After spending a wonderful holiday with family, Lindsay and I drove back home via the 5 freeway. We ate little chocolates and took in the wonderful smells of live cattle. Half way into our ...
I have some iphone app ideas (app is tech talk for applied information science technology) My first iphone app would help you in any social situation where someone is about to spoil a movie you...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2011/12/some-iphone-apps.html
Some friends and I were reminiscing about all the great halloween candy we got when we were young. Some one mentioned they didn't sell candy cigarettes to children anymore and I was shocked. ...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2011/11/candies-of-yore.html
It was recently my one year wedding anniversary. I wanted to surprise my wife and hot glue another diamond to her engagement ring. It looks like this- But it could look like THIS! And ...
Have you ever been poopin in a public bathroom and the person next to you is really struggling. So you accidentally bend down just a little... and get a glimpse of the s...
On the train I saw an old woman staring at an old man. After some time she said" Did the Giants win the game?" The old man came to life. "Oh yes, they sure did. Sanchez pitched a...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2011/05/train-connection.html
In about a month we are having an art auction for Japan and here is the drawing I did for it. (8"x10"Acrylic with ink.) It is a blueprint of a robot I have already submitted to the NRC (Nat...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2011/04/japan-art-auction.html
Last weekend my wife and I were leaving Trader Joes with our groceries. We were right behind a grandma and her grandson. She was in her twilight years and he looked like he played a hunky werewol...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2011/04/twilight-romance.html
Here are some of my new years resolutions for the next 365 days. I like to keep them simple so I can accomplish them before years end: 1. Learn an ancient martial arts move and use it only for ...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-years-resolutions-2011-edition.html
Planning a wedding is like building ikea furniture, but you don't get instructions or even a picture of what the furniture should look like. But by some miracle, you figure it out, and its th...
Sorry I have been away for so long, I have been hard at work penning a screenplay for a sequel to the very popular summer movie, The Expendables. The movie was so successful I knew Hollywood woul...
I've never designed a tattoo for anyone, so I decided to design the ultimate tattoo for everyone. It has everything; a heart, angel wings, stars (masculine and feminine kind), tribal accent...
I recently heard about your idea to remake Back to the Future with Justin Beiber and I AM OUTRAGED! Consider this my formal letter of complaint and a cease and desist. Hollywood, you have had som...
Lindsay and I went for a hike in Temescal Canyon. A beautiful day to be in nature. We talked about wedding plans and mostly chit chatted, but everyone we passed on the trail was talking about v...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2010/08/wilderness-confessions.html
For the last few weeks I have been trying to design an invitation for our wedding. Here is one that we put in the rejected pile... I'm not sure why, maybe it needs a splash of color.
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2010/07/wedding-invitation.html
At the BART station the other day, there was a scary weirdo looking at my bike with great interest. I thought he might be thinking about stealing it. He didn't, but it made me think of a great...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2010/07/invention-thursday.html
For the first time ever, I helped make a movie! Well, actually I was an extra in Ang Lee's Hulk, and I helped my cousin upload a youtube video once, but this is waaaaaay different. That's ri...
Here are some superheroes doing some unsuper things... Cyclops reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Aquaman drinking a vitamin water. Wolverine looking for his car key...
I don't have a tattoo, but if I did, I would go for a full body one. I would look like a bad mother. I'd be tough as nails and no one would mess with me. But late at night when I was alon...
I was at a karaoke bar last week with this guy... I didn't know him...but I wanted to. He wore giant gold framed sunglasses( at night in a dark bar) with matching gold chain. A dress shirt ...
Over the weekend I saw an old lady in the market eating a bunch of baked goods. Choking them down like they were an afternoon tea sandwich. She had NO SHAME! Not twenty four hours later I saw...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2010/05/justice-is-age-blind.html
Things I like: People who still sell things from inside their coat. The couple who sits next to each other in the cab of a truck. A new episode of LOST. Things I dislike: A new ep...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2010/04/likes-and-dislikes.html
When visiting the high desert there are many fun activities you can take part in. You can go rock climbing, see races at a dry lake bed, or start a meth lab. When I was growing up there, one of ...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2010/04/desert-activity-27.html
COMIC-CON, the largest comic, film, and strange smell convention in the world is just around the corner. Although I won't be able to go this year, I did some sketches for possible costume ideas f...
Something usually goes wrong when I fly and last weekend was no different. I was standing in line thinking about how delightful my trip went when a German guy poked me in the eye. He was tellin...
http://erikgbenson.blogspot.com/2010/03/german-eye-poker.html