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Month: November 2005

  • Eve Expelled from the Garden

    Eve Expelled from the Garden

    or The Baker’s Daughter Eve Expelled from the Garden Alternative title: The Baker’s Daughter Digital painting Approx 14 w by 10 inches h Lightbox enlargement Eve is a nod to the pin-up painter Rolf Armstrong, based on one of his paintings. The bakery is based on a photo I took years age of one in…

  • Now, you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did

    “Now you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did,” says my husband. I’ve been going through pictures of new lemur species and the find of the ancient mososaurus found in Texas and the ancient sea monster Dakosaurus andiniensis, reading the news stories to H.o.p. We look at a…

  • The day before the day when many will be dozing on turkey

    Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. If you look back a couple of posts you’ll see the picture of a dead turkey and a comment on Edward Curtis. That’s my sideswipe version of a Thanksgiving commentary, I guess. But I hope everyone who drops by and reads this post has a good holiday weekend. Right now I’m deep in…

  • I fail on the song meme

    Tild hit me with the following song meme. It doesn’t matter what genre they are, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog. Then tag five other friends to see what they’re…

  • “We Went and We Saw” Series

    “We Went and We Saw” Series

    T Wrecks At the Museum of Natural History Alternative title: Escape from Creationism! Digital painting Approx 24 w by 13 inches h Click image for overlay enlargement. Detail. Enlargement Click here for all posts in the “We Went and We Saw” series of art. And yes that’s H.o.p. Artist and fledgling animator. My pride and…

  • Dear upstairs neighbor

    Dear Upstairs Neighbor: I didn’t mean it when I told the landlord that I didn’t care about your chickens one way or another but that, after months of them wandering the narrow back courtyard-alley under the fire escapes all day, I would rather them in a chicken coop than out pooping all over the place…

  • Monday – dead bird blogging

    Monday – dead bird blogging

    Turkey at the Fernbank, 2005 Everyone else blogs pics of pretty live birds sighted from their lovely home environ which has the kind of things (trees, food) that attracts avians other than asphalt-nibbling pigeons. But there’s no point my missing out on the prom, so I dug up a date. At the Fernbank Museum of…

  • Museums and ants

    Museums and ants

    At the Museum of Natural History Digital painting (with photo by artist as reference) 25.09 high by 22.56 inches wide 2005 Lightbox enlargement Detail.

  • The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls

    The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls are those big-eyed waif pictures from the 60s and 70s that went so well with Tang, the space-age powdered orange drink choice of astronauts. The prototype were those painted by Margaret Keane, and despite the cutesy factor, the world looked cold for those parentless children. When I was…

  • Reading about diamonds

    There’s an area called Popular at Technorati. I rarely drop by there. When I remember it exists, I check out a few blogs to see what’s up, like crossing a virtual ocean to the far side where I bang my head with mysterious invisible hammers until I’m appropriately stupefied and return home full of wonder…

  • I suppose I can identify with aiming for good in one’s own tortured way

    Oh, and just in case I thought I’m not interested in that kind of thing (which I’m not), I will sometimes say, “Ok, yeah, let’s walk right over that cliff!” as in if the rest of the pack is going, “Ooo, fun,” I will taste the day’s item on the menu because once I tried…

  • Reagan and Nancy

    Imagine here a picture of Reagan as Tarzan with Nancy as Jane and that it’s in soft focus black and white or luxurious petal pastels, Reagan with his chimp and Nancy holding her starchart up to the heavens, reading the future, “Ronnie, believe it or not, you will be remembered as a compassionate conservative!” He…