Macro madness and weekend update

Stamen
Originally uploaded by Candice (Bessie Smith).

I love stargazer lilies. I mostly buy them so I can shoot them, they're so fascinating to look at on so many levels. The colors, the details, it's like an individual landscape exist on each petal.

I like this shot. The colors look juicy, good enough to eat. It reminds me of watermelon, or perhaps a nectarine. I want to take a slice of it and eat it, let the nectar drip down my chin and dance across my tongue.

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My past weekend in pictures:

So, we went to the L.A. Times Festival of Books last weekend. Saw Ray Bradbury. This time, I didn't even try to get my book autographed, cuz I knew if I got in line, he'd just get tired right before I got to the front and would end the book signing, which is what always happens.

A celebrity activist jumped the line for the Don Cheadle-John Prendergast book signing for "Not on Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond” to get his book signed before all the people who had waited for hours in line, which was so messed up. You're standing in a line that goes around the block, standing in the sun in the middle of the day, diligently waiting to get your book signed, when some B-lister who certainly looked healthy enough stand his ass in line with the regular folk just waltzes up to the front, says, "hey, I'm a celebrity activist" to security, and they let his boney butt cut ahead. Well, ain't that a blip?

Brett was nice enough to hold a place in line for me for the Walter Mosley signing while I listened to him speak about his new book (and why couldn't Mr. Celebrity Activist get someone to hold a place for him instead of cutting ahead, huh? Doesn't he have "people?").

For a change, I didn't spend a pile of money on books like I usually do. I got one book, and Brett bought that for me. I saw a bunch of books I wanted, but didn't buy them then, I'll get them later.

Brett threatened to wear his utilikilt to the fair, but instead wore khakis. And his reluctance to go unbifurcated is so unnecessary now, seeing as utilikilts seem almost as common as cargo shorts these days. All manner of men now sport kilts just about everywhere.

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Mom still has my DIY home repair book, but at least she hasn't asked to borrow any of my tools (yet).

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I still have a backache. Backaches still suck.