Sacramentune

Tree with giant ornaments

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:27:00 +0000

And Thanksgiving isn't for three weeks!

Hit me, matey, I'm full of candy. Arrr

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:26:00 +0000

Not a command, just a suggestion

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:34:00 +0000

And please don't spit on your computer screen.

You know what's really scary?

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:50:00 +0000

Rotting post-Halloween pumpkins.

"Can't" is not in this artist's vocabulary

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:49:00 +0000

Piano key chewed up by mice

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:09:00 +0000

I almost got my paranormal problem solved

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:56:00 +0000

But unfortunately, all the little tear-off strips were gone.

Jennifer considers the dark side

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:53:00 +0000

This suit is on display at the California History Museum, proving that all that stuff in the movie really happened.

Boxes of books

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:04:00 +0000

Believe it or not, these seven boxes contain over 1,000 children's books bound for a library in Lesotho.

I said I needed atlases...

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:40:00 +0000

...to send to an African library, and someone donated this Onion parody.

Today's youth are so talented

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:41:00 +0000

Do not try to donate Elvis albums to the library

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:39:00 +0000

Please explain this image to me

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:11:00 +0000

A big rubber ball

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:20:00 +0000

My customer made this completely from scratch using rubber bands from newspapers.

Taller than Yoda, Rachel is!

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:01:00 +0000

This wedding cake looks just like gift boxes

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:46:00 +0000

This piano had a bill in it from 1981

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:21:00 +0000

Yes, I can see that there are no children in there.

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:04:00 +0000

I'm not blind. And I'm not deaf either, Mister All Caps.

The pit for BAT BOY

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Chris Schlagel (I played Hairspray with him) and Erik Daniels (I did Tommy with him) are the keyboardists, and Elaine Lord (World's Greatest Drummer) is on the traps.

Last night at RH Phillips Winery

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:26:00 +0000

I played a wedding reception today at the winery famous for its Toasted Head label with the rearing bear on it. The winery, I learned, is going out of business and this was their very last event.

St. Francis High set for TAMING OF THE SHREW

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:34:00 +0000

Perhaps the best high school set I've ever seen.

Bat Boy at CSUS

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:22:00 +0000

I fixed the programming for the keyboards at Sac State today.

Isn't this a great poster?

The chosen ones

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:31:00 +0000

This cartoon got over 4,000 hits today.

The return of head shops

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:26:00 +0000

Positioning themselves for the coming legalization of marijuana.

When I first moved to Sacramento, the Tower chain actually had a store, Tower Posters, that was partly a head shop.

Antonio and a girlfriend

noreply@blogger.com (Mark Stivers) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:31:00 +0000

I visited Matias Bombal for the first time since the death of his father Antonio, who was my tuning teacher. We looked through many of Antonio's old pictures, including this one of him and an old girlfriend.

If you have Facebook, you can see a whole lot of the photos here.