3 posts from November 2006

 

The Walker Home is a cute little shop in Fredericksburg, Virginia that mainly serves as a quirky home furnishing store.  They have other random, odd, pop-arty and Japanese/Chinese goodies as well, and they have a lot of Chinese antique furniture from the 18th and 19th century (including a REALLY neat, museum-quality wedding bed).

Anyhoo, while wandering around downtown Fredericksburg, my friend Nina and I were walking by this shop when I notice a very intriguing item in the window: a Mao Zedong messenger bag

 

 

I am intrigued when people plaster the image of famous dictators on random items, so I figured it would be fun to peruse the store, as they usually have interesting things anyway.  Little behold the wonders that lay in store.

A very kind man led us into the back, where apparently they were having a Christmas sale of Mao-related items - knapsacks, bags, statues, caps, etc.  If someone gets me the above bag for Christmas, I will love you forever.

Nina and I tried on the warm-looking winter hats:

 

I look quite cheerful, for a communist.  Nina, however, in the same hat looks more Russian communist than Chinese communist:

 

And we learned that if you're looking for a special gift for that special someone, look no further....

 

The whiteboard of room 202 has been getting lots of action lately.  Here's an update:

 

11/16 - To celebrate the latest episode of 'The Office', drawn by yours truly.

 

11/21 - Inspired by a combination of 'Kids In The Hall' and Batman, drawn by Nina.

 

For those who are confused, this references one of my favorite Kids In The Hall sketchs.

I'm listening to Hawthorne Heights right now.  This cannot be good.

This is the first entry of this blog, so I feel compelled to make it something special.  Ideally, I would like to post a couple of pictures every week of random, amusing occurences in my otherwise mundane life. 

I use the camera on my cell phone a great deal because, although the picture quality isn't that great, it's just so easy to use and gives me the ability to capture things as they happen.  So thus, to de-virginize this blog, a few random happenings of the last few weeks.

The whiteboard of Anna and I's room sees a lot of action.  I try to chronicle it as it changes but it's a little impossible to keep up with, so here's what was on it two or so weeks ago, when all of us in the Suite of Awesome were listening to various versions of "Baby Got Back".  Here's the concept I came up with.  The drawing is courtesy of Nina.

Soon thereafter, the Suite of Awesome (ie: myself, Anna, and Nina), along with our friend Lisa from Virginia Tech, took a roadtrip all the way down to Norfolk, Virginia, to go see my favorite band, The Twilight Singers.  I meant to actually chronicle the entire trip from beginning to end, but the batteries in my digital camera died somewhere near Williamsburg, so here's what I got with my phone:

Lisa and Anna's Epic Arm Wrestle at the California Pizza Kitchen across the street from the venue, complete with Nina's FIST OF FURY.

 

Opener Jeff Klein, a very talented fellow who basically is his own One Man Band.  For this reason, I think he would  be a delightful addition to Cate Blanchett Wants Your Flesh.  However, he plays music, and we at CBWYF are too avant-garde for music.

 

Greg Dulli of The Twilight Singers rocking out during "Candy Cane Crawl".  In the words of Paris Hilton, "That's hot."

 

Stay tuned, folks.