A test version of the cover of my new children’s book…

gad cover copyWhat do you think?

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The Foo Fighters… part 2… (or); I went to a kick-ass concert and all I got was this awesome t-shirt… and photos to share with you… and crazy-cool memories… and a bit of a hangover…

a 1Yeah, the concert was awesome. I have been to a lot of concerts in my life… seen all the best bands back in the day… but I have a unique talent when it comes to things like this. I don’t just let life happen. I make it happen. I have adventures.

a 2I know these pictures are crappy quality. I just wanted to highlight two things. One is that the cool throne that Dave Grohl sat in while doing the show not only had lights and lasers and guitar racks mounted on it, but occasionally, it would move forward, gliding out onto this part of the stage that extended way out into the crowd.

a 3The thing is… and this is the ‘thing’ that brings us to the second thing that I wanted to point out, if you see what I mean… and that second thing is that all my life I have had this weird, magical ability to have really good adventures.

a 4I think it is a mindset thing. It just never occurs to me that something magical can’t happen, so often, it does.

a 5I am just lucky that way.

a 6Technically, I shouldn’t even have most of these crappy pictures to share with you, because, for obvious financial reasons, my friend Becky, and her niece and nephew-in-law, had tickets for the cheap seats… well, not even seats unless you brought a lawn chair… way up on the grass at the top of the venue.

a 7See, it even says ‘lawn’ right on the ticket… three times… as if to remind us to keep away from the people who had better seats. But here is another thing… not the best ‘thing’ that there is, but I made it work for me… see, I am old, so I can tell people to ‘get off my lawn’. And, working on the principal that this power extends to all lawns, I just told myself to get off my lawn, if you see what I mean.

a 8So drunk little me goes on one of my little adventure walks, wandering around in the dark, looking for good shots to share with you… and guess what…

a 9I happened to be passing a few of the security people who were checking tickets to keep the riffraff out of the good seats, and there was a minor scuffle that had nothing at all to do with me, and I took the opportunity to slip past the security… so I could wander around a lot closer to the stage. HA!

a 10And that is how we ended up with a lot of these pictures.

a 11You’re welcome.

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The Foo Fighters… part one… (or); no, I didn’t go see the Blue Man Group last night…

a 1I just happened to take that selfie when the stage was lit with blue lights. You can even see the glint of my ‘cool’ earring. Yeah, I wore my cool earring.

a 2I can’t even begin to tell you how awesome last night was. I went with my friend, Becky, who is actually an old high school friend of my wife. We jammed on guitars in the parking lot before the show… and I might have drunk a few beers… or more…

a 3So, you may or may not know that this Foo Fighters world tour is now being called the ‘Break A Leg’ tour… because front man, Dave Grohl… who used to be the drummer in Nirvana before Kurt Cobain died… broke his leg falling off a stage in Sweden not too long ago. He finished the show with a broken leg and a dislocated ankle… a paramedic had to sit on stage and hold his ankle in place.

a 4So, to finish the tour, they made him a big throne with a big circular back covered in lights.

a 5He looks like a Thanksgiving turkey… if you were on acid…

a 6Oh, and I know that picture… and the next one… are crappy quality because my cell phone doesn’t like darkness… but the image on the big screen is this old hippy in a tie dye shirt that Dave spotted dancing in the crowd, and he called him up on stage because he said he had never seen anybody dance like that to a Foo Fighters song, and they let him dance on stage for a whole song.

a 7I mean, they started a new song just for him. We all ended up calling the guy ‘Happy Feet Steve’. The crowd went wild.

a 8That is a classic shot of Dave doing the head-banging, hair-swinging, hard rock thing… in his big, crazy turkey throne.

a 9Sometimes he would get carried away and kick up the leg with the cast on it… which is still recovering from intensive surgery.

a 10You should see a Foo Fighter show if you get the chance. The crowd is awesome… people of all ages. And come back for the rest of my adventure later in part two.

a 11Because you know me… and my crack squirrels… we always do something unexpected.

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I hope you have all had an awesome summer, now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to go see the Foo Fighters…

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Oh… and did I mention that I have crack squirrels living in my head?

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What am I???

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The Lonely Little Wizard…

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You can call me Lord Father Browne, or Father Lord Browne… because I am an ordained minister now, on top of being a Scottish Lord!

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Yup, you heard me, I just became an ordained minister… it takes like five seconds on-line, and is absolutely free… If I ever want to perform an actual wedding, I do need to send a small fee to get my official license, but other than that, I am good to go.

Also, just so you know, I picked that particular church for two reasons. First, they didn’t say anything about not doing gay marriages like some of the sites did, and second, Universal Life Church seems like the perfect church for a non-religious minister like me. I mean, who doesn’t worship life… and the universe?

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Me and my dog…

a 2Mollie took some pictures of me and Shiloh on our little camping adventure by the bay.

a 1That is not her best side, just so you know… that might also not by my best side… sigh… can you tell I have gained back half of that 50 pounds I lost? But hey, my legs are still sexy… calves of steel, I’m telling you.

a 3Shiloh didn’t understand why I kept stopping. I tried to explain how much you all like to see pictures of me… but, would she listen?

a 4It was really hot out there… and wow… she really does have a big tongue, doesn’t she?

a 5That shirt, which my wife got me at Disneyland, used to have a picture of Grumpy the Dwarf on it. I like it better now… no context…

a 6Seriously, if you think that smile makes me look smug, you should see me without the mustache… which explains why I have had one since I was 14.

a 8But I will leave you with that adorable picture of a really sweet, really smart dog.

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Wizard magic… part 7… (or); why are smiles so hard to do???

a 1So I added this little wizardess to my children’s book, and now I am working on a side view of her… and her smile is driving me crazy… and not in a creepy way… but not in a good way either…

a 2I tried an open mouth version.

a 3And I tried a closed mouth version.

a 4I played around with it for more than an hour, and decided to go with this one.

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