Seaside new years

Seaside new years
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

Mellow times await as Lucy and I soon get *up out* of the ATL and land
in ft. Walton FLA for a 2nd family new years in seaside! Thanks terry
and Edie! www.seasidefl.com

Gladstone Tools!?

Gladstone Tools!?
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

So there we were, Lucy and I, at the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans. And what should we see? Why, it's a a souvenir ice-smasher with the Gladstone Tools brand. What is the Gladstone Tools brand, you may ask? Why it's the house brand of Manny Shambhu and his fantastic artist son and dear friend of mine, Jim Shambhu.

Here's the whole set of photos from our visit.

New Orleans Thanksgiving 2008

New Orleans Thanksgiving 2008
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

New Orleans Thanksgiving 2008

The Museum of the American Cocktail
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

finally put up some images from mine and Lucy's wonderful Thanksgiving in New Orleans.

The set is here

Toy trains and computers: Xmas 2008

Toy trains and computers: Xmas 2008
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

My brother chris visits lex. Good times.

Mick Jeffries mick@mickjeffries.com

Moblogging returns!

Moblogging returns!
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

Finally going to get mobile Flickr posting back up and running.
Holiday yays.

Mick Jeffries mick@mickjeffries.com

Doc Davis of Bog Trotters Band, with autoharp, Galax, Virginia

from the Lomax Library of public domain images. How cool.

clipped from memory.loc.gov

LIbrary of Congress P&P Division

Do you have any idea how many archival photos are available in the public domain online? Super cool. (image: prohibition cops dump a barrel of alcohol after a raid)

clipped from lcweb2.loc.gov

The Suite 16 - All I Want For Christmas, featuring The Sweetettes

My bro-in-law gets buzzed (guitar tone, that is)

Snap, snap! Laloux at the Cat's Den

Laloux at the Cat's Den
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

last night was the 2nd performance by the coolest lex band I've seen in quite a while: Laloux. The whole photo set is here

Hair Police at the Cat's Den

Hair Police at the Cat's Den
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

super good times last night at UK's Cat's Den with some wonderful bands, including Hair Police and Laloux

Prop 8 - The Musical

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Hilarous and True!

Robot Chicken Super Kate!

Super Kate!
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

Apparently everybody who visits LA gets a celebrity story, but I think mine was better than most. Thanks to the awesome SuperKate, I got to visit for a couple of hours at Robot Chicken studios and hang out with Seth Green and co., including voice-over visitor David "The Hof" Hasselhof, while Kate captured audio. What a funny memory. Luckily I have this photo as proof.

Super cool times, SuperKate. Thank you! (also thanks to Seth for hooking me up with a sweet RC tee and for being so cool with my pal Kate)

Vampire Santa's Eggnog

What's that I hear? Is it the sound of Vampire Santa dragging his sorry sackful of eggnog around once again for the holiday season?

You betcha!

And as the sole purveyer of Vampire Santa's Eggnog, I have only one wish for you: That you get a bottle. But we'll see how good and/or bad you are in the next few weeks.

Big ups to Cricket Press for the art collab!

Food Court Musical

Most excellent surprise theater here!

"Oh no you didn't!"

"Oh no you didn't!"
Originally uploaded by mrtoastey

Lucy mugs for a funny little company contest that requested a picture of her on the phone. We went the extra mile. Alternate poses here and here.

from the archives

I'm migrating from the Palm to the iPhone world, and have needed to pull over some random notes that I just wanna keep. Here's one of them:

I'm sitting at the library eating illegal thai salad. The view from the fourth floor is just too enticing and I was simultaneously hungry, so you know — connect the dots. (bite)

I guess cops have never liked it when lawbreakers tell them "shouldn't you be out chasing people who have really done something wrong?" Anyway, it's the dead week, for adults. Or at least me. That's the week after xmas and before new years. I love dead week. It has the potential to be so — I don't know — dead. That usually is a condition intensified by a lot of snow which is semi-freakish anymore here in the bluegreass, enough so that people tend to run to grocery, buy lots of water and bread (why with the bread? I've never understood) and pretend that the end is nigh.

Not the end of the snow mind you, but The End. That's not the case today though. It's clear and beautiful. I promised myself a walk, as a kind of tribute both to dead week and the weather. A no-jacket, no-camera, no-errands walk. Okay, so i tucked my Treo and amazing folding keyboard into my pocket. What's the harm? Well, for me the harm is that I routinely try to multi-task all the time. It's become a real theme. In some ways my life has become a list; A list of ludicrous mixed magnitudes, where "buy another house" mingles freely with "get some okra." It's madness.

So the idea is that occasionally, I travel light and go for a walk. It rarely happens, but today it did. I felt better just knowing that it was warm outside. And that is why I consider moving. But in the meantime, the brisk walk. It's hard for me not to not to make lists in my head or even on this Treo. But today I'm trying not to.

Note to self: look into buddism to battle "future-itus"

See?? There I go again. How did i get this way? Why are more and more peo0ple becoming this way? I remember the first time I did business on a cell phone, walking down the street to pick up something at Kinkos. With an internal exclamation, i thought "wow, now I can get two things done at once." And it's been downhill ever since. I'm up to, like, 5 things at once. And that seems like an achievement, but I can't remember why I had to get all thesse things done. WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING?

I'm taking a walk, that's what.

And maybe on the way, I'll drop a letter off at the post office, renew my Y membership, get a cup of coffee, pick up a couple of library books and and and …

late december 2007

Jackie OH!

Jackie OH!, originally uploaded by mrtoastey.

Just a funny Jackie O meets Oscar mashup that I just saw one morning in Lucy's office.

Barack on Flickr

As a continiuing insight into Obama's grasp on "the new media," check out his Flickr stream, full of candid "behind the scenes" shots from election night and before..

clipped from news.yahoo.com Behind the scenes with Obama Obama's campaign photographer, David Katz, has uploaded thousands of behind-the-scenes photos onto Flickr, Yahoo!'s photo-sharing site. Among our favorites were these candid shots of the Obama family hanging out on election night, watching history unfold. (To see more of these photos, you can check out the Barack Obama photostream on Flickr.)

It's fixed!

It's fixed!, originally uploaded by mrtoastey.

Nearly 2 hrs later, terry's got my turntable back in service! And I got to assist, even. Priceless.