It’s yellow, mostly black pen, a little red felt tip.  I’m about to start scanning flyers from the past from Beats By Otter, but I found this and I”m amazed by the bands I was seemingly into when I was a little pop lover.  Looks like I was into the NY Mets as well.

no particular order.

Fine Young Cannibals

Moden English

R.E.M.

Midnight Oil

Eurogliders

U2

Beastie Boys (written many many times over, must have been my favorite)

Talk Talk

Echo and the Bunnymen

Brian Ferry

The Fixx

Violent Femmes

Dream Academy

The New York Mets (written about 10 times)

Big Audio Dynamite

Bob Marley

Combo Audio

The Cure

Last Gentlemen

Public Image Limited

Ozzie (which would have  been for Ozzie Smith)

and last but not least, the word Otter over and over and over….

The party was fine, the food, the infused booze.  The people were great, the space was nice.  When it was time to visit the front porch for some air, it was also time to borrow some shoes, mine were far away.  These were the shoes I rocked.  The slipper look of the backs being pushed down was the deciding factor.

Borrowed the scanner from the job, and man is my head spinning.  I was that kid taking photos back in the 4th grade, middle school, high school, college,  now, and all time between.  Going through the three photo albums and three boxes of regular photos, and two of Polaroids.  Super sneaking up onto peoples Facebook pages with some blastos from the pastos.  Fun.  Childhood backyards,  old apartments, school photos, my favorite car ever, friends from the past I haven’t seen in 15 years, friends from the past I’m still tight with.  It has all been crazy, crazy nice.  Olympia was super represented, Amsterdam, Paris, and Antwerp, making me want to get out of the country,   Been almost 10 years.  Brett Peratt, man that was my big brother back in the early 80’s.   Malin, the senior year in high school Swedish exchange student that I was so in love with, I mean… age 18 love.  Natalia, the woman I had the hardest time getting over, the looks of happiness and togetherness.  Really makes me want to live life and not worry about saying the wrong things.  I think when one love you, you have to listen to that, you have to ask yourself, what the fuck are you waiting on?  That was me.  Always looking for something better, not wanting to get locked down.  Fools Gold.  So yeah, I”m going to maybe watch some Olympics and try to get my head back to to 2010.  The above photo will show you my most favorite halloween costume  of all time, at least that is the way I remember it, but now looking at this… wows.

head on train crash…. Rest in Space.

I was watching the University of Illinois Men’s hoop team play Ohio

State.  State won.  Then I was noticing that that Blackhawks were

playing the Blue Jackets.  This got me thinking.

The post office vs Jack in The Box

Damen vs  Springfield Ave

Tigers vs Hummingbirds

Pancakes vs Apples

Spiral Notebooks vs Ferns

Ceramics vs Roller Coasters

Peppermint Tea vs Boiled Potato Water with a Squeeze of Lemon

Lps vs Foo Dogs

River Birch Tree vs Skateboards

Cars vs Scuba Gear

Fire Belly Newts vs The Rolling Stones

Sidewalks vs Clouds

Boxing Day vs Clay

Eames vs Chuck Taylors

Darts vs Puddles

New York vs Wheat Grass

Sacre Torte vs Pebbles

Friends vs Curtains

Rivers vs Ice Cube Trays

Hipsters vs Jerked Chicken

Dwell Magazine vs Bamboo

Shipping Containers vs Small Children

Borders Books vs Speakers

Jelly vs Jellyfish

Nectar vs Meteors

Cell Phones vs Berlin

Shoes vs Menards

Chevy vs Astro Turf

Guns vs Dandelions

Ragu vs Dirt Roads

Organs vs Bats

Amps vs Boomerangs

Glass vs Umbrellas

Art vs Candy Canes

Kites vs Black Holes

Resin vs Chevy Chase

Books vs Time

Sears vs Mirrors

Baths vs Ice Cream

Butterflies vs Kanye

Turntables vs Mardi Gras

Burritos vs Lake Michican

yeah… that should do for the moment.

I”m going to go into a world of scanning some images into the machine.  Should be some more photos coming about.  Though these boxes of photos have kinda make me sad.  I miss my friend Nat, I miss feeling like I could just travel whenever I needed to, I miss feeling a bit less urban.  Valentines Day, even that keeps things funny.  Life is good though, no hate, no pain.  Mostly goodness.

with this sun that is shining into the window this morning, I think i’m out of the eating meat business.   I”m like Jerry Rice with this hall of fame idea, which makes meat, and all the crap they put into these animals, out like Richard Dent.

The weekend use to mean so much, it meant Saturday sleep in, just a bit longer.  It meant cartoons, it meant some random sport play with friends, it meant brunch, an afternoon movie, a walk in the park.  I work on Saturdays.  I usually have Sundays off.  I can go on and on about how great it is to have Sundays off, its great.  But it would be a lot better to have Saturdays off as well.  I’m a grown ass man, working this lame ass shift.  Yeah, I’m about to head to work now, on a Saturday.  I just want to watch some Smurfs and meet some friends at Centennial Park for some football.  Life is good though, at least i’m working.  Good Luck friends.

You can have that, go ahead.  Name your band Mouse Wizard Village.  There is a dude on the Detroit Redwings, Justin Abdelkader.  That is a dope last name, not just because its some aggressive sounding hockey name, nah… It’s all world bad ass.  I’m down with the Hawks, so i’m not going to even give props to any wing player beyond saying that is one bad ass name. ABDULKATER!  On the Hawks… I will give props to the sad Blues team that just beat us at home.

I was watching War Games last night, and just in the info channel guide thing that shows you what your watching, and who is in it, there were the words Dabney Coleman.  I remember him, remember his face and voice way more than his actual roles.  He was the governments top Computer type fella in relation to monitoring the Nuclear Weapons and such.  He was good, the movie was really just a fuzzy wayback moment for me.  The moment of the whole moment was seeing the name Dabney, then realizing that Dabney was the name of an actor from my childhood.  I can’t really think of the other movies he was in, you can look into that if you even car.  I don’t, not that much.  I think i’m going to pick out one of my friends and just start randomly calling them Dabney.  Should be good.  Joshua, the computer that was taking things to the next level in the movie was really the best actor in the flick, sorry Matthew Broderick.