Arts & Culture Tuesday
Decatur Metro | May 15, 2012What are you watching? What are you hearing? What are you building? What are you doing?
What are you watching? What are you hearing? What are you building? What are you doing?
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I’ve never gardened before, but am now tending our new plot at the Oakurst Garden. I’m as excited as a little kid when I show up and can see more growth. “Oh my gosh, oh my gosh…honey, look how big the tomato plants are getting!”
Ah…simple pleasures. Glad it’s not too late to learn some new ones.
Keith, I’m doing the same thing. I have never gardened before but we put some raised beds in our backyard and watching the growth is addicting! If only i could keep the squirrels (or whatever it is) from digging in them–they’ve already killed several of my plants.
I am FINALLY reading The Submission by Amy Waldman. I was on the list at the library ever since someone mentioned it on here back in the fall. I’m about halfway through and am really enjoying it.
Squirrels are vandals. They pretend they’re foraging for buried acorns and pecans, but it’s a hollow claim when they’re uprooting baby plants in brand-new raised beds and pots. They’re just engaging in malicious mischief. I have had some success repelling them with mothballs and sometimes with medicated baby powder.
I’m experimenting with putting bricks around the plants in my vegetable beds and in between my herbs to keep the squirrels from digging.
You need to kill one and post its head on a tiny squirrel-sized pike, so the rest of ‘em think twice before they go rootin’ around.
name it Ned first…
Heh! I see what you did there.
I’m gathering soda bottles because I want to build a greenhouse from them at the DHS Community Garden. It will take at least 1,000 and some other help.
Don’t drink soda, but can you use either 1-qt plastic milk bottles (round, no handle) or 46-oz juice bottles?
For what I’m building, I need two-liter soda bottles, and I really can’t use other kinds. I don’t think I can use the curved Coke bottles, either. I’m harvesting from YDFM.
You can use wine and beer bottles, too. A friend of mine in Villa Rica used them.
Girlyman at Eddie’s Attic last Saturday! Great time, and converted a couple of new fans.
Watched Melancholia last night; was surprised at how moving it was. (I am no Lars Von Trier fan generally.)
Waiting for the third Game of Thrones book and Alison Bechdel’s new one, Are You My Mother?, to arrive…
We went to the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve for a walk Saturday. A beautiful wild space, very close by.
What are you watching? Nothing until Breaking Bad comes back
What are you hearing? Spanish guitar station on Pandora
What are you building? Verimiculture bins. For the plants and for squirrel danegeld
What are you doing? Preparing the world for person-to-person payments powered through their existing bank accounts. You’re going to love it more than you love Trader Joe’s and organic, free trade, shade grown, civet-shat coffee. It’s that cool. It’ll make you love your bank again. Truly. It will make you buy a Hummer H3 and embrace Wal*Mart with Karl Rove as a front door greeter. Just you sit in your Suburu and wait….it’s coming.
Planting hostas. Cursing at squirrels and digging critters.
Let me know if you figure out a way to eradicate them. I’ve tried those sulfur smoke bombs, but the varmints keep coming back!
I’d try a pellet gun, but I’m not sure if that’s legal.
I never do anything to them-too tender hearted. That’s why my yard is one big squirrel refuge. I hear them at dawn saying, “Sanctuary. Sanctuary.”
Mine, too, and we have nothing of which to be ashamed.
I couldn’t kill a squirrel, or a chipmunk for that matter, either. Fortunately, our dogs do not have that same reservation. In his defense, Stanley, our dog that can actually catch them, does not seem to intend to kill them. In fact, he seems genuinely upset and disappointed when they stop squeaking like his toys. Stella will never catch one of those critters. However, given the one time she did corner a mouse in the house when she was younger, she would certainly mean to kill whatever she caught. But whatever their intentions, it seems the squirrels have learned to avoid our yard or to at least tread very carefeully.
We went to see “Sound of My Voice” at Midtown theater by Brit Marling who also wrote “Another Earth” which we saw earlier on DVD. I’d recommend Another Earth over Sound of My Voice, but both are good.
The first 12 minutes of Sound of My Voice are online at http://www.soundofmyvoicemovie.com
What are you watching? New Game of Thrones season. I’m also reading book 4.
What are you hearing? The Shins new CD…….I can’t stop playing it, over and over. My husband will exile me from the car with that CD anytime soon.
What are you building? Nothing that will stand 5 minutes on its own, for sure…….but my kiddo commissioned a pirate ship painting and he is slaving me every night to the easel.
What are you doing? Getting distracted…..and after reading the comments I’m also thinking about squirrels. Squirrels with “a plan.”
What am I doing? Trying to wake up from having to sit through an Evidence Seminar video (they’re bad enough sitting through in person, but slogging through them on video is excruciating).
What am I listening to? The sound of one hand clapping…
What am I watching? It should be my weight, but alas, is instead this chocolate chip granola bar I’m about to devour…which leads me to…
What I’m doing: tearing off the wrapper on said granola bar, wishing it was a brownie!
Building – early stages yet, but I’m working on design for new Halloween decorations. Hope to be cutting out plywood bones this weekend if the pattern enlarges properly. OMG, it’s almost June and I’m already behind!
Really looking forward to seeing the new set!
What are you watching?
Adam-12 on Netflix Watch Instantly. Addicted.
What are you hearing?
The Shangri-Las, Myrmidons of Melodrama set
What are you building?
Web apps
What are you doing?
Too many things at once
adam-12=seriously awesome show from way back when! my boys have thoroughly enjoyed
“emergency” which incidentally features the officers from adam-12 from time to time! carry on…
I’m listening to my biological clock. It’s telling me I need to get back into music. Anyone want to start a rock band with me? I’m over 40, got my own gear, went to Berklëe, and sang/guitared in Boston bands for 15 years.
I cannot play a note but I can be hired on as a screaming fan at a very reasonable price.
One Performance Only!
May 19 at 8:00 pm
The Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA), in partnership with Full Radius Dance, presents the seventeenth annual Modern Atlanta Dance (MAD) Festival, on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at 8:00 pm. Held at the MJCCA’s Morris & Rae Frank Theatre at Zaban Park (5342 Tilly Mill Road, Dunwoody), and always a highly-anticipated event, the MAD festival offers a wonderful opportunity to experience beautifully choreographed modern dance sequences performed by the Atlanta area’s finest dance artists and companies. For information, visit http://www.atlantajcc.org.
Yay dance! Merde, you guys!