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GIVE HIM FLOWERS FOR HIS HAIR!

2011-04-24T11:36:00.006-04:00

This is an amazingly high-quality clip of very early Dead or Alive, a rare performance of the song "Flowers" when they were in more of a post-punk phase. Pete Burns' vocals in this song put me in the mind of other classic artists and music-poets and experimental rock-n-roll bands, such as Jim Morrison and the Doors; Nico and the Velvet Underground; and Siouxsie & the Banshees. Enjoy... Pete Burns and Dead or Alive!

Siekiera - Szewc zabija szewca

2011-03-29T22:32:00.000-04:00

Gender Benders

2010-12-21T05:26:00.005-05:00

I'm up at 5:30 a.m. listening to Pete Burns' latest release, "Never Marry an Icon" the single. So much auto-tuner he sounds like a robot, but you can still hear that rough and scary Pete Burns in there underneath it all. Burns has been the subject of a few plastic surgery disaster videos on cable and the Internet.

What is up with British men becoming these androgynous alien-like things? Boy George is a less extreme example, but then you have characters like Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

The front man from Psychic TV and former "head" of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Genesis started transforming himself into a more female form around 1999, while living in New York City. I was also living in New York at the time and had the opportunity to meet Mr. P-Orridge at Tower Records. I'll have to upload the video sometime, when I have more time.

This is just a little before-work rambling. I haven't been to work since Friday. I had to take a 3-day weekend since Christmas falls on a Saturday.

Nightmares in Wax

2010-12-02T19:37:00.003-05:00

I hate that image! It's been giving me nightmares ever since I first saw it last week... and I'm still not sure if I love or hate the music that goes with the image, the Birth of a Nation EP. It's a band from 1979 called Nightmares in Wax. You might know them as Dead or Alive, who released their first album Sophisticated Boom Boom in 1984. This 3-track EP is definitely a precursor to the 1st LP. Many are probably more familiar with their second LP Youthquake, which featured the hit single "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" -- which is hard to imagine if you listen closely to the first EP. It's punk disco. Totally inappropriate and antisocial. It really has been giving me nightmares. I'm going to just forget it and move onto something more upbeat and positive.

photography.

2010-09-12T21:47:00.006-04:00

Pacers' lobby, in Lakewood.

Pretty Pictures

2010-09-03T13:54:00.003-04:00

The staircase at work...

Not the staircase at work...

Ann Magnuson's "Pretty Songs & Ugly Stories" CD

2010-08-21T19:54:00.004-04:00

Just giving this album its first listening-to and I must say, it's funny as hell and it's very well done, musically and vocally perfect. Lyrically insane! Prayin' for that miracle, like Jesus used to preach, but He can't hear the crying, 'cause God is fast asleep...

The "Diamanda Galas" EP (1984)

2010-08-19T19:43:00.003-04:00

This has always been one of my favorite records... of all time! Diamanda Galás is a vocal freak of nature and a classically trained opera singer. This album is like sending Marie Callas through William S. Burroughs' typewriter.

Big Fire on the West Side of Cleveland

2010-08-18T21:52:00.002-04:00

I ♥ SUMMER!

2010-07-24T17:58:00.002-04:00

I love a good book...

2010-07-19T20:15:00.001-04:00

They Is Us by Tama Janowitz

I have read everything Tama Janowitz has written and this is the strangest by far. I love it!

View all my reviews >>

Larry Anderson...

2010-07-01T21:02:00.001-04:00

Laurie Anderson and Fenway Bergamot

Laurie Anderson: Homeland

2010-06-23T21:11:00.006-04:00

Finally after all these years a brand new Laurie Anderson album! I've seen Laurie perform most of these pieces on the three tours that make up this album: Homeland, The End of the Moon, and Delusion. The first song reminded me of "Hey Ah" from United States Live. Tribal and foreign. But now I'm up to "Only an Expert" from Homeland. Laurie Anderson is the expert of performance art in the United States. Anderson has gotten very political, more so than usual, and she is very confrontational now. Amazing!

Rasputina - Bad Moon on the Rise

2010-04-22T19:08:00.003-04:00

I shot this video a few years ago at Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio. I was with my good friends Jennifer Charlton, Jeremy Black, and Brandon Davis. Hey, if anyone has see or heard from Jeremy or Brandon, let me know. It's been years...

Video

2010-03-25T22:52:00.001-04:00

Robert Anton Wilson and Genesis P. Orridge interviewed by Richard Metzger...

Best Short Film Ever

2010-02-18T15:48:00.000-05:00

Blood Tea and Red String

2009-12-15T11:06:00.003-05:00

Well, it has been months since I posted anything, thanks to my obsession with Facebook. Thanks to Dan Hearn for the link to this insane little movie!

Two Dead Boys

2009-08-05T17:52:00.001-04:00

One fine day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,

One was blind and the other couldn't see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"

A paralysed donkey passing by,
Kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,

A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came to arrest the two dead boys,
If you don't believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!

Wow!

2009-07-31T17:07:00.001-04:00

Last night in New York City. Wish I could have been there!

Surrealism at its finest...

2009-07-30T19:00:00.000-04:00

God, that's awful...

2009-07-22T22:37:00.000-04:00

I love a good ambigram

2009-07-22T14:31:00.003-04:00

Honesty and Art

2009-07-16T22:26:00.001-04:00

Goodbye 70's and 80's and 90's...

2009-06-28T00:23:00.002-04:00

Dontcha Put It In Your Mouth!

2009-06-16T11:20:00.000-04:00

Sasquatch Water Prank

2009-06-12T15:46:00.000-04:00

Literal Eclipse of the Heart

2009-06-06T16:54:00.003-04:00

Hisss - A Jennifer Lynch Film

2009-05-16T17:35:00.001-04:00

I'm Just Posting This Because "It" Told Me To

2009-05-01T20:03:00.003-04:00

The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing by Francis Flaherty

My review

I can't post a review here because I wrote a review of this book for Library Journal.

Out June 26.

View all my reviews.

Hush... Hush Sweet Charlotte

2009-04-28T23:26:00.001-04:00

Auto Tuning

2009-04-24T13:26:00.001-04:00

Auto Tuning from Casey Donahue on Vimeo.

Hausu (1977)

2009-04-20T11:03:00.001-04:00

Bat for Lashes - Two Suns - Nico

2009-04-15T17:45:00.007-04:00

Two Suns by Bat for Lashes, album art

Two Suns by Bat for Lashes -- Natasha Khan's second album -- just arrived via snail mail from Amazon. I still prefer a CD for really good music. Dowloading songs to my iPhone is OK in an emergency, but if I know something really good is coming out, I'll pre-order it online. That and some new iPhone headphones. This album is very good and it's going to sound amazing through my new headphones on the bus tomorrow morning. The headphones are called Tune Buds, made by Griffin.

So far this album is not blowing my mind the way her first -- Fur and Gold -- did but that's because I first got into the single "What's a Girl to Do?" With this new album at about 1 minutes 20 seconds I thought it was going to blow my mind, but then it started to sound a little off. I still proclaim Natasha Khan -- more than just the singer, she is the band -- to be a reincarnated Nico. We must not forget that as off as Nico was, she was brilliant.

Nico (16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988)

My Favorite Commercial: Minced?!

2009-04-11T23:42:00.000-04:00

The Devil and Santa

2009-04-04T18:31:00.002-04:00

I stole this photograph from Glitter Girl's facebook. I love it!!

I stole this image from Glitter Girl's facebook. I love it!

Chicago, "The Yaz Trip"

2009-04-03T11:03:00.004-04:00

I can't believe it's been almost a year since Alicia and I took our trip to Chicago to see Yaz in concert. We also did lots of riding around on boats, taking pictures, eating and drinking :) Here's a slideshow of our adventure. All the pictures were taken on my iPhone.

Surveillance by Jennifer Lynch

2009-03-28T19:28:00.004-04:00

This was a great film. I saw it last night at the Cleveland International Film Festival at midnight. I'm going to another midnight-movie tonight!

Twouble with Twitters

2009-03-26T16:05:00.001-04:00

bliss through meditation

2009-03-25T19:07:00.002-04:00

dlf.tv (David Lynch Foundation Television) is now live beta!

David Lynch Foundation Television Trailer (DLF.TV) from DLFTV on Vimeo.

Everything is Terrible

2009-03-19T21:06:00.003-04:00

My new favorite website... (click it!)

Oh, Brother!

2009-02-19T14:53:00.000-05:00

William S. Burroughs, "The Cat Inside"

2009-02-12T18:44:00.000-05:00

A Success Story

2009-01-31T03:32:00.004-05:00

A success story is what I have here... I just happened to remember the full name of an old penpal of mine from 20 years ago. I met Carol Ann Drybrough through Star Hits and/or Smash Hits magazine in the early 80s. So I looked her up on Facebook and there she was! She's always had a knack for letting me know what I should be listening to. She suggested the Poppy Family and I had to download it from iTunes. What an amazing album, "A Good Thing Lost (1968-1973)." Every song on this album of twenty-one tracks has something to offer up as brilliance. So, I've had a few drinks and it's 3:36 a.m. and I'm really giving this album a good listen to! Amazing.

Enjoy Some OMG Cards

2009-01-24T14:55:00.006-05:00

I am ripping these off of my friend Allan's Facebook page...
I found them to be funny and crude।

The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows

2009-01-19T11:48:00.002-05:00

Ah, the late 60's, what an eerie time...I found an old penpal of mine from 20 years ago, on Facebook, and she suggested The Poppy Family. Very interesting.

Rat, Cat, Mouse

2009-01-09T16:02:00.001-05:00

Diamanda Galás on Jon Stewart Show

2009-01-08T19:30:00.000-05:00

Are You There God? It's Me Gertie

2008-12-24T19:41:00.000-05:00

Winter Music - Fox in the Snow

2008-12-21T19:22:00.001-05:00

Björk - It's Oh So Quiet

2008-12-16T22:21:00.001-05:00

Copy Cat

2008-12-09T21:30:00.002-05:00

Rats Take Over Taco Bell in NYC

2008-12-04T22:25:00.000-05:00

Declare Independence!

2008-12-03T20:28:00.000-05:00

Wendy & Lisa & Grace Jones

2008-11-20T17:53:00.005-05:00

I just realized that Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, ex-members of Prince's band the Revolution, wrote "William's Blood," the next single off of Grace Jones' new album Hurricane. Wendy and Lisa also do the music for the hit NBC series Heroes.

Opening the CD book expecting lyrics, but instead there is a series of disturbing photographs of Grace Jones working by a conveyer belt, packing heads into boxes for example:

Chicago, France

2008-11-16T11:23:00.004-05:00

I'm just looking through old photos of trips I've taken and I'm pondering the similarities between Chicago and Paris. Below is a photo of Paris, followed by a photo of Chicago:

Eat Lard, Get Tapeworms, Stay Happy

2008-11-12T09:19:00.004-05:00

Hurricane

2008-11-06T19:35:00.003-05:00

I've been graciously granted the pleasure of listening to Grace Jones' new album. Very nice! Currently still on track number one, "This is Life," I've got 9 more songs to journey through and I will take you with me. Reggae, but with a twisted 21st century warp. Nearly glitch as far as the music goes, but Grace's voice is better than ever, at 64 years old I think I read. Now I'm hearing a sort of pop tune, "Williams Blood" and I'm liking what I hear. It's nice just to hear this through an open-air stereo system, not tethered to an iPod. I'm having a cocktail too, btw.

Let them knock. I think someone just knocked on the ceiling. Let 'em knock! "I'm waiting for the angels, spreading my wings, so I can fly," that's it. "Just let me go." It's gospel. Is this the Grace Jones thing? Every track a different genre? Reggae now Gospel, what's next? "I never change," she sings.

"William's Blood" this is still track two, this is going to be a long night. This is the single I ordered along with the album on amazon.com. Order your copy today!

Oh yes, now the one I've waited for. "Corporate Cannibal." I can't say that I am, thank you!

Otherwise in the news, Tim Jacoby's prophecy comes true, the "bone phone" is real... "The SwiMP3 uses bone conduction - the direct transfer of sound vibrations from the cheek bone to the inner ear " <<>>

Track three is good. It's another sort of Reggae number. "Well, well, well..."

I'll have album art and more on November 11th! I ordered this CD, "Hurricane," and the single of "William's Blood" from amazon.com.

Dammit, now this is good!! "Hurricane."

INLAND EMPIRE... Again?!

2008-11-02T21:31:00.006-05:00

So, I watched INLAND EMPIRE again last night, Tim was up visiting from Columbus. I had forgotten, again, how complicated and tricky that movie is. It "gets" me every time! Tim said he thought it was a pretty tripped out flick and he seemed to like it. I explained that David Lynch is doing a lot of Transcendental Meditation. It is just a fascinating film and the 3 hours goes by very quickly, making normal time seem to go a little faster. I am about to dive back in one more time and watch INLAND EMPIRE, again.

Again. Again. Again?!

2008-10-28T20:59:00.003-04:00

I found a very interesting Grace Jones News site: gracejones.splinder.com

It is said to be an Italian website, very professional clean design.

In other news, Charlton declared today:
"i'm anti-children, wishes, dreams & miracles"

Róisín Murphy at the Mansion in NYC on 10/24/08

2008-10-26T12:42:00.004-04:00

NICE JACKET, ROISIN! IS THAT A LLAMA?!

14 Foot Obama in Cleveland Ohio

2008-10-25T18:27:00.002-04:00

I saw this walking home from the bus the other day, the 14-foot Obama was in my neighborhood!

C.H.U.D.

2008-10-16T21:17:00.003-04:00

Little Tiny Sarah Palin

2008-10-16T21:16:00.001-04:00

La Pequeña Hillary Hulk

2008-10-13T18:16:00.001-04:00

Urinetown

2008-10-12T20:43:00.004-04:00

I just got home from seeing the strange and fascinating play: "Urinetown The Musical." Very good! Read all about it on Wikipedia...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown :

Urinetown is an award-winning satirical comedy musical that pokes fun at capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and petty small town politics, as well as advocating environmentalism. Urinetown rejects musical theatre convention, parodying successful Broadway shows such as Les Misérables, Evita, Annie, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and even satirizes its own significance. In reverse pantomime style, the unconventional plotline shatters audience expectations of a pleasant ending.

The show was directed by Tony Award winner John Rando, and features music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann and book and lyrics by Greg Kotis. It debuted at the New York International Fringe Festival, was produced Off-Broadway at the American Theatre for Actors and then moved to Broadway, opening at Henry Miller's Theatre on September 20, 2001 (its planned opening having been postponed after the September 11, 2001 attacks). It ran on Broadway through January 18, 2004, closing with a total of 25 previews and 965 performances.

A national tour starring Christiane Noll began in San Francisco, California on June 13, 2003. An open-ended run began performances at Chicago's Mercury Theater in March 2006.

The original cast included Hunter Foster (as Bobby Strong, later replaced by Tom Cavanagh), Jeff McCarthy (as Officer Lockstock), Nancy Opel (as Penelope Pennywise), Tony Award-winner John Cullum (as Caldwell B. Cladwell), Jennifer Laura Thompson (as Hope Cladwell), Spencer Kayden (as Little Sally) and Ken Jennings (as Old Man Strong/Hot Blades Harry).

This is an "OMG LMAO" post...

2008-10-12T13:36:00.004-04:00

Someone on my Facebook posted this and it made me laugh insanely....

Einstürzende Neubauten

2008-10-12T00:26:00.008-04:00

One thing led to another... I joined last.fm and I started getting all these associations: Diamanda Galás, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nurse with Wound. It's too much really...

Grace Jones: Hurricane

2008-10-09T00:45:00.003-04:00

Just surfing around, I've found some wild versions of "Hurricane" and "Corporate Cannibal" from the new, upcoming Grace Jones Album. We wait... we wait patiently. We wait!

Bat for Lashes: Horse and I (Live from Lancaster Library)

2008-10-08T20:24:00.004-04:00

I very much enjoy this song and video by Bat for Lashes live from Lancaster Library...

Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine

2008-10-07T22:22:00.004-04:00

In today's social networking news, I've added a Skull Ranch feed to my facebook account and I've added a Twitter feed to this Skull Ranch blog. It's not that I'm suddenly overwhelmingly emersing myself in social networking/web 2.0 bull crap, it just means that I'm finding it interesting to use.

But I'm all about consolidation and fiddling around, more on that later. All I know is I've somehow got my facebook automatically updating when I update my Twitter and I've got feeds everywhere. It's almost viral.

I'm still on a pretty big Warhol kick. First, here is the Interview magazine from February 1987, just after his death. There below it is my own latest screen print on poster board...

John Waters & Vincent Fremont Flier

2008-10-05T14:13:00.009-04:00

I forgot to post the most important flier of them all, the one advertising John Waters & Vincent Fremont's talk, "Remembering Andy." It was very good.

I am a deeply superficial person.
--Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
--Andy Warhol

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."
-- Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
--Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
--Andy Warhol

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
--Andy Warhol

Warhol at the Wexner, Superstars, and John Waters and Vincent Fremont in Columbus

2008-10-04T21:55:00.010-04:00

I just got back from Columbus today. I only went down yesterday, to the Andy Warhol exhibit Other Voices, Other Rooms (again) at the Wexner Center for the Arts, but mostly to attend a talk by John Waters and Vincent Fremont, "Remembering Andy."

We sat directly in the row behind photographer Cindy Sherman. The entire board of the Warhol Foundation was there. The two (Waters and Fremont) talked for nearly an hour, covering lots of territory: the past, the present, the future incarnations of Andy Warhol.

They only managed to take a few questions from the audience before they called it a night. Some of my most memorable moments was when John Waters said, "I used to take a bunch of diet pills and get on a Greyhound bus to New York City and sit and grind my teeth and watch these incredibly slow movies!" It was a good talk.

Then there's just one more damn reason for me to go to Columbus (again). There is going to be this Super Star reunion on November 15th. They said -- the last minute -- Mary Woronov has decided to come. But Penny Arcade is listed as an attendee and I thought Penny was actually Mary, just another persona. I'm not sure though. Don't quote me on that one, I could be dead wrong. I'll probably end up going. Here are a bunch of paper fliers I collection during my visit...

Terror, Bryce Taylor

2008-09-27T23:22:00.004-04:00

Mnd control victim Bryce Taylor... "food and sleep deprivation and as I grew older I was able to master the levels of abuse that I'd been to... I was taken to Disney Land..."

1,000 Words

2008-09-26T15:54:00.003-04:00

That's what a picture is worth, a thousand words, and this screen-shot says it all... Looks like Katie is having a blast, huh?! :-)

The Most Dangerous Game

2008-09-25T19:43:00.005-04:00

I'm very sick with allergies and my evening meds are kicking in, just as I stumbled upon this video. MK Ultra, Monarch Mind Control, etc. It scares me and I think it's real! (from GuerrillaNews.com)

Yearbook Yourself

2008-09-21T19:37:00.004-04:00

Well, I could have done a better job myself using my iMac's Photobooth, but this website alters pictures of you fast and easy and random, so it's funny... yearbookyourself.com

Fun Times...

2008-09-21T17:12:00.008-04:00

Just settling back into my comfy apartment in Cleveland, I'm looking over my photos of this past weekend adventure in Columbus. From the Wexner Center's "Other Voices Other Rooms" -- a grand Warhol exhibit -- and visits with old friends Gina Weishaar, Tim Jacoby, Mike Haldishell (sp?), and Pam Buesing with baby Freida (sp?). Jennifer and Dan Hearn were even there visiting from Cleveland as well!

Sam Phillips & Roisin Murphy

2008-09-11T22:57:00.004-04:00

I just saw Sam Phillips at Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland. Great show. I didn't think I was going to get into it, but I did. I think it's because of the rash of recent Roisin Murphy acoustic numbers on YouTube. I'm going to go see Roisin in NYC at the Mansion on October 24th!! So excited!!!

Here's a picture of Sam Phillips, taken with my iPhone. I wish I could zoom or control the exposure more. People with crappy little LGs were having better luck than me getting a good shot...

But here's a Roisin Murphy acoustic number. "Movie Star" from Overpowered, but a very trimmed down version from the hyper-electric album tune...

This Just In: "New Old" Locust, "Wrong" & eMusic Review

2008-08-26T22:04:00.008-04:00

I can't believe Mark Van Hoen--Locust front-man--with Sarah Peacock--vocalist--let this one slip past me. So I got an eMusic account to try to download Siouxsie's "It's About to Happen" EP. Of course it's not on eMusic, but I got 25 free downloads! Nothing I'm real into came up in the searches, but then I got a bit more obscure and found some oldies that I'd missed from His Name Is Alive, Locust--as I've pointed out alread--and even some Björk. Specifically cool is the Matthew Herbert remix of Björk's "Declare Independence" single.

Just looking through the Way Back Machine at my old versions of SkullRanch.com

This Is Kinda Cool...

2008-08-24T15:31:00.001-04:00

Hello Skinny

2008-08-15T13:35:00.000-04:00

Wow! Look how skinny this lady at the dentist's office is..

Mobile Beach Blog

2008-08-14T18:21:00.000-04:00

I believe in Mary Worth!

Blog Walk

2008-08-05T17:32:00.000-04:00

Just taking a break from my evening walk. I love my iPhone... I'm
listening to Kate Bush... Walking... Just took this photo of a very
humid Cleveland. Walking and blogging...

Walking... Blogging

2008-08-04T18:46:00.000-04:00

I'm taking my evening walk... Taking pictures... Listening to music...
Typing... I have no outlet for all this energy!!!

Monkey-Man

2008-07-30T15:36:00.007-04:00

My boss Amy and I were just arguing over whether or not my previous post was a real creature or not, that monkey pig thing. So, she got me back, real bad... (P.S. She's now officially the coolest boss ever!)

Monkey-Pig

2008-07-30T12:49:00.003-04:00

Just finishing up my lunch and had to post this horrible awful thing I came across... Read the full article!

Another Mobile Post

2008-07-22T16:44:00.000-04:00

Just another test post from my iPhone on the bus ride home to see if I
can post a photo to my blog. I forgot my headphones so I guess I'll
read some blogs on my ride home. Scroll down to the next post down to
see the scary egg commercial!

Eggies (WTF)

2008-07-22T11:15:00.003-04:00

Just taking a quick break from work to share this with my viewing audience. I have no idea what this is...

Testing Mobile Posting

2008-07-21T22:53:00.001-04:00

Chicago...

2008-07-16T17:06:00.021-04:00

I've decided not to write a bunch of captions. These pictures of my trip to Chicago -- my little Summer vacation with Alicia -- hopefully say 1,000 words so I don't have to!
Lemme know what ya think!

Bored...

2008-07-07T20:22:00.004-04:00

Just using this new online image editing tool from a.viary.com ...
And no, it's not really makeup, I did it all with digital editing

Corporate Cannibal. Grace Jones.

2008-07-01T21:24:00.004-04:00

"My blood runs Satanical, mechanical, Masonical..."

Good Times

2008-06-30T14:42:00.027-04:00

I just realized, Skull Ranch first went from being a "personal website" (i.e. I hosted it, I had full control, I paid money for it) to just a blog. Now it's not just a blog, it's becoming one of those blogs that the owner rarely posts to and when he does it's just to talk about what they had for breakfast. I think my first post to Skull Ranch the Blog was about making cappuccinos with my little Italian double-boiler thingy. So what, a few of my friends view this blog and let's just say so what, it's gotten more personal lately.

First, I would like to post some good old fashioned Skull Ranch Productions fodder. Ya see, the thing is there's this restaurant in Asia somewhere that has adopted a bathroom toilet theme. Nice...

Grace Jones is making a come-back...

OK, on with the personal business. I'm not sure why the type is suddenly blue, but I'm leaving it. Blue means "what I ate for breakfast" posting ahead.

So, I had a little vacation and had a lot of fun. I drove to Columbus where I retrieved The Mother (hehe) and she and I had fun.

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We went to Garfield's mausoleum at Lake View Cemetery...

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There are swastikas on the floor of Garfield's tomb!
But they're pointing the opposite direction of Nazi swastikas.
These are for protection.

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Mom got a raincoat that didn't fit (we finally exchanged it for the right size)...

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Back in Columbus, I went to Tim Jacoby's house for lunch...

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We went to the big old muddy Community Festival.
This is the crowds and the stage at Com Fest...

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I went to Com Fest with Tim Jacoby, who's about to defend his Master's Thesis in Design.
In this photo you'll see my new necklace (purchased at Com Fest).
You will note that Tim is practicing smiling with his eyes, not his mouth...

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We went to ACCAD at OSU to view Tim's Thesis Project.
The photos below are the work of other OSU design students, not Tim's work...

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Back to Tim's for din-din. He made little steaks.
First he beat them with a mallet, then cooked them, etc...

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Not much more went on after we ate our steaks.
We drank coffee and talked for about 5 hours...

Yazoo Reconnected & Hardwood

2008-06-19T21:44:00.006-04:00

Well, for some reason, for whatever reason, I haven't felt like blogging in months! I figured I'd at least take this opportunity to show off my newly installed hardwood floors. They just finished up the kitchen and dining room in lovely hardwood, which gives the entire apartment a whole new feel. Have a look for yourself...

Then there's this!

After 25 years Yazoo is back together and Alicia and I are going to be in Chicago the weekend they're playing. We'll be going to the Chicago Theatre to see Yazoo perform on July 15. Not too much longer. We'll be taking the Megabus, which is this really cheep two-story bus that goes from Cleveland to Chicago round trip a few times a day. We originally could have booked our tickets for $1/each, but I thought it was a scam and waited around to book at $25/each -- still not a bad deal with the price of gas and all things considered -- so it will be a little summer fun.

Here's a clip of Yazoo performing on TV just a few months ago. They have not changed a single bit. I'm excited!

Cleveland to Columbus to Portsmouth... I'm Back

2008-05-12T11:03:00.014-04:00

Tim Jacoby met me at the North Market for lunch.
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By some miracle we ran into Tim Geraghty and Cassy Rose
(worked with them 10 years ago at AOL/CompuServe!)
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Spent the night at Pam Buesing's new house.
She's 7 months pregnant!
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Met Tim for breakfast at Café Bella.
Good food! Tim had headache.
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We ate in the sunny back patio where they were painting a new mural.
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Then I went to Portsmouth where they have Unique Pain Clinics.
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Mom and I had cake from a neighbor on Mother's Day.
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Tim and I met for dinner at the Blue Danube.
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Tim then drove us through a White Castle drive through for coffee and
we sat facing a dumpster drinking our coffee and talking for a few hours.
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Power, Lord...

2008-05-03T11:59:00.000-04:00

What Is It? (A Birthday)

2008-04-26T14:01:00.011-04:00

Wow, just a public thank you to everyone who made my big 37th birthday a success! Here are pictures as reminders of everything I saw and did throughout the day...

Bowie fell in love with the packing paper from the gift of Rachel...

Some wine glasses in Little Italy (they look like Jennifer!)

Rachel drinking coffee in Little Italy

Me drinking coffee in Little Italy

If you look closely you can see the reflection of Rachel an I in the lower right corner of the City Budha window in Coventry

The whole gang in the parking lot of Cinematheque getting ready to go in to see What Is It?

Me scowling and the partial gang in the Cinematheque parking lot

What Is It? promo poster

Birthday Cake

2008-04-24T18:34:00.001-04:00

Cleveland Botanical Gardens (4/19/08)

2008-04-21T07:50:00.011-04:00

Jesse Spano's Caffeine Pill Freak Out!

2008-04-19T00:48:00.003-04:00

Little Frank told me to go home and look up "saved by the bell caffeine freak out" on YouTube. So I did!