A dear [high school] friend of mine sent me a message Monday “Guess who I saw in a magazine last night?”… Umm well I dunno. “You! I think. Did you get a tat?” Sure enough I somehow managed to get my photo in an article about Elm Street Tattoo’s 24hr superparty & “Lucky 13″ tattoos. Ha! My first and only tattoo and I get in Skin&Ink tattoo magazine. Sucks for Jon and other “Lucky 13″ veterans.
Jon wrote about the occasion here.
It was a busy weekend I went to the 2nd annual Dance Africa Dallas performance Friday and Saturday it was pretty amazing. The highlight performance was by the Ndere Troupe from Kampala, Uganda, Africa. They preformed a variety of talents from singing, dancing and playing handmade instruments to singing while balancing 7 pots on the head and dancing. Dance Africa was hosted by Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Chuck Davis of the African American Dance Ensemble. If theres ever a Dance Africa Festival in your city check it out.
On a heavier note my poor 5 month old puppy, BayLee got and eye injury and terrible infection. I’m giving here eye drops every hour on the hour.. To make things worse ALL of the local optometrists are out of town for a conference. Anyway we’ll be taking her back to the vet for third day tomorrow and we’ll see what we have to do.. 
But I’m sure she’s going to be fine. 
Oh yeah we donated the remainder of original Styletank shirts to the Ndere Troupe! Sweet!
I went on a mountain bike ride this week end with Andy Lai, his roommate Jack, and Karl Mayer. We road the entirety of Rowlett Creek. Parts of it were crazy and hadn’t been rode in months. It was a good ride we finished and decided to ride the first section again because we skipped part on accident. So Andy was leading and we headed into the section we had missed and we were going good. We hit the wood planks, which require some balance fortunately they’re only about 5″ off the ground [I fell off]. So we ride off of that section and are waiting for Karl and Jack when Karl comes around the cornet pops a wheelie and BAM FUCK!. He eats some serious shit. Well it couldn’t have been a better place to have a have an accident on the trail, we just happened to be against the back of a neighborhood. Right when Karl crashed a guy popped open his back gate and asked if everyone was okay, obviously we didn’t know if it was bad or not at that point. Turns out it was. I spent the rest of the day at the ER with Karl. With the worst case scenario being that he dislocated his shoulder or possible damaged nerves, they concluded that he had a single break near the top of the arm and that only a sling was required to heal.
After the trip to the Orthopedic Dr. it was determined that he had broken it in 3 spots including the ~rotator and would need 5 pins. KM’s going to pull thru we’ve got more riding to do.
I haven’t written much lately although a lot has been going on. So I’m going to summarize the past month and a half. Okay well I now work with a company called Telligent, it’s really an amazing company, I’m wicked busy but I working on some rad projects. (more to come)
One of my dogs had babies yesterday, 5 little poopers, they’re so cute they’re about the size of two fingers.
My mum had hearth surgery a few months ago, she’s feeling better than ever. I’m so glad she’s not only feeling better but feeling motivated to continue getting in shape.
My good buddy Brian Guilliaux’s mother died her funeral is tomorrow.
I met Atlanta based rapper Suspect [needs design help] super cool guy, and I met Last King of Scotland co-start Stephen Rwangyezi last night. He was in town teaching African dance to my wife’s dance company Bloom.
Last and certainly not least i saw the Lion King last night, and Nycole and I got a backstage tour from some our friend Keisha [cast member] and another cast member. It was incredible. I even got to try working the hyena legs. Sweet!
Oh that wasn’t last… [next blog]