by request, my impromptu piss-take on the Hail Mary prayer. Only about Julia Child, instead; penance for having to throw out wasted food from my fridge.... Blessed are thou among women and blessed is the food from thy kitchen, aw yeah.
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okay, so when you get a check that: a bank won't cash, because they claim they don't cash checks; because, of course, they're not a 'personal' bank -- even though their website says they are; and a check that happens to be drawn on a bank that's been fined for anti-money-laundering violations AND has been linked to hamas what do you actually do? also, perhaps i should not have sprayed fixer in my office.... whoa.
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this sometimes surprises people who don't know me well, and they get almost indignant about my venturing into anything that isn't strictly two-dimensional, or done on paper.... this seemed for some reason like a really great idea in the store -- i could save time and not have to punch a bunch of very small holes into latigo leather. however, the breastplate spacers have holes spaced correctly for the larger-in-diameter four-inch hairpipe, not the inch-and-a-half hairpipe i have in the house.
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why the dog hasn't yet learned how to make and bring me coffee in the morning is a source of constant vexation. also vexing: why a check i could use very badly hasn't shown up yet, despite six phone calls to see where it's at over the last five weeks, and seven different stories i've been told about it's whereabouts.... i'm off to go convert and post a bunch of digital paintings to the gallery.
Read Morebecause i'm the art director, that's why
however, instead of A Plan, we're currently doing a lot of Running Around In A Panic, which, while it might feel like planning has happened because of all the frenetic energy involved, really is not at all the same thing.... you can use them to make a total goat rodeo of bits and pieces of copy and photos look organized, and like you actually designed it, instead of like you haphazardly took the text file your client supplied and tried to arrange it decoratively around a sprinkling of clip art and stock photos, then wondered why you had all this extra space left over, so you thought you'd try to put big gaps in between your blocks of text and images to even it out a bit.... in the works: a redesign of pantagruel.net, because i need another project with which to threaten old deadlines a character drawing i need to finish a wedding present painting i need to start a cloth banner i need to paint a comic book cover i need to do home decorating advice for two people art for two blogs homework portfolio assignments self-promotional work and of course, work from the day job just looking at the list makes me cringe; mainly because all but three of those things are not paying work.
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