This morning the world awoke to the news of Obama’s Prize. A cursory glance on Fox News caused me to write up a long and painful blog (that I decided not to post) about the sorry state of journalism (they’re paying “journalists” not only to undermine Obama, but the prize itself). A quick look at […]
jesus christ!
After work yesterday I went to the gym to work out and read from my textbook for Finance (I do a lot of reading on the elliptical machine, being able to read while running without getting sick and being immune to poison ivy seem to be the trade-off for my allergies/eczema/asthma). On the way there, […]
ribbon painting
I’ve “finished” another painting. This one was quite labor intensive and nerve wracking just like the last. I suppose it is no coincidence that they are painted on exactly the same size canvas. This one started off as a little sketch in my sketchbook. A sketch that I don’t think I even included when I […]
links
I’ve been using Google Reader for my RSS feed reader for a while now (probably over a year, but not quite two). As such I’ve been accumulating blogs from a bunch of different artists to read. Of course I read a lot of other blogs and news too (technology, cars, politics, finance, etc.), but I realized […]
Could someone please explain to me how “imma” got into our culture’s general vocabulary? Really, “imma?” Give me a break… I don’t even understand what it means. A ghetto contraction for “I’m a” or.. “I’m going to” … ? and to think, we make fun of the British for calling fries “chips”…
“hand tool stuck photoshop”
I don’t know if this is a windows-only Photoshop problem, but every so often the “hand tool” will get stuck. What I mean by stuck is that even if you select another tool, the cursor you are stuck with is the hand-tool cursor. When this happens you can’t do anything as the hand tool basically […]
this is why CBS isn’t doing well
I’m watching Andy Rooney complain about how he has too much time off when 60 minutes isn’t filming in the summer. “I spend too much money…” “I’ll bet I’d add ten years to my life if I didn’t have to take so much vacation” Right, that is certainly what all of us in this economy […]
the library?
This is the library I remember… When I was in college at Ohio State I worked for the book depository. Every day we’d go on a few runs to the campus libraries, culminating in the “main library.” I have many nervous memories of trying to back up that big delivery van blindly into the […]
Why I don’t look for extra work on craigslist, a refresher course
The economy is bad for everybody. I’m no exception. My salary is stagnant, 401k matching (it was already a small percentage) stopped completely, and my freelance work dropped off to almost nothing. And now I’m going to have to figure out how to pay off $60,000 in student loans starting in 2011. Meanwhile I received […]
South Beach Los Angeles
There was a thick fog over the coast last night. So thick the moon wasn’t visible. The ambient light reflected off the fog lit up the sand brighter than a full moon ever could. I’d always thought this part of the beach was just the southern tip of Santa Monica or the northern tip of […]