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Super Saturday
June 14, 2008
I’ve been creating new collateral materials to augment performing (BUSKING! AUGH!) at Super Saturday…
Poster board, monogrammed towels, gift certificates, etc.
It’s great to be in the flash of inspiration. Like the rubber chicken with the head cut off, actually.
Yesterday I realized I wanted to use laminating technology somehow. So I opted to have 12 of my business cards laminated for the 12 pie-in-the-face recipients to use as scraper/ spoon. It beats having to contribute disposable plastic spoons to Evergreen’s waste stream… which will be overflowing by 2 PM.
Also, as a way of avoiding additional paper towel rubbish, I purchased a 12 pack of terry cloth 14″ x 17″ shop towels and monogrammed them with red and black sharpies to match my spiffy logo.
I’ll connect with
Dawn of the Simple Fool’s Silly School of top Secret Esoteric Clowning
the Evergreen Circus Resurgence (2 members of which have volunteered to take a pie-in-the-face)
and, this evening at the Capital Theater, Pure Cirkus (in post-Jusby/ Comedy Consultant on 5th anniversary date attire).
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Making “Oventoucher” w/ Jenny Jenkins
May 24, 2008
Here’s Trish (R) assembling CD sleeves with Jenny (Center)
Orion looking like my character in the final scene in Love is Stupid
Available on Bicycle Records
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Maypole Syrup Day
May 1, 2008Once upon a time (around 1998), I lived with my best friend, Luke Turner in Cooper’s Glen apartment 22.
He’s got some quirky dietary habits, like eating the exact same meal while alternating two brands of ingredients for variety. Case in point: pancakes, or as he calls them, “syrup sponges”. During that time frame, he liked to switch between two shapes of basically identical plastic bottles of syrup. For some reason, we accumulated all the empties instead of throwing them away. I thought it would be funny to rebrand them as water bottles and came up with the following illustration for Maypole Syrup.
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Pirate Party Favors… and Pinata (in progress)
March 22, 2008
Pirated Music to Celebrate Birthdays, CDs as favors in the Treasure Chest
- Mirah “Tumwater Falls”
- Peter Pan “Following the Leader”/ “Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life for Me”
- Harry and the Potters “The Firebolt”, “Gryffindor Rocks”
- J&J Soule “Pirate Theme”
- Songs 4 Kids “She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain”
- Baby Gramps “Rock Candy Mountain”
- Bad Manners “Teddy bears picnic”
- Supergenius “The Wisdom of Yoda”
- Disney “Tigger Song”
- Songs 4 Kids “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”
- the Big Kidz Band “Old MacDonald had a sampler”
- Schoolhouse Rock “Number Cruncher”
- “Addams Family”
- “Munsters”
- “Get Smart”
- “Superman 1987”
- Nelson Riddle Orch “Batman”
- “Captain America”
- Harry & the Potters “This Book is So Awesome”
- the Beatles “Yellow Submarine”
- the Rolling Stones “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
- Jolly Rogers “the Pirate Ward”
- Rebecca Pearcy “Constellation”
- Buckethead ”Pirate’s Life for Me”
- Ralph Steadman “Little Boy Bilee”
- Garrison Keilor “Mel’s Big Boy Buffet”
- Bono “A Dying Sailor to his Shipmates”
- Lothar & the Hand People “Woody Woodpecker”
- Robert Crumb & his Cheap Suit Serenaders “Singing in the Bathtub”
I used a large punching-ball style balloon for the base. I covered it with paper mache newspaper strips, using a coarse buckwheat flour. Then, instead of colored tissue paper, placed delicately on with a thin glue solution, I used good old blue painters’s tape, the kind that I used to create the Dance O’ Dance floor circles… from some of the extra rolls left over from last year’s Camp Invention.
The ship is made of a grocery bag. The cannons, cannonballs, anchor and flag are all black construction paper. The skull and cross bones are white construction paper, but the sail is simple printer paper. The smoke is cotton balls.
There’s a few pieces of duct tape holding the hemp twine on, but the rest is held together with rubber cement.
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Valentine’s Day (part 1)
February 21, 2008In March we commemorate the time Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.
In February we commemorate the time Saint Patrick drove the chocolate turtles out of Switzerland.
At 7:30 AM on V-Day, Trish was dressed and moving fast. She said, “I’ll be right back.”
I thought, “Oh, how sneaky. She left a card or gift in the car. Oh, that’s the car starting… and that’s her driving away… well, she’ll be back in a few minutes.”
So, I got up and discovered that she’d already made huge cards for the both of us with a list of Sweet things that we do.
Orion and I then made heart-shaped pancakes from scratch by mostly following a recipe from the Joy of Cooking. I substituted a mix of Rice/ Almond flour, Bob’s Red Mill Coconut Flour, and Barley flour for the wheat flour.
Around 8:00 AM Trish returned with two grocery bags that included heart-shaped bagels and strawberry cream cheese.
Orion chose the bagels, and we put the pancakes in the fridge.
Then we left for school and work and working-at-school. I made pop-up Lego-inspired Valentine’s cards for Orion.
I’d arranged for Uncle Nick to come and babysit. He was supposed to arrive by train around 4:40. Trish would ordinarily be at St. Martin’s until 3:30, but she’d work later and pick him up.
However, at 2:00 my phone rang. Uncle Nick asked, “What are you doing?”
“I’m working,” I said and asked, ” What are you doing?”
“I’m standing at the Olympia/ Lacey train station,” he replied.
“I’d love to pick you up, but I don’t have the car. I expected you on the later train. Do you have Trish’s cell number? (Yes) Call her and get back to me.” I instructed.
At 2:14 I hadn’t heard back yet, so I tried Trish. She usually leaves her phone off during sessions. It’s not polite to interrupt a peaceful massage with an electronic Charge of the Light Brigade.
I let her know the situation, since he hadn’t reached her. At 2:41 [synchronistic inverse of 2/14] I got a text message from him: “Trish is picking me up at 3:30″. I replied: “kewl”
Our babysitter, Uncle Nick, a former member of Team 1425, the Wilsonville Robotics team. [another synchronistic inverse of 2/14 again, with a 5 thrown in for change]
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Happy Birthday, Amanda
November 19, 2007
Nov 19
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My Belated Funny Valentine’s
February 27, 2007For my day job I hang out with 1st graders, and I get to do arts and crafts related to upcoming holidays.
As I was creating a Valentine’s envelope I didn’t realize how my life would imitate art. Specifically, it was to imitate a Charlie Brown Valentine (which we had rented the previous week).
To refresh your memory, Chuck doesn’t get a single solitary Valentine’s card… until… the following day when he is approached by several girls who felt bad and offer him some of theirs. Schroeder intervenes and reads the girls the riot act. He tells them that Charlie Brown doesn’t need their day-late reused Valentine’s cards. They can’t ease their guilty consciences with this pitiful display of pity.
Chuck suddenly pipes up with, “Don’t listen to him. I’ll take them!”
The big day arrived, and it was rapidly becoming apparent that most of the kids did not plan on including adults in the card exchange. Several quick-thinking girls drew me cards on construction paper. Then we shift into the parallel cartoon universe. A girl had recently moved away and kids did not know what to do with hers.
The teacher suggested, “Maybe you could give it to Mr. Justin,” and so they did. Poor Rebecca! Her Pixie Stix got re-gifted. You can call me Re-Justin.
After school, Trish picked me up and informed me that we would be going to Olive Garden. The boy has a fondness for their breadsticks. We arrived and were shown a table.
It did not meet the boy’s approval. He preferred the large corner table by the window, set for six.
We ordered and ate our salad and breadsticks. Then the boy started to shiver and asked to go home. I told our server, “There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that this table will soon be available. The bad news is that the boy doesn’t feel so good. Could we get our order to go?” Instead of going home, we took him to the doctor’s office instead. The doctor told us to go to the hospital for a flu test. It turned out that he had Type A Influenza, and it was highly probable that all of us had it.
After all, he sleeps in our bed still, I eat off his plate, and he sneezes in my face.
I took the rest of the week off, and since the following week was mid-winter break I stayed at home blowing my nose. At least I had left-over gourmet pizza!
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Best of 2006
January 20, 2007Tante Tia came to visit us.
Trish & Orion flew on an airplane to visit friends and family in Memphis. DeeDee came to visit us. She and Trish took a car trip along the coast.
GRUB gave us 3 raised garden beds and we grew herbs and vegetables. In the back yard, Justin cleared ivy and blackberries to create a Secret Garden with a tunnel. Our fruit trees produced plums, pears, and apples. We made several gallons of applesauce and ate it at every meal.
Orion had his birthday party at our house. We removed our dingy grey living room carpet and had wood laminate floors installed. In the process we added two yellow accent walls.
Justin got his business license and began clowning professionally. He continued work on Red Nose Brigade projects and was elected Historian/ Pencil Pusher. Orion participated in his first parades and the by-laws now include accommodations for a Junior Joey category member.
Orion’s progressed from tricycle to scooter to bicycle with training wheels. He also took swimming lessons. Orion’s vocabulary has increased considerably and includes numerous Latin phrases such as “Lumos Maximus!” and “Wingardium Leviosa”. We have continued to use sign language as well.
Trish spent part of summer working at Sol Duc hot springs in the Olympic National Forest. She also coordinated the massage practitioners who volunteered at the cancer research fund raiser Relay for Life. Trish has had 7 – 10 clients in her private practice most every week. Her office got painted with lime-based, hand-made paint.
Orion had a Dedication ceremony at the Olympia Unitarian Universalist church and was welcomed into the congregation. We welcomed a new member to our family, “Peach Tortatilla”, a peach-faced lovebird.
Justin acted in two commercials and an MTV show. He helped produce 12 more episodes of Dance O’ Dance and eventually decided to officially return as producer for the 2007 that will mark ten years on the air.
Many of our digital pictures finally got printed and framed or put in albums. Justin worked on a number of websites and appeared as a guest on his first podcast. “Uncle Luke” cobbled together several computers for us from parts he gleaned from the Evergreen dumpsters. The last incarnation included two operating systems: Windows 98 & Ubuntu (a Linux kernel). The day after we set it up Oma Barbara arrived with an early Christmas present: a new computer system running Windows XP media center 05!
Mimi Terry gave us a new washing machine with a Super Large capacity basket. We especially appreciated it because Orion made the transition from diapers to Big Boy Underwear. Yes, our biggest and bestest success of 2006 was Toilet Training!
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Dress Up Day
April 23, 2006Yesterday we had three main events: redo the floors, attend Corbyn’s 3rd birthday (Costume theme), and go to the St. Martin’s Luau (since many of Trish’s chair massage clients are part of the Hawaiian club).
The saga of the floors goes back about a year, I think. Trish REALLY wanted to remove the carpet and have laminate wood put in. She argued that the carpet was trapping mold and dust.
I argued that it was helping to trap HEAT and sound.
She negotiated with our landlord and made a tentative plan to get it done and deducted from our rent. Then he changed his mind and decided he would do it himself. Trish volunteered to help so she could learn. Since this was mainly her project my role was to be childcare: keep Orion out of harms way. We initially discussed doing both the living room and office but fortunately decided to do them on separate occasions.
We settled on the date over a month ago, and landlord Jeff confirmed by phone early yesterday morning. We had moved most of the furniture together, but as Trish had a morning massage I was left with the futon couch (to go in the dining room), the dining room set (to go outside), and the media center (to go in the dining room). I was also in charge of Orion care.
Orion has been making progress learning to use the potty. Since the weather was so warm I let him run around naked. If he says, “I need a new diaper” I offer to let him sit on the potty first.
All morning, no poop. We’re getting psyched up for the party by wearing our construction helmets. Naked construction worker ~ make a good calendar.
Landlord Jeff arrives. He’s wearing full fatigues and army boots. I resist the urge to salute. I resist the urge to shake his hand, cautious of his kung-fu grip, GI Jeff. I resist the urge to flash him the peace sign. Orion simply flashes him.
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