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After a year or two of thinking about it, I finally got around to submitting a t-shirt design on the most excellent Threadless.com. I would really appreciate your feedback, positive or otherwise. Just click the image below:

Hopefully by now, you and my cousin Marc realize that Friday's blog entry was a little April foolishness. However, the truth of it is this book - or at least the front and back cover of it - will be appearing in a short film by Jason Salmon and my good friend Jack Reiling.

Yes, the photo to the right is me, but from a snapshot taken in the middle of a beard removing event. Since shaving a beard only comes every so often, you've got to take full advantage of the moment with photographic documentation.

I can't wait until the film comes out so I can see if my book actually makes the final cut.

Many of you may not know that I will soon be a published self-help author. My book "Find Your Soul Mate...Before It's Too Late" will be hitting the shelves at midnight tonight. After years of research watching Oprah and Jerry Springer, I have concluded that I too can scare people into thinking that they may soon be running out of time to find true love. The book is very believable too; if I hadn't already found true love with my beautiful wife Christi, I would be nervous too. Although most of the book is just pictures I took of rose petals, champagne flutes, and candles, I think this should only compliment the text which is based on the thousands of fortune cookie sayings (and lucky numbers) that I've compiled over the past 20 years. I look forward to a review on Metacritic any day now.

Some see the web as a great way to get your art seen by thousands of additional viewers, but an artist named Bansky had a better idea. Dressed as a British pensioner, he installed four of his own pieces of art in New York City's finest museums - the Met, the Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MoMA.

As far as I'm concerned, any artist with the following statement deserves to be displayed in these museums:

This historic occasion has less to do with finally being embraced by the fine art establishment and is more about the judicious use of a fake beard and some high strength glue.

As of the time of the article posting on kottke.org, the pieces at the Met and MoMA had been removed, but the other two pieces remained on display.

I've been working on a redesign of my art website. I'm breaking the HTML down to mostly DIV, IMG, and A tags and doing all the layout and formatting via CSS. Here's a sneak peek at the new logo I've developed; feedback is welcome.