a Minorly Repaired Version of my Homage to Mr. Magritte's "the Son of Man" Painting: 1964

 

 And on that note I bid you

Good Day, and Best Regards.

Sir Jacob D. Fredrickson Esq. 

Chief Executive Officer of SavetheCroissants.com,

Quite the High Ranking Official of Early Bird Productions, Inc.

Visit The Archives! Bring a Dust Mask!

I've noticed that not too many of you guys are not reading the archives, so please do so.

we have many interesting things in the archives, Dust. But Not just that, we have classic art rendered in lego, such as this famous painting.

{Rene Magritte's Son Of Man.}

We also serve {not Old, But vintage} blog such as this ad for Yellow® a cereal for legopolians with problems.

{based on Cheerios®}

And this earlier version.

whatever`s wrong with you, yellow® Can Help© *

-jake

*as part of a balanced breakfast this ad is not guaranteed

Remember, its not Old, it Vintage.

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Best Regards,

i neeed to sort my pictures more often! also, Alaska myths debunked

i was just sorting though my pictures, and i found this! my Dad and i flew up to an unnamed glacier near our small Alaskan town, we met my {great} uncle and a guy he was showing Alaska to, {by small Aeroplane} it was quite fun, i think Dad already posted something about it on his blog. but any way, i was just reminded how cool our* state is! where else can you find lakes, glaciers, and mountains, and get them all in the same shot? i think this was taken with dads camera, seeing as i forgot mine {D'Oh!}

Alaska is full of places like this, its quite awesome here, sure its cold some times, {er, well most of the time.} and we only have the two seasons {light and warmish & dark and cold} and sure we are cut off from just about everything, {being a frozen island near Hawaii is difficult you know,} but we have Walton's Markets, and Fred Meyers, and we have a new Target now too! while we are on the subject, i would like to address some of the myths surrounding Alaska,

First off: we are not all Eskimos. some of us are Swedish. {and quite proud of it, Eh?}

Secondly: nearly none of us drive dog sleds, we mostly drive big Four Wheel Drive Trucks, the dog sleds are mostly just for the big dog sled races, such as the Iditarod.

Thirdly: we do not live in those little Igloos you see on tv, our Igloos are four bed, two bath McMansions with all the amenities, water, sewer, premium cable, and seal meat delivered right to your door!

Fourth: the maps of the united states that we all saw in school {and those little mats you put under your cereal} are not accurate, in those maps Alaska is not connected to Canada in any way apparently we float around in the ocean near Hawaii. now this is just stupid. How would you people in Ohio like it if we just disconnected Ohio and threw it in the sea to float around forever? i admit that that does sound fun, but inconvenient. in actuality we are connected to Canada, {Eh?} and you can in fact drive from Alaska to Ohio, in a car. it would take a month, but you could do it. if you think about it, we are, in fact, part of the contiguous United States. {of America} we certainly are not an island, so we are connected, Vaguely.

Fifth: I've forgotten.

Sixth: i have to stop soon, because it will be too dark to type , oh, wait, its dark all the time isn't it? well, no, it isn't. right now its quite nice, sunny, the snow and ice is almost gone, its quite muddy, but even that's drying up, in the summer the sun never seems to set, so its quite nice, even in the winter the sun comes out for awhile, not long, but its out.

Seventh: the Cold. now this is another stupid one, of course its cold some times! in the winter its cold every where! even Florida! in Alaska the cold is quite nice actually, it's not like in, say, Chicago, where the cold is like a wet bone-chilling cold, in Alaska the cold is quite dry, so it isn't as bothersome. the winter varys, last year for example, we had like two months of winter, with eight months of muddy rainy spring on either end. But that's not what its like all the time! in the summer we can get temperatures up to eighty! right now its fifty! t-shirt weather!

i hope i have convinced at least some of you to come and move to Alaska already,

Best Regards,

*{mine at least, it might not be yours, so see your local state relocation officials for details.}

The Continuing Weekly Adventures Of Dr. Zachary Smith HuManOlogist.

this weeks episode:
I Thought We Were The Only Ones?

last week as you recall Dr. Smith, Dr. Bennett, Joesph Taylor, Private Lawrence, Clancy and Charles were exploring the nether regions of the humans exploratory vehicle, when not one but two people stepped out of the shadows.



the striped one said that his name was "Tony Jones," and the man next to him was his father, "Antonio Jones Senior." a grocery store/cafe, owner/operator who at present is homeless, but looking for prime real estate, unfortunately he had not found any underneath the automobile seat. after the introductions were finished Zachary extended an offer to the two Jones' to join the exploratory force, which they declined, instead asking for directions back to legopolis, as they had gotten a call about the perfect house, but were hopelessly lost.



unfortunately Zachary didn't know much more than it is incredibly warm, and strangely devoid of humans, there being only jack, jacks mother and S.B.H.G. inhabiting some sort of house with wheels, they had lost their bearings since climbing into Jacks luggage, and after what seemed like days of being buffeted about, had emerged here. but even as they spoke they heard a slamming, and they looked up to see, they were trapped! Zachary and Dr. Bennett attempted to leverage the door open, but it was no use.
{dramatic music!}



join us next week for the next installment of The Continuing Weekly Adventures Of Dr. Zachary Smith H.M.O. Entitled: Trapped!

Next Weeks Episode: #15 Trapped!

That is all for today,
Best Regards,
-Sir.

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Journal 1, pages 21-22, Somewhere in Chicago.

 

ah here we are, the randomly interspersed story about a lost explorer writing at two different restaurants, each themed to the particular story he is writing.

stating from the left, 

"Day 22, some Chinamen have come to my camp, the have brought many odd things, {silk. chopsticks, } and an odd insrtument, like my guitar, but with six strings instead of five, {i was 11 ok? and i didn't have a guitar handy for reference.} i am thinking of moving {my camp} to italy, some egyptians are lending me their boat.

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ok, i have no idea what those numbers mean, so dont ask me. {although who would ask me? no one reads this blog any way.} 

here is the transcript from the page on the right,

"day 35, i have been in italy a week, and i am just starting to unpack my instruments, i have obtained a translation journal, everyone tells me its very reliable, but the natives are looking at me funny…

Charles."

Best Regards,

a short dissertation on the phenomenon which is Coffee.

I am a huge fan of coffee, as i am sure lots of you out in blogland are too, there are lots of different kinds of coffee, such as Caffè Latte, {simply Latte to you Americans} which actually just means "Coffee & Milk" in Italian, Cappuccino, which is a frothy mixture of Espresso, Hot milk, and Steamed milk-foam. {now doesnt that sound delicious?} and then there is Espresso, the mother of all black coffee, {my personal favorite} this drink is actually concentrated black coffee. so concentrated in fact, that they only give about an ounce! but that ounce is like a gallon of normal coffee, you can see why this one is my personal favorite. there are no two ways about it, it's awesome. but there are also many different kinds of coffee beans, there are shade-grown, fair trade, Species of coffee plant include Coffea arabica, Coffea benghalensis, Coffea canephora, Coffea congensis, Coffea excelsa, Coffea gallienii, Coffea bonnieri, Coffea mogeneti, Coffea liberica, and Coffea stenophylla. The seeds of different species produce coffee with slightly different characteristics,

"Coffee use can be traced at least to as early as the ninth century, when it appeared in the highlands of Ethiopia, According to legend, an Arab goatherder named Khalid noticed that his goats became more lively after eating the berries of the coffee plant. Intrigued, he boiled the berries, thus producing the first coffee. From Ethiopia, coffee spread to Egypt and Yemen It was in Arabia that coffee beans were first roasted and brewed, similar to how it is done today. By the 15th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, Persia,{Iran} Turkey, and Northern africa.

In 1583, Leonhard Rauwolf, a German physician, gave this description of coffee after returning from a ten-year trip to the Near East,

"A beverage as black as ink, useful against numerous illnesses particularly those of the stomach. Its consumers take it in the morning, quite frankly, in a porcelain cup that is passed around and from which each one drinks a cupful. It is composed of water and the fruit from a bush called bunnu.""

that bit was blatantly stolen from Wikipiedia, from the coffee article, i thought that explained the history bit quite nicely, don't you? any way, i think that it is quite the neat little tidbit that coffe was originaly used as, "medicine!" once the coffee bean made its way from Arabia to Italy is when all these popular drinks got started, on a side note, the first caffe was in 1645, in italy. but this was only after the pope declared that Coffee was actualy a christian drink, and not a muslim drink, that says something about Christian grattitude doesn't it? the dutch actually were the first to import this "muslim drink" on a large scale, even though there was an Arab prohibition on the exportation of plants or unroasted seeds when Pieter van den Broeck smuggled seedlings from Aden into Europe in 1616. they then grew it in thier colonies of java and ceylon, {now Sri Lanka} through the effortas of the east india company, the drink became quite popular in England, it first came here, {America} during the colonial period, but it wasnt as popular as in England until after the war of 1812 when england decided to starve us of our tea, but it really took during the civil war, after that americans cant seem to get enough of the stuff, so much that it has become a vital "Cash Crop" for developing countries, but its not all good, we want so much coffee that the growers are actually cutting down the rainforest to make room for more coffee plants! and once they do cut down the rainforest, some of them aren't even turning a decent profit! but you can help by buying "fair trade" which means that the workers get a decent wage, meaning they can make more money from less land, and then there is "shade grown" sun grown {not shade-grown, bear with me} sun grown coffee means that the coffee growers are actually cutting down the trees too increse production! which is entirely the wrong way to go about it, you see, coffee is actually better in the shade, so shade grown means that the coffee growers plant native trees and then prune them gently so that you get the optimal coffee, another quite informative tidbit from wikipiedia ,

"Native tree species are deliberately planted between rows of coffee shrubs. Management of these trees includes pruning before the coffee flowering period, in order to avoid competition for light, water and nutrients. Trees sprout back, forming a slight canopy which protects the coffee environment, increases biodiversity and increases nutrient cycling to coffee plants"

now dosen't that explain it nicely? so lets review, Shade Grown: less deforestation, more habitat. Fair Trade: more money, less land, more trees less deforestation,

simple!

Best Regards,

{you know i really should have titled this post "a Rather long dissertation on the phenomenon which is coffee with multiple parts stolen from Wikipiedia where i couldn't have said it better" but than you wouldn't have picked up this copy of Save the Croissants now would you?}

a photograph with little correlation to anything.

This is one of those weird pictures that just showed up one day. i think it may be Dr. Smiths fault, but i cant be sure, at least half the pictures on my personal computing device starts with "Zachary" anyway, can you guess what this is a picture of? and where it came from?

Best Regards,

Fire works!

today i thought that i would try out the video feature of Blogger,
tell me what you think of it, if it works and such.

Best Regards,

Journal 1 Pages 19-20, somewhere in chicago.

this is the city i mentioned yesterday, i did a lot of this on the train and the bus,

here i was trying to compartmentalize a city for ease of use purposes, unfortunately,

it wouldn't work in a real-life scenario, but what ever. i made special sections for different kinds of trash, a forest, and its all centered around a church, like the old Italian towns. oh, its bowl-shaped, so the church is at the bottom,this is also good for navigational purposes. i think that it was supposed to be self-sustaining, with a water treatment plant, forest or grove, park, business sector, houses with yards, and a rail station. and no cars. just buses, taxi's, trains, and bicycles. The Whole time we were in Chicago my neck was killing me. i mean it really HURT! like someone was jabbing a pin in the base of my neck, i think i can attribute that to my backpack, you see, i always carry a satchel, and not a backpack, which can hold more, but pulls me in all the wrong directions! I bought a ring at the museum and decided to draw it, i think that inspired a whole new story, more tomorrow.

same time, same Blog,

Best Regards,