The wall of the sound of music

He had hard boiled eggs so he deserved to get shot by the beer cozy.

My dad & I love thai food

an orange everything...and the berlin wall

SYNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Borja loves vast emptiness

Our fearless leader leading us into the best gilled taco shop

Then we're leaving!

We made a quick stop at the orange farmers market for oysters

But they were all out so we bought bread and empanadas.

Con Borja and Syna...our roadtrip is commencing

That one's fiasco and that one's don't asko

I heart the monkees

The Monkees were great - GREAT! - and we lost one today...I will miss those lip-glossed lips.

The Best National Anthem

When this song is done well I get goosebumps all over - this one is the best. Vicci Martinez is incredible.

kids with cupcakes

Fun with Fasteners

I started a new blog 'Fun with Freeway Fasteners' and I'm enjoying it so much that I'm neglecting all my other stuff.

It's about art, science, community & business but all based around these little things called fasteners.

I only started it a little over a month ago but I already have tons of ideas for it and I'm thinking about it all day long.

I hope people like reading it as much as I like writing it. 

So, maybe, if you like this blog you'll like that one, right?  

Or not.  And that's ok too because I will be back doing something here eventually...once I get back on track a little bit.  

Top 10 things I meant to blog about in the last 2 months...oops

1. TSOOL, my new favorite current band after MAN OR ASTROMAN
2. THE ZOOT my new favorite retro band - God Save Rick Springfield!
3. Clean Up Aisle 4, my band, is in full mess-making mode
4. Printmaking...making messy art keeps me calm which keeps me sane, or should I say happy
5. 'Sucky' was the algae eating fish that died the day after he got to his new home...mis sobrinas 1st burial
6. Robert at Molly Malone's - good j.o.b. B.o.b.
7. Earthquake potato chips - you can't think of California without Earthquakes so it's the perfect name for a California potato chip
8. BONES, I'm always watching and it always moves me.  I'm either really cheesy or the show is really good
9. I did a cleanse - no meat, no sugar, no dairy, no coffee, no alcohol for 2 weeks. It was supposed to be for 3 weeks but #10 happened
10. Josua arrived! With Spanish salchichon, manchego cheese & pate - I cannot resist them.  Although if a TSA person is reading this, that was code for certain cute little body parts on my Spanish boyfriend...or was it?!?! 

Tulips daffodils & lilies

This is the best season for flowers; I love Easter.

Happy Easter Egg Hunting!

Where have I been?

What have I been doing?

Looking up...

at KTCHN 105

45 years together



Space to dance

Finally I have my own space...sort of. I do share the room with a stand-up bass, a snowboard and lots of clothes.  

The happiest Happy Meal

Thanks for my new hat Borja!

Red, green & gold

Me & Syna listening to the colors

Boba Fett made out of Legos!

The Great Dick Dale

That's his gear - has his name on it!

Eyes-of-the-squid-eye bolts

They were huge!

Olé weekend

FRIDAY, at a show for Sam Ronson & Har Mar Superstar, I ran into a friend from flamenco class and she got me super excited about flamenco again

SATURDAY night my teacher from Sevilla was in the Paco Peña show so I took him to brunch with the whole gang.

SUNDAY I finally got to catch up with my flamenco friends at Battle of the Dance. Richard was great!

Sushi!

She was thrilled she could use the chopsticks

They tried seaweed salad for the 1st time

And we had the pink sushi, because we're girls

Syna's new view

How incredible is this?!

Bare branches

These trees will soon be covered in leaves...or they're dead.
Veremos.

Man or Astroman?

My new favorite band - they had a homemade Tesla coil on stage!

My mom's calla lillies

Downtown at sunset

The last time I drove to Los Angeles.

Mail from Charlie arrived!



COCA-COLA RECIPE REVEALED!

The radio show This American Life has revealed the original Coca-Cola recipe—a secret the soda company has carefully guarded for more than 100 years. The show says Coca-Cola creator John Pemberton’s 1886 recipe was quietly published in 1979 in the Atlanta Constitution-Journal and no one noticed at the time. It has two parts. The first includes “fluid extract of coca,” citric acid, caffeine, sugar, water, lime juice, vanilla, and caramel. The second, called “7X,” includes alcohol, orange oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander, neroli, and cinammon.

Sunday

Saturday

Friday

Thursday

Bronze & Brass

Here's what I learned at work today.

Copper  +  Tin  =  Bronze
but
Copper  +  Zinc  =  Brass

I didn't know.

a tree by my doctor

¿Como amaneciste?

My friend Eddie asks me this everyday when I arrive to work.  Amanecer is Spanish for the dawn so this question is asking, "Like the dawn, how did you rise?"  I think this is such a beautiful way to say, "How is your morning?"

We had morning visitors!

Jumping flamenco dancers

Groundhog's Day

So what's the difference

between a groundhog and a woodchuck?

(happy birthday hali buttons)

a tree on my street

Sarah's birthday is today

but we celebrated Saturday.

SARAH D.

the girls

Donde esta la prima de poncho?!

That margarita was as spicy as Aurora.

Me & BJ on-Sarah's-birth DAY! (get it?)

the birthday girl with her homegirl

Sweets for my dad

Because my dad is the sweetest man...

I made him homemade marzipan stuffed prunes.