You know that you’re never gonna make it back to the fields we know when you take a break, lean back in your chair, gaze at your latest creation, and find yourself thinking “I dunno…it’d be cuter if it was a maggot.”
Monthly Archives: September 2005
Okay, the comparisons of the Cuddlemaggot to Precious Moments was too much for me. I had to do a Precious Maggot. Parody may be the closest I ever come to fan art… http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23476787/
Went and saw “Corpse Bride” last night. Cute, if somewhat short. Burton’s character designs are always so cool. It even gets credit for one of the best cute spiders ever–there was a little singing black widow that actually LOOKED like a spider, the way that, say, the spider chick in “A Bug’s Life” didn’t at […]
We were picking up the track strewn about by another nocturnal raid, and I noticed tables and tables of plants–geraniums and impatiens, mostly–in plastic pots in the next door neighbor’s yard. U: “Hmm, he must sell those commercially or something…” J: “He could be a botanist! Like Mr. McGreggor!” I wracked my brain for a […]
The problem with not ever abusing the cat is that I can’t use the threat of physical violence to dissuade her from doing bad things. I would never hurt the cat, but they’re not like dogs, who have that inherent sense of guilt and remember the Rolled Up Newpaper the rest of their lives. The […]
Over the years, I have made peace with my own sloppiness. If I want tighter detail, I work bigger. There are artists who can spend a week with a size zero brush, but I am absolutely not among them. I can admire their dedication, but I can only do that for brief stints. With watercolor, […]
Reading the latest China Mieville anthology, “Looking for Jake.” As is usual for his work, it wanders between extremes of “Eh, I guess. Well written, though,” (like “Iron Council”) and “Oh sweet blithering Christ, why didn’t *I* think of that?!” (Like “Perdido Street Station and “The Scar”) One of his short stories is a fabulous […]
I can take comfort in the fact that no matter how bizarre the backyard gets, I’ve yet to see THIS. http://www.istrianet.org/istria/fauna/land-misc/limax-osp.htm Scroll down to the bottom. Strangely enough, a site with the phrase “they extrude from their heads their blue, club-shaped penis sacs which then extend into a fan shape at the tips” is pretty […]
It is entirely typical of my existence that I go through my e-mail, and selling the giant stone wang piece is followed immediately by selling A-B-C prints for a nursery. I was thinking about art instruction the other day. I was reading the memoirs of Richard Feynman, the physicist, and he was talking about taking […]
GIANT STONE WANG WARNING! NOT SAFE FOR WORK! http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23263399/ For non DA members (click image for larger version) http://www.metalandmagic.com/modules.php?set_albumName=anthromorphic&id=rockwang&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php Ahem. One more reason I love James. I showed him this piece. J: Cool. U: The other mole rats think he’s compensating for something. J: Yeah! Like not having any hair! U: …. U: …. U: […]