eat shat and die!!!

ok so a couple of days ago, i heard the william shatner song "common people" on indie and was reminded of how effing awesome it is, so of course today i bought the whole cd from itunes and put common people as my song on the myspace page. check out the video for the song here.

also! there's no way to describe how awesome it was, but last saturday i went with a bunch of awesome people to the foo fighters / police show at dodger stadium and it was amazing. effing awesome.

and! loud noises!

but! there's been all kinds of roboty things in the works, and they're up on the site for sale now, so help a sistah out with the art habit!

check out the notecards:


and two new tshirts:




and four new prints of watercolors that'll be in the cactus gallery show this month:








remember, the original watercolors of the merbots will be available at cactus gifts in july! stay tuned for the details on the artists reception on july 21!

p.s. jenn and john are on their way to nyc soon and i'm hella jealous, i don't care if it's a business trip. the end!

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Madeline stars on a macarnni grill tablecloth!

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When i was a kid there used to be a conveyor belt near the ceiling that took orders from the kitchin to theperson working the drive thru window at this mcdonalds. Now its gone and they walk the orders over, which just feels like a step backward.

Ahahaha ok the best part of huge concerts? Weve gone 3 ft in the pking lot in the past half hour trying to get out and go home

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they call this method of wearing a scarf the neck brace. And by they, i mean me.

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Oh dave grohl. So beautiful. Want to touch the heiney.

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Oh god im so jazzed about the foo!

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Robert and kevin were making out true story

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I do like that jaunty hat!

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Thats a lot of yellow!

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I too like to prepare for concerts by flossing in public! Sexy kinda?

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For some reason dodger stadium seems bigger when its set up for a concert. Hooray foolice!

free postcard set contest!

ok i'm upping the ante - if you're the first person to put that pitch video from sesame street on youtube and send me the link, i'll send you a free set of postcards from hearts and laserbeams! you could also win if you find the video pre-existing on youtube and just tell me where it's at. here's the scene you're looking for...

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text comes up on the screen, saying how some tv execs are creating a revolutionary new show for kids. fades to a board room scene, with muppets sitting all around it dressed in suits. the one at the head of the table says something to the effect of "how about we call it the itty bitty kiddy show?" another muppet pipes up "it's all about learning letters and numbers and all that, how about we call it the nitty gritty itty bitty kiddy show?"

text comes up on the screen saying "they just couldn't agree on what to call it"

it goes back to the boardroom, obviously hours later - a pile of papers on the table, some crumbled up, all the muppet execs look haggard from being in this meeting all day. one of em slumped at the table straightens up and says, very tiredly, "hey. these kids that are watching the show... they can't read or say their numbers or anything, right?" the other muppets agree. he continues, very slowly and deliberately, "why don't we call it 'HEY, STOOPID'." kermit pipes up, "you really think they'll put that on the air?"

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aaaaaaand scene!!! if you can find that on the internets and share with the rest of us, or put it on youtube yourself, be the first one to do it and i'll send you a free set of postcards! because i die every time i even think about it.

jeepers it's the fuzz!

etsy is a wonderful magical place. a place where i've listed all the stuff in the shop on my own site, which has gotten slim to none traffic in the shop area since it's gone online, and within 2 weeks on etsy i've sold 3 things. if you do any kinds of handmade goodies i highly reccommend the exposure etsy gives ya!

in other none-businessy news, FOOLICE TONIGHT. foo fighters. the police. dodger stadium. me sending out an s.o.s. i'm sending out a uh uh uhhhhh uh uh! ohhhhh man this is gonna be sweet - i've never been to a big fatass stadium show for a huge band.

AND! almost more exciting! (or maybe just as...) junior senior's touring the u.s. this summer! AND THEY'RE COMING TO L.A.!!! if you know me at all, you know thier first cd is one of my all-time faves, and that the junior senior show jenn and i went to in madison a few years ago was one of the most fun shows i've ever been to - just a big fat dance party is what it was, and i have been dying to see them again ever since! it'll be at the roxy, which is a smaller club again, which i'm VERY excited about - get your tix, it's gonna rock your sox off!

what else... i tooted.

annnnnnnnnd it's the weekend, which i'm very excited about. today i'm going to my first long beach craft mafia meeting. i keep hoping when i walk in they're gonna say the first thing you have to do for craft mafia is crochet a horse's head and leave it in someone's bed. i've told this story to many a folk over the past few weeks and it cracks me up every time.

OH SHIT AND EVEN MORE THAN THAT!!! yesterday at work, guy and stacy had us watch a couple of chunks of sesame street video, to get a better feel for what sesame workshop is all about and how much they do for underpriveledged kids all around the world. me, i'm already way on board with sesame street - it was one of my favorite shows as a kid. cuz it's just wacky-funny stuff that's slipped in there for the adults, things like colambo (a lamb dressed as columbo going around solving crimes) and the billy idol muppet singing "letter L" to the tune of "rebel yell". good good stuff. the most important thing to mention though is i'm not so into the new watered down sesame street. in a word, i'm gonna say it just flat sucks.

but apparently there's a box set of old sesame street clips from the 60s and 70s - and there's a clip on there that we watched yesterday that made me laugh so hard i had tears streaming down my face and i almost couldn't breathe. apparently it's the 1-minute bit jim henson showed pbs to get them to put sesame street on the air. i'm so mad it's not on youtube so i can just show it to you, but good god it's amazing. if you can netflix that box set, do it. and then put that pitch video on the damn youtube so i can watch it again.

new coffee cozies in the shop!

so i've been sick all day, meaning resting tons... got up just a while ago to watch oprah, which is pretty much the only upside to being home sick. i also finished putting up these coffee cozies that i made last weekend. save a tree, use a fabric coffee cozy instead of a cardboard one!

new necklace in the shop!

check out madge the flapper in necklace form, by jenn at comme ci, comme ca! 12 bucks and she's yours!

omgomgomgomgomgomg o.m.g. O.M.G.

i've come close to getting on a couple of reality shows in the past couple of years, and tured down both opportunities because the 15 minutes of fame seemed like they'd be wasted on those particular ventures. BUT. OH. MY. GOD.

there's gonna be a search for the next elvira tv show.

I AM SO TRYING OUT FOR THAT SHIT.

the question is, do i go to the casting call dressed as elvira, or do i resurrect my halloween costume from a few years ago and go dressed as elvria going as the bearded lady?



cast your vote!

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Omg who hung a pic of cher in the trash room!

bahahahahah she's a fiend i tell you!

new items in the shop again! jenn norwood is a picture-taking fiend! check out the latest, 2 new colors for dino necklaces and power rings pow-kaPOW!







also, we fried up some squid steaks tonight... and like the actual animal, they came out a little weird. like i would totally use our breading concoction again on something else, but the consistency of squid is a little hard to take after the first five bites. it was kinda good but mostly weird. we still have squid left over, so we'll try a different recipe next time...

also, why the hell is it sunday night already? i feel like i should've had more weekend than this! on the upside, i did do 3 new little 5x5" paintings for a hot dog place/gallery in los angeles today - i'm showing em to my contact on tuesday along with other paintings that are going up for sure, so if you take a shine to one of em i'll letcha know where you can get em soon!

squid fishing!

HOLY CRAP IT WAS AWESOME.

i can't wait to try cooking it up!

i'm writing a letter to my congressman! or woman!

i hate how every now and then something happens with my cell phone and all of a sudden it doesn't automatically post pics to my blog like it's supposed to, like i have to go through all this bullcrap to get it re-set-up to do that. so all these pics i've been sending the last couple of days haven't actually posted. but i fixed it and they're there now, so rest easy.

today turned out to be crazy/busy instead of just busy, and as a result jimmy didn't get to be almost famous in the dog video, and also we're ending up missin' stephs bday party to finish getting crap together for squid fishing. what kind of crap, you ask? how about a big yellow rain slicker and a giant hook a la the gortons fisherman, how's that grab ya!!! man i wish i had both those things, that'd be totally sweet.

while i go look for that, bask in the glow that is new items in the shop! jenn is goin' like a madwoman! buy some of her adorable accessories or suffer the consequences! the consequences being you won't look quite as cute as you could without an apple pin or dinosaur necklace.

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Spearmint. I love spearmint.

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Basils gotten huge and lavender and daisies lookin good!

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Spinach seeds doing awesome!

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Green peppers getting ready to flower and cilantros growing like crazy!

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We have a tomato growing!

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Im sorry i ordered the LARGE beer

this weekend's gonna be awesome!

number one, it's friday and i'm gonna bust out a couple of new 5x5" paintings for to sell in a hot dog joint in los angeles!

number two, pancakes tomorrow morning in huntington beach! check out the flier, go to the breakfast, support a great cause! that cause, of course, is sausage and pancakes and a lovely raffle prize donated by hearts and laserbeams!

also on tap for this weekend, squid fishing and birthday greetings to the other steph! and lots of painting on sunday for that mermaids show!

and most importantly, check out the new pin in the shop, courtesy of comme ci, comme ca! happy weekending and bottoms up losers!

hump day, we hardly knew ye

holy cow it's thursday already. where did the week go? karaoke, that's where.

last night was awesome, in this order:

-got my back adjusted
-ate a wendys hamburger
-finished and sent off a t design for josh's uncle's high school reunion
-found out josh may join us at stitch n bitch in the future
-went to stitch n bitch
-went through AMAZING 80s knitting magazines with patterns and everything for some of the most horrendous sweater travestys known to man
-started knitting something i'm probably gonna end up unravelling, just because i didn't have an actual project i was working on and just wanted to be knitting something
-went to karoake with some of the knitting group and had a blaaaaaasssssss!

this was the best part of my night, because i heart karaoke like no one's business! went with gayle, angela, the other steph and alicia and all kinds of wacky fun was to be had, including a shout out to our best friend paris hilton. we figured we should probably sing jailhouse rock for her. i also did a rousing rendition of 9 to 5, a little ode to my buddies in the south. steph busted out some moves with maniac, angela did an awesome spoken-word morning train, and alicia got her groove on with some black velvet.

i gotta tell you i love the prospector, but next time we'll probably go somewhere else for our karaoke needs since it was supposed to start at 9, we were there and ready for it at 915, but they wouldn't start it until 1030 because they were, quote, "waiting for more people". balderdash! you're wasting our valuable jackassery time!

sleepy time steph

i haven't slept very well all weekend and i don't know what is up with that.

also, why the hell won't my computer stick with the right time - it constantly says it's an hour earlier than it is, even when i update the shit and it's pissing me off!!!

aaaaaaaaaand last night i saw the remake of the parent trap with one lindsay and her lohans, and i don't know what kind of crap i was expecting but it was actually really good! it made me all nostalgic for the oldskool haley mills one that michelle and i saw about fifty bazillion times when we were kids, and i loved that at one point as a young ms. lohan is stepping into an elevator she's singing softly to herself, "let's get together, yeah yeah yeah".

it's so sad that someone that used to be such an adorable little kid grew up to be such a ho-bag, traipsing around downtown savannah, georgia ordering all kinds of pizza from all kinds of restaurants and never paying for any of it. oh and i guess there's the coke/booze thing, too.

soco bazaar was great this last weekend, thanks to all who came out for some dana point fun! it was a pretty slow day, but it was cool seein our friends and makin' some new ones! afterwards i came home and put a crapload of new stuff on the site and y'all should buy it post haste!

and that's it. i'm really very tired.

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