Hallmark Cards' hoops & yoyo

if one has received many e-cards, then "hoops&yoyo" are probably familiar.

"hoops&yoyo" are the very creative animated cat & rabbit (along with sidekick "Piddles") that are stars of their own series of Hallmark e-cards.

my sister works with the *2* animators, adobe® flash experts & comedic geniuses at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City. if you have never seen hoops & yoyo e-content, its definitely worth a look.

Buckeyes 14
Michigan 3

Final

Ohio State Buckeyes 2007 Big Ten champions!!

the greatest rivalry in sports

My prediction for today's game:

Ohio State Buckeyes 33

Michigan Wolverines 17

ghosts at The Ohio State University

OSU Lantern article details university's forgotten past

on rockline

had another few minutes of my "warhol's 15" a bit ago.
USA FM rock music radio has a syndicated program "rockline"
and they normally have rock musicians on. tonight, oddly, was artist Storm Thorgerson who's done a ton of well-known artists' album covers & arguably most notably, Pink Floyd's
"the dark side of the moon".

i got through on the phone to talk with him, on-air, US nationwide.


i have a signed & numbered print of his work "tree of half life"
& always thought his image of a tree in the shape of a human head was to resemble Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett. Storm said "no, not really" & shared a great anecdote about how & why he did the image.





one thing Storm said that i really liked - the cover he designed for 10cc's 1975 "the original soundtrack" album contained one of his top 10 favorite songs, "i'm not in love". Rockline host Bob Coburn did a great little summation of how the song's title is contrary to the real message.

great movie quotes

maybe my favorite movie quote ever:

"now I know I have a heart ...
because it's breaking"

- tin woodman to Dorothy Gale
in the 1939 film "the wizard of oz"

Craver likes Borat pumpkin & goose

Pilot Dog "Craver" raised from puppy for the last year in our home, poses with Lara's "Borat" halloween pumpkin and cement goose.

Craver due to return to Pilot Dogs soon for assessment & hopefully further training to be a seeing-eye dog for a blind person.

College friends

a very special treat this past sunday as friends George, Todd & Joel, in klumbis, ahya for saturday's Ohio State Buckeyes football game with ILLini, kindly stopped by rural WCH to watch pittsburgh steelers slap cleveland browns on sunday afternoon.

Todd brought his priceless scrapbook of images. funny listening to 4 guys try to recall specifics of 30-35 years ago. if the walls of bradley/patterson halls could only talk. but then, gotta be the same with most every college dormitory ;+)

Interesting how some friendships get better with age.

Space Shuttle Lands Safely

Good to see the space shuttle land today.

a female astronaut driving!

California Guitar Trio

Friend Barry from Mentor (near Cleveland)
drove all the way to Washington Court House
last Tuesday evening October 30 to pick me up
& we went up to Columbus to see friends
Paul Richards, Bert Lams & Hideyo Moriya
collectively known as California Guitar Trio
at tiny little Thirsty Ear Tavern.

These guys are so fun to see & hear.
They play a lot of classical pieces *and*
cover tunes like Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody",
Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird" & Pink Floyd's "Echoes".

pizzamaking.com

found a cool pizza site

http://www.pizzamaking.com/