2007-03-12 // 21:10:16
PEPITE
i adore this pictures....real portrait, so nice!

2007-02-06 // 18:30:35
Piti_area51
:D cute!

2007-02-01 // 12:52:02
_micaela
never tired.

i fucking love that shirt too man.

^ Damn straight! His mom saw this shirt and said, "Ugh, where did you get that? I like my kid to have STYLE." Nothing could have reinforced in my mind the reasons for our divorce. Heh. Let's just say we differ in what 'style' means!

2007-01-26 // 09:26:56
Esther.Z.Schnickenacke
That was delightful, Tod. Thank you so much. I am now thoroughly contented in every way.

Now, about that eruption of bile in the newsfeed. I, for one, rather enjoyed it. Everyone likes to see blood and flying feathers every now and then. It's only human nature. So if anything, it will have improved your standing on this site. Having said that though, should you feel that your popularity is nonetheless dwindling, I'm sure that you are quite right: a few more shots of your wife lolling about in her undies or, better still, another one of you in languidly leaning on things dressed only in a pair of Lia's old knickers will make you Polanoid's one and only Mr Honeystick again.

2007-01-25 // 17:47:15
Esther.Z.Schnickenacke
I wasn't referring to your character. I meant your characterISATION of the stick. I find it a little underdeveloped. I long to see inside its sticky little mind, know its history, understand its motivations. But no matter. You are the author and if you chose to keep me in the dark, then so be it.

May I stress that as an individual, you strike me as being quite perfect in every way. Particularly as a sparring partner for a woman sat at a computer attempting to distract herself from a rather dull job.

^ Nary a soul seems inclined to interfere in the great Honeystick Debate. A testament to my declining popularity these days. Little boys don't have the drawing power of scantily clad women (10,000 of my views resulted from the 'motel series'). Further, siding with Lia on the pointless discussion of analogue vs. digital made me few friends. Could be that my orations need to be tempered a bit. Now, the Honey Stick is a bit of a mythical creature in this household. One that magically reappears after use time and time again. Justice will search for the Honey Stick, find it not in the cupboard, examine it's plastic casing freshly snipped and deposited in the recycle bin, and despair at the idea of losing his friend. Yet, somehow without fail, the Honey Stick materializes the next day in the previously well-inspected location. The regenerative powers of the Honey Stick have become the stuff of legend in this household. True, I erred perhaps, in stating that I "scavenged about" for the Honey Stick, as I felt that few would believe in my story of the Eternal Honey Stick, especially without photographic evidence. Yet, the proof IS in the photo - you can quite clearly see the Holy Glow of the Eternal Honey Stick in the lower left corner. Indeed, even Its secretions shine brightly.

2007-01-25 // 11:17:55
Esther.Z.Schnickenacke
I fail to see the necessity of concealing the honey from the stick, which is surely an inanimate object and, as such, unlikely to embark on a quest to restore its lost secretions, thereby immensely impairing your son's breakfast enjoyment. However, if we agree to view this as a surrealist piece, I am nonetheless willing to accept this interpretation. After all, we must reach some kind of agreement soon, before the secretion issue poisons what has hitherto been a very pleasant and rewarding Polanoid friendship.

(However, I must just say that I find your characterisation of such a powerful figure as the bereft and vengeful stick somewhat superficial.)

^ You know . . . it's really all about that last sentence. The one that follows your flag of truce with the dubious "However." Not only do you make an exception to your proffering of peace by interjecting this closet "on the other hand," but you finalize your spiel with a slighting of my character. Superficial? Superficial? Me? On Polanoid? Never. I have never brought to bear, in any thread/conversation, anything less than my full intellectual prowess. If you want to dismiss this out of hand as superficial, that is your choice, but I believe it to be one that overlooks the depth and profundity of my almost-daily proclamations. Sigh. Have I ever insulted YOUR character? I ask this not rhetorically, as I fear I may have, in a drunken haze, somehow impugned you. If this is the case, do bring the offensive material to me so that I may make ammends. If not, I dare say you are forced to accept my anthropomorphization of the honey stick as fully justifiable. Consider that we are dealing, in this instance, in the fantasy world of a CHILD, for christ's sake. The honey stick, the bowl, even his lumberjack shirt - they all have identities which stray beyond the boundaries of sterile adult interpretations.

2007-01-25 // 03:40:59
sixblueten
Not unusual . . . just a splash 'o Japanese blood. . . does the trick every time! Heh.

2007-01-25 // 00:10:10
kay
What Carmen said: he has unusual eyes. (I like that.)

2007-01-24 // 09:50:52
Esther.Z.Schnickenacke
But secrete means conceal. Come along laddie, look it up, look it up. Get the Websters out. Other than ordinary logic - which clearly counts for naught in the contrary world of semantics - there is no justification your use of the word to mean "induce a secretion of honey from the stick". It means "to conceal the honey".

Inflammable = flammable. There's another juicy worm in the can. We may gnash our teeth, but there is nothing we can do about it.

As for intent, bah, humbug I say! I cleave your flimsy and most inflammatory of arguments in twain and stamp on the bits.

^ Ah now, but you have erred in your wording - given me an opening, if you will. You say that it means "to conceal the honey," no? Well, from whom are we concealing the honey? Upon secretion, the honey is now hidden rather well - from the stick! In moving from one state to another (from pre-secretion to post-secretion) the honey has formed new relationships with its surroundings, justifying the rather dynamic usage of 'secretion' to comment upon past, present and future states. Agreed?

2007-01-23 // 13:10:54
Jose605
Sleepy face... :-)

2007-01-23 // 09:41:47
Esther.Z.Schnickenacke
Aaaah! The English language! The more I think about "secrete", the clearer it becomes that the transitive verbal usage means almost the complete opposite of what it should mean. It's the accursed "cleave=chop or glue" can of worms all over again. I think I need a lie down now.

Your boy has such unusual eyes. I dig the messy hair, too. If I had a kid like this, I'd never brush his hair, ever.

^ Oh somebody is getting very, very tricky with the language. You and your "transitive verbal usage" spoutings. 'Secrete' is spot-on, in terms of intent, I believe. Now the cleave/chop/glue example is one I hadn't thought of. . .quite the can of worms, indeed.

2007-01-23 // 06:25:00
KimvanGroos
Maybe you should live in LA with all our sunshine and bliss, and fake boobs and smog and vanity and...
He has such great eyes, and right now they are saying "it is too fucking early for you to be sticking that thing in my face." (I would say that stress makes me curse more, but I don't think I can curse any more than I already do, the f-word is a regular adjective [verb, noun, conjunction...] for me, its a bad habit.)

2007-01-23 // 03:21:47
g.
hahaha! that pola is already on my favlist, that's why i said MORE. i also know you have HER original, you lucky dog. i was just too late...so you better be nice to her. but i get a print. and i've been her personal ebayscout. we found some nice treasure.
oh, and for that modern cars...i don't get it either. i'll stick with my 1972 bmw 02...though most times i go by bike or just walk. but i don't blame the car industry in total. they pay the people that pay me...so we have our little analogue island here, that's nice, hmm?

^ Fair enough, fair enough. And I don't really have a bone to pick with the auto industry - after all, they do produce what consumers demand, though that lag time can be tricky (hence all those SUVs sitting on the lots). I do, however, believe strongly that we have to redesign major cities to be less dependent on the auto, especially in the U.S.. I'm only talking about investing hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure in a two decade-long project - no big deal!

2007-01-23 // 01:39:59
g.
true. true. true. all what was said. but you're cheating. you also takes pictures of your wife. you are my world favourite family photographer. and this is not meant as a discrimination.
do you have snow yet? i want to see more snow pictures. kids love snow.

^ you'll have to peel through my pix to find the solitary 'kid in snow' shot. it's in there. . in fact, sealette is offering to buy me a new bmw 7 series if i'll give her the original - check with her to confirm the fact - but I won't part with it. Besides, I'm not really into the vaunted BMW computer system. . too many whirls and clicks to tune the radio. . .Audi went down the same road, alas. I'll stick with my 1982 Schwinn.

2007-01-22 // 23:13:42
sealette
there's not enough film in the world to take too many pictures of this wee man

2007-01-22 // 22:20:54
the_world_is_yours
his gaze is sweet and powerful at the same time. I'd be f...ing inspired myself too with a kid like that.

2007-01-22 // 21:15:10
Yammi Smolka
oh no, dont you worry! Ill never be tired of seeing pix of your son. better than sunshine! ; )

^ Okay, Yammi! I shall persevere, if only for you and colourspace. . . and a few other 'fans of justice'. The boy trumps his father in so many ways. . makes me proud . . . sniff.