Roxie just told me that she is not happy with her peanut butter flavored raw hide chip. She wants jelly too! I'm raising a diva over here...

ROXIE

Fun with Photo Effects

Another great reason to have a Droid! This excellent Android Market app called "Camera 360" allowed me to immortalize my dog, Roxie. I think she has the same mysterious look about her as the famous Mona Lisa. Dare I dub her the Mona Roxie? I do believe so.

National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month is only 8 days away and I still have not outlined my plot or compiled my list of scenes. All I know right now is that someone has to die in a bowl of won ton soup.

Every November writers around the world attempt to get 50,000 words on paper in 30 days. This amounts to about a 150-page novella - at the very least a good start on a novel. For the last five years I have caved in week three to things like writer's block, brain freeze, sleep deprivation, etc. This year, I am taking more time to plan my strategy.

Even though I work full-time and am also a full-time student and pet parent, I'm determined to get down those 50,000 words.

I have decided that I will get up an hour earlier each day, watch less TV and construct my scenes beforehand rather than just coming to the page unprepared with just my imagination. It may surprise you that the imagination cannot be rushed and can be quite stubborn when it wants to be.

Here's hoping that there are enough scenes to write about a murder that takes place in a Buckhead Chinese restaurant. For more information about how to join the madness visit http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Dali at the High Museum

The High Museum is having a Salvidor Dali exhibit through January 2011 and it reminded me of this fabulous photo I took on my trip to England in 2008. This is a Salvidor Dali bronze which is in residence at Chatsworth, a very famous historical house that was featured in the movie The Duchess. Mary Queen of Scots was under house arrest here for many years.

I was just thinking how surprised I was to find a Dali bronze at a country estate in England. I saw a billboard for the Dali exhibit on Piedmont Road and wanted to post this photo. It is quite a disturbing sculpture, but still as surreal as his paintings. I took this picture at an angle because it seemed to fit with the oddness of the moment.

It's not your fault, Vikings!

No wonder the Vikings lost! Look how frickin' COLD it is there in Minnesota? How can anyone concentrate on football when it's that cold outside? How can you hold on to the ball when it's frozen solid like a young, boneless turkey breast? How can you run when the blood in your veins has turned to icy slush? What? Oh, the game was played in New Orleans? Oops. Nevermind.

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My sweet Roxie puppy

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Rox the casbah

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Roxie watches A Stolen Life with her kong

Roxie and Pig

Roxie n pig! Poor dog with her e-collar - if only she could tune in HBO. The pig was a present to reward her relative stoicism.

Shy Roxie

No, I am NOT slapping my dog, just trying to show you her cute face.

Just When You Thought Your Energy Was All Gone...

It's like drinking red pepper! I have only choked twice and I'm sure my colon will be back to normal any day now...

They will use anything to sell an energy drink. I know I will typically, robotically, buy anything that is new purely for the sake of its newness.

Add your favorite drug song here:___________

Monday Morning Milieu

This is how my day begins. Take my pill, write a note to remember to take it again tomorrow, put on my glare resistant shades and get to workin'.

White Roses from a Secret Admirer

How did this mysterious stranger know that white roses are my favorite flower? Tell me, Liberal, does loving white roses the way I do make me racist? Only the Grand Wizard truly knows. But seriously. When I look at a white rose, I don't think of wonder bread or the ludicrous notion of genetic superiority, I'm just so amazed by the observation that most of nature explodes with color and the stark purity of the white rose is a startling and striking contradiction...until I read that the color white actually contains every color of the spectrum, which makes the white rose the most colorful flower of all.

Monet for Nothin'...

This is the photo that got me thrown out of the High Museum. Too bad for them that I had to pass through the gift shop on my way out and was able to buy a book of everything they wouldn't let me see due to my "crime". Fantabulous Exhibit!

Need a Trim?

This sign appeared all over my apt complex. Apparently word got out that my last hair cut was 4 years ago. Luckily for me the REAL barbershop is just around the corner on Piedmont.