Jeffrey Relics #22 - Halloweens Past!

Since I didn't dress up this year for Halloween I went and found a selection of photos of Hallloweens past to share with you all!

1999- I dressed up as Tammy the crazy, crusty woman who had my hospitality job (setting up conferences and serving coffee) before me. When I first started at the law firm all the secretaries and other workers would tell me how glad they were to have me aboard and then they would share Tammy horror stories with me. So when the firm's Halloween party came around, I thought about what would scare them all the most and I came up with "Tammy" reappearing, tray in hand, telling them all to ge their own damn coffee! I won first place!

1999 again. I was prolific that year. Here I was a man attacked by monkeys!

1996? The year best friends Princess Di (Carol) and Mother Teresa (me) left this mortal coil.

Princess Leia (hello, Amy Muppet!) and a Truck Driver with an Identity Crisis in 1993. That year I lived in a FRAT house.

Halloween in the Millenium year. Here I am with my friend Emily. I'm a murderous bear -RAWR!!!! Note my creepy styrofoam child's mask and the necklace made of vandalized doll-heads. S-c-a-r-y!!!! I used fur from ice-scrapers for paws!

"Let's get some BUTTER off those BUNS!!!!" Richard Simmons and I share the same birthday. 2002?

Remember my sheep stalker? Haha!!! This was the year I tried to lure my stalker into the public by posing as a sheep! I have to admit I ended up appearing a hella creepy instead of cuddly as I was aiming for! 1998

Black Manta, one of Aquaman's arch-enemies! You may know him from the Challenge of the Super Friends cartoon. 2003?

Last year's Halloween in NYC. I had no costume made up, but then I found this little-girl's Barbie costume - wah-la!

One of my first Halloweens!

Jeffrey Relics #21

Some pics my grandfather took years ago with his polaroid camera:

My grandparents were right on the outskirts of the town they lived in (Fall River, Wis.). Here's a picture of the old barn. Nowadays, everything around it has been developed. Armies of "garage-houses," those new houses that proudly declare that their owners spend more time on the road commuting than they do at home by showcasing that the most important entrance to the house can only be accessed by a motor vehicle, have camped out in what was my grandparents' fields and backyard. The barn, I believe, is sadly gone.

The backyard shed:

A family gathering! My parents, sister and I posing politely. The seventies were good to me!

A poloroid documentation of my fifth birthday. My cousins and grandparents showed up. I remember getting home-made flashcards of the alphabet, which, at the time I still needed to learn (Kindegarten was a mere month away, as was the death of Elvis...which I remember because my teacher was sobbing, sobbing, sobbing) and a plastic bubblegum dispenser that was also a bank.

Architecture Club Newsletter Photo

Yay! The new issue of MATC's Architecture Club's newsletter came out. I made the front page: I was along on the Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin tour in Spring Green.


Haha, I've often thought about how Frank Lloyd Wright was always "Wright,", but what if he happened to be "Wrong?" I kinda created a character named Frank Lloyd Wrong, the Bizarro backwards version of the famous architect. Rather than design and create buildings he would destroy them! Haha, I'll have to draw him up and create a trademark...

Jeffrey Relics #20

Whenever I get my new calendar for the year, I tend to "personalize" it. Here's 2004. What a year that was!


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Chicago Architecture Tour

The MATC's annual architecture trip to Chicago was a couple weeks ago. We stopped and toured the Frank Lloyd Wright area of Oak Park and later on in the day we headed downtown and took a boat tour of the city. Good times! And oh yeah, quite educational.


Here's the interior of the Unity Chapel that Wright designed.

I took a moment to sing a song from the hymnal!

Ready to start some Sunday school crafts!

Wright was a pioneer in the modern use of concrete!

I didn't realize it until I passed it, but Oak Park, Illinois is on the Contintental Divide. I'm straddling both!

Frank is my new hero!

Ouch!

Our tour-guide at Wright's first home and studio was extremely informative, but all tourists beware: HALITOSIS! I found it quite fitting that he was telling us about the ginkgo tree in the yard and how gingko fruit has a horrible stench. I thought that maybe he had one for breakfast! P. U.!



Tourists!

My turn!

Big city!

The Sears Tower!

In the bowels of Chicago cruising on the river below. Yay!

Jeffrey Relics #19

Here's a scan of the first photograph I ever took! It's of our family dog Lady, back in 1982. The camera, a Kodak 126, my mom's. (She didn't let me touch it again for a few more years...)

Lady, taking a shower! She was such a good dog!!!!

Jeffrey Relics #18

Me, around the time of some of the last couple relics I posted (1993-1994):

Jeffrey Relics #17

Some cut-and-paste work I did pre-computer days. I superimposed images from 1950's child-rearing books I got when I worked at the Goodwill thriftshop onto a bunch of free religious pamphlets some goofball handed me. (Sorry, If I offend, haha!)