Pittsburgh, Part Three

Friday overview: Lunch @ Quiet Storm in Garfield. <3 cafe. Great graphic novel shop with author/artist and passionate recommendations. And then Jerry's Records – Amazing prices and quantity! SO GOOD! Battle of wounded knee and feet. Pirogies at Bloomfield Bridge Tavern, so good! Sauerkraut and potato/cheese. Always ask for directions. Night listening to records and [...]

Pittsburgh, Part Two

Thursday Overview: Andy Warhol Museum! John Cale <3 The Strip. Walking! Steelers in the Air. Met Alyson's artist friend Carle. Library. Drive-in. Indian food with huge paneer cheese chunks. Niko's and booths and dirty beer glasses. Amazing smoggy orange sunset. Perfect clouds. Perfect porch.

Sunflower Garden

Rat Manor

Coca Cafe

This was a rad painting. And Alyson.
The other paintings [...]

Pittsburgh, Part One

Some bits from my trip east to visit with my friends Alyson and Kelsey.
Wednesday overview: Chatty bus driver. Niceness over delayed flight led to upgrade to economy plus. Joy of ear plugs. And then economy plus plus. Flying through cotton candy clouds. Right over downtown. Forested green airport. Seeing my friend Alyson!! Laughing, catching [...]

Slowly

I’ve been making a bit of progress on the last Salvation Army record bin dive piles. I said okay to a lot of stuff that I normally pass over, just to give it a shot. This has yielded some interesting stuff, a lot that I’ll be selling back somewheres, but not before I share with [...]

Grumbleton

I might be getting sick.
It’s right there on the cusp. Tired. Run-down. Burny eyeballs. Brain pushing against my forehead.
But I made it through the day. Rock.

Local Talent

Chon Travis – 95482
Pretty cool eh! I like the song. That’s my zipcode, and I used to hang with some of the folks in the video. Neat to see the area through other eyes, makes it all fresh and neat.

Scavengers Radio

Soooo much radio happening tonight. Well, my regular slot, but filled with so much Jerry’s Records and Scavengers goodness that I picked up in Pittsburgh. How great is an antique store called Scavengers. Let me tell you: awesome. Especially awesome is having a friend with you that gets the records price to drop to $1 [...]

16 Movies That Have Impacted My Life…

Rules: Don’t take too long to think about it. Sixteen films you’ve seen that will always stick with you. First sixteen you can recall.

1) Jackpot (Fave of the Polish Brothers – repeating of George Jones’ The Grand Tour – Sunny – pink Cadillac – awesome bar lighting/christmas lights – karaoke)
2) Hedwig and the Angry [...]

The Cleaning

is done, and I am starting school manana in a clean house. I like this. A lot. Still stuff to be done that I didn’t get done. But it’s organized undone. Which bodes well for its future of someday getting done.

Take Out the Papers

And The Trash!
That’s what today and tomorrow are all about. I’m trying to get straight in my home before the chaos of final semester begins. Those things that have bugged me all last semester, like the unreachable cobwebs, the layers of dust on top of shelves, houseplants that need re-tying and potting (I’ve got [...]