I think the technical aspects of this theme scared off some contributors this week. Although I am excited to have a submission from Jesse who was a founding member of RWPE who quickly dropped out. I should point out that I had some hiccups with my email system this morning.… Read More »RWPE Y2 #2: Long Exposure
I don’t get all jazzed up by this type of thing, but I’m sure Jesse will. I’m sure if you look hard at these pictures you will probably find me. You will probably find Jesse. You will probably find some of my other friends. Don’t ask me where. I don’t… Read More »Slice of Life Vol. 32
Movie – Black Swan Director: Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream) Writers: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin Starring: Natalie Portman (The Professional, Garden State, The Other Boleyn Girl), Mila Kunis (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Book of Eli, Date Night), Vincent Cassel (Ocean’s Twelve, Eastern… Read More »Movie Reviews: Black Swan and The Tourist
It is hard to believe that this journal has reached entry 1,000. Since I enjoy rather meaningless statistics, I’m going to go over a few right now. According to how many times they have been viewed, these are the 10 Most Popular Pictures in the Artistic Gallery: 1. Gazing Ball… Read More »Journal Entry One-Thousand
Jesse Howard correctly answered the Christopher D. Bennett Trivia Question: Q: Currently, what is Christopher D. Bennett’s favorite band? A: The Swell Season. Proust Quote “If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.” Confessions… Read More »Proust No. Four
Jesse Howard correctly answered the Christopher D. Bennett Trivia Question: Q: Whenever Christopher D. Bennett goes to a buffet, what does he get to eat with his ice cream? A: Green Olives As a reward for Jesse’s knowledge of my culinary tendencies, he got to choose the next question I… Read More »Proust No. Two
Read this like I published it on Friday. Happy Birthday to the other remaining founding member of FNSC! I hope that you went out and completely “rented the moment” on your birthday.
Here are some pictures from the 2010 Howards Photo Shoot. It got dark really quick. I’m already looking forward to the 2011 Photo Shoot!
Here is a copy of the journal I kept while I was on vacation last week. It covers parts of 10 days and over 1300 miles. While I doubt anybody reads this whole thing, it was an important exercise for me. There are no pictures, but I will post some… Read More »Vacation Journal
Movie – Secretariat Director: Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers, The Man in the Iron Mask) Screenwriter: Mike Rich (The Nativity Story, Radio, The Rookie, Finding Forrester) Starring: Diane Lane (The Perfect Storm, Unfaithful, Jumper); John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons, Being John Malkovich, Con Air) and Dylan Walsh (Congo, The Lake House,… Read More »Movie Review: Secretariat
1/4000th Here is another shot from that photo session that I liked. These pictures weren’t supposed to be published until October 29th, but after Jesse’s tragic season ending injury during the latest Fighing Moohars debacle, I thought I would move it up a bit. Perhaps to give him motivation to… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #38
Did I mention my weekend was busy! This is unfortunately 1 day late. Happy Birthday Sara! Sorry about being a day late Sara!
Cheaper than Therapy I co-hosted a Baby Shower for Baby G. with Sara a couple months back. Sara wanted a photobooth for the shower, so I made a makeshift one in her garage. It worked well enough and we were able to use the pictures in a book of baby… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week #37
I think most of you know that I have strange ways of picking pictures for photo contests. I think the most interesting way is how I “pick” the pictures for the Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest. In fact, I don’t pick the pictures at all. I have 6 individuals each pick… Read More »Jesse Howard
I witnessed something so shocking on Tuesday night that after I got over the initial numbness, I reached out to some close friends who helped guide me through the mental issues that I was having to overcome. I should state to clear my good name and recriminate Nader, it was… Read More »Catharsis
“DOWN GOES NATURE! DOWN GOES NATURE! DOWN GOES NATURE!” -The voice of Howard Cosell inside my head At exactly 10 PM on July 29. 2010, I popped the top on two bottles of Virgil’s Micro-brewed Root Beer and Dawn and I celebrated the end of Hedgegeddon. We had just dumped… Read More »Megiddo
A collection of unrelated photos and stories… Bill’s Return Bill returned to Boone briefly on Saturday. A few pictures from our time together. At FNSC Willy agreed to attempt to eat ice cream on 100 straight days. At first he balked at attempting such a thing, but the more he… Read More »Unaffiliated Triad
I had a pretty awesome Memorial Day Weekend and saw all of the right people. Plus, my grill got quite the workout. The weekend started with FNSC at my humble abode. The group core was there, plus Jesse and Dawn. Jesse, Willy and I hung by the fire pit until… Read More »Memorial Day Weekend
I had my, what could theoretically become, annual Birthday Barbecue on Saturday. I would like to thank all of the people that attended and made the evening special: Bardole, Shannon Bennett, Charlotte Cousin, Amy Daniel, Jeffrey Degeneffe, Austin Degeneffe, Melissa Degeneffe, Scott Dill, Colby Dill, Dan Dill, DJ Gorshe, Derrick… Read More »A Small, Intimate Gathering