Cafeteria flashback at Maryville College where I performed Cookie and spoke to 2 classes.

I had a great realization at this audience that while I’ve spent years thinking I’ve been performing/ connecting with many different audiences (Internet, Jewish, queer, theatre goers, craft 30-something chicks) they’re all geeks of a sort.

Join the Karen Carpenter challenge, originally uploaded by subvert.com.

We have an amazing show tonight in SF on Earnestness with Lawrence Lessig, Aundre the Wonderwoman and Curtis Reliford.

I’ve promised that if we sell out in advance, I’ll earnestly sing a Carpenters song in the show. Just look at us. Don’t we make a cute couple? That’s me at 9, just about the age I began to love her + her music. Buy Tix.

Heather conversates with MAKE founder Dale Daugherty, indie rapper Juba Kalamka, Carolyn Coquillette, the founder of American’s first hybrid garage and the whole room as we explore the sublime activity of Doing it Yourself.

Audio for the entire show (90 minutes)

Tell me more about your DIY projects – what have you done recently, and what did you learn?

my old look, originally uploaded by subvert.com.

My brother saw the photo of my new glasses and said. ‘Hey isn’t that what your old glasses, back in college, looked like?” Now that i think of it. Isn’t that sort of what my hair looked like too? Here they are.

The new glasses, originally uploaded by subvert.com.

Thank you glassy eyes for the 39dollarglasses hook up. Slow delivery but the lenses are perfect. Fuck off oliver peoples.

Just got into LI from SF. I took the red eye. While wheeling my luggage, video camera and backpack through the Stonybrook parking lot, I got the feeling that the luggage will soon begin to feel like a natural appendage. I always fantasize about these things when travelling: a crumpler backpack so I don’t ned a video camera bag + backpack, really comfortable running shoes and my fleece toque. Dopplr‘s facebook widget is out just in time to make it easier for my friends to know where the hell I am (leave a comment if you want an invite).

I sound like a walking cliche. But there’s a reason for the look, the gear interest and my excitement over the power outlet at my Virgin America seat: life is very geograpically fluid and mostly about comfort allowing the fluidity of physical and mental movement.

I had culture shock for the first couple of days back in SF. I’m not sure if I’m awake enough to know if it’s harder to settle into the east coast. I do tend to walk around with empty bottles and pizza crusts looking for the recycling and compost bins that never appear.

blog comment brings glasses triumph, originally uploaded by subvert.com.

matt (whom I’ve never met but is now my new bgff) commented on my blog and sent me in a whole new direction. Screw Oliver Peoples for making something to break.
Matt sent me to the glassy eyes blog who confirmed what an utter scam the optical business is. Proof? I just bought a pair online for $53 smackeroos and thanks to the glassy eyes discount I got ’em shipped overnight so I can have em for the trip to SF and my Season Premiere on Friday.

The replacement lenses alone in my other glases cost $99 at a discount place.

The Glassy Eyes blogger now has a full-time job advocating for all of us who need glasses and find $300+ impossible or ridiculous to pay for glasses. I did not know it was ridiculous until today. It’s optional.