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okay, i've been spending the last twenty minutes reading michael ian black's myspace blog. goddam that dude is funny.

right at this very moment, i have a chunk of time to do something artsy, and i have absolutely no ideas. zip zero zilch. that kinda crap really just pisses me off.

you're going to a black dots show this saturday!

no really, you totally are. because the black dots rock your world, and you enjoy having your world rocked!

rossmoor isn't as far away as it sounds. think right around seal beach-ish in the oc. it's a benefit for a youth shelter, so you may have to donate a couple of dollars when you get there - more price info as it becomes available...

and hey, if you wanna be supercool pass this info on to your friends! if you do, santa'll leave an extra somethin' special for you this xmas, and this time it just might not be poop!

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chockful of AWESOME!

yesterday was a pretty sweet day, yo.

i think i'm gonna start using yo all the time, by the way, yo. cuz i got street cred, man. street cred.

had a bit of an afternoon date with josh - we went to park pantry for lunch, and have you ever had a "nicoise salad"? i believe they pronounced it nih-swah, which i believe is french for "let's throw all of the food in the fridge that's nearing its expiration date in a bowl" salad. this thing had everything. it had olives, tuna, tomatoes, eggs, potatos, pasta, cucumbers, and i think like twelve other ingredients. tasty, but weird. and huge. picture a swimming pool full of salad. okay maybe not that big. more like a kiddie pool.

anyhow, after that we drove out to the cerritos towne center and visited the rescued puppies that were up for adoption. i think we hung out with the dogs for well over an hour... there are definitely a couple of finalists, two in particular that we are actually kinda deciding between... will we get a dog? tune in this week to find out. they were both really sweet.

checked out the new xmen movie and i'm sad that i heard they won't be making anymore. i'm not a big comic book type of girl, i didn't really watch the cartoon on tv THAT much, but it's still seriously entertaining and not at all hard to follow. lots of cool action scenes where people get their asses kicked. which is very important to me. less chat more splat!!! pow!! also, i'm not ashamed to admit my dumbass cried like twice. I AM A RETARD AT THE MOVIES, PEOPLE.

after we got home we figured out when we're goin' to see josh's mom in new mexico and got some tasty plane tickets for said visit... hooray for seeing carole! but more importantly, HOORAY FOR CRACKER BARREL!!!

then michelle came over and we dined on deeelicious boboli pizza and watched a little of the aviator, which wasn't a bad movie. i just hate the ending. we took off to go see an art show put on by alphacult, but couldn't find the place and ended up at a show by frosted cupcakery instead. it was so cool, this art show was nothing but pieces about cupcakes, all of it done in a fun wacky style that i could totally see my paintings fitting in with. AND they had free cupcakes! for eating!! so we ate some! and they were delicious! yo!

the rest of the east village artwalk that was happening in that area was just a little lame in comparison to the cupcake show, too much high-falootin' ra-sha-sha deep type of stuff and not enough fun wacky stuff for my tastes, but it was really cool all the same. except for the video installation we saw of some dude's guts getting trampled by another dude. that was fucking sick. we high-tailed it outta that gallery pretty quick.

and now i have no idea what i'm gonna do with myself for the next couple of hours... the couch and tv's soundin' pretty effin' sweet, yo.

wacky celeb paintings are goin' fast!

damn, yo.

i put that fruit and nuts celeb series of paintings up in siren here in long beach in january, right? 11 little 5" x 5" paintings (one had already sold over the holiday season) hanging on the wall by the greeting cards, here it is like four months later and five have already left the building! check out what's still available, if you like whatcha see then you best visit siren at the corner of junipero and 4th street in downtown long beach! tell all your friends!

* ben affleck and a banana taking care of business at a urinal

* david and courtnex cox taking a bubble bath with an apple

* oprah and a cherry riding a tandem bike through a park

* eugene levy making late-night prank calls with a bunch of grapes

* donald trump playing on the slide with a green pepper

* everyone's favorite tv doctors zach braff and doogie howser playing double dutch with a blueberry

cheers, and thanks for supporting the art habit!

nothing rhymes with mr. orange

the conversations josh and i have crack me up. which works out awesome since we're planning on spending quite a lot of time together in the future.

last night, we were watching tv and one of those new pepsi commercials came on with mariah carey on it. josh has been on a rebel billionaire kick lately, and has been regaling me with stories of richard branson's private island with it's outdoor bathrooms and all kinds of other ra-sha-sha amenities. so when this commercial comes on, he mentions how mariah carey was staying there during the taping of the show he was watching about said island.

and then he tells me that if he were richard branson, he'd totally be making out with mariah carey.

i ask him if i could be there, too, and he's all yeah dude it'll be hot. so i ask can i make out with tim roth?

and he pauses.

"who's tim roth?" he asks.

"you know, the bellboy from four rooms," i answer.

and we both just start laughing hysterically, because shit i have weird taste in hot actors.

nerd persecution must end!!!

dude, the name of this font is seriously cracking me up. all of a sudden i feel like i need to see revenge of the nerds 2 again very soon, which leads me to my second point...

bernie casey forever!!!

guys, i think one of these days we need to have an all hail bernie casey art show.

a veritable smorgasborg of photos!!!

okay so i feel like there's a million and twelve things i wanna be doing lately but none of it's getting done. things that i like doing all the time but just don't get to do. so today i did one of those things, and spent like 2 hours compiling tons of photos of things i've been wanting to share for a while. events like the savannah get-together last month, wig night a couple of weeks ago, battle of the bands, and so on. and now i'm completely over flickr and won't put any more pictures up there for like another five months.

click here to enjoy!!!

twiggy twiggy twiggy twiggy...

okay, that title makes no sense unless you're humming that pizzacato 5 song that came out years ago when you read it.

i know i promised pictures last night, but dammit tv was much more important!!! josh and i watched america's next top model, because we happened to pass it on ye olde boob toob and i felt like i should research? question mark? we had heard twiggy was gonna pay a visit to our office today, thursday, and while i know for a fact this chick is uberfamous, and we are doing twiggy shirts that look cool as shit, i don't really know much about her, you know? not that you can learn much about her from seeing her onscreen for like 3 seconds. but it was still pretty cool to see her in the office today just breezing through on a tour.

(this just in from the chair to my left: "irish blud english heart josh just let a big ol' fart" thank you morrisey and josh's updates!)

what else is going on right now... josh is on the phone with his bro, who's birthday is today, and they're figuring out where we're eating dinner. GOOD GOD I'M SO HUNGRY. fucking shit dude.

also, remy gave me a candy bar today at work that was given to her by an exboyfriend's current girlfriend. i told her are you sure it's safe? and she's all "probably, on the off chance i'd share it with her boyfriend"... but she's not really the candy type so she passed it off to me. but on the offchance it IS poisoned, sorry dude but i gotta throw that shit out you know? don't wanna be hoisted on someone elses captain picard, or pitard, you know, whatever...

the end!

also, josh is a genius. he's gonna make a million on his current home decorating idea. seriously. i'd buy it.

p.s. i heart you!

also, i made like fanny and put the black dots fliers up on gigposters! cheers to more exposure for all parties involved!

look madge, i soaked in it!

that's what i always think when i think of madonna. don't ask me why.

i just want to tell you two things.

number one, i love home workout tapes and i'll tell you why. when you get tired, you can totally make a mockery of the moves and the instructor can't yell at you. there's no one doing poolattes with you and farting on you a'la the poolattes class at the oshkosh ymca. and it always cracks me up how gracefully her assistants do something simple like lying on their side on the mat, when i always end up making it look so bumbling awkward-like. i think i'd be a good assistant on a workout tape for trainables, maybe.

number 2, this last weekend was absolutely crazy. had a slumber party at michelle's on friday night, after dinner and drinks at the reno room. that jerk took the top bunk!

saturday went in to get a simple little oil change on my car and found out that oh dear god something else broke. 400 bucks later, and the car's got a new front axle, a new something or other that braces one of the front tires, an air filter, an oil change, a tire rotation, and an alignment. it's funny how you don't realize something was totally wrong with the car, then it gets fixed and you're all "oh god this is so much better!"

number 3, black dots got second in the battle of the bands on saturday! it was a completely awesome set with the now 5 person band, featuring danielle's singing debut (a rockin' cover of "next to you" by the police) and a large garden gnome on stage. battle wounds were doled out, and danielle and freddy both bled all over their instruments. we sold 8 (almost 9!) goats love blts shirts at the show, and a handful of pins and stickers too! some kids stole a couple of pins from our table. not that i'm bitter, just that it cracks me up (AND PISSES ME OFF!!) that they totally thought they got away with it, but the years and years of retail experience michelle and i share means we saw the whole damn thing. and one of the kids' parents were standing there! nice. niiiiiiice. whatever dude. it wasn't worth the headaches.

number 4, my friend ann graduated from whittier law school this weekend meaning watch your back, cuz i'm gonna sue every last one of you mutual funders! the ceremony was lonnnnnnng and the senator that spoke was kind of a downer, but at the end we got cake so hooray! it was awesome being able to be there for that, in a roomful of lawyers on the only day in their lives they will ever truly be applauded for being lawyers! i'm so glad maria got to come down for it, too, we had a blast hanging out with her! aaaaaaaaaaaOOOOOOOgah!!! p.s. i heart strawberry margaritas! total count this weekend: 3

be on the lookout for photos of these and other awesome events, coming to my flickr page soon! but not now, i've gotta get ready for work. the end!

a horse kicked me in the face once, it was awesome

dude, i hope i hope i hope the shirt i'm working on right now makes it to stores because it cracks my shit up.

and looking at all these my little ponies that michelle and i had when we were kids is making me all nostalgic, i think i'm gonna poop myself! the end!

it's that time of the year again...

this one kinda came up on me at the last minute, so there wasn't a lot of time for more artsy fartsy stuff, but i still dig it. hope there's money in the budget to print these on red paper cuz that'd be hot. the end i'm going to bed! you best go to this show, because i promise it'll rock your socks off!

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electricsweatshirt will zap your pants off!

so the weekly homework for this wednesday's art meeting is to pull together examples of different art and inspirations that we think are cool. i just started going through current sites i heart aside from my friends blogs, mostly ones jenn introduced me to, including marriedtothesea.com, nataliedee.com, gigposters.com... i just visited crowdedteeth.com and POW! that girl started a blog!

i'm thinkin' of driving up to l.a. after battle of the bands on saturday to see her art show...

speakin' of art, i'm perfecting my tshirt screenprinting technique and that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. the last 4 black dots shirts i made with michelle and danielle yesterday turned out hot. hooray!

i'm working, i swear.

someone's been a busy little bee....

buzz buzz, mutual funders!!!

there's a shitload on my to-do list today! including:

-print the new "goats love blts" black dots shirts for battle of the bands next weekend

-put em up for sale in the shop on this site

-make an order form for when we hopefully run out of shirts at the show

-pack a box to send to new mexico

-mail out the cingular rebate crapola

-lunch with michelle and the kids

-get my horribly smelly car washed

-punch josh in the nads

truth be told, i put wash the car on the list full-well knowing i have no intention of doing it this week. better luck tomorrow, chuckles. better luck tomorrow.

also, does marco on degrassi have aids, and why do i care!?!?

I smell like poo!

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no seriously, this stinks!!!

okay my computer is fucked, and so is josh's. the next few days will involve backing up millions of files so i can take this fucker in to get wiped out and reformatted and all that jazz. you can reach me through email - i won't be on any other internet much for the next week or so.

the word for this is homogay.

GARRRRRR!!!!!! cheetah!

okay so josh and i made it back in one piece last night, and our recommendation is if you have a choice, don't fly nwa airlines. what a ghetto piece of crap flight that was!

not always the airlines fault... part of it i chalk up to the chick with tuberculosis constantly coughing up a lung in the seat right behind us all the way from savannah to detroit. but damn, girl, take a cough drop, drink some water, just do something so the rest of us don't have to listen to you for TWO HOURS!!! garrrr!!!

and the flight attendants were surly to an almost-comic degree from minneapolis to lax. just funny.

i'm hoping to get outta the house and on the way to work like RIGHT NOW, but i'm still installing the 2006 norton antivirus to hopefully fix the shit that got on my computer the day we went on vacation. viruses are stoopid and they piss me off and now josh's computer is having the same issue. i'm hoping the new norton does something to help this shit, cuz i really don't wanna have to take this mutual funder to pc club for a colon blow...

aside from that, vacation was a complete and total laugh riot. pictures and stories to follow. i'm out!