Did I forget to tell you? This blog has upped and moved to its new, Wordpress-hosted location over at lucaswetzel.com . I started posting th...

This is a piece I made out of an old map. I bought it for Jenny at the antique market because she likes maps, but then I realized it was one...

That is my brother James and his brother Eric

If you were born in the nineteen eighties like me, you have every excuse for not originally giving Cher the credit she is due. But after hea...

Hello friends and let me be the first to wish you a happy August. I hired the band Love to play this introduction to my first post in a long...

Most of you know I'm quick with a light. Not just with lighting cigarettes, but sparklers, fountains, snakes, bottle rockets, etc. In fa...

(sorry, it isn't translated...)

Last Friday afternoon it was sunny and as I walked by the patio at Bo Lings I could hear a table of ladies reading their fortune cookie fort...

My pals and fambly in Ghosty just put out a swell 5-song EP this week on home-grown More Famouser records. Features Suzie on "Quell The...

Wanted to send this out to Bridget, whose birthday was today. She was the first person who ever made me a tape with Daniel Johnston's mu...

Ever wonder if anybody cares? From time to time, I think we all do. But don't worry. Somebody does care. Specifically, "Operation ...

This week was a big week for birthdays in the KC Media circuit. Ink turned 2, which they announced with a cover story featuring a photo of...

The other day while driving with Jay back from the taco place we drove past a semi trailer driven by a student driver but on the lettering t...

As the full moon passes into a new month I'm just resting up from a a cathartic Elton John sing-a-long on Adams street and quietly slugg...

The lights have been mostly off around this blog site lately, but I can assure you it's for good reason. For the last several months I...

'Tis now the time of year in which I post pictures of me high up in some tree or perched out on the Pinnacles. Usually I would accompany...

Some of you may have noticed that I've been walking funny lately. It's not just that I'm trying out new gaits (or strides, saunt...

Nice write-up and update about Suzannah Johannes from Jason Harper today on the Pitch blog. Also features a lovely, ethereal remix brother...

The complete photo set is here , and a video (in German) here . Did any of you go to this? What was it like?

Ferris Wheel from Lucas Wetzel on Vimeo . I got a flip cam the other day and have been putting it to use as much as possible. I'll pos...

Been buying some foreign dollar records at the Super Flea. Here's the video of a recent find, from Polish singer Ewa Demarczyk. For a sl...

Shaggy Quatro will be performing a solo set on the earlier side of things. Will still probably be more noise than a group of 10 people. A bu...

Heard somebody blog today that people have forgotten about 9/11. Not so, as you'll see from this 9/11 post from a few years back. To co...

Juan & Junior. English version here . I like seeing groovy videos of groovy songs from the era before people knew out to groove out in a...

Last night around midnight Jennifer and I treated ourselves to a bite of year-old wedding cake. I hadn't heard of this tradition until m...

Some excellent street-level reporting courtesy of Dudestache and co: "Rebels With A Rather Dubious Cause"

A classic shot from the Spreepark and the very same funny face cars you get a glimpse of in the Achterbahn trailer , now playing in select B...

just mulling things over

Beginning this weekend, disc-golfers and disc-golf enthusiasts will be taking over Kansas City's parks and wide-open spaces. Kansas City...

While we're on the subject of pics, check out this excellent panoramic shot Giessel took near his parents' farm near Larned, Kansas...

Blue, this is that WTC firework fountain I was telling you about. Taken back in the day with my HP PhotoSmart 320 from Wal-Mart. As the labe...

My dear friend, photographer and Viva con Aguanaut Moritz responded to my request for patio/poetry-inspired photos with two lovely shots fro...

Yes, I know the last post about the Ink hotness contest pushed the limits of snarkiness, but now I see it was inevitable. As my friend at th...

The other day while reading Balzac, Jenny stopped to ask me what a hobby-horse is. "Is it actually a toy horse that you ride on?" ...

The other day when I woke up but before I got out of bed I started thinking about blues turbans. In other words, turbans worn by blues music...

Yesterday on the way home from centennial park I stopped at the phillips sixty six on ninth to get gas and buy a blue powerade and a hundred...

Last night while playing Balderdash with the Brothers Sisters I happened to draw the word dunderfunk . Contestant guesses included "a s...

There are many legends about the white buffalo in Native American culture, one for just about every tribe. This particular specimen is name...

It's been a big week. My dear friends Andrew and Liz are getting married in a few hours. I lost in tennis three times. Midsummer night i...

If you've read this blog at all in the last year, you know I love me some hedgehogs. Well tomorrow is a big day. The Mid-West Hedgehog S...

One of several "hear/speak/see no evil" displays at my house. Though this one looks more like a close-up shot of two onlookers at ...

A new track from Ree-Yees recorded yesterday. James on drums, Eric on vox and effects. Or as they put it, James = time, Eric = space. Photo...

What an old TV looks like on film

Godesberg sunset

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