As old as you look

woowoo1
Originally uploaded by Casey Willis.

Inspired by Meiyuun, I decided to take some pictures of a down (but not out) stuffed animal. His name is Woo-Woo ( which is onomatopoetic, for that is the sound a dog makes to a very young me).

Woo-Woo was given to me at 6 months old by a friend of my Mother's. So, on Jan. 25th (my birthday) Woo-Woo will turn an ancient 31 and 1/2 years old.

He's had multiple surgeries and needs many more. Unfortunately, I don't know how to sew. My sister promised to repair him but that was years ago. My mom used to be his chief surgeon.

Woo-Woo has been through a lot. When I was younger and would get frustrated I would sometimes punch him. I have since apologized and Woo-Woo forgave me. He has truly been there for me, always. He's a rock.

Woo-Woo doesn't live with me in my basement apartment. I'm afraid his fragile fur and mesh couldn't take the humidity. Instead, Woo-Woo lives in my old bedroom at my family's house, guarding it with his vigilant red eyes. In case he ever forgets I just want to say, Woo-Woo, I love you.


Check out Woo-Woo's flickr set. (Warning: some photos not for the squeamish)

My lovely fuel injection... Check it out!

So, I'm not a big fan of the Black Eyed Peas but I usually try to give them a little break. I know they've been around for a long time and never really got mainstream recognition. So now that they are doing a lot of ad work I feel like, "Well, they put in a lot of years. Maybe they deserve to make some money."

Then I read this story:

Let's get promoted!

Past performers were Maroon 5 and I believe, Good Charlotte.

Congratulations guys (and one sexy lady), you've drained your last bit o' cred.

Guatemala Sink Spider

Guatemala Sink Spider
Originally uploaded by Casey Willis.

Happy New Year (a little late). My boss and landlord, Adam, went to Guatemala for the holidays (to study Spanish). He got back to his room one night to see this guy stalking around. I really like the color of this spider (jungle camo?). The bug hunt has kind of slowed down at my place (getting too cold?).

In other news, Clunkyrobot and I are hard at work on our short animation piece. Check here or Clunky's site for updates. After the animation, a new C-Dub album (more like an EP) is on the docket.

Catch and Release #4

housespider
Originally uploaded by Casey Willis.

Baby got back!

I vacuumed the house on Friday night and I found these guys when I emptied the vacuum. I believe they are just common house spiders.

Later, I found another spider (a different species and I put it in the same jar. I looked in the jar a few minutes later and saw the small spider (in the picture) and the different spider... were both dead!

Never trust a big butt and a smile.

Catch and Release #3

Early Saturday evening I saw a couple of tiny ants in my room. I found about 5 crawling around. I looked for their point of entry but I couldn't find it. I decided that they might have just gotten lost and I was safe from an ant invasion. Just to be on the safe side I sprayed a little Raid Ant and Roach formula around where I saw them.

Sunday morning I wake up and find this guy on the carpet.


He was all groggy so I assumed he got a big whiff of that poison. He was so groggy I was able to take this picture:


I think he must of crawled his way through a cobweb and that is what is all over his carapace. I knew I had to put him out of his misery but how? I've mashed one of these guys before in my shower and black ichor shot everywhere. So I decided to give ol' Cobby a burial at sea and I flushed him. Good night sweet prince.

Catch and Release #2

As promised, here is a photo of my bug catcher. I got it at Target. It's a pretty weak vacuum (it runs on AA batteries).





And here is the nasty-ass cave cricket (or camel cricket or "crazy jumper" as my Mom used to say). Clunky says they are blind and they jump at your eyes so they can steal your sight. I'm not sure if that has been scientifically proven.

C-Dub's Catch and Release #1

I have a basement apartment. Because of this I get my fair share of bugs. Mostly spiders, cave crickets (or camel crickets), and an occasional centipede. I've seen some pretty cool bugs (like a wolf spider covered in spiderlings) so I've decided to start cataloging them. Hopefully I can get a camera with a better macro (any suggestions?) for some better pics. Here's the first bug in the series. A picture of my bug catching device to follow.

Baby's arm holding an apple.

Thanks to MeiyunnChung I have learned about the Elephant Trunk Clam or Geoduck.


Let's compare that phallic mollusk with the famous picture of Rasputin's cock.




If that's not a case for Intelligent Design then I don't know what is.

About to go to sleep? Not anymore...

kitty
Originally uploaded by Casey Willis.

So I was watching TV at 1am last night, relaxing. Suddenly, there was a thump at the window and I saw two eyes staring at me. It scared the crap out of me (and this isn't the first time it's happened). It was the kitty from two house down. My landlord used to let her in his house (I have the basement apartment to his house) until she peed all over some artwork of his.

She likes to hang out in my screened in area when it rains. I had to yell at her once for being to loud. To make up for it she left a huge dead rabbit at my door one morning. Um... thanks kitty.

Heard 'Em Say

Check out the video for Heard 'Em Say (this is a crappy WMV from BET but you can see Kanye interviewed and quizzed on famous quotations... weird).

The animation is by Bill Plympton.

Apparently, there is also a Christmas video for the song that will be shown in December. It takes place in the NYC Macy's with the Maroon 5 dude as a security guard. Get this, its directed by Michel Gondry.

Ni hao, y'all!

Check out MeiyunnChung's blog. It's got some really cool pics of Chinese food.

She told me she doesn't take pictures of food from big restaurants but rather "localized & traditional food here in Taiwan. *_^ !!" Yeah, she added that little guy on the end. By the way if you like Chinese food, stay away from Buffalo China on Moreland. Yikes!

Things to do on Thanksgiving

1. Eat

2. Start Blog