Plagiarized palms?

January 21st, 2012 Posted in All Else Galvez
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Two palms

Two palms

Can you trademark a topiary?
Copyright a creeping vine?
License a landscape?

It’s the neighbors. Again.

(Gladys Kravitz, you’re thinking? Maybe, but I fancy myself more of a closet Endora…

Love that flash!

Love that flash!

…who, by the way, always reminded me of my old piano teacher, Mrs. Sharp [truly, a cosmic pun]. Well into her eighties, Mrs. S persisted in dyeing her hair carrot red, wearing garish wraps, and sporting sling-back stilettos, notwithstanding—or notwithstumbling—the pitiful truth that she was blind as a bat.) Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 10 reasons to keep “trouble” indoors

January 16th, 2012 Posted in All Else Galvez
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10. Being too busy to prune your houseplants, you prefer to have it done automatically, in the dead of night, one salad leaf at a time.

Trouble

Trouble

9. It is a known fact that freshly laundered bath towels stay fresher in a wad on the floor, lightly dusted with fur and feline detritus.

8. Speaking of bathrooms (after all, they are such wild and intriguing places), rather than resort to the pedestrian toilet tissue holder, you prefer to pluck yours in small batches from shredded heaps on the floor.

7. Guitar stands are hipper, and not much less useful, with the knobs on their cradles entirely gnawed off.

6. Flotation experiments are fun: Make your old science teacher proud by observing both cat and dog toys, daily dunked in the dog’s water bowl, and measuring their absorption rates. Read the rest of this entry »

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