Entries Tagged 'ANIMALS' ↓

Rocky Balboa.

STREET BEAR!

This weekend my sister Annie turned 23 years old! Unfortunately she stayed in Richmond for the big day, but is coming home next weekend for celebration. Hopefully I can invent a Mexican bean and cheese cake to wow her with. Annie has a big deal appointment today so everyone please wish success on her.

Anna-Claire came for a visit this weekend and our first order of business was to cure Seven. Seven recently waged an imaginary war on Rocky Balboa and as a result gave herself PTSD. She peed on the spare bed nearly every day for a week! Foul. Anna-Claire recommended a Feliway plugin and I think it is working, no pee so far.

We watched movies, went to pilates, swapped music, and went shopping. Girls weekend! Anna-Claire agreed to write a review of No Frill Grill for Broad Audit – a ridiculous opinion blog I contribute to. Her review was very thorough, my only fear is she exceeded our audience’s level of reading comprehension.

I start my new job tomorrow (APRIL FOOLS DAY). I bought some new pens and pencils and am trying not to stress.

Most excellent business venture (cat prostitutes). Take your pick, cats in the champagne room.

This is my personal best of 2007, similar to Lindsey’s. Here it is, in no order, with no theme.

• Dan’s Drawings – He taped original drawings to my Christmas presents to hide the shoddy wrapping job. I saved them, they are wonderful, so much better than any wrapping paper.

• World of Warcraft – No one wants to hear about this.

• Pilates – I started going to a pilates class at my gym 2 months ago. I bet everyone in the class thinks I am a mute, dyslexic, wobbly ass spazz, but I love it! My hopes are to be graceful (for the first time in my life) and appear to be 9ft tall.

• RVCA ANP Quarterly – This is here because after a subscription in June, and a month of complaints (this is a fucking free magazine! Why can’t I pay to have it delivered!) I finally received an issue Friday. It’s an 11” x 17” art magazine with no ads, refreshing!

•Albums – I don’t talk much about music because I’m not qualified, but this year I loved:
Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala, Beach House Beach House, Panda Bear Person Pitch, The Fiery Furnaces Widow City, Amy Winehouse Back to Black, Bill Callahan Woke on a Whaleheart, Bonde do Rolê all tracks, M.I.A. Kala, Gogol Bordello Super Taranta!, The Good, The Bad & The Queen The Good, The Bad & The Queen, The National The Boxer

• Ffffound - I am so overwhelmed by the internet lately, it seems to double in size daily. Ffffound is a website (and an RSS feed) of images, mostly art and design related – 100+ a day. Browsing quickly through an endless stream of images as a means to find good art, websites, and portfolios is awesome. I recently read an article that addressed the issue of Ffffound not having an open membership, it’s invite only to join and post. A select group of people are curating images for a massive audience, but on the other hand if it were open to all the quality would surely diminish and the feed would be way too much to keep up with.

• Rocky Balboa – He came into our lives under depressing circumstances but we have grown to appreciate him, despite the bad attitude, smush face, and occasional stray turd. He is a loved and admired resident of the Duffy household. Flza calls him Old Grusome.

• I like/favorite most of the movies I see. I hated Ratatouille.

I initially bound the thing using a GBC machine and silver combs I found at work. After binding every single one I realized there was no easy way to hang it up. To fix it, my boss helped me un-bind it and make it into a tear-off style pad. This is probably the first project I’ve done for 100% fun since college and I really enjoyed it. Any ideas for more projects people would want?