Today’s Rhapsody is Tibor Serly‘s Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra. Performed by Hong-Mei Xiao and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Janós Kovacs.
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I got pointed to this episode from two separate but completely different sources. The first was a page of the My Little Pony comic book illustrated by Andy Price where he borrowed the gag of the ever changing T-Shirt. The second was dinner with friends where a conversation about Firefly turned into a conversation about Ron Glass which turned into a description of I of Newton starring Ron Glass and Sherman Hemsley.
After that I just had to check it out. I never watched much of the new version of the Twilight Zone but this one definitely has me wanting to check if there’s a collection to check out at the Library.
Enjoy.
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I confess when I started writing this post it was going to be much darker and pessimistic but then the Seahawks went and won putting me in a disgustingly good mood and completely threw me off my grove.
I’ll be honest I wasn’t looking forward to this game. Based on the Seahawks ugly win against the Saints and San Francisco kicking the Panthers ass last week I had mostly written the season off and was trying to do my best to ignore the game and the growing hype before the game.
For the most part I tend to be a pathetic fair weather fan and other than rooting for the home team I’ve never been the biggest Seahawks fan (It all comes down to watching them play when I first moved out here and said to myself “forget it, it’s embarrassing enough being a Pats fan.” A couple of years later the Patriots started getting really good and then things got confusing.) I was mostly neutral when the threat of a move came up in the end of the nineties but had grown into a nominal fan by the time they made their first Superbowl (and let’s not get into that disaster of a game.) And had been waiting for them to get really good ever since.
And because of this I’ve really enjoyed this nearly perfect season. But as time went on I started getting a little gun shy about it being too good to be true and began to worry that the Seahawks would screw up in a spectacular way. (I won’t say I’m superstitious but I can be a bit neurotic which looks about the same from a brief glance.)
The other thing is despite the fan’s enthusiasm bits of it were beginning to feel a bit creepy. “Go Hawks” as a social greeting began to sound like a Fox News viewer saying “Merry Christmas” or… (For anyone who read or saw Handmaid’s Tale) “Blessed be the Fruit.” and depressed fans after a loosing game are bad enough durring the regular season. So anyway as I said before, in the name of a productive afternoon, I attempted to have a sports blackout. Hopefully, I thought, I would only hear any bad news about 48 hours after the fact in passing after everyone is mostly over it.
It turned out as the second half came around, this was not an option. As cheering and fireworks from my neighbors gave me an indirect play by play and I ended up checking the score every two minutes. A nail biter but rewarding in the end.
So now for better of for worse, the Seahawks season has two more weeks to go. My only regret right now is the Broncos beat the Patriots. I would have liked to see my two teams go head to head.
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This is a favor I did for 
a friend who does a political blog which deals with a lot of things going on at the University of Washington campus. Because of that for the longest time the blog had a logo that had a strong resemblance to the Uiversity of Washington’s Husky.
Recently he got some threatening letters from a third party pointing out potential copyright issues. It suggested a cease and disist would come soon.
Whatever the issues they were probably doing him a favor since whether the the image was legal or not it was derivative as hell.
I was asked to work on a husky logo that was in no way shape or form the UW mascot. The basic idea I had was something lighter and cuter than UW like the tone of the blog suggested.
I drew a lot of puppies that week.
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Just had to share this advertising campaign from a local jewelry chain that I stumbled over in the Stranger this week.
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When I was on the way out yesterday I heard some crows going at that. Looking up I saw what they were mobbing on the top of a tall tree something fairly large and tawny. Hoping this could be another diurnal owl sighting I ran back into the house to get my binoculars.
Thankfully it was still there when I got back, and I got to get a much better look at it. It was not an owl. Even at this distance I could tell how big it was (when they are mobbing something crows double as a unit of measurement) Considering the only other hawks I see around here were too small I was pretty sure it was an eagle since the only other raptor that big out here are Ospreys and I could tell this wasn’t one. It had the large beak of an eagle so I’m about ninety percent sure of my identification. The only thing that made me uncertain was the color. As I said it was a light tawny and most of the young eagles I’ve seen were darker, even in mid molts.
Unfortunately the crows chased it off before I could go get my bird book. But still nice. One of the things I like about living in this town is that you can almost take bald eagles for granted. (I’m told there are about fifteen nesting pairs in city limits) but still seeing one from your front door is pretty awesome.
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