December art show

Just a heads-up. If you're in Oakland that is... I'll have 2 new drawings in a December show at the Compound Gallery/Blankspace Gallery Holidayland show. I'm pretty excited. I love both of those galleries. They're right next door to one another. I had some work in the show last year too, we were just new to the area and I was super lucky to get into it. Since then I've really formed a good solid friendship with Compound Gallery. I'm part of their art-in-a-box project on a monthly basis and I'm now more or less represented by them. 

You should go!

Opening December 4th!

Tonight is the opening/rock show at Rooz, here in Oakland. Maybe we'll take some photos and post them on here... it should be super fun!

Notorious B.I.G. (Fred's)

So my favorite pizza and quiet possibly favorite food on the entire planet earth is Big Fred's Pizza in Omaha Nebraska. The mere thought of it just snuck into my brain, a little whisper in my ear, and now I can't hardly stand it. In one month and like 7 or 8 days we'll be home. I am going to eat the hell out of some Fred's. Or as they say in Oakland, I'm gonna hella eat some Fred's. 

I love it hot.

I love it cold.

I love it 9 days old. 

Seriously... my mouth is drooling right now as I type this, I totally can't wait! 

If anybody feels like just showing up at the airport to pick us up with some in hand, that would be the awesome. 

J 

Side not, Midwest pizza is the best. You've got your California pizza, your NY thin crust pizza, Chicago deep-dish, but noting in the world is quite like Midwest Pizza. It's soooooo much F-ing better. Square-cut! Am I right!

Sorry, I guess I've gone a little pizza crazy, I'll stop typing now.

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New video, Glasses + Family

Here you go.

Music by the band RACCCCNS.

J

airplane tickets!

Guess what's got four thumbs and just bought plane tickets home for Christmas!...

That's right, J+A, that's who.

It's been a year since we've been home. How weird is that.

See  you around.

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YoouuuHooo! Street Cleaning Day!

Crazy neighbors seem to be a normal part of the human experience.  Anyone remember Linda Kaye, our lovely neighbor on 18th Street? I don't miss her. Not a bit.

So...we have a neighbor now that leans toward cooky rather than crazy.  She looks like the woman above, but without a cigar and just slightly more maternal. She lives in the house next to our building, a house with a driveway.  When we first moved in we'd see her--we thought--on her way out.  She'd sit in her little red car in the driveway and wave and wave. Eventually we realized she spends a lot of time sitting in her car.

Point is, one day when we were new to the building (and it's a secure building), this woman scared the crap out of us because she was walking through the normally silent halls yelling at everyone.  It just happened again today and Jake and I were both happy to be home to hear it.  Here's what she yells--"YoouuuHooo!  It's Street Cleaning Day!  Gotta mover your cars off this side of the street!  It's Street Cleanin Day!  YoouuuHoooo!  YoouuuuHooooo!"

So that was pretty funny.

A

Happy Birthday Liz!

This is our sister in law Liz. Today is her birthday... happy birthday! Those are not her glasses, and she's not normally so black and white. 

Good job Liz!

J+A

look out sky!

I was doing some google searches for photos of grasslands and prairies and I happened upon a stormchaser's photo blog. Check out these clouds. Dang.

I'm thinking maybe the color's doctored up a little? But colors get so weird during storms.  These were all said to have been taken in Nebraska, except for the first one with the silos, which is in Iowa.

A