I took an ordinary sugar cookie recipe- Betty Crocker- and added Skittles. Voila. Instant magic. Some of the Skittles melted, leading to this unfortunate Lemon Skittle Piss Effect: I then decorated them in inimitable fashion: The cookies were absolutely delicious. They were UNBELIEVABLY GOOD. Tropical Skittles would have been even better, but sadly those are [...]
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We went on an Art Journey of Oklahoma City yesterday. It culminated in this series of bronze statues of the ‘boomers’ who are the people in the Oklahoma land rush. They just boomed across the border. (Actually I think there was a cannon that boomed, and then they were allowed to go.) The ‘sooners’ – [...]
Remember to screw the cap on.
Seems like everyone’s getting the Christmas decoration bug. Sean: Kim: The people of Bedford provide us with many gems such as ladies dancing: Lords a’ leaping: The overall Christmas Miracle that is the National Elks Home: And: Note the elk: I quite enjoyed the abstract light arrangement in this tree: And my personal favorite, these [...]
Another rockin’ Christmas CD. I think “Zombies in the Snow” was the title of the movie the Baudelaire orphans went to see with Uncle Monty in The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket. It may have also been from a Calvin and Hobbes comic before that.
It is Saturday afternoon. The bookstore (Cantos Bookseller in Roanoke, VA– thanks to Julia M for finding all these reviews of the nutty place) is deserted except for me, Mike, and a fiftyish bookseller with three feet of hair in several shades of gray and one of those floppy hippy dresses with a cardigan over [...]
Thesis accepted. Score! And a dangerous foray into figuration. Or an embarrassing fumble into figuration? Who can say! Not the world’s best painting, true, but I AM still painting, and painting something new, which puts me in the definite minority for recent MFA grads.
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