Week Links for October 2, 2011

UNDER PRESSURE I will never be able to say “Thank you,” enough when it relates to this recent spate of internet coverage of Foogos. Here is some of the press the site has garnered in the last couple weeks, and particularly the past 48 hours. My favorite was a comment...

Swab the Poopdecks!

Holy molies it’s already October? I should have had a Pittsburgh Pirates logo ready on September 19th. (Or the Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or any of the three million NCAA schools that use some swashbuckling derivative.) That was International Talk Like a...
The Boston Rorschachs

The Boston Rorschachs

Some unreal baseball drama on Wednesday night. I asked on Twitter if the man responsible for scripting those games was the screenwriter of the Mighty Ducks or Bad News Bears. The Boston Red Sox were one of the teams that left their fates to chance (instead of winning)...
Papa Shango Update

Papa Shango Update

When I last showed the Papa Shango portrait I’m working on, it was in the very early stages, and I really didn’t expect it to be done anytime soon, a function of me being lazy rather than a matter of having a lot of work to do. The process has been moving at a much...
Who Dat? What Dat?

Who Dat? What Dat?

On the field, the New Orleans Saints have won their last two games after opening the season with a loss to the defending Super Bowl Champs, but in the kitchen, aye carumba. I feel I’ve been on a bit of a hot streak lately, so a lame entry into the Foogos pantheon was...