Crazy found art day

I'm not sure what store gave us our frozen items in a bag with this image, but it's nice to see some great vintage illustration still in use.

Off the back of a watch battery package...that I've carted around for years because I loved this image so much. I should have it put on a shirt at Cafepress.

The return of Trader Vic's!

DavidW at work made my day today. He passed along the news that on Monday, March 6th Trader Vic's is opening a new location in Bellevue! The greater Seattle area hasn't enjoyed the rum-soaked atmosphere of a Trader Vic's since the downtown Seattle location closed in the 1960s. I'm SO excited! Who's up for a scorpion bowl?

Trader Vic's Bellevue website

The Folksmen...from 1984!

As many of you may know, The Folksmen existed well before their appearance in A Mighty Wind. When Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer toured as Spinal Tap they would open the show as the Folksmen (and that had to have been quite a trip). This week a cool site called PCL LinkDump provided a video clip of the Folksmen on SNL...from November 3, 1984! And the wild thing is that a lot of the sketch is exacly what we'd come to know and love nineteen years later in A Mighty Wind! Blood on the Coal, Eat At Joes...even the look of the characters. Wow...I never knew!

UPDATE: It seems that NBC had this pulled. Rat bastards. :P

Too bad I didn't have a copy of the VideoDownloader add-on for Firefox when this was still up. :P

Finish your cocktail like a good boy and you'll get a special surprise inside your glass

During the holidays we went out antiquing with Rich & Shelly and came across these beauties. Unfortunately they weren't in very good condition and the set wasn't complete. Otherwise you'd find these on display at the Drunken Monkey. Fortunately I now have a fancy camera phone to save this kind of stuff for posterity. :)

View the pics (NSFW)

	Ah...the hula girl. One of the classic nudie subjects.
	Before she became a sophisticated Hollywood starlet, a little "art photography" helped to pay the bills.
	Little Indian Princess and founding member of the first all girl Village People cover band.
	Hola senorita..sus pechos son muy bonitos!
	And my favorite, the bride. Kinda reminds me of Veronica (of Betty and Veronica). And is it just me, or is she wearing an eyepatch?

JohnK, welcome to Blogger!

John Kricfalusi, founder of Spumco and creator of some of the craziest animation ever (Ren & Stimpy, The Goddammed George Liquor Program, Ripping Friends) has started a blog! http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

I've seen some of his caricatures before posted on Katie Rice's blog. I can't wait to see what else he adds!

I can't believe I forgot to post about this!

Dave just reminded me about this article on Muppet Central:
http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2006/020106.shtml

The fantastic news is that Jim Henson Company is going to be producing a sequel to The Dark Crystal, called Power of the Dark Crystal. Wait...it gets even better. It's going to be directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and Dexter's Laboratory). I can't wait!

I thought that was all folks...

A cute sketch I did for my goodbye email at MSDN back in June.

I was leaving the stability of being full time to go work for MSN Games as a contractor. Little did I know that just 1 month later, I'd be putting the handcuffs back on. ;)

Dave is insane

Often when I IM with Dave, we end up throwing back and forth whatever weirdness we can come up with...ESPECIALLY if the other person isn't responding. Here's a perfect example from this morning when I was busy talking with someone in my office.

Yaawwwwnnnn says:
I need a np
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
ap
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
nap
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
I won a million dollars
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
I killed a man
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
at dawn
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
with a spoon
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
my brain has two left halves
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
worms are in my socks
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
if I were a shoe I'd be a stilleto
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
the devil got a bad deal
Yaawwwwnnnn says:
puppies make good tacos

Windstorm 2006!

On Saturday morning, I woke up to Angie and Rich making a lot of noise about something. When I got up to see what was the matter, they told me to open the front door. Here's what I saw:

With that sort of carnage on my doorstep, I decided to check out the backyard. And boy did I get a big surprise:

Yes...that's a steel and wooden framed gazebo with a canvas cover on top of the two story house next door.

We found out later talking to our neighbor that it even had bricks around the base. Boy do I wish I could have seen it happen.