Random smart ass remark on yesterday’s blog post led to doodling and made me to want to talk about “journal” used as a verb. The whole “art journaling” thing–my spellchecker doesn’t believe journaling is a real word, and I feel its pain, nouns should stay nouns, goddamnit–seems to have exploded at some point in the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
There is nothing inherently, externally wrong with today. The weekend was lovely. And I have gotten stuff done today , it was fine and unobjectionable stuff, but I am nevertheless depressed and growing more so, for absolutely no reason except that I have PMS and haven’t heard back on the edits for my book for […]
I come before you today, O best beloved, to confess one of my great artistic failings. Actually, two. No, not that I’m basically lazy and have more or less decided that I have proved my ability to paint an extremely complex background and thus no longer feel the need to prove it, not the fact […]
Woohoo! You can now pre-order the Biting Pear plushes for a mere $15 from Patchtogether.com. I have the demo model myself, and he is awesome.
I was unscrewing an outlet cover in the living room, prepatory to painting around it, and a mummified lizard fell out. B’lieve it was one of the little blue-tailed lizards–five-lined skinks or whatever–but the extreme lateness of the specimen made it hard to tell. …right, then.
I painted this a good year and a half ago, and thus have no memory whatsoever of what I was thinking about at the time, except that apparently I was still in my vague-Klimt phase, and somehow that spawned a horned girl and her horned rat. Meanwhile, the painting has been kicking around my studio […]
Following all the kerfluffle about the Islamic center that might hypothetically be somewhere near Ground Zero, I would like to make the following statement. If anybody is looking to built a mosque in Pittsboro, North Carolina, you are welcome to put it in my backyard. I doubt anybody is, but if they were… There’s a […]
We’re headed off to a baptism. KEVIN: Fortunately, the Lutheran baptism is short and to the point… URSULA: They dip you in cream of mushroom soup and sprinkle crumbled potato chips over you? KEVIN: …No. URSULA: Oh! No! It’s a jello mold and they sprinkle fruit chunks over you! KEVIN: (rolls eyes) I am told […]
It is possible that if I had known it would take three coats of red, plus a coat of primer, working out to a solid gallon of red paint PER WALL, that I might have given green a bit more thought. One long wall done. And it is red, really red, fire-engine red, Fiestaware red, […]
Finally got my taxes done. Despite pre-paying scads (well, by my standards) AND having a credit from overpaying last year…well. Ow. I think I must have jumped over a bracket or something. I had expect to be about spot on…and…well…not so much. Ow. But I can’t complain too much. This is about as much extra […]
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