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Mamluke
 Name: Mamluke From: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Minor Outlying Islands I'm a 39 year old guy in Minneapolis, MN - married to another great guy. We have 1 cat, 1 business,& 1 plan on getting outta this here country. I got involved with Flickr in January, 2006 when I got a new camera and have loved it. All of my photographs are my own - I have a very few scanned items as I like getting up close and personal with the actual camera, which could be because I'm near-sighted and things up close have always been clear to me even without glasses. who knows really - I just like a variety of stuff. Thanks for checking my photos out! I'm also a big fan of vintage illustrations and "Old Master" artworks, both painting and sculpture, so I'll post some of my collections of those as well. I own my own business and am actively involved in higher education as well, most recently at the University of Minnesota. I also sing with One Voice Mixed Chorus, a fun GLBT chorus here in the Twin Cities. Tadah!Not So Way Back
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Friday, June 29, 2007Walk It OutHello - yeah, I'm lame for not posting again, I've actually moved quite a bit away from daily or even monthly posting here mostly because our real lives are busy and I've been concentrating my updating time on my Flickr Account & photography SO... and if you really want to keep up with me - bookmark my Flickr Account :) Me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/ I add content there daily and sometimes twice daily so enjoy!  
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Monday, April 30, 2007ARGH - I'm back OK - I'm finally posting again - I HATE TRANSITIONS. The stupid forced transition in blogger to make you use google's e-mail sucked. I had put it off forever and apparently during my non-blogging time, their "deadline" passed. Their system totally mucked up my blog for a bit (from my end) and has also erased my profile. And apparently it will only let me log in using the stupid gmail address I was forced to create and then have forwarded to an address I'll actually check.So it may be a while before I get this thing that way I'd like it again. argh. So what have I been up to lately? now that I've alienated anyone who had actually been reading my blog previously by disappearing for a few months, I mean? Well a whole lot of stuff - I've kept updating my Flickr stream far more regularly, so you can go there to check out our last few months photos. well let's see. Our cat died. We mourned. Work got really busy. We left the states for a month to go to England and play and visit relatives. We had great fun and regretted coming home. We also visited Mrs. Mamluke's folks in Oregon for a while. Both of those places mind you had lovely Spring weather while Minnesota was still in the deepfreeze. We returned home to a roaring blizzard. My office at the University was put into tumult due to stupid academic politics. So when I'm there now (which is not much now that it's not exactly a pleasant place to hang) I'm housed in a temporary shared space until they can get my new office up and running. After six months, they're finally supposed to be painting and putting in new carpet this week - we'll see. Home is fine - I changed over the colors in the house (drapes/rugs/clothes) in early April and it feels much lighter. It's also helped by the fact that we're finally having some Spring weather and have had the windows open for a week or more now. THAT I like. nice breezes, cat cooking on the sill, etc. etc. Our grass turned green last week and the bushes & trees are finally showing buds and turning peridot. Our good friends D&B's cat died. Then 4 weeks later (this past Saturday) their dog died. Not a good season for pets. So for those of you still periodically checking this baby, here's a photo and a video and some music.  And his name's Maxim Miranov btw.
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Monday, January 22, 2007Loved Our lovely cat Ethan passed away last night. He was 18 and had lived a long healthy life and was greatly loved. He'll be greatly missed as well. Between the past concert weekend and the hectic rehearsal schedule beforehand, I'm wiped. We've got another weekend of concerts to go and I'm swamped with work as well. I'll post more later when I've got some more time and energy. 
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007January is here New Year - woo? actually last weekend was pretty nice, considering I'm STILL SUFFERING from this stupid thing. The week before New Year's was fairly low-key. We got to incorporate our Christmas gifts into the house and Mrs. Mamluke's finally arrived in the post for me - a Roomba! - my first robot. Well at least the first that doesn't shoot sparks out of its eyes and scare the cat from when I was 10. I was dubious at first as to the quality - but it hasn't let me down yet. I actually just used it for the first casual time last night. (Meaning we had previously used it in concentrated areas while watching it the whole time, thus wasting any saved energy of having a robot do any household work for you) I got home, eyeballed the cathair on the carpet and tree needles by the wall and said "no more." Hit start, then went into the study to check my e-mail, etc. By the time I had tea ready and Mrs. Mamluke got home, three rooms of the house were clean at floor level - nice! Mrs. Mamluke's been absorbed by one of his presents - Sims 2- University - & has had great fun aging quite a few of his 'young adult' sims into college. we got several books as well and I'm about 75% through Middlesex and quite enjoying it. He started a book his parents gave him, but I just noticed yesterday it was sitting on top of the bookcase in the living room as if abandoned, so hmmm. So a nice easy week - some work, but not much and much lazing about. We then had 10 people for dinner on the 30th and had a wonderful day. I had been wanting a "second Thanksgiving" since Thanksgiving when I didn't get but 1 plate of leftovers to take home (someone else's house) so at our place, we had a turkey & stuffing on our end, and had the guests bring side-dishes. Folks showed up about 1pm and left about 8:30. Perfect! We ate, drank, chatted, played a round of Nouns, drank, chatted and ate some more. Perfect! So Happy New Year - 2007 - the year of the Home 
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006if you're happy blowing bubbles, you keep right on blowing bubbles A Happy Day - much post-holiday shopping - very productive - then found a cute French animation that reminded me of one of my favorite songs by the Boswell Sisters about blowing bubblesso here ya go: Sebastien Cartoon Happy Song Sample You can purchase the Boswell Sisters album here, but I'm afraid you can't purchase the animation yet as it's from a school site. 
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Sunday, December 24, 2006Happy Christmas! yeah yeah yeah - it's been 20 days since I posted, but I had my reasons, so there.
Mamluke 
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006December's here and it's cold. Not that I mind, mind you, but it does take a bit of getting used to in getting ready to emerge from the house in the morning. I was fretting over Mrs. Mamluke this morning as he was leaving with his scarf undone, no-hat and no-gloves. He swears I'm being controlling in telling him to wear a hat & gloves and close his scarf when it's -3 F outside with a windchill of -19F when in fact I just love the heck out him and want him to be warm. Of course I am controlling, but I do love him too, so can't it be both? anyhoo - found another amusing re-do of a movie trailer you're bound to enjoy: Scary Mary AND! Criterion has released The Beales of Grey Gardens, a follow-up to the 1976 documentary Grey Gardens that consists of about 90 minutes of never-before-seen footage. Aren't you excited!? I would recap it here for you but FourFour has already done an amazing/amusing job with the addition of photos and subtitles, so I'll point you over thataway. And don't forget your Leucrema order  I swear sometimes I should do a similar documentary on my own family. Everytime I talk to them on the phone (whereupon Mrs. Mamluke always declares to anyone else in the house to "now listen to his accent change") they have yet another readily available scene to add to the ones I already have from when I actually lived with them. The latest was them putting up the Christmas Tree and having it tumble over on top of my Mom while my sister who was supposed to be holding onto it while she adjusted the stands stood by and just said "look out!" to noone in particular. Tree tumbles, ornaments break (yeah - I don't know why they were adjusting it either after it was decorated) and afternoon excitement ensued. I asked which ornaments bit the dust (as there are a few from my childhood I'd like to have intact eventually) to discover that the ones gone were no great loss (to me anyway), as they were gifts from some of her past 2nd grade students over the years whom she barely remembered, but kept the ornaments around anyway.Other story possibilities abound this winter though. My mom is finally taking a real vacation for the first time since my dad died in 2000. They (and we) used to travel quite a bit all over the place and she's really cut back. She gradually has ramped it up in the last year or so heading to Florida with my evil sister a few times, coming up here to see us for a week at a time, and heading into the mountains with some of her friends for a few weekends. Today though she's rejoining the world outside of the South and heading back to the Caribbean with my aunt & uncle. The family has been going "south" for the winter not very long, as they are technically already in the south and it wasn't as exotic to just go south to where you grew up or drive 10 hours to just have it be the same temperature with different bugs. When I was growing up, we usually headed North into the mountains to escape the heat in the summer and simply visited my grandmothers in the winter - first, a week or so outside of Atlanta and then a week in Savannah, sometimes with some Florida time thrown in at the end, but not always. My first travel memories were of us packing up the house in June, sending our things on ahead of us in trunks and flying to the mountains of North Carolina, not to return until school started up again in September. My sister was even born at "camp," which is what we called it, in August. We did that for a number of years and then moved "camp" to the mountains of Vermont where we went until I was in high school. So, back to the point - she's heading south to the Turks & Caicos I believe, to be indolent in the sun and hopefully meet some people outside of her tiny circle of sycophants in Georgia. We can only hope there'll be stories to tell.  And speaking of vacations - we had hoped to head out West this Christmas to either see the in-laws in Oregon or the sister-in-law in California - but it doesn't look like that's going to happen now. Between, the escalating costs of flying this season, the schedules of said relatives and my newly busy (yay!) work schedule around the holidays, we'll probably be hanging the stockings in Minnesota this year. Which is not bad as I love to have it white and fluffy at Christmas (fist shaking at the clouds in dire warning) and now we can plan some holiday parties and get to decorating. We'll probably head out there come late February or March anyway to see the folks when the desperation to see some green is at its worst. We're also leaning on heading to London sometime in the Spring as well to see the other sister-in-law and her kids and catch up with some friends along the way. We've been meaning to get to New York for sometime now to reacquaint ourselves with that fine city and the folks therein. So lookout!Finished Margaret Atwood's Oryx & Crake this past week - not nearly as depressing as everyone made it out to be - I actually enjoyed it and several of the images have stayed with me quite strongly. Now reading The Empress of Ireland about the flaming film director Brian Desmond Hurst, which is turning out to be a lot more substantive than either I or the end-flaps made it out to be.
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