By bluerasberry on 2011-02-17
Nandan and I took a taxi in Agra and the driver wanted me to visit some shop. I asked Nandan what he thought and he said let’s check customer service in a tourist capitol. In the front of this shop there were marble workers toiling on the floor with all kinds of complicated equipment. I […]
Posted in art, India, service industry | Tagged service industry
By bluerasberry on 2010-11-22
I participated in the Mashed-potato Munch Off at the Green Lake Gobble again this year. I ate 75 ounces of mashed potatoes (4.7 pounds, 2.1 kilograms) in four minutes. The woman to my right was second place. I was intimidated because I had expected them to leave my finished bowls in front of me, but […]
Posted in art, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating, contest
By bluerasberry on 2010-05-19
I attended part of a performance of Erik Satie’s(1866-1925) Vexations Jack Straw on May 16. Satie was a Parisian musician and dadaist who wrote minimalist repetitive music. This work, Vexations, is a song which most people would choose to play in about 3.5 minutes, but Satie wrote on the page of music the sentence, “In […]
Posted in art, presentation, Seattle | Tagged dada, music, performance
By bluerasberry on 2010-02-01
I have been interested in video production for some time now. I have no desire to be artistic, but I would like to explore the possibility of creating a protocol by means of which anyone can quickly create educational videos of a certain known quality. I am interested in making some videos, but more than […]
Posted in art, education, India, research | Tagged astrology
By bluerasberry on 2009-12-12
I do not listen to a lot of music, but I like some groups. I went with Mark and Kristina to see Melt Banana on Friday Dec 11 at Chop Suey and had a lot of fun. This video is not from this show; someone else uploaded this. It weirds me out that so many […]
Posted in art, Japan, Seattle | Tagged concert, rumpus
By bluerasberry on 2009-08-02
On Saturday, August 1 I participated as a contestant in a doughnut-eating contest at Top Pot Doughnuts in downtown Seattle. The event was hosted by El Vez and some lady in a doughnut bikini. I and my eating companion Adam from Barsuk Records won second place. The format was that a random selection from audience […]
Posted in art, encounter, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating, contest, doughnut
By bluerasberry on 2009-02-23
In Hindi, “maha” means “big,” “Shiva” is the god, and “ratri” means night. February 23, 2009 was Shiva’s Big Night. I went to Traveler’s Chai Shop to celebrate, as Allen and Leon (the proprietors) often host Indian cultural events. This night they were also showing some locally-made ceramic shivlings. They were not particularly Indian but […]
Posted in art, festival, religion | Tagged Shivaratri, tea
By bluerasberry on 2008-12-13
Last night I went to see a screening of the 1929 Phantom of the Opera accompanied by live music. Here is the blurb: Phantom of the Opera, film with live accompaniment presented by Aphonia Recordings The 1929 classic silent film “Phantom of the Opera,” starring Lon Cheney (man of 1000 faces) and featuring a live […]
Posted in art | Tagged ghost, opera, silent movie
By bluerasberry on 2008-08-14
I was in DC from Tuesday August fifth through Sunday the tenth. On the sixth and seventh I was in training for my job; NIDA is in DC so they do their Clinical Trials Network (CTN) training there. The training was boring and hardly anything that could not have done by webcast, but I was […]
Posted in animal, art, museum, religion, work | Tagged capitol, church, library, panda, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2008-06-05
I live in an apartment building with 100 units. Today I went to the elevator and there was blood spilled all over the floor. I started thinking about what I was seeing and how this looks in the movies. There was a lot of blood there and obviously someone had a really bad time in […]
Posted in art | Tagged blood, death