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Online Caricatures

2012-02-08T22:33:00.000-06:00

Here is a selection of some of the ONLINE Caricatures I have drawn for clients over the last few years.

All of them are specially requested illustrations and backgrounds, with my interpretations of what the heck they want it to look like.:
https://picasaweb.google.com/108356343824274334238/ALLONLINE?authuser=0&feat=directlink

ALL ONLINE!

2011-12-24T01:13:00.000-06:00

Fortune cookie told me today:

If you don't know that concentration can give you peculiar pleasure, your life looks like a hell.

2011-12-17T23:58:00.001-06:00

What comes out of your mouth is shit. What flows out your ass is almost pure in its simplicity, its conciseness, its inevitability. Your words testify to your sickness, your bowel movements proclaim your health.

2011-12-05T23:46:00.000-06:00

Another of the powerful quotes on the "Art of Dying" – this time by the French philosopher Montaigne:

“There is no place on earth where death cannot find us even if we constantly twist our heads about in all directions as in a dubious and suspect land … If there was any way of sheltering from death’s flows, I am not the man to recoil from it … But it is madness to think that you can succeed.

Men come and they go and they trot and they dance and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come – to them their wives, their children, their friends – catching them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries, what fury what despair !…….

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one. Let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it, let us have nothing more often in mind than death …… we do not know where death awaits us, so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

2011-12-02T23:59:00.001-06:00

Recorded this old standard today while warming up for recording some
original music for a game show pilot. . .
Clearly under the influence of "Tis the Season" by the Jackie Gleason orchestra.

Lazy Afternoon by Tom Siler

2011-11-25T22:25:00.001-06:00

It's funny. . .the music industry has crumbled exactly as I wished it would when I was a jealous angry young boy/musician growing up in the late 70's with Townshend's "Punk vs. Godfather" ethics. Now, older and wiser, I wish different. . .music (the music we hear in public space) definitely sucks worse than Sister Disco! (i.e. it distracts and annoys, rather than invites and affirms). Quantity does not equal quality when it comes to digital options. . .yet click on these 2 substantial digital lecture options, and as always, well, you might find, Mr. Pete's s-s-s-till s-s-s-s-s-peaking for "His Generation" (the one I've always wistfully identified with!).

http://music3point0.blogspot.com/2011/11/pete-townshend-lecture-part-1.html

http://music3point0.blogspot.com/2011/11/pete-townshend-lecture-part-2.html

A Share from "The Az!"!!

2011-11-19T22:19:00.001-06:00

My friend, Michael, just shared this with me. . .he's writing an essay on the the Stones circa 1978 Some Girls era. . .ENJOY!

Hanon is my Guru

2011-11-04T12:56:00.000-05:00

I sometimes forget when I start to spin out of control with too much of everything, that the Hanon book of scales and exercises is the best meditation to calm me down, and reinspire me to again take up the daily practice of PIANO - the truest form of meditation i know of.

Today I tried, before even turning on the computer (that procrastinating electronic time suck of trouble shooting inertia) to sit down at the Yamaha P80, plug it into the stereo, turn it on, and start at exercise one at the slowest metronomic speed recommended (60 bps). Since it was early, my fingers were stiff, but soon, they were working nimbly, yet slow, and the speed of the exercise was perfect to let my mind dribble over thoughts regarding what I am doing and want to do right now with my music.

End of a Wonderful 2011 Season of Caricaturing!

2011-10-11T00:05:00.000-05:00

2011-09-02T00:45:00.000-05:00

Minnesota STATE FAIR. . .gearing up for the home stretch this weekend. . .
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150290383149705.338461.676504704&l=e14109a0c0&type=1

'And the days are not full enough'

2011-07-22T09:54:00.000-05:00

And the days are not full enough

And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
                Not shaking the grass.


Ezra Pound

Thumbs Up, America!

2011-07-04T00:03:00.001-05:00

Gewt yr caricature drawn ONLINE!

Fatherless Day Wknd.

2011-06-21T00:08:00.000-05:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/assjerky/sets/72157627010965204/
Random events on the way back from Bayfest in WI.
last one is with Karen and Andy @ Black Forest Inn.
Photographs and memories.

Me and Prin go way back. . .

2011-06-01T00:08:00.000-05:00

Next Gig May 26th: This Thursday Night!

2011-05-24T23:28:00.000-05:00

DREAMLAND FACES
we perform a short set
6pm sharp
@ the Loring Theater
(formerly the Music Box)
1407 Nicollet Ave S,
Minneapolis, MN 55403

it's called "The Heliotrope 8 Festival" and there will
be many bands there over the weekend

Deal With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - wikiHow

2011-04-12T23:01:00.000-05:00

Deal With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - wikiHow

Next Gig: This Friday Night!

2011-04-09T23:04:00.000-05:00

@ The Midwest Music Festival in Winona, MN. with Dreamland Faces.
We're all drivin' down in the Windstar '98!

(above: Andy McCormick; musical sawist, and the Windstar '98 at the Sugarloaf Motel in Winona, MN.)

Upcoming Show - I'll be on the pianoforte

2011-03-27T15:47:00.000-05:00

Saturday April 2nd, 2 p.m

Hosmer World Music Concert Series

presents:

DREAMLAND FACES

@Hosmer Library

952.847.2900

347 E. 36th St., Minneapolis

Don't miss this great chance to hear
live performances by musicians
playing music from
all over the world every Saturday!

Sponsored by the Made possible in part by the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC) from an appropriation by the Minnesota Legislature in partnership with Hennepin County Library, the Lyndale Neighborhood Association, the Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization, and KFAI Fresh Air Radio.

Slush Hill, MN

2011-03-20T02:01:00.002-05:00

2nd time skiing, 50〫F,
alotta slush on Buck Hill, not to mention
it was nearing sunset,
so the slush was slushy yet also freezing.
yet, i'm addicted to winning,
so.. .looking forward to next year's powdery stuff!

2011-03-11T23:20:00.002-06:00

The "Prisoner" Handbook by Steven Paul Davies

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book makes me want to watch these TV episodes all over again.

and again. and again. until I fully understand the situation the Prisoner is confronted with.

and then?

View all my reviews

Life begins @ 48

2011-03-05T23:07:00.000-06:00

Finally fulfilled a lifetime ambition that I hadn't gotten around to yet. . .
TO SKI DOWNHILL AT BUCK HILL!
My old pal Dave Kapell trained me in and graduated me from the Bunny Hill in no time.
I'll see you all out there on the slopes next week.
MINNE-SNOW-TAH!

Valentines for the Newlyweds

2011-02-14T23:50:00.001-06:00

WHEW, what a Valentines night! First a formal black tie dinner at the White Castle on Lake St. and Blaisdell Ave., and now here we are boogeying down at the Burnsville Bowl!

TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH!

On "Democracy" spreading all over

2011-02-14T01:00:00.000-06:00

America: "Democracy for the Few".
That was the name of the textbook for my Political Science class at Normandale Community College (FUCK THE U OF M THEY WOULDN'T ACCEPT ME!).
Only at a community college in Bloomington, MN can you get an education on Political Science from an avowed Marxist teacher (and he meant it, man!).

i stumbledupon this code for the road.

2011-02-03T00:46:00.002-06:00

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1KqEZe/www.tickshady.com/code_of_conductt/

It's like Chicken Noodle Soap for the Sole.

State of the Union Sundown

2011-01-26T00:54:00.001-06:00

Bob Zimmerman delivered this address a coupla decades back, yea. . .http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/union-sundown

4 Day$ - 600 mile$ - Wearable Art 4 the Children

2011-01-17T23:11:00.001-06:00

Road Pigeons

2010-12-13T20:54:00.001-06:00

Road Pigeons, originally uploaded by Mr. Yesterday.

My little Road Pigeon!

Nothing Scheduled!

2010-11-22T21:00:00.000-06:00

time to brush up on my SCALES AND EXERCISES!

Show this Saturday

2010-11-19T17:16:00.000-06:00

I'll be playing piano with
PATCHES & GRETCHEN
at RED STAG SUPPER CLUB
509 1st Ave NE

Minneapolis, MN
(612) 767-7766

Starting btwn 10 - 11pm
SATURDAY NOV. 20

upcoming gig

2010-11-07T20:23:00.002-06:00

WHAT'S NEXT?

We'll be playing a gigantic old-school wurlitzer at:

the Heights Theater
3951 Central Ave.
Columbia Heights, MN 55421
showtime hotline: 763-788-9079

Wednesday, Nov. 10th 7:30 PM $8

with
DREAMLAND FACES

We will be playing our own original
musical accompaniment live to the old, old film, "VAMPYR"

Dreamland Faces at the
Heights Theater, NE from Tom Siler on Vimeo.

next show

2010-11-03T23:51:00.003-05:00

I'll be playing piano with Patches and Gretchen at this show on Saturday night:
PATCHES & GRETCHEN and the MAMMY NUNS w/THE TISDALES at STANLEY'S

2010-10-24T15:26:00.000-05:00

UPCOMING GIG:

I'll be playing the piano at the

Kitty Kat Club

this

THURSDAY NIGHT, OCT. 28

no cover!

PATCHES AND GRETCHEN

THE MARATHON ENDS - TILL NEXT SEASON

2010-10-11T01:08:00.000-05:00

my 11 day drawing marathon in Tulsa OK, ended tonight officially, Sunday, October 10, 2010 at 9:00:00 PM (that is, Monday, October 11, 2010 at 9:00:00 AM, in ho chi minh, vietnam, where my website indicates I am getting a significantly increased amount of 'hits'). it took me 2 hours after that to tear everything down and load up. it started raining, just as i finished wheeling my last dolly-load into the ford windstar. next season i will invite a bunch of local art critics and writers to follow me and blog the whole event. FOR THE RECORD: 259 drawings, that is, 473 faces. sponsored by no one. now i will drive 2 consecutive days through the great plains to get back to hipster-landia, minneSNOWta!

Marathon Man

2010-10-07T23:42:00.000-05:00

tomorrow am the real marathon begins. after 7 days of drawing for the people of tulsa, i will be kicking it into overdrive for 3 consecutive eleven hour shifts, hoping to enhance my drawing abilities by tapping into a "raw nerve" with the same repetitive hand gestures, not unlike the raw creativity of the double shift worker in a factory, or a keyboard player at the turf club. . .

TULSA. state fair.

2010-10-01T00:27:00.000-05:00

as the fair season ends, people are starting to look more and more like actual cartoons to me. . .

Dirge

2010-09-16T22:05:00.000-05:00

what a week! Got married (2 the girl pictured b-low), played with Patches and Gretchen and Scarlett Rivera at the Dakota Jazz niteclub now on honeymoon in Grand Marais. WY!

upcoming gig

2010-08-23T00:03:00.000-05:00

I will be playing keyboards at these three shows:

http://www.tomsiler.com/gigs/

Thu., Aug 19th 12:am - Brown Co. Fair, Wisconny USA

2010-08-19T00:09:00.001-05:00

Here is a drawing completed today of a fellow who performs music in drag, and is also a big fan of Tulip Sweet & her Trail of Tears, a cabaret-style band I played piano in from 1997-2006.

Ordered via www.tomsiler.com/cartoonland, I decided to draw as "The Crying Game".

For once, it was as fun drawing from a photo as from life!

his real photo can be viewed via this link to my "Live Caricatures at the Fairs" Blog on Facebook.

driving to Minot, ND! WY!

2010-07-23T00:10:00.001-05:00

Last wknd - Lake City, Waterski Days

2010-06-28T22:08:00.000-05:00

Of course nature targeted Red Wing and Lake City for the highest winds and thunderstorm activity, plus tornado warnings, but my new EZ UP held true and I managed to capture more than a few resemblances. Here are 2 examples, the second was an online caricature order (a memento of fondly recalled good times?).

Graduation Party

2010-06-20T22:58:00.001-05:00

Today I drew at somebody's Graduation Party in Maple Grove.
Took a photo of the one that, to me, turned out the most interesting,
yet, possible, also the least pleasing to the client.

International Bayfest 2010

2010-06-14T22:34:00.000-05:00

Here are some examples of folk I drew in a tent next to the Fox River in Green Bay, WI.

The last example is an example of the job hazards of caricaturing outdoors when you are allergic to everything outdoors. Especially biting insects. Still, you know what I always tell 'em,

"It beats WORKIN' for a livin'! (ha-cha-cha!)"

ART ART LET A FART

2010-06-10T23:39:00.000-05:00

regarding http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/09/mona-lisa-replicated.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

Back at the drawing board

2010-06-03T20:39:00.004-05:00

My studio is up and running again (just in time to load it into the Windstar and take it all on the road again!)! Here is the first online-ordered caricature-in-process of the season. More like a Portrai-cature, really.

and the final result:

subversive lyrics make young people do crazy things

2010-04-27T01:03:00.000-05:00

in 1976, I purchased a Stones "It's Only Rock and Roll" songbook with lyrics and chords for guitar. The funny thing is they played it very safe with their publishing. the lyrics were like, "Too bad. . .she's got you BY THE BOARDS" Completely wrong, yet officially published and distributed. Another example, "Rocks Off": "Plug in, flush out, and find the LUCKY feed". . .HA! he is NOT saying "LUCKY" feed, on the record, in fact you can hear someone in the background go "Whoooo-YEA!!" when he says "find the FUCKIN' feed". . .I'm pretty sure they are talking about the days before wireless guitars in that particular phrase. When I sang "Star, Star" at my High School Sock Hop in '77, my "BANDMATES" convinced me to self censor it to "Star Lucky". Of course I promised I would. . .

2010-04-26T23:15:00.002-05:00

Tommy Orrico - An Artist and a Bar Dog from Allen Broadway on Vimeo.

BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: Laurel and Hardy in Movie Comics-1939

2010-04-10T02:34:00.001-05:00

BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: Laurel and Hardy in Movie Comics-1939

Diamond Tweets

2010-04-08T23:50:00.004-05:00

I'm getting quite a kick lately out of following Neil Diamond on TWITTER!

Andy's little Storyhole

2010-04-08T01:02:00.007-05:00

got a letter from Andy today, it reads as follows:

Tom:
I am very busy thinking about TONETTA videos,
but I'd love to play on Friday during the day if
you can. I have to get a new ID card that day.

Last time I got one in MPLS, the lady who took
the picture was crosseyed. She arranged my
head only 1/2way into the guideline box on the
wall. I tried to subtly move my head back into
the camera area but she confidently pushed me
back, telling me not to worry it's alright etc.

So the card comes in the mail & it's just HALF
MY HEAD IN THE PICTURE, so annoying, & of
course useless as an ID which I needed badly
at the time. I go back downtown, the guy at the
desk looks at the card & laughs like crazy. He
says "The lady who took it - did she look like THIS?"
& crosses his eyes all the way.

He told me she'd been filling in as photographer that
day & people were still coming in with their crappy ID
cards, wondering what happened.

So hopefully that won't happen Friday. I'll just get
it taken, then come over your house & record/play
a few songs with you.

- Andy

A Quote 4 ta-dae

2010-03-09T23:47:00.001-06:00

I was always a singer and maybe no more then that. Sometimes it's not enough to know the meaning of things, sometimes we have to know what things don't mean as well. Like what does it mean to not know what the person you love is capable of? Things fall apart, especially all the neat order of rules and laws. The way we look at the world is the way we really are. See it from a fair garden and everything looks cheerful. Climb to a higher plateau and you'll see plunder and murder. Truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I stopped trying to figure everything out a long time ago.

2010-02-19T22:26:00.002-06:00

Mini-Storyhole that I got to see: At Coney Island in New York, they had a 10 year old kid run around in an empty lot between two buildings with splat ball protective gear, ducking behind stacked hay bails, while you get to shoot splat ball at him through the chain link fence for 5 minutes. The name of the "Game" was "Shoot the Freak!". The barker would say things like, "C'mon, it's only 5 dollars! It's more fun to shoot the freak than it is to watch!!" Totally east coast carnival style!!!

Steely Dan 1973 Midnight Special Video by Alan - MySpace Video

2010-02-18T21:56:00.000-06:00

Steely Dan 1973 Midnight Special Video by Alan - MySpace Video

for Apple Tech Geeks interested in sharing my frustration

2010-02-17T11:36:00.004-06:00

Nearing wit's end with Apple and it's Softeware.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2339010

2010-02-11T22:40:00.001-06:00

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the iMac and begin facebooking. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)

anyone experience this lately?

2010-01-31T21:42:00.001-06:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

Think outside the box.

2010-01-29T02:08:00.000-06:00

Just what we need, another $500 gadget that is guaranteed to be obsolete within 4 years. Thank you Apple.

4 new cartoons.

2009-12-21T00:17:00.000-06:00

My new cartoons. my feelings about playing in clubs right now.

It's not quite like a pet dying, but. . .

2009-12-07T12:41:00.001-06:00

I donated it to "Car Talk"

2009-10-28T22:10:00.002-05:00

wow! This facsimile is fascinating. I guess they thought of each upcoming album as a "Hits Album" back then. Sticky Fingahs!~!!! YEA!!!! Also funny that the cover ended up with a real zipper on the front of it and a foldout for a single LP. How uncomplicated! Last year, I got to "handle" one of Andy Warhol's "Mick Jagger" series prints at the gallery I work at in Midtown Manhattan. I was so tempted to scrawl "Whoooo-YEA!!" across it with the sharpie I was using to fill out the damage control form. . .

T-Mobile G1 Android Known Issue

2009-09-23T13:14:00.001-05:00

Problem: My T-Mobile G1 smartphone (Android) no longer syncs with my gmail.
_Cassandra A: Hi tom , welcome to T-Mobile live Chat. I’m _Cassandra and I will be happy to assist you. Please give me a moment to review your question.
tom siler: ok
_Cassandra A: I can understand why you would be contacting us about that. I'll be more than happy to help you with that today.
tom siler: ok
_Cassandra A: Tom, before we get started can you verify the last four digits of the Social Security Number on the account, please.
tom siler: XXXX
_Cassandra A: Thank you for verifying that for me, Tom. Do you use the G1?
tom siler: yes
_Cassandra A: Thank you, how long have you been getting the error message?
tom siler: it last synced 9/13
tom siler: and before that it stopped on 8/26.
_Cassandra A: Thank you, can you give me two to three minutes to pull up some troubleshooting for you, please.
tom siler: ok
_Cassandra A: Thank you, Tom.
_Cassandra A: Tom, can you take the battery out of the phone, please.
tom siler: It's removed
_Cassandra A: Thank you, can you let me know what the IMEI number is, please.
tom siler: IMEA: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
_Cassandra A: Thank you, can you put the battery back in and turn the phone on, please.
_Cassandra A: Alright, we are going to check the software version, next.
tom siler: Firmware version 1.5
_Cassandra A: Tom, can you try syncing again, please.
tom siler: ok. I'll let you know when the wheel stops spinning.
_Cassandra A: Thank you.
Currently experiencing network delays, one moment please....
Network connection re-established.
tom siler: it is still spinning
_Cassandra A: Ok.
tom siler: Alert reads: "sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly."
_Cassandra A: Alright, we can try a master reset, but that is going to delete all the information out of the phone. Just to let you know that is a Known Issue with the phone, so the only other thing we can try is the master reset.
tom siler: I already did that a week ago, it fixed it temporarily, but then the problem came up again. In addition, I had to take the time to reinstall, reconfigure all my apps (which lost all their data).
tom siler: How about if T-Mobile simply sends me a phone that doesn't have issues for the amount of money I've already paid them? Or, I can switch to an Apple phone, and get rid of T-mobile altogether. I don't understand why T-Mobile would sell a phone with known issues? Why not a factory recall?
_Cassandra A: Tom, can you give me two to three minutes to review this for you. When we sell phones we don't know that have known issue, we get the known issue because people are using those phone and having the same issue, that's how it becomes a known issue.
tom siler: My girlfriend purchased the same model and it isn't an issue for her yet. Is it going to develop into an issue for her too?
_Cassandra A: Unfortunately, I can't say that it is or it isn't going to be. This known issue does not effect everyone's G1.
tom siler: Tell me what I need to do. I'm not going to "master reset". That didn't solve the sync problem.
_Cassandra A: Tom, what we can do is exchange that phone for you. Can you take the battery out again, please.
tom siler: Ok, it's out
_Cassandra A: Thank you, on the side of the phone there is a little square that is either: white, red, or pink, can you let me know what color that is, please.
tom siler: White
_Cassandra A: Thank you, you can put the battery back in, please. Is there any cracks or missing pieces on the phone?
tom siler: There is a small stress crack between the "go back" and "menu" button, a part that is left exposed by the hard shell "protector"
_Cassandra A: Is it a crack or a scratch?
tom siler: a stress crack, result of a flawed design.
_Cassandra A: Tom, unfortunately now that I know that there is a crack in the phone we are unable to exchange that phone, if we exchanged it they would charge you a $100 out of warranty fee.
tom siler: T-Mobile is breaching contract on this. It is a piece that is easily replacable if you were to recycle this phone.
tom siler: Why couldn't T-Mobile simply replace the firmware in THIS phone, and I keep the same phone, with the stress crack.
_Cassandra A: Tom, you have the latest firmware.
tom siler: Why can't you just replace the part that isn't working? If you were to recycle and re-sell my phone (assuming it had no scratches) you would replace the part of the phone that isn't functioning properly, correct? Bottom line: T-mobile sold me a non-functioning phone and will not repair or replace, AND will not refund the money I paid.
_Cassandra A: No, we do not repair the phones so we wouldn't do that. The known issue says that they don't know the cause of this issue so we are not sure if it the software or the phone.
tom siler: Tell me why I should continue to do business with T-Mobile?
_Cassandra A: We don't want to lose you as a customer, but there isn't much I can do at this time if the phone as a crack in it. You can take the phone to a store and have a dealer look at the phone to make sure it isn't something that they would charge you the out of warranty fee for, and then we could exchange it.
tom siler: Alright, I'll try that. At least they'll see that the crack is a flaw in the phone's design, and not a result of mishandling. Considering how much the phone cost, I'm telling you that this is completely unsatisfactory customer service. What good is a smartphone that can't sync with gmail? It's absolutely wrong.
_Cassandra A: I understand, that's why I was going to exchange the phone for you.
_Cassandra A: Is there anything else we can assist you with today?
tom siler: Your company is providing me with lousy service.
_Cassandra A: Thank you for contacting T-Mobile Chat, I am sorry we weren't able to fully resolve your issue.
tom siler: It wasn't resolved at all. You didn't help with anything.
_Cassandra A: I regret that I couldn't resolve your issue today, but I also don't want you to get charged the $100 out of warranty fee if it is a crack in the phone.
tom siler: Unfortunately. the hard shell plastic "protector" I bought from T-mobile for $25 leaves that part of the phone completely unprotected.
_Cassandra A: If you take that phone to a store and have them look at that, and they determine it is not a crack we can exchange that for you. Right now there isn't much else I can do. Is there anything else I can assist you today?
tom siler: It is a stress crack. Like I said, the protective case that T-Mobile sells leaves that part of the phone unprotected. It cracks simply from pushing the back button and/or the menu button often enough. Besides, the crack is not the problem with the phone. The problem is that it wont sync to gmail. This is absurd. I bought a smart phone that doesn't do what is advertised. It's that simple. The T-Mobile company should give me back my money, at least.
_Cassandra A: I understand that it won't sync with gmail, and that the crack is not the cause of that issue. Unfortunately, when the return center gets that phone, they are going to look over it and even though the crack is what made the phone mess up, you will still get a $100 out of warrant fee.
tom siler: You call that customer service? The crack is NOT what made the phone mess up. The phone doesn't sync with Gmail. The problem I want fixed has nothing to do with the shell of the phone. At least with Apple, they would replace the shell and fix the insides of the phone. They have excellent customer service. And they don't charge you $100.00 for THEIR design problem.
_Cassandra A: I definately understand that, and I would be upset as well. Unfortunately, policy states that a broken or cracked phone will be handeled through insurance. I regret that I don't see insurance on your line.
_Cassandra A: Tom, there is an out of warranty repair number for the manufactor of the phone the number is 1-888-356-2375.
tom siler: Is there any chance that T-Mobile will figure out how to sync it with gmail and it will work like it's supposed to? As you said, I'm not the only one with this ridiculous problem. It IS a "Known Issue". What are other people doing? Waiting till they get home and checking their gmail on their desktop computer?
_Cassandra A: If we have done everything we do, and we still can't fix the issue we will exchange the phone as long as there is no water damage or cracks or missing pieces on the phone. Yes, we are working internally to resolve this issue.
_Cassandra A: Tom, are you still there?
_Cassandra A: It seems you have stepped away, unfortunately I will have to end out of the session at this time. If you need futher assistance, please contact T-Mobile at 1-800-937-8997 or 611 from your handset. Thank you for contacting T-Mobile Live Chat.

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2009-05-17T03:19:00.001-05:00

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Big Brother is Watching Us.

A Mental* Note

2009-03-01T21:27:00.003-06:00

*first off, my apologies to the truly Mental people who may be offended by the content and imbecility of the observation I am about to post, and especially by the association of such observations with somebody who is, fortunately or unfortunately, truly Mental.

NOTE 2 SELF:
$2 CHUCK Shiraz is JEZ' not good. . . .

P>S> I've installed won of those reputation-saving blockers that blocks any sober posts when you haven't been drinking ($2 CHUCK!)!
More 2 come.

augurare day

2009-01-22T02:50:00.004-06:00

Over-heard comments from some black children at the local DON'S "Overpriced-For-Lower-Income-Shoppers-Who-Don't-Own & Can't-Drive-'Family-Big-Ass- Vans'-to-Super-Target" SUPERVALU: the children saw obama's photo on an enquirer (HEADLINE:michelle not getting along with mr. obama, will split up soon), and knowing it was MISTER OBAMA's augurare day, they began chanting loudly, 'HAPPY NEW YEAR, OBAMA!!"
You got to LET IT BE, MON!

I Can't Wait

2008-11-07T00:23:00.004-06:00

"The decades-long collapse of the US auto industry is one of the sharpest examples of the decline of American capitalism. In the 1970s, US carmakers controlled more than 80 percent of the US market, with GM selling more than half the cars. By 2008, Asian- and European-based carmakers accounted for 51 percent of US sales."
- - - -http://www.wsws.org/

OBAMA:""I don't want to just end the war, but I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place."

They just don't get it- - -or do they?

2008-10-10T08:01:00.001-05:00

LOL, Habe ya seen this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itEucdhf4Us
Had I been near that sidewalk, I would have expected to hear also, "GET A HAIRCUT"
or "C'mon, Skinny, DON'T BE A FAGGOT ALL YOUR LIFE".
Seriously, I'm afraid to think there may be more of them in our country than we'd wish to barter our time with,
based on my summer long sociological research project (airbrushed caricatures at the fairs).

One soccer mother wore a t-shirt with sar-apallin' against a backdrop of The Flag, pointing an automatic weapon somewhere off to the left,
and it read, "Now That's What I Call Gun Control".

I'm back in the U.S., back in the U.S., Back in the U.S.S.R.!

Smooth Fire

2008-08-10T22:57:00.000-05:00

A relaxing day on Cedar Lake, near St. Patrick, MN.

"Guess Orrico's Weight in '08!"

2008-06-08T23:27:00.000-05:00

Set up my new tent (all images b-lo)
with my new banner @ the Sparta (Wi'sconny) Butterfest, and was promptly rained-tornadoed-flaskflooded out!!
Managed to do a coupla drawings, though. Broke even and paid for the tent!
Packed it in early during a dry moment on Sunday. Whooooo-YEA!!!

Awakening of Cheerful Feelings Upon Arriving in the Country

2008-05-03T00:10:00.001-05:00

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Before They Make Me Run

2008-02-24T21:48:00.001-06:00

Above: photo snapped Feb. 23rd at THE ALGONQUIN HOTEL, 11:30pm,
five hours BEFORE incarceration!

This Democratic Election, 2008

2008-02-20T23:22:00.000-06:00

‘’till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind. And not the child’s mind only. The adult’s mind too all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!“ - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

My Daddy's Dead

2008-02-12T23:05:00.000-06:00

Alright, so my father dies from tobacco a few weeks ago. Here's a great photo of what he looked like when I told him what I was going to do with his ashes.

Super Bowels in NYC

2008-02-06T07:59:00.000-06:00

I saw the Giants kill the Patriots.
My NY komrades marched like somnambulists to a dirge called "Take Me Out To a Ballgame".
But! - - - only 3 deaths (arguing over Fu-Ball) in NY.
That's one less than in Iraque (on one of "Those Days").
How about a ticker tape parade next time nazdack (the underdog) goes up a coupla points?
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.
Rolling until the break of dawn.
When will Bob Dylan read Ginzburg's "Howl" over "Half-Time" in Amerika?
Tom Petty can never follow Janet Jackson.
The Beatles are still bigger than Moses, at least, physically taller, Historically.

Jan. 7th 2008 - whoooo-YEA!!!!

2008-01-06T23:55:00.000-06:00

Whoooooooooooooo-YEA!!!

GO HILLARY 2008

yea!!!!!!!!!

whoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH-YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welllllllll alll righttttttttt! yea!

go go go gog og ogog og oggo go gog o!!!!!!

2008 YEA!

tom siler dot calm

Online Caricatures

Another of the powerful quotes on the "Art of Dying" – this time by the French philosopher Montaigne:

A Share from "The Az!"!!

Hanon is my Guru

End of a Wonderful 2011 Season of Caricaturing!

'And the days are not full enough'

And the days are not full enough

Thumbs Up, America!

Fatherless Day Wknd.

Me and Prin go way back. . .

Next Gig May 26th: This Thursday Night!

Deal With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - wikiHow

Next Gig: This Friday Night!

Upcoming Show - I'll be on the pianoforte

Slush Hill, MN

Life begins @ 48

Valentines for the Newlyweds

On "Democracy" spreading all over

i stumbledupon this code for the road.

State of the Union Sundown

4 Day$ - 600 mile$ - Wearable Art 4 the Children

Road Pigeons

Nothing Scheduled!

Show this Saturday

upcoming gig

We will be playing our own original musical accompaniment live to the old, old film, "VAMPYR"

next show

Kitty Kat Club

THURSDAY NIGHT, OCT. 28

PATCHES AND GRETCHEN

THE MARATHON ENDS - TILL NEXT SEASON

Marathon Man

TULSA. state fair.

Dirge

upcoming gig

Thu., Aug 19th 12:am - Brown Co. Fair, Wisconny USA

driving to Minot, ND! WY!

Last wknd - Lake City, Waterski Days

Graduation Party

International Bayfest 2010

ART ART LET A FART

Back at the drawing board

subversive lyrics make young people do crazy things

BOOKSTEVE'S LIBRARY: Laurel and Hardy in Movie Comics-1939

Diamond Tweets

Andy's little Storyhole

A Quote 4 ta-dae

Steely Dan 1973 Midnight Special Video by Alan - MySpace Video

for Apple Tech Geeks interested in sharing my frustration

anyone experience this lately?

Think outside the box.

4 new cartoons.

It's not quite like a pet dying, but. . .

T-Mobile G1 Android Known Issue

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A Mental* Note

augurare day

I Can't Wait

They just don't get it- - -or do they?

Smooth Fire

"Guess Orrico's Weight in '08!"

Awakening of Cheerful Feelings Upon Arriving in the Country

Before They Make Me Run

This Democratic Election, 2008

My Daddy's Dead

Super Bowels in NYC

Jan. 7th 2008 - whoooo-YEA!!!!

We will be playing our own original
musical accompaniment live to the old, old film, "VAMPYR"