Archive for October, 2008

My father died today at 11AM after a 9 month battle with esophageal. All his family was there. Here’s a sketch I did quite a while ago, for a painting: I may post something a little better at some point, but right now that’s all I’ve got on the computer, and it’s about all I [...]

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My favorite X song:

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Warren Ellis is posting music videos over on his blog today. Seemed like a great idea. New Life from X. John looks his usual imperturbable self, and Exene is lookng kinda wild.

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Just about my favorite candy, right there.

attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued—except as a stimulus for further moves. Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for. Use and respond [...]

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. –William Butler Yeats

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Hey how ’bout that. Another apple painting!

A new apple painting:

from SkullADay was on the Martha Stewart show today, promoting his book Skulls! (of which I was one of the lucky winners drawn for the signed copy for my papercraft skull–see my previous post), which looks real nice from the glimpse we got on the show, showing off some of his Skull_A_Day creations, and making [...]

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I’ve got an idea.  Yes I do.  How ’bout, instead of giving Wall Street 700 Billion Dollars, Washington, gives everyone in the US 2 Million Dollars.  With a population of approximately 305,358,236 (US Census Bureau estimate), that’ll cost the gov’t less money, and, really ought to kick the economy up a notch. Just a thought.

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