Our next contestant is a shrubby fellow, growing on what looks like a woody stem. It has bark, not soft green squishiness. He appears at the back of a neglected part-shade bed, so he could definitely be a garden plant planted deliberately, but it’s also possible he’s a volunteer–we’re talkin’ a solid year of neglect […]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
So I was thinking about Dali, and art writing, and this sort of vague itch I’d had to write about paranoiac-criticism, possibly in hopes that other people could be as confused as I was. But when I sat down to organize my thoughts about Dali, and trying to write for this hypothetical audience in my […]
Hey, snugglebunnies, Ellen Million is pluggin’ away on the layout for the book of my art that’s due to come out at some point here (in full color! Woot!) and needs input! There’s a handy-dandy poll available at: http://ellenmillion.livejournal.com/565960.html
Something occurred to me t’other day, as I was plowing through Mary Roach’s non-fiction book “Spook.” There is much clever and entertaining non-fiction out there, in a variety of fields. There is clever and entertaining science writing, from such soft stuff as Roach’s up through heights of Sagan and Gould and Dawkins. There is clever […]
Three and a half weeks to Anthrocon. I dug out my box of prints, my three ring print binders, gazed at the printer and intoned “It….begins.” This is the time of year when I truly, truly hate being such a prolific artist. It has many great perks, but the price really starts to add up […]
The woodpecker and the thrasher were fighting for the crown– the woodpecker chased the thrasher all around the ground. Some gave them suet and some gave them the stuff with the dehydrated bugs in it, And then the squirrels showed up and drummed them out of town. Okay, okay, I won’t quit my day job […]
While the exact species of Weed #1 escapes us still–I’ll provide an update if the stuff ever flowers–we’ll move on to the next installment of (this is really more effective if you imagine Bob Barker and the audience chanting along) Name! That! Weeeeed! Our second contestant is a lone, substantially sized plant in my main […]
Okay, boys and girls, I finally found the camera, which means for the next coupla weeks, you’ll be getting installments of that blockbusting new blog sensation–NAME THAT WEED! Our first contestant lives in my yard in various spots, but most notably on a side bed that we haven’t done anything with yet. This weed (or […]
My husband’s nuts. I went in to the den and discovered him and a co-worker, sitting glaze-eyed, watching TV. They had the sound turned off, and a Secret Chiefs 3 album plugged in. This is a fairly dark, brooding instrumental sound, fine and good. However, they were watching what I’d been watching a few minutes […]
Another quicky for Anthrocon, featuring an unstoppable Cretaceous killing machine, and his stuffed T-rex, “Mr. Gobbly.” http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/33497416/