Monthly Archives: December 2007

Happy Holidays, Merry Awesome, 'Way to get born,' et. al

Written by Michael Clinard. Posted on December 18, 2007. No comments.

So, ’tis the season and its crept up on me out of nowhere. I’m heading home again for the holidays, my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary and the early celebration of my 29th Birthday.

On that note, have a Happy Holiday and a hard rocking end to the 2007!

*Also, do yourself a favor and check out Phayathai on Lake City Way for some great Thai food. After doing so, you can place some presents around the Christmas car pictured above.

Just too much to blog about lately. . .

Written by Michael Clinard. Posted on December 11, 2007. No comments.

I’ve been neglecting my duties/post here over the last week or so. Sorry, but there is just too much happ’ning. So I did this:

Above you see 1): one of the polaroid tests from a recent shoot at Seatac with Chris McPherson out of LA (he was behind this Visa ad featuring a giant catfish). 2) Symphytum Offiicinale, or Comfrey, totally cures broken bones. 3) My old Iowa Alumni Association (who’d been hassling me for the last two years about making contributions) finally sent me an “Iowa Alum” car decal, retail value: several thousand dollars. 4) I saw “No Country for Old Men” by the Coen Bros., only this time I wasn’t tripping out on zombie-infected lamb meat eaten at a Greek Restaurant in the UDistrict. 5): My A-data Jogr flash drive finally broke, so NEVER pull it out by the little keychain deal: treat it like an AC plug for the outlet and grip the entire apparatus and never just pull the cord as you know you do when you’re done vacuuming the carpet.

I’ve been super busy with work, but the holiday season is approaching and thats wearing me out. The Christmas season means I’ve got a birthday approaching (my 29th) along with my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary as well. That said, I recently hit the KUOW Holiday Christmas party this past Friday with Jenna, which was the perfect wrap-up for the last four months or so for me.

More always,

Mike

Seattle Snow

Written by Michael Clinard. Posted on December 2, 2007. No comments.

Yesterday, Jenna, Maggie (Jenna’s 15 year old sister) and I hit the Urban Craft Fair down at the Seattle Center. Before walking in the doors and being besieged by flame-drenched knitting needles, figured we’d beef up on some Thai food.

We’re sitting there talking and an excited couple come in raging about the falling snow.

“Oh, goody!” Jenna says. Maggie looks stoked. I, on the other hand, am like one of those adults from an old Robin Williams film that is no longer in touch with his inner child. I’m remembering last years transportation hell in which I remained stuck in traffic for about 3 hours. In 3 hours, I moved 5 miles. It took Jenna’s dad 7 hours to get from downtown Seattle to Bellevue.

I get through my Pad See Iew with ease. Jenna’s Tom Yum soup is spicier than lava which is great because we’re going to need it to de-ice the street to get Maggie back home. That said, I see Maggie taking an inventory of the contents of her purse: ‘one lead pencil, a piece of string. . .’ I see her unblemished, organic vegetable-fueled mind at work. Her critical thinking skills are helping her to visualize a lever and pulley system that’s going to lift the Prius out of the three feet of snow that could hypothetically fall. The female MacGuyver is sitting across from me.

Anyhow, it really wasn’t all that bad. The snow didn’t stick, and it was quite pretty as the flakes were as big quarters. The craft fair rocked and I bought this pretty cool piece from a guy named Ryan Berkley. Check out his Etsy shop and myspace. This is the piece I picked up, a guy named Wendell:

Here are a couple pics from the day along with a short video I shot on the way back from the eastside featuring the Seattle skyline and the song stylings of Bill Callahan.

*Note: there used to be an embedded movie file here, but since the the website’s move to the Livebooks’ servers, this movie file is no longer available. Sorry folks.