Author: Matt Maldre

When sidewalk planters function like a Richard Serra sculpture.

I’ve got this motorized foam disc shooter at work. It’s fun to shoot people with these harmless foam discs at rapid succession. But i think it would be more fun to have lots of people with guns! Herein lies the…

Here’s a book I remember from my childhood: The Top 100 “The Best Baseball Cards to Own”. You gotta check out that link to see who they have on the cover. Yes! Jose Canseco! I can see now why amazon…

I want to be able to play atari 2600 games over the internet. I know there is emulation programs that allow you play on your own computer. But how about playing a game of Combat with someone miles away?

here’s an instant message conversation I had with my twin brother about yesterday’s quote with squirrels and their highways.

Telephone and electrical wires are the urban highways in the sky for squirrels

This piece appears in the 2003 Graphic USA Design Annual. Joe Martin creates three comic strips: Mister Boffo, Cats with Hands, and Willy n’ Ethel. All of the past sales folders we have done for comic strip creators focuses on…

did darth vader ever shoot a raygun in the star wars triology?

Dr. Pepper Armchair quarterback challenge states you could win up to $1 Million plus 1 of 100 Jeep Wranglers. However to enter, you have to hand print your name, address, phone # and age on a 3″x5″ card and mail…

autumn is here and I’m doing my Andy Goldsworthy impression.

You have a nice box of chocolates. You carefully pick a chocolate. With great anticipation and curiousity you bite into it only to have your mouth full of the awful texture of coconuts! Ban All Coconuts in Box of Chocolates…

After I voted this week, I thought that voting ballots should have questions specifically about issues. i.e. do you support a war on Iraq? A problem with voting for candidates is that you can never find one that fully supports…

I loved 2002 for a year. So symmetrical so neat. 2003 is just confused. I can’t wait until 2004, that sounds more fun than 2003. 2004 implies multiplication. Now if we could jump up to 3003, that would rock. What’s…

Due to the large showing presence of the Chicago Police, the annual world protest was a peaceful one. I like how some of the police were so decked out that they looked like Galactic Storm Troopers from Star Wars.

some eyeballs i made up when i was writing an email to a friend about the Chicago Tribune’s new 18-34 newspaper, RedEye: (.) (.) watching (o) (o) alert (O) (O) on caffiene (-) (-) sleepin (x) (x) dead (^) (^)…

I just found the IKEA christmas catalog in the garbage at work today. Score!

When you want to emphasis something by writing “Go” with extra o’s, it ends up looking like goo, as in gooey, goopy slimey stuff. And slime is the opposite of go or fast.

The Christmas lights are being put up on the trees on Michigan Ave in front of the Tribune Tower, Chicago.

When there’s a big cluster of candidate signs, I wonder if the sign placer person is considering where to put their sign within the context of all the other signs. “Oh, I don’t want my sign to be to THAT…

I’m in the curious mood of going to taco bell and ordering one of every item on their menu. Then documenting all of the greasy splendor on my site. 9 Tacos, 12 Burritos, 9 Chalupas, 9 Gorditas 6 Nachos &…

A compiled list of letter endings from over one thousand people.

Why do planes leave lines in the sky. Not “how?”, but “why?”.

I just found a new cartoon this morning and it’s now one of my top favs! Kim Possible. In today’s episode, she face Monkey Fist who mastered Monkey Kung Fu and was trying to attain Mystical Monkey Power! It was…

This morning, all the leaves had fallen off the trees. Me thinks the pumpkin smashers are now also shaking trees to shed their leaves.

Thursday, Friday November 7-8, 2002 Like 99 seattle riots, 2000 DC protests, 2001 Genoa where one died. Now it’s chicago’s turn in 2002 for the trans-atlantic business dialogue. It will be at the Sheraton Tower at: 301 East North Water…

Metra trains should have one car designated for entertainment.* TV with movies or tv shows playing* Live entertainment* Board games, play a game of monopoly with a stranger* Discussion groups with certain themes* Vacation picture sharing* Book club Any other…

On premeire shopping strip in downtown Chicago, Michigan Avenue, they are installing new containers in front of the Hotel Inter Continental. Here’s some ideas on what they will hold:* Flowers / plants* Swimming pool in summer, ice rink in winter*…

The Anaheim Angels have the rally monkey / thundersticks.Atlanta Braves have the stupid chopThe Minnesota Twins have the homer hanky.The Chicago Cubs should have… Paper Towels. You can swing them in the air like stick. But then you could also…

I think they should cover Wacker Drive’s surface in gold. I was just looking out the window at wacker drive, and noticed that they are going with concrete instead of asphalt. I heard that concrete lasts much longer than asphalt.…

Yahoo’s news story. I like lime green and gray. Do I like this logo?

I’ve found that when I tell someone that I’m a twin, I get some typical questions: Are you identical? How far apart were you born? Can you feel your twin’s pain? What’s it like being a twin? I came up…