my boss is a Jewish carpenter

Driving down the Mass Pike today I saw this:




This is information overload! You mean to tell me, Alex, that you will paint/clean my home/work AND you are God's Gift AND Jesus is coming back soon!? Will Jesus appear as an apparition on my swirly ceiling? Admittedly, I'm ignorant of what God's Gift really is so I Wikipediaed it. I wasn't happy of those results so I Googled it. Now I got it.

In other news, Eric and Rasputina had a photo shoot. They were able to emit a variety of emotions to the camera and really connected with the photographer.









Those fresh faces are going somewhere! Cat Fancy magazine, here they come!

Tomorrow is September 1. Anyone remember that commercial on Nickelodeon that said the first of the month was "rabbit rabbit day"? You will have good luck for the whole month if the first thing you say is "rabbit rabbit" when you wake up on the first of the month. Was that a dream? It sounds stupid enough to be.

it's blog! it's blog!

it's better than bad, it's good - or so I hope. I can't believe I started my first post with that stupid Ren and Stimpy song. I'd love to have a word with the person who thought it would be entertaining to have a cartoon dog shave its own tongue. But anyway... I think I'll give this thing a shot. I've been very bad with keeping in touch with people. As with many other things, I like to blame it on my job. I am on a computer 9+ hrs a day and on the phone about half of that. Yeah, why don't I cry about it, I know, but that is why I am going to type what I want you to know on this blogger! It's great! I'm so high-tech that before you know it, I'll be downloading snazzy fonts (no offense to people who do, dorks.)

So Eric and I are getting married! Yay! We've decided to combine our last names and so we will be Erin and Eric Smalldrich - or even better, combine our first and last names to be Erinc Smalldrich, yay! Oh and our cats Ishmael and Rasputina are getting married too. This is Massachusetts after all.

Wow, it's really easy to say a whole lotta nothin really fast. So how about a picture?


This is on the campus of the now-defunct Belchertown State School. It was a beatiful day for walking around and going in and out of the buildings. I believe Katie was getting the grand tour of New England that day.

Good night!

Making Owls Cool Since 1986

I suppose that the name of the blog needs some explanation.

Yesterday, me and Erin drove by the Owl Shop smoke shop and Erin said that owls are starting to be trendy. There's a lot of owl stuff at Urban Outfitters and Caitlyn (Erin's sister) bought her an owl belt.

I stated that I have been "making owls cool since 1986."

I love owls. Owls and foxes are my two favorite animals. Of course, I am referring to species, as Ishmael and Rasputina are my two favorite individual animals. I became a strigidaphile when I was six or seven (1986) when my mom read me a book by Farley Mowat entitled "Owls in the Family."



The book, published in 1961, is a creative nonfiction work about two owls that the author rescued as a child and kept as pets. The owls, Wol and Weeps, are great horned owls and they have all sorts of owl related capers in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It's really a good book, and not just for kids. It's a good book to read when you don't want anything too heavy.

So, anyhow, that's how my owl obsession began and why the blog is titled "making owls cool since 1986."

Of course, our title is a misnomer, because owls have always been cool.

Blog = Hassle

...and I don't mean hoff. I had a bad time making this blog. I don't know if it's because I'm using Mozilla or what, but I have to erase my cache everytime I publish and my stupid test publish I made to check on my whimsical background (nice whimsical background I got, huh?) kept showing up.

But it looks like I figured it out, so good for me.

The purpose for Erin and I (Eric) have in making this blog is two-fold:

A. We hate Myspace

B. Kev and Jen made one and we want to be just like them.

Actually, I did get the idea from Kev and Jen's blog on Livejournal. It's pretty neat to check up on what they're up to without having to pay Verizon Wireless a shitload of money. So, they live in Hawaii and Veau and Emily and Katie live in California, so it seemed like a alright idea to make a blog.

This will be our profile picture. Sarah or Damien took it at Belchertown State School.




I think I might go back to bed.