NO YOU were eating the Doña Maria mole sauce straight out of the container.
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Chris “Chris” Vreeland
@Devils_Rancher@beige.party
mastodon 4.6.6Grizzled Austin Music Stalwart, Caver, Screen Printer, Father, Photographer, Mac, Adobe end user, sober as a judge.
Austin, TX via the Castro. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally. #MeFite
He/him, Father of Jacob The Pancake Monger & Erin The Rocketship Builder
On fedi since 2017, migrated to beige from The Octodon.social in ‘24.
Header: Howl obscenity trial 1957
Avi: Albert Finney as Jeffrey Firmin in Under The Volcano
Buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/chrisvreeland74719
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Scanning. Me (in striped tank & shorts) and my uncle Jerry on my first backpacking trip, Mokelumne Wilderness, CA, age 10
People say I’m too skeptical, but I don’t believe that’s true.
One of our little cactuses in pots decided to make a flower as big as itself.
#GlobalConstantCactusFlowerBetwork
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@CiaraNi@mastodon.green We had a station here that played this “gem” right before the test screen.
https://youtu.be/T-nBfM3-mrE?feature=shared
High Flight (Touched the Face of God) High Flight by John Gillespie Magee jr
I made a special list in Ivory of just the people I interact with here - mutuals mostly, and all the beige kool kids, so that I could keep up a bit more easily.
Reader, I cannot keep up.
Good morning. The whole world may seem like it’s gone to shit if you read the headlines or check your 401k balance, so instead, I suggest cats. This is Eckles enjoying a scritch.
One of my favorite places on earth but it was too windy to hang around very long.
Today July 9th was my friend Lisa’s birthday. She would have been 64. We fell madly in love at age 12, and had a pubescent romance until my family moved back to San Francisco a year later. We stayed in touch though throughout the years and both eventually ended up in Austin. We had children the same age, and were in similar lines of work- she was a designer and editor & I designed and printed things…
7 or 8 years ago she moved to New Mexico and we mostly stayed
In touch via text, until I got the message she’d had a fatal heart attack a little less than 3 years ago.
I always called or messaged her on her birthday, and it’s hard now 2 years in a row to not be able to make that call. She was a good person and I miss her a bunch.
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I had not seen my cousin in 32 years until today, and we talked for 3 hours over lunch. She was a journalist/state editor at the Oregonian and an article she worked on as editor was nominated for a Pulitzer in 2015. I think we kinda look alike!
BUY BUY BUY
(I am a temporarily embarrassed thousandaire)
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https://carbon7.bandcamp.com
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I wasn’t raised by nice people. I wasn’t raised to be nice or pleasant. I have had to figure this out on my own, and I have had to invent “nice” Chris on the fly. It’s an understatement to say this has been slow going.
But I’ve been reading a great big thick David Bowie biography and the thing that keeps coming up is how polite and caring and concerned he was for the people around him, and just how pleasant he was to be around, and how it really affected people.
I went out to play a gig tonight with that on my mind and really tried to step out of my comfort zone to show all these things more outwardly, because while I do genuinely feel that way towards people, I’m realizing how bad I am At really showing, bringing these things to the table amongst acquaintances & friends, and you know what? I think it went well and I learned a thing about how I can behave towards people I like and care about to help them understand that.
It was a good evening. We played well, which is always nice, but that was the least of it. And what’s more, I get to try again Sunday afternoon. The owner of our record label has asked us to play at his birthday party & I want to go be actually, actively nice to people in this new way.
/journal, thanks for listening.
My dad has a lot of exotic maples planted around his place. Some of them are just red like this all year.
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That’s at least a month’s worth of off-hours scanning, but there’s boxes in there labeled with backpack trips I went on in the mid 70’s and 2 boxes postmarked 1955 & addressed to my grandfather. They’re Kodachrome so hopefully they’re ok!
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@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party My iPhone 12 is 6 years old now and I have zero issues with how it does its job. ATT wants me to sign up for 3 years of more servitude really bad, but they can stuff it. The whole upgrade cycle is such a waste.
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Also, money is tight and I could really use the scratch. Bass needs a new set of strings!
#BandcampFriday
This waking up at 3:30 am for no good reason & getting up and getting going anyway is going to be the death of me. How to make stop?
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@plutarch@gotosocial.plutar.ch If I had known it was that easy, I would have killed country music in about 1985.
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Just learned a new hot sauce from one of the guys at work. Take one of these and one of these, put them in a food processor and boom. 1 minute, pretty tasty!
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@luca@exquisite.social People say I’m too disagreeable, but they’re wrong about that.
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The Colors of #BeigeParty
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io NO THANK YOU FOR YOUR INATTENTION TO THIS ANTIMATTER
Mexico, Thanksgiving 1999.
#alttext a steep ridge is lit by the early morning sun.the foreground is filled with pine trees in dappled shade, and in the middle,ca small cloud of smoke rises from it campfire. A small patch of snow is visible at the lower left.
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@gloriousnoise@heads.social I will definitely put the good ones on Flickr!
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This is the winter of our unavailable.
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@avatastic@avatastic.uk @dgar@aus.social Preferable!
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@avatastic@avatastic.uk @dgar@aus.social Never microwave a mammal.
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@dgar@aus.social Most people don’t know that coconuts are warm-blooded.
Back before Covid, I had more going on musically. This was an utterly creative outlet. This one is long, but it goes off in unexpected directions and by 12 or 13 minutes in, gets pretty wild. This is more or less what it sounds like inside my head a lot of the time. We’re making it up as we go.
https://carbon7.bandcamp.com/track/there-is-no-darkness-there-is-only-an-absence-of-light
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@MissConstrue This is 6 years old, but may be still useful, because just deleting Chrome is not enough.
https://chromeisbad.com
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@RickiTarr@beige.party Years ago, a friend had a spade symbol sticker printed that was just the right size to cover up the heart on the I heart my wife & I heart my dog stickers.
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@avatastic@avatastic.uk @dgar@aus.social This is good- you never know when you might suddenly need a guinea pig and it’s best to be prepared.
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@adhdeanasl@beige.party I saw him with Belew, Levin and Vai on the Beat tour last year, and it was amazing. It may have been an early show, but the look of intense concentration on his face as he focused on what was going on around him led me to believe that he is perhaps at least human. (It was a fantastic show)
It’s a trip though going back and watching Bruford play this same material on YouTube- he looks so relaxed and happy, playing the most difficult music I know. He is seriously an alien.
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@MamaLake Sometimes one parent or another would read a book out loud on long road trips.
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@dillyd I love all of these!
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@dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social Let me know if you need help- I have three Nikon Coolscan V’s and can move through slides pretty quickly. Plus I do some color restoration.
I just get to the gym and this comes on my music app - fitting.
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@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online @paninid@mastodon.world I voted for Ross Perot because at the time I wanted to be counted as “none of the above.” I don’t think that’s the message that the establishment received.
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@MarkHoltom She seems nice.