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	find me at Etsy Saatchi Gallery Denver Artists Post Due Gig posters Day After Trade friends Bellissima Jewelry Paris in Peril One Shot DJs The Lovely Public Tin Parachute 13 Miles High Electric Age Media Casey Driessen Wolverine Farm Josh Honn artists i dig Erik Greer Daniel van Benthuysen Edward Gorey S. Britt Vladmaster Plines One Neck Hates You Andrew Zbihlyj Thomas Cadène Natasha Allegri Liselotte Watkins Jones ID Carey Sookocheff Garrett World Mike Leavitt Lucky me Beads King-Cat media Free Press Media Matter Public Integrity Pitchfork Truthout Common Dreams The Onion Pop Matters The White House BBC random National Parks Service Comic Sacrifice Ready Made Craigs List Chicago Cubs Mount Everest The Refurb Depot Surfside 7 Threadless The Monster Engine In-n-Out Burger Daytrotter past 2006 2005		11.27.05 Sarah and I drove back to Homewood this week and got back late last night. Here is a sketch of the drive home I did in the car. Hard to read a couple parts but the smell in the air was like "tuna and metal" and Iowa 80 is just marvelous. \| 11.21.05 - Chappelle "They called me a crack head in Newsweek magazine." Saw Chappelle at Comedy Works the other day. It wasn't the most hilarious show of all time but he cleared up a lot of the rumors that have been going around about his show and life. I would also like to say that the italk is a very nice piece of equipment for your ipod... yes I have suggested the italk because of the quality it got at the show. I have a pretty decent copy of the show filled with background Sarah and Chris laughs that was made just holding the ipod in the lap. The show has some screechy parts with the crowd getting loud at points, but there weren't as many of those as you would think. If you want a copy of the show let me know. email or comment. There are also a few new sketches up if your interested. \| 11.15.05 - Pooholes? Albert Pujols won the N.L. MVP award? How in the world does Derrek Lee only get one first place vote? Both questions that will keep me tossing and turning all night long as I think about how we live in a world that is so crule it would only give Lee one first place vote and not resign Martha Stewart's Apprentice. Pujols: G .. AB .R ...H .2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG TB SH SF IBB HBP GDP 161591 129 195 38 .2 ...41 ..117 16... 2 ...97 65 .330 .430 .609 .360.. 0... 3 ...27 ....9 ......19 Lee: G .. AB .R ...H .2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG TB SH SF IBB HBP GDP 158 594120 199 50 ..3 ..46 .107 ..15 ..3 ..85 .109.335 418 ..662 .393 ..0 ...7.. 23 .....5 ....12 • G - Games played • AB - At Bats • R - Runs Scored • H - Hits • 2B - Doubles • 3B - Triples • HR - Home Runs • RBI - Runs Batted in • SB - Stolen Bases • CS - Caught Stealing (were counted in the AL after 1919 and after 1950 in the NL) • BB - Base on Balls or Walks • SO - Strikeouts or whiffs or K's (are available hit and miss between 1882 and 1912, but are available for all other seasons) • BA - Batting Average H/AB • OBP - On-Base Percentage (H+BB+HBP)/(AB+BB+SF+HBP) (SF and HBP are assumed zero if unavailable, see SF and HBP below) • SLG - Slugging Percentage TB/AB (see TB below) • TB - Total Bases (Singles + 22B + 33B + 4HR) • SH - Sacrifice Hits or Bunts (were first counted in 1895 and includes Sac Flies until 1953) • SF - Sacrifice Flies (were first counted in 1954, prior to that they were included in Sac Hits) • IBB - Intentional Base on Balls (were first counted in 1955) • HBP - Hit by Pitch (are available for every season after 1887) • GDP or GIDP - Grounded into Double Plays \| 11.8.05 - post due* So, I took some part time work the other day as a "package handler" for ups. It is just seasonal work until christmas is over and they can laugh at us as we all get our last check and they tell us to pick our backs up off the floor on the way out. But ever since Sunday when we got tickets to see Dave Chappelle at the Comedy Works in Denver on the 16th I haven't really cared about much. Oh, it will be grand. I am making postcards out of watercolor paper, images from the newspaper, coloring them with marker and laying a cover of packaging tape over them at the end. It is called post due and needs people to get involved. I am looking for people to send one to every once in a while. If you want to start receiving some let me know with an email... but you have to send one back. \| 11.3.05 - 5:45 a.m. There are some pictures of the birthday beer night last night. I got the zombie at Youngs restaurant. It comes in a glass shaped as a skull. It was Will and Audreys birthday yesterday also... so there were a few drinks had... I should go take some asprin and go to sleep now. There are some sketches up... I will get more up as soon as the scanner starts working again. \| 11.2.05 - Where is the giant cake with a stripper inside? Today marks the day my sister Beth and I made our way into the world some time ago. So Beth, happy birthday and here is to to having a few to many shots on a Wednesday. Now it was also last year when Sarah took me to see T.V. on the Radio in Denver for my birthday, which was a great show, and it was also the day the we drove home in silence from the great show as we listened to the news that W got a second term. I will probably have an extra shot just for that. Other events that happened on November 2. \| 10.17.05 - more sox If the Sox end up facing the Cardinals in the World Series, it could possibly be the worst match up ever for a cubs fan. So, if the Cards make it, I will have no other choice then to blow up U.S. Cellular Ballpark with a rented stealth bomber while they play a game. I figure that way nobody can win so Sox fans won't have anything else to cheer about. Cubbies in 2006! \| 10.14.05 - illustration friday Check out 'cold' for illustration friday this week. Also I have added pay pal to my illustrations page for all the people out there hoping to build up a good credit history. The key is to buy a print or five each month, pay your bill off and come back for a few, seven more. \| 10.12.05 - is a white sox fan going to have to slap an ump Major league umpires can't help but be a little nervous when they step on the field at US Cellular field. Ever since the father son duo beat down a first base coach during a Kansas City Royals game a year ago they can't seem to get a call straight. The call at the end of the White Sox game today was pretty nasty. The Sox took an ugly one tonight, but the way they have been running the bases they can use all the help they can get. New art up tonight. \| 10.11.05 - new art Added a colored print that is going for the low, low price of $25... only 30 prints available. I will probably be giving one away sometime this week so check back. Also, the White Sox lost tonight 3-2 in Chicago to an Anaheim team that came to play on only 16 hours rest to the Sox 3 days rest. I said good day sir. Happy Birthday to Mike "Hollywood" Kneeland and Sara Murphy the past couple days. I seem to have mixed up the dates with each other and apologize. Hopefully you didn't get the wrong presents. Sara, if you get a life size blow up doll in the mail ... please forward on to Mike. \| 10.11.05 - white sox The White Sox having a chance to go to the World Series and possibly win it this year has had me feeling a little under the weather lately. Now, during the day when the sports reporter in the office starts talking about the playoffs I have to leave the office and throw up. I had to ask them not to talk about the playoffs during lunch... food isn't cheap. Being a Cubs fan my whole life (somehow news to my family) has left me in some of the best moods and some of the worst moods, but nothing would hurt more then going back home for the holidays and hearing my brothers and grandpa talk about how the Sox won the series. Get together's always end up in a street fight involving my brothers and I and my Grandpa jumping from the top of his car with the "flying elbow" across our backs. One year the move sent a few cousins to the hospital with severe concussions. It seems that jean shorts and wife beaters (also known as sox fans Sunday's best) are sold out at all department stores in the chicago land area. It is being reported that Sox fans are getting ready for a couple umpire beatings during some of the games... should be exciting. \| 10.4.05 - mustaches and rocks Mustache club members photos up... looking for new members. Sunday Sarah, Scott, Dottie, Josh and I went up to combat rock in Drake, CO for a day of climbing. My climb actually looked like a horrible video of someone being beaten to death on the side of the road... it was ugly. I guess I did get... lets say 80 feet before running into the black hole of the rock. At that point I came down figuring I had proved how manly I was to everyone and let Sarah take her shot at the wall. She took no time getting way past where I had stopped, jumping around the rock like some kind of spider women. I am thinking I will challenge her to a thumb wrestling match. \| 9.13.05 - mustache club It has been a while since my last mustache, but I have fond memories of the time we shared. It all started back in 2002 when I was playing nothing but 007 in 425 Brandt Hall for hours on. I figured it was time for a change in my life. That's was when I grew the first stache. The first time my top lip hair would get caught on the pop top of my Mtn. Dew, and the first time a women slapped me just for looking really nasty. Word got around that someone had just grown a mustache and it looked pretty gross, at that same time is when I first made contact with the group called the mustache club. After a few meetings in the photo lab and bowling alley the club disbanded and was never heard from again. But with some fresh mustaches on the horizon I thought it was time to get the club back together and invite some new members. All new members that present a current picture with them and their wicked mustache will receive a membership card and of course street cred. Bios and new member pics will be added soon....... mustache club \| 9.12.05 - "You’ll have to excuse my lack of photo here but I didn’t want to break the camera." My guess is that if you are reading this then you know I went to Valparaiso University and if you didn't... well now you know. It was a different kind of place. The kind of place that didn't really feel like a home as much a place to send sane people off to get crazy. I ended up meeting a group of people that were a little different then the rest and ended up with some good friends, and I even met Sarah at the school... so it wasn't that bad I guess. The one thing that wasn't really talked about much around the keg was how horrible the architecture of the school was. Now when looking back on it I actually throw up a little in the mouth. A junior at the school and not a bad photographer either, has logged the first and finest description of the schools architecture in history and it should be shared with others. I advise anyone who has just eaten lunch or is drunk to not look at the graphic images for 30 minutes. valpo architecture review \| 9.1.05 - Thheeeeeeeooooooooooo!! A name Bill Cosby has yelled hundreds, if not thousands of times in his lifetime. Now imagine multiple clones of Bill Cosby that get dumber and dumber as the clones multiply and you have a really good cartoon. It is called the House of Cosby and I am sorry if you have already seen this episode or this show but it is damn funny. If you love to watch and listen to hot ass exotic music as much as I do, this is something you may want to see. link \| 8.24.05 - Art section updates The art section will soon have limited watercolor giclee prints on sale for only $10. There will be full ordering instructions later on tomorrow, but until then check out what is up. 2 new drawings will also be put up tomorrow. They make great gifts for anyone that needs to cover a hole in the wall or for any guy who is looking for the right way to tell his lady he digs what he is seeing. Either way just check it out instead of going to MySpace for 15 damn minutes. My crazy sister Beth and her equaly crazy husband Mike went skydiving last Sunday and I feel I should share the photos from the jump with you. Especially Beth's picture. Not only is her face hilarious but the guy on her back looks so damn calm with a hint of cartoon character like features. I don't know if I would have the balls to jump out of a plane, but this was her second time already and mike's first attempt at death and they had a great time. Click on the picture for a bigger version that you could use for your computers background. \| 8.23.05 - Food the Last Great Drug ... Until Someone Eats It I swear if I find the person who came into my kitchen the other night and took the rest of the leftover Aurelio's Pizza, I am going to cut their stomach open, take out the pizza and re cook it in hopes that when I eat it that it hasn't lost it's taste. And that is a promise. Look at that sad look on my face when I realize the pizza that was wrapped in tinfoil with the name C-Money scribbled on the top is no longer there. Should anyone have to go through that kind of pain for no reason. Isn't it bad enough already that the Cubs will not be making the playoffs this year and we have to watch the White Sox go? The Cubs couldn't even take the series from the Colorado Rockies (47-78) this past weekend which I attended Friday and Saturday. After the game on Saturday which the Cubs lost, it was off to Sing Sing's piano bar across the street from the field for some good old fashion drink it up and dance your ass off good times. After doing my best Pete Townsend air guitar arm swings to the punch lines of knock-knock jokes the piano players were telling to the crowd, it was time to go to sleep. Five hours of sleep later and it was Sunday morning. Sarah was quick to remind me of the Sweet Caroline sing a long I tried to start with people on the streets that didn't go over that great ...should probably just forget about it completely. The Sunday morning drive home from Sarah's friend Katie's house is also the last place the pizza was seen in it's freshest state before being brought back to town and frozen for a night. If you have any information as to the whereabouts of the leftover pizza please contact me as soon as possible. Bellissima Jewelry Design has a killer new site up that you should check out and buy stuff from. \| 8.15.05 - The smoking rabbits I updated my art section and hope you will take a few minutes to check out some of the new and old works. I am going to update the section as often as I can. They are more or less sketches of characters I would like to use for some children's stories. So if you have some children story in you head that can use some characters let me know. 8.11.05 - Some happenings from the last 3 weeks of not owning a pack of cigarettes. 1. I have had a very short temper with loved ones lately. I mean when waking up in the morning and can't find my pants (the only pair without a tear) before I have to go to work and asking Sarah very loudly where they were while she tried to sleep. 2. Sweating a lot more while just sitting around. This could be because of the pounds of food I stuff into my face now to curb the empty feeling in my stomach from not smoking. Last weekend I wanted Aurelios Pizza so bad that I drove 62 miles down I-25 to purchase 2 medium and 1 large take-and-bake style pizza's. Some may say that Pizzeria Aroma or Giordano's may be better but I have to disagree. The sweats could also be from the 90-100 degree weather we had for the past couple of weeks but my guess is the food. 3. Smoked while at filthy bars in Illinois. While at home a couple weekends ago I got to hit the town with the one and only J to the eremy King. When I say hit the town I mean, All-Star bar tour 2005. The night starts with going to Ridgewood for a beer, Lassen's for a fist full of screwdrivers and a couple shots with my brother Paul, and to finish the evening off it was the Tender Trap for quite a few more drinks. A few to many cigarettes were smoked that night. 4. Sick of work faster. The beauty of the cigarette is the cigarette break you take at work. During the time in the morning where people in the office start snacking on their breakfast bars and steak sandwiches I would be outside smoking OUTSIDE of the office. The thought of sitting at a desk any longer then I already do would be insane and the smoke break broke up the day enough to make it feel like you were just starting work again when you got back to the seat. Now I sit at my desk and have a virtual smoke break. 5. No more feeling like you escaped from a burning building every morning. I have actually felt like I could run further then up and down the stairs each morning and turned it into actually running a few times a week. Yeah, it is fucking crazy to just run around the streets for a mile when nobody is chasing you but it is nice to be able to actually run again. Everything else has been same ol', same ol' just without the smokes and a good temper. Do you think it was really an accident? article \| 7.21.05 - 19th Hole So this Friday instead of working till noon and everyone going home to catch up on some much needed sleep before the weekend my boss took the people in the office golfing up in Estes Park. Now I am not one too start drinking alcohol before noon on any day but Cody, Kurt and I dug into a bag of beers while we were still rubbing the crust from around our eyes simply because we weren't working and the boss was paying for us to screw around all day. Four hours go stumbling by and my skin is sizzling from the sun on another day of over 100 degrees while I knock in a couple pars and a bunch of 8's. Congratulations to J.P. and Heidi who got married in Guatemala last weekend and had their reception in Allenspark at a cabin in the mountains this Saturday. Thanks for all the food, drinks, music and camping spots. 7.18.05 - Revelations Since I have never watched a Star Wars movie from start to finish some say I am crazy and don't know what I am missing. To me it is just a movie I haven't watched and probably won't until I feel an uncontrollable urge to spend 20 hours in front of the television. Why try to get into it now... the older graphics will look so crude that I might get ill. But I do get a kick out of the Chewbaccas's and Darth Vader's foaming at the mouth, standing in line for every opportunity to put another addition on George Lucas's mansion and buying everything and anything with Yoda's face on it. Now George Lucas did pioneer quite a computer graphics scene that has found it's way into almost every movie put out now a days and I appreciate that. But now with the affordability and free download possibilities of almost every program used in the movie industry these days it is making it increasingly possible to put out good movies on almost no budget except beer. Now a group of the Star Wars fanatics have released Star Wars 'Revelations' on Panic Struck Productions and it is said to be one of the best "Fan Films" to date of all the Star Wars movies. The film is 48 minutes long and can be seen here. Now if Fox didn't have it all already, News Corp., which is home to the Fox television network, Fox News and 20th Century Fox film studios has just purchased Intermix Media, owners of the popular community site Myspace.com, for $770 million dollars. It is exciting to think that we can invite people like Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich & Bill O'Reilly to be our friends now. I know they are going to be great friends and they will probably have really cool pictures I can comment on too. Now if you are not in the mood for the Fair and Balanced myspace.com, then maybe a friend of yours could invite you to Google's answer Orkut. 7.17.05 - Bike Rally Karl Rove is being called in for questioning about the tampering of Bush's bike in Scotland the other week that caused the 59 year old to slam his bike into a Scottish police officer. W was rushed to to hospital and treated for little tiny bitch cuts that 2 year olds shrug off like it never happened. White House spokesman Scott McClellan blamed the accident on the wet road but what the hell would he know. It is obvious that W is not only a moron but one of the clumsiest people to ever run the country. July 2005: Collides with Scottish police officer on bike and cuts up his girly face. May 2004: Badly scraped up after falling off his mountain bike at the Texas ranch. August 2004: Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." June 2003: Fell off a Segway scooter and looked like an idiot in the street. January 2002: Grazed his cheek after choking on a pretzel and fainting. September 2002: "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." 7.17.05 - Moving on Out Exactly 3 days after Neighbor Man was formed we find the neighbor pounding a for sale sign in his yard with his big cry baby hammer and screwdrive made of tears. Are we to feel bad for him because he can't handle the superb rock n roll that poors through the open windows and doors as we practice until the wee hours of the morning? I think not. 7.12.05 - Neighbor Man A new practice space means a new neighbor to get so mad at us that they actually write the songs. Fish's neighbor was not having the music and decided to walk into the house and tell us to cool it because he doesn't want to call "his friends". This move was considered quite bitchy for a man who has parties all through the night with the music so loud the people across town hear it. Not to mention that the music is usually acoustic Bruce Springstein and a record of horse sounds comes on around 11 p.m.. The extremely bitchy move inspired a song about being a bitch neighbor as well as the new band Neighbor Man. A track will be posted in a week or so. I also can't believe the A.L. won the All-Star game for the eighth straight year. I do like that Aramis Ramirez got his hit off Mark Buehrle and Derek Lee put a hit up... some may even say he played a big role in the pick off of Ichiro. 7.10.05 - Neighbor Kid Last weekend I saw my first bear in the wild and my first moose on the same day, and today Sarah and I saw another bear on the Poudre River. Now I know I could kick a bears ass if I was attacked by ripping out it's tongue, but for the people who may be a little afraid you should read these tips. While living in Loveland the group Neighbor Kid was formed and sang songs with the dialogue that was given to us by the neighbor from across the yard. He sat in a dark room so we couldn't see him and talked to us for 15-20 minutes at a time or as long as we could handle it on 4 separate occasions. It was all good fun until he told us he had syphilis one late night and the conversations stopped immediately after that. Why in the world would some kid start yelling out his window late at night that he had syphilis? It was a question we couldn't answer but motivated us to write his story in music. He gave us all the material needed for about 5 songs that were all written and recorded within a couple days. Look for the album on the top 40 in the coming weeks. Sadly, no lyrics will be coming from our new neighbors because they are getting evicted shortly for not paying the rent. My birth tree is the Walnut tree. ::. c.gregori 2005 .:: email ::. illustration friday .::