry about the stains, I made them too ya know. Please give Ms. Elsa a scritch fer me and Houdini an extra sun-flower seed or two...

I almost forgot Savana! I'm sorry Savana... you need a scritch too!

It works for the Birds!

I really can't explain why i happen to have a feather boa here at the office, but it works great for maintaining warmth when outside for a smoke break. Chels just sent a pic of 6-8 inch icicles hanging from the eaves of her apartment building. We are expected to get sleet tonight/tomorrow...crazy! brrrrrr...

This has NOTHING to do with anything

IYam Dark Phoenix!

Dark Phoenix 62% The Joker 59% Mr. Freeze 58% Apocalypse 56% Venom 51% Poison Ivy 51% Dr. Doom 51% Juggernaut 48% Green Goblin 48% Mystique 48% Catwoman 46% Magneto 41% Two-Face 40% Lex Luthor 35% Kingpin 32% Riddler 18%

A prime example of emotional extremes: Passion and fury incarnate.

Click here to take the "Which Super Villain are you?" quiz...

Go Figure M2 Gallery

Some pics Gordy took throughout the evening...

Aimi Dunn, one of my favorite Houston Artists with her painting: "Fire and Ice"

With my painting: "Youth"

Myself with Mr. Patrick Palmer, after getting an Honorable Mention.

Good-looking Menz hanging out back: Mitch Cohen, John Mercado, Gordy, and Terrence

Google Translation

You may have noticed the little drop-down menu thing on the top-right for translating this page. I found that simple code on somebody's website (I sincerely wish I could remember whose to give them credit where credit is due). It is a little bit of code that loads the URL you designate automatically into googles translation tool. After you copy the HTML below, in each place where you see "http://www.yourwebsite.com/" replace it with YOUR URL before you paste this code into your blogger template...

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<option value="http://google.com/translate?langpair=en%7Car&u=http://www.yourwebsite.com/">Arabic</option>
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But now that i think of it - BUYER BEWARE! unless you trust who's webpage you are on, you may not want to use the translator drop-down as it would be totally easy to load a different (EVIL, BAD, DEADLY) URL into an unsuspecting person's browser. Cheers!

Beliefnet bits from today

I find this latest email a VERY encouraging form of hope for the hopeless like me!

You should know that so far as Buddha-nature is concerned, there is no difference between an enlightened man and an ignorant one. What makes the difference is that one realizes it, while the other is ignorant of it.

Me thinks Hui Neng was on to something very important! This could mean I am only one-step away from fulfilling my desire to be enlightened... I wonder if this means I can give up on the OTHER lesson I've been working on:

When you can snatch the pebble from my hand, you will be ready..."

Michelle Macy

Just so's you would know the face with the name...Here Michelle and I are happily being entertained by the fact that Winterstreet Studios has a black potty.

Photo by Massoud!

I like to call this one "Jellyfish"

This is the collaboritive painting I mentioned last night... Michelle Macy and I played with paint together :)

Michelle is KNOWN for painting with her fingers... I must say that I was a wee-bit apprehensive to go rubbing my fingers through lead-, cadmium- or cobalt-based paints, ah but what the heck, after I got over the eebie-jeebies it was fun...and the paint didn't taste half-bad after all!

I forgot to mention, this baby is big! 4 foot tall and 3 feet wide. I like it a bunch and am trying to workout some "joint-visitation" arrangements with Michelle, but fer now...possession is nine-tenths of the law! Isn't that how it goes?

No I am not...

...trying to entice Mr. Vonnegut by exposing parts of my body that should remain covered at all times! But I am infact attempting to illustrate the level of seriousness of my concern regarding the washer troll who now clearly enjoys taking scissors to our clothing, apparently during the rinse cycle. WTF? I put these jammies in the washer - perfectly in tact, and they came out missing a chunk...clearly a chunk that isn't simply a break in the fabric because if I gather the edges together as if to repair the hole, there is not enough material to go around my brutish thigh anymore...and NO, I swear it, the dog's head is not stuck up my arse.


Completely on another end of the posting spectrum...

This is the state of the latest neglected painting in the corner of my room... i call her "blinky" fer now :)