It seems like a nice place for us to catch a breather.

It took me a while to notice, but then I looked over my shoulders.  Damn imperial troops, found me again.

The cool thing about this morning, is the sun.  January in Chicago, and we got sun.  Enough said.

And I just thought that was an old dusty blues song.  It’s actually a bit more.  It’s where I’m at.  The good news is that I’m not sitting here in my sometimes bitter complaining mood.  I feel good about things in general.  So good, that there is a bit of focus coming in.  I have always been that person that waits for people to see the good in me, and then I expect them to act on it, dating, work, random whatever.  But I feel that a more proactive route is needed.  And just bringing myself to write this feels good.  Has my head been up my ass this whole time?  Sadly, I think so.  So yeah, 2012=Good Vibes.  I kind of don’t believe the whole Mayan calendar deal, but I also kind of do.  So lets have some fun this year.

Dirty Mittens….

I have been getting this feeling like I might be letting down the inner fight club fan inside myself.  I am collecting a bunch of stuff in my home that I like, I like how I place it, I like how it looks… But really, it’s a  collection of junk.  In the big picture of things, I call it junk.  Nice looking planters, bookshelves, chairs, display shelves, stuff.  Yeah, it’s stuff you need i guess, to have a nice looking place and all.  But I just keep thinking of how Edward Norton was told by Brad Pitt that his shit was just junk, a collection of filler that makes him feel like he is accomplishing things in life.  Maybe it’s time to peep this attitude again.  I do like my stuff though.

On some tunes.. Kimya Dawson’s Thunder Thighs is killin it!

And yeah… Derrick Rose is still the shit.  Don’t sleep on him again, that would be lame.  Say you are not really into sports at all, no big deal, just watch an interview with this young man, seriously.  After you hear him talk, and hear him talk about his brothers and his mother, and Englewood where he is from… you will root for him after this I promise.

I do it in dreams sometimes, and that is nice because I get to smell a mossy goodness while I sleep.

I have just had a pretty good run with Craigslist.  I scored a new mattress, and a new bed frame, both are beyond pimp, and both have combined to give me the best sleep I have had in years… No kidding, years.  I got these items for $50 each, just good people not trying to rip people off.  Very fair pricing.  I thought I would pull some kind of Oprah, and pay it forward.  I posted my full size Ikea Malm bed that I bought from Craigslist 5 years ago in the free section.  I got 103 emails for the bed, in less than 12 hours.  Needless to say, I was a bit overwhelmed by the amount.  I thought I would search through the emails and find the “single parent that needs a bed for their kid” or something, but they all seemed to be in these kinds of situations.  I went with Jose email.  I will come right now if you call me.  He emailed at 6:48am, I woke up at 8, I called him.  He just picked it up.  Not quite the single parent sad story.  Jose needed the bed so he could finish setting up a bedroom in his brothers basement, he was on some post divorce moves.  ”instead of arguing about who got what, I just let her take everything, she even has the kids”, Ok, Jose, this bed is yours.   It’s a tough time out there, lots of good in the world, but for sure lots of people hurting.  Hurting hearts, Hurting water, Hurting air, Hurting pocketbooks.  I’m fully rested from my new bedding, I think I will take this restfulness into my day on a positive tip.  Happy Thursday fools.

A new snuggylike product is out… It’s called Lazy Forever. It’s the latest in “lazy wear”. Holy shit… We are actually near some tipping point. I know I know, I’ve been letting the history channels very well done UFO shows get me a bit loose, regarding the wacky ways of the world lately. But the Lazy Forever gear is some sunny ass oversized sweat suits, they are calling loose fitting sweat suit pajama soft joints some lazy wear… Brilliant and super wack. On this note, let’s all pull together and keep these young women from wearing pajama pants out in the world, it’s the equivalent of saggin pants… “Be you! Yep, got it, that’s you, but look at you…” there, that can be out cry.
AND…
Donald Trump will be moderating a republican debate in Iowa later this month. Shits real, in a funny haha kind of way. Gingrich. Romney. Cain when he was up, Perry. Uhm… Obama, please step up to this hot mess. If 2016 rolls around, and change didn’t come, I would believe it would take some 99% Obama hook up action, to really win in 2012, then Change… If not, let’s have a third party reality. Say word?

But yesterday, it had more meaning to me.

I have walked by this building at 2320 W Chicago Ave for several years now, biked right by even more.  I always told myself, I should check it out.  I mean… a museum in the general area that I live and work.  So yesterday I checked it out.  Super nice.  Once i got into the door, A woman that was working seemed a bit shocked to see me tugging on the locked door.  But she finally trusted her best judgement when I mouthed the words through the glass, “i want to see your exhibit”.  She opened the door, and a man that was inside and also associated with the museum seemed to came up to me with a very nice greeting, and an info sheet regarding the current exhibit “Bauhaus Now”.  Very cool art works.  This is housed on one side of the museum, and the other room held their permanent collection, equally very nice to see.  I don’t want to get to much into what the art was like, or what I thought about it.  This is really just a suggestion that you check it out.  I dropped a couple bucks into the donation box for sure.  There was also a rack of prints for sale, $35-$350.  Decent for sure.  Here are some shots of some things I liked.  Wall Clock (the three horizontal brown wood pieces, they have moving arms that move in the same manner as a regular clock, just in three different pieces)  was something that I would like to actually see in production for the masses.  I was generally inspired to get some things going myself.  There were a couple video deals that were very good.  Human Polaroid was the bomb.

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Heavy D passed away, peep him. His last tweet read “be inspired”….. Do that. He also said “A ship is safe in it’s harbor.. but that,s not what ships are for.”.
I might have to have an awesome day tomorrow.

I really like the way this sign has aged, and the color scheme.  Nice right?  I think i’ll put this post under the category of Design Stimuli.  Seems appropriate.

I like the way this Beaver keeps at it.  The past few days this little one has been just doing it’s thing, teeth flashin’, offers for sex, weird shit.  The Beaver says the funniest things.  ”I’d ride the diamond to the falls” and “Gooses be fun as hell”  I walked past tonight, and the rain must have been a bit much.  Gone.  Just fence and marks on fence.  Funny that way.