My friends Lance and Tom from Beautiful Angle were nice enough to invite me to make some art with them in Tacoma next week. The official invitation is below, so if you are in the area, please come and bring a chair and some tape! Or just show up and help or hang out.

Inviting you to be part of a renegade art project. Beautiful Angle is encouraging you to be part of the fun this month.

The poster this month will feature two guest artists William Kupinse, former poet laureate of Tacoma. And up and coming silkscreen artist, Tyler Kalberg.
A chair is a great symbol for Tacoma, practical and inviting.

Okay so here is how it’s gonna work. There are at least three ways in which you can participate. 1. Create an “Art Chair” and leave it out on the street in some conspicuous location. 2. Create your own chair themed guerrilla art. 3. Bring a chair and a roll of blue painters tape to Tollefson Plaza at 4:00pm on September 10th. We will be creating a flash mob, art project with the help of local artist Joe Penrod. The first 50 people to show up, with said supplies, will get the latest Beautiful Angle poster.

TAKE a SEAT.

Lance Kagey
Co-founder, Beautiful Angle

Michelle picked this up for $10 at Goodwill yesterday.

I ran this ad on Craigslist again trying to get someone to take the dirt.

I have a small pile of free antique dirt. I would estimate its age as roughly 160,000 years. It is in fair to good condition. I hate to part with such a beloved part of my collection, but we all have to make sacrifices in this economy. It is enough to fill a good sized vegetable bed (2′ deep x 4′ wide x 8′). Pick up in Olympia and add to your collection.

* Location: olympia
* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

I received several replies. The first man that responded came and picked it all up. I had emailed the second responder to tell him that I already had someone that agreed to take it but if he flaked then he was next up. This was his response:

Why would I want 160,000 year old dirt. Why would I want any dirt? I thought you did it as a joke to waste people’s time so I was going to waste yours. Now you are acting like you are serious and that is just rude. Don’t insult my intelligence by thinking someone wants your dirt as it is highly offensive. Do you have anything else for free though?

His intelligence seems to have a pretty big chip on its shoulder.

This sight will haunt me for years to come. I took if over my shoulder as I ran.

Anna had never ridden a bike before. Then she did. Just like that. She got on the bike and pretty much rode it. As we walked to see some fire works I heard her yell, “I’m coming for you Joe Joe!” and I turned to see her bearing down on me at an incredible speed. I stepped to the left, she followed. I dodged right, she followed. I turned and ran in a near circle and despite never having attempted to turn before, she cut hard to her right and looped back on me. If Josh hadn’t grabbed her she would have clipped me for sure, all the while grinning and laughing like a maniac.

I am never leaving the house when she decides to learn to drive.

Todd: do you have AAA?

me: nope
do you?

Todd: no

me: i feel like i should
as an adult

Todd: yeah, it probably would have saved me some money today
but
it is $68 a year i think
and i don’t pay that much in towing fees a year

me: that’s almost 6 bucks a month. Forget that!

Todd: are there other benefits?

me: yeah
free road maps
and they have a hot line you can call if you are really sad late at night
me: I don’t know if it is expressly for that purpose, but they are good listeners
(I hear)

Reply to: sale-xkwkv-1239894877@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
Date: 2009-06-25, 5:00PM PDT

I have a small pile of free antique dirt. I would estimate its age as roughly 18000 years. It is in fair to good condition. I hate to part with such a beloved part of my collection, but we all have to make sacrifices in this economy. It is enough to fill a good sized vegetable bed (2′ deep x 4′ wide x 8′). Pick up in Olympia and add to your collection.

* Location: olympia
* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 1239894877

me:

me:

look at that little guy

he has a mustache

I’m going to name him magnum PI

me:

wise mr tamarin, please tell me, what is the meaning of life?

wouldn’t you take all your problems to this guy

me:

“if you tickle under my chin I will grant you 3 wishes”

see

you want one now

me:

that guy feels the weight of the world on his furry little shoulders

“why is man so cruel to man?”

When Grant was a baby, Michelle and I thought it would be valuable to teach him Spanish. When Spanish isn’t your first language (in my case) or you haven’t spoken it much since you were a child (Michelle’s case), you tend to switch back to English as soon as you run into any vocabulary trouble, or when you are tired, or when you are tired of sounding stupid. Because of our poor efforts, Grant really only ever learned a few phrases and quite a few individual words. Compared to Evie though, he is a polyglot. We’ve never really tried to teach her and her Grandmama is not close enough to help, so she has been reduced to yelling, Chocolate! (in Spanish) any time she hears anyone speaking a foreign language. She’s quite the citizen of the world.

We let her watch Dora, which is the most pathetic attempt to teach her Spanish ever, but I don’t think she has picked up a single word. She has picked up one helpful phrase though. Last night she was scared of the “tiny pink dinosaurs” again. I heard her crying and went in to check on her and found her yelling, “Swiper, no swiping!” over and over while waving her hand at the dark (If you don’t get that, you don’t have kids). She told me it worked though. The dinosaurs ran away. Good thing they weren’t Spanish dinosaurs though, I’m not sure “Chocolate!” would work.

Grant and I are headed to New york next week to see some of Jared’s work in a show at Black & White gallery in Chelsea. Grant has actually been to NYC twice already, once when he was 9 months and once when he was 18 months. Hopefully he doesn’t want to be carried as much this time.

Here is a list of things Grant would like to do:

• Eat the best Pizza in New York to see if it is as good as Old School Pizza in Olympia
• Go to Dylan’s Candy Bar
• Visit the Museum of Natural History
• Ride trains
• see some really big buildings
• maybe get some ice cream
• see Jared and Mike

I think he might like

• MoMA
• Dia  Beacon
• New Museum
• most of the galleries in Chelsea
• most of the galleries in Williamsburg
• and the LES
• the Brooklyn Super Hero Supply Co

So, I’m sure we will find a nice balance. Please let us know if you have any great suggestions for what to do, see and eat. We are excited to see you!