The Latest Plant Jive in My Yard
I’m pretty sure looking the below foliage in my yard makes Arika randy. I’m impressed with the results so far since this is my first year gardening. My mom claims I have a green thumb. Meh. Main garden has cucumbers, cranberry beans, green onions, peas, spinach, and carrots. Beds surrounding the house contain big boy and cherry tomatoes, green peppers, purple and regular basil. The other beds have raspberries, squash, melons, beets, and rhubarb. Squirrels ate my strawberries. There are lots of flowery jive going on as well including my rose budding, the bleeding hearts, day and tiger lilys blooming, and some unknown things about to bloom.
Check it out:
It’s Official - Sabretooth for Halloween
After a little comedic back and forth yesterday at work starting with C.K.’s post about “Wolverine Being a Slut“, I decided to go as Sabretooth from the Xmen.
I was going to reprise the Wolverine role from last year in order to finally get my claws to retract (which didn’t quite work last year). I was also toying around with the idea of going as one of the Knights of Lil John with Joe and crew. The joke yesterday was about getting some action by virtue of being Wolverine. I joked that I was trying it again this year. However, my boss Trey, suggested that I would make a better Sabretooth. Bam.
So I pondered it a bit yesterday and think I might do some variation of the Origins movie Sabretooth since I don’t want to go blond for it nor am I shaped like a giant muscled icecream cone in spandex. I might bust out some faux fur or perhaps do some commando style Team X costume. Eitherway, I am going to start growing my side burns again. Rocktacular. Hopefully, I don’t have anything I need to look “nice” for any time soon. haha.
Stay tuned.
Obama is the Executive Nerd (Hodgeman Correspondents Dinner vid)
At the TV Correspondents dinner the other day, John Hodgeman (daily show, mac commercials, etc) spoke on Obama being our nerdiest president.
He related the ongoing struggle of "Nerds vs. Jocks" to the divide between the administrations of this past decade as well as politicians whose main asset is their charisma rather than their
analytical minds. As Hodegmen noted, he had to question how "nerdy" Obama actually is since he walks in both worlds. I liked the analogy.
Everyone has multiple sides/interests, so I don’t think I am being elitist in saying this, but I always feel like I am part of multiple worlds as well. Anyone who knows me knows how schizophrenic my interests are.
An old acquaintance of mine with her PHD in physics and masters in Quantum Computing used to ironically joke how we were "nerds". My afterthought on this was that a "nerd" is merely someone who has a passion for something and engages that passions. As such, if you are not a "nerd", then what the hell are you doing with your life?
On that note, I guess I am a "podcast nerd" since the other night at Jobot’s JEMF party podcasting seemed like what most people wanted to talk about with me. I suppose that is a struggle with nerds as well - the terms by which you define yourself versus the terms that others define you. Interesting thought.
As an aside in the Correspondant’s dinner video, Obama gave the vulcan salute.
I found this pretty funny since Bill Shattner was on Conan the other night and couldn’t give the Vulcan salute. His excuse "I didn’t have to do that - that was Nemoy’s thing"
- Related Links:
- Is Obama Our Geekiest President Ever @ Propeller (via Asylum)
- Shatner on Conan (via Hulu)
Oh Mikey Arrington
Leo Laporte does what most people who are not trying to kiss Mike Arrington’s butt want to do - tell him to get over himself. However, Laporte doesn’t quite put it as nicely.
Arrington discusses here.
Post Exhibition Routine - the life of a starving artist…
Red Hot Art Fest just wrapped up an hour ago. It was pretty cool, but I will write about that later when I can get all the pics and such together.
I noticed a reoccurring theme with how I handle events like this. Similar to the way, super busy people get sick after a long stretch of business since they finally have “time” to get sick, I seem to have a sort of purging nature after an exhibition too. This is especially true after the last few months since we basically had some sort of art event each month since February.
Take the below with a grain of salt. As Arika would say “You just have a poopy diaper” haha.
Epic.
Anywho, here is usually how my routine works:
- Come home from the show and flop on the couch for a few minutes without unpacking any artwork from my truck.
- Take a massive dump to get rid of a weeks worth of badness I consumed leading up to and during the event. Last week I took in a lot of frozen burritos and coffee and booze.
- Take a shower.
- Check my email and delete pages of spam I have been neglecting over the previous few weeks.
- Reply to all the emails and phone calls from friends, loved ones - and in the case of the last few weeks respond to voice mails of people looking to rent my extra room.
- Sit on the porch and chain smoke while I think about all the non-art related crap I have to do
- Watch stupid videos on the internet to forget all the stuff I just thought about
In the next week or so I will:
- Think of lots of new series ideas based on what I learned at the event, which will not, however, ever come to fruition.
- Think of lots of ideas for software and website ideas that I will never have time or resources to do
- Get bummed out about never working on my comic
- Get bummed out about how I am going to be 2x in y months and have not accomplished a lot of the ideas above
- Come to the revelation that I need to worry about my health more and start working out hardcore for about a week at which point I will start spending my time working on the above ideas only to get sucked into some other project/series/idea.
- While working on the above ideas, relapse into eating poorly and smoking a lot
- Return to the state of being to busy to immediately respond to friends’ voicemails and emails and ultimately never reply because I forget about them.
- Start getting bummed that I don’t maintain my friendships enough or go to enough concerts/galleries, etc.
- Try to rekindle a friendship I have neglected with a night at the bar - drink too much, make an ass of myself, and feel like shit the next day.
- Get bummed that I am not exercising more.
- Start working on the next show since you realize that it is only a month away.
- Random events (birthdays, parties, roadtrips), get in the way of making artwork in spite of supporting the social desire described above.
- Show up to the show with only a few new works since somehow I just didn’t have enough time to do a lot of new work.
- Realize the artwork you did make was mediocre and be sort of embarrassed when your friends show up to your opening and realize they have seen everything before (even if it was in your basement mid-progress).
- Get bummed out since you realize you have not made anything “good” for quite some time.
- Take down the show in a cloud of personal defeat.
- Start over.
So yes, for my faithful readers, expect in the coming weeks to hear me talk about how i need to start exercising more and quit smoking and change things in my life. Bare with me, it will pass shortly thereafter. haha.
In other news, THIS is pretty awesome!
Episode 33: Pam Grier has Weird Boobs | Krapp’s Last ‘cast
Episode 33: Pam Grier has Weird Boobs | Krapp’s Last ‘cast. A pretty awesome episode if i do say so myself. Special guests Jon, Matt, and Ian and a lot of beer… apparenrtly the word of the day is PCP.
DIM Media Paparazzi show up at North Loop Dunn Bro’s
RDJ of Paparazzie Series
After a long day of tearing down and hanging up artwork, the Paparazzi series is getting its 2nd showing at the North Loop Dunn Brothers coffee shop! Go Check it out! Pictures can be found here.
After navigating the clusterfuck that is downtown Minneapolis, we managed to take down the series at the Downtown Library Dunn Brother’s and started to make our way over to the new spot. We didn’t want to load up Lil’ Jon and Audry, so Joe and Arika walked them the 5 blocks. Boy were their arms sore after that. We got in to the new Dunn Brothers and the previous artist’s artwork was still up. I asked the barista what to do and clarified that we were supposed to hang today. “Yup, it is the first” she said. So we took down her pieces and after about an hour or two had ours up.
In the mean time, a pretty cool guy by the name of “Roger” expressed his love for our Christopher Walken painting and bought it on the spot. Sweet. We talked for a bit, and he was apparently an engineer that traded it all in to be a street musician. He sorta rekindled my interest to be a street artist like the guys I saw in NYC a few years back. Hmm.
Once we were finally about to leave and just admiring the hanging, the owner approached Joe, and (in so many words) said “Who the fuck are you guys? and why is your artwork up?” Long story short, Joe got the address wrong. To give him the benefit of the doubt, there are 7 Dunn Brother’s downtown and the addresses were nearly the same, except one was North and one was South. Derf. I don’t blame him tooo much after the cluster fuck I experienced this past weekend with Wisconin country road number schemes… I’ll talk about this later.
Anywho, we managed to quickly tear down for the second time today and headed to the correct Dunn Brothers location in the North Loop district of downtown. The stress of the situation seemed to fade away as I sipped on a IceCrema drink, which I have not had since I lived over near the St. Anthony Main Dunn Bro’s years ago. Yummy. We got the series up pretty quickly and were able to finish up around 3:30.. only 5 hours after we started heading to the library to tear down. Yay.
All in all, it was worth it now that it is over. We sold another of the small celebs (Walken) which seem to be going like hot cakes. Also, The “wrong” Dunn Brother’s owner loved how our artwork looked on the wall and wants us to come back. Aside from that, aparently people were stopping to talk to Joe and Arika as they walked Lil’ Jon and Audry down the street to tell them how much they loved them. Pretty cool!
So yes, please go check out the series up at The North Loop Dunn Brother’s and also stop by and say hi at our booth at this weekend’s Red Hot Art Fest in Steven’s Square Park!
Sherblam.
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How Much Did Arnold Schwarzenegger Weigh in His Prime
“How much did Arnold Schwarzenegger weigh in his prime.” I pondered this tonight at the gym after weighing myself. I don’t get too concerned with weight since I don’t feel like I have a lot of fat to lose and muscle weighs more than fat. However, I do worry about the long term of lugging lots of weight around on my heart. I am in no way shape or form “ripped” and have a bit of a gut I wouldn’t mind loosing.
I worked out a bit in college, but didn’t do much for a few years until last summer when I joined Anytime Fitness to get back in shape like I was before college (it wasn’t that long ago - it IS doable). Since joining the gym, I have consistently weighed 230lbs. Before joining the gym, I was consistently 215lbs for years starting in mid college. Now, I am trying to do more reps versus just lift a ton of weight so I can get lean and not huge. To some extent it seems to be working since I am getting definition and I definitely don’t feel huge.
So what is up with weighing so much? I always think of those UFC fighters who are my height and ripped but only weigh 180lbs. Granted, I am somewhat big framed and weighed 180lbs in middle school and was pretty lean.
Anywho, I came home and found this post that suggested that Arnold was 240 lbs at his prime and we are supposedly (read the article) the same height. So yeah, that just seems weird. For all that muscle, he was only 10lbs heavier than I am now. Lame. Anyone got a good explaination? Should I be concerned with my weight (fat or otherwise) in regard to my heart? I don’t really want a triple bypass at 50 years old. At least that is the goal. I suppose not eating complete crap would help too. der….
Day off Adventures - A Trip to the Como Zoo
I took the day off assuming we (DIM Media) wouldn’t get back from Wausau until late last night. Since we got back Saturday night, I decided to take advantage of the day off and hang out with my lovely girlfriend, who I have missed quite a bit while in Wausau. To kick off the day, we went to Como Zoo to see some animals. Aside from wading through seas of young mothers who didn’t seem to min if their kids were nearly falling into the animal pens, it was a lovely time. It was sunny, it was warm, and the orangutans were picking eachother’s butts. Pictures are below.
Craig’s List Update - I think Henry McMaster Accidentally Got a Dominatrix and Has A Grudge
In an update to my last Craig’s List posting about their tightening up of their “exotic services” category, I found this post on the Craig’s List blog today ordering an apology from South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster. McMaster feels he has “no choice” but to move forward in bringing criminal charges against Craig’s List for aiding in prostitution by way of it’s “exotic services” category (which was defunct prior to McMaster’s decree). Unless McMaster is an exception to the apparent rule of corrupt politicians, I am willing to bet he used Craig’s List to pick up an escort and was sent an overly rough dominatrix. Now he has a grudge after recovering from the stiletto heal wounds…
