Yearly Archives: 2010

we went to South Africa: the megapost

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Hoover Dam

If you’ve got the time to kill, here’s the entire 11,000+ word trip report in one gigantic post. It’s the same stuff in the other five South Africa entries, so if you’ve read those, there’s nothing new here–this is just … tell me more →

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we went to South Africa: epilogue

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Hoover Dam

This here’s the post with miscellaneous observations that didn’t fit into the rest of the trip report, or else I forgot to put them in. Half-assed discussion of social issues included.

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we went to South Africa, part 3

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Hoover Dam

When last we left, we’d spent another week in Johannesburg hanging around watching soccer games. Now it’s the time for the third part of the story, in which we decide it’s a good idea to go on safari with, among … tell me more →

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we went to South Africa, part two

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Hoover Dam

When last we left, we’d just spent our first week in Johannesburg, and were hitting the hay the night before the US-England match. Now, here’s the second part of our story, which is wordy as hell and involves an awful, … tell me more →

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we went to South Africa, part one

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Hoover Dam

This is so long, I’m going to break it into three sections, which is a nice way of saying I want to get something or another up before the end of July. The photo gallery’s here, so follow along as … tell me more →

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!ke e: |xarra || ke

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Hoover Dam

I’ve been back from South Africa for about a week, and still have no idea when I’m going to finish captioning all 900 photos or writing up the trip report. In the meantime, here’re the mostly uncaptioned photos (broken into … tell me more →

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bulletproof

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Hoover Dam

I’d had this design in mind for a while, and actually did a version of it that I had turned into a phone case. Decided to paint it to welcome him back from suspension, even if I did feel a … tell me more →

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my mother has recommended I render you unconscious

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Hoover Dam

Back at the US/Costa Rica WCQ, Andy Mead got a really awesome photo of Dolo wearing boxing gloves and biting the hem of a flag. Obviously, it had to be a banner, and the caption just wrote itself. This and … tell me more →

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hey ho, let’s go, again

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Hoover Dam

I don’t usually like to repeat banner ideas, but the guys at Small Bar in Chicago dropped me a line seeking something snazzy to decorate their bars during the World Cup. Threw in their logo, updated the roster with some … tell me more →

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know your national team

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Hoover Dam

This post’s a special case; it’s copypasta an adaptation of an intro to the 2010 US World Cup squad written for a forum I frequent. That’s why some of the material’s going to be familiar if you read this site … tell me more →

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