some index card doodles

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Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Oaxaca Mexico (1998)

Pictures from the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival in Oaxaca Mexico (1998) 

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 ABOVE: Various calaveras at a stand outside one of the large cemeteries. 

LEFT: Artist recreating Posada's "La Calavera de la Catrina" outside cemetery at Dia de los Muertos

RIGHT: Calaveras (skeleton puppets and figures) hanging in a Oaxaca market for Day of the Dead.

ABOVE: girls decorating graves for Dia de los Muertos

 ABOVE and BELOW: graves decorated for Dia de los Muertos (that's me standing next on in the bottom right picture)

Photos Around Chicago in the Summer

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post-it note doodle action

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Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altars - Oaxaca Mexico (1998)

Some altars from Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in Oaxaca in 1998.

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White Sox Opening Day 2010

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ABOVE: Black Hawk Olympians out for the first pitch 

 

Mark Buehrle's first pitch of 2010 - his eighth Opening Day start.

some more unused phrases and never used song titles.....

More words accumulated into phrases for really no practical reason...

the Cadillac of Clown Colleges
the Devil's Inbox
You Couldn't Say That in Church
House Mother Coup
the New Hugh Beaumont
Lip Reader's Glasses
Self Referential and Made of Wood
Bo Donaldson's House of a Single Hit
(Like a) Garlic Press for Christmas
Crack-Me-Nots
Faux Heart Breaking
Underwriting Your Tales of Woe
the Grief Counsellor's Office Birthday Party
Wet Dog Double Talk

I don't really write songs anymore, but I still keep writing down possible song titles, which also double as potential mix disc titles or ideas for cartoon captions.