I frankly don’t understand the need to make top ten (or 25, or 50, or 100) lists for the past decade. Why examine the period from 2000 to 2010? Why not 1998 to 2008, or 1995 to 2005? What is the difference? Each industry or category to be measured goes through major hurdles at different […]
Art Walk December
The art walk this month, to put it bluntly, sucked. Sam is convinced that it is because the parking lots around the area raised their prices (our usual place went from $5 to $8), I think it might be the colder weather and the threat of rain (yes, I’m not kidding) that night. Whatever the […]
scans
Today on my lunch break I took my sketch book and scanned in some of my favorite sketches from the past six months. Some of these I posted shoddy camera shots of back in August (?) and some are newer. Some will become paintings later – and some will not… The real reason for scanning […]
get out
After work on Monday a friend drove me to Galpin to pick up my car. That day was one of the 5 days a year that it happened to rain in Los Angeles, and so the dealership didn’t bother to wash my car as they’d promised. That left me a little bitter considering I’d been […]
misty mountains
On Saturday I might have been stuck at the dealership for the rest of my life if Sam hadn’t picked me up. She took me to costco (she has a membership) where I ate something for the first time in 7 or 8 hours – costco pizza! For those of you who don’t know, Costco […]
glug glug
On Friday night as I was driving from the gym to the art store (I needed to pick up transfer paper so I can do away with the inefficient “grid” method I’ve been doing) I heard a faint gurgling bubbling noise. When I was only a few blocks from home my car flashed the dash […]
We are in the dark
Whether the flag wavers are phony patriots or real matters not. The very concept of patriotism is what is preventing our species from moving forward as a civilization. Every day I see a new reason to believe I was born 200 years too soon. Patriots are chained to ideas out of fear. The fear […]
who am I, oh great internet?
Sometimes the simplest truths are the most profound. I asked the internet today what job I should have (I’ll leave it up to you to jump to conclusions here on why I spend my “free time” thinking about jobs). Here are the results (my comments in red, things I disagree with crossed out, bold emphasis, […]
what?
I was on my way to the kitchen at the office today to get my water bottle and I saw a middle aged woman in a dour green winter coat coming through the front door. She looked rather haggard, with long untreated dirty blond hair and a pained face. We don’t have a receptionist at that door. It usually […]