Nadirah and Chelsea Paint

After a long, warm day of walking our asses all over Brooklyn and Brooklyn's Botanical Garden with friends, Nadirah and I decided to spend the evening in. We painted some things that we ended up really enjoying. Nadirah created Shuawna with a few suggestions thrown in by friends, and I created a pyramid home in which the armless strawberry man lives via special request by Nadirah.

I'm a Prism Thief

When we were out and about town in Santa Cruz, Riker asked me what kind of dwarf I was, so of course I said, "I'm a prism thief." That led to this brief tale:


"My name is Rainbow the Sun Dwarf, I'm here to steal your prisms. I keep them in a cave where the sun never sees them. Wait, no! I control the rainbows."


Later that night Asuka and I were drawing and I decided to see what Rainbow the Sun Dwarf looked like, so I drew him. Riker said, "I like his proportions...it's great for scampering. Which he does a lot of." Riker knows a lot about scampering and a lot about Rainbow too.

C. B. Walker! Master Psychic

Scorpy Is Great!

Ken and I Discuss Important Things:

br4insushi (1:17:31 AM): scorpy is great!

xricketyticketyx (1:17:48 AM): haha there is always a chance you'll say something is creepy ken

br4insushi (1:18:03 AM): 50/50 chance

xricketyticketyx (1:18:12 AM): exactly

br4insushi (1:18:24 AM): but death in scorpy's case is adorable

It's the Little Things

A few weeks ago I was hanging out with Richie and we were out at Columbus Market rooting through toy bins for wonderful treasures. While we were out, Andrew and his co-worker (who I have yet to meet actually) stopped by my house and left me these on the door step!


"Chelsea, Enjoy your free retro pajama set. Andrew & Tim"


I was very excited! Andrew and Tim got me free matching jammy sets from their place of work because I wanted to wear them to some establishment that is said to give away free breakfasts on Saturdays to those who wear matching pajamas in. So, since I didn't even have to pay for the pj's, breakfast will be extra free.


I love little surprises. I like the ones in the middle best.

Nadz, O.M.G.

I have a wonderful friend who is this adorable, beautiful, super-fun girl that I love for many reasons. Some reasons are better than others though. One of my favorite things about her is that she takes the 5 Second Rule to a whole new level. I have three great examples of this:


1.) Very recently a few of us got together to bbq at her house. Somehow the hot dog she was eating was knocked out of her hand and fell hot dog down onto the asphalt pavement she was standing on. She went to pick it up and only got bun, causing the hot dog to roll around on the pavement. Being the badass she is, she did not let this deter her from eating said hot dog. She just picked it up, placed it back in the bun, and ate it. However, afterward she shared with us that she definitely chewed on some rocks. For real.


2.) At one of our parties in our Ocean City apartment, my lovely friend went downstairs to the Chinese food place and got herself some delicious noodles of sorts. She sat on our stairway eating them. The stairway leading to our apartment comes in right off one of Ocean City's most main streets, is carpeted, and often has small pieces of trash, sea gull feathers, and sand laying about. Somehow this girl knocks her noodles over and they spill onto the stairs. Well no use crying over spilled noodles right? So she just scooped them up off the carpet, back into her box, and kept eating. Yes. Way to go, girl.


3.) This story might be the most gnarly of the three. We were partying in West Philly for my birthday and there is a pizza place very close to where we were. Someone let this drunk ass girl carry our pizza and she somehow dropped the pizza causing it to come out of the box and fall cheese side down onto the streets of Filthadelphia. Somehow my girl saves the pizza and puts it back in the box and brings it home anyway. There was all kinds of shit in this pizza man, as you can imagine, and somehow, EVERYONE, not just my girl, ate it anyway. However, if it weren't for her 'it's ok' attitude, that thing would have never been scooped off the streets of Philly and brought home for us to eat.


I feel like a lot of you reading this will think, that's not such a big deal, I would do that, but I think you're all a lot of talk. I too eat things off the floor, maybe the occasional off the lawn, but how many of you would really eat noodles potentially containing sea gull feathers or pizza that was face down on the streets of Philly. Anyway, I really love this about her, and I tried not to use her name in case she cares, but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna post her photo with this, so I guess it doesn't matter. :) xoxo

Greetings From California....

This is a Facebook message I received from my beautiful friend Nicole. She wrote to me because Asuka, Riker, and I are going to visit her and our friend Jess in California for one week:

"warning! we are ca-ray-zay right now! you are coming at the height of the maelstrom! be prepared for a hectic frenzy of our hedonistic witchy ways like you've never seen before."

We are pretty excited to get there. :)

Buttons For You

Tim, Richie, and I made some buttons by collaging some magazines, books, comic books, etc together to form these wonderful items. Richie supplied the button maker as well as all the other button ingredients, which was amazing.

Tim and I Speak of Important Things

t he3n dofs ound (12:22:21 AM): james brown petting some exotic animals

xRicketyTicketyx (12:22:29 AM): hahaha

xRicketyTicketyx (12:22:31 AM): yesssss

xRicketyTicketyx (12:23:55 AM): like red river hogs

t he3n dofs ound (12:24:36 AM): toucans

t he3n dofs ound (12:24:59 AM): cobras

t he3n dofs ound (12:25:09 AM): hyenas

t he3n dofs ound (12:25:12 AM): leopards

t he3n dofs ound (12:25:15 AM): zebras

xRicketyTicketyx (12:25:27 AM): sea horses

xRicketyTicketyx (12:25:30 AM): sea urchins

t he3n dofs ound (12:25:36 AM): in a small tank next to him

xRicketyTicketyx (12:25:36 AM): 18 legged starfish

t he3n dofs ound (12:25:53 AM): surrounded by elephant leaf plants

xRicketyTicketyx (12:26:07 AM): and giant red wood forest ferns

xRicketyTicketyx (12:26:12 AM): tall as his neck

Obvious Bob's Social Tip of the Day:

Having a conversation is not a competitive sport.

Songs I Just Can't Quit

I am the kind of person who can listen to a song or album I like over and over and over again and pretty much never get tired of it. The only real reason I move on from them is because I find new sets of songs that slowly take their place, and the cycle repeats. They aren't necessarily new songs, just ones I gravitate towards at the time. Below are some links where you can listen to some of my current favorites that I just can't stop jammin to. Hope you enjoy! (Almost all the links are to the website Hype Machine aside from the first one).


The Jackson 5 - "I wanna be where you are"

Royksopp - "Happy Up Here"

Lil Wayne Vs. The Office Theme - Office Music (Clockwork Edit)

Basement Jaxx - "Raindrops"

The Cool Kids - "Bassment Party"

Maritime - "Parade of Punk Rock T-shirts"

Final Fantasy - "What do you think will happen next"

Friendly Fires - "Jump in the pool"

"Oh, I Just Made a TOUCHDOWN"

Amazing Amazing I Lub Luv Love It

Skateboardanimation from Tilles Singer on Vimeo.

Obvious Bob's Social Tip Of The Day: You'll probably make a lot more people happy as soon as you realize you're not that big of a deal.

From One Blogger to Another

Richie Brown is a cool dude from my school who wrote a sweet song of thanks just because I posted a link on his Facebook wall. I think that this series of actions and reactions we have created is pretty great. I am looking forward to more cause and effect in the future. Here is his site where you can listen to the song and take a look around at the rest!

Why be such a dick Trebek?

What up all, it's been a while since I posted something up but this just has to be said. Alex Trebek is such a dick. Every night around dinner time my mom likes to watch her shows, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. But as I sit there and catch a lil bit of each show I can't help but happen to notice how Trebek has to be a dick every time someone gets something wrong. I mean I get it, as the host you have the answer key but that doesn't mean you know all the answers. This guy drives me crazy with that dumb smug look on his face, corny ass sense of humor and know it all attitude. Fuck you Trebek! I don't even watch the whole show and thats how much you piss me off. I wish I could vote you off the show and replace you with somebody with style and class like Maury Povich. I'll Say Word to that.

Pandora Is Not The Ultimate In Music Websites

So probably everyone ever knows about the music site www.Pandora.com and I definitely have to give it up to Pandora because it absolutely serves its purpose, but there are 3 other music sites I like better and are just as easy and free!!!


1.) www.hypem.com - This website is called The Hype Machine and it's really great. You can sign up for free and the music streams from music blogs all over the internet for free. When you sign up you can favorite songs and they get added to your 'dashboard'. Once you have a list going on your dashboard you can just click play on the top song and it will go down your dashboard list. It's great and it is a great site for mash-ups and remixes too.


2.) http://wearehunted.com/ - This site is pretty incredible. It lists the 99 most popular emerging songs in the world! Woah neat! The list gets updated to keep up with the most popular at the moment, but I don't know how often. These songs also just stream live and you don't have to create an account to listen. You can sign up and create your own chart, which sounds great, but I haven't yet done so, so I can't say whether or not its wonderful. Sounds like it though.


3.) http://8tracks.com/ - 8 Tracks is a site that you sign up for and then create your own 8 song mixes, like a mix tape! You can upload songs, or you can search the already uploaded songs. You can browse other people's mixes by genre and you can favorite their mixes as well. It's pretty fun! When you make a new mix you get to title it and add any picture or photo you want to represent it.


So all three of these sites are really great alternatives to Pandora because I find with Pandora that I hear way too much music that I already know! If I want to do that, I'll just listen to my iTunes. Don't get me wrong, Pandora has its place, but these three sites are great in my opinion especially for finding new songs and new versions of old songs you love! I hope you all enjoy!

- Chelsea "I'll Allow It"

This Kid Probably Dances Better Then You

Oh Man. You Know I Love This Child.

We're Comin Back!

OK. So Randal Stevens has not been updated regularly lately which we really are feeling regretful about. It's about time to start gettin serious again! We will continue to have life rants when needed and necessary as well as some newer posts thrown in here and there to keep things alive and movin. Stay Tuned.

Ok. It Is Ranting Time.

It has been a while since I have felt the need to rant about something, but I'm definitely ready. What the HELL is wrong with the entire world and all this antibacterial bullshit? When did everyone become such a little bitch-ass slave to their fear of bacteria?!!!

EVERYWHERE you turn there is some reminder of this horrible fad. As I type this there is a commercial playing for a mop that claims to be better then other mops because its disposable mop heads don't retain bacteria like scary old school mops that "push bacteria around your floor", ooooh nooo. And what is up with these stupid ads for home soap dispensers that use sensors to dispense the soap so you don't have to touch the "dirty bacteria filled pump". HOW MANY YEARS HAS THE PLANET SURVIVED TOUCHING THEIR SOAP DISPENSERS?!!!! Plenty. PUH-LEASE. I saw a news story the other night cautioning parents to stop bathing their babies in the bathtub and to absolutely not give them toys to play with because of "all the dangers of bacteria" making it out to be like your going to kill your baby. Who hasn't been a kid in the tub chillin with your toys and having a great time??? OH that's right, everyone ever has done that!

I feel very strongly about all this. The human body reacts and adapts itself to what it knows. It is honestly important to be exposed to these things to build a healthy immune system. Where will all this bacteria phobia end? I can't take much more of it. If they lady on Hoarders can eat rotting and expired food and her body adapted to that, and she doesn't even get sick from it, I think everyone can touch their damn soap dispensers.

You know what makes me sick? All of that shit, not bacteria.

philadelphia is the world's grossest slushie right now...

ima start screenprinting this on a bunch of shit i think. i might make it cooler first. ive just been really coop'd up and this is what i came up with. if you want it on somethin, you know i gotcha.
dj tanners a grown ass man now...its weird.
holla at ya dude.

A Funny and VERY True Story.....

The Names In This Story Have Been Changed to Protect Both the Innocent & the Guilty. You Know Who You Are:


So I have a friend, we will call her Nikki. She used to go to school in Providence, Rhode Island and live with her boyfriend, we will call him Christopher. Now, this went on for a good amount of time, but it was all a secret to Nikki's parents. It wasn't that hard to hide however, since Nikki's parents lived 5 or 6 hours away and another state.

Well pretty recently Nikki and Christopher moved to Boston because Nikki was done school and got a job there and Christopher was going to school there. Hooray! Everyone can be happy now, right? Well, yeah, but there is a catch. Here is where the story begins to sound like a sitcom.

Nikki came home this Thanksgiving to visit her family, of course. She wanted to bring some larger items home to her apartment with her. Her apartment in BOSTON. So Nikki's parents said they would drive her home so she could take these big things with her, rather then take the train or bus as usual. Now you are thinking, oh that's nice of them. What's the big deal? Well... Nikki's parents DID NOT KNOW she moved to BOSTON. They thought she was still living in PROVIDENCE! Now you are probably thinking, well that's the end of that lie, right? She had to come clean then, what else could she do? Well, you would be WRONG. Nikki called around to her friends still living in Providence and found one that was not going to be home in their apartment that weekend! She had the guts to let her father drive her to PROVIDENCE and go into her male friend's apartment, and tell him it was hers!!!! She later found her own way home from Providence to Boston! This story is 100% true, and it is CRAZY.

But hey, she made it work! Nikki dear, I love you. XOXO. Ya Weirdo...

Obvious Bob is Back

Obvious Bob's social tip of the day: Don't take yourself too seriously. Nobody else does, I promise.

This has been another installment of Obvious Bob. Thank you Bob, and see you next time.

I Was Talking To Asuka Online Tonight

Asuka And I Speak Of Important Things:

xRicketyTicketyx (12:59:02 AM): lets ask her something
xRicketyTicketyx (12:59:05 AM): but what?
FantasyL82 (12:59:30 AM): hahahahah
xRicketyTicketyx (12:59:35 AM): how about, Would you rather sleep with Double Dare's Mark Summers or.......
xRicketyTicketyx (12:59:42 AM): sleep with who?
FantasyL82 (12:59:48 AM): mark summer or....
FantasyL82 (1:00:27 AM): boy meets world's mr. feeny
xRicketyTicketyx (1:00:41 AM): hahaha but i think that choice is easy
xRicketyTicketyx (1:00:48 AM): mark summer for sure
FantasyL82 (1:00:50 AM): mr. feeny right
FantasyL82 (1:00:51 AM): hahahahah
xRicketyTicketyx (1:00:56 AM): whaaaaaat?!
FantasyL82 (1:00:59 AM): i'm just kidding!
xRicketyTicketyx (1:01:04 AM): hahahaha
xRicketyTicketyx (1:01:11 AM): shut up, you LOVE mr feeny
FantasyL82 (1:01:25 AM): i'd get with mark summers
FantasyL82 (1:01:27 AM): over feeny
FantasyL82 (1:01:41 AM): a comedian from reno 911 is coming to stockton
xRicketyTicketyx (1:01:45 AM): its difficult to come up with a good equal for him
xRicketyTicketyx (1:01:59 AM): Nick something?
FantasyL82 (1:02:04 AM): yea
xRicketyTicketyx (1:02:50 AM): NO WAY!
xRicketyTicketyx (1:03:01 AM): nick swardson?
FantasyL82 (1:03:06 AM): no
FantasyL82 (1:03:10 AM): ahahahah
xRicketyTicketyx (1:03:16 AM): dammit asuka!
FantasyL82 (1:03:32 AM): sorry i wouldve said yes to any name you said.
xRicketyTicketyx (1:03:42 AM): fuck man
FantasyL82 (1:03:45 AM): i just didn't feel like opening my email.
FantasyL82 (1:03:52 AM): kyle dunnigan
xRicketyTicketyx (1:04:28 AM): oh
xRicketyTicketyx (1:04:39 AM): well we need a mark summer equivalent
FantasyL82 (1:04:40 AM): and mr. belding, saved by the bell principle is coming too
xRicketyTicketyx (1:06:12 AM): hahahahahaha
xRicketyTicketyx (1:07:29 AM): Casey and Taubel say Mike O'Malley is a good equivalent
xRicketyTicketyx (1:08:24 AM): i agree
FantasyL82 (1:08:34 AM): taubel?
xRicketyTicketyx (1:08:45 AM): oh my bad i forgot you dont know everyone i know
FantasyL82 (1:09:01 AM): hahah

I Wish I Was Braver

I'm not sure where this video was taken, but obviously somewhere really incredible. I always wonder why they don't just smash right into the rock walls, but wind streams seem to just keep them close, but not too close. I dunno though, it always looks like they're having close calls! Talk about adrenaline junkies...

Happy Birthday Stephen Hawking!

Jan 8, 1942: British physicist Stephen Hawking is born.

Hawking was born in Oxford, where his parents moved to escape the German Blitz on London! Who knew?!

In April 2007, Hawking realized his dream of taking a zero-gravity flight, making him the first quadriplegic ever to do so.

Neat, way to go Stephen!

Welcome to Randal Stevens 2010!