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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.

i was really excited to see this last night: in addition to writing on my own blog, and the homer’s blog, i am now blogging for IUAH. they asked me a long time ago to write about my rocket grants experience. nick and nicole at IUAH played a big part in the success of my project, so now i’m returning the favor. oh, and if you’re wondering where that classy headshot came from, it was taken at drew ryan’s wedding. i was an usher.

this little doo hickey i bought from thinkgeek can make anyone sound like a robot, godzilla, bruce lee, or super mario. you can also click here if the video above won’t play.

yesterday i found another series to obsess on. blank on blank is a collection of lost interviews with celebrities, most of whom are deceased. the audio is combined with cool animation that breathes life into the voices of johnny cash, gene wilder, bette davis, and maurice sendak. thanks to this series we get to find out why jim morrison thought fat is beautiful, what grace kelly said about JFK, and why jimi hendrix wanted to be compared to helium.