Cavemen Go in the News

In the last week, Cavemen Go has gotten mentions on two blogs. I want to send out a special thanks to Joshua Toulouse of Fat Train and Amy Bolan of If It Bleeds...

Josh mentioned Cavemen Go in a new Blog column he's developed titled "Best of My Buddies." On July 26, he published the post "Best of My Buddies - Part One, Green Lantern Corps and Creative Cosplay." Featured in that post were Chad P. of Political Jesus for his tweet regarding the fantastic footage from the upcoming Green Lantern Corps animated television program (which is available on Josh's post) and yours truly for the post "Cosplay Gallery: Rise of the Machines." It is an honor to be recognized, and I hope to write even more content worthy of Josh's "Best of My Buddies."

Amy didn't so much mention the blog as she mentioned me. You see, in case you haven't heard, Amy Bolan is my girlfriend. So, when you read her July 28 post "Big Talk - Big Talk," and I'm sure most of you already have, the boyfriend in question is me. Amy decided to quote a discussion of ours comparing the bands Big Talk, The Killers, and The Cars. The first time I ever gave The Killers more than a cursory radio single listen was they released the 2006 album Sam's Town. My original judgment was that The Killers were overrated and should just turn into a The Cars cover band. (At the time, The Cars weren't touring with Ric Ocasek.) For clarification, Big Talk reminded Amy of The Cars, but they reminded me of The Killers, who reminded me of The Cars, and thus, through the transitive property, Amy and I came to the same conclusion. As for Amy, I love any time she finds me interesting enough to mention on If It Bleeds... and shall try to prove myself even more interesting in the future.

I know I've pointed you all to these blogs several times over, but if you're not consistently checking out Fat Train and If It Bleeds, then you are consistently missing out.

Thursday Night Madness on Fat Train

You may have noticed that television connoisseur Josh Toulouse of Fat Train hasn't been commenting on the Thursday TV Tournament competition. Well, there's a couple of reasons for that, and he's made those reasons abundantly clear in an article titled "Thursday Night Madness."

Josh's article points out a couple of things that I had meant to clear up from the get-go.

When I began gathering information for the Thursday TV Tournament, I was aware that I was excluding the NBC program Parks and Recreation. The unfortunate fact was that I wouldn't be able to get caught up on the show before the previous season, and I believe that I ought to be caught up on the show to properly judge it. Josh recently reminded me that it is also a travesty that The League was not included. It was unfortunate, but I decided to go ahead with the tournament anyways. As a way of making amends, I intend to get caught up on both Parks and Recreation and The League before the 2011-2012 season begins. Next year, friends, there will be a reckoning.

Furthermore, my method of establishing seeds is imperfect. I based the seeds on which episodes got the best ratings, which is more of a judgment of how good the previous episode was. Also, FX programs like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The League can't compete with network programs, and programs on less popular networks like NBC can't compete with programs on more popular networks like CBS. I asked Josh to make suggestions on better methods. He said it might be a better idea to check out IMDB or TV.COM user ratings. If any of you have other suggestions, I am all about hearing better ideas.

That said, it's still a great tournament, pitting the ever-so-popular Big Bang Theory against The Office in Steve Carell's final season, with Community, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and 30 Rock giving good fight too. Next year's tournament will be more comprehensive and perhaps better-seeded. Until then, enjoy some pretty fantastic battle for this year's rankings.

If It Bleeds... April 2011 Playlist

1. The Kills - Future Starts Slow
2. Panda Bear - Last Night at the Jetty
3. Younger Brother - Night Lead Me Astray
4. tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
5. Vivian Girls - Take It As It Comes
6. Times New Viking - Fuck Her Tears
7. Dengue Fever - Family Business
8. Thao & Mirah - How Dare You
9. K.D. Lang - I Confess
10. TV on the Radio - You
11. Cass McCombs - County Line
12. Agnes Obel - Brother Sparrow
13. Paul Simon - The After Life
14. Alison Krauss & Union Station - My Love Follows You Where You Go
15. Atmosphere - She's Enough
16. Holy Ghost! - Wait and See
17. Of Montreal - Flunkt Sass vs the Root Plume
18. Jeniferever - The Beat of Our Own Blood
19. Bell X1 - Velcro
20. Explosions in the Sky - Last Known Surroundings
21. Cold Cave - Confetti

If you want to listen to any or all of these songs, check them out here. My personal favorites are The Kills, "Future Starts Slow," tUnE-yArDs, "Bizness," Dengue Fever, "Family Business," TV on the Radio, "You," Cass McCombs, "County Line," Of Montreal, "Flunkt Sass vs the Root Plume," and Explosions in the Sky, "Last Known Surroundings." Remember to check If It Bleeds... often.

If It Bleeds... March 2011 Playlist

March 2011

1. Biblio - K is for Kelson

2. G. Love - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

3. Wye Oak - Civilian

4. Anna Calvi - Suzanne and I

5. Papercuts - Do What You Will

6. Devotchka - 100 Other Lovers

7. Elbow - With Love

8. The Strokes - Under the Cover of Darkness

9. Beady Eye - The Roller

10. R.E.M. - Oh My Heart

11. The Vaccines - Post Break Up Sex

12. Kurt Vile - In My Time

13. The Dodos - Black Night

14. The Boxer Rebellion - No Harm

15. Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now

16. The Sounds - The Best of Me

17. Panic! at the Disco - Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)

18. Erland & the Carnival - Map of an Englishman

19. Dinosaur Bones - Making Light

20. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heaven's Gonna Happen Now

21. The Generationals - Dirty Mister Dirty

22. Hunx and his Punx - If You're Not Here (I Don't Know Where You Are)

23. Alexander - A Million Years

24. Caitlin Rose - Shanghai Cigarettes

25. Joe Bonamassa - You Better Watch Yourself

26. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Two Lovers

27. The Mountain Goats - Beautiful Gas Mask

If you want to listen to any or all of these songs, check them out here. My personal favorites are Wye Oak, "Civilian," Anna Calvi, "Suzanne and I," and Alexander, "A Million Years." Remember to check If It Bleeds... often.

Sucker Punch on Fat Train

I went and saw Sucker Punch with a couple of friends recently. The first trailer made it look like visual dribble. The second trailer suggested that it might have a deeper story akin to Pan's Labyrinth. The movie itself was not very good. Whether Zack Snyder was using this movie to show off his craft and audition for other movie franchises or simply to give tribute to those people listed in the credits who recently passed away, the result was a bad movie. Fellow blogger and friend Josh Toulouse recounts our Sucker Punch experience on his blog Fat Train. Click here to read his post titled, "Sucker Punch is What Happens to the Audience."

Directorial Disappointment on Fat Train

If you're a faithful follower, then you know that I was very excited for the March film Battle: Los Angeles. Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent!!!!) and Michelle Rodriguez (who has been spot on since they killed her on ***SPOILERS*** LOST) in a movie about an alien invasion - how can it go wrong? Well, it wasn't a very good movie. Luckily, however, my disappointment served the positive purpose of giving Josh Toulouse over at Fat Train an introduction to his post titled "Directorial Disappointment." Check out the post here.

How I Spent St. Patrick's Day Eve

 
I could tell you about my adventures in champagne, cheese, and bread. I could tell you about my encounter with Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, Shark Attack 3, and Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus. But it would be pretty redundant, because fellow blogger Josh Toulouse beat me to the punch.

Check out Josh's post "Bad Movie Reviews: Spring Break Shark Week" at Fat Train now.

If It Bleeds... February 2011 Playlist

February 2011

1. The Go! Team- Ready To Go Steady
2. Akron/ Family- So It Goes
3. James Blake- Limit To Your Love
4. Cut Copy- Where I'm Going
5. Bright Eyes- Shell Games
6. Adele- I'll Be Waiting
7. The Civil Wars- Barton Hollow
8. The Cave Singers- All Land Crabs and Divinity Ghosts
9. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead- The Wasteland
10. Cowboy Junkies- Flirted With You All My Life
11. Radiohead- Separator
12. Mogwai- George Square Thatcher Death Parade
13. Toro Y Moi- Still Sound
14. La Sera- Never Come Around
15. PJ Harvey- In The Dark Places
16. Twilight Singers- Blackbird and the Fox
17. Yuck- Georgia
18. The Dears- Thrones
19. Saigon- Bring Me Down Pt 2

If you want to listen to any or all of these songs, check them out here. My personal favorites are The Go! Team, "Ready to Go Steady," Cut Copy, "Where I'm Going," Bright Eyes, "Shell Games," and Radiohead, "Separator." Remember to check If It Bleeds... often.

CAVEMENGO EXCLUSIVE: Josh Toulouse on Favre Train

That's right, my response is EXCLUSIVE to Cavemen Go.

And not Charlie Sheen interview exclusive either, actually exclusive to only Cavemen Go.

(I would go on every single blog ever to talk about this subject, but I figured that might be a little difficult as there are probably billions of blogs out there, many of which are defunct. Therefore, the best I could realistically do is get interviews on about 7 or 8 blogs, and that isn't enough for me to feel really popular with, so we'll stick with the actual term "exclusive", which for everyone except Charlie Sheen still means something.)

My first response to Justin’s recent post was gleeful laughter at the picture that Justin proposes as my new header.

A sacked Brett Favre struggling to cover a fumble while being bear-ed (pun completely intended) down upon by a train is utterly awesome, and, dare I say it, genius.

And the title would allow me to talk about video games, which might be nice.

However, as much as I love video games, I don't know that my desire to talk about them in blog form comes up all that often.

I would say that I probably would want to talk about books even more than video games.

And Favre Train, while giving us the great illustration above, doesn't allow for any talk about television, something that is integral to Fat Train as currently constructed.

So we are left with a bit of a dilemma.

We could tweak the name a little more, something like

FAVRE BE TERRIBLE TRAIN

Film and Video Games/Religion/Entertainment Books Everything Toulouse Regards Reliably Interestingly Brilliantly Loved Equally Thoughts, Reviews, and Interesting News.

But that is a little ridiculous.

And anyway, I have a blog where I can talk about absolutely anything I want, where I am not restricted by my title.

I can write about Min-Centaurs and my desire to play Dungeons and Dragons, TCU and the sick state of the BCS requiring them to move to the Big East, why I’m glad Brandon Sanderson is finishing The Wheel of Time series, as well as on many other sorted subjects.

I have an incredible freedom to blog about whatever I want there…

And yet, I don’t blog too often on that site.

I am a person that needs structure. I need Fat Train to be what it is so that it has purpose.

And maybe, when I do have the desire to talk about Dragon Age 2 or the latest Michael Connelly novel, maybe I’ll return to Retrospective Reflections and show it some love.

If It Bleeds... January 2011 Playlist

January 2011

1. The Get Up Kids- Automatic
2. Cage The Elephant- Aberdeen
3. White Lies- Strangers
4. British Sea Power- Georgie boy
5. Wire- Bad Worn Thing
6. Cold War Kids- Louder Than Ever
7. Destroyer- Poor In Love
8. Iron & Wine- Me and Lazarus
9. Deerhoof- I Did Crimes for You
10. Cake- Long Time
11. Gang of Four- I Party All The Time
12. Social Distortion- California (Hustle and Flow)
13. Roger Miret & The Disasters- Stand Up and Fight
14. Tapes 'n Tapes- Badaboom
15. Emma's Imagination- Falling Slowly
16. Seefee- Airless

If you want to listen to any or all of these songs, check them out here. My personal favorites are Cage the Elephant, "Aberdeen," White Lies, "Strangers" and Iron & Wine, "Me and Lazarus." Remember to check If It Bleeds... often.

The New Fat Train

In a recent post, fellow blogger Josh Toulouse made the following apology for doing a video game-related post on a blog devoted to film and television:

Now, I know that video games don't really fall within the realm of what this blog covers, and I'm not trying to confuse you by adding something new to the mix at this late date (this being my 201st post and all), but there will be a 6 episode web series this summer based on the world introduced to us in Dragon Age Origins, and seeing as how web series are close enough to television for government work, I feel comfortable covering it.

Upon reading this post, I thought that it was incredibly unfortunate that Josh has to place such limits on his posting. What would I do in the same situation? Clearly, judging by my past, I would trash my blog and start a new, unlimited blog titled Cavemengo, but that just isn't an option for Josh. He's got quite a readership that he would be losing in the move.

The answer that came to me seemed simple: Just rename the blog so that its title included video games in the items reviewed. Rather than Fat (Film and Television) Train, I thought Josh would be better served with a name like Favre (Film and Video games/Religion/Entertainment) Train. Upon pitching this idea, Josh expressed a great deal of disgust.

But I knew it was a fantastic idea. Consider this my second pitch to Josh Toulouse. For your consideration, Favre Train:

Stay tuned for an exclusive on Josh's response.

Radiohead The King of Limbs on If It Bleeds...

I believe that Amy Bolan's If It Bleeds... can stand on its own without my promotion, but any truly egotistical blogger is going to jump to promote a blog that he or she is referenced on. Such is the case with Amy's review of Radiohead's new album The King of Limbs. Not only has Amy posted a great review of a fantastic album, but she's also managed to include me in the post. When Amy writes, "My boyfriend," feel free to read it as, "Justin Tiemeyer, of Cavemengo," "Justin Tiemeyer, voice of our generation," or my personal favorite, "Justin Tiemeyer, boyfriend trying to compensate for the fact that his girlfriend is more attractive and talented than him." However you read it, just make sure you hop on over to If It Bleeds... and read Amy's review. Here is a direct link.

If It Bleeds...

As if the witty reference to an Arnold Schwarzenegger quote from Predator weren't enough to catch my attention, If It Bleeds... has become one of my favorite blogs in the last couple of weeks both because it attempts to review every noteworthy album of 2011 (and some others) and because it is published by my beautiful girlfriend Amy Bolan (and no, she's still not related to the lead singer of T. Rex).

When I took on Arnold 365, a project devoted to posting a new and witty Arnold Schwarzenegger clip every day in 2011, I thought I was endeavoring on an enormous project. But then Amy brought up the idea of reviewing nearly every album released in 2011 and I was floored. If It Bleeds... is an ambitious project. Lucky for us that Amy is an ambitious woman. My position is completely unbiased and based strictly on experience: Amy is the kind of person who will deliver on a weekly basis and who has interesting insight into a wide variety of different albums. If It Bleeds... will not go the way of LOST 365 (may it rest in peace).

One last thing about If It Bleeds.... At the end of each month, Amy compiles a playlist comprised of the finest songs that best represent the style of the artist and the feel of the album. In a year that has already seen albums by Bright Eyes and Radiohead halfway into the first quarter, this is the time we really need someone to tell us about the best of 2011. There are a lot of promises in the music industry this year, and Amy has decided to help us figure out whether or not we're getting the kind of music we deserve.

Check out Amy's blog If It Bleeds... by clicking here. Immediately after you visit the site, make sure you bookmark it, subscribe to it, and tell Amy what you think.

Postcard 2010: Blogging

Blogging is not exactly a new concept for me. I used to have a blog about music called Music, Sweet Music, one about food called Corn Like an Angel, a blog about travel called Captain's Blog. I've had many other blogs besides these. It kind of doesn't make any sense to suggest that blogging was a new frontier for me in 2010.

But it kind of does.

It was during 2010 that I really started taking blogging seriously. In previous years I had been the author of narrowly defined blogs with specific purposes. I would be into writing them for a while, but one of two things always happened: I either did not have enough experiences to continue to write (it is hard to write a travel blog when you're stuck in one place without a car), or I simply became bored with that specific topic. 

My friend Elliot always supported what I was doing, but he thought I was spreading myself too thin. Elliot and I had both written for our band's blog Get Stop Ticket. He had also started a blog to showcase his art and music projects and things he was interested in called simply Elliot Mayo. Largely due to Elliot's influence I decided to create one blog to rule them all, and I called it Cavemen Go. That's the blog that you're reading right now.

In order to keep from being redundant, I will direct you to "500th Post / Clip Show", a blog I wrote in November of 2010 to celebrate 500 posts on Cavemen Go. If you're interested in learning more about the history of this blog, all you have to do is click here.

Things '90s Kids Realize

There's a blog out there called Things 90s Kids Realize that speaks to a certain zeitgeist of the first full decade I ever experienced. (I was born almost three years too late to fully appreciate the 1980s, but if you have ever met me you'd probably never guess.) I suggest you check it out.

Below is just a snippet of what you'll find on this web site:

500th Post / Clip Show

THIS BLOG IS YOUR BLOG

While scanning my Facebook feed one evening several months ago I saw a game that piqued my interests. It was called Robot Unicorn Attack and it was available on the [adult swim] web site. I was already a fan of [adult swim] because it is responsible for bringing to the world both Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Venture Bros, and I had to admit that Robot Unicorn Attack had a certain ring to it. I ended up playing the game for the next several hours, just as enchanted by the Erasure song "Always" playing in the background as I was by navigating a mechanical/mythical creature from cliff to cliff and straight through solid stars.

For the next several days I cornered any friend I encountered, anyone I thought needed a smile, and I forced them to try out Robot Unicorn Attack in my presence. It was like the Where the Wild Things Are trailer all over again. The only problem was that I couldn't spread the word fast enough. On February 26, 2010, however, I rectified the problem by putting Robot Unicorn Attack on Cavemengo. Cavemengo had turned into a content delivery device, matching the good people of the world wide web up with the simple things that bring me great joy. Cavemengo was about sharing the good things in life.

In light of the recent rash of LGBTQ suicides, however, I found that sharing joy is not enough. I recognized that anyone with readers or followers of any kind is given a dose of influence, of power, and with that power there is a responsibility. There was no longer an excuse. I couldn't sit idly by feeling powerless against injustice in the world. I made a simple and unheroic choice to out myself as a LGBTQ ally and to make any space I occupy, physically or on the web, a haven for the oppressed. Nothing extravegant. Just a simple first step. A stand.

Within a few hours I received a message from a good friend who was there for me when I was scared and unaware of my worth, a person I owe a great deal to. He confided in me that he is gay and told me a story of confusion and sadness. He struggled for a long time trying to find someone, anyone, he could talk to, someone who would welcome him for who he is. To put it quite simply, he had been abandoned by his church and his state. My only response was to see this as a joyous opportunity to renew my unconditional welcome to him.

It matters to me that the things I do make human life more manageable, and I try to do this by making of Cavemengo a place where we can share in the various beauties of the world, but also where we can find solidarity in sharing our sufferings. I am haunted by doubt, wondering if any of the things I post really matter in the end. But then I think of the fact that this blog, my little area of influence, was an instrument that brought me into the confidence of a closeted gay friend, a means of communicating love and acceptance.

And we all know that love and acceptance cannot be hyper-linked or embedded. (But if they could it would probably look something like this.)

THIS BLOG IS MY BLOG

People have busy lives. Even though I now feel certain that I have a healthy readership, on any given day I can't promise that a single soul will read this blog. So many factors to consider. Complications at work. Excess homework. Picking up kids from school. Going to the bank. I understand if you're not caught up on what celebrities I had a crush on in the 90s. But my busy readers tell me a very important truth: if I am the only one who deals with Cavemengo on a given day, then this blog has to do something for me.

At the beginning of this year I was not in the best place emotionally. I had just ruined my first relationship in half a decade, a relationship I wasn't ready for because I was emotionally unavailable and distant. I returned to school without any real sense of what I wanted to do with my life. On top of all this, I was bothered that I consider myself a writer and yet I hadn't completed anything substantial in years. I was at a low point, my own personal Carbonite coat.

I started really getting into the David Bowie album Hunky Dory, a brilliant opus with an interesting philosophical point of view. It circled around in my head and made me sick with powerful ideas. I wanted to make music and videos and write about my kookie ideas. I decided that in order to facilitate this creative spike I would start a new blog.

I had written blogs before, but they never lasted. I would devote the blog to a narrow theme - food, travel, philosophy in popular culture, music - but that narrow focus would bore me and I would scrap the project. My friend Elliot had suggested that I just combine my blogs together, one blog to rule them all. Elliot had started a blog to promote his art and music and I was quite a fan. I wanted a blog that was devoted to promoting my creative projects, but also I wanted to tell the world about great works like Bowie's album Hunky Dory. I named Cavemengo after the song "Life on Mars?" ("Take a look at the sailors fighting in the dance hall / Oh, man, look at those cavemen go") and even included lyrics from "Oh, You Pretty Things" in the header as a guiding focus.

Cavemengo was the first step in a process of transformation. I was writing again and I had people giving me positive feedback. I was driven toward creative endeavors and the desire to experience the best food, books, comics, movies, television programs and music the world has to offer. Soon I had decided that I would change Masters programs and aim toward teaching philosophy and religion at the college level. But the crown of this all was that I found a magnificent woman who values my passion and creativity and I entered into the most significant relationship I've ever been in.

Did Cavemengo single-handedly change my life? Has it changed yours? Probably not. One thing I know is that Cavemengo challenges me to live a life of excitement. While some folk want to live the purpose driven life, I want to live the blogworthy life. But the blogworthy life is something that I am incapable of keeping to myself. I always want to share it. It is my hope that you can gain some joy or benefit from what I share.

THIS BLOG WAS MADE FOR YOU AND ME

Ashleigh Walker's One-Year Blog-iversary

I hope many of you have, like me, been following Ashleigh Walker's blog Keep My Words. If you haven't then I think you might find a surprise by clicking on the oddly colored letters spelling out the title of her blog. (*SPOILER* It's a link to her blog!) Well, the month of July marks the one-year anniversary of Ashleigh's blog, and your very own Justin Tiemeyer of Cavemengo has worked himself into the anniversary post.

(From Facebook:)

Ashleigh Walker –> Justin Tiemeyer: I had a dream that we went to the same school together but class was held on a roof in Brooklyn and on the last day of class you got mad at me because you kept saying you finished reading my blog and I didn’t believe you. Then we were going to walk home together but some weird guy started talking to you, so I just left. Sorry dream-me abandoned you.
May 23, 2010 at 12:54pm

Justin Tiemeyer: Haha. I’m almost done with July 2009! So you basically lost a significant other and decided to leave work and go back to school and wrote a blog as a way of creatively dealing with it?
May 23, 2010 at 3:34pm

Ashleigh Walker: That’s how it started, a kind of quarter-life crisis. And somewhere along the way I remembered how much I love to write, and people seem to like to read it, so…
May 23, 2010 at 3:49pm

Justin Tiemeyer: Good. There’s definitely some struggle in your writing, but it’s not blown out of proportion like a John-Cusack-movie-loving, Real-World-watching, Coldplay-listening writer might. Oh and there’s structure. Which is different. Memoir-based, feelings blogs rarely have anything resembling structure. I’m enjoying your sorrow so far. Haha.
May 23, 2010 at 4:20pm

Read the whole post here. It would be a better world if we had more people around who are honest with their feelings, interesting in their expression and courageous in exposing themselves to the entire world. Here's to another year, Ashleigh!

JetBlue Flight 292

One of the most riveting stories I've read on the internet is a series of posts my friend Ashleigh Walker wrote on her blog Keep My Words regarding a plane malfunction that lead to a dangerous landing. (Aside: Is it hokey to call a story "riveting" when it is about an airplane, a machine that, unless I am mistaken, is actually held together by permanent mechanical fasteners known as rivets?)

As you read through these stories I've linked you to, consider how a dangerous landing will be spun depending on where you are in the narrative. On the one hand, the flight attendants and airline staff aboard the plane prepared Ashleigh and the other passengers for a difficult landing, but did so in a manner that seemed to reassure the passengers of their safety. Even if there was immanent danger, one would expect them to do whatever they could to keep people calm. On the other hand, the passengers had access to a television feed with a news report on the unfolding situation where this series of events was portrayed in a negative light. While the reporters couldn't possibly know the details of the situation, it is clear that a tragedy waiting to happen will make for better news. I want you to think about what it would be like sitting in this situation where you're hearing two different stories, both biased by necessity. I want you to consider what it would feel like trying to discern who to trust while your life is possibly on the line.

I also want you to read this exciting story. I'm incredibly impressed by Ashleigh's account.

Ashleigh's account entitled "JetBlue Flight 292" is available on Keep My Words in three sections: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.

In addition to this, Ashleigh is quoted in a Washington Post article about the incident which can be read here.

Below are three pictures of the airplane in question followed by a copy of the letter written to Ashleigh by JetBlue following the incident. All of these can be found on Keep My Words.

LOST 365: BELIEVE

You probably remember I already posted about the blog titled LOST 365. After 89 posts of original art concerning the hit television program LOST, Jared Stumpenhorst posted the first work of art that he feels 100% satisfied with. Here it is:

Prints of this image are available through Society6. Buy one here.

S@#t My Kids Ruined

S@#t My Kids Ruined is a pretty interesting blog about the destructive power of children. Here's just a taste of the daily wonders of this site:

I've also found that S@#t My Kids Ruined is a brilliant test of how old you really are at heart. On the one hand, if you feel annoyed and even enraged that's a sure sign that you're an old soul. On the other hand, if you feel only inspiration then you're truly young at heart. I'm a cat lover, for example, but I'm half ready to raid a purse and find some nail polish this moment.