Plant Pot Robot
Ooh, it rhymes. This guy will come with a poem.
Last day for robots! Literally, until 1 minute before 9pm Pacific. Maybe when the Kickstarter is done, I can catch up on deleting completed emails. That’ll be fun! Wouldn’t be so bad, but I also have had two in-progress freelance jobs, a copy edit and a layout job. And I wouldn’t really want it any other way. The copy edit is particularly interesting because it is about gardening and comes in for the perfect time to plan my own garden. Well, part of my own garden. We will have to do it segment by segment. The plot we are going to garden is bigger than many city complete plots. It’s going to be so much fun!
I also did an interview with Jason DeHart on Words, Images, and Worlds and you can listen to it now! It was fun and I hope I sound coherent… If I did as in my Illustrated Poetry workshop, I usually start out talking to fast and then slow to a more normal pace.
I hope one of you will adopt one of my sweet little robots. I have a little robot that looks like a terra cotta pot and uses bass strings for limbs. I had hoped to finish it live on Instagram or something but I simply have not had time.
This particular robot has two slugs in it. I have slugs on the brain (not literally!) because the path we walk our dog is filthy with slugs. Going from this article, we mostly have black (or brown) field slugs (Arion hortensis), though some might be Black Arion (Arion ater), and I think some red slugs (Arion rufus). I have seen exactly one leopard slug (Limax maximus) this year. And I thought I saw a baby banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus) but after seeing this article it might have been a tree slug (Lehmannia marginata). Banana slugs will always hold a place in my heart because of the summer in grade school when the Bellingham Public Library had a slug-themed summer reading thing where you were encouraged to get a slug, raise it all summer, and then bring it in at the end of the summer for contests and prizes. Like a slug race, which no one won because we got too bored waiting for one of them to get to the edge of the circle. Silly buggers.
For game, I recommend The Adventures of Bertram Fiddles. So silly. It is pretty limited in scope. I played the first game and will play the second one in a while. Not sure how long I can wait. The drawings are hilarious and everything you can interact with is described with something like a pun. It was exactly what my addled little brain was looking for last night when I went to bed early to stay up late playing video games. Yes, I am in my 40s. It is nearly impossible to get lost and there are only so many things you can try, so you can’t get stuck either. If your brain needs a silly little break, this is it.
For book! OK, this is an odd recommendation. I was enjoying it: The Truffle Underground. But I am less than half way in (audio book) and there are too many sad dog stories! It was very unexpected. It’s a nonfiction book about the history and related crimes of truffles. The mushrooms. It was really interesting to hear about the origin of people trying out truffles. It really does seem like the joke of “Oh, shoot I fell and my hand went in a whole. When I pulled it out, there was a mushroom thing stuck to it, so I flung it about and it landed next to my steak cooking on the fire so I figured I’d eat it. And it turned out to be amazing.” But then we got to the crimes. Started OK, but then they started using dogs and the prices of everything went up and people started stealing dogs. And then killing dogs. And there I had to stop. I just love my little Dr. Wally Goobers and all my past wonderful dogs (PIP (play in peace) Ernie, Nisa, and Patience) so it is hard to listen to any animal cruelty, let alone such senseless cruelty as poisoning a water source. Anyway, if you are more stout-hearted than I, it was really interesting up to that point.
Sorry for wasting your time. I hope your day gets better!
-Angela