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Gotta  little photo of me looking a little old and grizzled over on Olivejuuuuuice.

Check it out here: http://olivejuuuuice.com/2011/01/roscoe/

I rode my scooter to work today. Thought I was going to freeze to death! Should of pedaled.. at least I would have been making some body heat. This below freezing weather crap is hard on my soft and  weak Austin body.

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I’ve been out of commission for a few days with some fun food poisoning.

I like this elephant guy.

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Nibbing away on my computer.

Shoulder cat, or cat-back.

I wish for pizza most of the time.

The physics of an exploding half-link.

Puppet hands, or long necked two headed rabbit in a bird costume?

Its possible I might be the only person who finds this kind of thing funny, but on almost every scooter we saw in Taiwan (and there are billions) there seemed to be a oddly worded slogan. Here’s a gallery of some.

Just back from Taiwan and I had an amazing trip. The trip definitely warrants a good write up and I will get to that, but for now here are some funny shirts (and stuff) I found.

How to use an elevator.

This almost has my name on it… my dark master calling me.

Today I was doodling and drew this cat piercing this guys lip. It immediately got me thinking about a personally embarrassing moment when I thought it was a good idea to pierce my eyebrow.

It was like 1994 and I had dreadlocks. For some reason I was looking in the mirror and decided I needed to have a pierced eyebrow. Keep in mind, this was not cool even then. My dorkness knows no bounds.

So I went to the tattoo shop and bought a little silver ring.

I had a sewing needle and I was amazed at how hard it was to push a needle through my eyebrow. I had to push SOOO hard. I shoved with all my strength until my attempt abruptly backfired and the back of the needle pierced my thumb.

After I got the bleeding to stop in my thumb I found a piece of metal to wrap around the needle so I could push harder. I jammed the needle through my eyebrow. Unfortunately it didn’t come out the other side anywhere near where I wanted. So I jammed it through again. And again. In fact it took 7 tries to line it up with the optimal eyebrow piercing spot. Finally I jammed the ring in, and of course it broke!

The next day I bought another ring and stuffed  the sewing needle through my forehead 7 more times. This time I got the ring in place and was successful!

That day my friend Ron Kimler and I went for a bike ride. I was feeling pretty cool… he was laughing under his breath I’m sure.

Suddenly there was as big CRASH! Ron’s peg had gotten into my front wheel as we were cruising down the sidewalk.

I flipped over the bars and narrowly missed Ron’s handlebar grip impaling me. His brake lever barely missed my eye but made a perfect bullseye through my stupid eyebrow ring and yanked that little badge of goon-dom right out of my face.

I can’t tell you how many times fate and good fortune have saved me from myself, but count this up as one of them. Thanks fate!