Outside the Box

Outside the Box

Just so you know what I am
up to when I am not at work
on these fool boxes! List
represents recent items
"enjoyed" and
accompanying BoxBoy
"amusement rating".

@@@@@        Junior Mints
@@@@                Big Salad
@@@                   Beefarino
@@                    Marble Rye
@                               Mutton

BOOKS

Spoken from the Heart ...
Laura Bush            @@@@@

Killing Lincoln ... Bill
O'Reilly                  @@@@@

Rag and Bone ... Peter
Manseau                @@@@@

Who Cut the Cheese? ... Jim
Dawson                  @@@@@

Dracula, The Un-Dead ...
Dacre Stoker         @@@@@

Growing up Brady ... Barry
Williams                 @@@@@

Bible Babel ... Kristin
Swenson                @@@@@

Suck on This Year ... Denis
Leary                      @@@@@

DVD / VHS

Masters of Horror Season 1
                                @@@@@

50/50                       @@@@@

Contagion                            @

Paranormal Activity 3         @

Merry Sitcom         @@@@@

Fright Night           @@@@@

The Girl with the Dragon
Tattoo                     @@@@@

CDs

The Light of Smiles ... Gary
Wright                    @@@@@

Immortal ... Michael Jackson
                                @@@@@

Mylo Xyloto ... Coldplay
                                   @@@@

Forever Streisand ... Laine
Kennedy                @@@@@

Ticket to Ride ... Carpenters
                                @@@@@

The Best of the Alan
Parsons Project ... Andrew
Powell & the Philharmonia
Orchestra               @@@@@

Lioness: Hidden Treasures...
Amy Winehouse   @@@@@

Live on Stage ... Carpenters
                                @@@@@

Beyond the Sun ... Chris
Isaak                          @@@@

More Customers Singing BoxBoy's Praises

I can't wait to see (David Cassidy). You
have been a whole lot of fun, too, and I
have really enjoyed doing business with
you. I might just have to order some
special items as gifts for family and
friends. Thanks for being so nice. P.S. I
got my beautiful box today, and I love the
little surprise tucked inside! You did a
fantastic job, and you can bet you will be
hearing from me again. Take care and I
wish you much success on your
business." Winston-Salem, NC.

"The box (BioBox) was waiting
there for me at work this
morning. I just wanted to thank
you so much ... it looks awesome!
I know my friend will love it. I've
shown some friends at work and
I've got people interested in your
work, so I'll be forwarding them
your information." --
Washington, DC

"We Got the box (Ragtime). It was gorgeous and my Mom loved it. You're so
talented! Thanks!" P.S. "Again and again your talent shines in the work I
order from you. Thank you for creating these beautiful pieces of art that I am
proud to give as gifts."
Valley Stream, NY

What's On
My Mind!

The Weakly News

More for your hopeful amusement, this column
features examples of why I have absolutely no
inclination to practice journalism professionally
ever again. The photos are ones that I (or
somebody with whom I worked with and
probably didn't like one tiny little bit) took during
my stint as sports/features editor for my
hometown weekly newspaper in the early
1980s right after college graduation. The
people in these photos and their "exhibits" are
real (who could make this stuff up?) and all of
these pictures were published in that leading
newspaper. I wish I'd kept more of these
pictorial treasures. I can hear Pulitzer calling.
But I'm very glad that I carted around these few
that I have in my possession for the past 30
years. So, like a talented Mr. Ripley, believe it
or not! And ain't that incredible?

BoxBoy Makes
the D(c) List!

Your very own BoxBoy had the pleasure of selling
a trinket box to the Honorable Anthony Williams,
Mayor Emeritus of the District of Columbia, at the
2006 Downtown Holiday Market in our nation's
capital. BoxBoy hates publicity and there were
cameras clicking and a plethora of mayoral
entourage looking on curiously the entire time as
the Mayor contemplated his purchase ... a box
featuring Joe Camel of Camel cigarette fame. The
entire ordeal was really no big deal ... only one of
the heads (with antlers) fell to the ground whilst
BB wrote up his Honor's purchase. We now aspire
to even loftier goals in hoping that our beloved
Washington DC resident and US President (BO)
will stroll his way through ... maybe the latter
needs a stoagie box, too!

...Homely At the Table!

Images only parents could love (but still be
ashamed of at the same time). Above, a
sweetly, mild mannered BoxBoy as he
appeared posing for the school photographer
in the mid 1960s when school pictures were
only available in glorious black and white.
Below, an intoxicated BoxBoy savoring a dill
pickle at Thanksgiving dinner in Los Angeles in
the early 1980s when he used to have fun.
Where did that beautiful naturally curly brown
hair go?