Breaking News - Sara Palin steps down as McCain running mate!

As both Republican and Democratic insiders have been hinting, embattled V.P. hopeful, Sara Palin, has stepped down in her bid for President of the United States
(assuming, of course, that John McCain does not make it through a first term that is increasingly looking like a huge stretch anyways). Republicans have gathered,
somewhat embarrassedly, around the new running mate that they are calling, "pretty short", and "a vast improvement over the last pick". At least he has been
practicing some interview responses that are clearly more intelligent and appropriate than what the other one had to offer. Good luck new V.P. hopeful, Gary Coleman.

Robert Wyatt - when I'm 64...if I can rock it like this...

Robert Wyatt was the drummer, vocalist, and songwriter for the Soft Machine in the mid-60's thru 1973ish. He suffered an accident then which left him wheelchair-bound
but still filled with some of the greatest songs that were to come out of the progressive rock canon from then until now (his 'ComicOpera' came out in 2007 and is one of the best
releases of the millenium)...it also got him ushered out of the lugubrious folds of the Soft Machine, who then floundered on in saxa-maphone-hell for many years with Elton Dean
and different line-ups but never regained the funky groove of the Wyatt years.

I went, a couple times, to the Boyle Family exhibit in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003. They invented the practice of showing colored-oil projections behind bands in the mid-60's.
They were the exclusive lighting artists behind the Soft Machine and introduced moving oil projections along with all sorts of light and other video tweekings as adjunct hallucinatory
experiences into the psychedelic rock world. They really made the rock concert a multi-sensory psychedelic experience like noone else...

J's Art - some work-in-progress and a done one

Mast (oil,chalk, cyanotype print on paper)


Sheep (2 detail shots...workin' on these still...oil, oil stick, sign paint enamel on panel)

Massive cooking/rainy day

Dill Pickles

Tomato-Basil Focaccia

Baba Gannoush




Yogurt-Feta Bean Dip


Roasted stuffed peppers












A rainy autumnal day with our friend Joanna...eating, cooking, and spinnin' lots of 70's vinyl. We had bags
of veggies from the CSA to deal with so we made all this, canned the pickles, and ate copiously. Good Times.

Matt Damon gets down on Sara Palin (not Silverman this time...)

pretty concise response and fear...she'd be a monsterous error, huh?

Emily visits the Golden State

80 silk-screened t-shirts later...

Making the shirts for ArtShare's Rivalry project

ArtShare brings rivalry to NE Lutheran Church

ArtShare had the first day of our Rivalry project this past weekend.
I'll post some more on it and throw up some pics in the next day or so...
this'll just have to serve as an enticing, titillating lil' blip until then.


"I've never felt more depressed after a church service..."

~ NELC congregation member




check out more of this project --- http://artsharene.blogspot.com/

my new helmet!

exciting...esp. since I've been riding bucket-less for the last week or two.
Emily got in on the bike commute this summer too...we're looking forward to
autumn biking - hopefully a trip to Stillwater will still make the list and the
Mpls. Bike Tour in a few weeks.

Expunging vermin

This weekend, we're celebrating the exodus of thousands of rats from the twin cities. The plague was shortlived - though they'll surely
continue to spread disease and skittering sounds of no consequence as they drag their wet, pink tails across the land. If you see any of
them, have pity...they may look disgusting but just try to ignore them and seek the high ground and the light...they can't follow you there.

Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet (Sept. 15 @ the Guthrie!)

+=====Jay Reatard=====+

...for your inner snot-nosed brat...

Shots from my exhibit - May '06