I'm enough of a mess traveling, with an overstuffed messenger bag, doing the coffee and iPod balancing act, boarding pass in an odd pocket, pants falling down bit, too hot to wear jacket, wife doing the bathroom stop, timing my step off weird walking treadmill things, blocking out sad looking sports bars: its alot for any dachshund to handle.  Then you find your gate.  You have 25 minutes till you watch all the first class people board.  Naturally, you go to the book store and pretend to maybe buy a magazine, Combos, a $4 water and do a quick inventory of people you are about to see who might appreciate a MILWAUKEE magnet. 

Then you hit the slim wall of books and thats when I realized I absoultely fucking had it.  Hey inspired traveler try these books on for size (one of these is made up, the rest are real):

I CAN MAKE YOU THIN

YOU'RE BROKE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE

YOU ARE YOUR OFFICE

DO'S and DON'TS OF CRAIGSLIST HOTEL RELATIONSHIPS

STRIVING TO BUILD CORPORATE STRENGTH

THE POWER OF UNREASONABLE PEOPLE

 On Jan 10, 1776, Thomas Paine, (the original T-Pain, holla), published COMMON SENSE and the colonists went all Star Wars and destroyed the British Death Star or something.  He rallied the troops.  John Adams said, "Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain".  That's pretty sick.  Oh yeah, and all this went down in New Rochelle, NY where I grew up.  Feel that Shorewood suckas!

MEMORIAL AT THOMAS PAINE'S HOUSE, ACROSS FROM NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL IN NY.

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 + Headliners: Pseudo Slang (Fat Beats Records),
The Woes (from Brooklyn)

+ Meet the folks from Milwaukee Film and enter to win a chance for free tickets to upcoming screenings of "American Movie" and "Handmade Nation" @ The Oriental Theater

+ Exclusive DJ set by:DJ Tarik (88.9fm Radio Milwaukee / The Rhythm Lab).

+ Free Slamdance DVDs

+ $5 @ door -- a bargain! Support Independent Artists!!!

+ Doors open 9 p.m. , 21+

The Y Not III is 1854 E. Kenilworth Place,
near Beans and Barley.

Spread the word, and see you there!

There is art that moves you and then there is art that you are in.  Both are equally amazing for obvious reasons.  Kevin Callahan, main art dude at Alterra Coffee Roasters painted my portrait for what I am sure is meant to be consideration for when I chose an illustrator for the dust jacket of my autobiography.  While I will certainly hang this in my office, I leave all administrative matters, artwork and otherwise, to my agent.

As ever,

Otis