Thanks to a very kind law firm donation during On Campus Interviews back in August — a sturdy black canvas bag, that was easily be appliqued with my screenprint of Pittsburgh (neighborhood, Beechview) houses, and Pittsburgh flying in the sky. Up for sale on Etsy!

I am going to go home tonight and sew 5 Troy Polamalu dolls.  You can buy them on my Etsy site — and then I will buy a ticket somewhere, maybe cold (Pittsburgh?) maybe warm (Dallas?) to have the best Superbowl ever.  I want to have my heart attack/epileptic fits somewhere special!

And then tomorrow night, maybe I will sew 74 more, and perhaps have a shot at a Superbowl Ticket.

On a cassette tape somewhere in Pittsburgh, is the only recording of their early 90s hits — Patrick (b. 1987) had his “We’ve Been Rocking Since 1969″ and Martin (b. 1948) with the Dylanesque “Going Downtown” that featured only two words in all its lyrics.  And if you need more, don’t worry, they have a third song too, for all of Patrick’s female appreciators, “Baby, Wipe Your Eyes for Me.”

You asked for it, here they are, Rock The World!

This time around, I avoided cardboard (curling and warping as it does in the July sun) and glue (which bubbles in it).   Instead, for bases I cut white circles out of my brother’s old science fair presentation boards — goodbye analysis of fast food wrapper biodegradability!  And for adhesive, just staples.  I don’t think they’re too distracting, at least not as bad as the glue + summer = weird equation currently occurring on my first nine circles.  Here we go, round two!

Tomorrow: 6 new talking heads!  Now that I’ve learned my July lesson, no more duct tape, no more glue, nothing more that could melt, bubble, drip, or burst.  Back to the basics — staples, jute and straight pins.  We’ll see how I’m defeated next time…

So another 9 faces are done, ready for quoting, talking, printing & display!  I’ll get them up (and the other 9 re-sturdily-hung after some truly disastrous melting duct tape incidents) in the next two days.  See the rough sketches of the face below , before color was tamped down a little, and the faces got shadowed and colored.

I have to take some pride in my thriftiness here — altogether, they cost just $5.29 to print out — 15″ circles printed out in 4×6″ glossy photo tiles.  Thanks CVS!  I cut them out and assembled them onto thick cardboard circles I cut out from old computer screen boxes.  The photo tiles were Elmer glued on, and then the cardboard circles were straightpinned onto a wide swath of ribbon.  Tomorrow, I’ll tie the ribbon up above the window, so that the 9 will hang as a grid in one of the giant 1619 windows.

I still need more responses for the next 9 circles, so come leave feedback if you haven’t already!

We stopped in Wildcard in Lawrenceville what now is a long time ago, and I found these Star Trek quilt-wall hangings at the back of the store.  So Excellent!  All by Elliot McNally.

My back up plan for law school is t-shirts.  I have ideas, lots of Pittsburgh ideas, and I am going to make them into millions, ideally of US dollars.  I begin with cats!  Pittsburgh cats, from 12 neighborhoods to begin with.   International T-Shirt Day is Monday, Pittsburgh t-shirts are on the rise, who needs law school?

From a recuperated t-shirt, brought back from the head, sliced apart, and re-collared with an old stocking — then printed up with a few lines of Pittsburgh buildings I drew.