weB LOG: greg matusic

At least it seemed like a short week… Last Friday, Dubya and I headed to beautiful downtown Albany for the annual Nori Awards - sponsored by the local Ad Club. All the local ad agency chicks and dorks dress up, meet up, drink up, eat up and some may even throw up. So last year I (technically it was the company I work for - I was the illustrator for the project) was up for original illustration, and the field of many (tens? hundreds? I have no idea) was narrowed down to three. So they get to the category and announce that there’s a tie! So I turn to my co-workers at our table and say, “Everyone but me.” And sure enough, the other two pieces shared the award, and I was the Herb (that’s used to mean loser back in day). But that makes for a better story than winning, doesn’t it? Well, I think so. Anyway, this year I’m (we - as in my company - I did the design work for this one) up for the Nori in the corporate logo category. So Dubya and I are chatting with one of my bosses, not paying attention to what awards are being distributed, and our table starts clapping and cheering. So we look up and I hear my name being announced, and my logo design is displayed on the video screens in the front of the room. I was a bit shocked as I walked up to the tall dude in the sombraro (the theme was Cinco De Nori - it being May 5th and all), called him Pedro, shook his hand, and took the award. On my way back to the table, some broad was walking toward me on her way out of the banquet room - probably to get another drink, the lush. So she kind of stopped short and waited until I moved out of her way. Now I don’t feel bad about calling her a broad. How dare she inturrupt the vistory lap of a Nori winner! I really hope she didn’t win anything. I also hope she drank too much and ended up going home with that clown (not an actual clown) with the big nose and the pistachio-colored shirt. He was one of the dorks I mentioned earlier. I dunno… maybe the ’winning’ story is better…

Lawn Update: The new grass is looking good. Filling in nicely, except in a few spots where the heavy rains washed some of the top soil away, but I’ll reseed that when the fresh stuff grows a bit more. Thanks to Chris for the fine tips.

Rain in the forcast all weekend. Should be a great time to catch up on freelance work, do some new sketches, and watch some of the shows we’ve DVR’d - UFC! UFC!. We’ll probably end up going to the Home Depot to price some wallpaper and carpeting, and if we have time we’ll go to Bed Bath & Beyond (ref: Old School)

Keep it real, people!

G

So I planted a butt-load (amounts may vary from person to person) of grass seed almost two weeks ago. Chris, my bro-in-law, who is completely in the know concerning things of this nature, suggested I rake the dead grass out, rake the soil down deep, seed, rake over the seed, reseed, tamp down, add fertilizer and then some grubs killer - which was the reason I was doing the work in the first place. They were everywhere, those frigging grubs. They ate our lawn! And they’re ugly and alien-like. Die, grubs! Die! Die! DIE! So I did as Chris suggested, and got to the part of the second seeding and started to tamp the entire 15 x 15 foot area with my feet, which proved to be a very effective rain dance as it poured buckets (of water) for the next two days. Did the seed hold? Did it wash away? Did the grubs die? Yes, no, I don’t know yet. I saw some grass sprouts sticking up from the ground like I always imagined hair implants to look like - all straight and thin and new and weird looking. So it seems to have worked, or at least it has kind of started to work. I’ll get a better look at the area this afternoon when I mow the grassy parts of the lawn.

Keep it real…

G

This here blog will take the place of the news page. It seems like it’ll be easier for me to updates what’s up with me, so I can do it more often. Wiil I do it more often? I dunno… I like to think I will, but I also thought I’d send the payment for that Men’s Journal subscription six months ago. Nasty letter there, Men’s Journal! Calm down! You’ll get your 16 bucks!

Lots of html coding options here. I can bold, italicize, create an

1. ordered list

• or an unordered list

But I do all of this during my day job already, so the fun has already worn off.

I gotta get back to work. Grease for peace!

G