Archive for the 'country mouse' Category

May 8, 2007 | Filed under: hello, nurse!, country mouse

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This morning I went to feed the birds and got a furry surprise.

FYI: birds aren’t furry.

UPDATE 5/9: less than six hours after I shot this video, I opened the box to show the babies to a friend. Gone. Vanished into thin air like Keyser freakin’ Soze.

“…and poof. Just like that, he’s gone”

April 30, 2007 | Filed under: oddball, country mouse

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This was supposed to be a video about fishing. It’s not. It’s a video of what was happening river-side while everyone else was fishing.

I love it when you set out to do a certain kind of video and end up with something completely different.

Download “Asturias Leyenda” (mp3)
from “Marimba Classic”
by Kai Stensgaard
Danacord Records

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February 14, 2007 | Filed under: country mouse

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SNOW DAY!! Winter wonderland, indeed! It’s overwhelming! It has been snowing non-stop since last night and we’ve got tons of snow on the ground. It’s hard to say how deep it is because giant drifts have been blown all over the place but it must be at least two feet. And now that Main Street has been plowed, there are huge piles of snow rimming the sidewalks as well. The few sidewalks we have a totally buried. Very few people have shoveled (why bother, it’s still snowing!) so you have to walk right up the main road. No cars to worry about–only a fool would be out driving in this. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a storm this big outside the city. It’s so gorgeous and this charming one-stop-light town looks like a vintage postcard!(and actually, we don’t even have a stop light, just a lone yellow caution light. It makes an appearance in the video)

My vacation got extended by five days and I dread leaving. Winter in the city stinks! When it snows it’s really lovely for about three hours then everything gets frozen and filthy and sooty and filled with garbage. When it finally melts there are newly freed piles of trash floating around. Blecch…but this?

This is Winter Heaven.

Admittedly, a shovel would be nice.

February 13, 2007 | Filed under: country mouse, good eatin'

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Firmly ensconced upstate, now with working internet, awaiting a big snowstorm and enjoying a city-style snack.I like this little town more and more each day.

January 14, 2007 | Filed under: city mouse, country mouse

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I have a love/hate relationship with the bus. There is nothing worse than schlepping to Port Authority–a little piece of recently renovated hell on Earth– straight out of work first thing in the morning and standing on line in a stink, bleak basement to take a jam-packed three-and-a-half hour bus trip upstate. I hate it. However, as the trip progresses and you pass the seemingly endless sprawl of Paramus the trees get bigger, the towns get smaller and the distance between them grows wider, I start to love it. Three hours seems like nothing when you end up world’s away.I will, however, make 2007 the Year of Learning How to Drive.*

*Note: I have been saying that sine 1993 when I received my first learner’s permit. I’ve been renewing it every five years. But this time I really mean it.

Musical Bits:
Ministry “Reload”, Filth Pig, 1996 Warner Brothers Records
Milton Nacimento “Minas” , Minas, 1976 Water Records
Because these two songs are completely fabulous in totally different ways, just like NYC and Upstate.