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I can’t quite staring at this.

Tribal sovereignty map of the United States, with non-reservation land highlighted.

It seems that Jesse, aka Handyman No. 2, aka the Man in the Shed, has moved out.

Earl’s backyard seems sorta lonely out there without him.

From the October 29 edition of the La Connor Weekly News.

Oprah as “National Auntie.”

The UK had the Queen Mum, and now we have Oprah. Nice.

I met Studs Terkel once. I was a bellhop in a Seattle hotel. He walked up to me in the lobby, cocked his head to the side and said loudly … “where’s the bar?”

I pointed around the corner and smiled, because that’s exactly how you want to meet a guy like Studs Terkel.

I was in Gig Harbor recently, and saw this little sailboat. I asked, and was told that her name used to be “Roaring Bessie,” and that she was originally a gilnetter converted into a pleasure boat. Nice lines. Swoopy sheer.

Now named Vixen, and probably the oldest floating boat in Gig Harbor, she’s sitting very low on the waterlines. Probably filled with water, and rotting quickly.

Say good night, Roaring Bessie.

(Stoneway, ‘08)

I was repulsed and drawn, at the same time.

I guess the rain inspired me to go find this photo of Andy Kaufman. I can’t seem to stop looking at it either. I’m guessing that he was a lefty.

And then, there’s this.

Went on a short outing with Andy a while back. It was a pretty calm day off Shilshole, where he took a couple of photos with some sort of wide screen film camera.