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Highlights of the previous Circumsolar Cycle

Some stuff I did last year. This here was for Cattle Baron Restaurants, Inc. here in Roswell. They recently moved their corporate headquarters to a building that used to be the State of New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department. Their offices only take up the back half of the building. The front half, facing out onto south Main Street, which was the Motor Vehicles Division, where you would get your driver’s license and shit, they made into a “BBQ Joint” which they call The Snazzy Pig.
This is a new concept for them. That’s what they call a theme in the restaurant biz these days: a concept. CBRI has done a few different concepts already:
Cattle Baron (there are 11 of them) is a steak house.
Farley’s (there are now 3) is eatertainment.
Tia Juana’s Mexican (only 1 so far) is Tex-Mex.
Santino’s (1 in Ruidoso) is Italian.


The whole thing happened in about a month and a half. That’s how Mr. Jeff Wilson likes to do things; in a frenzy. First I had to do a logo. What does a Snazzy Pig look like? Is he in a zoot suit or white tie and tails?

Then I had to quickly design a neon sign so that it could be fabricated and installed by Dec. 2 or so. A big one.

They were going to be making, bottling, and selling their own BBQ sauce, so they needed labels; 2 sizes of bottles, hot and mild.

Oh, and also they were gonna do this spice rub, or butt rub as it was sometimes referred to, so I had to do the Pig getting a massage.

 

 

 

They also wanted something on a wall outside in front where they were gonna put a patio dining area, so I came up with this. I wanted to develop it a lot further with a lot more stuff going on, looking like a fresco on the wall of a church, maybe something about St. Anthony (San Antonio), the patron saint of pigs, well, of swineherds anyway; however I was unable to convey to them how cool it was going to become clearly enough to justify how much I was asking for it. So I got half of that for doing this.

There’s more…

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Happy Pagan Midwinter Celebration

Okay, the snow is from a few weeks earlier, but it looks right.

Sharon cooked up a delicious ham dinner, cleared all the tools & screws & brackets & whatnot off of the kitchen table & we sat down at it & ate a meal for the first time. At the table, I mean.
Just the two of us.

She’s also been making chocolate candies to give out as gifts.
Here’s what she made for me. And mousse, too! Yum!

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I’m a virgin. You must be gentle.
I’ve been putting this off for a while. I don’t know why, exactly. It’s a commitment, at least it seems like it is, & I fear those. But I’m certainly not up to sending individual, personalized e-mails to everyone I know who might be interested in this stuff, so this is better, I guess. I’ve got a lot of stuff to share. From now & before. This is gonna be kinda jumbled & totally non-linear at least for a while. I hope it’s not gonna be too tedious, for you, gentle reader, nor for me, your humble servant.
I don’t know why I’m finally starting this now. Not because it’s almost Christmas. I hate Christmas, but we won’t get into that just now.
So this is our shop, well, it’s the store in front; The Roswell Space Center, where we sell Roswell T-shirts & alien tchotchkes. Inside is the Roswell Spacewalk, our roadside attraction (it’s a walk-through blacklight trip through time & space art installation, more on that later).

 


Our sign shop; Signs Of Life [in Roswell] is in the back, & upstairs way in the back is my studio/workspace/hideout place. That’s where I’m doing this. Where I do my magic, such as it is.
That’s our sign from the place we were at before, 1 mile west of here. It’s 4×16 feet & weighs about a half a ton & is currently up on the roof facing the sky. Soon it will be hanging over the roll-up door. That will be better.



Change of Venue
Here’s our new (to us) house that we’re still moving into. It’s in town. We were out in the sticks before. It’s nice, a good location for having to show up for work at a shop ‘downtown’ every day. It’s not nearly large enough to hold all of our stuff, which is a bit of a problem. We have a lot of stuff.