There is a free app for Iphone and touch ipod that turns your ipod or phone into a kindle. It is wonderful. Buy your reading stuff on line from amazon and sync it to the phone. Turning pages is a snap ( unlike on an actual kindle). Control the size of the fonts etc. All for FREE. I am someone who loses their phone all the time,  but I always know where my BOOK is, so this is helping to solve one of life’s little problems too. Also it is back lit and I read in bed for the first time in years when I first got it. So save your  money for the kindle, and get an ipod or phone that can do other cool stuff too. I have already read Pillars of the Earth and three other 1000 page books, and it reads as  easy as pie!. And it remembers where I left off!

My friend Marilyn Brooks always sends me crazy things in the emails like this extreme grooming thing

http://www.amyoops.com/2009/04/extreme-grooming-poodle-alert.html 

Gwynne Rukenbrod at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft passed on a very interesting article to me written by Bruce Metcalf in 1980 called “Crafts:Second Class Citizens?” In it he explores five reasons crafts are looked down on by the art world

1. A Lack of critical writing in the crafts

2. Crafts are pre-occupied with function

3. Use of ornamentation

4. 5 year lag of ideas behind the fine art world

5. Lack of an intellectual approach to crafts

Before you start hating, read on and you will f ind that Metcalf actually sees the craft movement as a giant “anti-high-art-taste movement” He likens craftsmen to Romanticism and critics and fine art to Classicism, two opposing philosophies. Very interesting and some of what  he says is spot on.

An interesting read and  now I am going to read some of his other later articles

You can find this article at www.brucemetcalf.com 

A story about the property we bought in the heights

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/6155824.htmlhttp://swamplot.com/who-is-buying-the-museum-of-the-weird/2008-12-01

My Ride did a blurb on my car and I am at the very beginning of the video. What fun!

An article in the NY Times says pink is the new color in the recession

Send something for the art car Peace Expedition. The Peace Offerings will be displayed with the car at parades etc. Make something under 12 x 12 x 12. If three d and a box or container would be nice too. Send to Kim Ritter
18727 Point Lookout Dr, Houston TX 77058 by April 30th. The work will not be returned but become of the Peace Expedition Collection. I don’t have funds or the time to return them. If at some point I decommission the car, I will donate the work to a good cause. I would like a photo release saying I can photograph the work because the artist will still retain copyright.

Susie Monday showed it too me on facebook

It used words from my blog

KC’s band won Best Experimental Band, 2nd place Goth and 4th place none of the above

They are playing at Wave  at 9pm on 6th St tonight at SXSW