July 1

(photo courtesy uncustomary, see more photos of this sticker-bombed street pole on her blog post, “Street Pole“) Street artist uncustomary in Baltimore did a little sticker…

The Transformers Space Bridge must have opened up yesterday, because it dropped off the two most unlikely characters in Chicago. Bill Clinton and a 5-foot-tall bedbug.…

Here’s my favorite six tweets from June 2010 tweeted from spudart. Why aren’t there more politicians with the last name Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson?

Fuzzy Wuzzy, Outer Space, and Bittersweet are just a few of the standard Crayola crayon colors released over the years. These 133 names are considered to…

For those who type with both of your hands set in the “proper” position on the keyboard, do you use your right thumb or your left…

All this planter needs is a rope hanging out from the top edge.

The Chicago Tribune is offering this new subscription deal, called Employee Advantage, for all friends and family of Chicago-area Tribune employees. You can subscribe to the…

The Mayans had two calendars: Solar Calendar: 18 months of 20 days each, totally 360 days (with five days tacked on at the end of each…

The quotes on the transformers tech spec cards tend to over-intellectualize the transformer being depicted. None better at representing this polarization is Swoop the Dinobot. His…

Got to see Terminator 3 with special premiere tickets in Chicago. It was very whomp-assafull.

I’m doing illustrations for Tribune Media Services Zap2it.com advertisements that will appear in the Chicago Red Eye, LA Weekly, Village Voice, OC Weekly (Orange County) newspapers.…

I’ve been to the Taste of Chicago every year since 1985. One of my favorites in the past five years has been the huge barbeque turkey…

In the screw-making industry, grease is used to carve out the threads on a screw. It’s labor intensive to remove the grease. Enter scumbugs. ScumBugs is…