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a guide to forgetting the cubs: oregon

For a Cubs fan the very worst type of Summer involves bullpen issues. When severe, it is simply too painful to watch games literally tossed away at the last possible moment that could easily have been won. Compound this with almost uniform under-performance by the big-time position players that the baseball-bloggers needed so so bad. […]

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the sphere, the dead, css zengarden, a parisian lifestyle book, and balmy nevada nights

The middle of May until a little bit into June were active days. My birthday rolled around again and this brought the whole family down to southern Nevada. We hit the Sphere to see Dead and Company, found a speakeasy and a fancy-pants cocktail bar in downtown Las Vegas, spent a few balmy backyard nights […]

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old-school illustration, new-school ai, and new photography from nevada and utah

There is no bar in downtown Las Vegas with the moniker “After the Apocalypse”, yet. There should be. A speakeasy. Below ground. With a thick roof and solid metal doors. The design of the card below just happened. Playing around with AI in illustrator. You turn on your computer in the morning and there is […]

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random stuff: branding books, the boss, baseball, botero and botanicals

I wasn’t in Southern Nevada at all in February, so February weather was apparently moved into all of March. Wet, cloudy, cool and windy intermixed with the occasional sunny and almost warm days that are more typical of March down here. Something to do with that whole el nino and la nina thing I guess. […]

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lyon and las vegas, a study in contrast

After returning from France in mid-December and before heading out to Las Vegas early in January, I realized that all of the Anthony Bourdain shows from his stints at various networks were available on Max. We had done a cheap temporary Max subscription at some point earlier in the Fall. So I began going about […]