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I was contacted a few months ago by the German publishing company Die Gestalten, and they asked me if I would like to submit images of my Munnys to their book "Dot Dot Dash." I found out recently that I got in. The book comes out in October. Here is a link to the books page. And if you want to buy it, you can pre-order from Amazon.com for something like $40. (It won't hurt my feelings is you don't)

Michael Alm:

I swear I'm not making this up.

Snake on a Plane

Midnight showing.... worth every penny.

After my last post I feel I need to prove I'm not a "geek." Unfortunately, I don't know quite when I'm going to the gun range so my Smith and Wesson photos have not been taken yet. In the mean time I've set up a facebook album for my Seattle trip:

Seattle Album

Also, I've found an awesome website: www.utilikilts.com/

Lastly, I found some furnishings for my Seattle Apartment. We were going through Peter E's Grandfathers house a few weeks ago. His family is moving there and selling their old house. I spotted these great Danish Modern chairs and ask if I could have them. The family sold them to me at a really cheap price. Anyway, I got them yesterday and instantly started scrubbing and sanding. They had been sitting out on a screen porch for the last 40 years, so the varnish was all flaky and the cushions were covered in this weird black gunk. With a little elbow grease and some help from Noonan, they now look great. I oiled the wood and put some vinyl protection on and now they look like this:

I Defraged my hard drive the other day. I hadn't done it.... ever, so it was pretty bad looking and it took about 6 hours to do.

Gotta love the free section of Craigs List

STL, Dogs, Climbing on stuff, Shiny new, and BMWs

Drove out to St. Louis over the weekend.... Drove Mom's Benz 'cause mine was getting painted...



I stayed with Tien and Taylor. Got to see lots of people. On Friday my parents drove through (coming back from NC) We introduced Ellie to Kiani's dog Audry....






And Boom was there too...




On Saturday night we hit up the City Museum...




I came back on Sunday to find the Mercedes all shiny



Yesterday our body-shop guy, Ron, invited my dad and me to an open house where they had beer and were tearing down some damaged BMW race cars...





That's all for now stay tuned for firing range day coming soon.

Goin' to St. Louis

So I've just been hanging out in KC for the past few weeks; working on getting my stuff together for the big move. (I've also been playing a lot of Donkey Kong 64 with Noonan.) I picked up this years Boats On Boats T-shirts today, and they are pretty sweet. Unfortunately I can't post picks because it's a surprise.

Tonight I'm driving out to St. Louis and will be there for 3 or 4 days. By this time tomorrow I will likely be floating down a river drinkin' cheep beer. I'm going to try and get in touch with those that are still in town, but give me a ring if you are in STL and want to get together.

Yeah yeah yeah. I know it's four days into August already, here's your damn monkey.

Monkey in a bit

Hey I thought it was time for another update. I'm back in KC now and have been for a couple of days. The Seattle trip was fun, but thoroughly exhausting. Here are some pictures from the second half of the trip:



Dasta visited me over the weekend. 100 points for her.









I'm not sure if I'm mentally ready to move yet, but I think I'm gonna have to. I have been offered a job with Chihuly starting in September, and would be a fool to turn it down. I'm crossing my finger that I can get another person to move with me, because that would make things a hell of a lot easier.

Free Lance Villain, though the site is parked currently, is still moving along. Here are some low-res examples of what I've been doing:






There is still a ton more to go and I'm not working as steadily as I need to be, but it is on its way.