Ah, how cool is this? Go check out Found Magazine’s site, and click on the Audio link near the bottom. The folks at Found asked various musicians to create some Found-inspired songs, and Dave did just that. This is a great little mp3 – go and grab it while you can. If you’re not familiar…
Found out that Andy has been reading over my blog fairly extensively, the past few days. Given that it’s the holidays, the workplace is a bit slow. And he’s been looking over old entries and getting lost in all the posts I made in 2002/2003. In fact, he stumbled across my recipe for Chinese Dumplings…
A care package arrived today, from Alex and Linda. It’s a big box of goodies from Kavarna, and nothing short of delicious. Wisconsin folks! If you’re near Green Bay, stop in to Kavarna for some of the best damn biscotti you’ve ever tasted. For a long while, the Artisan Cellar was carrying Linda’s biscotti. And…
Around this time, the Chicago River freezes up and breaks apart. Last year, Ben was really excited to see these pictures. He was all about getting the high-res versions, and utilizing the ice/patterns as possible textures for future images. At several turns, despite my kung-fu grip on the camera… I had this paranoid fear that…
Not much happening here, over the holidays.
On walking by the Sound Gallery, I noticed that they had a ton of cardboard taped up. From the looks of things, somebody broke their window over the holidays. But, in what I consider a masterful stroke… they also taped up the album cover to Billy Joel’s Glass Houses. Jeez… on looking back over the…
After seeing my friend Dan play this week, I decided that I was going to put three songs in the audioplayer from my musician friends. And so this time I’m including work from Dan Frick, Dave Fischoff and Ben Husmann. Audio controls should be in the right module. Enjoy! Dan, doing his thing at the…
Before I left for home, my parents gave me a box of Ramen noodles (as they are want to do). This particular brand though, is what I remember eating as a kid. Only after I got older and left home did I realize how cool the brand name sounded. Kung Fu noodles? I mean… c’mon….
Informative yet aesthetically pleasing. Be sure to check out Rating System, which was my favorite of the bunch. Shamelessly stolen from Ektopia.
Spent most of today driving back to Chicago. I wanted to get back a little early, and had no desire to fight on the roads on the 26th (when I figure everyone and their brother is trying to get back into the city). Liz was kind enough to look after my cat while I was…
Helped move some more stuff over to my sister’s place. And then all of us went to the restaurant for a Christmas meal. I got to see my cousin Andrew, along with my uncle Benny. Lots of great food and just a warm, comfortable evening with family. Hung out some at my sister’s place after…
Got a call from my friend Aaron (who I’ve known since 1st grade). We decided to hang out a bit today, and so I met up with him and his sister Alicia and brother Michael, over at Keystone Mall. I had my camera with me but, sadly, left my memory card in its reader at…
This is a view of my yard, from the front door. The square pot thingy was always a good indicator, when I was growing up, of how much snow had actually fallen. Backyard view. My parents have a few pines on the property that, if they were given more to the holidays, would make for…
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I learned that my friend Dan Frick (who I’ve known since middle school) will be back in the States over the holidays, and playing a show at a bar in Broad Ripple called the “Jazz Cooker.” He’s been living in Japan for some 4 years now, and it’s been a good decade (god, what a…