wouldn’t it be nice?
Here's the Friday Random Ten the I've-got-today-off edition:
girls on film - bjorn again
summer swim - george clinton
am radio - everclear
time after time - me first and the gimme gimmes
lie in our graves - dave matthews band
nothing compares 2 U - me first and the gimme gimmes
just the two of us - grover washington jr
wouldn't it be nice - the beach boys
seasons - steve miller band
if i wasn't shy - they might be giants
Oomingmak
Oomingmak are musk ox. I've decided that I really like the Yu'pik word for musk ox way better than musk ox, since they have no musk glands and are more closely related to a goat or a sheep than a cow. Oomingmak is also the name of the cooperative that knit goods from the quviut (ki'vee'oot; the under coat of the musk ox.) Oomingmak gets their fiber from the Musk Ox Farm They do not sell yarn there because it all goes to the cooperative. In fact, at the cooperative they are pretty hostile about the idea of non-native people knitting with the yarn. It is their tradition, after all. They have absolutely beautiful lace patterns that I would love to knit, but they don't sell patterns because it really has a lot of meaning to the Yu'pik people still. Anyway, here's a photo of me with some oomingmak, and more photos can be found at my flickr.
Peaches Come From a Can They Were Put There By a Man
Friday Random Ten--The I'm-so-freakin'-tired edition.
peaches - presidents of the united states of america
my generation - the who
a long december - counting crows
holding back the years - simply red
sugar high - empire records
fee - phish
served faithfully - ani difranco
dune buggy - presidents of the united states of america
there's no home for you here - the white stripes
seeing eye dog - ani difranco
that's all folks. there's a trip in the works to see musk oxen tomorrow... mmm...quviut...even though I can't afford quviut, I'd still like to see the musk oxen. Besides, their website says they sell very very cute "friends of the musk ox" tee-shirts.
Northern Exposure.
So, I saw my first Alaskan Moose today and like a jackass, I left my camera at home because I was "just going to get groceries". Nevermind that every time I've left my camera at home there's been something I wanted to photograph. I've seen many a moose before, as they're pretty common in Maine. My dad said that when we were kids we would run shrieking when we saw them but I don't remember that.
Anyway, I hadn't seen one here yet, but as I was walking the trail back from the bus stop with my groceries a large female moose ambles across the trail about fifty feet in front of me. Now, I'm no idiot and the guys had said that they'd seen a cow and calf on the other side of the housing complex a week or so ago, so I wasn't sure if it was just the cow or not. There's a fence on the other side of the trail, maybe 6 feet away, so if I kept going I was going to pass by this moose with 10 feet of distance between us, tops. Therefore I decided to turn around and walk something like 1.5-2 miles out of my way to get around to the other side of the housing. If there had been two of us, I might've suggested we walk by the moose but since I couldn't see where she'd gone when she'd stepped off the trail, I wasn't taking any chances of getting charged. The moose here might be used to people but they're sure not tame.
Moose on the loose.
a moose walks into a hospital. No, really. There's a link to video there.