MarianneSp

MarianneSp
Location
Seattle-ish, Washington,
Birthday
April 06
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Pop culture, progressive politics, weird family life, music, photography, humor, the world outside delivered daily. Like sands through the hourglass, this is the feed from popthomology.com. You may also at your leisure see my freelance words or images for TheAudioPerv.com, Back Beat Seattle, and Seattle Weekly around the interhaps.

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MAY 22, 2012 11:25PM

VIDEOS: BIZARRE BIRDS!

Are birds weirder and funnier than the goats I often feature on this humble internet repository? Well, I'll leave that up to you to decide for yourself with today's video featurette! BIRDS!



This insanely proactive owl actually transforms its features according to the size and type…

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After an exciting run of awesome sunny warm weather, Seattle-ish has now returned this week to grey gloom and annoying moistness. What better way to protect yourself from the elements and be entertained than to high-tail it over to a thrift store to look for oddities? It's an activity that is…

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Even though I am a pretty limited guitarist, I really like guitars, kind of in the same way that I like cars but hate to drive. I'd like to have lots of cars and guitars if I were a rich person because then I could, I dunno, play "You're Gonna Miss… Read full post »
When I was small, there was no event more important to me than a Beatle Event. It didn't matter what it was -- a new Beatles single getting a first play on my local WOKY-AM, a Beatles television appearance, or -- OH MY GOD -- a Beatles MOVIE in the THEATER…

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MAY 19, 2012 12:58AM

THE CRIME OF THE QUIET CHRISTIAN

I am perfectly comfortable with accepting the fact that I shall leave the planet knowing not really all that much more than I did when I got here. I mean, I can do a little math and run a washing machine and proofread a legal brief and train a dog. I…

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MAY 17, 2012 11:10PM

THE 4TH GRADE BAND CONCERT

Ah, I do remember my days in the school band very well, especially the excitement of our concerts, the culmination of all our months of hard work and lessons. The night came, the school auditorium filled up, we dressed up, acted spazzy backstage, and felt a mixture of pride and relief…

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MAY 17, 2012 1:16AM

I MADE YOU MORE CHILDREN'S BOOKS

MAY 16, 2012 2:05AM

THE SASHA DOLL

I was, I think, a bit of a toy maniac when I was a kid. I really LIKED TOYS A LOT. I mean, all kids did, but I think I spent more time fantasizing about having all kinds of toys more than the average kid. It's not like I was toy-deprived…

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I really, really, really didn't like the '80s. After the torpid hippie disco bad facial hair sleazefest that was generally the '70s, as a newly-minted adult I was looking forward to a fresh start in music, fashion, and culture. But aside from a scant few bands and neon hair accessories, I…

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I sincerely doubt that when the band X (John Doe on bass and vocals, Evene Cervenka on vocals, Billy Zoom on guitar, and DJ Bonebrake on drums) began playing together years ago in Loa Angeles that they could have imagined that they might be performing to a raucous, sell-out crowd in…

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MissNine gets to show her photos today of some of her dolls posed in our front garden. They are now all safely returned to the Great Indoors, no doubt gossiping to each other about their magical adventures amongst the giant flowers.




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I've teamed up with MissNine to bring you photos of a lovely afternoon we spent together today in some absolutely gorgeous Northwest spring weather. We shared my iPhone; whomever had it in hand at the time took the photos. First on the agenda was Mother's Day Tea at her school, where…

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On a normal day at 8AM, I like to be unconscious. Comfy, warm, and all delightfully unconscious in my bed, because it's pretty likely that on any given night, I am not even hitting the sack until 3AM. However, this week my taxi skills are needed in both the morning and…

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Yes, tonight was MissNine's school Science Fair, all set up in the gym to share with the parents, excitement in the air. The kids patiently stood by their white boards and explained how their experiments turned out, while parents ooh'd and ahh'd and nodded in somber scientific agreement. When patienc…

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I don't know that you would expect that I -- a West Coast livin', solidly librul, garage punk lovin' heathen -- would consider the state of Florida something of an adopted second home. But I really kinda do. For all its faults, political, racial, religional, and hurricanical, it still remains a…

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When I arrived home last Saturday night around 2AM from Seattle's Chop Suey club, I noticed that not only did my clothes, hair, and camera gear have beer all over them, but there was beer actually in my shoes. On my shoes, of course, but also inside my shoes. This will give…

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Between photo processing from last night's awesome show at Chop Suey (details tomorrow!) and helping out with MissNine's science fair project (OF COURSE), eating Brazilian cheese bread and pizza and drinking coffee, I HAD NO TIME FOR ANYTHING ELSE. Therefore, what you get today is a video of a goat h…

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Oh my.

Oh my.

Um.

Uh.

OK.

I think...I think I will just say no more, other than the visions of Jackson as Peter Pan-Jesus-Winged Wood Nymph-Not Pedophile-Not Asexual-Savior of Humanity-Trumped Up Royalty is well represented here. Please keep this post away from children and other…

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Discount store! Hello!
We meet again, post-dinner
I have had sake.

Pretty platform heels
I love you all, yet I know
I cannot wear you.

Asian Man! Move on!
Your sideways cart is blocking
Me from bras, dammit!

I have no need for
A single dining room chair

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How very surprised and charmed I was to see these amazing little pieces of art appear on my Facebook stream yesterday -- so much so that I instantly wanted to share them with you. Jeanne Roe is an Oconomowoc (WI.) High School classmate of mine. We knew each other casually back…

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MAY 3, 2012 12:06AM

MY TEN NEW SUPERHEROES

I was never much of a fan of the Superhero comic book/film/tv genre; maybe that's because I am not a dude and am also easily bored and irritated by fantasy conceits like unicorns, lottery-playing, Renaissance Faires, anything Comic Con, and organized religion. My sole true exception to this is Batman…

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It's spring, and once again, school Science Fair time. To remind you, the Science Fair is that special event where young students are told to design, build, execute, and write up a scientific project of their own to be replicated and presented at school for assembled students, faculty, and parents. A…

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I think my generation (kids born in the late '50s/early 60s) was the first to experience the widespread wonder of battery-operated toys, although certainly the majority of my playthings didn't have them. I had dolls that didn't "do" anything other than sit there or maybe pee out water or cry like…

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As everyone is aware, there's been a whole lot of talk recently about the legislative "War On Women" that's been ramping up across America. In state after state, court after court, and in the hallowed halls of the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, we have seen seen economic, civil…

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My Saturday has been entirely taken up by taking and processing photos -- a good, good thing -- but other than taking a short break to eat something and smile at the dog and the kids, I haven't been able to make something super-pithy for you today. Instead (and this might…

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