More New Seasonal Signs at Work

Pumpkins! Everywhere!

New Seasonal Signs at Work

All that coloring and those turkey/hand-outline drawings in school really paid off.

Favorite Things in the Neighborhood, Part III

The Red Eye newspaper containers that now say "pee" instead of "free"

Hagia Sophia

I'm making progress on the construction of my giant Hagia Sophia. Here's some proof:

Art on Track

I was in a show called Art On Track. http://www.chicagoartontrack.com/ 8 CTA cars were filled with art work and circled the loop for four hours. It was a lot of fun. My favorite exhibit was the car that was filled with punching bags. It made for some good photos:

New Signs

Our boss, Richie hates all the cutesy animals in the store. So we made this display especially for him:

Favorite Things In the Neighborhood, Part II

This crappy do-it-yourself mailbox

Favorite Things in the Neighborhood

This graffiti reads, "Kill you mother". It's not ""Kill your mother" or "I'll kill you, mother." It seems extra angry this way. It's also in the grocery store bathroom where I work. Obviously someone was shopping with their mom and got really upset over something.



I also love this:

Non Ultra Joy

My parents like to shop at the discount store chain known as Save-A-Lot. There they purchased this Non-Ultra Joy. We’ve never seen Non-Ultra Joy on the shelves before. It’s for people who don’t want the best for their families.

Joey's Birthday II

I'll always cherish this photo of my mom.




Brothers with guns



Brothers with guns and mom!




Brothers shooting zombies, communists, then each other.




Joey's birthday cards. The one from my mom says, "Good for one tattoo!" at the bottom.

Joey's Birthday

We went to Dave and Busters to play video games for Joey's 19th birthday. Roman quickly observed that you could either play games where you shoot stuff or pretend to drive stuff. We grew to love this rather bleak game Eighteen Wheeler- American Pro Trucker.

New England Vacation part 2

Their fire hydrants aren't red.




Wells, Maine. Had a really delicious lobster roll here.




Taking the boat to get groceries and ice cream cones!


In my adorable purple bathing suit. The little girl in the background is the one who drank the entire contents of a hummingbird feeder by siphoning the juice out of its little flower shaped holes. She later told a room full of adults that her 12 year old sister had her period.




Ponies! Pretty ponies!

New England vacation

Somewhere in Massachusetts is this crazy house.




I insisted we stop for the Candy Mansion.





I would have killed for this when I was little.

Things to make

Eric Ripert is a chef at Le Bernardin in New York. He has a blog of himself making lovely little recipes in his toaster oven. In short quicktime videos there are directions on delicious looking things like raspberry clafouti and caramelized mango with rum.



http://aveceric.com

This Looks Pretty Great Too

From a movie called Bombay Talkie:

My favorite Bollywood Song Ever

I have always loved Piya Tu Ab To Aaja. It might be the best 60's Bollywood song ever. These kinds of dance scenes had to stand in for love scenes because censors prohibited any kind of romantic touching in Indian films. I think this dancing is way more suggestive though, suggestive in a manic, playful kind of way.

Pitchfork

I went to the Pitchfork festival and was surprised to see that all the men wore the same kind of shorts- same cut, same length, big pockets, very uniform, with minor variations in color. If they had all been the same height there would have been a continuous line across the park of where the bottom of the short met the leg.

New Signs Part 2

We keep telling Ray that he should bake something if he wants to get people to go to the monthly safety meetings, so one time we just made signs that said he would be bringing his famous butterscotch brownies hoping he'd feel pressured into doing it. Didn't work. This time he requested signs that made no mention of his bringing baked goods.