There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. - G.K. Chesterton
I’ve got a couple more pages to finish up this week. In fact, here I am, sitting at the studio…at my computer…getting ready to work on them. But, after 8 hours standing on my feet handing off coffee to people, I need to unwind a bit.
So, how are you, internet?
We don’t talk much. [...]
I started teaching my 6 week class for adult ed at church yesterday. I thought I’d post the summary of each class as we finish. But…not tonight, I just walked in the door after working all day. Instead, here’s a video of John Cleese making a point about reductionism.
Perhaps you might need [...]
I spent all day working on a commission piece that the manager of the local comic shop here in town had me do for a DC writer that’s doing an in-store signing. I spent all afternoon working on it, and almost trashed it halfway through.
I learned a few things while doing this today:
1) [...]
Remember a last week when I mentioned the coming robot apocalypse? Scientists are crazy. CRAZY I SAY!!!
Also, NATURE IS CRAZY.
Giant spiders. Packs of robots equipped with weapons.
The only thing that could be worse is a giant robot spider.
Today I chained myself to the desk and cranked out two pages of sample to send to an editor. I have been in the habit of checking email frequently, and it’s kept me from getting in to a groove. So I forcing myself to refrain from surfing the internet until I take a [...]
This weekend I had the privilege of exploring the upstairs of an abandoned Belk’s attached to a mall in decline. Here a little what I learned:
- There was a staff of mostly males, or at least males in charge, as gauged by the lingerie/bra posters still clinging to the walls.
- The upstairs, given the [...]
This weekend I was at a convention, which is nothing too unusual.
Except that someone made a costume of one of my characters.
I thought that was pretty cool. The guy that made it (modeled here by a friend of his) says it’s not quite done yet (I notice there’s no belt or sleeves yet) but [...]
The economy may be in trouble, but legal stimulants aren’t going anywhere. And if Joe the Plumber is going to make enough money to spread the wealth around, he’s going to need a lot of them too.
I, like our large friend here pictured by the fire and speaking in transliterated greek, dream in color. I’ve always heard this is rare, but most people I talk to seem to dream in color. Another reason for me to doubt hearsay statistics. I have also heard, and can’t remember where, [...]
Today I was thinking about the creepiness of Honda’s Asimo Robot. Then I remembered the sheer terror that is the Boston Dynamics Big Dog. With its lack of discernible head, unstoppable momentum and the crazy, freak-out inducing beehive sound, I cursed the day science bent its collective warped mind to [...]
1. This week I worked a lot throwing coffee around. As a result I was in bed Thursday by 8:30 like an elderly woman who has just digested the last of her 4:00 dinner at the cafeteria.
2. Yesterday everywhere I went I kept seeing customers from work, or people from church. [...]
I’ve been really busy over the weekend and so far this week.
Here’s a card.
Dear artist who painted the Starbucks window,
“Pumpkin” is spelled not spelled “p-u-N-p-k-i-n”
I don’t even know how to pronounce that.
Coridally,
Brian
A rare no art day.
I was throwing the coffee around from before sunup until around three today, and managed to soak myself in warm soy milk. By lunch I sat down to eat with cold, soy soaked pants, feeling exhausted and achy. The cooler weather this week has brought about a season [...]
Painting is something I thought that I’d like to be able to do for a while now, but it’s been a very slow process for me. When I was learning to use markers (and I’m still learning) I had tried initially to use color and the drawings turned out like poo. So I [...]