DATE: 2006-01-31 — FILESIZE: 85,754 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Jay came to visit (all the way from Minnesota, where he lives with Vakko now).
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Closeup of Jay on the couch. His Animaniacs T-shirt says "If we promise to miss you, will you go away?"
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Vakko came too. Here he's sitting in the chair.
DATE: 2006-01-31 — FILESIZE: 82,923 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Pasta é pizza. If it were "pasta e pizza" with no accent mark, it would mean "pasta and pizza". If it were "pasta è pizza" with a grave accent, it would mean "pasta is pizza". They don't tend to use acute accents in Italian though, so I'm not sure what "pasta é pizza" means.
DATE: 2006-01-31 — FILESIZE: 63,839 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
"Arrant Grimes & Scalf" sounds more like something a British housewife has to clean out of the kitchen sink than a company of portrait artists.
DATE: 2006-01-31 — FILESIZE: 70,254 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Bayne Appliance: I wonder if this is where Bayne the demon unicorn shops for spare horns and other accessories.
DATE: 2006-01-31 — FILESIZE: 44,559 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
This used to be a Christian store, but then some guy named Ian bought it and put out most of the letter lights.
DATE: 2006-01-31 — FILESIZE: 81,999 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
George the cat plays with a ribbon.
DATE: 2006-01-30 — FILESIZE: 96,855 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 819x614 pixels
This is my room, all lit up disco style with magenta and green lights. Except not. I achieved this effect with some very simple yet clever camera-and-Photoshop trickery. Can you figure out how?
DATE: 2006-02-04 — FILESIZE: 65,501 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Shrag and his mate Hali held a party at Shrag's house in Galveston. Here we are sitting around watching funny video clips.
DATE: 2006-02-04 — FILESIZE: 61,305 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Chaka Wolf sits on the couch at Shrag's house and watches weird videos.
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Bill Haskell at Shrag's party.
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Shrag lives just off Avenue Q! The internet is for porn...
DATE: 2006-02-04 — FILESIZE: 56,461 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
A few miles north of Galveston, on the Gulf Freeway, there's a Fry's Electronics. Because it's near NASA, it's NASA-themed. The building looks as though it were made from a Saturn V rocket somehow. Inside the store, there are lots of fake spaceships hanging from the ceiling, making it look like a space museum.
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The entrance to the NASA-themed Fry's Electronics.
DATE: 2006-02-25 — FILESIZE: 70,677 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
"What part of 'meet us at the stick' did The Cheat not understand?" Photographed at Saks Fifth Avenue at the Houston Galleria.
DATE: 2006-02-25 — FILESIZE: 39,746 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
A Lego bat, from Lego's Designer series.
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A Lego snake.
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The bat spots the snake and swoops down!
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The bat catches the snake!
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The bat takes the snake back to its cave for a yummy snack.
DATE: 2006-02-25 — FILESIZE: 57,648 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Closeup of the Lego bat carrying the snake.
DATE: 2006-03-25 — FILESIZE: 60,992 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 600x800 pixels
The weirdest costume I've ever seen! Someone involved in some sort of promotion at a movie theater was dressed as a computer cursor.
DATE: 2006-04-10 — FILESIZE: 154,827 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 650x947 pixels
Standup display for the Kingdom Hearts videogame at the EB at the mall. I don't even play video games; I just think this looks neat.
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An ancient Egyptian pickup truck in the parking lot of Home Depot, decorated with hieroglyphs. Left side.
DATE: 2006-04-10 — FILESIZE: 108,578 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 864x648 pixels
Egyptian truck. The hood.
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Egyptian truck. Right side.
DATE: 2006-04-10 — FILESIZE: 188,401 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 1296x972 pixels
Egyptian truck. Right side rear.
DATE: 2006-04-10 — FILESIZE: 80,149 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 864x648 pixels
The Egyptian truck's taillight, decorated with an electrical-tape cutout design.
DATE: 2006-04-10 — FILESIZE: 78,597 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x459 pixels
Dad was driving home one day when some idiot ran into him. Fortunately he wasn't hurt, but he had to get rid of the car and buy a new Toyota Yaris.
DATE: 2006-07-14 — FILESIZE: 65,146 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 803x746 pixels
The drive-thru lane at the Credit Union in the Medical Center. Notice anything wrong with this picture? As in, badly designed? The box of forms is half a car length behind the pneumatic tube. If it were a full car length, I could reach out and grab a form and be filling it out while waiting for the guy ahead of me to complete his transaction.
DATE: 2006-07-24 — FILESIZE: 44,175 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Mom started shopping at a new bakery to get gluten-free products for Dad. For being a loyal new customer, she was given two tickets in a raffle the bakery held recently. She won this wedding cake! The dang thing was so big, the lid on the box couldn't close. And it was so heavy, Mom needed my help carrying it into the house!
DATE: 2006-07-24 — FILESIZE: 58,817 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Mom reenacts her reaction to the monstrous wedding cake she won. We cut and ate two pieces from it, and donated the rest to the gymnasts at Mom's friend Peggy's gym. They ate it up.
DATE: 2006-08-03 — FILESIZE: 96,635 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 648x486 pixels
Ever since I saw Pixar's "Cars", I had the urge to Pixarify my car by Photoshopping a face onto it. After I did, Babs decided my car should be named Steve. Behind Steve is my mom's minivan, nicknamed Stitch.
DATE: 2006-08-03 — FILESIZE: 111,731 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
Babs's car Matilda, as she would look Pixarified and painted purple. Photo by Squirrelly.
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Babs's friend Neo's VW Beetle named Bryn. Photo by Neo, Pixarified by me.
DATE: 2006-08-04 — FILESIZE: 87,100 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 636x516 pixels
Mintaka's Ford Escape Hybrid, Pixarified by me. Photo by Mintaka.
DATE: 2006-10-14 — FILESIZE: 256,098 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 1600x1200 pixels
I spotted this Santa-themed art car in the parking lot of Nan's Games and Comics Too.
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Check it out! Santa's in the back seat of the art car, apparently wearing Sgt. Pepper's castoffs.
DATE: 2006-10-14 — FILESIZE: 33,764 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 800x600 pixels
My car Steve sports a Lightning McQueen antenna ball from the Disney Store.
DATE: 2006-10-23 — FILESIZE: 192,276 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 1296x972 pixels
Here's a beautiful spiderweb I saw just over the fence in our neighbor's backyard.
DATE: 2006-11-26 — FILESIZE: 107,340 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 683x512 pixels
Standard diecast Lightning McQueen next to Willy's Butte McQueen, who comes with printed-on dirt stains and dirt-colored wheels and undercarriage! This one came with the Radiator Springs Mountain Challenge playset.
DATE: 2006-11-26 — FILESIZE: 215,250 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 1024x768 pixels
Non-Pixar toy cars that mingle with my Cars characters. L to R: Ronnie, a '65 Pontiac GTO; Paul McCar, a blue VW Beetle; Paul Steele, a grey Porsche; Darda, an old Darda pullback racer that still works; and a Hummer that I bought to reenact the "Man, now I got dirt in my rims" scene with.
DATE: 2006-11-26 — FILESIZE: 89,884 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 683x512 pixels
Mack, whom I acquired at the Disney Store. This one comes with a Lightning McQueen and a springloaded mechanism for reenacting the "falling out onto the interstate" scene.
DATE: 2006-11-26 — FILESIZE: 91,962 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 683x512 pixels
You press the big silver button on top lightly to make the hatch pop open...
DATE: 2006-11-26 — FILESIZE: 94,204 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 683x512 pixels
...and then you press it all the way to make McQueen pop out.
DATE: 2006-11-26 — FILESIZE: 159,129 bytes — IMAGE SIZE: 1024x768 pixels
The diecast McQueen on the left, vs. the plastic McQueen who comes with Mack on the right.