BANANAS

erni, the box with writing on it, can you translate? I love that box.

The die is cast...Julius Caesar (I think). The Banana Slugs are excellent huge slugs which reside in the redwood forests of Northern CA. UMLAUT was the name my son Ian chose for his company in Austin TX-he had hats, guitar picks, etc. manufactured with UMLAUT symbol. I've worn out several of the hats...

That's a way better answer than anyone could possibly hope for; I love your son's company name and hat.

ERNI! GREAT HAT! I'LL HAVE TO PASS IT ALONG TO MY SON. YOU ARE RIGHT-PEOPLE ASK: "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?" BY THE WAY YOU DEFINITELY WIN! GOTTA PEEL OUT! LATER, MIKE

It is exotic in the U.S., Erni. As a copyeditor I *loved* manuscripts that required me to mark umlauts. American punctuation and lack of accents can be pretty boring.

Carina, there are lots of umlaute on bananas, and I think it's time that you started to make a Finnish-keyboard-Banana contribution to this debate...starting with that little circle thing above the first 'a' in your street name. We all need to know what it has to do with bananas.....

val

ERNI: YEP! NJP AND CRT ARE TOPS IN MY BOOK! SEEMS LIKE BANANAS ARE RELEVANT TO EVERY CORNER OF HUMAN THOUGHT...

There are umlauts on those bananas right now. Val was right.

ERNI: CATHODE RAY TUBE USED IN OLDER TELEVISIONS AND COMPUTER MONITORS...

Erni, your whole house looks like your packages--very happy, colorful, no gaps--ratna, if I understand the term. 

Now I spot a flying banana on the tv.

The colorfulness is very appealing, Erni, no doubt it comes from an enormously colorful mind, and the Tibetan inspiration is clear. Why else would Ruud start your own fan club--all that colorfulness needs its own place to be seen and heard.

I know why you added the banana--which is why the word appears in this sentence only 11 words ago. 

Happy Easter :-) Banana People!

Mail Art Monday sees an Anna Banana in my mail box! Wow!

Spray-color envelope, numbered and signed...

and the paper that protects the table is then cut into A4 mail art, too!

A special treat indeed!

ADD TO AND PASS ON POSTER WITH BANANAS:

Thank you for that Jill, this was amazing, but I must warn the others. This video was recorded at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, and the grapic part of the song is; "get down on all fours and we'll make Banana Love."

   Very French indeed, and explains Jill's last name!

Just kidding of course, thank you for this Jill.  It was very funny and do they have talent.

Note to all about Banana practices in France. Only in Paris (proper, where Dean lives, not the suburbs) is Banana Love practiced at the present time. In the Deep South  (where Val lives)of France the asparagus season has just begun.

Val, on behalf of the New ABAB -- Anna Banana Asparagus Band

WOW Welcome Louise & Jill.  Good to have you in the Banana Band.  Louise & Val can play guitar, but can anyone tune a Banana?

Great video Lousie, but where is the 3D version?  I am told that in the new Titanic 3D version, the ship doesn't sink and arrives in New York on time and everyone lives happily ever after.  Movie goers are asking for their money back.

IF from Amy Irwen, not only was the envelope great ...

... inside there was a little gem:http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/code-from-amy-irwen-of-minnesot...

WHO CAN FORGET BANANARAMA?

The Red Bag arrived here today via Vizma via Katerina, and is deeply infatuated with our bananas. It plans to sleep with them tonight, even though the bananas have several umlauts: 

OH Erni, did you do the Gepa piece?  I also found these dried bananas and was working on something.  I like your idea better.

Three bananas lookin' at ya, Erni!

they all have mustaches and don't look too happy!

my banana friends might not like seeing their relatives all dried up? ;-)

Could be Nirvana for banana!

They seem to be enjoying a good swim!

The 67% Banana piece is whopping great. And makes me laugh.

I'll join in the Banana Day Bananza. Val

I'll join, too, in the Banana Day bonanza..and this guy too?

(Look, he has a cap like Valentine!)

Yes, and whatever is left of him.  That one took a good beating.  My guess is someone in the Greek post office doesn't have a sense of humor!

It's in your messages, Angie (I think). Dean googled it or something and the day exists. For people who just plain and simple love bananas. I do love them but sometimes wish they were magenta.

Welcome Babs to the Banana Band.  Happy to see that you will peel right in fine.

   For the rest of you to know, Babs is well known in South Dartmouth.  So much as she doesn't need a complete address.  Just Babs & South Dartmouth, MA 02748, and it will get there.  (Actually she has banana connetion at the post office.)

Hope to see you in the mail soon Babs.

So you ask; What does the Khmer New Years 2012 have to do with Bananas?

     Well while out for a walk we ran into a  Khmer New Years celebration.  It's always amazing  the things we stumble on in Paris.  And to tell you the truth, I didn't even know that the Khmer had there own New Years.  But hey, a celebration is a celebration, so we joined in.  That's me the one in orange.

This is a temple left over from the Paris Colonial Exhibition of 1931

AH here comes the Banana part.   My lunch on a park bench, fit for a Khmer King!  They were sell these strange fried bananas ... of course I had to have one.

Boy does this look good?   We had to eat it as it is part of the culture.  Actually it was quite good.

Dean, I thought for a moment that you had sold out and become an Orange!

That was worrying, until I scrolled down a bit and then saw that you had become battered and fried.

I always assocaited Rouge with Khmer, but perhaps the orange ones are their cousins.

Today's boring musical fact: no musical lyrics writer (so I once read somewhere) has ever managed to find a word that rhmes succesfully with orange. Now there's a challenge for all you fruit cakes...

Val

poster from one of Woody Allen's earliest films, well the title tells it all!
:-) it's very funny, bit crazy. it was not altogether successful, though. anyways i like Woody's films a lot.

Thank you for that Ptrzia.  Oh I remember I was a young student in Paris when that one came out.  Actually I'll have to see if they have the DVD at the local library. (Yes, it seems that books are just a small part of the city library.  Now they have CD's, DVD's and blow up .... Bananas.

That thing you ate on the street, Dean, looks like a dead radioactive rat. Be careful.

Don't worry Nancy, It had been blessed by Shakyamuni himself.  Well that's what the man in the stall said.

But I do worry. You are wonderfully innocent, and apparently very easily taken in by taxi drivers, street vendors, and who knows what else. DKult needs to appoint a bodyguard for you.

Or a chaperone.

Thank you Nancy

Good yoke Erni

OH yes OH yes, and here is a Banana Mail Art Piece from Jill French.  And a great envelope.  Thank you.

A study of the effects of Monkeys eating Bananas.  If I rememeber correctly, this was also the theme of my masters.

Oh yes, and it doesn't stop there.  One from Mail Art Martha in Retailia.  Thank you

Banana Fashion is hot in Retailia.  And speaking of hot, I can't wait to shot a video this summer with Mail Art Martha and her Mail Art Trolley.  Did anyone see my new video of the Zombie Kats?  The trolley will have better FX.

oh I am looking forwads so very much to  have Kitty here but what has Dean Tarantino Marks in store for the shopping trolley? Er, i just noticed the pun, not intentional, sorry!

JUST MADE AN ARTISTAMP OUT OF A PHOTO OF MY BANANA DOMINO PLATE SCULPTURE: