Ah. What’s better than Nascar, the Kentucky Derby and the NHL Playoffs combined? Watching two humpback whales trapped in Sacramento, of course! I’ve never even been to Sacramento and I live an hour and a half away.
I understand the interest in this story. Two giant and endangered animals are stuck amidst the trappings of heavily […]

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This past weekend I celebrated Memorial Day by going to Shasta Lake with Natasha and watching a bunch of post-frat boys play drunken frisbee in a motel parking lot. Okay, that was only five minutes of the whole trip. What happened the rest of the time?

This gnome actually was one of the last things we […]

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Yes, it’s amazing what an 11 year old in Alabama can do with a .50 caliber (!!) pistol. According to an Associated Press article, Jamison Stone of Pickensville AL killed  a pig weighing in at nearly 1060 lbs. and measuring 9′ 4″ in length. When asked about his accomplishment, the boy replied “It’s a good […]

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Scientists in Spain found fosilized scratch marks that indicated a large T-Rex like dinosuar was able to swim, much like a modern bird!
Read all about it here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2436812720070525

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Despite a sad lack of content, my blog appears to be (for the most part) working.
I spent part of yesterday afternoon in East Oakland touring a vacant pasta factory. It is part of the project I am working on at my office- eventually it is going to be renovated in to low-income studio apartments and […]

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As you may have noticed, the design of the blog has now been outfitted with a variety of my dinosaur drawings thanks to my friend Lauren at Object Adjective. I promise to write more ASAP.

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I’m finally blogging again. After a lame attempt at a myspace blog and then an upadate of my main site (www.markhogan.com), I decided it was time to bring the Markasaurus out of hiding.

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