Interview with Emese
Emese Gaal, photographer in San Diego.
Letter
Subject: Question about your blog
From: “Amy R.”
Your site is amazing! Though I looked around and around and could not find the answer to this question: what kind of digi-cam are you using? I am saving up for a Minolta Dimage- small enough to travel with. Do
tell.
Thanks
Amy Koolaid
mskoolaid.blogspot.com
Hello Amy,
First of all, thank you and feel free to tell me how much you like my site anytime. Next, your question: I shoot with a Sony Cyber-shot DSC F717. I love the camera’s versatility and size as well as the kickin’ lens. The 5.0 megapixel raw shots are plenty big enough to do magazine work for North and it can pick up color like no other digital camera I’ve ever used. I hear that the 2005 cameras will be able to kick its butt but I’m not sure if I’ll upgrade. I love my 717. Here is another review.
There are many DiMAGE cameras and I’m not sure which one you are planning on getting but I hear that the G500 and the G600 are good and not too pricey. I’d stay away from getting one that promises amazing results from the enhancement features with optical zoom unless you plan to shoot with a tripod and lots of light, neither of which seem to want to be married to a slim cam that fits in your pocket for travel….which I noticed you have done quite a bit of from your photos.
Best,
lp
Margo and Leah do Cocktails
Cocktail photoshoot. I love the reds and the shadows.
Motel 6
M: When we first moved here, we lived at the Motel 6 in Hotel Circle.
L: Wow. How was that. Was it awful?
M: No, not so much. It was kind of fun.
L: Are you kidding me?
M: Well, we had a TV in the bedroom…
Book Signing
Went to a book signing with Joe last night at Mysterious Galaxy. With the exception of my editor who works there part time, the staff seriously lacks in customer service skills.
Bruce Sterling was there reading from his new book Zenith Angle. Sadly, the entire time I was captivated by a guy standing about 2 feet in front of me and slightly to the right. He stood at parade rest giving his full attention to Mr. Sterling. And then he picked his underwear out of his butt. Then he went back into parade rest. Next, he scraped his fingers along his scalp and down to the ends of his hair removing what I can only hope was some kind of hair product. Then he went back to parade rest. Next it was his ankles popped in turn by cocking one leg behind the other and swiftly cranking it to the side. It resembled a wet cat trying to shake its hind legs dry. And then, again, parade rest. Next he attacked the acne on his face. Parade rest. Dug in his ears with his pinkie. Parade rest. At which point I left to go outside and get some air. I couldn’t hear Bruce anyway. I was too caught up in trying not to vomit. And since his nose was really the only orifice left, I didn’t want to stick around to see it. Can you get better than science fiction?
Cheaters
1: What’s your name?
2: Why do you need to know my name for? I’m not going to tell you my name!
1: OK..(reading the front of his T-shirt) Santa Fe!
2: That’s right. Just use that!
1: Mr. Fe! (sarcastically)
and
1: There he is..going in the club with that unidentified man.
2: He told me he was going with Lisa! He lied!
1: Well, unless that man is named Lisa.
Interview with Mighty Girl
Read my interview with Margaret Berry AKA
Mighty Girl!
Maggie rocks.
New Photos
The kids doing their baseball/softball thing.
Trip to LA including the wonderful woman with the long fingernails at the news stand.
I Spammed Myself
Yesterday I received an email from one of my old email accounts.
Apparently, from me to me.
It was the white rabbit spam email.
Through whatever connections those stupid programs use, I spammed myself.
Bas
Every few days there is a new addition to the collection surrounding the litter box.
At last count there was a screwdriver (phillips), a small broom, his wand toy with the yellow fuzz and a bell, a wooden dowel about 2 feet long and 2 inches in diameter and long-armed pruners/cutters.
Is he planning on cleaning after I go to bed but then gets tired and decides to watch Letterman? Good intentions�
Is he planning an escape by unscrewing the doors from their hinges to go and do some pruning in the backyard?
And the wooden dowel……..?
Hair
I live with two hairy males.
Their hair gets everywhere including the bed and behind the couch.
One of them is more than 6 feet tall with dark hair and blue eyes.
The other is maybe a foot and a half long with green eyes and stripes.
And I love them both and wouldn�t trade them for less hairy types.
This from the female that used to cry when there was a single hair on the soap.
Dating
I’m dating my children.
I see them socially about 2 times a month.
We see a movie and go to dinner.
I have them in by 10pm.
And then I go home.
Without them.
Interview with Andy Behrman
Read my interview with Andy Behrman, author of Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania, published by Random House. Electroboy is the chronicle of Behrman’s battle with manic depression and electroshock therapy. It is published in six other languages and is currently being made into a major motion picture with Tobey Maguire. Behrman is a mental health advocate and a spokesman for Bristol-Myers Squibb. He maintains a website here: www.electroboy.com/
Thanx, Andy!
Interview with Defective Yeti
Start your week out right.
Read my interview with Matthew Baldwin AKA Defective Yeti.
