3/24/06 One of my favorite records is now being re-released with a very cool twist. Brian Eno and David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" 25 years later... Take your time and read about the concept. 3/24/06 Finished another "Chirp" illustration for The Skate Mag. I'm going to try and collect them all in a gallery of some sort soon. 3/24/06 I'm back. We're back. El Diablo Run was something else. I haven't really had enough time to process the trip and get the words down. Soon. It was overwhelming in the best possible way. While I get my shit together, go check out Bill's excellent blog at El Diablo for some great photos and notes. I can't thank Bill and McGoo enough for putting this whole deal together. Good men. And another big thanks go out to Lardog, Bill and Mike D. for doing the thankless job of driving chase. Read a good interview with Robyn Hitchcock in the new Believer magazine. He hit a couple perfect notes with me. One quote in particular articulated how I've felt most of my life... "As a thinking person I'm completely in despair, but as a kind of creature I'm quite happy." —Robyn Hitchcock 3/13/06 I found this logo amongst the hundred or so SPAMS inhabiting my in-box this morning... Believe it or not, it belongs to a pre-press and printing house. 3/10/06 It's been really windy the last couple days. Then, today when I get into work, I find out it may hail later. Hitting hail at 70mph doesn't sound too good to me. I was asked recently to join in a project called "Grease Not Gas," a, "project aimed at making social change through promoting alternative fuels in a way that is entertaining as well as informative." I'm working on a t-shirt (that is supposed to be done already, imagine that) for a fund raiser at, JDK, the renowned creative studio in Burlington, Vermont. They are hosting a "Grease Not Gas" event next week at their 47Sanctuary gallery. The vegetable oil powered RV will be there — it has almost 100,000 mile on it already, as it's been touring around the country powered by, you guessed it, vegetable oil. Who woulda known? Soon, hopefully everyone... Also contributed some Frontside Air prints to help out the Wilmington Skate Project. They're doing a benefit show, "Some of My Best Friends are Skateboarders!" to aide in building a park in Wilmington, Delaware. Best of luck, guys. 3/6/06 Yes, you can lose your drawing chops if you don't keep them up. Spent a frustrated Saturday scribbling on white paper. Threadbared is worth a chuckle or two, but it's actually pretty interesting in an amateur anthropological sort of way. All this talk of custom bikes and fabrication... check this baby out. Beautifully Ordinanced Orange County. I guess they could have been listening to subversive leftist motivational speeches from those iPods... 3/3/06 Boyle's beast of a Ducati — excuse me, Monster — is ready for EDR... It's gonna be a rag tag crew of misfits and kooks (myself included, of course) headed to Mexico come March 16th. Check the Diablo blog for yourself. Larson's shooting/writing a story for Monster Children, Holga in tow. Speaking of MC, had lunch with Hollywood Chris today after he passed us the new, McFet covered issue. Good bloke. Good magazine. Oh yeah, one more interesting MC thing... Chris tells us Even Hecox's art got past Australian customs just 30 minutes before the show opening. Cam, if you're reading this, I hope the stress has subsided — BTW, send some photos of your bike, bitch! 3/3/06 Weather prediction was for rain today. But it was sunny when I left home. Of course, it started pouring halfway here. You'd think I'd suit up for the water, eh? Especially seeing as I bought a damn rain suit after the last soaking. F-ing rookie. BTW, thanks for the clear plastic Coleman rain suit, Staci. And yes, someone's already suggested I wear it naked. Not even my wife wanted to picture that... The AMA and FIM give Carmichael his points back! Suzuki fined $20,000, which will go the Asterisk Medical folks... damn good decision, if you ask me. Now take it all the way, Ricky. Found the coolest link this morning thanks to an email from Mike Watt. Mike sent over a link for Stephanie Miller and I found, within its folds, The Way Back Machine, punched in the Bend Press url and found a load of stuff I thought was lost... from "way back" in 1999. Luckily I've never cleaned off my host server. Check it out. 3/2/06 From one friend to another. Randy Janson's '66 Triumph... ...is soon to be in the possession of one, Tony Larson... Here's a close-up of the beauty. Check out Janson's shop, Go Fast Choppers. Kim Boyle sent me this link to the bad ass Norton Commando 961. Nice. Be sure to check out the vintage ad section. Kim and I may be the only two on the El Diablo Run with cafe bikes. His Ducati is a tricked out beast of a bike. Photo soon. 3/1/06 Evan Hecox is in Sydney, Australia hanging with the Chocolate team and the Monster Children crew for a bit... Finished up the Wallride schedule for 2006. More organized than ever. Is that possible? ...that after almost 13 years at Girl, I may have gotten it down? I'll let you know in 2007. Starting a cool new project for Upperplayground in SF. It includes a few of my favorite LA artists; Travis Millard, Jordan Crane and Kozy n' Dan. I've probably said too much already. More next month. A Wrench Pilot special project with Lakai? Maybe. I want to throw a special note out to my friend Ryan Clark who's been killin' it on the supercross circuit for the last few weeks. Qualifying straight out of the heats and finishing in the top ten against the best MX riders on earth. Damn straight. Keep it up, Clark — and the best of luck to Buckelew in his recovery after his Atlanta crash. Here's Ryan during the opening ceremonies at the Atlanta supercross. Click for the whole image. 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