4th of July

New Painting- Hotel Fort Shelby

Look Around You

Display Above the Freezer Case

The Vestibule at Work

Kent and I went to town buying stuff to decorate the vestibule.

New work at work

CSA Box

We got the first of our weekly produce share from Scotch Hill Farms. It was a little overwhelming when we first opened it up. This weeks box contains:

• Leaf Lettuce Mix
• Spinach
• Bright Lights Chard (a cousin of spinach, great in all the same types of dishes or a salad)
• Haukuri turnips ( you can eat greens, too; they have wonderful cancer-fighting properties)
• Spring onions
• Radishes
• Chives
• Oregano

It must be fresh because I found a live slug in the lettuce. I highly recommend it.


Big salads and some fancy mashed potatoes for dinner.

New Signs for Work

This is Kent's work. This scene with the cat here is unusually detailed.



That beer is awfully close to that baby kangaroo. Is that sending the wrong message?



Two puns in one sign. Wow!



This sign is two-sided, so I drew the lady at the top twice. I think I made her look at least ten years older the second time:


Another pun. Everybody loves puns.


Usually Kent and I stick to making cute cartoon animals. This lady is the sexiest cartoon drawing we've ever done, although I suggested the conservative 1950's style bathing suit (she originally had a two piece). Still, she is depicted mid-bounce on a pogo-stick, implying a certain amount of jiggly excitement.

New Painting

This is a housing complex in Park Ridge, IL at Halloween. Everyone living there had a satellite dish. All the round shapes seemed packed in there and overwhelming.

Billy Squier

So here is Billy Squier. His song, The Big Beat (1980), has been sampled by Run DMC and is generally pretty catchy:



In just a few short years he released "Rock Me Tonite". According to Wikipedia, it was Squier's biggest pop hit. However, the video, which shows Squier dancing around a bedroom in a pink tank top, frequently appears on "worst music video ever" lists:



Now you know.

Songs I Keep Thinking About

R. Stevie Moore








plus some of Elvis Costello's purposeless agitation







equals Ariel Pink

Rod Stewart is and always was gross

Ewwwww!!!!

I won a CAAP grant!!!

Yay!!! I'm going to use the money to buy super toxic handmade paints from a guy in Brooklyn who grinds them by hand. They are made with real lead and real cadmium and real carcinogens! I'll be extra sure to not ingest any of them.

Why would one want to use such deadly paints? Read this book:

The Art of Arts By Anita Albus

Jonathan Meese

Is this a joke or is this some post-irony seriousness? I don't actually know:

Look Who's In the Hagia Sophia

Why it's gal-about-town Lindsey Delahanty!

Two more new signs

New Signs

Installation!!

Just installed my project The Hagia Sophia at the Women Made Gallery.




Thanks for your help, dad!


The show is March 6th, 6 to 9pm (685 N MILWAUKEE AVE.)

The New York Times article skimmer

This is really useful:



http://prototype.nytimes.com/gst/articleSkimmer/

Dancing News Anchors

WGN-TV weekend anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange do a little dance number each Saturday and Sunday night during their telecast's first commercial break. Word is that it started out as a short 10-second dance, but now they have choreographed it into the full 2:40 of the break.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/headcandy/2008/12/who-says-tv-anc.html

Hagia Sophia Party!

The Hagia Sophia project took about a year to complete at a cost of about $2500, but it is finally done. My dad was so proud that he threw a party for me with every relative, neighbor, family friend, and old musician buddy he could think of. I wish I had taken more pictures, but here are some.

The outside of the Hagia Sophia.


The inside.



Tyler and Joey accidentally wore the same thing. How embarrassing.



The oldsters played music in the basement...


while the youngsters smoked cigarettes in the garage.




There was a giant cake...


...and I tried posing with it to show just how large it was....

...but I think I only succeeded in making my head look huge.


It was the best party ever (thanks Dad!) There was even a Dobro player!