Weather:
Well it was 70 yesterday and at the moment its frigid. More on this later…

I’ve been sick since Sunday. Painfully, laid out, sick. I didn’t really get to enjoy the best days of this early spring even though I wasn’t at work. I’m 45% better now so if this post is lacking blame it on the plague.

Shawn Hebrank started typing up his adventures and tattoos.

I did some pictures last week and I got a few that are in progress so maybe next week I’ll throw one or two of those up.

On Thursday me and Mark bundled up and skated through the ice at Wilson. You could hit the quarter and that was about it. It may look like water draining but that was frozen over and slickery.

 Friday it rained.

Bernie was in town after his father’s open heart surgery. The surgery went well and he got together a variety of old and new friends for Thai food feasting. At some point a serious conspiracy/political discussion caught fire. I was listening and trying to follow along until I was told, “The facts are out there. You can read about it if you really want to know the truth. Or watch the janitors interview, its on youtube.” Here’s Bernie after the grub.

Saturday I overslept and arrived to find Nate doing the good work of making the park snow-free and dry. Thanks to Lou and Juan and those two biker kids I’ve never seen who cleaned the entire flow bowl. Them two kids brought a pick axe. They were all about extreme snow removal.

Later it got packed and we headed to Burnham. It was kind of depressing and really wet. Not sure why they put so much landscaping inside the park but my board went in the mud, I stepped in mud, mud everywhere. We got caught in traffic on our way back up north.

The time also changed. I’ve had it with this. No more time changes. As Mark said, “you get out a sundial and there, thats what time it is.”

I’ll be posting up information for the next zine sometime before April 1. Hope you participate.

It sounds like its hailing outside. Possibly.

Weather:
I’ve had it. It supposed to break by the weekend and it better cause if it don’t I’m shooting cannons at the clouds. Come on!

There’s a ton of photo’s this week so lets get to getting down.

No new pictures this week but I did make these shirts. Buy one.

Nicholas Vengalia lives in New Mexico and makes top notch art and music. He sent me a box of it last week. I’d suggest buying his zine. (link to his myspace page, music will play, mute your computer if your working and they frown on such things)

You are Beautiful has an update.

Wine Apocalypse. You should submit something. I got a pretty good scheme worked up for mine. Now I just gotta film and edit and send it. I’ll probably get to it after I finish up my shapetionary entry, the flipbook (still in progress) and the painting of Humphrey. I think there’s some sort of Twilight Zone lesson with broken glasses or broken clocks that applies to this dilemma.

Mike’s dog Witkin passed away last month and he decided to put together a memoria/fund-raiser/one night only art show. It’s weird because I don’t have that many friends with dogs but Jason and Patrick also lost their four legged family members in the past few weeks. So raise a glass for Witkin, Scrappy and Chango.

Calabro.

This was one of the pictures he made. It was my favorite thing at the show.

This was Mike’s Moms painting. It said “in progress” but I liked it how it was.

As is my usual sloppy style, I didn’t take enough pictures or write down who did what. I also took blurry photos of John’s painting which stinks cause it was swell.

There was even an ice sculpture.

Chad rolled through.

Mark ditched the coal mine.

Tony took a picture of this picture being taken. Take a look.  While your there check the picture of John with the ice sculpture. Scoop knows about the serious picture taking.

You can see more of the work in Eric’s photos from the show. Here he is obscuring his wife and looking suprised.

Lou and Al from Character. I think they’re talking about Danforth.

Sunday was the second day of the Old Man Skate Jam and Captain Phill’s birthday szechuan at 4seasons in Milwaukee. It was good to see most of the morning crew. I enjoyed the brick quarter pipe, Spencer got surly, the Godoy’s showed up, Lou hit coping on every wall, John went for it, Juan drove the family truckster for butterburgers, Kevin smiled and took a few runs, Eric saw Bacon, Gordon skated the little room, Fit Mike was in shape, Calabro snaked, and Phill was happy. I missed the Saturday happenings and didn’t take any good photos so this is all you get.

Allison is sick. My friend Bernie is coming to town so you got that to look forward to. Possibly more museum stuff next week.