Sunday, December 14, 2003

A Sunday Question

Do you get the feeling that not one human being in this country really cares about bringing Saddam Hussein to justice for moral reasons? All anyone seems to care about is how it might affect the possible re-election of George W. Bush.

• Posted at 12:35 PM · LINK

Balloon Lady

Fellow party guest Gordon Kent, who got her card, informs me that the maker of Incredible Balloon Creations at the party last night was Shellyann Blanchard. If you're having an event in the Southern California area and want to hire a true artisan, I think this page will tell you how to contact her. I would have asked her to create a Groo balloon but I was afraid it would stab all the other balloons.

• Posted at 12:20 PM · LINK

Inflated Opinion

Last evening, I attended a very nice Christmas party at the home of my good pal, Paul Dini. The place was packed with interesting and beautiful people but one impressed me enough to cause me to haul out my pocket Nikon. For entertainment, Paul had engaged a young lady who spent the evening making balloon animals...but not the usual giraffes and horsies. This woman (and I regret I didn't get her name; I'll call Paul tomorrow and get it and post it) was taking ordinary balloons and turning them into spiders and beavers and odd, intricate creatures. They were really stunning. One person handed her a little toy Daffy Duck from Paul's den and challenged her to replicate it with balloons. As you can see, she did...in about six minutes.

That's all made from plain ol' skinny balloons and a few rubber bands. The bulging eyes are one white balloon filled partway and bisected by the uninflated section of a black balloon that forms part of Daffy's body and the back of his head. Then she used a black marker to draw eyeballs on it and isn't that just brilliant? Maybe it was the simplicity and speed that got to me but I thought, "I've got to take a picture of that and run home and put it up on my website." Even though I'm still coding these damn pages by hand.

• Posted at 1:15 AM · LINK