Yet Another Nonagon Show!

At The Note in Wicker Park. Saturday, Sept. 30th. Show starts around 9:30pm... we are the headliners! Read the extended entry for more info and a poster...

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Baby Falconer Betting Pool

Okay here it is: the first entry into the Firedog pool.
Winner gets to be spit-up on first!

Birth Date: Monday Sept. 25th at 9:45pm
Length: 18in
Weight: 8lbs 2oz.

Proudly Selling Out for Andrew

Here I am making good on a dare to wear Andrew's "Still Believing the Lies" shirt at a Nonagon gig. More documentation here.

Nonagon at The Note

Saturday, August 5TH 2006
9PM * 21+

FROM MONUMENT TO MASSES (from San Francisco, CA)
NONAGON (from Chicago, IL)
DRIFTLESS PONY CLUB (from Madison, WI)
1908 (from Waukegan, IL)

The Note
1565 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

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(Yet Another) Shameless Plug

Nonagon live in Chicago on Friday night at the Reversible Eye Gallery.
Metromix | Poster and Details

Also we will be playing with Dianogah in Milwaukee on Saturday (more info).

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Free Live Music this Saturday...

Nonagon and Snaklab All-Tsars at Hotti Biscotti in Logan Square. No cover, cheap beer, free earplugs, and a screening of Peter Greenway's The Draughtman's Contract beforehand (8:30pm). Saturday, October 22nd. Music starts at 10:30pm. Read more to see the official flyer...

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Winster in WorldCom/Bernie Ebbers Mile High Club Shocker!

From page six:

July 14, 2005 -- WINNIE Dunbar, a CNN business news producer based in New York, missed the hurricane that never arrived in Memphis — but she ended up in the right seat on her Northeast flight back. Dunbar, who was returning to cover the sentencing of WorldCom fraudster Bernie Ebbers, found herself sitting next to him and his wife in coach. "I'm going to New York for the same reason you are," Dunbar told the former billionaire, who was tight-lipped except to say he found his trial "completely bizarre." Ebbers kept an unlit cigar clenched in his teeth the whole flight, even while asleep, except when he was eating candy and potato chips. After his petite spouse collected their luggage, they waited on the taxi line, chauffeur-driven limousines a distant memory. Ebbers got 25 years yesterday.

See also: Ebbers speaks out ahead of sentencing

Nonagon at the Empty Bottle...

My band, Nonagon, will be opening up for Dianogah and Archeology at the Empty Bottle (1035 N. Western Ave.) on Saturday, July 9th at 10pm. The door charge is $8.

The Insiders

Ladies, you'll always be our first choice for drinkin' outside with...Big up yourselves!

I have cake-baking skills... num-chuk skills...

Yesterday I flew into Los Angeles to look into internships and got the job with a firm I'd been talking to. Easiest interview of my life! They really liked my stuff: (more later). I start in mid-May after the semester finishes.

Anyone want to visit me in LA this summer?
...hang out on the beach in Santa Monica, go to the Getty museum...

Bonus: Super short trip to sin city in Sept. You can throw a rock from Hollywood Blvd and break one of the signs in Vegas.

Nonagon at the Bottom Lounge this Thursday

Well it looks like the swell folks at MP Productions and The Bottom Lounge liked us well enough to make us their Johnny-on-the-spot... no, not the portable toilet... Rather, a last minute addition to an AMAZING bill at The Bottom Lounge THIS WEEK!

The Bottom Lounge is located at 3206 N. Wilton (right underneath the Belmont Red/Brown line El Stop)

On Thursday, December 2^nd, the doors will open at 8PM. Shortly after that, we (Nonagon) will play a set similar to the one we played a couple of weeks ago (unless we can throw together a surprise or two). I think that Behold! The Living Corpse is up next, then Pines, a local instrumental combo, and finally Big Business featuring ex-Karp and Murder City Devils members!

Oh yeah! To the left should be a snapshot of the (can I say "kick-ass"?) poster that Jay Ryan designed and Mat Daly printed for us. If you haven’t yet been to The Bird Machine, you are missing out.

Zena Makes Page Six!

I couldn't be more proud. My high school best friend and fellow House8 Member got beat up by an out-of-control wasted Bijou Phllips this weekend at the Teen People post-AMA party in L.A. The good news is, she's recovering nicely from BijouGate. The even better news is she made Page Six. Thanks for inviting me, Z!

Art Opening Tonight

My woodcuts are going to be on display at Adams Hall Gallery - Wheaton College, 501 E. College Ave, Wheaton, Ill. 60187. The opening reception is tonight, from 7-9pm.

The show will stay up through November 24th if you can't make it tonight.

Hey Pazen, Happy Birthday Motha Fucka!

F You, Pal.

What Would Jesus Jones Do?

Probably not make a face like this.

Happy Belated Berfday to House 8's resident Ironman.

Yes! A Piece of History. Thank you, Star.

Just go watch it. And be patient, ants in yer pants.

(RealPlayer)

(More) Shameless Self-Promotion

A number of my woodcuts will be on display in a show called Little Utopias at the Heaven Gallery (1550 N Milwaukee ave., 2 fl, in Chicago's Wicker Park Neighborhood). The show's opening reception is on October 15th at 6pm, in conjunction with the Select 3 Media Festival.

On the night of the opening there's a suggested $10 donation for the festival itself (at 8pm that night). That donation will get you a DVD and a t-shirt. See the site for details.

I've updated my website with scans of images that will be featured in the show.

If you can't make it to this one, I will also be having a solo exhibition, with the same work, out in suburbia (Wheaton, Ill.) in November.

Latest House 8 caption contest

House 8's own Winster sat outside some prison in BFE West Virginia, waiting for Martha Stewart to...um...report for duty.

Yahoo! News has the story.

Shameless Self Promotion

Got any plans for this weekend? Howza 'bout rounding up the gang and heading down to Champaign/Urbana for some hot rock action! Come see Nonagon, Triple Whip and The Idle Hours for a measly 3 bucks at Boneyard Pottery in Champaign, IL (403 South Water Street) on Saturday, September 18th at 8pm.

Nonagon (pictured above) is Robert Gomez-Bass, Tony Aimone-Drums and John Hastie-Guitar,vox. This will be our second show. Our first show was a rousing success, at least with one of the four 11 year-olds in attendence that evening. We will most likely be playing first, so you might want to get there late so you can miss us and just groove on the other two bands.

Microsoft Warns of Critical JPEG Flaw

Handling of images could allow an attacker to take over your PC.

A security flaw in the way many Microsoft applications process JPEG images could allow an attacker to gain control over a computer running the software, Microsoft warned this week...

I trust that OUR jpeg is not involved in any such nefarious schemes!

Oh, and in case you've forgotten, Bill Gates thinks It's Your Own Damn Fault.

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I brought home some friends from the campsite!

Chiggers first show up as annoying red bumps. An itch begins. It grows. More hard red welts surface. From your feet and ankles upward, and especially at those tender locations your mother told not to scratch in public, a maddening itch takes hold.

Savage scratching begins. Every welt becomes a persistent, exquisitely itching preoccupation that continues to irritate for days and even weeks. You probably recognize these symptoms of chigger bites. Yet we never see the culprits responsible for this summertime agony. What are chiggers? Why do they bite us? How can we stop that horrible itching?

Time to Pick Up the Slack Boys

Zena B. is in da house. And she brought Clay Aiken with her.

Welcome aboard Zena!

Holy Crapity Crap!

Pazen will DESTROY YOU!

Winnie asks the darndest things...

That's House 8's very own Winster (pink scarf, for those of you unfortunate enough to NOT know Winnie...) grilling Heathcliff Huxtable at Martha Stewart's trial in NYC. Photo from Savemartha.com. Here's another of Winnie giving Bill her best "I'm the cutest damned reporter EVER" look.

For Sale: Panasonic CQ-DFX572U car stereo/CD/MP3 player

Jeff "Carl" Carlson has been kind enough to list my car stereo overbydere on eBay. So if you know of anyone in the market for something like this, send 'em on over.

More info here.

Happy My Birthday

You'd never guess I'm 31, I suppose. Snarky middle-school t-shirt compliments of Pazen. Thanks, Paz!

DYI Trunk Show

Come out and buy some gifts for Christmas! The DYI Trunk show is this Saturday November 15th at Pulaski Park Auditorium. (1419 W Blackhawk ) Admission is free, and doors open at 11:30am but close at 4:30, so you better get your shopping money and head out early before all my fabulous, one-of-a-kind, hand made scarves are gone!

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K-Luv, bringin' the smackdown from the RIAA

Everyone, duck and cover, and deny deny deny.

Karen has unleashed the Unholy RIAA Dogs of Hell upon herself by gettin' all uppity in one of dem mainstream weekly news publications.

Karen Keenan, 26, a copywriter in Chicago, downloads regularly from iTunes Ñ but also from free file sharer LimeWire. "I have the same moral problem with sharing digital music that I have with public libraries Ñ i.e., none," she says.

Hang on, someone's at the door...aaaaahhhh!!!!!

Congratulations Becky and John!

Carl takes one for the team

In BP, no less! An outfield single smacked by yours truly r'ared up on him and caught his glasses. Copious bleeding ensued. Way to go, Carl!

In other news, your fearless Last Kids Picked go a perfect 0-everything for the season. If it weren't for that 15 run first inning...

House 8 = Chick Magnet

Two new members, Lizzie and kristin. Embarrassing photos to come.

Halfway home, pager's still blowin' up...

Like sweet-talkin' a Vegas limo driver

Ms. Winnie Dunbar has schmoozed her way into the hippest club on the Web. Winnie is our insider at the behemoth that is AOL Time Warner. She's also good for the random inappropriate sexual factoid from time to time. Perfect for those uncomfortable silences at family get-togethers!

Welcome, Winster!

Look what I made...

Nova Kao Gomez, born May 12 - 7lbs 1oz

Oh, and I guess my wife Wika helped out a bit too.

Lisa and Andrew's excellent gothic web page

There's nothing more fun than outting friends.

Cast your vote for "Publius" to win a Webby Award

Support my grassroots campaign to get my brother's Web site, Publius, a Webby award. He's up againt NASA.gov and Weather.gov, and so far could really use your vote. If you could spare 30 seconds of surfing time, I'd appreciate it.

Ironically the site promotes "electronic democracy."

Pazen, You're History...

Iraqi Ministry of Information identifies House8 member as of source of aggression!

You know, I haven't seen Cellak in awhile...

He's been too busy running for office in Japan!

I love the Internet

I know we've addressed this issue before, but the pin-point clarity of Google's technology is frightening.

Cheese-eating surrender monkeys: New and improved

Thanks to Q's selfless service to House 8, I am proud to announce the addition of auditory enhancement to category 1029, aka "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys". Q, if we had a House 8 medal of some sort, you'd get one.

Chris offers:

Quentin has vindicated himself for crashing the server. Take him off of double secret probation.

UPDATE: Q has been officially promoted to the office of Deputy Commander Helper Monkey. Congratulations! The kids will be so proud.

The full story:
The term originates from an episode in 1995, and was spoken neither by Homer nor Bart, but by Groundskeeper Willy:

A little later, Bart puts his hand up.
Bart: Mrs. Krabappel, I'm done failing the test. Can I _please_ go to the nurse?
Edna: Gosh, Bart, maybe you really are in pain.
Well...it would be cruel not to let you go.
[files her nails, hums the national anthem]
[hums part of "Stars and Stripes Forever"]
Heh heh heh, _now_ you may go.
Bart: [walking into nurse's room] Lunch Lady Doris? Why are you here?
Doris: Budget cuts. They've even got Groundskeeper Willy teaching French.
Willy: "Bonjourrr", you cheese-eating surrender monkeys!

Congratulations Tim

We are all so, so proud.

We get paid for this.

Britney's extra special 21st birthday Website, designed by Pazen and built by Andrew. Go ahead, tell her what you think.

In your Photoshop dreams, Pazen

Quentin's

As Ella uncovers more and more of what has gone on at Quentins, she begins to question the wisdom of capturing it all in a documentary. Are there some stories that are too sacred to be told, some secrets that must be kept? By getting to know the people that pass through the doors of Quentins, Ella has finally gotten to know herself.

*sniff sniff* Ah'm so proud ah could jus' burst...

House 8's very own Karen K. gets her...er...words in the paper. Go check out 60 Seconds with Karen Keenan over yonder at ePrairie dot com.

No one demonstrates an effortless command over the term "spiffy" like K-Luv...

Il Postino joins the fray

Please welcome the newest member of our dysfunctional little House 8 family. Tim Sheridan lends his frightening mental powers to the House 8 Weblog. Do us proud, Tim.

Anyone in the market for a '66 Le Mans that goes like a rocket?

Al Axe needs to sell his toy. Yesterday.

Got any gearhead friends in need of a new ride to blow the doors off Rice Boys? This is the car they're looking for.

Chevy 350 / 350 turbo transmission. 5500 stall converter. 11 second 1/4 miles. No radio, air or heat. Really cool smoky burnouts.

K-Love, Chillin'

The scene: Pre-show, United Center

Karen: "Yo, that ------- product is pretty trick"

Kid: "No. It's ass. I got the whole thing on disc from one of my (friends)."

Karen:"Really. You're a big fan. You ever met her?"

Kid: "Hell yes." (Kid produces photo from wallet)

Karen: "So, uh, how old are you?"

Kid: "16. You?"

Karen:"Uh," sipping beer, "I'm 17. Ish."

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I do solemnly swear that that's pretty much what happened.

Hide the children and run for cover

Motero's got a drivers license, and he ain't afraid to use it...

Congratulations, Mark. Now you don't have to take the bus like a hobo.

Best compliment - ever.

Pazen, you are doing good. And you don't have a big butt!

-- K-Luv

Pre-emptive Anticipatory Blog

Pazen, WHERE is the peanut butter blog?!?!

ACE: The Ajenda Creativity Engine

Flashy "IT" Revealed