Rococo Nightmare Part Deux

My mom got me a cover for my old crappy couch, and though the new cover is hideous, it is much much better than looking at the stained, pastel, home-for-dust-mites couch that came with my apartment.

See the original Rococo Nightmare Here

Music I've Deleted Forever From My Itunes

Note: a lot of this music was given to me, I didn't pick it out myself.

Bright Eyes
Eric Clapton
Grateful Dead
All Christmas music
Devendra Banhart
BoDeans
Sarah McLachlan
Counting Crows
Bob Marley
Joanna Newsom
!!!
Steve Miller Band
Burial
Randy Newman
Lupe Fiasco
Paul McCartney

New at Work

When the holidays are over, one of those cakes on the cake plate is going to be hung up in my kitchen.



Where have the cookies moved to? They've moved to COOKIE TOWN!





This chalk board is informative and also educational.





Our manager hated this sign so much he tore it down and threw it in the trash. It doesn't make sense unless you've seen our Easter ham sign:

Downtown when Obama won

Omega Man

Our boss said he liked the sign but that we couldn't have any guns in it, so we changed it to this:



Which I think is better anyway.

New Signs at Work

I wish I could take credit for this one, but it was all Kent's doing. The golden girls are saying, "Unlike us, these crackers are suitable for entertaining."





This one is my work. Apparently, we both really like making fun of old people.

Hagia Sophia Progress

I'm making progress! Every step forward on this project is accompanied by at least 8 new problems, but look I'm really doing it! Next week I'm going to paint it and put the dome on top. Hopefully it will look just like this:

A painting of mine was in a show.

" Oh hi! You caught me telling a hilarious story at the 11th annual Chicago Art Open."





Standing by my painting. "I hope I don't run into anyone I went to school with."

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.