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this is what happened last month when salon kitch teamed up with beep goes the weasel to celebrate local life in overland park: tim played the theremin, john was on the carrots and bananas, and amy used a voice transformer to sing like a robot. and hey guess what? we’re doing it again THIS FRIDAY! the fun starts @ 6pm and goes on until someone calls the cops, then we’ll watch some educational film shorts made by rifftrax.

brothers music is a local record store that opened a couple of months ago where a laundromat used to be. in addition to vinyl LP’s and 45′s they also sell CD’s, cassettes, t-shirts, guitars, and music accessories. the place feels like a handful of laid back musicians pooled their resources, and opened their own shop. last saturday night they booked the acosmists for a gig, and we all watched in amazement as ian mull turned into a voodoo child!

there is a podcast on the atari 2600!!! this means that i am not alone in my 8 bit obsession. actually it’s the tip of the iceberg. thanks to ferg (the host) i’ve found a slew of other retro game related podcasts!

space patrol was a radio show that aired over 60 years ago. the space patrol space-o-phone was something you could get if you mailed in an instant ralston (cereal?) box top along with twenty five cents. hey, it included secret briefing sheets and you could use it to talk even if you were 50 feet away! the space patrol merchandise department also made a mono-view outer space helmet that was “a whole foot high!”

another thing we did over the thanksgiving weekend was head to the mall in joplin. i hadn’t been to northpark mall in a few years, but i was still able to find my way around. the layout is mostly the same even though most of the shops i frequented are long gone. my niece sara and i took these pictures of each other in the teen section of sears even though we didn’t buy the blondie t-shirt– hence the title of this post. the last time i posted something about sara, she was holding a fish.

jenny & i drove to joplin for thanksgiving with my family last weekend. on the way down we listened to folk alley, an internet station i found that plays a great mix of folk, celtic, world, and alt-country music. they are based out of ohio, and they even have live DJ’s! one of the songs that especially cracked us up was tim o’brien’s pompadour. it was a track he recorded after he woke up with the hair stylings of christopher walken.

keep calm… i’m not quitting anything. two week notice means i just realized that it’s been two weeks since my last blog post. a moment ago i wiped the spittle from my chin, and cracked my knuckles. ok, i’m ready to catch up now! hmmm… i think the next few posts will include my latest online discoveries, an update on beep goes the weasel, and a short video i made from tree shadows. stay tuned!

i’m listening to kohina radio right now, and my world is losing sharpness and definition, and slowly turning into this 8-bit gif that i downloaded from the kohina website. i will totally buy tickets if one of the bands that play on this station comes to KC… but i’m pretty sure i’ll go to the show alone.

…here come the beeps! despite the wintry forecast from the national weather service, beep goes the weasel is happening at salon kitch friday night. the address is 7333 W 80th St., in old overland park, ks. we’ll plug in the veggies and start jamming at 6pm. later we’ll watch an educational film short on fast food nutrition!

called to walls is a documentary about murals that will be shown on the MSSU campus in joplin, mo. (2pm inside cornell aud., plaster hall) on sunday, nov. 22. “The film chronicles a series of community-based murals led by muralist Dave Loewenstein between 2010 and 2013. Featured in the film is the story and creation of Joplin’s own mural, The Butterfly Effect: Dreams take flight, 2011.” – quoted from Called to Walls’ facebook page. dave loewenstein was one of the rocket grant jurors that voted for beep goes the weasel to receive funding last year.