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dinovember is what refe and susan tuma have been doing for the last two years during the month of november to ignite their children’s imaginations. the tumas position their children’s dinosaurs to appear as if they come to life overnight. as a result their kids get to live vicariously through their toys when they try to make hot chocolate (above), or wrap themselves in tinfoil. i heard an interview with the two kansas city parents tuesday morning as they answered questions and talked about their recent book, what the dinosaurs did last night.

there was a time when kids listened to the radio, called the station, and made song dedications to their friends. here’s a long distance dedication that aired on american top 40 from november 8, 1980. i laughed out loud when casey kasem read the part where the listener wrote “disco changed my life.” if you fast forward 30 seconds you’ll hear it.

before i was old enough to drive, my family lived miles away from the nearest little town. i always imagined that other kids were meeting somewhere and having a great time, and i wasn’t there. i never knew exactly where they met in my imagination, but now i do. they are in recording studios making podcasts about the 80′s. chips dips and dorks, the retroist, and stuck in the 80′s are all podcasts that jenny & i geek out on when we want to go back in time.

i left our house at 5:30 intending to do mondo beep @ first fridays tonight. the traffic was backed up as soon as i turned north on metcalf, and i knew it would only get worse in the crossroads so i went back home. oh well. maybe i’ll head to YJ’s after things clear up around 2am.

it’s been more than a few months since i set up all the gadgets and produce for mondo beep on the sidewalk, but the drive in is closed, my jeep is running, and the forecast is good for first fridays this week. hope to see you under the rocket after 6pm this friday just east of 18th and baltimore. follow the sounds of a dry heaving robot if you have to park far away.

i’ve been contributing to the interurban arthouse blog for a few weeks. the third post in the beep goes the weasel series went up a couple of days ago. it goes into more detail about mondo beep, the sidewalk project that spawned beep goes the weasel.

i found this video last year. happy halloween.

last night jenny & i were listening to the retroist podcast. the host was talking about the fat albert halloween special from 1977. i don’t remember watching this when it was on TV. when the host mentioned a scene with a chicken heart poster, i had to find it online. here it is on dailymotion.

last tuesday i was working with angie @ homer’s. she got a far away look and said “i really wanna cassette player.” i thought she was looking at a car on 80th street, and i misheard her say “i really wanna kiss that tire.” once we got things cleared up, i knew what i had to do. thursday i found a panasonic RXCW50 boombox for $7 at a thrift store. i sent her a text that said “if you still wanna kiss that tire, i found one.” then i bought it, drove out to lake olathe, and took this pic at the abandoned beach house.