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To my joy another morning turd was welcomed with rain and muggy skies.

I am so out of shape that a few days ago I did 20 push ups and am still sore from shoulder to ribs. Not to mention that by #17 my arms were so shaky I almost dropped myself on my face. The next morning I tried to do 10 and made it 7 with out crying.

Last night while I was at Souplantation I watched a huge lady (she was massive, like a blimp) who noticed I was headed to the strawberry lemonade so she hurried up to get there before me. I watched her fill her cup all the way to the top (like right at the rim). She then took a sip and moved it down a centimeter if lucky and she then filled it back to the rim of the cup. I remain convinced she could’ve done without that sip.

Nothing cracks me up like Dracula ordering two Bloody Mary’s.

My Dad died four months ago yesterday. He visits me in my dreams, with cryptic Lynch like advice. This event has left me sort of empty and thrown me back into the old “bad dreams about Christy” phase.  If it’s not confused and tear ridden then it’s rage and hateful.

Got the white version of Usugrow’s Rebel Ink figure by Secret Base. It’s super mashin’, the sculpt is pretty killer as is the gnarly silk screened back tat (A multi armed skull headed rendition of Virgin Mary that would make any Hispanic lady shake a little).

A film by Ken Burns is totally depressing. It’s horrible all the feeling and emotions and thoughts going thru my head. Seeing what was a necessary war being turned into the blueprint for this current administrations war plan is quite appalling. For some reason Pearl harbor = 9/11 and Japan = Iraq. It is quite a stretch no? I watched only 3 of the 7 films and was lucky enough to catch the last one.

I became even more sad to think that maybe when our troops come home in the near future nobody will give a shit (people will care, but it ain’t gone be like at the end of the movie, that’s for sure.). I don’t blindly support anything but I feel like a handshake and a thank you is always deserved if you’re in foreign countries doing service. I know our current war is not just but, the soldiers are still human and no human should be faced with such atrocities (especially for an unjust cause). I fight the good fight but it’s stuff like this that makes it tough, how am I supposed to think anything good when humans are capable of such crazyness.

Also Conor you’re a funny guy, we talked all day yesterday and not once did you mention Gran Pappy’s 103rd B-day! My boys grandpa is 103 yesterday folks! REAL TALK.

It didn’t rain at all. It stayed nice and cool though. I had some bomb red curry with beef for lunch! Aaaaaanyways, have a good, safe Friday… whoever you may be, wherever you may be. All 8 of you.

I love rain, I love when it rains, I love being indoors when it rains. The rain makes me want to make music. Usually rain requires an action like washing the car or doing a weird dance outside in the nude. It actually looks pretty ugly out there but I have yet to see an actual drop of rain. Everything is wet outside though.

Last weekend we had some teaser rain and it was enough to get me started on some art projects. I did a tutorial posted by the great Mark Jenkins* (I have no idea why I am on such a mission to call this guy Mark Jensen) and made a tape sculpture of a baby. I am in the process of painting him some gut inserts ala Gargamel Smoking Corps. He should be cool. This is an amazingly tweeked out technique, and is sure to be fun for just about everyone.

Yarrrr matey? I want Arrrrrby’s? Just watch out, okay.

So I was looking around and I’m happy to see that 80% of my visitors are using Firefox to browse. Only 12% of visitors are using Explorer (60% of them using Ie7)…which I think goes to show I have only a few people visiting, most of whom appreciate a good browser. About two months ago I was reading an article and I believe the numbers were reversed…maybe it was old I think it may have been from when Ie7 first came out.

Also if you are using Ie7, I have no clue why the lightbox feature does not work (it actually works on Ie6?). You can see it wanting to work but it just wont. I recommend switching browsers…

How depressing is this place???? I’m fixin’ to sprinkle some magic blog juice all over this piece in a lil bit!!!

…Vince you’re a douche bag but I appreciate your email.

It’s been three months since he passed on to the next part of life. Three months of sadness, grieving, and longing for something that quite simply is no longer. I miss my Dad’s voice, I miss his humor, I miss walking into my Mom’s house and seeing him sprawled out on the floor in front of his TV, and most of all I just miss his presence. I hope it’s been better for you Dad because it is really hard without you.

This here brush…I tell you. I used it for like the last three years to coat all my work in high gloss medium. It was one of those crappy brushes from a six dollar set of brushes. I used it to mix paint too. This brush was a beater. It lived a life much greater than it’s intended purpose. It’s bristles were all fused with medium, like a glossy wad of prickly hair. I used to get bored and peel the medium off of the individual bristles. I threw it away…I hate throwing stuff away. Maybe a homeless guy will dig it out of my dumpster and paint something sweet.

For all those who are no longer. America’s gone get them oil interests secured! I will think positive thoughts for all those grieving today, as I will need some in a few days when it’s my turn to grieve.

this weekend was kind of cool. I had a bomb cheese steak, painted a little, and had dinner on Sunday at my mom’s house. Also after removing every single curse word from my site…I now have Google Adsense ads running! I have a mouth like a sailor so I will have to edit like mad.