Steve Station!

This is the page where I put up the art and thoughts of my brother Steve. (Click the thumbnail to see the full-size version!)

New pictures just added (as of December 7, 2007)!!

		<-- "There is a new addition to the San Rafael Police Force. The C.H.O.M.P.S. prototype was unveiled at the 2006 Riverside Police Exposition/ Convention and the final draft will be put on official duty next month. The cyborg dog, a hybrid canine/ automaton, will carry out regular duties including spreading fear amid the people, busting kids for petty shit (i.e. drugs, graffiti, loitering), and of course will carry out its prime function to issue traffic and parking tickets." -- Steve Strong.
		<-- I really like this monkey one; nice use of color.
	Steve calls this one "Cotton Candy Autopsy" and I just plain gotta give the guy props for that if nothing else.	Steve emailed me this, he did not make it; apparently it came from the Roy Rogers Restaurant website.
Ted's comments on the (bottom seven) above latest art pieces: I'm unsure how much of these are scanned pieces vs. ones done on the computer. Not that it necessarily matters. But, my fav is the top right one, the black and white one. It reminds me of some old Japanese (maybe Kurosawa?) film. I also like the first and second ones a lot. And 4, 5 and 6. I like number 10, except for one symbol that appears in it I find rather bothersome. Number 8 is creepy, number 9 is interesting. Number 7, Turkish Delight, is, I think, partially a gag. It uses an old photo of me and Steve, where Steve appears to be giving me a massage. Anyway, those numbers are possibly meaningless now; I've added pix a few times since I've changed that writing. I would guess that Steve is scanning in hand drawn pix and then, in Photoshop, or a similar program, is combining the scans with digital graphics he's picked up at various places. Interesting art nonetheless. Careful observers may notice that Steve has done a redux of his artpiece, john_pete.jpg which is called BOB.jpg. He has made two alterations that I can see, the advertised price has changed from $3.99 to (one of Steve's favorite, and highly symbolic numbers) $6.66. The other change is the addition of the man-with-horns-and-the-body-of-a-horse type of character protruding from the bottom of the image.

November 2 (Year: ?) Instant Messenger conversation!!

tedstrong: right, so how are you doing?
tedstrong: how's that that you're doing?
tedstrong: hey buddy how's it going?
tedstrong: hey ass
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tedstrong: what are you doing?
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(Steve wasn't into IMing this night, I don't think.)

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Recently I tossed a film quiz out to Steve. He came up with zero correct answers, but take a look for yourselves:

Quiz is as follows:

What film did James Coburn win an Oscar for? Little Orphan Tranny
What film did Lee Marvin win an Oscar for? CockFight 2: Return to Cheddartown
What film did John Wayne win an Oscar for? Baloney Shell
Which of the preceding three actors is alive (at the time of this quiz, James Coburn was still living)? DR Todd Hossenfeffer
Did James Stewart die in the same month and year as Robert Mitchum? munth?
Who plays Buffy the Vampire Slayer on TV? Rex Henderson
Who played Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the 1992 film? Todd Parmigiano
When is the season premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the US? October 31st
Who's cooler: Lee Marvin, Steve McQueen or Dean Martin (this might be a trick question)? everyone knows Owen McFatty is the coolest dude ever
What film did Robert Wagner make with Steve McQueen? Foxy Mama Ambulance Driver
What film did Natalie Wood make with Steve McQueen? Fizzo 3: Revenge of C.H.A.D.
Do you like these quizzes? NO

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New awesome Instant Messenger Conversation I had with Steve on February 22, 2002!

tedstrong: u watching grammys?
Houses3: no
tedstrong: watching porn?
Houses3: yes
tedstrong: Carla's Hot Vag starring Carla NeGuillara?
Houses3: jimmy's swag car with Billy's overrated mazda
tedstrong: Hmm
Houses3: Yo!
Houses3: BBBBBBbbbbbbaaaaarrrrrrfffffff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tedstrong: so, what's up?
Houses3: turds
tedstrong: Hmm
tedstrong: You, uh, you still working?
Houses3: not Hmm... yum
Houses3: No
tedstrong: Really?
Houses3: real E
tedstrong: How come?
Houses3: How Gone
tedstrong: Did you lose your job?
Houses3: Did you win your poo
tedstrong: get busy child
Houses3: Bam bam bambi rex
tedstrong: Hmmm. Are you drinking again Steve? You know that's not good for the medications.
Houses3: Are you farting again cause it not good for boogers
tedstrong: And to top it all off you drink that schwag cheap lite american beer crap
Houses3: Sometimes I drink dog piss and that can be expensive (gots to pay some dude to chase a dog around and fill up a bottle = expensive)
tedstrong: I see.
tedstrong: So, really, you are still working that job you had right?
Houses3: paddington bear doesn't like you anymore; he thinks you're gay
tedstrong: Is being gay wrong, or bad? I thought Paddington bear was gay.
Houses3: Paddington is a post op transexual there is a difference you know
tedstrong: Cool, cool. What about you? Are you gay?
Houses3: I am just a fan of SHow Biz Pizza
tedstrong: Right. So, you still working at that delivery place?
Houses3: Beeswax any of yours? ...NO!!!
tedstrong: Sure it is. I'm your brother, even though you drive me nuts, I probably care more about you really than anyone else.
Houses3: your name is Suzie
tedstrong: Riiiiiiigggggghhhhht.
tedstrong: This is going up, of course, but it's not one of the better interviews for Steve Station.
Houses3: No please do not it is much too silly; not at all fitting with Station agenda
tedstrong: What is the Station agenda?
Houses3: Much more serious now
tedstrong: Really? What are it's themes?
tedstrong: The disintegration of Christianity?
Houses3: No! Christianity is good, without it there'd be much more wife beatings and driveby shootings
tedstrong: Uh huh
Houses3: but station theme is to be very cutting edge. There will be dancing and seals that pass balls
tedstrong: i see. i'll need to update my flash skills, sounds like.
Houses3: perhaps
tedstrong: ... word.
tedstrong: by not watching the grammies you missed a very funny commercial with chuck woollery, pat morita and little richard trying to have dinner together.
Houses3: oh my gosh no way
tedstrong: yeah. dumb ass.
Houses3: wow
tedstrong: This is GOING UP!
Houses3: no jack ass
tedstrong: Yes, mo fo jo

New awesome Instant Messenger Conversation I had with Steve on February 12, 2002! Steve had just gotten back from a weekend in L.A. visiting our sister. He also recently went vegan!

tedstrong: how was la?
Houses3: great
tedstrong: r u still a vegan?
Houses3: yes
tedstrong: why a vegan and not a vegetarian?
Houses3: i dont know anything for sure, okay
tedstrong: what do you mean?
Houses3: i dunno
tedstrong: what? why are you a vegan and not a vegetarian?
tedstrong: what?
tedstrong: Steve dude?
tedstrong: any snow on diablo?
Houses3: yes
tedstrong: any at home?
Houses3: no
tedstrong: is there a lot on diablo?
tedstrong: it's freezing outside
Houses3: yeah
tedstrong: why are you a vegan and not a vegetarian?
Houses3: do you know the difference?
tedstrong: yes i do. do you?
Houses3: maybe
tedstrong: it's a lot easier to be vegetarian than vegan. vegans are borderline freaks. vegans don't eat anything that has anything to do with animals. which means, dairy, milk, ice cream, cheese, etc. you might just want to be a vegetarian.
Houses3: no i am a vegan
tedstrong: why?
Houses3: why not
tedstrong: well, why shouldn't you eat cheese?
tedstrong: what is 'wrong' with milk?
Houses3: cows need not be taunted just for the cause of keeping man full of cheese.
tedstrong: i don't understand that.
Houses3: ok
tedstrong: seriously. why did you become a vegan?
Houses3: whatever
tedstrong: what do you mean whatever? Can't you tell me?
Houses3: i don't know
tedstrong: what do you mean? you don't know if you can tell me?
Houses3: I like to be a good person, I want to do what is right. Ethical treatment of animals is not all that difficult of a task; and I think it would be right.
tedstrong: so you think it's unethical to milk cows?
Houses3: Just in case it is, I don't want to be a part of it.
tedstrong: i wonder how long this new fad of yours will last
Houses3: whatever

Old Questionnaire! (November 15)

TS: Steve, what are your comments about Gore, Bush, Florida and the election?

SS: N/A.

TS: Are you married?

SS: NO WAY JOSE.

TS: What is your favorite spice?

SS: Cinnamon.

TS: Who is your favorite writer?

SS: Steinbeck.

TS: Really?

SS: Yah really.

TS: What have you read?

SS: Tortilla Flat, Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, a couple short stories that he wrote for magazines, maybe more...

TS: You read Grapes of Wrath?

SS: No.

TS: Are you still wearing those big pants?

SS: Maybe

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Stephen Edward Strong was born October 6, 1976 in Torrance, California.

New statement in re "Pizza" from Steve!

"Yes Pizza is fun and delicious. But I also like pizza parties. A pizza party is where you and your five closest friends put up decorations, put on a music tape with songs like "I heard it thru the grapevine" (instrumental version). Then you order a pizza and dance around to the music until the pizza man arrives with your pizza pie. When the pizza arrives you pay for it by a check your mom wrote, then settle down from all the dancing and dig in; eat the pizza. You of course wash down the pizza with soda, preferably soda in the 1 1/2 gallon bottle format. Popular pizza toppings include pepperoni. I think you should try having a pizza party it is a lot of fun."

This is a questionnaire that he filled out for this site:

Height: 6'3'' (this might be true, he's at least 6'2")
Weight: 90 (this is nonsense. as I've said, his weight fluctuates, but i'd say 190?)
Eye Color: green (black through gold glass) (those parenthesis are his. I don't know what he's talking about. I think his eyes are green, but like mine they used to be dark, deep, beautiful brown when we were kids)
Hair Color: Dark brown
Scars: none (this is a lie. he's got a scar near his eye, it's small. none of his scars are grotesque or anything, they're kind of like cool scars. he got it when he was like 8? it was a push cart thing, the edge of the metal handle smacked right near his eye. mom was freaked out cause all she saw was all this blood near his eye! mom had two cousins who shot their eyes out with bb guns or some such, but I think it was just a story she made up to scare us away from bb guns. anyway, he's also got a big scar near his thumb, when he cut himself on a milk bottle that broke. he was like 2 or 3. his thumb was like hanging off. maybe some others. i don't know why he's denying his scars.)

Favorites:
Color...........Black
Movie............Midnight Express
Writer..........Saint John, the divine
Book.............Catcher In The Rye
Director.........Stanley Kubrick
Season........Winter
Spice..............Cinnamon
Album............Mr Bungle
Musician/Band: Daft Punk

(those favorites are all pretty near the truth, I don't know about St John, the divine, but I thought it was a pretty funny answer anyway.)

I personally believe his comic art to be his best. Much of his work is too esoteric, I think, for anyone but him to get anything out of. Not only does Steve welcome critiques and suggestions and comments -- he requests it! What do you think? He wants to know!!

Let him know what you think by eeing him, stevestrong501@hotmail.com.