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Bad Tempered Zombie: November 2014

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Thursday, November 27, 2014. Day five of the five day black and white photo challenge. Feet look peaceful in black and white. And they deserve a rest. They work too hard. Labels: five day black and white challenge. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Day four of the five day black and white photo challenge. I am pretty sure that even the most mundane and placid of mid-summer skies would look ominous and threatening when filmed in black and white. Remind me to shoot my next horror film thusly. Interestingly, sh...

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Bad Tempered Zombie: zombie smash

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. We expected that day one of renovations - bathroom demolition day - would involve exactly that. We didn't take into account the perfect storm of the no-nonsense efficiency of our contractors, combined with the revelation that there was no mold behind those bathtub walls after all. Bathroom demolition - which no longer necessitated any structural restructuring - was therefore complete in a couple of hours. So they kept going. Perhaps the resident kitty won't spend the entire summe...

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Bad Tempered Zombie: the hunter and the hunted

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Wednesday, April 01, 2015. The hunter and the hunted. I have started to crawl out of my office again. It's been a very productive two and half weeks, with a tonne of articles under my belt, as well as a rush website editting job. I've got a few more articles to write over the next week, but for the next few days it's going to be all reno decisions all the time. Right now they are still duking it out for my love. In more magazinely news, the new spring issue of Latent Image. The great renovation adventure.

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Bad Tempered Zombie: April 2015

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. We expected that day one of renovations - bathroom demolition day - would involve exactly that. We didn't take into account the perfect storm of the no-nonsense efficiency of our contractors, combined with the revelation that there was no mold behind those bathtub walls after all. Bathroom demolition - which no longer necessitated any structural restructuring - was therefore complete in a couple of hours. So they kept going. Perhaps the resident kitty won't spend the entire summe...

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Bad Tempered Zombie: no stepping back

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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Week two of the great reno adventure did not see any letup in productivity. The addition of a nail gun compressor for the installation of the hardwood floors did, however, ramp up the decibels in the environment. The finesse work that is going into these stair runs is making for a slow start to the flooring, but once the stairs are complete,. Just watch for nails to start flying. Figuratively only, one hopes. We kept the upper cabinets in two of the bathrooms, painting those tired o...

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Bad Tempered Zombie: butterless in the burbs

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Saturday, March 14, 2015. Butterless in the burbs. We did end up throwing out the butter and a bag of sunflower seeds with the old fridge, apparently, something I discovered a couple of days later, when body memory had me reaching for the covered compartment in the right-hand door, which is where the butter resided. I am pretty sure I did one of those classic double-takes when my hand encountered no butter compartment, followed by a rapid internal conversation:. Hey there's no butter compartment, o.

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Bad Tempered Zombie: patina

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Friday, March 20, 2015. I am deep in the grips of magazine-writing, swirling in a world of interviews and type type typing. Every word is spoken for and I can't spare a single pronoun. I shall return soon. Labels: feast or famine freelancery. See you soon, Erik. Way to conserve, Barbara! Whew, I got a little worded out for a while there, John. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bad tempered zombie: scribe for hire. Bbruederlin at shaw dot ca. View my complete profile. Bad tempered scribbled here. Early ...

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Bad Tempered Zombie: ring the bell

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Friday, April 10, 2015. Hanging out in an unfinished National Music Centre lends itself to photo ops that are rife with compelling shapes and unexpected colours. Just wait until the place is filled with sound. Labels: construction sites as art. Neat shapes and colours, indeed. The soundscape will be worth waiting for, too, I imagine . . . Total environment. The concept is that it will be more like a music festival than a museum, Erik. Its going to be pretty amazing. And beautiful pictures too). Create: I...

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Bad Tempered Zombie: January 2015

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Working on website copy while secretly dreaming of design elements for home. Sometimes our worlds are not really all that far apart. Except, perhaps, for the paying for it part. Labels: the great renovation adventure. Sunday, January 25, 2015. Tearing it all down. Although we don't anticipate our renos to drag on ad infinitum like the ones that went on next door from July to December last year (driving me stark raving mad in the process), part of me is looking forward to retu...

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Bad Tempered Zombie: ode to the lepus

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Ode to the lepus. Age keeps you tucked into your shallow bed most days, under the neighbour’s spruce tree where you camouflage with the landscaping of boulders and river rocks and mulch. For weeks you have been ignoring the posse of younger hares as they pose and cavort and defy gravity - a thousand slinky-toys leaping and spinning down the centre of the road. Of the Fish Creek region. Labels: with apologies to National Poetry Month and jack-rabbits. A hare-pin turn I love it!