Becky Haycox
About: Speaking at Web 2.0: Fabulously Useful and Confusing
Her identity somewhere between a dilettante and an aesthete, Becky Haycox marches to her own homemade drum. A member of various creative communities, she uses more than her fair share of hyphens as a designer-writer-actor-crafter-monologist-maker.
She holds more than more than 20 year’s experience in graphic design. After too much time toiling in the Bay Area as a nonprofit geek, she resides in Southern California, where she splits her time between working at a university, performing improv and readings, crafting, and eating whilst driving.
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signs that i am slipping another rung down the ladder of sanity
--I can’t stop watching the doggie cam at Camp Bow Wow in Colorado. Sally Cruikshank, the famous animator, mentioned on her blog that her Germa...
more hot phone action
--I was about 8 or 9 when I first was on the receiving end of a crank call: Me: Hello? Him: Are you in favor of gay liberation? Me: What? Him: Becaus...
get no answer at all
--I stubbornly cling to my home telephone number (just as bullheadedly as I hang onto my 415 area code cell phone number.) Most of the calls I get to...
it’s coconut!
--My friends Katherine and Jim and their kids were at an outdoor event when a small, dirty, scruffy, friendly little beast decided upon them as her f...
tv tether
--I had an interesting few days, when everything in my body decided to exit out in a most garish and horrifying manner, accompanied by a constant, lo...
shimmering objects of desire
--For your inner starling (or whatever that bird is that likes to collect the bright and the shiny), may I direct you to the latest delights offered ...
first quilt second life
--The very first quilt I ever ever made was in 2001. It was a baby blanket for the offspring of my good friends Danny and Alison. I had absolutely no...
komment karma komment karma komment karmeleon
--If a comment you have made has subsequently disappeared, it’s me. My fault. I accidentally designated a page of valid comments as spam, and I...
¡Ai! ¡Que ingenuo!
--I was idly reading this article, Bill Would End Virginia’s Sangria Ban, when huh, I wondered, what’s the deal with sangria? Apparently,...
car commute, rip
--For one year, I commuted daily — 43 miles each way, and often through stop-and-go (and sometimes just stop) traffic. Some images and impressi...
last night’s monologue, post-improv show, by a six-year-old boy
--Hi! Hi! Hi! {shakes hands vigorously} Um, um um! {mom quietly coaches] Oh yeah, my favorite was the haunted house! {referring an improv scene, set ...
fair enough
--Just testing the new flickr slide embed function. If you don’t see it, email me. Otherwise, enjoy 6+ years of fair-y goodness. And here̵...
two excerpts from posts pertaining to the Kool-Aid man that made me laugh out loud
--From Pamie’s archive, 2005: PAM Do you think the Kool-Aid people were pissed off about Jonestown? DAN How do you spin that one? PAM That̵...
ur-scene!
--Molly and I went camping in Sequoia National Park this past weekend. It was a great trip in a spectacular place; I’ve already waxed poetic ab...
the thrill of the game
--In March of 2001, I accompanied my good friend Danny P to Europe. He was touring some of his movies on a whirlwind blitz of Germany, Holland, and B...
gazpac-HO
--Gazpacho. I’m mad for the stuff. Cold vegetable soup might not be your bag, and if this is the case, back out now and I’ll regale you w...
unusual grooming
--Right now, my browser has three Wikipedia tabs open: Sigue Sigue Sputnik Cotillion Leslie, Austin’s most famous vagrant cross-dresser I am ...
pour myself a cup of ambition
--So, there was a reason that I have been decluttering my home workspace. I am generally not the sort to go the extra organizational mile without maj...
hop on pop
--My father was a complicated man and a difficult human at times to love. Recently, my sister A and I had an epic online conversation about our dad. ...
no one can explain it, even by goggling
--New word alert: Can someone explain hambox, please. Never heard the expression before. I didn’t find anything by Goggling! – A confused...
jangled brains
--So something may have happened in yoga class last night. I’m not pointing, nor flexing, any fingers at anyone, but I got hurt. In the head-al...
for four four
--Photo: Piano crunch by Olivander. [click on the picture to read another story about a piano] I spent a good part of the weekend being all swoony an...
dear diary: I actually got some sh*t done this weekend!
--I am a wind-sprinter — I can be dormant and lazy for a long stretch, then bust out with insane amounts of productivity. Let’s just say ...
Stand-up Punk
--My Uncle Joe died this afternoon. A life-long sheriff throughout a number of small midwestern towns. Tall, carved wrinkles and a voice that rumbled...
to give you my love
--As you can see, I posted for (almost) a week straight (with the exception of Friday — an awful, shit-soup of a day). This is a present to Dar...
a [n inevitable?] mac post
--I am a master procrastinator and kind of a career poor person, but one thing I invest in on a regular basis is a computer. I can’t not, as I ...
science is magic
--To me, science, like Spanish-language television, is a candy store at which I can only behold from afar, my nose pressed up against the glass that ...
om shanti om yeah
--Recent moments at yoga class: A lady of indeterminate age and nationality, a modern-day Zsa Zsa, begged off from doing a headstand because her ...
scathing indictments of summer festivals
--Summer festival season approaches, and I greet it with equal parts twittering anticipation and cringing dread. I adore county and state fairs with ...
a poem by my 5 year old great nephew
--HOT DOGS Hot dogs are hot or warm Hot dogs are dead pigs or turkeys Hot dogs are healthy for you Hot dogs are red Some hot dogs are red with white ...
nesting dolls of dreams
--Last night I dreamt that a friend of mine exhibited behavior very much unlike his real self (real friend: healthy-living grownup; dream friend: cra...
a sunny spring day
--That’s me in the middle and that’s my mom right behind. It was my seventh birthday party. Thanks for throwing one hell of a party, mums...
stimuli, economic and otherwise
--Thanks for your birthday wishes, your gifts, your treats, and your overall awesomeness. Yesterday was a fine fine day and there are more fun times ...
shocking realizations to you and to me
--I am over Hello Kitty. Explicitly, I am over the “Look at the newest, nuttiest Hello Kitty product from Japan!” articles and posts. I f...
sunny side (relentlessly) up
--Molly and I went to brunch in San Francisco on Sunday. Citizen Cake has very spicy Bloody Marys, delectable donut balls, and an annoying website wi...
ironic occurrence and unlikely endorsement
--So I’m still at Web 2.0 Expo — tired of hearing that yet? My panel went very well yesterday. As for the Expo, I have a lot of short, Tw...
write this on your hand.
--This past week, I had a minor Crisis of Confidence — Career Version! Something about my job stress and having to get a website designed and t...
p.u.
--For every it’s/its ridiculousness by which I get incensed, I encounter a chunk of poorly-edited text that makes the decline of our civilizati...
mongrels
--This has been quite an unhealthy half year or so in the physics office; everyone has been sicker than they should be, and we all pass it on, round ...
more self promoturbation
--See that lime green icon thingie at right, in the sidebar? Doesn’t it make me look prestigious and muy importante? No? But it’s a big i...
two moments of feline grace
--Flickr now has video loading capabilities — hurray. Here are a couple of short clips of the lovely and talented Strabo, who lives in Queens,...
a hamster wearing wedge heels
--that is all. carry on. chmurka - fashion victim! by pyza*. found on cute overload.
self promoturbation
--Thanks to certain purple-hued creatures, I am now a blogger for the MyZip network. I am the sole correspondant for the 93003 area code and now have...
my kind of map
--I found this on campus, scrawled on the cover of a copy of the local independent paper. I love it; it makes me want to play Pictionary. You can see...
one year ago on twitter
--Two posts about twitter in a row. What does it mean? Nothin that’s what. A big bowl of nothin. This is what I twitted the last week of March,...
sad synchronicity
--Seen on Twitter this morning. Related hamblink: ou sont les siestes d’antan?
pfuh
--My pal (or spuddie?) Matt at Spudart has coined a new word: pfuh definition: Interjection/Slang. (used to express disgust, disappointment, frustr...
quiltreport 2: science quilt
--I will be reporting weekly on a new quilt on which I am working. I am in the numbercrunching stage, and hope I will follow this through to a comple...
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My inner woman
hambox posted a photo:
One part my mother, one part Babcock, one part Little Edie, one part Jackie.
Oh, and all part Melina Mercouri.
Not my photo, please don't fave.
Confess by Sharon Jue
hambox posted a photo:
Finally got around to framing a spectacular original print I bought from my friend Sharon in 2001. It's so beautiful. It's going to join the Amos Goldbaum on the wall above my desk. I am becoming a Jue collector -- this is my third piece!
And (I sound like a commercial but) Framesbymail.com can't be beat for the prices for your custom framing needs!
Untitled lithograph by unknown artist
hambox posted a photo:
Original litho from (I'm guessing) the early 1960s of (I'm guessing) New York. I bought it at the Oakland Museum White Elephant sale in 2000. No photo (esp. this one) could do it justice -- it is really really REALLY good. I unrolled and framed it in the nick of time; it cracked a little after being curled up for too long. I'm a bad collector.
And (I sound like a commercial but) Framesbymail.com can't be beat for the prices for your custom framing needs!
Prize Burro by Amos Goldbaum
hambox posted a photo:
Look at his site to get a better idea of his genius -- or come over! I just love this print and I can't wait to put it on the wall above my desk! If you're in SF, he often is often selling his goods in front of the Ferry Building on weekends.
And (I sound like a commercial but) Framesbymail.com can't be beat for the prices for your custom framing needs!
I caught the bouquet (one of them!)
hambox posted a photo:
It was lobbed directly at me, to ensure my nuptials
Monarch chows down on the bottlebrush
hambox posted a photo:
plus: lots of bees.
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