This image belongs to Steve Schroeder after an arduous licensing battle that ending in me forfeiting my rights in trade for a lunch at Don Pancho down the street. I'm sure I'm somehow violating our contract in posting this image here, but then again all of his images on Flickr are under a Creative Commons deed. I think I'm okay.
Now that that's out of the way let's talk about this image. Since I've been home in Portland I've been roped in to doing all sorts of design work. Granted, "roped in" should be more like "have had the awesome opportunity to make things and get paid for them," but really, like everyone else in the world, I would much rather just chill out on iChat and make cool sandwiches and art projects all day. Sometimes even entertainers have to chill out, you know? Anyway, Zac Pennington and I were hanging out and jamming on the artwork for the new CD release of his album ((GRRRLS)); which was previously only available as a 12" LP grooved vinyl phonograph record disc. We decided to walk over to Steve's house and on the way we walked by these two stuffed Mickey Mouse dolls deeply outfitted in human clothes and accessories (the photo up at the top of this page). This post is my first attempt at figuring out the story behind these two stuffed men. Did you see them? Did you put them there? I'll keep you updated, guys. I WILL FIND YOUR STORY, MICKEYS.
Have you noticed how incredibly cold it is outside? Yesterday I tried to use the hose in the back of my apartment building and this is what happened:
Portland Ice Hose
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Later on I rode my bike over to the new Tiny's Coffee shop in NE to meet up with my friend Susan and talk about recording this song of hers that I love so much. We're going to make it on Thursday and maybe I'll put it up here if she is into that sort of sharing.
UPDATE: I just made a gnarly dog drawing and turned it into this short animation.
Gnarls Dog
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Lastly, if you have read this far I would like to ask you to participate in a quick activity. Reach into your right pocket and remove all of its contents. Now click on the comments link down there and list each item individually. If you feel like you need to explain, please do so. Don't feel shy! If you've never commented here, it's okay! Go for it! Okay, thanks!
Truly,
Jona
1 - nickel (traditional style)
1 - receipt from Safeway (spent way too much money on soda)
1 - bottle cap (Malta Hatuey - weird and good cereal/malt beverage - non-alcoholic. Possibly from Cuba. Here is the company's website but on here it only talks about their beer, and not this more interesting beverage.)
Way too much stuff, Jona.
More cash than a person should carry (for the poker game I played last night). A half-dollar, seven quarters, two dimes and a nickel. Pocket knife. Antique bottle opener. Uniball Micro Deluxe. Buncha stupid keys.
Keys! Can't my doors and locks use bluetooth now? Eyescan? Save me from keys!
Oh!
Your lucky half dollar!
ADMIT IT!!!
It's for luck!!!
knife?? lots of cash?? what are you? some kind of "street tough"?
Nuttin' in my right pocket. Little in my wrong pocket.
Although, I'll tell you this much Jona: I spent the day packing up my Sister's house (she is moving), so as the day went on, I was filling up the right pocket of the trousers I was wearing with all the screws, dowls and whatnot that had fallen out of various pieces of furniture. Quite a collection, I built - all a-jabbing and a-poking into my leg.
Ice hose = Golly gosh!
•Matchbook - Says "diamond" on it. There are four matches left
•One Tri-Met Bus transfer. Good till 3:30pm
*Another transfer good till 7:30pm
•A Penny
•My Bank Of America ATM card
•My new work schedule - laminated
BONUS! [LEFT POCKET]
•2 more matchbooks! One is the same "diamond" and another is "freedom lights the way" with an american flag on it. 22 matches between them.
•Folded up piece of paper says "dd6->sk5, paypal, heat, rent, superdigital, janice/jp, colleens, trade up, maggiespackage, tour packages."
•Another paper... says, "car honking in one/drone in two carrier - ringmod"
I have no pockets since I am STILL IN MY PAJAMAS at 6:30 on a Saturday night! You think YOU like to chill out, man!
UPDATE: I came back to read the rest of your stuff, and rechecked my pockets and THERE IS STUFF NOW:
1. Olive green wallet made by my friend Amy Karr that has a panda face on the inside which I like to pretend is my dog. Two corners are gnawed off, thanks to said dog (the real dog, not the panda dog).
1A. Inside the wallet: The security code for the office alarm, J Crew gift card (thanks mom!), debit card for a bank account that I haven't used in several years, driver's licence, credit card, receipt from the date that I took my date on tonight.
2. $0.36 (one of each.)
3. Crumbs or dirt or something. Part of a stick too.
BORING!!
•Keys on a carabiner with my student ID
•Brown cotton hippie wallet made in nepal
•One-inch button for The Blast, a band in Walla Walla that played last night. I ran sound for them, it was fun because it was the first time they played with the kick drum miced and the bass guitar going through the PA and they were so stunned to hear themselves with all this low end, and so were the kids in the crowd, who danced harder than usual. Lesson learned: Bass drum mic + bass guitar DI = ROCK
•$1.35 in change
•Reciept from a soy nog latte from coffee perk earlier today
•Cellular Telephone
•CD of background music to listen to while i work on my thesis: Radiohead's Kid A
coat pocket:
lip balm, biz card for Sacramento Food Bank (we donated a carload of stuff, and the dude there gave me his card so we can call and have them put a big collection barrel at our school next holiday season...), one mitten
oregus state id
checking card,
both in DOPE NEW MONEY CLIP that a cigarette company's promotional team sent to someone that used to live at my house
7 cents, radio cab matches, piece of pinkish thread, bar reciept, small piece of clear cellophane plastic, an empty space where love belongs.
-1343¥ in coin form.
-atm receipt
-vodaphone promotional tissue pack
-lighter
-chapstick
-wallet
inside wallet:
bank card from america, japanese bank card, 12000¥ in note form, receipts from grocery stores, overpriced bus tickets($3 for a 40min ride, what the heck!), alien resident card, ritsumeikan asia pacific university id card, student store card, coupons for food (I think), fitness room card, mailbox card that doesn't work, telephone card, electronics store high tech point card, clothes store stamp card, paper with lots of words i can't understand.
i chose coat pocket because im wearing pocketless sweat pants. i hope that doesn't completely ruin your activity.
a folded in fours dollar
3 keys on a very plain ring, 2 say "Axxess+" on them
this is sort of a rip off blog squad, but i'm cool with it
see you thursday!!!!!!!
Despite the extra weight around my ankles...
I prefer putting things in my sock
vs.
bulky pockets.......................................
So in my 'sock pockets'...a load, a load....
1) Ipod 20GB w/ headphones
2) Lighter and a cigarette holder
3) Pocket knife (a gal's extra safety tool)
4) Credit Card, License, 122.00 in cash
5) Mobile Phone
Keys (3) actually in my pant pocket.***
Key for the house
Key for the ride
Key for the bike lock
Otherwise, I want to know if you will be playing in the NW in late March 2006....
I will be back in P Town then...............
I put my hand in my right pocket and a little crumb got caught underneath my fingernail of my middle finger. This reminded me that i must trim my nails because they are quite long now. It's also winter time and germs are having parties everywhere and having long nails increases the chances of more germs being caught under the nails and therefore increasing the chances of catching the common cold or some exotic disease like the himalayan turkey virus...
a red lighter which does not work despite the almost capacity level of ligher fluid not-so-concealed within and an oregon trail benefits card, possibly to be used in conjunction with the lighter at some point?
- 1 'key lime' colored bic mark-it™ fine point permanent marker.
- 1 'plasma pink' colored galaxy marker.
- 1 thumb tack (ouch!)
oh man... you totally caught me not wearing any pants.
its late... its ok... im getting ready for bed, thats all.
also, i now know where icicles come from, thanks for ruining all the magic... jeez.
I forgot to share my fortune, its one of the best i've ever seen: Regenerate your system through diet and exercise. Save the cookies!
Just my basic black wallet I got at target or Fred Myer or some shit like that. Lame. It's got $22 in it, though. I'm rich bitch.
well i found some threrad then i realised it wasnt IN my pocket, it WAS my pocket, which then quickly became a separate flap on my pants
cards...
platinum Wells Fargo Credit Card
Wells Fargo Atm (brand new .. I melted my other one so no one
would steal my identity)
34 dollar gift receipt to Buffalo Exchange
Albertsons "preferred savings card"
old CA driver's license expires when I'm 30
SD city college ID
Palomar College ID
Defenders of Wildlife ViSA credit card
there,, now that's done.. had to fulfill one obsessive compulsive urge this morning
I just cleaned my pants so there is no lint.
there is however
-one tube of Dr. Bronner's Orange Ginger Chapstick
-my keys which include 2 house keys(one front and one back), a bike key, a suitcase key with a face on it for the suitcase I keep yarn in, a found rabies vaccination dog tag (expired) and a heart shaped lock that I got from a gumball machine at the roller rink in 6th grade.
- a 512 MB jump drive (with multi colored cozy)
Right pocket;
2 free passes to Regal Cinemas
ATM receipt
Greater Trumps matchbook
Burt's Bees chapstick in a tin
1 earring
30 cents
Left pocket:
car keys
gas receipt
18 cents
Beaterville receipt
hair tie
sparkly purple barrette
very unusually, almost nothing: a 12' measuring tape in safety red [the actual tape is yellow and completely lacks metric anything, though the first 12" are graduated in /32s (the remaning 11 only to /16ths)] ... and that little pocket at the top of the pocket -jeans wearers know what I'm talking about, I call it my "pick pocket" because I keep guitar pix in there- has one of those bread-bag-closing dealies which I use as free, somewhat less misplacement-prone (as it can be clipped onto the strings out past the nut) guitar pick most times.
pocket items:
-one marble (yellow, red, and white)
-one zipper that broke off my purple sweatshirt
-one large orange button
-one small brownish button
-one bobby pin
-one dime year 1984, a good year
-one half dollar that I try everyday to trick tenders into accepting in exchange for treats, obviously hasn't worked yet
My left pocket has a rock in it, I think I will make it my "lucky rock"
i found a button that my friend steve brought me back from his european trip. it is from abbey road. it shows a picture of a lightpost that sort of looks like a microphone.
right pocket:
blue lighter
03 black micron pen
parlimant lights
left pocket:
white sharpie paint pen
1$ bill S/N L4635188B
1$ bill S/n L65854135D
1$ bill S/n L87498239C
1$ bill s/N L94292836M
1 25¢ piece 2005
1 25¢ piece 1998
1 10¢ piece 1997
1 old style credit card receipt, you know where you stick the card in the little rectangular holder thingdy and put carbon paper over it and...anyway, that'll be
Broadway Cab $16 12-14-05
1 ticket stub English Beat Aladdin Theater 12-16-05
1 foil wrapped treat-of-some-sort from Alberta Co-op
my keys, with a purple swim fin doo-dad
-a donkey
-50 cent (the rapper)
-another pocket inside
-freedom rock (grateful dead)
-crabs
-vegen poetry
-a can of KOOL WHIP!!!
Lucky Strike cigs (4 left)
Trident wrapper
York peppermint patty wrapper
That's the deal dog. Love ya. Philly loves you.
in my right pocket there are:
a pack of (slightly smashed) camel turkish silvers.
Pilot Precise rolling ball pen.
complimentary mint from noodlin'.
a list (written on note pad paper with a state farm insurance agent's name, photo, and address) of track names for a mix i want to make my friend Karin. (two of your songs will be on the mix.)
-mr.
my cell phone
€2,50 in bits of change
a pen
a scrap of paper with "milk" on it
a receipt from a cd i bought yesterday
one half of one ticket stub for a movie on december 11 and though it doesn't say i can tell you right now it was for king kong.
Not even worth making a comment. I'm 77th on the list!
Fuck it. No ones gonna read about my 14mm socket, or my 9mm end wrench or the half a ticket stub from the capital theater and especially not the piece of paper that says Marisa's cellphone # (360) 870-2030. yeah, fuck it.
a dvd of this show called mcmillan and wife. its about this police chief played by rock hudson and his wife and they solve mysteries together.
Dude! That is the greatest ice dispenser in the history of all-time! Albeit not very practical - but still.
the Y.A.C.H.T mega cd/dvd is fucking insane . and i adore it.
the dvd = :-O
i'd crane you off anyway hwehweh gawd yeah you gave the cd to me for my birthday at the dublin gig in july. ?
A fake lighter that has a pop out plastic penis when you try and light it. I was stolen from a porno store after drinking whisky all night in Montana over Christmas. It's rad!
a 1983 us penny,
a 2005 us penny,
a 1997 us penny,
a 1977 us penny,
a 1980 us penny,
a 1969 us penny,
a 1975 us penny,
a 2000 us penny,
a 1994 us penny,
a 1979 us penny,
a 1997 us penny,
a 2005 us nickel,
a 1996 us nickel,
a 1995 us nickel,
a 2002 us dime,
a 1999 us dime,
a 1994 us dime,
a 2003 us illinois quarter,
a 1998 us quarter,
a 1983 brazillian 10 cruzeiros coin (that my friend from brazil named hudson just told me tonight at the dope dance party show i just got over with was roughly worth 2 dollars),
an orange "uke" pick,
an old bus fare,
and a giant heart shaped pin.
back right pocket.... wallet.
back left pocket... nothing.
front right pocket... keys on a penguin keychain, chapstick
front left pocket... old receipt, lint.
thanks
~m
one bic lighter with a nice photograph of a buck
one pack of camel lights (11 cigarettes)
9 pennies
3 nickels
3 dimes
1 quarter
three guitar picks (one dunlop, one ariaproII, and one metallic green pick)
one coat button, brown
right pocket:
a blue pen
left pocket:
a folded up list, including things i want to do, nba teams i want to watch/follow more. usually there's a list like this here.
a receipt from a deposit at the bank
two pens (taking them out now, too many)
a dollar (putting it in wallet now)
(changed mind about dollar, easy access for bus later)
burts bee's chapstick
keycard for work
note: right pocket has small hole in it, hence the lopsidedness of pocket contents between left and right
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Receipt for lunch (chicken burger with garlic mashed potatoes and a beer), Recipt for Criminal Records (new sigor ros CD, Yeti book, Transmet TPBs, gift card), four $1 bills, debit card, credit card, drivers license, Kroger plus card, Grow biz card (www.growsalon.com), China Breeze punch card and some pocket lint.