back from the dead

“Three Ds and a C”, Edgar mumbled, reluctantly
surrendering the Report Card. “Three Disinterments and a Cremation!”
exclaimed Father, dabbing his cheeks with a blindfold,
“Son, we may just get you that new bicycle after all!”.
~ Mrs. Tex Benitez of A Column Inch

While I've been patiently awaiting the arrival of a gift for my dear cousin Katie, playing with my brand new negative scanner (!!!), and prepping for the launch of Emory University's creativity.emory.edu (a new creativity & arts initiative created by the university), I guess that I've neglected poor little Curios.
So, here we are, back from the dead, to share the most recent post from A Column Inch. Mrs. Benitez never fails to satisfy my morbid appetite with her imaginative and darkly worded vignettes .

And for the bonus round, here is the exclusive premier of photos from Margie's good-bye for awhile party. (yeah yeah negative scanner!) You can find more about Margie and her upcoming transatlantic adventures by clicking here.

happy weekend

This post title has a double-meaning. It refers, of course, to my wish for all my lovely readers (and everyone else that I care slightly less about) to have a happy weekend. It is also the subject of the photos you see above. Last weekend my family celebrated the Wonder Baby's (a.k.a. Kelsey's) high school graduation. She is the youngest, which is unfortunate because now that the last (but not the least) of us has gone and grown up none of us will have any excuse to act the way we do (though it's not likely to stop us). It was a wonderful day pulled together by hard work (katie must have made at least 150 ft. of paper chain), careful planning (kelsey's one pre-party task was to pray for it not to rain... we figured she was the only one up to this task since she is still on god's good side) and a great deal of generosity (special thanks to annie for letting us borrow her treasured teacups, to target and wal-mart for letting us swindle you, to tad for re-rigging his entire home theater system outdoors, to tony the master of fried foods, and to the murray county agricultural center for the adorable old school chairs).

promises, promises

So, I know I said I would be posting photos from this past weekend. Did I say that I would post them on Tuesday? Eeek. I guess I fibbed, but I have not forgotten. The above pic is a sneak peak. That's mi hermano. One of my very favorite photos from the weekend, for sure. I'm probably biased though, because he happens to be my very favorite person.

sarasota, fl.

these photographs are from a couple of springs ago. i just got around to posting them on my flickr recently.