Marine life

One of my cousins is an artist in New York. I thought I might google him to see if I could find any of his work and I found this.

I wonder what he is like. What are his other paintings like? Is he a playful person? Does he smile a lot? Does pursuing art make him feel brave? Alive?

I like this octopus. You can check out the brief bio I found for my cousin here, on a German artist listing.

Dormez-vous?

Today at my internship I watched a group of Early Head Start kids walk back to class from the playgroud area. They sang this song to the tune of Frere Jacque.

Walking, walking,
Walking, walking;
Here we go!
Nice and slow.

It was of much cuteness!

Fun and Fett

Well, the Wonder Con was more fun than you can shake a stick at! People went all out their costumes. Notable sightings--besides the Fett family pictured above--included Elvis Storm Trooper, Alien and Predator, the cast from Pirates of the Carribean, Wolverine, various Ghostbusters, Hello Kitty, Sesshomaru, and a cross-dressing Rei from Evangelion. Fantastico! And that does not include the other attendees who wore things like corsets just to be weird. I got to meet Michael Chabon, who actually lives in Berkeley. He, upstanding citizen that he is, wouldn't sign the library copy of one of his novels that I happened to be carrying, but he did sign a free comic that he was handing out. Cool beans, all the same. My friend--code name Alen--kept running into people from his air force base as well, one of them being Sesshomaru!
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Afterwards we trekked to volunteer with the Chinese New Year parade, which was ok. Too much lag time between floats and bands and not enough cultural competence. Seriously, there is more to Chinese culture than lions, drums, and silk outfits. Alas, this is America--not Asia. But what a full day nonetheless. My feet were killing me slowly, but I always have the best sleeps after a day so full that my feet ache. Long Live Chewy!

The giraffe, the pelly, and me.

Me is the monkey of course. I have been feeling rather out of sorts since being back in school. I don't know what it is, but I was just thinking that this may affect the whimsicality of my blog posts, among other things. Perhaps for the sake of my blog I shall try to take better care of myself in order to write things that are more interesting to read.

In anycase, I will be attending a comic book convention on Saturday! More to report from the comic front. And cartoon monkeys I hope.

Here is a picture of the London plane trees lining a plaza by the Campaile (clock tower). I like to call them "toes" trees because once they are pruned--like now--their branches look like they all end in knobby toes. For a slide show of UC Berkeley's trees go here.