HAPPY BIRTHDAY to The 1998 Khmer Rouge apology, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers’s first movie FLYING DOWN TO RIO (1932), Gali Atari, Baltimore artist Eric Block, Mayor Tom Bradley, singer-songwriter Ed Bruce, Pablo Casals, Bernard Cribbins, Rick Danko, Ted Danson, Yvonne Elliman, Marianne Faithfull, Neil "Spyder" Giraldo, New Orleans clarinetist Willie Humphrey, Scott Joplin’s 1902 song “The Entertainer,” Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna, Jude Law, Franz Liszt’s 1857 symphonic poem "Die Hunnenschlacht,” jazz-Celtic singer Laurel Massé, Clyde McCoy, Dina Merrill, Mary Tyler Moore, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, cellist-composer Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket), Paula Poundstone, Cozy Powell, rockabilly DJ/singer-songwriter Glenn Reeves, Jim Reid, The San Francisco Symphony, Marco Antonio Solís, Barbara Steele, The Supremes’s 1965 single “My World is Empty Without You,” Ray Thomas (Moody Blues), “Billy” Tipton, Jo Van Fleet, Jon Voight, Roger Voudouris, and my friend and musical compadre “Easy” Mark Tomeo. I lack photos of Mark and I together, so I grabbed pivotal images from Mark’s fascinating career as a champion of pedal steel, resonator, and twang guitar + singer-songwriter. He was in the Grammy-nominated “New Wave cowboy” band Rubber Rodeo (shown here)—in the 80s RR played at Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco while I just happened to be lurking nearby. The world got smaller when Mark and I met in Pennsylvania, performing and recording with Ben Kaplan, some Badlees-spinoff projects, and extensively with the band Neon Cactus. Circa 2000 I was working with Davy Jones (Monkees) on his JUSTME series of original recordings. Davy wanted a pedal steel guitarist, and I summoned Mark. Here’s “Hold Me Tight,” a Tex-Mex samba we did; the Mike Nesmith-ian arrangement was Davy’s idea: 

Meanwhile HB EMT. By the time I get to Phoenix anything can happen…

#MarkTomeo #Easy #pedal #steel #guitar #resonatorguitar #DavyJones #Monkees #Neon #Cactus #Badlees #BenKaplan #RubberRodeo #pennsylvania #phoenix #arizona #Tex-Mex #samba #Mike #Nesmith #johnnyjblair #performing #recording

Not gonna lie, Witch Beam going from Assault Android Cactus to Unpacking, then scarcely half a year later Ben Esposito going from Donut County to Neon White has gotta be one of the weirder cases of equivalent exchange I’ve ever seen.

Yeehawgust Day 10: Neon Moon

Lgbtq Pride Alicorn pot 👁🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜👁

Cacti in Bloom, Poison Spider Trail - May 22nd 2023

Astrophytum capricorne was the first cactus I came across at a cactus + succulent store and decided I really wanted one. The combination of curling flexible spines, pattern of fuzzy dots, but most of all the beautifully scented balloon-ribbon flowers enticed me. Native to northern Mexico they start out vaguely spherical but eventually grow into a column from which can simultaneously emerge several of these gorgeous blooms (mine has peaked at 2 now). This is a good example of a plant where the taxonomic name meets the common name! The genus Astrophytum means “star plant” and the specific epithet capricorne means “goat horn,” referring to the curled spines which give the cactus the common name “goat’s horn cactus.” Remarkably, Astrophytum contains just 6 species, all of which are found in Mexico, but only one of which grows native to the U.S. For such a small genus, it is amazing that the last species to be discovered was described in 2002.

Random Wallpapers pt.1

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Sun-Kissed Cactus, Anita Austvika

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Aw I'm so pleased with these Pawppet designs! 18 and 19 were both inspired from ideas from my amazing other half, once again haha.

I swear he has the most amazing ideas when it comes to creating these adoptable, and I'm so grateful for his input.

https://ko-fi.com/pawppetcreations

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These are my last set of main line Pawppets before I release the Yule/Holiday set. I'm so excited to show you all!

Also I will be having a boxing day sale! I'm still in the process of working on the sale, but there will be updates.

took a neat-ish picture 🌵🖥️💚

I now have ten plants in my room, can I safely say this is getting out of hand? someone needs to stop me haha

🏝️ a happy lil fren

Some indoor succulent progress!

A desert jackrabbit poised at sunrise, a spirit guide beckons onward. A new day awaits.