14 January
So yesterday was our Big Snow Day of the winter!
Of course, it rained all day and there isn't a smitch of it left (not that there was much to start with) but last night it was so icy cold that I actually put on my Dorky Hat to save my ears from cracking off.
Maybe there will be a minute or two of winter this winter. Although I do remember a few years ago when it was completely mild until like March, and then there were about ten giant blizzards in a row.
I wouldn't faint with shock if that happened again!
I was reading this not very good photography magazine, Popular Photography, checking out the contest winners, which weren't a patch on the ones in American Photography. There were some good ones, but they were nearly all colour, i.e. not as interesting as black and white. Colour pictures tend to be all about the colour, which isn't bad but gets old fast--black and white is purer.
However, when I got off the van and the streets were white with frost, I was hit with this overwhelming desire to grab my camera and go out and take colour pictures!
I love shooting at night, in the dark, with natural light, particularly in the snow (like I did here) but have never done it in colour. So I ran home and got my camera and my gloves and went out and shot until I couldn't feel my fingers.
They will be dark as hell and I don't know if anything will turn out, but I was too excited not to do it. So the lesson learned is that even a mediocre photography magazine can supercharge you!
Has anyone else been seeing ads for The Ainsley Harriott Show?
They mesmerize me, because I don't think that I have ever seen a more repellent TV host in my entire life, and that includes whatshisname who smoked all the time and yelled and threw guests off his show. Starts with an M.
Now, ol' Ainsley isn't mean or anything like M Guy, he's just this giant plastic hunk of fakeness, but so plastic and so fake that it's almost performance art.
According to his bio, Ainsley is the most popular TV chef in England. Why do I have a feeling that this is some sort of elaborate British practical joke?
BRITISH PERSON #1
How the hell are we going to get rid of that drip Ainsley Harriott?
BRITISH PERSON #2
I know! Let's pretend that he's terribly popular, and then they'll want to bring him to America! He's so vulgar, he belongs there.
BRITISH PERSON #1
You mean like Australia did with Steve Irwin? What a marvelous idea! You ring half the country and I'll ring the other half, I'll bet if we all co-operate we can wash our hands of him in no more than three years!
I remember, it's Morton Downey Jr!
Today's horoscope:
Be willing to make changes. Sensitivity and a different perspective could add zest to your interactions with your beloved.
One year ago today:
O the wailing and gnashing of teeth! Very gratifying.
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