Backstage, frontstage, sidestage, understage, etc. at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles

In beautiful Santa Barbara…

New shirt, fully loaded

SOKOL hall in Omaha, Nebraska.

Spider Thing pays us another visit

National Museum of Dentistry (not recommended)

A set of George Washington’s teeth.  Not made of wood.
No record of any dentist in the U.S. even making a single denture in wood.  In Japan, yes, but not over here.
Some of George’s teeth were other people’s teeth.
Going home…

When the band played in Philadelphia, Christian took me to his friend’s home/studio/wonderland.  Check it out.

Aquabats played Denver, Colorado, and I had visit from Nephew Joel- 

here you can see my production zone- monitor in a narrow table, keyboard on a drawer.

Then we broke down in Russell, Kansas. It was awesome! I met Laurence at the truck stop bar, played at mini golf, and spiderman surprised us in the bus. He is much older now than in the movies.

I am on tour with the Aquabats! We started in Salt Lake, and we’ll keep moving for 2 weeks, a show every night but one. My responsibility is to make fun videos. We are off to a good start.

Super Potato finally moved outside a few months ago, and he’s doing fine.  An eye down, but still strong and without rot.  He had a big brown widow under his cape who left when I moved him out from the weeds.

When I met Mr Super Potato he was just another good looking “Idaho Spud”. But I saw something special in him and soon dressed him into Mark Mothersbaugh’s body.

After the limelight, he rested a lot, with a fellow spud. A month or more went by at my desk.

By the end of the season Super Potato was alone, and had found his legs again… and 2 eyes and a hat. Here he shares a concern with Craig Windes over some glitch in the Band Of Horses export.

He finally came home with me, set down his hat, and let his power expand-

He spent many quiet times in a display cabnet, before being turned out to pasture.
What a Super Potato!

Canning/pickling with heat is too much trouble for me. Same goes for fragrance distillation. It all requires a lot of cleaning and care. So, I just wash old jars and put whatever I have in there with high proof alcohol and let the elbow grease of time pull out the flavor. I also give it a heaving helping of sugar. Unfortunately, its usually pretty gross and, I dont really like the taste of anything with alcohol in it very much anyway. Still, when I find myself with a lot of ripe or exotic ingredients, or just a lot of optimism, I pour everclear on whatever I think might become magic.

recent and past jars

fresh

Green tea? Probably a bad idea.

I tasted some of this sugar after 10 minutes in the jar- it was delicious!

Camomile, for the sick and infirmed and weak-of-nerve.

Made from some incredible tasting and exotic guavas I found in a tiny quantity at a farmers market. Its the foulest tasting stuff I have ever made, absolutely awful! But, maybe it suits someone else’s mixer. After all, quinine and dry vermouth find their way into drinks all the time.