Another Goonie Adventure

Wow, my plan to keep posting about our Goonie adventure failed when I realized there was no physical way I could keep up with all the stuff going on in Astoria. It was 4 days straight of me wearing a Sloth costume running around town taking pictures with hundreds, possibly thousands, of fellow Goonie fans. My brother, wife, and myself had the best times of our life. Seeing the Goonie house and Haystack Rock was truly inspiring and well worth the thousands of miles driven. I never would've imagined the town of Astoria to have become so saturated with the movie. I ate Goonie themed food, drank Goonie themed beer and couldn't walk into a single Astorian business without hearing something about The 25th. I felt at home and made many friends. I was blessed to have my artwork used in the event and all the positive emotions felt in this trip will fuel future works of art.

David got signed by Jeff Cohen,"Chunk," Sean Astin, "Mikey," Corey Feldman, "Mouth" Richard Donner "director," and will now retire on my coffee table until I can get the rest of the Goonies to sign him. My Sloth mask will be packed away until the Astorians decide on having a 30th, I may have kids by then, but you can damn well rest assure that they'll be well versed in the classic!

Another Goonie Adventure

Dave is getting around and is excited because in another day he will be in the Goon Docks...he doesn't like the truckers looking at him though.

Another Goonie Adventure

It's been a long ride up to this point, but has been adventurous. There has been some interesting folks we've met along the way. We got some free coffee from a chip wagon in Penn, nice guy working with his kid for cub scouts. We stayed at a super 8 in Wauseon, Ohio on the first night "Friday." pretty scary place, but was cost effective. Saturday we drove through Indiana,Illinois,Iowa but went right though Chicago and crashed in Omaha Nebraska, Man if you like corn fields this is the place to be! We passed where they filmed field of dreams "which is for sale." Sunday we ventured through Nebraska, again many corn fields trains and Horses, beautiful sunset. I saw a cow convention which was nice, no tornado's though...which sucks. We then crashed in Wyoming where I sit now writing this blog. I tried ordering a Godfather's pizza in honor of the Goonies, but they were closed early on Sunday. I was really hoping I could eat my weight which I think has increased on this trip. We'll be going through the Rockies today. Happy Memorial day! Nicole + Jesse Horst. Jeremy too.

Another Goonie Adventure

The Goonies 25th anniversary party in Astoria Oregon is all I have to say. We're driving across country to be part of the action. I'll attempt to post pics of our adventure along the way. Never Say Die!

The Weekly Sketch

This week I didn't sketch anything, I've been a little busy. I decided in place of a sketch to post a pic of a painting I worked on this week. It is a Jellyfish emerging from the water in the night sky. I usually do not paint sea life, but I enjoy the Alien quality of the Jellies.

The Weekly Sketch

Sorry, I was so busy last week I didn't post a sketch. This week I was outside working on the garden when the stupid neighbor's dog comes out and starts barking at me through the fence. Like Clockwork, this dumb dog comes out right when I'm feeling nice and relaxed and barks the most annoying sound you've ever herd. The owner sucks too, to get him to stop barking she yells all these double negatives at him and sounds like a sea hag in the process from all the years of smoking. I can't stand double negatives. I decided to draw a representation of them real fast when I came in the house.

The Weekly Sketch

This week while sitting in the car waiting for my wife I picked up the old sketch pad and drew the tree that was in front of my car. I'm not too impressed with this doodle, it is actually pretty boring, but I had to find one of my sketches to post. the only other thing I sketched this week were preliminary drawings for paintings I have to finish. I did draw a Frankenstein creation of an owl mixed with a cat and a raccoon, it was a garbage sketch though, maybe I'll post it next week if I feel like it. By the way, the tree outside my car actually did have a face, I didn't make that up.