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The dalmation tail? The beer? The... style? The fact that the female appears to have a fanged armpit? AAAAAND the fact that it reminds me a LOT of the first new pornographers album cover:

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Dude's a martian.

what's the wacky code to embed an image in a journal post?

WHOA.

My mom let it slide that my dad used to have "a couple plants."

"What does a marijuana flower look like? I've never seen a plant in flower"

"Well they are... wait, when did you see one NOT in flower?"

"Oh erm... well... Dad used to have a couple..."

Whoa. My dad wasn't in the room at the time so now i gotta figure out how to get the dirt tactfully. It's a family affair!

Is known as "Black Friday Week." Like Thanksgiving is just a big bump on the road to $UPER $AVING$

Cynicism is cyclical.

Kanye West dudes. Love him? Hate him? Don't matter. Dude is a genius, and he will go down as one of the greatest of all time.

Second-hand, mind you. Winter's comin' on!

It would be silly of them not to pick it, basically. It starts to lag a bit towards the end, i guess cuz the format of the songs is pretty similar throughout, but there are so many perfect pop gems on there... Big thanks to  Bradford_Fox for the piracy action

Yeah, I'm doin that. Slow night (as they all seem to be) but I get free burrz and wi-fi. I think I look busy if I'm typing stuff. Not that I need to... Right now I'm playing "Nothing Ever Happened" by Deerhunter.

Then I played Take It Easy by Surfer Blood and mixed into Make Up Your Mind by Tame Impala, which I've wanted to try for a long time. It worked splendidly.

Now Up Against The Wall by Peter Bjorn and John

Yeah, indie pop set. Woot! I took my shoes off and I'm barefoot on the carpet. I get free beers and I've already had like 5. Bunch of Scrimshaw... good warm up beer.

I also DJed here last night, to an equally empty bar, and they invited me back tonight to fill in for a reggae act who cancelled. I feel bad about leaving my dog at home. Furthermore, as much as I love DJing I'm a terrible promoter, so I never take the necessary steps to ensure that people actually come out when I spin.

Lost And Found by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! What happened to those dudes?

Luckily, that responsibility usually falls on other people (whoever books me) but here in this wee town it's all on me, and I'm not prepared to take the weight... So... empty dancefloor. Even my friends in town didn't come... because I didn't tell them it was happeneing. There was a strange irony in playing "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem. Whatever, I'm not getting paid anyway, and I get to practice for future gigs... Like spinning the starting line in this crazy endurance competition: www.toughmudder.com $1000 and a free night in Lake Tahoe!? I'll take it!

If I Gave You A Party, by Sexual Harassment... more irony! 1901 by Phoenix.

Plus the night before Halloween in San Francisco at The Mezzanine. Should be gnarly.

Oh shit! now some rappy rap. Bubble Music by Cam'ron? I figure, it's all the same to the 6 dudes in here. The bartender said she likes hip-hop, and she's giving me more than my allotment of free beer so I gotta repay the kindness.

Up All Night by Drake, which is how it feels... I took two naps today. I DJed here last night, as I mentioned, didn't get to sleep til about 1am, up at 6:30 to walk the dog, then splitting firewood (with an axe, not a hydraulic splitter) for 4.5 hours. I was so bushed i took not one, but TWO naps today. I'm about ready to keel over right now.

REGGAE! I'm Stilll In Love, by Marcia Aitkin, into Uptown Top Rankin by Althea And Donny, both of which are over the same "riddim." The reggae format is still mind-expanding and novel to me: there can be like 10 or 20 songs over the same beat, or "riddim," with different vocalists interpreting it in myriad ways. Apart from hip-hop freestyles and remixes over popular beats, there's nothing else that even comes close to comparing. Can you imagine if three different bands had hits on the radio, all using the same backing track? So bananas...

Back to raps: Int'l Player's Anthem by UGK and Outkast. One of the best songs. Ever. Seriously unfadeable. I'm about to just put on a mix or something... there's only 15 minutes left. I'm waiting to see how the beer affects me to decide if I can have another one and still be good to drive home. I'm drinknig lots of water to avoid a situation similar to this morning. Ruff.

Dude just requested the Beatles so I played Don't Let Me Down. Makes sense, right?

Meh! Almost there... Fuggit I'm gonna start getting my shit together. This journal entry is almost certainly uninteresting. just passin the time, ya dig?

I ordered a Black Butte Porter for dessert. I'm playing Sharleena by Frank Zappa. One more song and I'm out... probably Angels by Black Mountain. They've got a new album coming and I'm souped....

Uhhh...

End transmission.

GIANT CABBAGE: Grown by moi, awaiting kim-chi treatment

PHOTO EMULSION: Overdue on loan from  birds for the even overduer cover to my Skull Candle mix: http://www.pandemoniumjones.com/

BEST FOODS MAYONNAISE: 32oz Megavat. I am astounded at how much it's become a staple of my diet, especially at breakfast.

12 PACK OF PABST BLUE RIBBON: Down to 5

HALF A LIME: For the beer

3# MARIJUANA TRIM: For a secret project

7# TRIPE: For the dog

CILANTRO AND GREEN ONIONS: 2/$1 At Grocery Outlet. Instant tastiness amplifiers. 2 is too many for one dude: they're looking wilty. A little goes a long way, ya dig?

3 PARTIALLY-FULL HALF GALLONS OF SUNNY DELIGHT FRUIT PUNCH: Left over without my approval from the Native American Church meeting over a week ago. Free to the first person to come get 'em. Why did they open three different ones? Why is Sunny D the preferred post-peyote beverage? WHY ARE THEY STILL HERE?

CHALLENGE BUTTER: My brand of choice because it has a deer on it. So furry...

SUMMER SQUASH: More than I know what to do with, which seems to be a common problem for veggie gardeners. I made a pot of squash soup on Saturday that I'm still eating - it's still sitting on the stove and doesn't count for this list - and there's still 3-4 squash left over

HOT SAUCE: 32oz of Tapatio, 16 of Sriracha

MILK, EGGS, BREAD, JAM: BOOOOOORING

And some other stuff but I'm not looking at it right now and I forget.

After a long period of low standards and low sanity, and following an ugly fall-out with my former boss/landlord that's left me owed $1500 back pay and prompted me to pursue punitive action with the Labor and Contractor's boards, I have moved out of the dilapidated church I was inhabiting for the past six months. In a disgruntled letter to the aforementioned slumlord/deadbeat, I refer to the quarters as a "shithole deathtrap." What took me so long? Who knows. I tried to inspire changes that I should have seen were impossible.

What's fucking RAD is that I now live in a 30' diameter yurt on an 80 acre ranch. My landlord couple are an organic gardener and professional dancer (her) and psychedelic folk visual artist/ordained priest of the Native American Church (him). In addition to amenities previously forgone (shower, sink with hot water, laundry facilities, et al) I also have access to: an organic garden and orchard, a creek with a swimming hole, a giant trampoline, a hammock, a bevy of art, craft and carpentry tools, and frequent sweat lodges and peyote prayer services. WUT?

excerpted from a gChat conversation with my pal Cole:

me: watching Royal Tennenbaums with my dad, and he sez:
"Is that Nico?"
Cousin: your dad's dope!
me: sayin

 APlusPlus turned a drunken fantasy into a great comic: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4244931/

You would do well to commission him! Not a lot of folks out there with the gusto to take on comic commissions or the talent to execute them so double rainbow. Furthermore, I had the pleasure of hanging out with him in Chicago last week. Bookstores and beers. We'd never spoken before I Noted him the commission specs a day prior, which I imagine made for an interesting first impression. Neither of us even mentioned it in person. I think we'd have blushed ourselves unconscious.

Thanks a bundle, dude!

Man, that picture of my tattoo is the best it will ever look ever. So vibrant! Nowadays it's faded considerably and I imagine it'll only continue to do so. I've got an open-ended invitation for a reinking, which I intend to accept someday, but dag... how time fades.

YOU NEED TO START DRAWING AGAIN

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU

if your username is NOT  hardlyart you need to help me pester him for the good of us all. Go send him shouts and notes and comments until he complies.

And so you is. The talented  clup has humorously rendered Mr. Wattson Barnes in tasteful, muted tones and has rendered ME speechless with giddy gratitude. Check 'im out: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4223626/

Clup gets the blue ribbon for being the first to draw Wattson, and he will be rewarded handsomely in ways too devious to elucidate publicly.

I've been doin' a lot of that lately. My neck and shoulders are like DUDE, WHAT?

Which is to say, I got A truck. The pudding which contains the proof can be sampled here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4195595/ I needed something both less expensive and more rugged than my Volvo station wagon, which, while it has been a hell of a great car for the past three years, is expensive to maintain and not suited to the dirt roads (and one in particular) which I must frequent in my increasingly country lifestyle. The front end on the Vulva's starting to get cranky, and it would cost more to replace the front end than it cost to buy the truck, so my plan is to flip it while it's still somewhat shipshape and generate a little extra cash cuchoin to keep my broke ass off the sidwawlk. I've gotta scramble to flip it quick now, cuz having two cars is not something I want to do, but I figured it was better than completely, albeit temporarily, carless, as I would have been if I sold my old car BEFORE getting a new one.

Enough of THAT, let's focus on what's really real: my awesome fucking new truck, christened The Rattler. It ain't quiet, and it ain't pretty, but it's solid as a rock made out of steel and from a Wabi Sabi perspective it's breathtakingly beautiful. Wanna ride?

They say bad luck comes in threes, and today I got a double helping.

My dog ran off twice. I almost got my clock cleaned by a rather ripped drunken ex-convict... twice! To top it off, I ruptured vital fluid vessels on two different cars. The clarifying anecdotes are, unfortunately, too long to relate in detail that would do them justice.

But everything worked out, and... (ellipses resolved in following entry)

The following prompts have been answered using only titles of songs by The Microphones:

1. Are you male or female: Samurai Sword

2. Describe yourself: I'll Be In The Air

3. How do you feel about yourself: There's No Invincible Disguise That Lasts All Day

4. Describe your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend: Headless Horseman

5. Describe your current boy/girl situation: Drumjs That No One Played

6. Describe your current location: Haunted House

7. Describe where you want to be: Where It's Hotter

8. Your best friend is: Domesticated Dog

9. Your favorite color is: My Warm Blood

10. You know that: Anacortes Has A Secret Heart

11. What’s the weather like: Tonight There'll Be Clouds

12. If your life was a television show what would it be called? Fuck The World

13. What is life to you: I'm A Pearl Diver

14. What is the best advice you have to give: Stop Smoking

15. If you could change your name what would you change it to: Weird Storm

Now you try! (With the artist of your choice, natch)

The forthcoming* album "Crazy For You" by Best Coast stands a great chance of being one of my favorite albums of the year. I'd basically have to lose it and then contract amnesia for it to NOT be Top 5 material. Singer/songwriter Bethany Cosentino sez: "I’m really inspired by the beach boys, all the phil spector groups, and stuff like 50’s doo-wop—the platters, the flamingos, etc. I’m also really into stuff like the ramones, and the kinks—and sort of that “lazy” rock n roll sound, so I guess in a way I thought I would somehow try to combine those two sounds. Make some kind of pretty sounding, warm, yet grungy, and sometimes heavy music. Does that even make sense?"

YES. Yes it does. She basically summed it all up. Grrrrrrrrreat pop music. It reminds me of the scene in the John Waters Simpsons where Bart's dancing around in the big black wig. Gay bart would LURV Best Coast. Plus, hearken furries! There's a kitty on the cover! Go forth: http://www.mexicansummer.com/shop/b.....crazy-for-you/

Also, my favorite track (for now) is also the first video! You can see it at the above link. Hint: Fake Ronald McDonald, cats, pot leaf beadspreads, tandem bicycles, cheap sunglasses, In'N'Out Burger... It's like they have the keys to my brain!

{{PLUG}} Their first single, released last year, appeared on my Splendid Moments mix alongside lots of other fuzzy pop treats: http://www.pandemoniumjones.com/mix......html#comments

*yeah I pirated that shit, but it's so good I'm gonna buy the record, too, which I certainly can't say for everything I download.

Hello, Wattson!

After four years of inducing epilepsy (unbeknownst to me, in violation on FA policy), Bob and Doug are kicking rocks to make way for the handsome Mr. Wattson Barnes, my new avatar and character (I can't bring myself to use the F-word) or as Morpheus would say, "the mental projection of your digital self." Actually I guess he's the digital projection of my mental self. ANYWAY.

Wattson was sort of reverse-engineered, relative to the typical origins of furry characters: I was particularly smitten with the old picture by  java from which the avatar is cribbed (with her permission) which was, obviously, of a white, blue-eyed, criminally handsome wolf-dog. A couple summers ago, I modeled for some reference photos for  birds who, upon learning of my infatuation with the then-unnamed canine, rendered me as him in several drawings - the tamest of which can be seen hurr: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2074696/ - and continued to draw him on occasion, to my unending delight.

Thus, through artistic sorcery I became the object of my own desire, which I suspect is true of many furs' characters. As far as personality, taste, and lifestyle, Wattson is basically identical to my self, except he occasionally wears chaps and/or neckerchiefs, and gets laid more, which, again, I suspect is true of many furs' characters.

So there we go! And here we are!

Of late, I've been feeling furrier than usual. Maybe it's my beard? Maybe it's the excess of free time and shortage of money, employment, and real-world friends in this backwater town of hicks and hippies? Note that I said shortage, not absence - I'm not looking for pity, just trying to keep it real with myself and with you, the imagined audience. The phenomenon of FA seems to generate a sort of social momentum: the more time I spend on here, the more cool artworks and people I find, and the more I want to interact with them, so after nearly four years of lurking in the shadows, making the occasional comment on this or that artwork, I'm stepping out into the fuzzy sunshine and trying to become an upstanding member of society. I'm reading your journals. I'm writing my own. I'm "developing" a character and, lord willing, funds permitting, commissioning some works to support the talented folks out there whose art has kept me entertained and enthralled (probably too strong a word but I'm a sucker for alliteration) for countless hours.

YO WORLD I HOPE YOU'RE READY FOR ME - Humpty