I posted pics from both Joe’s and my adventures. We met up at Palmer’s but otherwise were on our own adventures. Arika and I took the light rail to Cedar/Riverside area and met with Jon and one of his buddies. We spent our time bouncing between Palmer’s and Bedlam Theater. Bedlam wasn’t on the official list, and because it was off the main drag a bit, you could actually get in without waiting in line for 30 minutes which was the case at all the other bars. Supposedly 5000 zombies turned out to shamble the neighborhood.

I wussed out all the previous years due to the weather, so this was my first Zombie Pub Crawl. I had dreams the night before of swarms to drunk zombies in character. I was actually thinking of possibly making a short film to take advantage of it. However, I got busy and didn’t end up doing it. I was glad too, because few people were actually in character. There were a lot of skank zombies talking on cell phones “OMG, where you at?” I guess zombie’s can use cell phones. Awesome. See the pictures after the fold.

 

LEAVES, LEAVES, EVERYWHERE!!!

Star Tribune reports today that Twin Cities law trades traditional black plastic lawn bags for compostible ones.

Although, I would prefer people to compost their leaves than throw them out, even I have too many leaves for this to be reasonable. Either way, I think this is a good idea for both the environment and a streamlining of the utilities. The claim is that it will help save money for state waste haulers since they have to separate the bags once the leaves end at their final resting place. Aside from that, the obvious reduction of disposed of plastic is a plus.

However, one annoying issue for me is that I pack the bags around the basement windows to add extra insulation through the winter. Since, the law goes into affect before Spring, I won’t be able to ditch the leaves I have already bagged… and I am not sure that the compostible bags won’t disintegrate before the winter’s end. Hmm… what to do.. what to do…

However, over the weekend, some kids around my age stopped by the house and asked if they could tap the tree in yard. I didn’t even know it was a maple.  They were part of a group in Minnepolis that started to tap trees in the Seward/Powderhorn neighborhood. I often wondered what the skinny was. I guess they are having a pancake supper after sap season is over. That sounds like a really cool way to get the neighborhood together, especially the “Minnesota Nice” type neighbors who you hardly ever talk to.

On the way to the coffeeshop today, I snapped some pictures, including the one in my front yard. Sweet.

Wednesday, Charlie and I met up with someone from Hair Police to talk about having our work up there in January. They found us through Myspace and really liked our work. It should be pretty rad. They need to approve everything with the owners but it sounds like there will be a reception and music and the whole nine yards. Sweet.  Hair Police is sort of a big deal and this should be a cool opportunity for us. So stay tuned for more info on this and other DIMMedia outings!