The acrylic aisle at work is dangerous. The jars of various weird mediums haunt me. They whisper in gloopy voices, rattling their little plastic cages, Liquitex labels gleaming under the flourescent lights. I try to fight it. I have no use for media with mica beads, or string gel! I don’t need these things! I […]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
Every now and then I have these dreams that ought to be wonderful, joyous, bouyant dreams of swimming with wild animals–and then the damn things bite me. I wouldn’t so much call it a recurring dream as a sort of repeated theme. I know I’ve had it with polar bears and–for some odd reason–hippopotami. Each […]
So a few weeks ago, I’m ordering checks with the new addresses, and the guy asks if I want address labels too. “Sure,” sez I, “sounds like a good idea.” “Anything special you’d like?” “Nah, just the basic cheap ones.” And then we exchanged a few more pleasantries, and I went about my business. Today […]
It was an exciting weekend at the art supply store. My co-workers in the framing department and I were huddled around one of the computers, trying to figure out some horror or other, when there was a sudden creak, and we all looked up into the Retail Apocalypse. Like many stores, this one is arranged […]
The Dervishes were cool. The Sufi music was a little tough–not that it wasn’t lovely, which it was–I could live on reed flute some days–but it flows together seamlessly and it keeps going without any apparent breaks, and it’s very…very…soothing…and in a stiflingly warm auditorium, you’re in serious danger of being soothed right into unconsciousness. […]
Foolin’ around with the color scheme from Boneclaw Mother some more, so I did a little study of a oddly masked priest. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49419947/
So I went into the service station, with every intent of learning to fill my own tires with air. I mean, this is a survival skill! I should know this stuff! However, the nice mechanic saw me wandering around aimlessly, looking for the air hose, and said “Do you need help?” and when I confessed […]
At a certain hour this morning, the voice mail of friends rang with the plaintive cry of “Okay…how do I tell if the tire is flat, or if it just needs air?” Yes, yes, I know, independant living makes me a better person, a stronger person, a more capable person, I will be proud of […]
It was the first really warm day for awhile here–following twenty degrees last weekend, suddenly it jumped to the high sixties. I opened the windows and let the air come in. The first warm day of the season always brings an odd feeling with it. I’ve written about it before. It’s even more pronounced in […]
So I went in to the gallery today, prints and the Watermelon Heels original tucked ‘neath my arm, and talked to the gallery owner. She liked St. Egg, and the fruit shoes, and the collaged magnolia warbler. (The weird fruit were a little too silly, and digital art was of no interest to her whatsoever–and […]