Mark Hayward Is My Hero

After years of envy I finally got a spoiler on my 1995 Toyota Corolla! Of course I didn’t exactly install it myself, it was installed by nature, one drip at a time.

The only thing I did to get these photos was remove snow. The ice is completely unmodified. The car was parked with the trunk just under the edge of our roof, and when we got that 20 inch snowfall a few weeks back it started to melt and drip off the roof. The air temperature was just right so that when the drips hit the thick layer of snow that was still on the car, they froze into this all-natural super-pimp ice-spoiler. I wanted to drive around with it, but of course it didn’t make it more than about a foot and a half before breaking apart.

This is a photo from Frick Park in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago when we got more than 20 inches of snow. Check out the bent and broken trees in the background.

Lola, Onyx, and Vader

Miamisburg was fun!  There’s nothing like getting free drinks at the local bar because you’re hanging out with the Pastor.  It was really fun to see Mike Hout in his official capacity, which was surprisingly the same as how he is when we hang out at juggling and yo-yo conventions, only he had on nicer clothes.

Here are some photos of our raucous time:


It’s the TOP hat bistro… get it?

That’s right… I may not be the first visitor to the Top Spinning Hall of Fame, but I’m the first one to get my photo taken in front of the sign!
(You’d be bleary-eyed too if you’d been up all night carousing with Pastor Mike.)

I couldn’t resist stopping for a waffle snack on the way home. It was delicious.

Hey Ford fans!  Urban Outfitters has a Ford t-shirt on sale right now, but you have to hurry because they are on clearance for $10.  Don’t miss out on your chance to have the style edge at the next meeting of all your car pals.  It’s a small style edge I know, but I’ll take what I can get.

This is really cool. A very unusual design for a snow tractor/snow mobile/snow machine… whatever you like to call them where you live. Apparently it is Henry Ford himself driving.

1926 Ford Snow Motor

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=568_1233111054

For the celebration of 80 years of Duncan Yo-yos a massive set of demonstrator trading cards came out, and one card has been included in each entry-level yo-yo. My Duncan pals and I have been looking for our own cards in the stores, and I just found mine this weekend! It was pretty cool.

Here’s what the card looks like:

I did two library shows in rapid succession here in the Pittsburgh area and got a nice article written about me in the Signal-Item Newspaper. You can read it here.

Last week I had a gig at the Greentree Library here in the Pittsburgh area, and they filmed a little web extra for their patrons.

You can see other virtual events posted by the Greentree Library here.

I managed to get myself on National TV once again! Check it out:

It was great fun hanging out with Bob Rule and getting the stories from the old days of yo-yo demonstrations. Of course it’s fun hanging with the other guys in the tour van, but they’re no Bob Rule. You can see Bob’s website at www.mryoyo.com

Today was another Toys R Us demo with the Duncan Tour, but this one was back down in Virginia. Afterwards we got to stop in at good ol’ Dick Stohr’s house and see his yo-yo collection. It’s always fun to see a yo-yo collection, and it’s nice to spend time with a yo-yo pal when we’re not at a contest for a change.

Dick Stohr with part of his yo-yo collection at his home in Virginia.