Possibly a seven-foot-tall man with a handlebar mustache and the voice of James Earl Jones and the ability to carry on an in-depth discussion about the US Patent Office. (Only one of these is actually true.)
At 10:00 we left Wausau bound for Minnesota. By 10:40 we made it to Abbotsford, the first city in Wisconsin. The sky was overcast and very cloudy. We passed farms and saw various farm animals as well as various farms and silos. While different, the sameness of the road was tiresome after a while. We were surprised to see signs warning of Amish buggies, and saw a farm animal pulling a plow, but did not see any horse-and-buggy combinations then. Each small town we passed through on the route fea
I'll be hanging around the LEGO store at the Mall of America around 1:00 this Sunday wearing something orange. If you live close by, feel free to show up and we can dream about farm animals together.
The day began in Mackinaw City at around seven o'clock in the morning. We hadn't planned on getting such an early start, but the northern latitude of the city meant more daylight hours and earlier waking. We checked out, gassed up, and began the day crossing the epic Mackinac Bridge. It's a gigantic bridge. There's nothing special about it other than that it's just massive. You think it's going to start dipping down to the other side but it just keeps on going. Of course, we made it to the upp
The day started at 10:26 as I drove west to Toledo. By 11:30 we had reached the stadium of the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. We purchased a pennant and hat, as well as a foam hat shaped like a hot dog. Expect this wonderful hat at this year's BrickFair. We ate lunch in Toledo across from the stadium at a place called Tony Packo's, which, we learned, has multiple locations in Toledo and is legendary in the city. It originally started as a Hungarian diner and rose to fame partially due to a number
We rolled out of the driveway at precisely 11:30 and made comparatively good time on a section of US 52 that is under a state of continuous road construction. After having such good luck avoiding road construction last trip, I was amazed at how much we ran into today. Virginia, for the hour or so that we were in it, was also bogged down by road construction. The right lane was blocked ahead, but we could have made much faster time if other cars had not continuously raced ahead to try to cut ah
Last summer, as you may or may not recall, I spent 28 days on the road in 25 states, and blogged about my various experiences. These experiences included, but were not limited to, impromptu hail storms, toothbrush-gets, confusing waitresses with pre-cooked bacon, creating poems about eggplant, ridiculously large potholes fault lines in the road, our GPS channeling its inner HAL 9000, grown men sharing their beers with their dogs, getting attacked by a gigantic crow, squirrels that thought they w
Pancakes ... with bacon inside. Followed by a milkshake consisting of vanilla ice cream, bananas, peanut butter, and chocolate syrup. Something tells me I'm doing this dinner thing right.
so today we'll be looking at "The Alcotts," which is the third movement to Charles Ives' "Concord" Sonata and likely one of the least dissonant things he ever wrote we begin in b-flat major, not too shabby wait a minute POLYTONALITY OUT OF NOWHERE WHAT NOW, MORTAL AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA on a serious note I'm actually trying to learn this
My blog is becoming less active again ... I blame it on the end of the semester. This picture was taken on June 11th, 2012 in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Louisville Slugger museum. The lifelike statue of Ken Griffey Jr., it seems, was too much for my dad to resist pinching. And before you ask, yes, this is probably the weirdest thing he's ever done. "Talk about being a pinch hitter."
Is it really a "contest" if I'm not announcing winners every week? Oh well. I'll catch up on it next some time. I'm too tired now. Today's picture was taken June 3rd, 2012 in Spokane, Washington - and yes, that is a reserved parking sign. "It's called ... yump."
Every now and again, I post collections of quotes or various snippets of wisdom from my dad, such as "we've invested in a raisin farm," or "furthermore, I own a stapler." As I was going through the nearly five thousand pictures taken on last summer's road trip, I found a number of them that featured my dad doing something insane. (This is also known as his natural habitat.) Your mission is to suitably caption these images. This image was taken on June 2nd in Portland, Oregon as we headed out
Over the course of the past few weeks, I've been watching a James Bond marathon, from movies I've seen a number of times to a few I'd only seen a few bit and pieces of. The series is episodic, but there is enough carryover between films to imply a sense of overall structure. Desmond Llewelyn played Q from Sean Connery until Pierce Brosnan, for instance. Between specific films there are correlations as well. The death of Bond's bride in On Her Majesty's Secret Service is referenced on occasion, e
Is it just me, or did IPB Admin show up as pink in the member list? I could still get to its profile, and is still in the administrator group. Perhaps just a board error?
So, in honor of this momentous occasion, here are a few more of his timeless quotes: "The KGB looked around, but they couldn't find any vowels." "The best rat repellant is old plastic combined with Arby's sauce." "I was inspired by a dried squash with silly tendencies." "Onions and my navel have a close association with tacos." "She discussed the importance of large nose hairs while spending time with her pet lampshade."
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS IS INDEED BRICKEENS' BIRTHDAY, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 'BIRKDAY" LAST NIGHT I REALIZED THIS AND DREW A COMIC FOR THE OCCASION THERE ARE MANY INSIDE JOKES IN IT SO IF YOU READ IT AND DON'T GET IT, DON'T WORRY PAGE I | PAGE II | PAGE III
I feel bad I missed a few weeks in there, but we're back now, ladies and gentlemen. | It fits my hand and can shoot fairly accurately over some long distances.
