Friday, March 28, 2008

through the.


Looking Glass Sidewalk Sale Sat & Sun March 29 & 30





We have combed through the catacombs and looked through the lofts to find an unusual assortment of items that we have accumulated over the years. These are selling for bargain basement prices that are in many cases just a fraction of our original cost. And to add to the excitement, we are discounting many items from our regular inventory at our best prices of the year, including digital cameras from Nikon and Canon, memery cards, inkjet paper, as well as every Holga and Lomo camera in the store. So come on in this Saturday and Sunday, look around, and see if there isn't a bargain with your name on it.
Here is just a small sampling of the items we have for sale:

Canon D2000 Digital SLR With battery, charger/ Originally $9999
$249.99
Olympus XA W/ tricky aperture lever, works though.
$10.00
Canon EF 55-200 f4.5-5.6 autofocus does not work, works in manual focus.
$8.00
Graflex 22 Twin Lens Reflex 85mm
f3.5, functions perfectly.
$50.00
Canon Battery Pack E.

$20.00
Spiratone 400mm f6.3
requires T-mount
$75.00
Nikon D1
Nikon's oriiginal pro digital SLR w battery and charger
$249.00
Nikon F-301/N2000 . w/ Elicar 55mm f2.8 1:1 Macro
$40.00
Nikon D100 Digital SLR w/ battery and charger, instruction manual.
$269.00
Nikon FM10. w/ 35-70 f3.5-4.8 - great student camera
$35.00
Nikon 200mm f4 Ai Lens,, super tight focus ring
$10.00
All Holga and Lomo Cameras Save 10% every camera plus accessories
Save 10%
Nikon 80-200mmf4.5 Non Ai Lens.
$45.00
Nikon 85mm f1.8 Non Ai, focus is jacked
$5.00
Minolta AF 70-210mm f4.5-5.6
$20.00
Contax GA-1 Allows limited use of Contax SLR lenses on the G series contax rangefinders
$100.00
Minolta Power Grip 2
$65.00
1 GIG SD Card Delkin, Lifetime Guarantee
$10.99
Sunpak Auto 555 Thyristor Potato Masher Flash
$75.00
Nikon Semi-Soft Case CF-60 for N80
$5.00
Nikon Semi-Soft Case CF-57 for F100
$10.00
Kodak Bantam Rangefinder Camera 126 film, FULLY serviced
$50.00
Vivitar 285HV Zoom Thyristor Flash
$50.00
Hundreds of Books Save 50% or more!
Save 50%
Nikon D40X outfit w 18-135 Save $100 on this really nice outfit.
$829.00
Beseler 23CIII enlarger Brand new color enlarger
$199.99
Nikon D200 outfit Store demo, new with 3 year warranty, Originally $1899
$1249.99
B+W and Hoya Filters Buy one, get one free on selected filters
Save 50%
Savage Background Paper Certain slightly damaged rolls
Save 50%
Eye One Photo Calibration SYstem The Ultimate Calbibration system for creating monitor and printing profiles
Dealer Net Cost
Photo Wipes Versatile lint free cleaning clothers
$3.99
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Friday, March 14, 2008

premonition

Phoenix spoke his first sentence today:

"Dada's stinky."

a lift from feeling grounded.

my carbon footprint. ( in relation to the average American's)



tonnes of CO2
House
2.071
Flights
0.000
Car
0.000
Motorbike
0.000
Bus & Rail
0.000
Secondary
1.496

Total


3.567

Your footprint is 3.567 tonnesThe average for United States is 20.4 tonnesThe worldwide target to combat climate change is 2 tonnes

Monday, March 10, 2008

insert TOOL cd.

Friends,

Today, less than one week after discontinuing my time-suck of obsessive news reading, I returned to my yahoo page to discover:

1. a real Death Star could strike Earth


and


2. prescription drugs have been found in our drinking water.

(i think i'm switching to whiskey.)
yay! more light!

Friday, March 07, 2008

poem postcard to maxine which became final poem in from granite to the oyster

To hum into.

Human is the hymn
of vertebrae snapping.

Tendons and Leaves
the noise of grassy measure.

To begin to humming
is to bubble grassy.

How wet the plain with dew.
How muscular.


melissa eleftherion
3/7/08
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thank you to sara larsen for reminding me via her blog to post some postcard poems.
i love your brontosaurus poem!

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

pretend, sleep.

i should be sleeping as i promised kevin i'd come to bed before 3 am, but. but. i want to pretend for a minute that i am not tiptoe psycho dread of phoenix's middle-of-the-night cry that he is teething again or sneezing his snot river in his sleep for his sweet cold he's been nursing . that i can sleep on my back tonight and not have a kid hanging from my tit. that i didn't spend all my free time today cleaning the kitchen. that i can read until 5 am and not have to get up at 8 to make phoenix breakfast. that i can go grab my lightbox and scan my slides. or work on the collage or the bird poems in my head, that for the last week i have heard and seen racing past me. i love all these things. all these responsibilities that come with parenting. parenting. wifeing.
but right now i need to pretend.