godcar

godcar
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I'll take this opportunity to introduce you folks to one of favorite cartoons -
GodMan. (Here are links to three strips) ENjoy!
http://archive.salon.com/april97/comics/comics4970410.html
http://www.salon.com/comics/comics4961223.html
http://archive.salon.com/aug97/comics/comics4970807.html

calle

calle
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

another photomontage for your viewing pleasure :)

MiCabeza

wall
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Another collage - combination of two photos and color manipulation.

fragmented

tower
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I've started taking spanish lessons again. This is how my brain feels sometimes - in a jumble.

beachtrip

beachpanel
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I thought I’d include some of my ‘normal’ photography pictures here on my photo-log. For the most part, I load these sort of photos onto a Kodak.com site and invite my friends to see them. This was a trip we took to Lagunas de Chacahua.

oaxacachurch

oaxacachurch
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I’m really shy and feel weird about taking photos of people I don’t know here in Oaxaca. So you’ll see that most of my photos are of buildings and bugs and so forth. This is a picture of a Oaxacan church i took a few years ago. (it was a slide that i scanned in).

scarab

scarab4
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

We went on a great hike yesterday at San Felipe del Agua. Lush cool greens and fresh air. It was perfect. We were accompanied by two friendly but very stinky dogs we named ‘Mort’ and ‘Fez’. Saw ferns alongside cactus and I took this pic of a disembodied scarab beetle.

molcajete dreams

collage2
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I love the Oaxacan Molcajete. It is a stone bowl/mortar and a pestle to grind chiles and spices. Often we have salsa served to us at restaurants in a small stone molcajete. I'll try and take a photo of one soon.

chow

birds
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

We've been seeing lots of the large ants called chicatanas (Atta mexicana?). We've found maybe 20 or so in our courtyard over the past two days. They are quite big and many people here collect them for a culinary treat. They are often prepared in sauces with chile and herbs and said to taste like crabs.

tigertongue

tigertongue
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Cool things:

Tilework
Succulents
Polished stones
Volcanos
Comic books
Crinoids
Coelacanths
Dragkings
Antiwar Hiphop
Ancient Tiger tongue money from Laos (seen here in the photo)
Shrines (any type) but esp the portable travel kind

Photo credit - unknown/anon

ElTule

tule2
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Ah, the passing of time, just like kilowatts on a electric meter. This is an old photo (circa 1940s) that I purchased at a camera store in town. It is of the sacred El Tule cypress tree - which is one of the oldest living trees in the world (more than 2000 yrs old). The town Santa Maria del Tule is about 15minutes from Oaxaca city. Now there is a fence around the mighty tree, and tourists stand 12 feet or so from it and take pictures. (hey - just like stonehenge.. alas)

fridaZap

frida
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Images of Frida Kahlo and Zapatistas abound in Mexico. Here's a photomontage i put together last night.

codexTreeBirth

codexTreeBirth
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

From the Mixtec Codex, depicting Tree birth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixtec
Also some really interesting Codex sites:

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/imagearchive/nuttall/nuttallpl71.jpg
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/imagearchive/nuttall/nuttallpl46.jpg
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/hgarrett/imagearchive/nuttall/nuttallpl51.jpg

smoke

smoke
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Another pic of the copal from this morning.

copal

copal1
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

I lit some copal incense this morning. Sure has a nice smell. Here's a photo i took of it burning in its charcoal well.

"The word copal comes from the Nahuatl word copalli. The sap of the tree is used for incense and the wood used to produce the Alebrijes, whimsical wood carvings.

Copal incense is the dried resin of the copal tree. The incense is somewhat smoky when burned and has sort of a pine scent.

The incense has been widely used since prehispanic times. It is burned year round in Mexican churches and is especially popular in the homes during the Day of the Dead celebrations." (Tomzap internet ref)

polticArc

march
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

"Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass."
~ Emma Goldman (1869-1940)


"War does not determine who is right — only who is left."
~ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
~ Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)

Ollas

jars
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Here's a translation of the Naruda poem below.

"From resonance, growing, when
Night comes out alone, like a recent widow,
Like a dove or a poppy or a kiss,
And her marvelous stars expand."

NarudaPoemInPart

"De lo sonoro, creciendo, cuando
la noche sale sola, como reciente viuda,
como paloma o amapola o beso,
y sus maravillosas estrellas se dilatan."

Pablo Naruda (from un dia sobresale)

June

untitled
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Happy early fathers day to my dad! and thanks to everyone for their birthday wishes and presents.

By the way, check out this center- http://www.carolinaraptorcenter.org/adopt.php
I now have an adopted bird (her name is Hannah) and my brother's bird is Emmett.

oaxaca poem

graffiti
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Scorpions walking vertically up blue walls
shiney silver sacred heart milagos
gleaming gleaming
large, newly cut lilys in chocolate bowls
celebration in the streets.

LuchaActionFigures

lucha
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Well we've had some great podcast reviews of late. Here's what people are saying.

"I just listened to this... twice! So fun. Wish I could beam myself there" - LR (Seattle)

"I wanted to share with you a delightful experience I had yesterday. I figured out how to download your podcasts onto the MP3 player my brother got me last Christmas (which, truth be told, I haven't used so much). So MP3 player in my pocket, earphones in my ears, I set off on a walk while listening to your podcast from June 7 (with your two friends in town!). I wandered through the neighborhood while listening and laughing to the stories of your trip to the market. You folks do really great radio! All the flavors and colors and textures that you described came alive for me on my walk. Eventually I ended up under a big tree in this former monastery near our house as you finished up with some great music! I listened to one of your earlier mostly music podcasts on my way home! (Who knew Lara was down with the gangsta rap! "I'm eatin' green leaves like a panda."--I love that line even though I don't understand it.) I could see your Morning Coffee talks becoming my morning walk listening. I really really enjoyed them--thanks so much for making them! I can't wait for the next one!" TR,podcast fan (Pasadena)

so thanks for the great feedback ya'll and we'll keep putting them out for sure. :) L

MidDay

IMG_3325
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Scanning the city
I see flat roof to flat roof, a continuum.
Laundry on the lines suggest
human presence, but it is too hot
outside to offer up the body.
The sun can take you in like a communion wafer.
Huitzilopochtli is to blame -
Interminable night battles to force
the sun to rise.
It is upon us!

empty

empty
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

K.G.B. Beat triad. Crown jewels of versy-informal. Quick talk and all night, all week typewriter marathons. Good inspiration to follow. Mind meanderings. EGOEGO fantastical. EGO that Kerouac uses to try and keep afloat, but waves of whisky drink take him under as he avoids the turd tossing critics and life becomes too much to bear. Old age does not suit him.
Borroughs old skeleton-man walking. Yage brain, piles of poetry on onion skin on a dirty otherworldly floor. Shoots his wife in the head. William do Tell us that this was an accident. Ginsberg, naked guru jew-buu – shouts from rooftops “I am high and naked and I am king of the Universe!” Don’t we all believe that we somehow stand apart? Will beat out, cheat death? Death, that anonomizer. Sizzles us all to atomic bits; vapor. We leave histrionic dramas behind – and some may even think the earthsolid will remain – ancestors to shoulder, to give us hope of continuation, infinity. But our supernova sun goes exploding. Taking out the roundrock we live on- a speck in the infinity of the universe, inside universe, inside infinite universe. Rendering poetry meaningless, our lives meaningless. One must live day to day, moment to moment, for it is all we truly have.

spinner

spinner
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

had nothing
want nothing
appears to be nothing
IS

Xyloryctes

youngrhino
Originally uploaded by mufflevski.

Maybe this is a female rhinocerus beetle, I'm not sure. Still lots of these beasts around the city.

podcast details

Buenos dias. Just to fill you all in a bit, 'Podcasts' are basically Radio Shows on the Internet (in MP3 format). I make our shows with two software programs: itunes and garageband. I save the shows as MP3 files and then post them to the web. You dudes can use an MP3 player to hear them: like a portable ipod, or through software programs on your computer such as iTunes, Quicktime or Windows Media Player. So that's the scoop.

For a dictionary definition of Podcasting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

We just saw 'Revenge of the Sith' last night at a movie theatre in town (in Plaza de Valle - or Gringolandia). THe area is termed gringolandia due to the concentration of US or US-like businesses (KFC, MCdonalds, SAMs club etc). you get it.

SO today i'm going on a water devination trip. I'm taking my camera and hunting down more of the little water caps. Trying to find more examples, interesting variations.