Archive for November, 2006

Live Long and Shocker
Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Blue Jean Hats by SNSO
Monday, November 27th, 2006

A week ago my buddy Kiya had a grand opening party for his new store Self Edge. Self Edge is a high end denim store, the name is derived from the term selvage.
I had been feeling like I had been lagging behind in crafts, so I decided to challenge myself to a new project for [...]

Storming the newsroom
Friday, November 24th, 2006

I’m watching the “breaking story” regarding the cartoonist that stormed the Miami El Nuevo Herald with a gun and just noticing how the 24 hour cable tv news handles it. When the news is unknown, the stations obviously try their hardest to fill the gaps by making up their own news. On CNN a [...]

Traditional faire
Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

The best Thanksgiving dinner that I ever had was in a Ryan’s Steak House in Chatanooga, TN. Ryan’s is a buffet chain, like Bonanza and Western Sizzler. Lots of buffet tables, jello salads, cheap pasta dishes, and a guy at the end of the buffet with a big knife asking “Turkey or steak?”.
I wen’t [...]

Putting the "sick" back into "music"
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

My studio session wen’t really swell today. I posted a new song called Sicko on DrownRadio.com.
Read more info about Sicko here

Dana blogged me
Monday, November 20th, 2006

Neat, a few months ago I wrote about the Dana Countryman and Jean Jacques Perrey show in SF. Well, Dana has just posted a pic of me from the LA show and a link to DrownRadio.com
That’s just too nifty.

Picking Your Battles
Thursday, November 16th, 2006

This morning started with a trip to Ritual Roasters, mainly to work on beats on my laptop.
Hood’s “The Lost You” was blasting, and I was in a great mood when the cashier asked what I’d like.
“A large latte and a bagel with cream cheese.” I said.
“Which type of bagel?”
“Just a regular one”.
He grabbed the tongs [...]

A day without a pirate…
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

I spent most of the day at 826 Valencia yesterday, having a good time and getting stuff done. In the morning I illustrated a children’s story involving rocketships, martians, and a 100 foot giant super computer with spikes named Gina. (Yes I did remember to take my name tag off.)

I came back to 826 later [...]

Fat Tie Hats by SNSO
Monday, November 13th, 2006

I’m sure a lot of ya’ll remember the blogs I wrote many months ago about John and Fony Hats. John’s work really got me into hats (go figure, a middle aged balding guy getting into men’s head wear…), but shortly after John and I first met he had to leave town for a while. Many [...]

Big Baller…
Saturday, November 11th, 2006

My buddy Mike just gave me a great gift after this week’s Cartoonists Conspiracy.
It’s a 12 pound ball of ties. I haven’t tried to guess exactly how many ties could be in it, but it seems to be a solid ball of ties (not just ties wrapped around a basketball… Or a bowling ball or [...]