like the sign says…

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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.

Iowa Street

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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.

Uh

Whats gum doing

Strident Layers…. What are you doing, and hey… Orbits, what? I just want to know, what is gum up to? How is it around? what’s it do? Yeah, I was a lover, just like the black hipsters from NYC said, Hubba Bubba, Bubble Yum, Bubblelicious… But I’m a grown ass man now, and again I ask, what’s gum doing?

The Jerk

Just not sure why.
The reasons all sound like decent reasons, but there had to have been more to it. I might be a bit of an ass, and just may not see it. I have been tempted to leave the good guy open book Matthis in a box, maybe break out the more deliberate lying jerk Matthis. I just know I have been a bit too tender about things, an easily bent out of shape fella. Yeah interwebs, I’m talking to you. Good friends… Yeah. I’ll ponder what’s next with my sushi that has just arrived. Boom boom goes Unagi filled dragon rolls.

Food

Food can be so good. Food can be so fucked up. KFC “Bowls”…. Now with bacon… Bacon Bowls, processed to the maxed mash potatoes, corn, gravy, cheese, fried “chicken bites”, topped with bacon. This has me super leaning back into the better path of eating. Rocked no meat for about a month. Felt good, the a BBQ temptation that I just fell the hell in love with. Polish, tips… Good as hell. Been back on omnivore for two weeks since that BBQ. There is a funny tight feel in my middle body. Thin there, just spine tight. The coolness is theres no pain, and I’m on some daily home stretch from here out.
This fall feels right alright?

Silverman

Sarah Silverman is killin me currently, she’s being interviewed on Rachel Maddow. Talking about the Rick Perry old hunting lodge that was once called Niggerhead. She is about to partake in a fundraiser for the NAACP. It’s called Live From Niggerhead. I’m all about discussion. She rules. And…. Crazy cute.
I’m looking forward to playing some records tomorrow. Chill and bump, why not. This is the home record spin, I’m not playing the records out lately. Should.
Planting also, plant plant plant.

destroy all humans… no not really, but I love this.

How can we not like today?

The sun is out in full glory, the coffee is kickin’ and well… It’s a lovely October day.  There are few things that could go wrong today, and those will be out of my control.  The things I can control, well…. I”m on it.  For reals.  Should be a nice result.  I like the word result today, very UK.

Speaking of very UK, how about Americans taking it to the streets.  Van Jones was saying that the protest are basically a reaction to three years of sitting on a hot stove, and the reactions are folks hollerin’.  I love that he used the word Holla, but not in that ridiculous overdone way that so many duck faced fools say “holla” about the most asinine shit.  Whoomp Whoomp, Woot Woot, and Holla… signs of stupidity.  What is the deal with my lack of joining Occupy Chicago?  Do I ask for time off from work, head in after work, wait until my next day off… The revolution is so schedule tough for me.  Just kidding, lets do this.   Big love for the first occupy folks in NYC, we need this, and I thank you for sparking it.  I watch a bit of MSNBC from time to time, and I was baffled by the lack of coverage, but Ed…  My least favorite vibe of the line up these days, was on it eventually.  Go Ed Shultz, big up.  Now we just need Obama to say some shit like, I think I will just create policy out of what those good folks Occupying Wall street say.  And they say the message is muddled.  Rust Limpdick called the protesters human refuse…  yeah, pour some gasoline on this Rush.  When will there be a serious left stealth movement that will just take these fools out.  I’m not talking about sniper actions or any kind of death, but how about a very quick abduction, drug these fools to knock them out, and dye them black or something… I mean?  I guess that would give the 1% carte blanche to round up anyone with a late bill and put them in financial obligation holding tanks (TM).  Next step, burn some shit.

On a lighter note, Bears v Lions.  I like the bare bones sound of animal fights, Bears and Lions fighting.  Gross Roman colosseum type shit right?  Well this is just a football game so chill out.

Saw Black Star on the Colbert Report.  BLAZE.  I will be grabbing that album as soon as I can.  The joint they rocked was called Fixin it, or something like that.  Blaze lyrics, and this is what we expect from Talib and Yasiin (formally known as Mos Def)  Big Ups!  I just peeped youtube to maybe post a clip of this performance… nothing.  Then I went to Itunes to buy the song, and or lp… nothing yet.  I checked out a lot of the new releases in the hip hop rap section.  GARBAGE, this would explain the state of the hoods and the lack of any kind of rising up.  Rising up to the Gucci Mane’s means fuck your brothers and sisters, get yours, and your neighborhoods can keep looking like strait garbage cans and such.  Please teach a little something other than “getting yours”.  Lets grow.

Shot from the hip

Blurry eyed I ride from time to time, this church on Kedzie looked like a decent bike by subject.  I kind of like it.

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And then there is actual blurry eyed walking shots.  Was watching my friend buy beer through the window at Ola’s on Damen.  No flash because that would have been pretty wack for these folks, but the bleary look actually fits the moment.

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complications

Actually nothing is very complicated lately, things are good.  New sparks in life, and new motivations abound.  Fall air is a bit surprising, but the colors are the same amazing blaze.   The rails are sometimes feeling like they are not there, and the train feels a bit bumpy, but overall… pretty pretty pretty good.  It’s crazy how many thoughts I have in my head daily that I think to myself “I should write about this”, and by the time I”m sitting down at the computer, boom bam, gone.  Things are a bit dreamy like the Korean Airlines commercials that have been out for a couple years now, they really know how to push the dream element of things.  Excellence in Flight, or something like that.  Woke up for some reason at 7am today, very out of the norm for me, especially with it being a Sunday.  Lovely walk with Poppy in the Park, peep the gallery for some nice Humbold Park looks.

I was just looking through all of my records last night, literally thumbed through them all… The conclusion, either get into some spins, or sell this shit and take a trip.  Any  takers?  The thin vail of making it, such a ruse.  I thought I was on some career path type shit, but i’m slowly learning that this is not the case.  The daily hustle isn’t gaining me anything, just a longer student loan payment plan.  I was thinking of getting the 40 year old rapper project going, and maybe calling it, lets pay this loan off….  I think I have enough homies to buy a 99cent tune, might have to get this ball rolling for sure.

The wood crafting class plan, the one you have never heard of until right now, sounds like a good one as well.  Making shit local might have to be the swing, fuck all this imported junk.  I wonder if I could design something and sell it around without getting full of myself like all these other design fucks in Chicago?  Nah, I would fall right in, the small nest would require it.  You know, this ramble has gone on long enough. Peep ya.

This is soothing to look at.

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This is here mossandstonegardens.com or at least that is where I got the image, I like the vibe of this blog, or maybe I just really really like soft green moss.  Either way, just rest your head on this type of fuzzy happiness.  Not really an ad for these peeps, I just thought if I was going to rip the image, that I should pay dues, so to speak.

This Sunday… it’s been ok, I have been reflecting on how things have been made overly difficult by myself at times, and how this really needs to change. I thought I was a pretty decent communicator, but I”m finding that not to be so true.  At least the sun is out, the dogs been on walks, and well…  We got our health, whatever the hell that is suppose to mean.  I don’t know what i’m looking for, but I am sure being a picky dick about it.  Don’t go pickin’ dicks though, lets just drop the words pick and dick out for a bit, they don’t seem to go together.

My street is super void of noise at the moment, I have the stereo set to off.. so just this click clack, and well… the fading in and out of Law and Order from my neighbors tv.  Not the dialogue so much, just the Law & Order Bass Tones… funny shit, and somehow not so bothering.

I think I”m writing in a moment of hunger, so.

It’s all about the devil inside.

They came up in conversation.  It was the 4th of July, the grill was yet to be poofed.  Deviled Eggs, yep.  Funny finger food that, if you have the taste for it, is the bizzle.  Yeah, I just made up something that was maybe suppose to be pun like for bomb.  No need to hide things that are “bomb ass” , those things are always good, and can be called so.  But yeah, Bizzle.  Let us bury that actually.  The wood worker maker fella came in right after their mention, and he basically said, he would walk over to the store in a bit and get some eggs and such to whip some up.  It was mentioned, and it was followed through.  I enjoyed these, we all did.  Oh, i’m just a bit hungry, I think this decided this subject.  I ate well today, a good day of blessings and time to reflect.  I can always get down with a Sunday to chill.  Big bike ride, stake cake.  Wait, I rocked steak and cake on the same plate, then on the same fork.  It was hella good.  Yellow cake with chocolate icing, and thin cuts of a very steak that D rocked on the grill.  There were moments of meaty vanilla mashed potato feel going on with the Stake n Cake bits.  Not mine alone, it’s part of the Systems Systems business plan idea box.  I ate well now that I’m recalling that aspect of my night.  Point is…. On the 4th, these were on point.

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