The Seven Deadly Sinners

Cheers!

Happy Halloween!

Birds and branches have even taken over the pumpkins! Now that is scary indeed.

(via the Little Chimp Society)

Magic

Those evil geniuses at Taschen have done it again. An ad for this book just showed up in my email box. MUST HAVE. Who needs to eat, anyway?

Magic, 1400s-1950s

Mike Caveney,  Jim Steinmeyer,  Ricky Jay

Taschen 2009

bubbles

bubbles
Originally uploaded by Lisa Brawn

I don't know why it took so long for me to figure out that my second favorite Calgary artist has a Flickr account, but I just happened to find it. Lisa Brawn is a genius, people, check her out!

Delicious Goetze Candy!

So I was cruising the candy aisle in my local Dollar Tree (nasty dollar store, you know) and the selection was actually pretty decent- a lot of vintage type candy for a buck. Bags of Mary Janes, Rainbow Nerds, Smarties, Boston Baked Beans, etc. Then what to my wondering eyes should appear but... this box... the "Bullseye" "Cream Filled" "Goetze" candy... something is not right here... if you know what I mean, you know what I mean...

Snezhana waits your answer

Brand new Fresh Spam!

Revenge of the Red Shirts

A message for Captain Kirk from today's Calgary Zombie Walk.

Key of Light

It was one of those days. I got slammed with work at 4:00 so I didn't leave until 6:30, the LRT left the station just as I got to the platform, the next train didn't come for 20 minutes, I just missed the bus downtown, and after waiting over half an hour for the next one I gave up and walked home. Fortunately it had stopped snowing. I figured it was a good opportunity to get a shot of this beautiful neon locksmith sign, which is the last of 3 really good pieces of neon in my neighborhood. (the other two have disappeared since I moved here 5 years ago).

Fat Biscuit Sandwich

Kamala writes:

Check it out dudes. You all know the "This is Why You're Fat" site, right? (damn, that Jalapeno Popper Casserole is lookin' pretty good right about now...) Have you seen the new "This is Why You're Fat" book?  I just noticed it's out now... I want to go see the real deal. They used my "Reggie" biscuit sandwich shot that I posted on flickr in it! 

 I've made it!!! Yessss!!! I can now add another thing to my list of 'publications' on my artist resume!

The Fever Mounts

I'm pretty revved up about the Winter Olympics coming to town in February. Like something right out of a Lionel Ritchie super-hit, it promises to be a fiesta forever. Or at least a couple of weeks. Not only will there be Free Speech Zones just like in the glory days of America's Bush regime, but there will also be checkpoints, anti-terrorism units, homeless round-ups, and surveillance cameras - uniting us all in the dazzling spectacle of ruthless competition and "owning the podium" - which is Canada's official slogan for the Games. I'm contributing my own festive designs as a small way of catching the fever and spreading the infection. And finally, Vancouver's worries as a severely troubled city with a wide open drug port will be over, finally flapping in the sweet, rarified winds of "World Class." Whatever that means.