The Annual Pumpkin Carving Party

This one's mine:

It's "Real Face Junchoon" from The Five Star Stories

Some Amazing Drawings by Chris

Chris did some really stunning copies of drawings in a book at his school today.

This is his Pirate:

And this is the original:

Here's his astronaut:

And the original:

Chris Reads a Book!

Isn't it just the greatest thing ?!

"You've done a man's job, sir. I guess you're through."

"Finished."

(shouting) NEW PILLOWS!

How much happier could I be this week?

and a mellow (yet triumphant) one from the new CD:



The new album has at least one song in which Sawao and Co. do their cool thing where they basically re-work an old song into a new one (or at least use a major riff from an oldie) so that the new song has echoes of feeling from the past to tug at the heartstrings of longtime fans like me and my son Chris (he was the one who noticed it first this time). At this point in my life I find it very hard to imagine a world without this band.