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Santa Claus has a sleigh and a team of flying reindeer to pull him around. The tooth-fairy has wings to flutter in and out of children’s rooms and yes - she does have to carry all that cash, but this poor little sucker has to hop across continents in a single night to hide those Easter eggs. Can you imagine how hard that is? I mean think about it - how many hops do you think it takes for a little bunny to get across the George Washington Bridge? Even without traffic? And all those eggs? How does it even carry them without breaking a few?

The Easter Bunny is the hardest working holiday superhero since…oh….the Great Pumpkin. Even though GP only has to his peek his head out of a pumpkin patch once a year, his battle is difficult because his only believer is that wishy-washy, Charlie Brown, a PR challenge of epic proportions, still fighting it from what I understand. But this bunny takes the yoke. We’ve all heard stories of seeing mommy kissing Santa Claus but no one - no one…. has ever seen the Easter Bunny.

…Until now. This photo was snapped early this morning, showing that stealthy little bunny waking up after a  post-globe-hopping nap. After spending an entire year boiling jumbo grade-A’s and painting cute things on them  he is clearly exhausted and a little grumpy from what I’ve heard. How do I know? How do you know the Easter Bunny does not exist? Does anyone have any proof of this? I rest my case.

I received this photo from the owner of the Easter Bunny’s alter ego or Clark Kent equivalent - a mild mannered English angora named Huxley. Huxley’s landlord and superhero accomplice  - like Bruce Wayne’s butler, Alfred - is Liz from Pennsylvania. She is a 24 year-old artisan, a yarn-spinning master. She is also quite an entrepreneur. I’m pretty hopped-out myself this morning and I’m not going to even try to blabber poetic about her work. It speaks for itself. The only thing I can say is you have to see Liz’s dedication and you will realize that old arts are the most beautiful because they are so improved with every year. Think Spring.

Thanks, Bunny….Happy Easter!

…and pass the salt and pepper…

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Awhhh… This li’l girl woke up grumpy over something. What it is, we really don’t know. A cold bottle ‘a milk seems a likely situation. It made me think about this brief moment, how toddlers change from one minute to the next and made me realize adults are no different. We get into funks about things and sometimes we don’t realize how temporary they are. I can guarantee you this: Little Mali here got her self out of that funk….are you ready…..?

GoooshieBooshieBooshieBoo! One second, baby! And that’s how I learned from a 2 year-old how to deal with situations.  They come in all sizes and some last forever but situations are all the same - A period of time that you adjust to and become  stronger for your efforts. Mali’s mom, who goes by the name, Squid Rosenberg, is a case in point. You see, Mali’s older brother is autistic but Mali is developing at her expected level. “Squid ” has experienced two surprises - One, a child with autism and after that, two - a child without. She has taken both and created quite a generous base of knowledge for parents in any situation on her blog. She helps many people. It is a diary of devotion and how to not only overcome situations but to turn them into strength.

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…Or was she? Sure it could have been the flash of a camera that temporarily blinded this BedHead but really, wouldn’t it be so much more fun to imagine an army of these guys,

invading the bedroom of this unsuspecting sleepy-head, whirling about the room to Turkish music and then leaving just as fast as they came?  I think so. But the truth is, not many whirling dervishes live in Osaka, Japan, the locale where this BedHead was shot. The shooter is Tom, this is his wife. I didn’t happen to get her name but she agreed to contribute her photo on the condition that she win a prize for best BedHead. I haven’t yet devised a BedHead competition for this site but it is in the works and when we do hold “The Best Bedhead” contest, Tom’s wife will be judged just the same everyone else. Stay tuned for that….

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 The point is that this is a natural bedhead. If you take a closer look, you’ll see that this pointed-spiral-upsweep contains no hair gel. The wisps above Jim Lee’s right temple are another tell-tale sign of bedhead authenticity. Since the photo shows Jim’s hair rotating counter-clockwise, we can determine that he always turns clockwise while sleeping. Kinda weird, Jim…what does it all mean?

The photo was shot by Seattle artist, Narisa Spaulding on the corner of 10th street and Pine. She is a voracious illustrator and her work is a true treat for the eye… I don’t know who Jim Lee is but he he sure is proud of his slumber-sculpture.

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That’s Mrs. Reed’s caption, not mine. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “dork as a  stupid, inept, or foolish person.

 I prefer Wikipedia’s definition:

“…a term used to describe someone who has unusual interests and is, at times, silly and stupid. A dork can also refer to someone who acts on his own motives without caring about his peers’ opinions.”

See the unusual interests of this extremely talented dork-knob..    

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Ah progress….

Its what happens when we learn something. Progression is a wonderful thing and humans are doing it all the time. But when we progress, it mostly seems to be by way of a longer than necessary route. Think lead paint. It’s so “spread-ably” good and durable! It also makes you sick. We learned that only after painting our schools with it. Think asbestos. So snugly warm!….And fire-proof! That’s progress! It also caused millions to die slowly and painfully. Well, we learned from that lesson, rest assured.

Now, allow me to me let you in on yet another new vision of human progress - a floating city, four football fields long, filled to the gills with pressurized liquid natural gas. Even worse, this monstrosity will be permanently moored in the center of  New York’s crown jewel of estuaries, the Long Island Sound. The project will supposedly save gas customers $200 dollars a year. In reality, it will be an industrial stain on this abundant and fragile eco-system. Years from now, we will learn either by way of sudden industrial disaster or by the task of cleaning up a decrepit, floating mass of industrial antiquity. Progress can be painful without a little forethought.  This is why the Broadwater natural gas terminal lies firmly in the glare of our hairy eyeball.

There’s a shorter way to real progress… More on this to come…In the meantime, check out the heroic efforts of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment… 

 Four locks of hair supposedly snipped from our first president has fetched $17,000 at auction. The hairs were given to Colorado resident Christina Allen by her father, a Philadelphia attorney. Dad says the hair has been passed down by generations of family members pressed between two pieces of glass. The story is that the hair was clipped while GW was disinterred in 1837. Just can’t let sleeping presidents lie, eh? The story prompted me to search my apartment for possibly valuable heirlooms from history. I found Howard Hughes’ toe-nail clippings and Mamie Eisenhower’s million dollar fudge recipe! Wooowee! I’m rich!

She’s a dancer, a choreographer and a performance artist….a self-described office slag and a compulsive photographer. Well thank goodness for that last part because there’s lots to love in Megan Mayer’s photos. I love her dashboard shots. They remind me of the movie Fargo. Even more, I love her TV duets. I’ve never seen so many pictures that made me wish I was there….with a casual and easy way out, of course. Megan’s got a great a eye and a lovely sense of humor. Her pictures with her mom are wonderful. Only the brave give up bedheads like these… We need more Megan Mayers in this world…

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