Went to the bookstore today–James insisted I go get a book I hadn’t read a dozen times already, since I’ve been re-reading, as Xmas left us financially tapped for the nonce. He points out, quite rightly, that twenty bucks never bankrupted anybody, and it’s undoubtedly true that a Dean Koontz novel rarely gains anything with […]
Monthly Archives: January 2004
Allergies and art occasionally don’t mix. If I’m working on a physical painting, I need a paper towel to blot, smear, lift, and otherwise abuse paint. Generally, living in the perpetual snuffly twilight of the allergic, I also require a Kleenex. You can probably see where this is going. Not unlike dipping one’s paintbrush into […]
Fans of historical weirdos–god, I love rotten.com!–may be intrigued to know that today is the anniversary (in 1611) of the conviction of Elizabeth Bathory, the blood countess–yes, that one, with the sadism and the weirdness and most notably the bathing in vats of virgin blood to stay young–on 610 counts of murder. As horrible as […]
The last thing that went through my head before the tyranny of the alarm clock dragged me into the waking world was “Great! We’ve got the white snake, now we gotta find a white goat.” Feeding time or twisted albino animal scavenger hunt? Only my hindbrain knows for sure…
Update on Digger Donation sketches! Took me a while to get these out–you don’t want to know how many times I drew Digger, and the holidays put the kibosh on everything–but realizing that I just needed to address these envelopes, I have done so at last! So the next wave will be going out tomorrow. […]
So this week, while James’s folks were in town, we visited galleries. A LOT of galleries. We scoured Scottsdale. We hit Sedona. We probably saw forty or fifty galleries in all, many of which were dreadful cowboy art schlockstops, some of which were really cool, and a good number of which were a combination. Overall, […]
And the new year is off to a rousing idiot thumping start! The person who accused me of plagerising my own work, then apologized, is now accusing me again, because–one quotes–“I’ve seen it around.” I thought, in the spirit of kindness and humanity, of being kind and patient and explaining it once again, in small […]