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laura

bells and whistles covered in thistles

About Me

all i want is a hammock and a harmonica

My Interests

drawing badly, baking capably, whining loudly, laffing awfully, running lamely, reading slowly, growing lowly, swinging low, fevering high, making cardboard and cornmush ghost traps, finding the REAL killer, making perfect piecrust, hoarding kimchi, making teeny mysteries and sailing the seven swamps.

I'd like to meet:

someone with a hammock and a harmonicaor this talented fellow: ..

Music:

country blues, sacred harp singing, holiness field recordings, bluegrass, hokum, dixie, new orleans funeral jazz, old time country, calp and shake gospel, jug bands, cowboy songs, sailor songs, hobo songs, murder ballads, stomps and shakes, spooky jazz, smokey barroom burners, barnyard hollers and banjo rambling tunes.also many joyful noisemakers and sorrowful songsters who still suck in air one lung at a time just like you and me.

Movies:

charlie chaplin. alfred hitchcock. chalfred hitchplin.and elia kazan.

Books:

Flannery O'Connor, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, books about hoboes, tramps, crime, ghosts, chicago, molasses, spices, mystery, shipwrecks, charlie chaplin bios, religious texts, cookbooks, picture books and lots and lots of comics...

My Blog

Poor Forgotten Blog

A bunch of stuff is in the works, and mostly goes on my Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/featherbed/) but here are a load of recent this' and thats....
Posted by laura on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:53:00 PST

i think i hate blogging!

do you have an 18" X 24" hole on your wall? or heart?!  do you enjoy holiday themes or the music wrought and rendered by the good n' kind folks at asthmatic kitty records?  well then christm...
Posted by laura on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:48:00 PST

buttons for buddies! buttons for pals! buttons for goats with irregular valves!

Death and buttons come by the inch now!  Are your lapels embarassingly barren?  Is your bag loudly signifying nothing?  Is your denim patch covered black metal vest not cutting it anymo...
Posted by laura on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:25:00 PST

my life cut into tiny boring snippets

More hasties!  Vet adventures! and Chores! ps. the kids are laffing at me..... ...
Posted by laura on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 04:04:00 PST

Lend me your wallet stranger!

OH NO! Okay!  Stuff for sale!  Suitable for hangin' on your wall (just catch it fore it falls!) and for covering your shame! glory be! it's a poster i done did for the good people at Gapers...
Posted by laura on Mon, 08 May 2006 11:40:00 PST

My Very First Tshirt design!

The nice folks at Sounds Are Active invited me to make a tshirt for experimental song genies Create(!)!!  Whatta THRILL!  So I did! With tadpoles! If you want one for yourself or perhaps...
Posted by laura on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:12:00 PST

Hasties . 5 and now Hasties . 6 - bad smelling mystery!

Lookit!  Another hasty!  Have you ever had biscuits and tomato gravy?  It's a treat!  I'm sorry my life is so dull and my comics so sloppy!  Later today : another hasty? (if i...
Posted by laura on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:58:00 PST

Laura's Crappy Comics Calvacade

More Hasties!  So very sorry! This time with actual panels and gutters, all fancy like.  Which does not make them any more coherant or more better. ...
Posted by laura on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:32:00 PST

Where will you be when the first trumpet sounds?

Well who knows for sure, but I DO know where I will be on March 30th!  Why I'll be at the Liz Janes ( with Create [!]) and Half Handed Cloud Show in Chicago at the Empty Bottle!  It's guara...
Posted by laura on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:25:00 PST

Best Valentine Ever!


Posted by laura on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:34:00 PST