I parked at the gym today in a parking spot that overlooks a 20 foot vertical drop. I have a manual transmission so with my foot on the brake I engaged the parking brake but to my horror the truck kept rolling towards the edge of the cliff. I pulled hard on the parking brake [...]
Archive for March, 2009
I would have done 10 things but that was too much work. 1. Knowing I went to see Knowing Saturday and thought it was very good. It discussed the idea of religious doubt by showing Nicholas Cage’s progression from atheist astrophysicist to believer in some kind of higher power- here ambiguously depicted as a combination [...]
L.A. Traffic I really thought traffic in D.C. was worse. California people talk about it MUCH MORE though. I am insanely paranoid about traffic myself and I plan my entire life around avoiding rush hour. (Around here it is not such an issue.) So I can relate to their demented chatter. Narrative Paintings I think [...]
After much deliberation, I have decided that the green ones from the Wildberry pack are my favorite Skittles flavor. I think the flavor is either Melonberry or Kiwi-Melon or something like this. Tricky that they are almost the same exact color as the lime ones which are arguably my least favorite.
I finally finished this painting. I really want to use gold leaf and I considered a decorative pattern of feathers on the bird, but I decided it didn’t meet the needs of the composition. These days, everything I paint seems to be narrative. I haven’t decided what I think about that. I’ve always been an [...]
I have read a lot of dreary articles about the economy lately. Things do look bad today, but I look forward to a bright future when I can be scalped by taxes and astronomical inflation in order to support my parents’ generation in their old age. (I don’t want to retire myself, I just want [...]
Aka Velvet Elvis. That’s what I’ll be painting on this canvas, or rather, stretched velvet.
Yesterday was 3.14, so I bought a pie. Some people thought this made me a nerd. A rose by any other name. Also notice my fine, reusable, Earth-friendly Apple Computer Logo grocery bag, courtesy of an Apple vendor!
I got a desk chair today, from the Office Max Executive Collection. They had sold out because it was on clearance for $80 off, and I got the display model which meant I didn’t have to assemble some kind of hideous box of horrible plastic parts into a weak, shaky mess of a chair, while [...]
I just got back from 10 days in Southern California. I visited my aunt in San Diego and attended the 2009 College Art Association (CAA) conference in Los Angeles as well. I thought the conference was a great experience. It cost less than a vacation but it really was a vacation and it is tax [...]
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