Thursday, February 21st, 2008

WeeWar Blitz!

In a mad blitz, my friend Matiss and I played 50 rounds of WeeWar tonight. It was amazing. One of the great things about WeeWar is that it is turn-based. That way you can play with a bunch of people, and they can just take their turn when they are able to, [...]

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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Juggling Knives While Carving A Pumpkin

This weekend I had a couple of gigs in the Chicago area, but I went up a day early to participate in a taping for Chicago Public Access Cable TV.
Harper, Matiss and I showed up with a bag full of juggling machetes and two pumpkins.

We carved this one in advance, and the other was to [...]

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Monday, June 12th, 2006

Weekend in Green Bay

I got to spend the weekend in Green Bay WI this week. I was up there for a gig at the International Bay Fest, 3 shows on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. It was a good time. Since I was staying at my friends Jeni and Adolfo’s house I got to bring [...]

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Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Making Gizmos

I am in Chicago for the next few days staying with my friends Harper and Matiss. Tomorrow is day two performing at Math Bowl 2006 down in Chicago Heights, and after that Harper and I are going to go to American Science and Surplus to buy parts to make new gizmos! It’s been too long [...]

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Monday, May 1st, 2006

Art Chicago

At the last minute Lenore and packed up the car, put the dog in the back seat, and headed up to Chicago on Thursday. It had been her plan all along to be there, but there were a whole series of problems with the show this year. The main one being that it [...]

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