square dancing

Wednesdays are my catch-all day. I aim to wander around with no single intent, getting little things done here and there, finding treasures along the way, and enjoying the lack of a schedule.

Today I turned on the TV for 5 minutes (that's all it took) and found square dancing footage. It was so bizarre. The dance leader was saying things like "boys, take your girls a-round and round, "girls, circle up and go a-head."

I just died when they showed on the bottom of the screen where all this mayhem was a-goin' on: a Coon Rapids, MN middle school. 

I hope I'm this eccentric when I'm old.

hamster racetrack

This hamster car fits on this hamster racetrack. So bizarre.
Why am I still surprised at the wacky things people do with animals? I have no idea.

"card postage"

In doing research for my Dear Sasha series, I came across this strange service. You can send a card from a country to a friend when you're not actually in that country?

David Lynch

I'm really getting into David Lynch films. I just watched The Elephant Man, which was quite different than some of his other films I've seen. Highly recommended.

nightmare photo morph

This is so weird and so disturbing that I can't take my eyes off it.

grisly discovery

This painting is so strange.

faceless snowman

I biked past this faceless snowman and elephant today. They are both made of concrete. The snowman was about 12 feet tall.

Little Otik visited for breakfast

Laurie and I watched Little Otik today after breakfast.

Synopsis:

Surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (ALICE) brings a famous Czech legend eerily to life in this darkly hilarious cautionary tale. An ordinary couple, Karel and Bozena, are unable to conceive a child. When Karel digs up a tree root and whittles something vaguely resembling a human baby, Bozena’s maternal longings transform the stump into a living creature with a (literally) monstrous appetite that can’t be met with baby formula. Svankmajer brilliantly mixes his wicked humor with his subversive politics and love of mythology into a stunning live-action fable for our times.