Wednesday, January 18, 2006

This man knows fire


Adoring public (Mom), meet Sean, the engineer who is going to help me build the Fire and Meat Can (suggestions for a better name are welcome if anybody thinks of one). As you can see, Sean knows fire. Sean, I know you haven't agreed to do this yet, but come on, I just introduced you to my mom. LET THE MEAT BE SMOKED IN THE GATES OF HELL!

Monday, January 16, 2006

Weekend project evolution: from theramin to smoker

Went to the Juan Maclean show on Saturday night at Supreme trading, and when I wasn't entranced by the lead singer trying to eat the microphone and score coke off the crowd, I noticed that the keytar player also spent a good bit of time freaking out on theramin. I was impressed, so a buddy of mine and I decided to built one. Here are the plans I came up with:

As you can see, the project evolved, and I clearly designed a meat smoker built from two garbage cans, not a theramin. Fuck it. What was I going to do with a theramin anyway? I'm gonna run with this.

Obstacles (any ideas?):
-cooling of the fire can. I need a way to keep the fire can from reaching deadly temperatures and exploding or something. Probably going to involve ceramics.
-I was going to put this on my fire escape, but that could be a source of DEADLY IRONY. And, as Will pointed out, is like saying fuck you to my upstairs neighbors. So I don't have anywhere to put this thing.

Solution: Sean O'brien. He's an engineer and has a back yard, which means he should be good for some ideas and a place to put the smoker. He's going to help me, but doesn't know it yet. Hi Sean; can you help me?

FIRE CAN:


MEAT CAN:

Please note that all plans are preliminary--I'm working on the CAD drawings. This is going to be so boss.

Thursday, January 05, 2006

The lucky winner


Mike (right) was the lucky winner of the CYHSY ticket, and he was superpsyched about it, jumping up and down like a got-damn mad person. Mike, it was nice to meet you; hope you had a happy new year. How was the concert, you ask? Well, it was fun, but I find Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are much better experienced un-live. Pro Tools did a lot for that boy's voice.

Thanks to Irish Tony for the photo.