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a “green arrow” pea pod, september 26

a “green arrow” pea blossom, september 15th

spent some time out in the garden the other day (8/24) messing around with my camera. i think some of these turned out pretty well!

it’s been about 100 degrees for a good portion of the last week but has cooled back down to more normal summer temperatures of about 70 to 80 degrees. here’s some pictures of stuff from today:

special thanks to my new photographer/hoseman

kimgordonsrealage:

1989: In a novel partnership, Saab pays $250,000 for an advertisement on the cover of Slint’s “Tweez” LP. (Both the automaker and the “post-rock” genre would later be absorbed by General Motors; Saab and post-rock both filed for bankruptcy in late 2011.) 

(One in a series)

on july 29th, 2010, i officially arrived in portland, oregon. this weekend was my second anniversary of living in this city, and my second summer spent in my community garden plot. (i signed up for mine before it was certain i was living here - i understand the waitlists are quite a bit longer now.) here’s some pictures of what it looked like last year and what it looks like right now:

picture of july 26, 2011 - the old bean fences and raspberry bush hadn’t come down yet. it was raining a lot more last summer than this summer. the weeds kind of took over.

also from 6/26/11 - this is where the peas eventually went. (planted peas here too last year but i’m not sure if they were planted at this point or if the soil had just been cleared.

this is smaller than it looks but this is where the peas got planted. this picture was taken on 7/23/12. here’s what they looked like today (7/30)!

7/26/11 - this became my current lettuce bed. i got a much earlier start last year. looks like i also planted some radishes?

7/30/12 - my current lettuce bed. this is either “flashy trout’s back” or “flashy oak leaf”. i forgot to make signs. i thinned a bunch of this out today but i bet it looks good in a few weeks

here’s a few from 7/30 that i really enjoyed:

(not all of those are from my plot. my plot has sprouts, the spotted letuce, and the tomato flower. the rest of this is various other plots in the garden)

liezlwashere:

(Taken with Instagram)

in november 2011 i got hired for another (almost) fulltime position doing software stuff for an internet company. that’s as much detail as i’ll go into at least. anyway, between the preexisting pizza job and the office stuff, i have not had much time to garden this year! but summer’s here and it’s gorgeous out and i would be ashamed of myself if i did not get to dig in the dirt at least a few times.

ugh look at all that garbage thrown everywhere. at the bottom of the picture you can see my 2 tomato plants (“sungold” cherry tomatoes and “beefy boy” beefsteaks), my 2 lettuce beds (“bunte forellenschuss” which is a speckled butter lettuce and “mayan jaguar” which i hope imbues me with all the powers of said large cat), and a darling little shiso plant. shiso (perilla) is a japanese herb commonly used to make umeboshi. this one is going to be turned into ice cream once it gets big enough!

peas please (“green arrow” shelling peas, these peas are the shit. double pods, heavy bearing, and candy sweet) and a “crystal palace” lobelia plant so there’s at least something to look at until the peas sprout.

another view of the tomatoes and stuff. this bed’s actually been extended out about 2 feet since i took this picture. i planted more lettuce, a few kinds of radishes (“giant beer friend” daikon and “sparkler” round radishes) and some shungiku (chrysanthemum greens) in the new area.

not shown: 2 other beds. one planted with nasturtiums, the other with carrots, watermelon radishes, more shungiku, probably more lettuce? i guess i’ll have to see what sprouts.

one of the main reasons i’ve been putting off gardening for so long is that the soil fucking sucks. it’s been about 80-85 degrees for a week and it hasn’t rained in maybe 2 or 3 weeks, but the majority of what i dug up was still wet and sticky. most of the work i did to improve the beds last year got washed away once it started to rain. (the garden is on a hillside and a creek runs above it. when the rainy season starts, the creek overflows and water will also bubble up through the middle of my plot. i don’t think raised beds would do anything to prevent this.) once my plants are established i probably won’t need to water as often, but there’s a pretty good chance that stuff might get killed by frost before it’s ready to harvest. it is almost august after all.

my blueberry bush is a lot bigger this year and the berries should be ready to pick starting in about a week or two, and the first lettuces should be ready to pick around the same time. more pictures soon! i mean it!

kimgordonsrealage:

Karl Pilkington. Photo credit: Mark Riddles, KGRA

Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the classic 1998 rock opera about a man who desires to have sex with a deceased Jewish child while a multi-ethnic brass orchestra accompanies, is about to get a make-over from one of…

my garden substitute. the dirt at my real garden still hasn’t dried out enough to plant stuff AND IT’S MAY 1ST. it’s also so cold that chia homer refuses to sprout. also, it hailed today. also, it’s fucking may. (l-r: red komatsuna, chia homer, “joker” lettuce, tarragon)

liezlwashere:

My good friend Heather bought me this guy in honor of my love for Corgis.
I have named it Dungus. (Taken with instagram)

him name dr. dungus

like y’know whatever

kimgordonsrealage:

If Saturday Night Live viewers are getting the feeling producer Lorne Michaels is going out of his way to find bland, lifeless musical acts to perform, you aren’t far from the truth.

KGRA has learned from an interview with an unnamed source deep within SNL, that Michaels is deliberately…

a celebrity throws a fit and the internet goes bonkers, news at 11

i think performing and writing standup comedy is one of the hardest things i’ve ever done in my life, which is why i don’t do it anymore. i have the utmost respect for people who do. part of being a good performer is being able to look past a distraction, or acknowledge it in a non-obtrusive way and then move on. I DON’T THINK PATTON OSWALT DID THIS AND I THINK HE IS DELIBERATELY BEING A REAL DINK ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOR.

taping someone without their permission is never ok. neither is throwing a fit! barbara grey recounts the night’s events very well on her blog. here is an excerpt:

The room instantly filled up with more audience members as Patton took the stage. He did his new stuff and was most of the way through a bit about a hooker, when he noticed a woman in the second row filming him. Here’s a rough transcript of what I could hear from the back. This is very paired down, but it’s the basic idea of what transpired:

Patton: Excuse me, are you filming me?

Woman: Yes.

Patton: Could you not do that?

Woman: You’re going to want that whole chunk on tape, that was perfect.

Patton: Well I have that whole chunk. I’m working on it for a special and it ruins it if you upload video of it.

Woman: I’ll delete it right now.

Patton: See people do this and they’re being assholes. You don’t realize you’re being an asshole but you’re being an asshole.

perhaps the asshole move was pressing the issue when someone said “i’ll delete it right now”, ding dong. now everyone on twitter has their panties in a bunch and i can’t read my basketball tweets. patton’s all like “well i was doing this show FOR FREE to work out new material.” meanwhile everyone else on the show gets hella paid to read sniglets. jesus christ asshole, nobody gets paid to do comedy in la! the one time i met jamie kennedy (this is an extremely poor example) he was waving around his 25 dollar check for doing a set at the laugh factory. THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY TO DO COMEDY IN LA. NOBODY GETS PAID. EVERYONE HAS NEW MATERIAL. CAPITAL LETTERS. DID YOU KNOW JAMIE KENNEDY GETS PAID TO DO COMEDY?

one time (2005?) i went through a horrible, soul-crushing depressive episode. the kind where you don’t get out of bed for a week unless it’s to use the toilet and even then it’s like “is it even worth it to go pee in the toilet, i probably deserve to lie on a urine-soaked mattress.” midway through this shitty black cloud, my friend tells me he’s gotten me a ticket to go see louis ck. somehow i drag myself out to cobbs and we end up with front row seats. louis ck always has new material. fucker writes a new hour every year. i am in the front row and i know how funny this shit is and yet i can’t laugh. i can’t even smile. i look like hell, like i’ve been crying for like a week into a pee pillow. a front row person who isn’t laughing at your comedy is distracting and terrible, if you are on stage! i have seen comics call people out for it. it is an awful way to derail your set and kill momentum. (please see “robin williams v. [white guy sitting in front row at ucb who didn’t laugh]” for a shining example) i think louis knows this, because even though i was sitting 4 feet away from him for an hour staring at his face and wishing that a light would fall on me and put me out of my misery, he did not do the weiner thing and stop his set to say “hey, what’s your deal?” he looked elsewhere and continued telling his excellent jokes. 2 weeks later i got laid and now everything is perfect.

i am not suggesting that patton should have ignored the taping lady, or that she was ok to tape his set without permission. i think the professional thing to do would have been to say “hey, that’s not ok. please stop” and then CONTINUE TELLING YOUR STUPID NEW JOKES SO THAT THE OTHER COMICS CAN ENJOY YOUR COMEDY MOMENTUM. it fucking sucks to derail a show and get all awkward. it is a weiner move to make fun of someone after they leave. don’t even get me started on the double chin bullshit. obviously it came from a place of insecurity and emotions. i think he acted like an asshole and is attempting to mask that by being like “but she started it because taaaaaapes.” get over it you big baby and act like a professional comic. you know, one who gets paid to do comedy.

sources: http://barbaragray.tumblr.com/post/15420368620/that-one-time-when-patton-oswalt-was-an-asshole - barbara gray (who was excited about patton dropping in, and is unnecessarily being shit on by internet jerks. also, she’s fucking funny and smart, read her stuff)

http://twitter.com/pattonoswalt - patton oswalt (ratatoing, the stuff on the comedians of comedy dvd that isn’t me talking about andy kindler)