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posted Friday, May 22 2009

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rock shows / omg gop

posted Sunday, May 17 2009

this cool guy, barry jackson, set up a web page WWW.CLEVELANDROCKANDROLL.COM. it's a site where people who went to rock/punk/whatever shows in cleveland can email him their ticket stubs or what not from the shows. he then posts them to his site, pretty cool. he also has a weekly "rant" that he posts every monday. check him out.

here's a shot of me in 1986 stepping on some kids face during a voivod show at the old peabodys downunder. note security coming to bounce me.




did anyone watch meet the press this morning? holy shit the gop truly is the party of "no", they got the "right rage" going on. it's really about time the red elephant folks quit with this bitter loser thing and think about the people of this country over their ego's....get something done, do the right thing......that's why everyone hates you ;)

rocky river book fest

posted Saturday, May 16 2009

me and kent did a book signing earlier today. it was the "rocky river public library book festival", rocky river is a suburb of cleveland. it was actually a pretty cool event. (of course we were promoting our book "please god, save us").
we sat next to michael heaton who writes for the cleveland plain dealer, and also wrote for people magazine and the san francisco examiner. the book he's promoting (which i highly recommend) is "truth and justice for fun and profit: collected reporting".
david giffels (great guy) was in the line up promoting his most recent book "all the way home: building a family in a falling-down house"
john gorman (another great guy) who worked at wmms for 13 years was also present with his book "the buzzard: inside the glory days of wmms and cleveland radio - a memoir".
those were folks i knew and know their work is good, i did meet several others folks that had some great work that caught my interest as well....

....people like william price, who's book is "shadow confessions", which is about a cia operative taking his son to hong kong to visit his god-father at his safe house. we ended up talking tanks, i mentioned the t-34 and he was impressed that i was the first person he talked to that could actually name a russian tank. so i started rattling off more. i could have talked with him all day.

this other guy, ralph pfingsten had two books that caught my interest. the first one was "history of john marshall high school" which was the high school my dad went to in the late 1930's. his other book was "ohio salamander atlas", which i'm all about. i use to catch them all the time when i was a kid. i'm a big salamander, frog, turtle, newt, mud puppy, and ohio fish geek. so we talked for a while about all that stuff, one thing i ran by him was the extinction of frog spices. he said that there's a fungus that's attacking amphibians. they (the scientists) don't know much about it. what they do know is it originated in the 1930's in the american west and went dormant for years. it has now surfaced again and no one knows how to combat it. we also talked about endangered lake erie water snakes, a breed of turtles that the raccoons are destroying and the gobies (little monsters) that have invaded the great lakes. pretty cool stuff...i could go on.

marilyn sadler was a great person to meet as well. she's a very successful author of children books. she's worked on these books with illustrator roger bollen. they've done several creative projects like "ump's fwar, p.j. funnybunny", a collection of children's books published under the dr. seuss beginner books logo, and the "it's not easy being a bunny" series. her impressive credits go on and on, like abc weekend specials, showtime's shelly duvall's bedtime stories, "handy manny" who's been on playhouse disney as an animated series since 2006.....and she's a really nice person.

here's a little handy manny...



i talked with kathleen cox too, she's north america's foremost proponent of vastu--india's design science. her latest book is "space matters". we went on about the subject and i found her to be a wealth of knowledge. on an unrelated subject, we started talking about the "soup nazi" episode of sienfield (youtube below). she lived in NYC for a while and told me the soup nazi was an actual person the episode was based on.


i don't know the total number of authors that were there, i'm guessing around 50....lots of good stuff. ---




side note - i wore my "slyman's" t-shirt to the event. slyman's is the greatest corn beef place in the world. they're only open from 11am till 2pm, and the line goes out the door into the street, rain, snow, whatever....so the real clevelander's related to my shirt and know the slyman's truth!




not to make fun of some of the folks there...well...ok, make fun of one dude. he's a civil war guy..you know, the folks that dress up in civil war gear and re-intact civil war battles without shooting a single live round (almost as bad as renaissance fair people). this guy, harold george, was dressed in full glory (his book is "civil war monuments of ohio), i think he had his stead tied up outside to the bicycle rack. he ruled, rockin' his gear, livin' the role, and in obviously in need of a girlfriend that would bring him into the 21st century. maybe give him the suicidal bomber re-enactment thing that the kids can relate to these days.....come on now.... frankly scarlet, i don't give a damn.

new originals available

posted Thursday, May 14 2009

i have a new batch of pieces available, like this one "In vain"




you can see them all in the ORIGINAL GALLERY

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posted Saturday, May 09 2009

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