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Here are Additional photos from the Comics Covered Art show at Caffeinated Comics In SF

I re-hung the show so that it can stay up for another month.  If you’ve got time, stop by the shop and see the show.

Enjoy these late posted, Bay to Breakers photos.

Roughly a 10k race across San Francisco that can probably be described as the world’s largest moving party, about 10,000 people, in costume walk the length of the city, sometimes pushing Keg filled floats along the way.  It’s chaos…..enjoy these photos.

The entire cast of Mario Kart would stop at the still functioning stop lights to hold races.

The Ecto 1 of Ghostbusters fame, filled with a huge, roaving stereo system.

President Obama and his secret service agents work the crowd.

Anyone actually ever cleared those pictures from their camera?

Saint Obama Candle!

Nephew Aidan in standard Winter attire.

Chinese Bakery

Further story about the Chinese Bakery.  While searching China Town for a Pork bun, we cam upon this place promising to serve the Best Pork Buns in San Francisco. Not True.  But the wierd thing about this place is that back by the bathroom there is a door that is identical with a big sign on it that says “This is not a Bathroom, you must pay $20 to enter this room!”  What’s in that room?  A mystery for the ages….

Hey Everyone, I”m curating a show at Caffeinated comics with Schuyler Robertson and David Pinch (owner of the fine establishment) in the Mission in SF.  Here’s the call for Submissions:

Here are some random comic covers I’ve drawn for the show:

Check out the store’s website http://www.caffcom.com/   for more details or shoot me an email.

And in celebration of the new Star Trek Movie that came out here’s a Star Trek propaganda poster I did several years ago:

On April 24th, Playland will be hosting it’s first art show. You better be there.

New linocut cut for the show.  “Boy-Lobster”

 Got to attend a behind the scenes tour of the Santa Cruz beach board walk.

The Boardwalk.

 The Giant Dipper

Looking up at the Giant Dipper from the interior between the tracks.

 The heart of the Giant Dipper is a 75 horse power engine.

One the things on the of the tour was a walk through of the Cave Train with the lights on.

Some people have too much free time.

Also attended Wondercon this year.  Got in last year with the Creature’s at Large crew, a collection of late TV Horror hosts from the Bay Area.

 Took a day trip to Jerusalem

View of Jerusalem

Interior of the church built on the spot where Jesus was arrested.

Large mural painting of Radioactive Jesus (?).  I don’t know what’s going on in this painting.  I went with the Russian tour group, so I didn’t really know what I was seeing.  I had to use my detective skills/wikipedia when I got home to figure out what I saw.

See. This is a good example.  What is the seal of the United States doing on the ceiling of this church?  I’m thinking some sort of Da Vince code conspiracy right?  No, it turns out that this church was rebuilt in 1919 and it received large funds from countries around the world which is why it’s called the Church of all Nations.

Tomb of Mary

The un-grandiose entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.   Inside this church is the Tomb of Jesus, where he was held in Prison, the hill where he was crucified, where they prepped his body for burial, where the cross was buried and found hundreds of years later.  Who would have thought that all that stuff happened within 500 hundred feet of eachother?

Another story about this church: being the holiest place in all of Christendom, the church is run by all these different sects of christian churches.  They’re all assigned different parts of the church which leads to trouble.  As in fist fights between priests and monks (the last one being on April 20 over a door left open).  Besides the areas run by different sects there are parts of the church that are run by all of them and can’t be changed without confirmation from all groups.  Obviously, this is a huge problem.  If you look in the picture above there is a ladder on a ledge that’s been there for 150 years because they can’t agree to move it.

Jesus’s tomb is located inside this little church that’s inside another church.  Like I said, went in there and didn’t really realize what I saw until I got home the next day and looked on the internet.

 Interior dome with an incredible Trompe-l’œil ceiling. Completely convinced it was real.

Mosaic floor in the basement of the church featuring the Great Flood.

Probably the best mosaic I have ever seen.

The Western Wall.

Dead Sea floating.  Floating in the Dead Sea is like floating in your scalding bath tub filled with baby oil/a gallon of Morton’s salt, and incredibly sharp rocks.

I almost bought this shirt…

Other random photo from the airport.

Postcard picture of a fresco from a church near Kakopetria.  All the other frescos were explained in the guide…what is going on in this picture?  Why are they all so sad (except that redheaded guy being held in the forefront)?

Check out this awesome ceramic sandwich that I made years ago….so bad.

Dimitri, a teenager trapped in a 9 year old’s body.  He’s passed out in a chair at 12:30 in the afternoon because he was up all night.  Completely oblivious to the alligator on his chest.

It’s over Safari!  If were cool enough to notice this post has been corrected… Firefox allows me to now go back and fix all the crazy posts due to Safari’s “issues” with me creating posts….

I switched continents.  Visiting my family in Cyprus.  

This is my family’s super mansion.  It’s not really a mansion but it is a lot nicer than our old house in Iowa.  I was pretty blown away by their upgrade.

 View from the hills where my family lives.   Larnaca and the sea are in the background.  It’s not as hot here as it’s going to be so before that happens I’m hiking in the hills around my parent’s house.  Somewhere out there, there’s an artillery range that the army drops mortar shells onto.  I haven’t found it yet but I know I’ve gotten really, really close…

Local Football Game.  European football fans are intense.  At this game they pulled out road flares when they scored a goal.  Andonis is pissed that I took this photo because it was of the opposing team scoring.

My brothers,Andonis and Dimitri, wrestling. 

Dimitri helps me print a linocut. 

Experimenting with Linocuts.