I don’t know about you, but I hadn’t heard of Crowd Funding before. It’s like a pledge drive from NPR only less annoying. So I’m giving it a try. Click on the link below to see if I have listed any pledge rewards that you absolutely must have. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1005268871/the-liveaboard-docucomic-volume-one-issue-one-dock/backers It only goes until May 5th. [...]
Archive for the ‘Firsts’ Category
KickStarter Crowd Funding Experiment
April 6, 2012
Back to the Beginning
March 1, 2012
I spent the month of February at the marina where I began my life as a LiveAboard. I was dog and boat sitting for friends on vacation. It was nice to catch up with folks I haven’t seen for a while, but I can’t say I miss the old slip. I take this as confirmation [...]
Lit Boat Parade
December 15, 2011
I’ve never put Christmas Lights on anything, let alone a boat. A kind neighbor gave me a bunch of discarded decorations and lent me a generator and with crew E and J we were off. It took FOREVER to hook up the lights and we had no time to test the generator before motoring out [...]
Boaty Carols
December 8, 2011
I was raised on Christmas Carols but not the religion for which they were written. Nostalgia and my nautical lifestyle collide with a new collection of ten Christmas Carols re-written with Boaty Lyrics. This is especially apropos for me because December 28 is the anniversary of La Bonita signed over to me officially. So now, [...]
Shopalopolis and Geese
November 24, 2011
The blurb about Water Hyacinth aired Tuesday. If you missed it you can hear it online at http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/perspectives/ I also started a blog about water hyacinth in the hopes of inspiring someone somewhere to get interested in solving this practical problem. http://deltawaterhyacinth.wordpress.com/ The geese are making their trek to their winter outpost. I heard their [...]
In the dog house
July 7, 2011
You can lead a pup to a nice new dog house but you can’t make him go inside. The more I try to get Austin to do something, in this case go inside a soft comfy shelter from the wind, the less he wants to cooperate. Like some people I know. He demonstrated that he [...]
Tsunami
March 12, 2011
On the night the 8.9 earthquake hit Japan I was kept up all night with constant phone calls from friends and family alerting me to the disaster and probable visitations of tsunami remnants in my marina. I can’t decide if the surreal quality of yesterday was due more to lack of sleep or the weird [...]
Borzoi Ballet
February 21, 2011
I had the great pleasure last weekend of visiting with my new friend Molly and seeing her beautiful Borzoi Hound “Meteor” appear in the SF Ballet Giselle. Meteor stole the scene I’m afraid – beware of sharing a stage with animals or children. Unfortunately the other Borzoi “Colty” was unable to appear on stage as an [...]
Zoe Boekbinder
February 14, 2011
Ok, so it’s a little after the fact. I opened for Zoe Boekbinder on Feb. 11 at the yacht club. Fifteen whole minutes of me trying to remember my own songs. It felt good to share those songs that have been sitting idle for so long. And it was terrific to hear energetic Zoe’s looped [...]
Alas ComicPress is missing
February 10, 2011
I switched my web hosting company and in the process managed to lose the content of my LiveAboard cartoon site. So if you have noticed the 404 error message, that would be why. I’m working on the problem and hopefully The LiveAboard will be back up again soon. Hey, maybe it just indicates that it’s [...]
