June 21st 2009 PDT
So the Swimming Cities project went swimmingly and now the deconstruction is almost complete. The boats are back in containers and who knows what'll happen next year. But the spoiled rotten leaderless collective of angry vegans pulled it off. And I'm proud of 'em. There is a Flickr slideshow that is on the site, www.swimmingcities.org, if you wanna see the boats get smaller. A project like this will make a man outta ya, for sure. I discovered this year that I'm too old to sleep on the ground and argue the politics of ...Continue Reading
June 6th 2009 PDT
The moon is full and round over Venice. The little stone bridges stretch out over calm water like glass reflecting candle light from a café. Beautiful. The lunar accoutrement a broach on the cloak of the night sky, the germ freak Italian catalogue people wander in their immaculate outfits and preposterous hand gestures. It’s embarrassing. I didn’t really understand what Euro-trash meant before. I totally get it now. I-zod shirts with the collar up. Everybody smokes. I look at this moon, and I feel the summer ni ...Continue Reading
May 29th 2009 PDT
The boat tips from bow to stern like see-saw. The water washes the decks. The boats creak and and knock. Drywall screws. I remember the conversation about spending the extra $5 buying exterior grade screws. I was assuming they would buy fasteners in 25 lb. containers. They ended up buying whatever they needed day by day in small plastic bags hung on a spinning rack from the local Podunk hardware store in Troy last year. $4 a bag of 10 screws. It was thousands of dollars. But who’s the fool now, I think… as the fury of ...Continue Reading
May 27th 2009 PDT
Prego!!! OK. Sorry to disappear, but I just kinda needed to submerge into this project for a minute and just unplug. I’m in Italy. We are traveling in little canals, but the bridges are low and we keep getting kicked out of the canals and sent back to the Adriatic. Sea. The Adriatic Sea. It’s the ocean. It’s huge. It’s not like a big lake. This ‘aint Camp Tipsy. We are piloting ocean-going vessels in serious swell on boats made of bullshit. It’s pretty amazing. Everyday I simultainiously fall in love and a few hours l ...Continue Reading
April 25th 2009 PDT
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April 25th 2009 PDT
Wow. Today I got $640 in Paypal of Proxy bottlerockets. That’s funny. $10 at a time. How exciting. I can’t see why anyone would want to shoot a bottle rocket at me… photo by Neil Berrret The show is at NIMBY Tonight, Saturday night. Midnight. Sock it to me…. Paypal your $10 to get a photo of a bottle rocket with your name sharpied on it and video of me getting creamed by bottlerockets. Once in a lifetime opportunity. chicken ...Continue Reading
April 24th 2009 PDT
This Saturday I’m performing at NIMBY For the How to Destroy the Universe show along with my old pals The ART of BLEEDING (LA Cacophony). I’ll be doing 1 Karaoke song. I’m gonna sing: “Come Sail Away” by Styx. In a sailor suit. The song is 6 minutes long. I’ve got 400 bottle rockets for sale for $10 each. Who’s in? Paypal Chickenjohn@chickenjohn.com You Paypal me $10, you get a photograph of the bottle rocket with your name sharpied on it, and a video of me getting pummeled by (up to) 400 Bottle Rockets. (here is t ...Continue Reading
April 21st 2009 PDT
Gavin tweeting his intention of global domination, phto by nathan ballet So. Not that you all already didn’t know that this was going to happen: Gavin Newsom has declared that he wishes to be president of the United States of America, unless Michelle Obama wants to be (you heard that here first, folks). In order to be President, he’s gonna have to slum it for 6 ½ years as Govenor. Just like he’s slumming it now as Mayor. Will it work? Yup. Gavin shaking the finger warning me that the Ethics Commission are not ...Continue Reading
April 13th 2009 PDT
So today is the day that I’m supposed to mail out to you guys a note saying that our dear beloved gravel-voice maniac Flash has made it to the big time. Tom Kennedy wrote me an email on Saturday. I’ll share that with you now: Chicken, The intention of this email is to let you know that Flash has a Discovery Channel TV show premiering Monday evening, called Doing Da Vinci. I believe that it is scheduled to air at both 7 & 10 PM. Flash does not have a publicity department back here, but I thought it was imp ...Continue Reading
January 30th 2009 PDT
Truly. We truly live in the city of Art and Innovation. You enjoy the benefits daily. Hourly. Actually, if you require any sort of tolerance or any kind of acceptance to “the way you are”, however that may be, from your preference of partnership, your calibration to a political ideology or just to champion the idea of a city of innovative artists you enjoy the benefits on a moment by moment basis. From time to time, you must defend this privilege from aggressors. We have come to one of those times. How would you ...Continue Reading
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