12-23-07
New Paintings
With my arm out of commission I can’t get a whole lot of painting done. I CAN take pictures and post up the two I was finishing before the hand of dog mangled me. I still have some final junk to do to them… Thoughts?
12-09-07
Clavicle
So. I haven’t posted for months. I kinda suck at blogging.
I broke my clavicle and I can’t use my right arm for the next six weeks. Fortunately my work is being really nice and letting me work from home since I can’t drive. I feel really stupid and bad though. Plus it hurts. Especially at night! And it’s really hard doing stuff with one hand (next to impossible to get a pizza out of the oven!) Balls.
08-26-07
Chupacabra
I’ve haven’t posted in a while. A chupacabra landed at my house and makes me do all his business stuff for him… driving, goat getting, toe claw trimming, etc. He’s a jerk. He only speaks Spanish and won’t learn a lick of English, so he’s difficult to talk to. Plus he slurs his speech when he’s drunk (which is most of the time.) Anywho, I managed to break away for a little bit and all I do is talk about him! I guess that’s love!
06-28-07
Planes, Vans and Grammar Issues
I’m leaving on a jet plane tomorrow night, flying to Dulles Airport in Herndon Va., driving to Dale City Va., getting up and driving to Savannah Ga, sleeping, then getting up and driving back here to amazing Winter Garden FL. So, not only was that a run on sentence, but the plan for a run on weekend. Why do I do this? Cause I’m crazy. Don’t believe me? See the pic!!!
Other than that, I’m gripped with anxiety. Cripes…
06-12-07
Thirty Schmirty
I turned 30 on Saturday. Stayed out all night. Kind of raised a ruckus, but not really. I have lingering guilt.
There’s a theory bounced around that maybe I’m really uptight, and that all it takes is a few drinks to turn me into an extrovert. I suppose that’s true with most folks. I shouldn’t drink anymore though. It messes with my meds, and isn’t really in line with my life goals. Except for that hobo thing I want to do, but I’m saving that for 31. Goals are kind of like personal interests. I think. That said, here are…
My items of interest for year 30!!!
1.)Cooking delicious vegetarian foods
2.)Pretending to be responsible (keep telling myself it’s all make believe!)
3.)Doing large paintings of simple crap
4.)Figuring out how my kids are sooo fricken cool and stuff
5.)Books with fiction stories inside them
6.)Learning how to be less uptight without drinking
7.)Sidebends and situps
8.)Communicating simple thoughts without tainting them with my inner evil
That’s it. 8 items items of interest for year 30. I was going for 10. If I think of two more this year I’ll let you know.
05-28-07
Daddyness
Son: Dad, I want three wiener dogs.
Father: Oh yeah? What would you name them?
Son: (Without hesitation) Stretch, Lightening Fast, Spider-man and Green Lantern!
Father: That’s four dogs.
Son: Okay, I want four wiener dogs.
05-21-07
Fooey
I’ve got nothing new. I’ve been checking out CS3. So that’s occupying my computer time and my poor old mistress, WordPress, has suffered. Sorry Madam. I’ll give you some love, but my heart isn’t in it.
I’ve just finished reading India by Stanley Wolpert. Super nice history of India… I’m kind of into India these days. I’m not sure what started it. I think it was the food. I loves me some Indian food! It could have also been the fantastic Sikh exhibit I saw at the Smithsonian in February. Regardless, it’s my new thing. I want to go to Amritsar. It looks pretty amazing. I’m also in the process of reading Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie… that kind of contibuted to my recent India interest as well. It’s really really great, but I stopped reading it to read India so I understood what the heck was going on. It’s so deep and there’s so much complex religious tension. I understand a little better now.
Started a couple of new paintings and I’m working on a public art project with some friends. I want to try wheat pasting. I think I may buy some rolls of paper and do some one-off paintings for pasting up around town. Wish me luck. I’ll post up the results! 
05-07-07
Whew, Artshow!
It’s kind of silly, but I’m really happy after showing my painting at the art show! It made me feel great to see something I worked on up on a gallery wall. It made me feel great that my friends showed up to look at it. It made me feel challenged and inspired to do more. My painting wasn’t the best thing shown that night by a long shot, so it also made me feel a wee bit competitive to do better next time! Um, so here’s some pictures Sean sent me. Thanks Sean!
Thanks everybody for coming to hang out with me!
04-30-07
O-Town, oh town…
Coming out of my weekend with a few notable notes of notey-ness. I went Friday night to see New Mexican Disaster Squad, The Draft and Lifetime at the Social. The Draft was great. I love seeing those guys, although Chris Wollard said that we, “the crowd”, were a “bunch of stiff legged turkeys.” I’m not sure what that meant, but I’m kind of worried and I’ve been trying to stretch my legs a lot. The Draft opened for Lifetime and that was rad and cool and stuff. I went into the mosh and it smelled bad and someone punched me in the spine. I haven’t been surrounded by that many hot sweaty young dudes since the really obvious gay joke.
Also of note that evening was; being pulled over for speeding but only, and very very thankfully, getting a warning; hanging with my good pals Sean, Glenn, Julie, Rebekah, and Diane; eating a delectable vegan chili-cheese dog; and having some thimble-dicked jizz-tampon drunk jackass key my car. Three out of four semicolon separated incidents isn’t bad. I kinda wish the keying thing hadn’t happened though. It makes me hate inside. I’m trying not to hate.
The next morning I spent on the roof of my mom’s house cleaning gutters and thinking of a long string of insults to write about the guy that keyed my car. Her neighbor brought over a pressure washer, which was nice, but turned my morning job into an all day job of cleaning the front of the house and my mom’s driveway. It was cool though and I didn’t mind because it was nice out and I owe her a few thousand favors.
The last item on my list was wrapping up my painting. I found the perfect varnish to apply to the lord of darkness (see pic below.) I airbrushed a vignette-type of effect around the edges, signed it, and glopped some of the aforementioned varnish all the heck over it. I think it’s done now. I like varnish. It makes stuff glow and unifies and brightens the colors.
Whitty and I dropped by the pool this weekend as well. That is all. Consider my weekend recapped. Consider yourself robbed of the last four minutes of your life. I’m going to consider something interesting to write about for my next post. I do enjoy rambling on about me me me.
04-25-07
Sermon among the Pigs
So, my painting was accepted at this upcoming art show. I’m pretty darn excited. I hope that this can be the beginning of more painting and personal work for me. Not that I don’t love my worky work, but it feels real good to stick some paint to something. Its also neat to be able to show the results in public. At least I think it’ll be neat. It could be horrible and I’ll stop doing art altogether. You know, either or. I hope its a good experience!
I had a visit with my pdoc earlier this week. It seems like my anti-deps are doing their job and keeping my anxiety under control. I feel a lot better. More logical, more like myself. I did find out that one common side effect is very vivid dreams. I’ve definitely experienced this, and frankly, I kind of like it. There’s nothing like a romp through my very bizarre subconscious. I find myself quite entertaining! I had an amazing dream about the space shuttle crashing into a local power plant and creating a ball of flame that altered the atmosphere and caused lightening storms. It was better than any movies I’ve seen recently! But that’s not saying much.
I’ve got some fun stuff coming up this weekend with a little rock and roll, some gutter cleaning, and putting the final wraps on mister painting. Right? Right!
