The Monster Jam! It Was A Grave Digger Smash!

MONSTER JAM THUNDER NATIONALS FEATURING GRAVE DIGGER AT THE BLUE CROSS ARENA IN ROCHESTER, NY!
You have to admit that my wife gets me some pretty awesome xmas gifts...



STONE CRUSHER!



Who will win?  Eradicator or Grave Digger?



GRAVE DIGGER!!!  



This is a truck line up out of my 8 year old dreams...



The Grave Digger pennant/the tattoo I'm going to get...



Monster Jam is really good at coming up with products.  Products like the Digger Disc boomerang



Or the Grave Digger hat that came with cotton candy for only $15...



CANNONLADY!  The ceiling of the Blue Cross Arena is so low that they had to fire her from the minimum trajectory, which was still really close to the ceiling.  We found out that her entire family does this for a living and her husband blew himself up earlier as "the Human Bomb."  



Spiderman would have been much cooler if it didn't stall every time the drive hit the accelerator...



GRAVE DIGGER!



Just doing a few donuts...



Maximum Destruction was the true master of donuts.  I have to admit, I was genuinely impressed with this performance.



BACKDRAFT right before that rear tire went flat and he had to leave the show.









Evidence of a hard days work...



Teaching Rachel how to ice skate!  The facilities at Monroe Community College are really, really impressive.  






My strange ice skating still life...



This dog is so cute that in the time it will take you to read this sentence, 15 people have already emailed me about adopting her.  



And yes, my job is so awesome that this puppy is considered "job related."


That's it for now.  I have a string of weird blogs that will probably continue next week.  All I can really tell you is I'm changing my name to "Andy Warthog" for an evening in Buffalo.  Even I don't know what that means...

As Promised: Chicago Pics Late Dec-Present-CAPTIONED

Happy B-Day Audrey!

You look great wearing burgers

Bonnie Blair - Olympian Speed Skater

More Bonnie with kids

This is what my art has to compete with in the office. I should just admit defeat

Charniece's new tattoo

Work Christmas party with Whiskey and golf

More golf

Christmas party moved to Su Casa

Chicago looks beautiful in fresh snow

Work was so slow, I created this on my cabinet. It's an office supply Chicago skyline.

Hello Danielle.

The Darkroom on Monday Night Klub-Chicago Chapter

Playing pool at Darkroom

The greatest piece of jewerly ever. It's a dog ring. With my discount, it's only $5

I imagine him as a detective circa 1925 just waiting for a dame to come in to give him a case. That or else he ate the detective and is waiting to eat the dame when she comes in...

Elizabeth at Clio's eatting a giant salad when she should be eatting wings

Me, Noah, and Frances at the Damen stop Brown Line

Same

Noah and I failing to take one decent shot together

France's giant hand

Frances at the Two-Way

Bathroom at Two-Way

Harold Washington Library

Rem Koolhaas piece for Mies Van Der Rohe

Koolhass at IIT

Koolhaas at IIT

Me at Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House

Audrey at the same exact place

Frank Lloyd Wright's interior at the Rookery

Again at the Rookery

The Hulk has finally tamed the beast

I don't think Jenny can bring that bottle on the street. Or can she?

Josh and Simone

What do liberals hate? Is it talk radio? Is it wind? Is it the wind from talk radio? Is this from Grand Rapids?

You can't turn down the love robot

Dad and the Grizzly Bear on the L

I don't think the Grizzly Bear knows who I am

Oh sweet Mutiny. You provide so much for so little.

My office on my first day of work. I had to throw everything out. Imagine this totally different

You know the singing noctural animals from the Mountain Dew commercial. I saw this in there and thought it looked like someone I knew. Strange...

New Years at Club Foot

Laia at Club Foot

New Years at Innertown

Elizabeth on New Years

Again

Anne and I at Innertown

Roberto at the Swank Frank on New Years

Elizabeth and Anne at People Tapas on New Years

New Years profile pic for Elizabeth.

Suddenly on New Years, the camera was turned on me. I'm now a violent criminal

Roberto at Club Foot

Same

I don't know what Anne's doing here

Roberto needs to stop playing with the noisemakers

Laia and Anne on New Years at Club Foot

Matt and Roberto with noisemakers

A pigeon bonfire I found while on a scavenger hunt for work

accidental pictures are sometimes best

Neighborhood represent

Roberto right before he killed me

Roberto after he killed me

Roberto just before he sucked the blood out of Michelle's neck

Robert's amazing scorpion clock

A peace protest with shoes at Federal Plaza

Jenny making snow angels

The weirdest snowblower/plow thing ever

Tim and Laia

Tim

Harassing Tim still

I can't say. Just trust me. It's funny.

Waiting for the bus in Wicker Park

On the way to the bus