Thursday, June 26th, 2008...1:59 pm
bird love
Today’s discovery, via ArtWranglers, is the divine little moment you will have when you go to this page and click on this → thumbnail which is the top left one at the site.
It’s week 1 of 16 in the project, in case you’re looking at this post and that link in, like, the future.
The artist is Charlie Sofo. You can see some of his works here. I would like to link to his online gallery, but as the upgrade I just did of it KILLED IT STONE DEAD, I won’t. I will just calmly beat my head against the table.
And bye-the-bye I finally sent Sage to school today, for the third time in the last two weeks, only to have the school call at 11:30 because he’d been coughing so hard he vomited into a book. I asked him if he did it because he thought it was a crap book and he said “Cuggle*, I would never do that!”
I’m off to play the video again and suffuse myself with some quiet Charlie joy.
* Fucking Cuggle. With a very pronounced rising inflection and a verrrry extended second syllable. Even the grownups are calling me Cuggle now.
19 Comments
June 26th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
While not a bad reaction to a crap book, I hope Sage is better soon. Where on earth did Cuggle come from?
June 26th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
spill the beans on the moniker, cuggle.
love the birds. I looked at it for about half the clip without my headphones on, thinking, How cute, it looks like a musical score, if only there was some soun… oh.
der!
June 27th, 2008 at 1:12 am
I’m guessing it’s Jethro’s request (hence the rising inflection and the yearningly drawn-out second syllable) for a cuddle.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Nah, it’s Sage’s name for me, and yes it’s from “cuddle”. It’s been a couple of years now, so I’m finally becoming reconciled to it.
Jethro mostly calls me “ugh”.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Sorry to hear your boys aren’t well. I hope they all pick up soon, and that they at least pick up some fabulous presents for you. I hope your day improves!
June 27th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Jeepers, that’s terrific. It’s so Australian.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Oh yar and only HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
June 27th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Happy Birthday Zoe. See I resisted the temptation to call you Cuggles.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Happy Birthday Cuggles. see how I didn’t
June 28th, 2008 at 9:33 am
heh.
June 29th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I am so very late but I would like to wish you a happy birthday and I hope the sickness goes away very soon.
Cuggles.
Heh.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Cuggle, people. Not Cuggles.
and thank you for the lovely birthday wishes. It all ended up rather marvellous.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:12 am
Naturally seeing this heading cuggles. I thought this topic must be about me. Sadly no.
July 1st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Hey Zoe
hopelessly tardy (was OOO last week) but happy birthday all the same. lotsa love.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
you’re a cancer too! Mine was yesterday.
Hope you can breath again and had a good b’day last week.
I am now officially distracted from a job application.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:01 am
We’re the nicest, aren’t we Regan? heh
Hope yours was lovely too. Get any scarves this year? NOT A YEAR PASSES WITHOUT A SCARF GIFT, PEOPLE!
July 6th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
lovely and cosy- we are.
And there was a scarf!! Lucky I feel like I can always do with more of them.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
There is always a scarf! This year there was a red pashmina (ooooh) and a narrow grey wollen one from Peru. Both lovely, but only one neck.
One year my birthday party involved my brother giving me a plain black workaday scarf to replace the one I’d complained of losing, and a friend saying “you lost a plain black scarf? that’s been at my place for weeks and I didn’t know who owned it!”
July 29th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
a belated Happy Birthday Zoe, my excuse is that i only found your site yesterday as the Hbomb was waking up.
I had reason to remember a two duck dinner today. Regards to Owen and the rest of the crew, i still havn’t found decent recipie for locusts.
Dylwah
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