Archive for August, 2006

Creature Gets Clean

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

We bought our Creature From the Black Lagoon about two months ago. It was filthy, and in desperate need of a shop job. Two of the ramps had been crushed, but were (amazingly) still pretty functional. With a little tape and a bent credit card we were able to repair it enough […]

The Joy of Hating on Thomas Kinkade

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

It’s articles like this one in the LA Times that make it so easy to hate Thomas Kinkade’s product: (Thanks, Chap) The FBI is investigating allegations that self-styled “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade and some of his top executives fraudulently induced investors to open galleries and then ruined them financially, former dealers contacted by […]

Corruption

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Every now and then you introduce something you really enjoy to someone, hoping they’ll like it too. Oftentimes they don’t, because you tend to like allegedly “strange” stuff, but sometimes they do. Yesterday Jessica had a temp job that required, shall we say, a minimum of work, and she was allowed to peruse […]

Wednesday’s Flickr Adds

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Following the American Road

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Glenn (@Work) sent me a link to this site the other day: Shadows of Old Route 66. I’ve only been over a small part of it (the site and the road itself), but it’s a really remarkably detailed tour. Guy Randall, the site’s author: It took only four years, two cars, 33.75 […]