Weather:
Hyped and Halloweenish with schizophrenetic wind swarms

Next week on the 2nd two of my favorite people turn a bit older so go out and raise your glass to Juan and Lou.

Thanks to everyone who came out to film for the flipbook. High fives all around.

This weekend at Antisocial in Canuckland.

Ricky sewed his own costume from evicted miniramp soundproofing and its the best thing I’ve seen all year. He also found time to come out and lurk and send over two new paintings.

Mark’s on vacation. His daughter is a skeleton for the holiday. Here’s his latest. (click for full)

I saw this when I was downtown and meant to post it before. Even though I was rainsoaked it made me smile. I like when people put the effort out there.

Went to a pretty serious Halloween party on Saturday. It was mostly scientists that make with the molecule smashing and the chemical combination. And out came the bugs…

Then the pumpkins got gutted.

Went to another party after that where I was treated to some brutally honest critisism of my picture making and intertyping techniques. I’m still waiting for my critical imaginary twin to submit sources and footnotes and vault pictures to back up her argument but it did make me frown. After being discouraged for a few days I got an email reminding me of mail thats overdue. Go over to the draw section when your done reading and you can see something new, it’ll go out on Thursday.
Go vote next week.

Seriously.

Votings the best.

Weather:
Sadly, somewhat winter.

I’m sure I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it again but I’m never sleeping in cause the weathermen say the snows coming. It was mostly dry all weekend and Saturday was t-shirt warm. Never again!

I was in St. Louis last week so no posting. My apologies.

Porous Walker has been up to some oddly corporate sponsored mischief. Not sure what its about but he made a nice picture and says some nice things.

Said and Done is taking thier monstersized project and putting it on display. If you happen to be over in Canada please attend and take some pictures. I’d like to see all the pictures on display. There’s some serious work there.

I’m working on stuff. Don’t bother me about it.

Nick Peterson sent over a picture he made from Portland. I think he’s using it for a zine hes putting together. I’ll let you know where to find it when he puts it out.

Mark Gildersleeve has been working on lots of new pictures and has been kind enough to share them here. As always outstanding. He’s off this weekend so if the weather holds we’ll be piloting the skate planks.

In keeping with the old time theme I went to visit the former Chicago Historical Society which was revamped and renamed the Chicago History Museum. It doesn’t get as much hype as the Art Institute or the Museum of Science and Industry but they have some interesting stuff in the collection like Lincoln’s deathbed. Its a pretty small bed for such a tall fellow. They had to lay him diagonal. Its not very well protected and you could probably lay down in it if you were sneaky.

The thing I really wanted to see was the Ed Paschke exhibit. Besides having a ton of his work, they recreated his studio/workspace. He kept his brushes in Pringles cans. Here is a photo I took before being yelled at.

Now I feel like my piles of old newspapers aren’t so bad.

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