need for BALLROOM is URGENT

I am going to Chicago for the first time! Meeting up with family and sight-seeing for a few days later this month. What would you do? Would love to see some comedy too.

Teaching inflatables a few weeks ago at the California Sculptors Symposium. I gotta figure out how to do this workshop again. My deal is presenting weird crafts in the most entry-level way possible. Hire me to teach your people 3D design wackiness!

Notice the outfits are quite "normal." That's bc for most of its history, the gala was a private high-society dinner to raise money for the Costume Institute. About twenty years ago, under the direction of Anna Wintour, it has become more about costumes, which is something Tom Ford has lamented.

there's a cat tree in my house (1/6)

Repost to make it die faster

What’s the funniest real-world advertising slogan to imagine Don Draper coming up with? Right now for me it’s “A cookie is just a cookie. But Newtons are fruit and cake.”

"I'd like to see the algorithm do this."

Hozier, “Nobody’s Soldier”

america needs more lighthouses. every few miles on every shore. that's a lot of lighthouse keeper jobs. you could do it. every night just you and the light and the infinite sea. you sleep days and in summer the sun hangs for a moment and fades just as you wake up. when pizza's on a bagel you can hav

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Heading to Los Gatos- anyone want any plums? It’s like a month too early for them to be ripe but I gotta get some before this other guy takes them all.

I’m gonna roast the Quizbowl judges from my 1997 regional tournament who wouldn’t give me a point for correctly answering “Two Princes” (the Spin Doctors hit) because they thought I said “Two Princess”. GODDAMNIT. I will invite callers to tell quizbowl sob stories.

"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

Caltrain hit something and we stopped shortly after. Stopped before Santa Clara station NB. I hope it was nothing nothing nothing.

A portrait my mom commissioned from a local artist known for painting figures with NO FACES. This is unfinished because the artist had a slight breakdown working with my mom as a client.

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Little Carrot Class! Saturday May 9 from 1-3:30pm. Learn to use a sewing machine and make a cute carrot plush. www.jumbojibbles.com/event-detail...

When a doctor tells me now that a screening I used to get yearly is now ok for every three years, should I take that as a leap forward in science or the government hoping it’ll kill me faster?

After years of health physicals where a doctor barely looks at me (let alone touches me) I find out all the stuff of physicals from years past are no longer mandatory. How should I know what to ask for?? I’m not a doctor! Treat me like a damn car and see if any parts are falling off!

There’s a MARGO’S GOT MONEY TROUBLES tv show???? Best book I read in 2024! So far two eps in, I’m pretty pleased with how David E Kelly has adapted it. Great cast.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

just heard someone refer to a regular bicycle as an “acoustic bike”

My job today. ☺️

Oh good, my stolen furniture tweet is popping up again. IT WAS AN INNOCENT MISTAKE.

I have more photos but I am way too tired to do alt text on them. Maybe tomorrow. My students are making great things. #californiasculptorsymposium #adultartcamp

Little cacti guy from day one of Inflatable Art at California Sculptor Symposium.

Before photo of my Inflatable Art classroom at California Sculptor Symposium (weeklong adult art camp).

I know it’s post bunny-day but I re-met this artist (Colleen) today and love this photo-fabric pillow tutorial. I want to borrow an inkjet printer. mymateriallife.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/p...

A 29-year-old warehouse worker burned down a Kimberly-Clark warehouse and destroyed $500M in inventory while stating, “All you had to do was pay us enough to live.” So I quickly researched his claim. And the numbers don’t look good for Kimberly-Clark. youtube.com/shorts/uim6E...

“Living wages are cheaper than revolution.”

An all-new installment of our whimsical comic about artistic creatures trying to make a living in a bleak forest.

Does anyone on here still shop on Etsy? I still have a store there, but I am no longer making sales. Wondering if I should cut it out or wait it out. It was a good 15 years!

I heard it on the radio while waitressing, but I couldn’t catch any lyrics. Described it to the guy who owned the indie record store. I bought maybe 4 albums before I heard it again. It’s how I accidentally got into the Halo Benders and Built to Spill. The song was “Fuck Hollywood” by Quasi.

I was 6, playing Horse with a neighbor kid their driveway with the radio on. I heard a song that sounded like gentle waves and bells and could have been the background for unicorns running through mist. It took me over 25 years to hear it again in a hardware store.

Had an actual crying/laughing fit and scared my husband.

i took yearbook photos of all our new chicks this weekend. these two were my favorite

‘Rowling has been rich enough to pour cash into organizations like this for some time now because she continues to hold primary intellectual property rights to the entire Harry Potter franchise.’ Can’t separate art from artist when the artist is using their royalties to eradicate trans people.

Tomorrow at Billy Defrank Center’s #TransDayofVisibility, I’ll have a booth featuring a raffle for a sewing machine. Come in down- 1-4pm.

We all seem to have forgotten one of the most truly delightful and surprising indie interactive fiction drops of the last decade. 17776 is ostensibly about football, which is why at first glance I thought I wouldn't like it. But it really makes me smile, and the world could use that right now.

My dad drove us all back from upstate NY to Northwest Arkansas in one go after I can only assume he had had enough of a family vacation with teens + a teen friend.

Inflatable Zoo at my next Second Saturday open studio, on April 11th! (These letters will not actually be there-- they are already in the possesion of the City of Mountain View's art council). But others will be around! www.jumbojibbles.com/event-detail...

My 6th grade oral book report on The Bridges of Madison County.

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Yesterday I was at the thrift shop with Tricia looking for merino wool and cool CDs and got to talking to some people searching through the music. We were having some laughs over the prevalence of second-hand Kenny G.

Beautiful LOST CAT sign found on our walk. Moisture got inside the laminate and made a rainbow aura around the cat. Reward: $1000.

Are you interested in learning several sculptural techniques in a week of lovely people, with ocean sunsets and a camp atmosphere? California Sculptors Symposium is April 12-19 in Cambria, CA. I'm teaching inflatable sculpture there!

My inner essence is a hot air balloon.