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julia cole sent me this email late monday night: “on behalf of the charlotte street foundation and the spencer museum of art, i am delighted to inform you that your proposal was selected to receive a rocket grants full project award for 2014-2015.” what this means is: beep goes the weasel* is coming to a drive-in theater near you (if you live in kansas city).
*support for this work is provided by a rocket grants project award, a program of the charlotte street foundation and the university of kansas spencer museum of art. funding is provided by the andy warhol foundation for the visual arts.

jenny & i went geocaching this afternoon and discovered castle northmoor near riverside. harlan shaver built it around 1981. he was 70 years old at the time. there is a spiral staircase around back that goes all the way to the top where there are cannon turrets and a treasure chest.

last night jenny & i watched chuck on netflix. it’s an action/comedy series about a computer technician who reluctantly turns into a spy. the episode chuck vs. the anniversary has some great pop culture references: harry dean stanton reprises his role as a repo man, dolph lundgren whispers “i must break you” into someone’s ear, and chuck applies for a job at vandalay industries.

it was a decent turnout @ the pop up gallery last night for mondo beep. we met some new folks, and saw some familiar faces. at one point lydia stepped away from her keyboard, and jammed with ian and max. ian was playing bananas because i forgot to bring carrots. fortunately there was a quiktrip nearby with cheap fruit. bystanders asked me if the electric current was the reason the bananas were getting dark spots, and i said “no they’re just bruised.”

mondo beep was at the pop up gallery last month for first friday. we met ALOT of people who stopped to play carrots and take fliers. we’ll be there again tomorrow night @ 6pm making noise as usual, but also playing songs from our beep goes the weasel project. if you don’t see us right away just follow the sounds of aliens with a cold, or robots having a root canal.

jenny & i had a good visit with family in northeast nebraska last weekend. we had dinner at the uptown brewery. this was one of the locations where they filmed the movie, nebraska. the uptown brewery is where stacy keach sings at a karaoke bar and also threatens will forte in the men’s room. the pic above is from that men’s room.

i went shopping for scrubs at the goodwill store last night (thanks for the tip angie). i had no idea that there’s a rack just for that particular item. i need scrubs for myself and two other artists working with me on beep goes the weasel. this project requires the use of hospital scrubs, robot masks, a drive in screen, and vegetables.

we stayed at my sister’s house the night before easter. they have chickens. the chickens lay eggs. i got paid to gather eggs one summer back in the 80s. this time i did it for free.

last saturday casey kasem was counting down the top 40 hits from april 11, 1987 on a nova scotia radio station. on that day bryan adams debuted at #32 with heat of the night. it was the first time a single was released on a cassette instead of vinyl.

after 11 episodes and a two year hiatus, abracadiner returns… sort of. the camera man is on strike so we took this photo and interviewed a newborn baby, the youngest guest on the show since guitarian. here’s the transcript:

me: hey thanks for coming on the show!
baby: no sweat. you can thank my folks, they brought me into this world.
me: wow! that’s right! you’ve only been out for what, two weeks now?      what’s that like?
baby: you make it sound like i was in prison!
me: sorry.
baby: that’s ok, you just gotta realize, first impressions mean alot especially at my age.
me: you are wise beyond your years.
baby: weeks.
me: right.