The fruitless fight

In the interest of context, let me present the alternate side of the street schedule in the Ft. Greene area of Brooklyn.

Mon, Tues, Thursday, Friday. Some streets require you to move your vehicle at 9:30 am, some at 11. Wednesday is free. Kind of like landing on get out of jail. On Monday night (October 1) I moved my car to the appropriate side of the street which would require me to move it on Thursday, seeing as Wednesday was a freeby. Unfortunately I failed to notice that my inspection sticker expired on 9.31.07. (Sunday). Come Wednesday night (10pm) I go to move the car and find I have a $65 ticket for my expired inspection sticker. Well, no point in moving it, I'll just grab it on the way in to work tomorrow and drop it off at the inspection place closest to the office.

Thursday morning I get up, walk the dog, shower, drop off an overdue dvd rental and head over to the car. Sonofabitch, there are 2 tickets on my car's windshield. I rip of f the top ticket and sure enough, it is for the same offese, just 26 hours later. I stopped, ticket crumpling in my hand, and imagined the officer driving by at 7:30 am and stopping his patrol car in front of mine. He steps out and inspects the resident ticket. 7:30 am, Oct 3. Well, It would be down right rude to issue yet another ticket in less than one day, better wait until at least 9:30. He hops back in the cruiser, winks at his partner, a freshly shaven graduate of the academy and suggests that they grab some bagels on Dekalb and watch the milfs take there offspring to daycare.

At this point I am faced with the realization that the NYPD is going to continue to pepper my car with tickets until I get the car inspected, regardless of the fact that it is the middle of the week and I've got more inportant things to do like forget to show up for jury duty. I slide into the drivers seat and shove the tickets into the cup holder for safe keeping. The Car starts with little to no indication that my expired inspection sticker has passed on, although the situation has now made me acutely aware of the fact that there is a golf ball sized explosion of bird shit on my hood which seems to announce that I don't take particularly good care of my car.

Having been to establishments that conduct vehicular inspections, I'm not too concerned about how they might perceive me. In all my interactions its more like buying beer from a dirty bodega when you're 17. In this case the exchange went something like thia:

"What do you want?"
"Do you do inspections?"
"Where is your car?"
"Uh, right there."
"What year?"
"2006."
"How many miles?"
""Uh, I don't know, 6000?"
"OK, I give you sticker. It is new car, no problem. Otherwise, I have to take off tires."
"Uh, OK, how much?"
"$37"

Done and done. After this fun exchange I head to work with my shiny new receipt for an inspection that never happened and send it to those heartless bastards down on Fulton st to give me a "hearing". For the record, bite me.

New art

So, after giving up my studio in DUMBO earlier this year, I decided that this was an opportunity to change mediums. Oils were (in the way I used them) extremely messy and it wouldn't be prudent to turn our apartment into a Jackson Pollack. I found that there are large format printers out there that will print your digital work on canvas and decided to give Adobe Illustrator a shot. As it turns out, you can get some pretty fantastic results when you blow vector art up without it looking cheap. Once I received the printed piece in the mail, I had it stretched on canvas and wouldn't you know, it looked great. The printer I was using redesigned their site and now nothing works. I assume it works great on IE for Vista, unfortunately I am on a Mac at both work and home. Anyway, here are a couple examples:

The Other Alps
A Wind Blows Through
Orange and Red Jackets
Mother/Child

Rocking the Caatskills

Sister Lenore got married last Saturday and everything went off without a hitch. Rob and I managed to get through our speech without one blasphemous utterance or use of props. Later I requested to sing with the band as a parting gift to Marc and Lenore. I chose The Kinks "Girl You Really Got Me" because of it's rather simple lyrics:

Girl, you really got me goin'
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin'
Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

You really got me
You really got me
You really got me

See, don't ever set me free
I always wanna be by your side
Girl, you really got me now
You got me so I can't sleep at night

Yeah, you really got me now
You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now
Oh yeah, you really got me now

Unfortunately I think someone might have slipped some alcohol in the punch and all I could remember was YEAAAAAAAHHHHH YOU REALLY GOT ME NOW!!!

Peep the video compliments of cousin Matt:

Part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KCokhmMmbjs

Part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=itsN78ex-cg

Special thanks for brother Rob's dance accompaniment.

I am Hip-Hop

Yesterday I ventured up to the wilderness surrounding Penn Station known by most New Yorkers as "Craptown". As I stood on the corner of 33rd and 7th waiting for my friend Hsu I noticed a passerby sporting a shirt which stated "I am Hip-Hop". I had no idea. All this time I thought it was a movement in music which had it's start in the Bronx back in the late seventies.

A short time later, as I strolled back downtown to my office, I passed a girl wearing a shirt which declared "Hip Hop is Dead". So sad. Life can turn on a dime.

Google Bomb part 2

Since I come depressingly low in a search for Jason Morrow in a google search I've decided to take the matter into my own hands. And let's face it, those other "JM's" don't deserve it. Also, I'd like to make a formal request that the "JM" using jasonmorrow.com put up or give it up. You can't have a name that cool and use your url for pictures of your cats. And frankly I could put it to much better (and lucrative) use.

Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up. Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.Jason Morrow is a visual designer. This is Jason Morrow's website. Jason Morrow works for Google. Jason MOrrow wants his domain name. Now. C'mon man, give it up.