A Log Fit For Burning

The only thing that surprises me about this is that the Republic party’s stance for the last 20 years is to make us believe that government doesn’t work and that everything should be privatized. Why try to make us think they’re doing a heck of a job?

I picked this out of somebody’s garbage on Tuesday. My first thought was to sell it. I’ve learned that if you don’t know how much your musical equipment is worth, you can try to sell it to Mike Carey Music. Multiply their offer by ten to figure out the real value of your equipment. I was going to do this but after playing with it for a while I think I might clean it up and keep it around for a while. The volume pots are a little wonky but it’s one of the best things I’ve ever pulled out of the trash.

Last Saturday, 26 October 2007, the Portrait Club met in Chicago for a dinner party in preparation for our second-ever show. The first show was at the Detroit Art Space in 2004 featuring portraits of Heino and an interpretive dance routine inspired by Heino. Dan Tennant also played a solo set.

The subject of the next Portrait Club show will be Patrick Swayze. We don’t have a venue yet. The meeting in Chicago was a dinner party. I was going to make vegetarian Pate’ Swayze and Cheese Enchilada Swayze but I nearly burned my hand off the day before so I took the road of the cheater and brought a Johnny Castle Crave Case.

Amy made “To Wong Fooli, AKA Patrick Swayze Tabouleh” and a delicious loaf of PatrickPumperSwayzeNickle bread. Geoff hollowed out a pumpkin and mixed apple cider with bourbon.

Other dishes were the “Cheese Like the Wind” cheese tray and the “Jim Lance-agne”. But the, um, icing on the cake… was the cake that Tina’s boyfriend brought. He’s a cake maker but his bosses are such highly-regarded cake makers that he was instructed to not disclose his place of employment because they were, for some reason, embarrassed to be implicated in the creation of the Swayze head cake.

You’ll have to wait for the show to see everyone else’s art, but here’s a sneak preview of what I worked on, a portrait of a movie I’d like to see. It’s called “Patrick Swayze Liberace” and it stars Jason Priestley as Patrick Swayze, a dancer who goes mad and thinks he’s Liberace.
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Freeform haiku
Goes like this
If you want it to.

I woukd like to have a recording of Jason Robards reading the lyrics to
Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll”. I’d listen to when when I felt
melancholy.

Note : the Reinheitsgebot didn’t mention yeast. Yeast weren’t known of until a few centuries later. Also, what he calls “dry hopping” isn’t exactly dry hopping. But it’s a pretty good video anyhow.