Monthly Archives: September 2004

Woo! Finally got a chance to RP again after many, many moons…some buddies started up an Eberron campaign. James and I have never actually played anything d20, so there’s some rule fumbling still, but it was a fun startup session. I am playing a well-meaning-but-not-too-bright female paladin named Lance.* Lance has a live chicken**. This […]

I swear, my backyard is like the Zone For Defective Wildlife. In addition to the assorted not-overly-bright birds that take a header into the glass about once a day (although they generally fly away afterwards, looking dazed) and of course, Lumpy, we now have a Carolina wren with no tail. It’s got a little asymmetrical […]

Phew…busy day. Sent off two sets of roughs, finished a Digger, started a Digger, digitally composited a painting, updated the website, drew up an ad for Digger (having been offered free ad space in a magazine) and prepared mailings. If I can just get laundry done as well, today will count as Very Productive. Had […]

I sing of the berserkers, beloved of the skalds and songsmiths, the great warriors of Thor’s domain, smashers of Jotunheim, doers of deeds, wearers of weaselskins! Fearless in fighting, ruthless in raids, fleet of foot and fat of form, the brave berserk, the war-hardened servants of the war-god, the great Battle Hamsters of the North! […]

More Quick Doodles

Another coupla quick doodles in watercolor, featuring turtles… Balthazar Disdains The Lemon http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/10396432/ Turtles in Love (as predicted by Joseph Campbell) http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/10451654/ It’s not high art, and certainly nowhere near the top of my skill level, but I enjoy doing these little noxiously cute (and occasionally disturbing) doodles anyway. I suppose it’s natural for artists […]

Saw a male hairy woodpecker t’other day–I’ve seen a few that I wasn’t sure if they were downy or hairy, but this one was the size of one of the big red-bellied woodpeckers, and the downy woodpeckers are generally smaller than my hand, so I’m pretty confident it was a hairy woodpecker. Other than that, […]

Lumpy, having discovered that I am too lazy to drive out to Home Depot and get the hot pepper suet, and have been putting regular ‘ol peanut suet in the feeder, is now a regular guest. He’s bird-feeder busting vermin, but I feel bad for him–nobody deserves to have giant “warbles” (as the bug-filled bump […]

Who funds the Teen Titans? I mean, I realize that the Justice League is probably operated primarily out of Bruce Waynes’s pocket–Clark Kent has the reporter’s salary, (which he sends back home to Mom) but everybody else seems to be perma-unemployed. There’s probably a government stipend in there somewhere, and the occasional royalty check off […]