Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

People keep asking about my neck tattoo, so here’s the deal: I used liquid eyeliner and did it myself in the mirror. It wasn’t perfect, but I think I did a decent job. Kristin made a template that was much larger than my neck, but I was able to look at the back side of the template, and that matched what I saw in the mirror on my own neck. I basically did it on myself in reverse and in the mirror. Not easy. Did the real Jeffrey have to do that? I don’t think so! Incidentally, the neck says "Harrison Detroit: l’amour de la mia vita [the love of my life]". Harrison Detroit is Jeffrey’s (adorable) son’s name. My only regret is that the best close-up was taken of the side of the neck that wasn’t as good. The “Harrison” side looked MUCH better. Really!
Here’s the full story.

There were some GREAT costumes at Scaryoke at the Milky Way. You can also view the slideshow in Flickr. Note that after about two days, I will migrate this slideshow over to another page to cut down on the overall load time of the blog. But for now, I want EVERYONE to see.

So at Blogtoberfest last night. Steve suggested that we take my pumpkin song and get a children’s choir to sing it. What do you think? Anyone have access to a children’s choir?

In order to share the song more easily, I’ve made a 2 minute song-only clip. Lyrics follow.


“Oh Pumpkin Man” Song on Vimeo

Oh pumpkin man, Oh pumpkin man.
Your little seeds are tasty.
Oh pumpkin man, Oh pumpkin man.
Your little seeds are tasty.
You bring us joy at autumn-time.
Not like other seasons.
I’ve got no rhyme.
Oh pumpkin man, Oh pumpkin man.
Your little seeds are tasty.
You make us soup, you make us bread.
You have a candle in your head.
Oh pumpkin man, Oh pumpkin man.
Your little seeds are tasty.

… known as papitas!

Tanya Donelly, formerly of Throwing Muses, The Breeders, and Belly, performed a free acoustic set at Newbury Comics today. I’m so glad I made the trip in to see her. She was perfectly delightful. I really like what she’s doing these days, perhaps better than anything since TM. Brad of Bradley’s Almanac was there, too. It’s always fun to meet the people I talk with online. So I have another celebrity picture, but this is one is much better than the Jon Stewart one. Of course, many of you probably don’t know who Tanya Donelly is, but I know her… I know heeeeeeerrrrrrr… If you do know her, you’ll think that’s funny. If not, well then let me help:

Here I am taking many pictures (Thanks, Brad):

Here’s Brad enjoying the show:

Here is one of those many pictures:

And here is a little video:

And last but not least…