9016 Words About Chichen Itza

Since a picture is worth 1000 words, here's my wordiest blog post yet. Enjoy. (We did.)

Thursday March 4 2010

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on Fri 05th Mar, 2010 11:04 pm PST steve said: My god!Is that a new shirt? ************************

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Oh Mexico

Oh, Mexico It sounds so simple I just got to go The sun's so hot I forgot to go home Guess I'll have to go now

Tuesday March 2 2010

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on Wed 03rd Mar, 2010 04:15 pm PST andrew said: you look different in pic #2 ************************ on Thu 11th Mar, 2010 09:19 pm PST Mira said: Hay una vibracion similar en Costa Rica. Especialmente cuando trabaja por la seguridad de tortugas marinas con estudiantes. Quieres sponsor un estudiante viajar? Llamame cuando devuelvas a los estados unidos. Saludos! ************************

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One Trick Pony

A couple of weeks ago, I again took the stage at Vaudevillingham. For 2010, I made a resolution that I would try my hand at performing more than I have in the past. Yeah, I know that in the past I've said that I'm not a performer, and I still stand by that, but I want to be comfortable on stage and to enjoy it. The only way to go about that is to do it. Do it, do it, do it.*. I know the video isn't great quality. I was holding out to get some clearer pictures so you could see the awesome costume Deanna and I made. You've probably all see the trick before, though. Anyway, just like with my last Vaudevillingham performance, the whole gag was in the costume/props. I was introduced as a one trick pony, was dressed like a pony, and did one trick. Get it?

Sunday February 28 2010

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on Mon 01st Mar, 2010 05:49 pm PST Christen said: What a great audience! ************************ on Tue 02nd Mar, 2010 06:21 pm PST Wren said: Great audience? Great audience? Thanks, Christen. Thanks. ************************ on Wed 03rd Mar, 2010 02:40 am PST Christen said: Sorry, I guess I should have mentioned you did a great job Wren :-) I just meant it's great that you can work on getting comfortable on stage with such an appreciative audience! ************************ on Sun 07th Mar, 2010 06:34 pm PST maggie said: YAY!!! were those pants that you were wearing? as in full-length, touching the tops of your shoes pants? a whole new era has begun in the world of wren. pants wearer, stage performer, and barber shop customer. ;) ************************ on Mon 08th Mar, 2010 04:52 pm PST Ryan said: That was awesome! A very realistic gallop you have. ************************ on Wed 10th Mar, 2010 07:41 pm PST Lanae said: What Maggie said! You performed! In pants! No wonder you left the country soon after! ************************

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FC 98 - It Is Not Nice To Stare

This week I am trying something new. It has been forever since I've had a guest artist for the Friday Comic series, partially because I've been having such a great time doing them. This week, as I sat down to put together the comic, a previous guest artist was around and wanted to get in on the action. My solution: we both take the same idea and each have a crack at it, working independently. Gabriella (guest artist on previous comics such as 32, 23, and 15, among others) gets credit for the idea. Her interpretation* is on the left and mine is on the right. All in all, they didn't turn out too different, although I tend to like hers a bit more. Anyway, it was a fun exercise that we might just have to try again. (Friday Comics is going on hiatus for a month or so as I hit the road again. Maybe I will be inclined to draw up a comic or two while basking on beaches and chasing Mayan ghosts, but I doubt it. I trust, however, that FCs will start back up again in early April, soon to be closing in on the benchmark 100th comic. Yeehaw!)

Thursday February 25 2010

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on Wed 03rd Mar, 2010 05:27 pm PST gabriella said: Tee-hee, this one just "TICK"les the ol' funny bone! ************************

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Bellingham to Vancouver BC Via Public Transit

I've been wanting to check out cross-border public transportation for a long time. Over the years, I've planned out the route at least a few times, never really satisfied that it was do-able*. On our recent trip up to the Olympics, Ma and I decided to give it a try. Here's what we did. Route From To Cost Notes WTA 70X Downtown Bellingham Station Blaine High School (11th St. and H Ave.) $1.00 This express bus only runs a few times in the morning and evening. If you need a midday connection, you could use WTA 55 and transfer to WTA 331 Walk 3 miles Blaine High School King George Hwy and 8th Ave. Free(!) When crossing the border, be sure to check in. Also, much of this route doesn't offer sidewalks, so walking can be a little dicey. Translink 375 King George Hwy and 8th Ave. White Rock Center $5.00 CDN (save your transfer) Supposedly the 321 also makes this route. We just showed up at the bus stop and asked the driver what the best option was. Translink 351 White Rock Center Bridgeport Station There is also an alternative to this portion. If you stay on the 375, you can transfer instead to the 501/502 and make your way in differently. Again, we just deferred to what the driver suggested. Canada Line Bridgeport Station Downtown Vancouver I like trains. Overall, the trip took maybe 3.5 to 4 hours, which isn't bad at all considering the walk, checking in at customs, and figuring it all out as we went. We hit all our transfers perfectly, which helped shine a positive light on the experience. It isn't exactly easy and I wouldn't go recommending it to public transit newbies, but it was nice to prove that it can be done. Hopefully in the near future, that 3 mile walk will be cut down a good chunk and this trip will be as painless* as Bellingham to Seattle.

Monday February 22 2010

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on Tue 23rd Feb, 2010 12:28 am PST Dave said: was the return trip the same route? (i.e. was it a 7-8 hour round trip just in travel time?) ************************ on Tue 23rd Feb, 2010 08:34 am PST Wren said: We took Amtrak back, which took about 2 hours and was about $20 more expensive. ************************ on Mon 01st Oct, 2012 07:20 pm PDT Wren said: Bolt bus (www.boltbus.com/) now serves Bellingham, so you can get from Vancouver to Bellingham for as little as $4.00! ************************

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Minor Media Mention - AP Edition

I post this in the same thread as my "Minor Media Coverage" series (previously covered here and here). (To those who might construe posting about media coverage, no matter how minor, a bit vain or whatever, I will point out that this blog is as much a scrapbook for myself in 40 years as it is a way to keep in touch with you, my loyal readers*.) Roaming around down by the Olympic Cauldron the other day, this fellow from the AP snapped a shot of me and got all my info, etc. I got a thought that wouldn't it be cool if the photo showed up in some random newspaper in Alabama or wherever and happened to be noticed by a long lost friend that I've lost touch with? On a whim, I googled myself today and ran across this. Who knows; maybe it isn't a big deal to get a picture of yourself posted on the AP website. But I thought it was kind of neat. So there. * (Oh, and for posterity, here is a screenshot for when that site goes down, which I imagine won't be too far in the future, and here is the actual image.)

Saturday February 20 2010

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on Sun 21st Feb, 2010 11:53 am PST Mom said: Oh yeah, that's my toe in the lower left--how's that for minor media coverage? ************************ on Mon 22nd Feb, 2010 05:50 am PST Horge said: Well I think it's pretty cool... My highlight in this vein was a photo of me and some others sliding around in the rain at a summer program at the University of Houston. Me and my fellow high schoolers got a kick out of tricking the school's newspaper photographer by saying that we were freshmen majoring in geology (me) and chemistry (the others). We sure punk'd him!!! ************************ on Mon 22nd Feb, 2010 10:04 am PST Ryan said: Some more minor media coverage for your scrapbookhttp://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g146/rdkopp0153/JuggleClub/IMG_2229.jpg ************************ on Mon 22nd Feb, 2010 10:25 am PST Wren said: @Ryan: I appreciate the link and pic, but I beat you to it...by about 3.5 years. See? (I think I might actually have the physical clip somewhere too.) ************************

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FC 97 - What Is Art

Sorry for the tardiness on this one (if anyone noticed). All that Olypmic hubbub from when I went to the Olympics kept me from comicking it up. Then I had to make the Olympics post and it wouldn't be fair to the Olympics to not let the Olympics post have a little time in the spotlight.* A few notes about this comic (besides its lateness). I drew part of it while on the bus. It turns out that doesn't do great things for a borderline motion sick person. The rest was drawn using only the finicky touchpad on my EEE (while in a library, so I even tried to keep the clicking to a minimum for quietness's sake). My appreciation for optical mouse is renewed. Anyway, while I wasn't convinced that the comic was going to turn out (either artistically or conceptually), the policeman's mustache made it all okay. How many times have mustaches saved the day? Answer: a lot.

Friday February 19 2010

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on Fri 19th Feb, 2010 01:20 pm PST Michael Scott said: * ************************ on Fri 19th Feb, 2010 07:59 pm PST andrew said: Really? The guy from "The Office" reads your blog? ************************

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My Trip to the Olympic Games

Yesterday, Ma and I trekked north to Vancouver to check out the Olympics and all the surrounding hubbub. In a word, it was awesome. While the city wasn't totally overtaken with the excitement as I thought it might be, there were pockets of Olympic fever. Initially, the city wide general excitement was what I was all stoked for. What I walked away with as a highlight and with most pleasant memories of was the actual event: curling. All I know about curling has come from last week's Simpsons episode and the spectacular* Canadian movie Men With BroomsIMDB. Luckily, an avid curler was sitting next to us in the stands, so we learned all about the hammer, house, ends, sheets, peeling, strategy, rules, and so much more. By the end of the 3 hour match, we felt like pros. There isn't much to report results-wise. This was one of 9 qualifying matches, so a win or a loss doesn't mean too much by itself. The U.S.A., however, ended up losing a super close match to Switzerland. They went into extra innings and had to bring out the measuring device 3 times (while none of the concurrent 3 games had either of those things happen). That excitement just added to the overall appreciation of the experience. So while the tickets were pricey* and getting up there proved interesting*, it was exactly what I hoped it would be: a once in a lifetime experience. Besides, now I can say I've been there and have the pictures to prove it.

Thursday February 18 2010

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on Thu 18th Feb, 2010 01:16 pm PST soreyes said: Try curling for $15 in North Seattle 1 block East of Hwy 99. Here is a list of the open houses:http://www.curlingseattle.org/openhouses/ ************************ on Thu 18th Feb, 2010 10:04 pm PST andrew said: damn! those stands are PACKED! ************************ on Thu 18th Feb, 2010 10:25 pm PST Wren said: Someone else pointed this out in a comment on that photo on facebook. I must say that the stands actually were pretty packed. That photo was taken on the way out. ************************ on Fri 19th Feb, 2010 01:27 pm PST Ryan said: You and Ma in the bobsled is great! ************************ on Sat 20th Feb, 2010 03:29 am PST steve said: Did you see The Pants? ************************ on Sun 21st Feb, 2010 10:30 am PST Jule said: The picture on the bobsled is priceless ************************ on Mon 22nd Feb, 2010 05:58 am PST Horge said: Again, pretty dag cool Wrenjamin. I'd like to see some Olympic curling once. I caught a bit of the Swiss vs. zee Germans this weekend. Wish we'd somehow gone curling up in Maine sometime. Would've been wicked pissa... ************************

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Progressively Sketchier

Granted this isn't nearly as cool as that progressive shaving video but I just wasn't feeling as inspired. Plus I was planning on leaving that right hand column style for a while. Well, I'm 5 days in and I'm digging it more and more everyday. That might, however, explain why I didn't have a date for Valentine's Day*. But for you beard/mustache nay-sayers out there, you'll be pleased to know that it will have to be gone by Wednesday when I will be heading up to the Olympic Games in Canada. Something tells me I might have any easier border crossing clean[-ish]shaven.

Monday February 15 2010

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on Mon 15th Feb, 2010 06:50 pm PST Sean said: Now shave the burns and just have the moustache extend to your jaw bone ************************

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Roses Are Red 2010

It's been a whole year now I've got Rose poem withdrawl So write up some good ones At which I can guffaw Roses are red Violets are blue I just wrote a poem And so should you! I won't get no roses But that ain't so bad 'Cause I've got the internet Oh wait, that is so sad Roses are pricey What's a guy to do? Try your hand at Writing a poem or two It's that time of year again: time for the annual Rose are Red poetry slam here on BdW. This is a chance to let your poetic juices flow! The rules are easy: the poem must follow the standard ABCB "Roses are red" rhyme/stress pattern and it must make reference to either "red" or "roses"*. Topics can be anything you want – it doesn't have to be Valentine's Day related. Feel free to submit under pseudonyms or anonymously, and as often as you like. For inspiration (or at least a couple of good laughs), take a look at previous years' showings: 2007, 2008, and 2009.

Friday February 12 2010

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on Sat 13th Feb, 2010 10:01 am PST Anonymous said: Rose are red But their thorns make me bleed Like how you only call When there's something you need. ************************ on Sat 13th Feb, 2010 02:41 pm PST Everyone's Librarian said: Talk of roses is fine But if more books were read Think how much smarter we'd be Before we were dead. ************************ on Sat 13th Feb, 2010 02:44 pm PST Mom said: In my garden grows a red rose With stems long and skinny I named if for my mom Its called the "Queen Minnie." ************************ on Sat 13th Feb, 2010 09:42 pm PST Andrew said: Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is granulated This rhyme is imperfect ************************ on Sun 14th Feb, 2010 11:01 am PST No Poet, Me said: A rose is a rose Is a rose is a rose With this as my best try I should stick to prose ************************ on Sun 14th Feb, 2010 11:15 am PST Sean said: The roses are dead The violets are too Next year I'll fertilize With some fresh cow manure ************************ on Sun 14th Feb, 2010 02:46 pm PST Saxtor said: The red rose may be pretty But thorns grow right under It looks like Reddit dot com Has stolen your thunder. ************************ on Sun 14th Feb, 2010 07:38 pm PST Saxtor said: Passing out flowers and love that we're boasting Sorry for the language I should review links before posting ************************ on Sun 14th Feb, 2010 09:00 pm PST Chris said: Roses like nature Beautiful, simple and true Just like this Haiku ************************ on Mon 22nd Feb, 2010 06:10 am PST Horge said: Just moved to a new city Got no one to to date Means no complaints for no roses Or for being a week late ************************ on Wed 03rd Mar, 2010 05:37 pm PST gabriella said: Violets are small Roses are thorny I'd rather a call When I'm feeling excited ************************

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