hey, see this picture of an airline magazine below? see the picture of the guy on the right-hand page? see the shirt he is wearing? i made that.

shamelessly stolen from here.

see more crap i make here.

So I wrote a thing for the other place. Go check it out.

My dad just sent me this picture of my great grampa:

Hiram Dawson Warren, b. 1898, pic c. 1916

He looks just like my grampa and dad and uncles! My dad said he’d try to dig up some old-timey pictures of them, but for comparison here is one of my dad:

David Dawson Warren, b. 1953, pic ca. 1959?

L’il Davey is so cute! Don’t you just want to pinch those cheeks? Oh man, I love old-timey family pictures!

Made a mix of what I’ve been listening to/thinking about. Hope you enjoy:

Hello Wichita

1. Winter Water / The Harlem Shakes
2. The World Is Falling / Mirah
3. Thunder Road / Bruce Springsteen
4. Rockets / Cat Power
5. Wind Phoenix (Proper Name) / Cymbals Eat Guitars
6. Beehive State / White Rabbits
7. Beijing / Patrick Watson
8. The Turn / M.I.A.
9. Hello Birmingham / Ani DiFranco
10. #1 Must Have / Sleater-Kinney
11. Lua / Conor Oberst + Gillian Welch
12. 5 Years / Björk
13. Four / The A-Lines
14. African Friend / Clem Snide
15. Bring It On Home to Me / The Animals

You can find it here.

Or, if you’re prefer, send an email to friedatheflyingpanda AT gmail DOT com with your name and address and I’ll send you  a CD that, depending on how lazy I am this week, may or may not include cover art.

So my most recent crafty experiment in screenprinting is below: printing on the desk I got for $20 at a tag sale a couple of years ago. I painted it black, but that has been kind of boring. I was really excited about the metallic screenprinting ink I bought, and thought this would be fun. But then I went and painted the trim in gold as well, and I am afraid it looks too gaudy. Opinions? I can paint back over the trim before I seal it with acrylic varnish.

front

top

drawer detail

top detail

watch this now.

Today: Doctor Who Performed Abortions Is Shot to Death

Dr. Tiller, who had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion and had survived a shooting more than a decade ago, was shot inside his church here on Sunday morning, the authorities said. Dr. Tiller, 67, was shot with a handgun inside the lobby of his longtime church, Reformation Lutheran Church on the city’s East Side, just after 10 a.m. (Central Time). The service had started minutes earlier.

Leaders of national abortion rights organizations, meanwhile, expressed outrage. Some described Dr. Tiller as one of the only doctors in the nation who performed third-trimester abortions when the life or health of a mother was at stake, and said that his death would make it even harder for women in such circumstances to end their pregnancies.

“Dr. Tiller was a fearless, passionate defender of women’s reproductive health and rights,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, based in New York, which had worked on a legal case related to Dr. Tiller. “It’s time that this nation stop demonizing these doctors, and start honoring them.”

October 24, 1998: Sniper Kills Abortion Doctor Near Buffalo

Hello Birmingham – Ani DiFranco

it was just one shot
through the kitchen window
it was just one or two miles from here
if you fly like a crow
a bullet came to visit a doctor
in his one safe place
a bullet insuring the right to life
whizzed past his kid and his wife
and knocked his glasses
right off of his face

and the blood poured off the pulpit
the blood poured down the picket line
yeah, the hatred was immediate
and the vengance was devine
so they went and stuffed god
down the barrel of a gun
and after him
they stuffed his only son

Registering the Unemployed: Scene at an Office in Chelsea, 1887

Hey, NYC, I know you are busy with the recession and scaling back the MTA and all, but could you please provide jobs for my friends so they don’t move away from me?

Kisses,

E

I have been trying to take a little break from political blogs/news, since it’s so depressing and repetitive, but then I came across these two pictures during my lunchtime Internet snacking, and my dark, frozen heart melted a little bit:

President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton meeting outside the White House near Sasha and Malia's swing set.

Via here and here.

And then this one, which might be even more adorable:

Hop Scotch chalked outside the Oval Office.

Via here, again, and here.

from the kitchen

I suppose that pictures from my family vacation in the Dominican Republic would be better fodder for a blog post, but (a) I took those with my old timey 35mm SLR and expect it to take a little while for me to get my act together enough to actually develop the film, and (b) I’m actually disproportionally excited about our new living room arrangement.

the footstool was a good choice

I shouldn’t be that surprised—I always feel the urge to move the furniture and do a little redesign every 6 months or so; it’s amazing how a little freshening up of the living area lifts my mood. Thus, Mr. Mossberg and I went to Ikea last weekend to, um, stimulate the economy a little. Then Eva graciously submitted to my budget interior design impulses.

I also finally got a frame for the replica Civil War letterpress print I got almost three years ago from The Farmer’s Museum. I think it looks great on this wall, but some of the other artwork in the room needs to be switched up. I have an idea involving a childrens book of the alphabet illustrated with woodcuts of animals, so if the roomies are game there might be a craft project in the future.