In the last few months, I have acquired new tastes for the following foods:

Steak (though I probably ate this when I was a kid)
Popcorn (especially Tender Whites)
Yogurt (this one in the last week)
Fast food cheeseburgers (more in the last month than the last 10 years of my life)
Jellybeans (Jelly Belly, best combination is Strawberry Jam and Coconut)
Quaker Simple Harvest Instant Multigrain hot oatmeal (new and good…this one isn’t that much of a stretch since I’ve enjoyed other kinds of oatmeal for a long time)

Foods I have started eating only in the last few years:

French fries
Potato chips

It’s weird how suddenly you can start eating and even liking foods that you have never had a taste for before. Perhaps my semi-recent change to eating meat has opened up new flavor possibilities? It’s like I don’t even know my own taste buds anymore.

I briefly attended this really great art show (title above) at RNG Gallery this weekend. The displayed art was made in Haiti by Chris Lawson and the artists of FOSAJ Art Center, located in Jacmel, Haiti. An accompanying audio installation was created by Orenda and Todd Fink.

The Bemis Underground and Trocadero hosted The Munny Show at the Bemis on Saturday. A bunch of really great local artists (Scott Blake, Wanda Ewing, Renee Hoover, Leslie Iwai, Jeff King, Laurie and Charles, Joey Lynch, Miss Cake, Peter Morris, Dave Nelson, Zack Nipper, and Nolan Tredway) were given a Munny to design/decorate/re-create.

I like these kind of concept art shows, it’s cool to see how different each artist’s work was when given the same canvas/parameters. There were a lot of really cool ones (so much so that I reached my photo limit on this blog post without making an album). They were silently auctioned off with proceeds going to the Nebraska AIDS Project.

Dave Nelson’s Munny.

Zack Nipper’s Munny.

Peter Morris’ Munny.

More photos from the Wisconsin trip!

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I’ve returned from one of the best places on Earth: Hancock, Wisconsin. This picture gives you a good sense of the place.

You’ll need to scroll past the Mars Volta review (or read it), but a review I wrote a little while back for the El Perro del Mar album From the Valley to the Stars was published in the City Weekly this week.

Bemis hosted the Creativity Festival, a series of awesome free events from Thursday through Saturday - music, exhibitions, panels, workshops, open studio tours - it was really fun, informative, and inspiring.

Much of the conference was devoted to talking about “creative communities” and how to foster, support and keep them alive and buzzing. It’s clear that the Bemis is dedicated to promoting and helping develop the arts in Omaha, a task that they see as vital to the health of a city or community. I wish all cities would be committed to that same purpose, even if it’s at the expense of business or economy at times.

Anyway, here are some photos from the festival:

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