Full Metal Helmets

A few people don’t like the soldier helmets as pawns in the Bush Memorial Pieces – potentially a dig at the military, although I don’t mean it that way at all. Need to figure out something else.

Sharp Dressed Man

I've asked a bunch of people to test Alice but am only getting vague "great" comments. An old friend of MAD, Scott Warren, wrote a long detailed review. He's not only a great guy but cool (and also looks like a member of ZZ Top). Nice guys get a thank you post.

Hip Hoppity Success

Nico’s hip hop set is amazing. Big hit with everyone.

Yes, We Can

Hearing Obama say “Yes we can!” never gets old. Slamming the Bush people never gets old either. Not sure if people will recognize Alberto Gonzalez or Rumsfeld. In November, ETC had made a cool Obama sign and placed it high over our garage but some neighbor complained to the city of San Carlos that it was bigger than the regs and made us take it down. The young kid from the city seemed embarrassed to ask us to do it. We put regulation Obama signs along the driveway. Touche.

Skateboarders are cool

The husband (Nico Berry) of ETC’s writing mentor does great work and is a skateboarder. He has these cool hip hop figures so I’m going to pay him to do a set for Alice. Actually, this might have happened a few weeks back but my ghost blogger didn’t keep a diary and is having a hard time remembering dates.

It's Good to be the Queen

I was going to have the Queen in the Bush set be Laura Bush but Cheney is way better.

Don't Tread on Me

Some people think I shouldn’t use the US flag as background on the chessboard set. Never stomp on the US flag apparently. I’ve changed the squares to red states and blue states and that looks better.