A Real Barstard of a Halloween

I went as a british medical student...



A few people who didn't know me or the character were all like "Clark and Belmont is the other way, you clown!

The Mystery Kids Have Arrived...

At some point in the course of my illustrious 10-year career in picture framing, i happened upon these two fellas in a frame discarded by one of my customers. Their freaky, drugged out eyes held visions of electric football games, bad acid trips and S.E. Hinton stories. Who were these two? They were obviously part of the same street-gang, and possibly had art class together, most likely during fifth period.

So many unanswerable questions are posed by these two cohorts; Did they know M&M? Had they been with Pony Boy as he began to stay golden? We may never know, so we must make some shit up....

Click directly underneath this post, on "comments" and tell me who you think these miscreants are...what are their names, where do they live, what did they do immediately after the portraits were completed? Are they still alive?

At some arbitrary point, to be decided in the future, i will select one comment as a winning recipient of some stickers and bullshit which i will mail to your street address, if said winner is willing to email said address to me. Said stickers will be enclosed in an envelope with said bullshit, and will arrive in said envelope by said postal service. wait..i didn't say postal service yet. regardless, the contest begins.....NOW!

MORE MODEL MAYHEM!!!!

The Mercenary Gunboat is coming along nicely...



This baby is packin' some serious space-heat



Obeying a cardinal rule of shipbuilding...don't forget to trick out the underbelly



My custom Falcon in action!



Nice detail shot of the cockpit



And the deadly quad cannons..woe be unto thee, oh Tie Fighter!

As Promised...A Non-Political Update..

So iv'e been building some models lately, hadn't done it since i was a teenager. I came back to it when i got the idea stuck in my head to build my own custom Millenium Falcon. The photos below are of the commonly found MPC kit, but with completely scratch built side panels, and alot of kitbashed details. While it's not apparent in these pictures, the model is fully lit with LED's, fiber optics and a Lightsheet panel for the main engines. (ill have to get some more batteries for it first, hehe.)





After finishing this project, i wanted to tackle something a bit more challenging. I began to peice together my own designs for an original, scratch built starfighter. The gunboat below is currently in the stage shown, i'd say it's less than half done.
I have recently won a lot of 6 helicopter model kits on ebay (woo-hoo!), so i should have the random parts to finish it off soon enough.



The hand built models of the older sci-fi movies (star wars, et. al.)were always better than today's overdone CGI effects, and this is my tribute to those fine craftsmen.

GO-GO POWER WAR PIGS!

So fuck it, im gonna lay off the political stuff for a while. It seems so futile when both candidates are promising to kill enough of the right people so that we can all be safer. While it can be said Republicans represent all that is vile and short-sighted about the US and our social systems, Democrats can be just as shifty when they want to be.

Why choose the lesser of two evils? VOTE CTHULU 2004!

And i leave you today with the lyrics to Black Sabbath's WAR PIGS...

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.
Evil minds that plot destruction,
sorcerers of death's construction.
In the fields the bodies burning,
as the war machine keeps turning.
Death and hatred to mankind,
poisoning their brainwashed minds.
Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away.
They only started the war.
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah.

Time will tell on their power minds,
making war just for fun.
Treating people just like pawns in chess,
wait till their judgement day comes, yeah.

Now in darkness world stops turning,
ashes where the bodies burning.
No more War Pigs have the power,
Hand of God has struck the hour.
Day of judgement, God is calling,
on their knees the war pigs crawling.
Begging mercies for their sins,
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings.
Oh lord, yeah!

Who's Flip-Floppin'?

Goddamn, how many times are Bush Administration people gonna say something, then a day later, claim they didn't mean it, and retract the goddamn statement? Ol' Rummy is up to it most recently. Look it up yourself, im too lazy to make a link right now.

The Last Word on Presidents

"You cannot lead the world if you do not honor the contributions of those who are with us. He called them coerced and the bribed. That's not how you bring people together. Our coalition is strong. It will remain strong, so long as I'm the president."
GW Bush, Sept 30th

1. see my list below of "our strong coalition"

2. the first five words of the above quote sum it up. Bush wants to lead the world. Kerry wants to lead America.