According to the Dow Jones Report, Walmart will start selling the new T-mobile G1 today.  I have been a T-mobile customer for the past 2 years and have some credit to spend on a new phone and have been considering getting this Android phone.  As a reward for being such a great customer and honoring my contract with T-mobile, I’ll be able to buy the phone for the discounted price of $179.99.  That discount price from T-moblie is actually $31.11 MORE than if I just walked off the street and into a Wal-Mart to buy it there.  THANKS!!

Origami is pretty cool stuff.  I’m amazed that people can take a ordinary piece of paper and turn it into a miniature sculpture.  It’s even better when it’s Star Wars.    Click the photo to see more a Gizmodo.

The closer that we get to Halloween, the more I love duct tape.  It seems that you can make just about anything with it.  To further prove this point I present to you the Duct Tape Batman mask.  click the image to see the steps.

wow.  I had a great weekend in Texas and I’ve got some photos to post but my server went down.  I’ll start with the Fan Days report soon.

Well, I’m off.  If anybody is out there in Texas come by and say hello.  Here’s a map.

Johnny Rock Page is a Superbike Racer who stole newspaper headlines by defeating the expert riders at Firebird Raceway in his rookie year.  He was quickly proving himself as one of the best racers, but he ran out of money and couldn’t continue his dream.  He didn’t give up, he just took a little longer to get there.  He started his own company and has become successful and is back on the superbike scene and wants to bring the sport more attention.  He is working on a pitch for a reality show about his story of success and I’ve been part of the production by making a few props and images for some animated sequences.  Here’s one of the props that I drew.  Click on the picture above to go to his site and see more about him.

I have received some artist proof cards after working on the sketch card sets for Marvel Masterpieces Set II & III.  I haven’t decided what to do on each one of these cards so I am open for suggestions.  The cards are available as a commission.  Here’s one of the first ones I’ve done.

Here’s an 8×10 illustration.

I won the Burt Reynolds Edition Trans Am in December and had it delivered in January.  Part of prize along with winning the car was some cash to help with the Taxes.  The car was delivered on Jan. 4th and then I was laid of on Jan. 11th.  Good thing I had some money in the bank.  Perfect timing.

I found a 3 month contract job doing similar work at a similar pay.  Near the end of that contract I was asked if I was interested in doing a print for Celbration Japan.  The Contract ended early and I was able to work on the print.  Perfect timing.

I went straight from Japan to the San Diego Comic Con.  Someone had not been able to make it to be in the Artist Alley so I was able to sit down an show off more of my work and meet lots of people.  Perfect timing.

We put the kids to bed, called our neighbor, went to the hospital, had the baby, I came home and was able to get the kids ready for school.  Perfect timing.

I have had steady contract work but things started to slow down a bit.  We started to wonder if we have bought a house too big for our needs.  Then my sister-in-law and her SIX boys needed a place to stay for awhile.  They moved from Indiana to stay with me, my wife and our six kids.  We are now known as the B’15s and our house is run like a flying fortress.  We have space for everybody and we’re reasonably sane.  I got an email to do some more work and the contracts have started up again.  Perfect timing.

We found a great deal on a freezer from Craig’s List.   We got the freezer a little while back and then our ice dispenser on the fridge started acting funny.  We reached in manually to get some ice for the kids cups to go to bed and it was a pretty melted.  We were able to transfer all of the  freezer items to the new freezer (except some of the ice cream :D) and then bought some ice to put in the fridge then went to Sears.  We found last year’s model on discount and I think we’re going to get it.  Perfect timing.

More often than not the comedy or tragedy of a situation will be determined by our perspective.

I don’t read Harequin books.  I just can’t get past the image of Fabio and his golden locks dreamily gazing at me and saying, “I can’t believe it’s not butter”.  I also don’t watch Nascar.  I don’t quite understand either of these markets, but it looks like these two kids are heading for a meaningful relationship.

In one book, our heroine, an ex-kindergarten teacher, falls in love with a Nascar driver after first being hit by his car and then driving his enormous motor coach from race to race.  Catch me I’m swooning.  Read more at the New York Times.