Yes and no.
Although never intended to be The End, a closing post was made on October 10, 2013. Since then, the blog has been sitting here, in limbo, but never quite dormant. It sort of lives on.
Stork Bites Man may or may not get updated, appended, relocated, or deleted. And you never know, posts may start showing up again, but for now, it will just be here. An archive of a particular time.
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A.B.
GOODBURGER
Wanted: a royal blue Oilily dress from about 2003. It had a crazy cheeseburger pattern all over it. Can't find an image anywhere.
The Sierra Range
This 1990 poster by Charley Harper is available three ways:
$85.00 from this etsy seller
$50.00 from charleyharperprints.com
$10.00 from bookstore.gpo.gov
Some names from the deep branches of my family tree:
Miles Green
Wilkerson James
Adkin Christopher
Thomas Wesley
Jack Ervin
L. S. Silas
Hamp Cleveland
Ruby Mae
Maude Mae
Sampson Davis
Jasper Tillman
Ada Lou
Thanks Mom!
Related: The Peregrine White Cradle
IT TAKES TIME —
In the 60s and 70s, you could get by on very little money. And, so, people had time. I mean it was kinda like a bubble or just a brief passage in time when there was so much prosperity in America that if you lived simply you could survive on very little. So people had time to explore things and learn new things.
Lloyd Kahn from this video.
Small Victories —
"Where are we going?" he asked as I helped him put on his shoes.
"Nowhere, "we're just walking."
Read "Small Victories" on Heading East (via Daddytypes)
SUPER GOOD DEAL
A few years before I was born, my dad placed this classified ad to sell his car. My mom reports that "he actually paid $1400 for it, and when we sold it for $1600, we thought we made a good deal."
WAFFLISH WAFFLE
I picked this up at Wafflish Waffle. Photo/via: Bird & Banner. (Antonio Vitali coat hanger; one of three picked up on eBay a few years ago.)
= Baby boy Beach coming soon (!)
LA ENDURO
COCO-0191
Exceptionally cool kid's bike. Cantilevers on 22" knobbies. We put on new tires, tubes, saddle, some cables, tuned it up. Very cool. No matter how cool kid's bikes are, they just don't sell. This is half the size of an adult's bike but is the same quality and much rarer but we will have to wait a long time to get $150 for it. Unless you are a very discerning parent...
Coco's Variety
2427 Riverside Drive
Los Angeles, California 90039
Email (323) 664-7400 Map
WORKING (TOGETHER) —
We visited Lucas and Kaori at Knee High's office located in a converted house in Shibuya as they were winding down for the new year holiday. They have the rare good fortune to possess a garden where they cultivate herbs and vegetables and relax under maple and persimmon trees where the noisy mejiro, a lovely white-eyed green bird, feasts off the last of the year's fruits. We were especially interested in listening to their experiences as partners running a small business in Japan.
We met up with Mike and Yuri at their shop in Kyobashi, a sober, no-funny business neighborhood wedged in the shadow of Ginza, Tokyo's commercial bright star. The shop is a fully-realized distillation of Postalco's elegantly utilitarian sensibility... The contrast in settings between shop and studio seems to highlight a good balance in their approach to work: their ability to unify what they want with what they do and to craft a lifestyle that works. It's nice.
Watch and read more about the husband-and-wife teams of Knee High Media and Postalco: here (Tramnesia)
Links: Knee High Media and Postalco
Let us sing the praises —
What if J.K. Rowling would have written the books from the perspective of Hermione?
So, before she goes away for good, let us sing the praises of Hermione. A generation could not have asked for a better role model. Looking back over the series -- from Hermione Granger and the Philosopher's Stone through to Hermione Granger and the Deathly Hallows -- the startling thing about it is how original it is. It's what inspires your respect for Rowling: She could only have written the Hermione Granger by refusing to take the easy way out.
For starters, she gave us a female lead. As difficult as it is to imagine, Rowling was pressured to revise her initial drafts to make the lead wizard male. "More universal," they said. "Nobody's going to follow a female character for 4,000 pages," they said. "Girls don't buy books," they said, "and boys won't buy books about them." But Rowling proved them wrong. She was even asked to hide her own gender, and to publish her books under a pen name, so that children wouldn't run screaming at the thought of reading something by a lady. But Joanne Rowling never bowed to the forces of crass commercialism. She will forever be "Joanne Rowling," and the Hermione Granger series will always be Hermione's show.
Read/more: by Sady Doyle (via kottke)
Google image search results for:
"Harry Potter" ....... 95,600,000
"Hermione Granger" ... 1,010,000
"Daniel Radcliffe" ... 39,700,000
"Emma Watson" ........ 19,600,000
Car Theft for Kids
For kids ages 8–14 with an adult
Offered Wednesday, July 20 – 1-3 pm
Thursday, July 21 – 1-3 pm and 4-6 pm
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Info: here
Join us for a hands-on workshop for parents, children and teens where participants will learn to break into a car, hotwire it, and escape from its trunk.
For most kids (and adults), modern cars are simply these gleaming, aggressive-faced jellybeans that house air-conditioning units and MP3 players while they idle in traffic. But underneath their shiny surface lurks all manner of exciting machinery that needs some demystification. That’s where we come in. In this class, we’ll focus on a few key aspects of cars while learning a bit about the physics and mechanics behind how it all works. This is a hands-on workshop, with an actual car to break in and out of. Taught by car historian and inventor Jason Torchinsky, who has already successfully guided at least six children in Los Angeles towards future grand theft auto. Pre-registration required; call 612.375.5812.
"Meeting Cy Twombly Changed My Life" —
As I was standing there, marking the many differences between an actual painting and a slide lecture, a tall, elderly man came out of a set of doors to my left, and joined me in looking. I looked at him briefly, and then the painting. And then back at him, because he was looking unexpectedly familiar.
"Excuse me, but are you Cy Twombly?" I asked.
"Yes," came the reply.
Read Meeting Cy Twombly Changed My Life by Greg Allen.
Family Retreat
The Marcel Breuer Cottage
634 Black Pond Road
Williams Pond, Wellfleet, MA
Photos: Walter Sanders for LIFE
IF MAMA AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY. ---- ALSO ---- IF DADDY AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY.
FREE all ages dance party, rock show and soiree!
Debut event, featuring: Lucky Dragons, DJ Jimi Hey and savory and sweet melon snacks and drinks from Eden Bakti’s Herbal Eden. Conveniently scheduled between afternoon nap and bathtime, this intergenerational mixer aims to let moms, dads and friends get loose, and for baby to do her thing!
More/facebook: I.M.A.H.A.N.H.
Sunday, July 3, 3-7pm
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St
Los Angeles, CA 90012
The children's names are in the tile —
The bath room in George Nakashima's house.
Photos: Paul Soulellis (flickr)
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