Tag: Croquet

Oh the days when I owned squirearchy.com. Now the domain is available for anyone.

Croquet has two personalities. One is pristine lawns, all-white clothes, and strict rules. The other is blasting your opponent's ball into the bushes and inventing rules like "no boundaries." Turns out The New Yorker has a connection to both.

You can build this in your backyard! 104 landscape stakes + string = your own Sol LeWitt croquet course. Takes conceptual art from museum walls to playable outdoor experience. Instructions included

Tried improving my backyard croquet game by mowing a shorter 'pro strip.' Ended up with a yellow runway that screams 'amateur landscaper lives here.'

BlueSky is the new Twitter alternative social media platform. It currently has 4.9 million users. Tired of the algorithm on Twitter? Wish you can create your own feeds? One of the cool things about BlueSky is that lets users create…

The croquet twitter account @HammerTimeCroqu started following me today on Twitter. That is, they are following my croquet-dedicated Twitter account, @mightymauler. Yes, I have a Twitter account dedicated to croquet. Not just croquet, but my superhero alter-ego persona on the…

Yahoo Answers is like the Wild West for questions. You can ask anything; and the general public answers your questions. With the general public giving answers, you get a range of helpful answers to completely stupid youtube-like responses. It’s a…

Yahoo deleted my question, “Why do ewoks like croquet?” Everyone knows that ewoks love to play the game of croquet. They are woodland creatures, croquet only makes sense for them to play in their habitat. Ewoks are also extremely playful.…

If you could ask the president anything, what would you ask? I have a few questions: Is there a working telegraph machine in the White House? Does the White House still have Rutherford B. Hayes’ croquet set? Why does the…

Ten years ago on 02/02/02 I started a new comic strip, Groundhog Croquet. It lasted a whole two strips. Check ’em out at spudart.org/groundhog

For my encaustic painting class, we are going to learn image transfer. We were told to bring patterns of just b&w—no gray. This is what I’m bringing. Starting with the Gummi bear and moving clockwise:

I found a new blog that is full of fun happiness. While leaving my first comment on the delightful intergalactic croquet photo, my captcha said, “bingoo.” Who knew that “bingoo” is a word! Oh captcha how you can bring about…

What is your first photo posted to flickr? Here’s all the first flickr photos of my flickr contacts: And my first photo on flickr: I like that it’s a set of stairs that I climb every day. To think those…

Other than NASCAR, baseball is most like croquet. Both baseball and croquet has the main objective of the player to go in a circle by reaching certain stations along the way. Baseball you you go in a circle and touch…

Baseball has more in common with NASCAR than another sport. Both baseball and NASCAR involve getting around a circle as fast as possible. That’s really the point of baseball. To run around in a complete circle. I can’t think of…

The celebrated homerun As the previous post mentioned, the main point of baseball is one of avoidance. You hit the ball where it escapes your oppoents to you have enough time to run around in a circle. Whereas other sports…

Baseball is a game of avoidance The main idea behind baseball is that you hit the ball where the opponent isn’t, so you have time to run around in a large circle. All other sports have the goal to get…

C-SPAN asked 65 presidential historians to rank the former 42 former occupants of the White House on ten attributes of leadership. My favorite leader–the croquet president–ended up being the 10th worst president ever. Hey, at least George W Bush is…

Who wants to go to croquet school with me sometime next year in West Palm Beach, Florida? Summary America’s favorite croquet pros, headed by Bob Kroeger, teach this three day intensive course covering all aspects of our wonderful game. Held…

Here’s a classic from my video archives. My twin brother Erik “The Hammer” Maldre accomplishes the first ever half-court run in the Chicago Croquet Squirearchy of Gentlefolk by going through half of the court’s wickets IN ONE TURN! Here he…

Ironic sans had a funny post that if he were the leader of a foreign nation, he would develop a bomb and call it the f-bomb. Then, “Then I‚Äôd get a little giggle every time it was reported in the…

Here’s some ideas of projects I’d like to take in my next ceramics class: 1) Funny trophies There are absolutely no trophies in the world with a statue of a croquet player. That must be fixed. 2) Chicago molds It…

You can make your croquet set out of plastic water bottles and dowel rods. Brilliant. Read the how-to at the DIY Network episode DIK-201. Surely this must make for the most lightweight croquet set ever. (other than mini croquet sets…

Yesterday we learned that the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881) Rutherford B. Hayes is the least searched-for president online. But now he is my favorite, because he loved to play croquet. Here’s some more trivia about our nineteenth…

The nine essential items every ninja needs from amazon.com: [asa]B0002GSK2C[/asa]A must have for any ninja, or ninja in training! And very comfortable. I have a pair of tabi socks already, but I like them so much that a second pair…

They say you should take 10,000 steps a day to be healthy. You can even count non-walking activities as steps. For instance, universalhealthcare.com says sawing firewood is the equivalent to taking 113 steps a minute. Here’s the top ten activities:…

I have played croquet with 37 different people so far. I want to play with 100 different people. It’s a new item on my to do list. How many people have you played croquet with?

The highlights from my croquet photo collection are now featured on flickr. Right now there are 24 photos up. To learn more about the Chicago Croquet of Squirearchy, go to our site at: www.chicagocroquet.com.

There’s always been the problem of how to make a wire croquet wicket to stand up on the floor indoors. The bright folks at Everett, Washington have developed the technology the beer bottle stabilizer to hold the wicket upright. BRILLLIANT!

Four years ago today on 02/02/02 the comic strip Groundhog Croquet was launched. It only featured two comic strips total, but it was a huge fan favorite. Now just a few days ago Dreamworks released a video game called “Over…

Looking for a fun unusual sport to play or watch in Chicago? I’m not talking about the typical basketball, volleyball or football. How about archery, croquet, bocce and more? Here’s a list of links to calendars for less popular sports…