B-I-N-G-O
Virginia calls out the bingo #’s during the El Orbits show on Monday night.
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Halloween Festoonery
I swear, Cynthia has more home made clothing items celebrating Halloween than any other holiday you can think of. Seems that each year she makes another blouse or skirt featuring witches, skeletons, jack-o-lanterns or whatever.
Her latest creation is this spiffy jacket made from fabric with an Edward Gorey like motif…
Detail shot of the print
Exodus
Traffic is thick everywhere as Houston drivers who normally avoid the freeway use it to avoid congested surface streets with non-functioning traffic lights.
As a EZ-TAG card carrying user of the Houston toll system, I am personally frustrated with the fact that Houston has opened up the toll roads to all traffic for free. This has caused congestion on my main means of getting in and out of town. I am counting the minutes till Saturday when the tolls are once again enforced and the riff-raff is relegated to the FREE-ways.
New Quilt
Cynthia has completed her latest quilt. It’s called “Jay’s Shirts Travel The World.”
During the course of creating my many custom shirts, Cynthia has ended up with a lot of unusual scraps of fabric. One of her goals is to make a quilt for each room and she created this one to hang in the laundry room. Each panel represents one of the shirts she has made for me placed in a situation that is in some kind of contast to the theme of the shirt.
Click on any of the panels below to see an enlargement
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There are only 12 shirts represented, but my collection is well over 30 at this point.
Here are some additional detail shots to show the stitching and the buttons that were added to each panel
Photographing this quilt was a great opportunity to use the new flash unit.
Tango Criollo
Each Monday night at The Continental Club with Glover Gil
El Orbits - Casual
Experimenting with the flash at the back bar of the Continetnal Club. Possibilites are starting to take shape.
Post Ike Post
As the city struggles to recover from Hurricane Ike, more and most people are hitting the roads. Driving to work, running errands, etc. Of course with a lot of the city without power there’s a lot of traffic lights that are just dark. Traffic during peak hours, while not all that great on a normal day, is extremely bad as those who barely (if at all) qualify for a drivers license vainly struggle to sort out the de facto 4-way stops that plague even the shortest trip on any given surface street.
Today was the first day I’ve seen the local police out directing traffic. It helps, but there’s still a lot of congestion. As I was driving into town this evening the traffic on 59 headed out of the city was the thickest I’ve ever seen it. And that was at 8:00 pm.
I swung by KPFT to see how things were going. I’d heard that the station had gotten back on the air on Friday and actually played “Here Comes The Sun” by The Beatles repeatedly for an hour. For those not in the know, this was the first song played on KPFT when it went on the air on March 1, 1970.
As of now the station is on the air and returns to the normal schedule first thing on Tuesday morning. We’re actually hijacking our own Internet connection to send the signal to the transmitter over IP until we get things sorted out with the microwave.
Of course this means Technology Bytes will be back on Wednesday which gives me the happy. Anything to return my own sense of routine and normalcy goes a long, long way.
Dooley Dooley Doo!
As I was pondering our possible fate when IKE approached I considered a “worst case scenario” in where I was holding the pet carrier with Dooley cowering inside high above my head while the water rose up and destroyed my material possessions. I am glad that it did not come to that.
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