Blog of Josh Hall

I was at the Roselius’ this weekend and they had a chess board with carved stone game pieces.  The pieces were just some sort of tribal theme, with elephants, a monkey, and stuff like that.  I’ve always loved the themed chess boards.  I’ve seen peuter civil war sets, star wars sets, and a bunch of […]

Along the same mindset of the record rama collection, I want to have an awesome collection of something.  I’ve always had a streak of pack rat in me and a little bit of OCD organizer too.  I use to maintain a database of all my 6,000 baseball cards when I was a kid and I […]

I’m going to put it out there because it’s true.  I want to write a novel.  I have tons of ideas written down on note pads for stories and characters, but never really get beyond that step.  I’d love to write something like Palahniuk.  If worse comes to worse, I had an idea for a […]

I want to own an island.  Pure and simple.  I want to own my own land to do whatever I want with it.  I remember watching TV one day, I think it was RealTV, and some guy in Australia had tied 2 liter bottles and milk jugs and such together for a series of time […]

i always wanted to take a trip across the world or country and get a jar full of dirt from each spot.  maybe build shelves in my house that had the map of the wall painted behind it, and on each shelve i’d put the jar of dirt from that location.  same thing foes for […]

Besides the stereotypical retiring in a cabin in the woods and writing novels next to my 2 labrador retrievers, I want to widdle.  I want to make really cool wood carvings, like the type of things that can’t physically exist if you didn’t carve them that way.  Like the ball inside a cage.  I want […]