Dance of Days

The title pretty much sums up the column, but its still worth reading.

Minor Disturbance

Over the weekend, Amy and I took Maeve to the rides up on the boardwalk with all her cousins. Seven kids all under the age of 9. The following are a few shots from the afternoon:

All seven cousins in one shot. It only took five attempts without having someone crawl out of the picture.


Maeve cruising on the carousel.


Roman and I on the Tilt-a-Whirl.


Wall Art.


Roman finally stood up in the tube. It basically continually rotated and he got thrashed a few times just trying to get through. It would drag him up along the side before gravity threw him back down.


No pictures until the train comes to a complete stop.


After I took this picture, it reminded me of the Dave Matthews Band, which is unfortunate.


There was barely anyone at the rides. Here Meghan and Jenny are the only two people on Moby Dick.


This mural looks like it should be used for a Get Real album or something.



The paparazzi was in full pursuit during the bumper cars. Don't let the smile fool you, Amy was out for blood.

Face Reality

It's hard to concentrate in stupid meetings. Two sketches done with a marker and pencil that made the whole thing a lot more bearable. It's amazing what you can do with a quarter sheet of paper and sixty minutes when you are really bored...


Nasal ride

Corduroy

My Daughter Likes Floorpunch?

First ever double post day...

So Maeve loves to dance to lots of stuff, "Swagga Like Us", old reggae, Morrissey, and one of her favorites is the "Thriller" lp. There really isn't any rhyme or reason to what she likes other than some songs do it for her and others bore her I guess. The other day, she surprised the hell out of me when I had "Division One Champs" on the record player-she was dancing! Her moves were pretty good, the only problem was when Porter yells out "GO!" during "Changes" she ran out of the room. I thought I would see if she would dance again for a different song and sure enough, listening to "No Exceptions" she got down. Youth crew in effect:

Lehigh Valley All-Stars

Just thought I would put up some random youtube videos of my favorite LV bands of the past.

Rancor:


Atari:


Ultimate Warriors:


Gatecrashers with Sanchez singing:


Carpenter Ant (Part II of previously posted Globefest video):

Ten Toes Over

Decided to put up this photo that was published early summer in this year's Ocean City Sentinel featuring the photography of Steve Mullen and surfer Rob Kulisek. Mullen takes some great pictures and surfs Ocean City year 'round. He did a great series of pictures a few years back featuring a lot of the original OLC guys which was awesome. Kulisek just graduated, but every time I see a shot of this kid he is killing it. Such a good surfer, and also into photography himself.

Anyway, I really like this shot for the angle, color, etc. You can tell from Rob's wetsuit that he totally into doing his own thing in and out of the water. Steve's description is really detailed and gets someone who's never surfed about as close as possible to what that feeling is like. The photo/explanation combo was supposed to be some sort of weekly occurance in the Sentinel, but thankfully, I didn't see any more of these posted in the weeks to come and that was a good thing. It's best to let surfing be as low-key as possible in the summer months to keep the crowds from getting out of hand even more than it already is.

DIY Garden

My neighbor across the street cranked out his own little garden in his side yard and came up with a whole bunch of good vegetables. Pretty impressive considering the soil quality around here isn't the greatest. Below is one of the pumpkins that he has growing:


The corn crop didn't turn out quite as good:


Definitely something I would like to try maybe next summer if I can find the time.