bang against the wall, bang against the wall, no rest at all

Weather:
Presently Pleasant

There’s two new puzzles in the tinker section. Please view them at your leisure. There’s one more I need to scan and send so that’ll be up next week. I finished my two pictures for the “Love will…” show. I’m happy enough with how they turned out. I’ll post them when the show goes up in August. I’ll let you know more when I hear about it. The only other thing going on right now is the “Favorite Imaginary President Project.” Click the link to learn more or the perma-link over there at the side. I encourage everyone and anyone to send something in and have fun with it. If you know someone who’d be interested then please pass it along. So far I’ve gotten a pretty healthy response and the first completed picture. The other thing I’m working on is still developing but it looks to have some promise so hold your thumbs and cross your toes. Good stuff all around.

The July 4th holiday? Thunderstorms here and there, a decent amount of sweating, and not enough Twilight Zone marathon watching. Mostly mellow and family filled.

Saturday Frog was over at Wilson. He’s been sharpening his board piloting in Arizona. I took some janky footage of him smith grinding and sweeping and once I figure out how to stick it up somewhere I’ll post a link. It’s always good to see old friends.

Smiling Frog

That afternoon Eric and Kate hosted a pretty swell afternoon of charred food and croquette. The older I get, the more people have kids. The competion was pretty serious. Chad brought coozies.

Gams

After being eliminated it was on to the folk fair where the lines were long and the crowd was claustrophobic. Kids and more kids. Kids by the bucketful.

How much jewelry do people buy?

The enchillada booth was brutal.

Heat vapors

Sunday after the early session with the usual suspects I headed to Lincoln Park and found this plaque. It seems pretty improbable but there is this plaque on a rock so that gives it some credibility.

I'm not sure this is correct.

Then I found this random sculpture. For some reason they just stuck it between the horseshoe pits and the street in a random stretch of grass were dogs get walked and joggers jog. I liked that it was just sitting there.

hello sculpture

Met up with Tasha and headed to one of my favorite places in the world, the Lincoln Park zoo. It’s free, they have a good variety of very nice animals, and it makes me happy to visit with my favorites. Here is the one armed Bossman.

keep them from harm

Not the best picture. The owl with one eye. He watched us the whole time.

be protected

Here is a painting Mark just finished. He’s on midnights again.

Mark Gildersleeve Icon

This weekend I’m making my own hot sauce.

wind blew warm in my face

Weather:

Rain until Sunday.
I saw these melted houses in Indiana, kinda of like the wizard of oz but more depressing and without the opium fields and midgets.
lollipop kids representin'
I also saw this tricked out truck with the megabrush job but the more I thought about it the more it bugged me. “Collateral Ramage?” Yeah I get that it’s a play on words, but not really cause it doesn’t make sense. Then I tried to think of another example of a similar play on words that didn’t really make sense and for a long time I couldn’t and that bugged me more. Ideas?
Hundai Driver (like Sunday Driver but in a...no that kinda makes sense)
If there’s any place I’d like to live it’d probably be here.
the old abandonded crazy house
Last week was Go Skateboarding Day in Chicago and I’m glad I went. A lot of people thought they were too old, or over it, or they had legit excuses like having to work but when else am I going to be able to skate with thousands of people and stop traffic and generally smile and laugh. Uriah and Vache did a good job pulling it together. I learned that I’m not a talented photographer of the action sports variety. I usually forget to take pictures. Here some of the people that posted up and lurked. If you want the action shots go to the google and look it up. There’s some good one’s out there.
The meet-up at Buckingham.
GSD 06 it was hard to believe but the rain held
Jackson
Grown up
Old School. Check the wheels.
dedicated
When we got to Wilson the barbeque was mobbed. Joseph ate Cheeto’s on a bun.
Character
Kris and Juan with the Vitamin Water Coozie.
Juan and Danielle kept the cooler full
Spencer.
Heckling followed shortly after
Advertising.
GSD 06
Chad was excited about seeing the Bishop Don Juan.
Fence Lurk
The Bishop was excited about wearing two hats.
Stay Fly
This kid was excited about being pimped.
Stunts
I watched We Jam Econo last week. It was a really sad, touching story of hetero-heartbreak. A worthy tribute to Mike Watt’s best friend. I don’t know if he ever got over it. Oh the music side, I was amazed at how tight they were.
I got some more work this week.
owltoothwalker
Next week I’ll have all the info about the Imaginary President Project. If your interested in participating let me know.