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“Janky” is a favorite word of Rbca, my Flaming Lotus Girl friend.
Wiktionary gives its meaning as “1. (slang) of poor quality; untrustworthy”
Let’s say you have to lift a 1 ton sculpture onto the roof of a shipping container but your forklift can’t lift it quite high enough (and it doesn’t have brakes but that’s another matter entirely). It would be a janky setup if you lifted the piece onto a card table with the forklift and then lifted the card table up into the air.
I present the photo that belongs next to the definition, lifted straight out of the most recent Harbor Freight catalog.
Here are (in no particular order) links to the web sites of many of my friends.
Shameless Heather
Warren – Committed heart and soul to his insane desires, he earns my highest respect.
WoTW
Maura
Nick
Scherzoid
Petal
Geri
Marah
Lukas W. Sullivan – AKA Spanks T. Clown
Rosa Carson
Homeport – a very very good place.
Travis James Ignatius Corcoran
KathyPhrog – a fantastic human bean and Daaaark Hobling!
Shara Zoll – my friend and ex-housemate!
Mitchell Gross – a good person.
Eric Berntson – on the short list. You should check out the artwork on his site.
Tom Limoncelli – Tom Limoncelli
My sister
PS. Sorry about the song playing in the background (if you’re running IE, that is. If not, feel free to annoy yourself by playing the background music) I can’t recall hearing this on the radio in the past 10 or 15 years (it came out in ’84) but I just can’t get it out of my head! It’s been floating around in my subconscious mind for years. All that anyone has to do is say the word “friends” in the right tone of voice and the little evil bastard in my head sticks this track on REPEAT PLAY 999. I figure that if enough people come to this site and hear the song, I’ll get it out of my head and into the collective unconscious. So there.
Update 10-1-04 I am happy to report that putting the song on my web page has been a success! I haven’t gotten it stuck in my head for a good long while. As a pre-emptive measure against future bouts of this song, I’m going to leave it online.
A long time ago, I ran a Guestbook. It has since been replaced by blogs and such but I thought you might like to take a peek at my old Guestbook
There’s been all this talk about buying carbon credits for the Serpent Mother for Burning Man since she burns 500 gallons of propane per night. That’s right, 1 ton of pureed dinosaur per nocturne. And the new theme is “The Green Man” (here I was thinking that was all Walden-Thoreau-y “Man’s interaction with nature” and they’re thinking “Biodisel uber-alis”)
Here’s a perfect suggestion of how to deal with this from Coyoteblog (via TJIC).
By the way, I wonder if it will occur to anyone that if you really want to offset carbon, you probably need to clear cut old growth forests, bury the logs, and plant new trees.
Charlotte and I will be there
It’s not Valentine’s Day, it’s
PILLOW FIGHT Day!
Where: Justin Herman Plaza (Market & Embarcadero), San Francisco, CA.
When: Wednesday, February 14th, when the Ferry Building clock strikes 6pm.
What: PILLOW FIGHT!!!
How:
1) Tell everyone you know about Pillow Fight!
2) Tell EVERYONE YOU KNOW about Pillow Fight!!!
3) Nothing in your pillow but pillow.
4) Don’t hit anyone with out a pillow.
5) Don’t hit anyone operating a camera.
Last year’s Pillow Fight was *amazing*! Let’s make the magic happen again! Please bring a few trash bags to share and help pick up after wards.
February 14, 2007
Starts at 06:00 PM
Venue Information
Justin Herman Plaza
Market & Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94111
Save the date: April 8th, 11am-4pm
Easter, Ostara, and the ancient fertility rite of consuming chocolate, having brunch, Egg-coloring, Scones, Chobunnpegelly, and perhaps Peeps…
We reserve the right to take it to Dolores Park, if the weather cooperates.
More info to follow…..
“I’m in charge of the knives and the wine!”
That was proudly proclaimed by Shani at the height of our impromptu dinner party on Saturday night. I was planning on going out to an Extra Action Marching Band performance at 12 Galaxies and Charlotte was planning on staying in for a quiet evening. But when I opened the apartment door, I saw Shani and Aaron setting the table in the dining/living/bed/office room! And then I heard a voice in the kitchen… it was our neighbor Lori! I walked in and hugged Shani… a moment later, there was a knock at the door. It was our other neighbor, Cindy! Wow! It was a party!
After we had sat down and had served the Zigeuner Schnitzel, and spaetzele, carrots sauteed with bacon, fresh bread, and homemade coleslaw, the doorbell rang!! It was Cindy’s friend Ken! That’s 7 for dinner!
It was after about the fourth bottle of wine when Shani was returning from the kitchen, implements in-hand that she she said it, “I’m in charge of the knives and the wine!” Happily, Charlotte took one of them out of her hands.
What a great night! Constant conversation, a stone soup dinner (port wine, red velvet cake and other items appeared in our house :-), and seven bottles of wine!
The Hand of God is returning from Australia on a slow boat. The Lotus Girls have all made it back already. I was all excited to see this image at their last show. Do you see the little bracket under the big flexible pipe? It is sitting pretty much right under the yellow handled ball valve. I made that! (image via)
My sister remembers the 80’s. She’s selling Mr T Chocolate lollipops on Etsy
Seen in Newark Airport at Christmas. Joy.
