Showing posts with label lady luck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lady luck. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The Ridiculously Unbelievable Last Four Days.

Frida on the Way to the Poet House Grand Opening


If we had Walls we would by this airstream painting. I don't know who the artist is but I love it.



Unibrow and Pet Monkey.

Lions and Cows and Art, Oh My.


Wizard Whisper Participates.



The View Outside the Gates at the Gorge Amphitheater, Washington


Owl and Joe, Tailgating, Before We Go Into Sasquatch.


This weekend consisted of- an art show costume party, helping to breakup a bar fight in Hood River between a Brother Sewing Machine Salesman and a very tall Local, pulling up to sasquatch right when the Okkervil Boys were checking in- which set the theme for the day, overusing the privilege of our press passes in order to get back stage at Sasquatch to chat with the members of Okkervil River and Destroyer, being stopped by a strange Shaman type person on the way to see The National who apparently combed out my aura (owl gave him a dollar), somehow staying dry during the rain storm that caused Michael Stipe to take his shoes off and roll up the pants of his pinstripe suit while REM played, seeing the National and Modest Mouse play both in Washington and then again in Bend (both times for free), and finally coming back to rest in Bend in time to catch the new Indy movie.



Curious, George is kinda tired.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Your Luck Has Been Completely Changed Today


A few years ago, my husband and I were Chinese Food Junkies. Our college town had a different Chinese Food Restaurant on every block. We frequented them all. There’s nothing like some Egg Drop Soup and some fried Wantons to make two broke college kids feel full bellied and decadent. I collected the slips of paper from our fortune cookies religiously. There was enough to fill pages of my sketch book. There was a stretch when every fortune cookie Al opened had the same exact message. And this is over a couple months eating at different places. The message- Your Luck Has been Completely Changed Today. We tried to figure out if, when the stretch ended, his luck was good finally or bad. Kind of a “she loves me, she loves me not.” If he started with good luck, well that meant he ended with bad. But what kind of luck did he begin with?

Is this figure lady Luck? Or is She just another innocent bystander? The pattern of clouds is inspired by a Chinese porcelain design that signified changing fortune in the interlocking clouds. Compasses lie beneath her feet, and shield her from the rain. Changing Direction, Changing fortune... These are the things I am thinking about.

A couple months ago we ate at our favorite Thai restaurant here in Bend. When Al opened his cookie- there was the message again- Your luck has been completely changed today. Either fortune cookie makers are in a rut, or Lady Luck has a torturous, fickle crush.