This is Hugh!!!!! From the belly of the Freeper Beast.. (Pictures included)

[puerco-bellies]

I headed to downtown L.A. to take care of a little chore. Yesterday Freepers were protesting at the L.A. Times Building for the release of a tape from some dinner party Obama attended.

They said that they would be out there in greater numbers today as well. I finished what I needed to do and walked over to the times building hoping to tweak-a-freep, but as I got closer my heart sank.. From blocks away I could not make out any porta-pottys, and knew that any group that full of shit can't travel far from them.

Sure enough I got to the main entrance and there was not a single "Get a brain Moran" in sight.. I am so disappointed.. Can I get a hug?





Behold the Mighty Wrath of the Freepers!! (cue cricket sound track)



Close up of front door of the Times.



Yours truly with my new Obama shirt, and not a freeper to model it for.. :cry:

[Aristus]

1. Oh come on! They were Stealth Freepers! They fooled you, but good!

You got pwned by the Freep secret weapon: Stealth protestors!

B-)
Good on ya, man! :thumbsup:

[puerco-bellies]

9. Stealth, even their porta-pottys?

We're doooooomed!!!!

[Aristus]

11. You mean you didn't smell them? If you didn't smell them, they were stealth port-a-potties.

:+

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear puerco-bellies!

Ah, those are great pics!

And you look fantastic in your new shirt!

Grateful Dead plus Obama! :woohoo:

The Freepers must have found out that you were coming, and they were too scared! ;-)

[puerco-bellies]

10. Thanks Miss C-P

I'm digging my "Grateful Obama" tee.

[vademocrat]

3. Oh noes...freepers have cloaking devices now!

Great pics - thanks for posting them.

[puerco-bellies]

12. Yea, the're like Romulans..

Except they are harmless and inept.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. You know how they are.all talk, no action, short term ideas.

Have a few hugs,,,you deserve it for driving in a cement city..

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[puerco-bellies]

8. No driving needed

I metro-railed it from Manhattan Beach to Downtown there and back. The station is only a half mile or so from my front door.

[knowbody0]

5. you look soooooooooooooooo good!

[puerco-bellies]

13. Thank you.

:blush:

[lizziegrace]

6. Very nice shirt.

they were all there in spirit. Yeah, that's it. ;)

[puerco-bellies]

14. Yeah, the reason they are not in Iraq is because they are fighting the culture war here.

A.W.O.L. just like their "Dear Leader".

[Redstone]

7. That's damn funny. Hey, how's the jewelry-making thing going for you these days?

Redstone

[puerco-bellies]

15. Slow but the cost of silver is now almost half of what it was 3 month ago

I am on the waiting list for The Western Museum Indian Market. I'm buying silver and will be showing regularly by February.

[Redstone]

16. Oh, I remember in the 1980s when the Hunt brothers tried to corner the silver market

and prices did spike, but they ended up losing their shirts. Served them right, the greedy bastards.

And gold at $1,000 an ounce and silver at whatever ridiculous number it got up to was just another bunch of greedy bastards at work, and I'm glad they got their noses bloodied as well.

What those "investors" don't seem to understand is that the VAST majority of silver production is used in industrial manufacturing, NOT for jewelry.

Hey, I don't have any links for you (they're on another computer), but have you ever looked into, I think it's called polymer-matrix gold and silver? It's a relatively recent invention from Kyocera, and is a matrix of gold or silver contained in something that handles like modeling clay. You carve or otherwise shape it, then stick it in a kiln (or use a torch) to evaporate the polymer-clay component, and you end up with a final product of pure metal, though it's light weight (because the polymer part is replaced by air) and you do have to account for about a 30% physical shrinkage from the heating process, so you have to make the originals larger than the final product.

Check it out. I looked into it a while ago, and if I had the time, the eyesight, and the hand steadiness I used to have, I would have bought some of that stuff to work with. Especially given that Native American jewelry has a strong connection to natural forms, it might be a good thing for you to do, because you can do things like press a leaf into the surface of the clay material and preserve that texture / pattern after you "bake" it.

I'm happy to hear that you're keeping at it. As I said before, you have genuine talent.

Redstone

[puerco-bellies]

17. I've looked at that.

One of the brand names is "Art Clay". There are some cool things that can be done with it, especially weaving gold and silver together. I have thought about flat basket type earrings with gold designs "woven" in to the silver. What has stopped me from trying some ideas are the outlay of the material. I'm not well capitalized right now, and the final design is subjected to significant shrinkage which would complicate the learning curve.

After I put together a few decent shows again I am going to get some and try my silver and gold basket weave earring ideas.

[Redstone]

18. Post pictures when you do, OK? I like seeing your work.

Redstone

[Enthusiast]

19. Great T-shirt!

You should see the Ohio state flag. It looks just like an Obama flag. :rofl: