Category Archives: Portrait

Think I’ll Go Eat Worms

Here is a look at the pictures that the committee had to choose from, but received no love.


2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
“Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Guess I’ll go eat worms,

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Long, thin, slimy ones; Short, fat, juicy ones,

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Itsy, bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms.

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Down goes the first one, down goes the second one,

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Oh how they wiggle and squirm.

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Up comes the first one, up comes the second one,

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Oh how they wiggle and squirm.

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Nobody loves me, everybody hates me,

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Think I’ll go and eat worms,

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones,
See how they wriggle and squirm

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice,
And throw the skins away,
Nobody knows how fat I grow,
On worms three times a day
Ohh… nobody loves me.”

Great song, isn’t it? I’m kind of partial to this version:

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
I’m goin’ down to the garden to eat worms,
Long thin slimy ones, short fat fuzzy ones,
Ooey gooey, ooey gooey worms.

Long thin slimy ones slip down easily,
Short fat fuzzy ones don’t,
Short fat fuzzy ones stick to your teeth,
And the juice goes slurpin’ down your throat

Charlotte Bennett (Mom)

My mom doesn’t own a computer or even know how to use one, so I had to bring her over to the Honest Abe office to have her look over the pictures for her to pick one.


2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
“Pardon and Sanctify Me”

I actually thought that she would pick this one. It is a picture of the cross on the top of our church. It actually looks much nicer than that now as it has been recently painted during the tuckpointing process. It is prettier now, but perhaps not as photogenic.

There were a couple of other images that she also considered.


2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee

2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee

The truth is that she doesn’t like the picture of Logan’s eye at all, but she thought it was artistic. I don’t think any of my weirder images got much love, but at least this one got mentioned.

Sara Junck

This past weekend was the Pufferbilly Days photo contest. I had 6 different people pick the 6 different entries this year. The first person to pick was Sara Junck. She picked the picture below:


2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee
“Cozy Combination”

Sara actually took slightly over the 24 hour deadline. She waffled back and forth between her final pick and the picture below:


2009 - Pufferbilly Days Photo Contest Nominee

None of the other five members of the selection committee chose the fire picture. I think Sara was saddened by this fact.

No. 14

It’s very dangerous to wave to people you don’t know because what if they don’t have hands? They’ll think you’re cocky.

-Mitch Hedberg

Last Thursday, Jill posed for a few pictures for a photo project I am working on. Below are some of the results of that photo session.


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Hopefully, I will be able to finish up this project in the next few weeks and get it properly displayed on one of my walls.

The Outer Limits

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We can reduce the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to… The Outer Limits. – The Control Voice

The Outer Limits is one of my all-time favorite television shows. The following pictures are inspired by that show and its 1960s special effects.


The Outer Limits
This is Jay. You are probably wondering why he looks so cocky. It is because…

The Outer Limits
Jay can control electricity or fire, whatever you believe to be more plausible.

The Outer Limits
He can slowly turn into electricity.

The Outer Limits
Until he appears to be an electric man.

The Outer Limits
Or he can shoot it out of his fingertips at his enemies.

The good news, is I have similar powers…

The Outer Limits

I think I might just have to crack out my The Outer Limits DVDs this weekend.

Raise a Glass

I went to a fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association on Friday night with Sara and Amy. It was an interesting evening. The basic point of the night was wine tasting and art for sale.

I don’t drink, so I mostly looked at art.

However, there was one point where I was sitting at a table waiting for Amy and Sara to comeback with food. It was then that I meant one classy dame.

Three people approached the table. A dude, a lady I will call Ms. Manners and the Classy Dame.

Ms. Manners said, “Can we sit at this table?”

I replied, “Yes.”

Classy Dame answered, “You don’t have to ask him if we can sit at this table. This is our table. We were here first. I marked this table. I peed all around it.”

I replied, “How lovely.”

Here are some pictures from Sara from the night.



Amy and I


Sara and I


I am by no stretch of the imagination a fan of Grant Wood, but I am a fan of wooden cutouts that you stick your head through.



Sara and Amy


This particular piece of artwork really stood out to me. This is not a particularly good picture of it, but that is most likely for the best. The artist had made mosaic type pictures out of old magazines. All of the pictures were like the one to the left. A nice picture of people or of flowers or something. But then I came upon this picture. A picture of a catfight that included a depiction of both sets of mammaries and the “V” of one of the combatants. Nicely played artist. Nicely played.



It was certainly a memorable night.

Future Road Trip Master?

Brandon got his driver’s license this week.


Future Road Trip Master

Future Road Trip Master

I believe that when you reach a certain age, you are required by social norms to make a few certain cliche jokes when certain events occur.

One such event is when somebody gets their first driver’s license.

An aged person should give out the warning that goes something like this:

“Stay off the streets. Brandon has his driver’s license.”

Then another elder statesman ups the ante with the predictable rejoinder:

“Stay off the sidewalks, too!”

I am allergic to cliches and cheap humor, so I refrained from making any of these jokes. Besides if family history is any indicator, it is only trees that have something to worry about.