the unlikely orange

last night we carved pumpkins here at the milinovich house, after a nice dinner of pumpkin pasta (thank you, crafty p) and some homemade pumpkin ice cream. we had a great time getting our hands gooey in the pumpkin guts and carving out some fun shapes. here are a few pics and a video to show you the fun we had. happy halloween!

i sold this collage and another today off my etsy site . that means i've sold 15 collages since i decided to try and see if there would be any interest out there in some guy's productions of glued paper. it is still hard for me to believe that anyone would really want one of these, but it certainly is affirming to see that some people, apparently, do. its been fun seeing how other people react to my art, the questions they ask, and the things they are drawn to. at this point in my journey i continue to feel this deep-down-in-my-soul-need to glue bits of paper together and turn them into something that would never have otherwise been, and so i keep making these collages. "the reaching" paper collage on cardboard panel gregory a. milinovich

let me draw your attention to the poll on the left hand side of my blog. over the last several weeks i have run many different polls and it appears that the majority of you feel that obama would be better than mccain at such things as wii, hungry hippos, hair-dressing, health-teaching, and so on. in part i have been running these polls just to bring some levity to an otherwise harsh and, at times, painful campaign season, as if asking which candidate is the better hungry hippos player has any meaning whatsoever. it doesn't. i don't need a president who can eat more hot dogs than the other guy. what we need, i think, is a president who can lead with clarity and conviction and integrity. we need a person who models a leadership that serves others rather than expecting to be served. we need a leader who is willing to take some risks, including the great risk of being honest. i don't know if either one of these men is that guy, but in less than a week we will elect one ...

while it remains october on the calendar, the weather around here seems to be a bit confused. these pictures are from my house yesterday. that's right. october 28th. some areas around us had about 4 inches! holy crap. check out the great pics at the bottom of shannon and cade catching snow flakes in their mouths. priceless.

note: this is my 500th post! yay for me! shannon and i had the awesome opportunity to see coldplay in concert in east rutherford, new jersey the night before last, and for any of my readers who like coldplay who will not get to see them on this tour, i thought i'd write it up for you. basically, it was fantastic. they started off with life in technicolor , an instrumental piece, and the first track on their new album. they had these huge black semi-transparent drapes hanging in front of them during this song, and the band stayed mostly together in a small tight group around the drums. that in itself was one of my favorite parts of the show: they really seemed like a group of guys who likes each other. i mean, i could be totally wrong about that, but they appeared to genuinely enjoy one another. i remember seeing u2 several years ago in philly and, while loving the concert, having the distinct feeling that it was a band of individuals who somehow made things work. this was a ve...

the steelers lost yesterday. to the stinkin' new york giants, which is pretty much the favored team around here, so i have to hear it for awhile. blah. plus, i'm super exhausted from being out late last night at the coldplay concert, which means i'm not emotionally capable of dealing with this loss. basically, i didn't think they would win, and they didn't, so there you go. next week is the redskins on monday night, and we just have to try and make sure we have enough players to field a team by then, since most of our starters seem to be pretty significantly hurt. i'll write about coldplay tomorrow. it was awesome.

go steelers! beat the giants!