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January 29th, 2010

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Self Portrait With Cup of Coffee, 2010

January 25th, 2010

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Deep from the battlefields of the ongoing battle between life and art comes another sighting on Yelp. Although similar to the first one a few weeks ago, this one makes specific note of my apparent Viking-ness, which has now come up twice in the Yelp reviews of Four Barrel.

The Report:

“But the REAL reason I go is to get waited on by the most beautiful barista/viking that I have ever seen.  Is there anything better than a 6 foot 2 red-bearded man, silhouetted against wall-mounted boar heads and serving me amazing coffee?  I don’t think so.”

January 7th, 2010

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Silence and Persona, 2009

Self Portrait with Old Banana and Meyer Lemons, 2009

December 30th, 2009

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Most of my adult life has been spent working in coffee bars.

Coffee bars, especially the current one I work at in the Mission District, have a tendency to attract riff raff of all shapes and sizes.

The other day I had to drag a drunk man out of the cafe. He had come into the cafe with his shopping cart and started yelling at the customers. I offered him a free cup of coffee in exchange for his leaving, which has always worked in the past, but he exclaimed “I don’t drink coffee” and dropped to the floor. I quickly propped open the door with the door stop, rolled his cart outside and then grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and drug him outside. I offered to call an ambulance if his collapse was an actual medical episode, but he told me, “nah, I am good,” and I left him outside.

Less than a day later, a review turned up on yelp about the incident:

“Cavernous hall with entertaining view of the roasting operation. Super slick espresso machine. Multi-talented barrista took out a drunk guy as if he tazed a sick bunny. Kept an uncomfortable scene from getting ugly. Extraordinary!”

December 19th, 2009

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Work from the show at Vermillion in Seattle.

The ever-thorough Regina Hackett on the Emerging Artist.

December 11th, 2009

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Thinking about making some screenprints for an installation of t-shirts.


Really Fucking Large, 2009, proposal drawing

Free Jazz, 2009, Proposal Drawing

Nomad, 2009, Proposal Drawing

November 30th, 2009

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Super Fucking Stuffed, 2009

The Emerging Artist, 2009

November 13th, 2009

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Hair Party, 2009

On The Auspicious Occasion of Arriving in San Francisco, 2009

November 5th, 2009

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Imagining Myself as Bruce Springsteen, Sweating and Playing The Guitar, 2009

October 15th, 2009

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Mixed Media, 2009

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