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AITP: Alphonse Mucha
It's about time I put up a new Artist-of-Indeterminate-Time-Period.In the house I grew up in my bathroom had this wallpaper that were miniature reproductions of French advertisements. Besides...
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Forgive Me My Sins This Day
I must beg you, especially the geekiest of you my readers, for forgiveness. I lived in ignorance for so long and maybe even slight condescension.I avoided the Buffy TV series because I thought it...
View ArticleGoing To See A Man About An Erection
Just a quickie today, I'm going to be gone during my prime blogging hours to see The Faint at In The Venue/Club Sound/Used-To-Be-Bricks. See previous entries using the tags below to understand the...
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The Faint - In The Venue - July 30 2008
You've read my gushing about The Faint on this blog before and when I found out they were playing here there was no question, I had to see them.When I arrived at In The Venue (or Club Sound or whatever...
View Article(Not) Freecreditreport.com
Since I got burned I thought I would toss it out there for all my faithful readers. Don't use freecreditreport.com as they automatically subscribe you to their monthly reporting service with little in...
View ArticleMore Cavedoll
If you read the comments below on my review of The Faint show you'll notice that Knessa, the female lead vocals of Cavedoll, was cool enough to stop by and say thanks. Her husband Camden, male lead...
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Meet my new mistress, WoW
Yeah yeah, I've been gone. There's this new girl I've been hanging out with quite a bit lately. She's at least 6'5" with horns and hoofs and can take away your pain in an instant.Ok, that's about as...
View Article*Pause* Hi. I'm In Delaware.
I'm not actually in Delaware, I'm in Montana but the quote seemed entirely appropriate. Do people go to Montana on purpose?Don't be mad Montana-ites (Montanans?) I'm mostly joking. Big Sky country is...
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Montana, Hey It Ain't So Bad!
I'm back from my adventures in Great Falls proper. Damn they have a lot of casinos here. Would you call a converted 7-11 a casino? It seems too small to be called that.In driving around I was on the...
View ArticlePretentious Book Meme
I've seen this called both the Pretentious Book Meme or The Top 106 books most often marked "unread" by LibraryThing's users.Here are the rules: BOLD the books you have read, italicize the books you...
View ArticleOooh You're Proficient In Exotic Weapons
I think everyone's gathered by now that I'm somewhat of a geek. My geekiness goes way back. (See my 7-year-old-self's drawing of Condor Man, I loved comic book heroes even back then) I've had a regular...
View ArticleWow, uh...
I guess I didn't realize how much I'd posted "Red"'s name in the past on this blog. I think I caught them all now.
View ArticleTagged by Knessa
Being that I'm a follower of Knessa's blog, I have been tagged.Here are the rules: I have to answer the following questions with one word answers and one word only! Then I must pass it on to seven...
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New Music - October 2008 Edition
This post has been begging to be published for at least a month now. It's new music time on Jer Illuminated!iTunes single of the week strikes again with Buildings and Mountains by The Republic Tigers....
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Election Eve 2008
I've been fairly silent on my blog regarding political topics though I've certainly been vocal other places like Facebook. On the eve of one of the most important (aren't they all?) elections of my...
View ArticleYes We Can!
Forgive me my earnest title but I can't help it. For some reason the full depth of what Obama being elected actually meant didn't hit me until I saw it on TV last night. Seeing prominent public figures...
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The Tyranny of the Majority
The historic win of Barack Obama and the joy and hope following election day were tainted for me by the passage of Proposition 8 in California as well as anti-gay-rights bills in other states. One step...
View ArticleEarly Thanksgiving
I had one of those moments on the drive home tonight after dropping off my girls with Christy. That brief glimpse of connectedness to everything.It came at the end cap of a wonderful week celebrating...
View ArticleTo My Friends on Utah's Capitol Hill
(After the defeat of ALL the Common Ground Initiative bills I had some questions for those that were instrumental in their failure. This is the email sent to the hearing committee, my representative...
View ArticleOne Impressed KUER Listener
Sometime in the past year I've become an NPR fiend. Instead of listening to local alternative stations or my iPod, I'm keeping up with world politics and news on All Things Considered or The World,...
View ArticleInternet, I Have A Problem
Dear Internet,I know you give so much to me. You give me LOLCats and Pokerface mashups, Fail Blog and Christian Bale Techno. But I need to ask you for something, something that may not be in your...
View ArticleSo Many Shiny Things
This is what I'm talking about, Internet. In the time elapsed since my last blog post I have a mountain of things I'm considering devoting my time towards. Some are creative endeavors, some are media...
View ArticleThe Paty Is At My Other Pad
It seems kind of dead here because I'm posting quite a bit over on my other project related blog.This blog will remain open as an outlet for my personal life, ruminations on existence, new music and...
View ArticleMy New Second Job
For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to draw comics. Telling a story with drawings is something that spoke to me at a primeval level. It's something that's been there in the back of my mind,...
View ArticleWhen my morals exceeded my church's morals
I was sitting on my bed this last Sunday, getting ready for the day, and I started contemplating morals I was taught growing up in the Mormon church versus the morals I hold now. I'm not sure why that...
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