Dear teenagers cruising my suburb with pounding hip-hop at top volume, I realize that you think we are A) admiring your youthful coolness and rebellion, or B) horrified by the naughty words and shaking our heads like the squares we are, or C) terrified you’re here to bust caps in our glutinous suburban asses, but […]
Monthly Archives: April 2004
Okay, I feel like work avoidance today, so here’s the tale of three artists, a car, a camera, and a pair of St. Paul’s finest.
The conversation wandered around to it today, and it occurred to me–did I ever tell you guys about the time I got investigated as a threat to National Security?
A. In retrospect, getting the easel into the bathroom was maybe not the great idea I thought it was. B. Once you have successfully blockaded yourself into the bathroom with the easel, make sure you have a pencil, or you will have to crawl through the easel. Twice. C. Do not block the cat’s entry […]
O brilliant bird people! Do any of you know what the heck this is? http://www.metalandmagic.com/Images/LJimages/injuredbird.jpg It was a sort of olive-drab color on top, a bit smaller than a robin. It was doing the my-wing-hurts dance, and one of its feet didn’t seem to be doing too well either–it could hop, and by means of […]
I have a bizarre urge to do something with the caption “I’m not sayin’ it wasn’t your brother-in-law, Bob, I’m jes sayin’ he had a whole lotta legs on ‘im!” I have no idea what image could possibly justify such a caption, mind you, but the phrase is rattling in my head like gravel in […]
My little peat pots of seed starts, out on the deck, kept getting knocked over. I cursed the squirrels silently, and righted them. Today, hearing a small peaty “Thud!” I rushed out, and discovered–one of those jaunty-butted Carolina wrens, blithely knocking crap over right and left. It flipped its tail at me and fluttered off. […]
Following the meme, and since it IS an election year…my stance on the Burning Issues of our Time. (Some of which I don’t think are all that burning, mind you–I wouldn’t have listed the legal drinking age and premarital sex as even issues, but there you go.)
Birds are weird. For the past half-hour, it has been like living in the woods. (This happens every morning, mind you.) The birds are in the kind of multi-species cacaphony that cannot be adequately described in text. I’d need to do a comic page of warring tweeting in different fonts to really get the feel […]
Went to Jerry’s Artarama. Thought “Hmm, I’m not confident I can find it again–better Mapquest it and print it out.” Which I did. The directions were clear and easy to follow, and thus, in record time, I arrived. At their shipping depot. Which is not a store, but rather the warehouse. Because I’d grabbed the […]