fun activity

Here's a fun activity you may want to try. i color coded my 3rd grade class picture. green for my friends, red for my enemies and pink for the girls i thought were dynamite. click on the picture to look at it big.

items of note: David im-r looks like the devil in his little brown vest doesn't he? he had me in a headlock and told me he was going to cut my dick off and bury it in the gravel. just a horrible kid. i got along with him only one time when he asked me if i wanted to throw dirt clods (from the rototiller) at some kids sitting on the soccer field. i said "sure!"

i was obsessed with darcy ell-s. she had her birthday party at casa bonita. i hated the goody-goody-sunday-morning-shirt my mom made me wear so i cried in her mom's van on the way there. no big deal. darcy liked me but she liked phillip j-hnson a little more and my mom was not helping by putting me in obnoxiously colored rugby shirts.

charles s-ms taught me a funny little racist rhyme. i thought it was darling little limerick so i adopted it into my repetiour. my parents heard me recite my little gem and had a long talk with me about racism. the main bullet point being that if a black person heard me saying that word they would beat me up. charles also was fond of playing a confusing game with vague rules called "guns". as in ," hey, do you want to play guns." "uh... ok. what's 'guns'?"

i could go on and on

the big apple

i love living near the big apple. it never disappoints. emily and i had a pterrific ptime with these ptwo pterodactyls. they know how to show a good time.
this band in the subway was top notch. the drummer was a better drummer than me, the trumpeter played trumpet better than me and the guitar player played better than me. it looked like they were making a lot of money too.
as the subway approached a woman said, "the special train!" which was a restored 1930's subway train complete with woven seats, brass hardware and fixtures, bare light bulbs, ceiling fans, period maps and advertisements etc. somebody say, "hell yeah!" we had fun.
the natural history museum has many dinosaur bones. i love 'um. i love the prehistoric mammals even more. they have a elephant relative with two giant teeth like a shovel. can you imagine?
the girls like dinosaurs too- lucky us (matt and i).

this fellow was mummified meaning he had fossilized skin and soft tissue on his bones. wow.

love this turtle. he's real big.
one of my all time favorite murals is at the museum. it's all over the place, it's gorgeous and thrilling but this is the best photo i got of it. it was too hard to get a good shot! i'd like to see you do better! oh,every one's a critic.

my favorite part of the animal dioramas are the oil paintings behind the animals. they are just incredible in my opinion. let's see picasso paint that! oh i know what you're going to say, "actually picasso was as good a draftsman and figurative painter as anyone!" oh please, what art history teacher told you that? what textbook have you been reading? don't worry, i'm not going to call your teacher, i just want to know! can'tcha tell me?


emily's reminded of little regis. she really missed that little nightmare.
I was excited to go to the big apple to see the christmas window displays(one of my many dream jobs). they did not disappoint.

this one had three dynamite 1940's harley's. you know, like the one santa rides (according to the painting in the display.
i was fascinated by this cool plywood bicycle. maybe i could make one like that someday.
we were freezing. but we still had fun.

a post card (the back part)

i'm in the big apple. it's really fun. i'll post photos of the big apple's bikes, signs sights and so forth when i get home.

celebrity news

A friend from savannah interviewed me for her blog. read it here.

back on bikes

i'm not obsessed with european sports car anymore. flush ferraris down the toilet please.looks likes my poor brain will probably be spinning out of control with bikes for a while. someone at work wanted to know if i wanted a free bike. i went and looked at it and it had lugs and stuff so i said i wanted it. it looked like it would be good for emily so now I'm back to bikes. it looked pretty much like this when i got it. only rustier.i want it to look like this bilenky.
or this beautiful mariposa.
so far it looks like this. i still need fenders lights and racks.
there's a bike co-op by my house called bike church in the basement of a church. it rules. it is so fun. you fix up your bike and there's volunteer bike mechanics walking around to help you. you like, buy parts for $3.00 and stuff. i've never paid $3.00 for ferrari parts which is why i'm devoted to bikes now. horray!

Smuggiest smugster in the smug universe

america, you voted. you sent your message loud and clear. you thought paul mccartney was the most smug and self satisfied rocker ever. you were right! but, i know some things that would wipe that smug grin off his face. some secrets that he doesn't want anyone to know. here goes. not only did he manage a chili's in liverpool, before the beatles formed, but...he...begged...for his job back after the beatles broke up. so sad.

hang in there

readers, i respect you and i know you want results. but please remember that you get what you pay for and this blog is a free. a free service. to hold you over, please enjoy this car and let your imagination run wild.like, is there a version with two seats? could emily and i both drive to conchy, my car half break off at guitar center while emily keeps driving to joannes? probably.

ugliest ferrari part 3

sorry about my last post. i'm trying to get my pictures back up and working. i tried to get that verizon team from the commercials to fix it but they only do phones. looks like it's up to me.

in the mean time, here is another ferrari with other attributes besides good looks. again, it's real. i promise it's not a australian ford with ferrari badges.

signs around philly

ive been carrying my camera around and i took pictures of signs i thought were cool.

somebody did a beautiful lettering job on this store front a long time ago.

they were going to tear this masterpiece down. don't worry. they're not now. they're building condos and keeping the facade. ok good enough.
here is a brand new sign that i find thrilling. the guy who made it lives just around the corner from us (i'm told). i wanna go hang around his shop and stare at him while he works but i need someone to introduce me.
another newish sign. its gorgeous don't you think? i should have gotten a picture of the terrific lowrider bikes inside.
this bar has a beautiful and stylish facade. if you go up close it's just boards cut and painted. very clever!
i love this sign . i was hoping it was painted but the way it's peeling you can tell it's vinyl. oh well. it's cool anyway.
neat, the way this tree grew around this old fence . i was like, "cool."
speaking of cool. somebody did a terrific job sooping up this fairly dorky car. look at the way the roll bar ends in bullet lights.

new obsession.

i have a new obsession. it's not cars anymore. it's paint jobs! here's my favorite. you know that model twiggy? fashion icon of the 60's that now on a terrific show called america's next top model? she custom ordered this lamborghini miura from the factory in 1970. this is about the best thing ive ever seen.

ugliest ferrari part 2

in my searches i stumbled onto this! it's a dayton like sonny and tubbs and it's a wagon! yaaaaay! it's real too.

center city fun.

emily's sisters are in town for the weekend. we went around the city shopping with them. i don't mind shopping in center city. anthropolgie pretty much rules even though it's a girls store. macy's really rules. it's better than somewhere like tj maxx. lets take a side by side comparison.

How many pipe organs in your store:

Macy's 1 Tj maxx 0

How many eagle statues?

Macy's 1 TJ Maxx 0
look at it's cool articulated feathers


How many really real mosaics .

Macy's 6 Tj maxx 0
ok, let me take minute to tally up the scores.......macy's 8, tj maxx 0. macy's wins!


also check out the cool signs around center city philadelphia.

i love this old lettering on this old brick building.


this is a cool plexiglass sign in the market where emily works.
this place is long closed but i like it's old sign.