This particular example is all about an international package that had too many adventures: Dear Mr. [Muckety-muck], While I am quite appreciative of your staff's well-intentioned attempts at assisting me with locating a wayward package, my gratitude is, at the moment, overshadowed by my ire at the gross incompetence shown by your company in its attempts to deliver my package.... Now, while British Airways might have indeed sent the package back from Toronto, in their supposed role as colluders in this scenario; the fault cannot be entirely theirs, as British Airways does manage to send planes to Los Angeles International Airport on occasion.... But in the manifest's alternate reality, my package arrived in Los Angeles, scant miles away from its destination, only to then be sent to The Great White North of Canada, and then back to the UK.
Read Morefrom today's "since you asked"
If you have a piece of marble ready to work on in the basement, and you have your tools, then go to the basement and start working on the sculpture.... If you have tubes of acrylic paint in your taboret, and there is good light, and you have a canvas stretched on your easel, then paint.... So be careful not to misinterpret your exhaustion as an indicator of your talent or lack of it, or of an innate disposition toward this or that medium, or as a mystical sign.
Read MoreIn which my house is infiltrated by bamboo
Why yes, that IS bamboo from outside the house, poking its way through the wall heater. Good thing the weather here is warm. I'll have to wait until someone who's not allergic to plants comes over.
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Dave McKean's having a show in LA this Saturday night: And I'm seriously considering leaving the studio early to go.... He's been a major influence in my design work and art, and it would be great to meet and thank him. On the other hand… if I blow off the evening class, there might be wrath.
Read Moreyard sale aftermath
If I hadn't rounded it out with the furniture and tools the redneck neighbors left, there would've been maybe a bag of clothes, and a few boxes of random household things.... While I needed to go through the house and clean out old things anyway, I have to say that perhaps the $38.25 I made was not quite worth the extreme lack of sleep it took to get everything organized.... I've been trying to keep the new place in mind, and focus on the good things it has: a bathtub, a dishwasher, a fireplace, a garbage disposal, air conditioning, more space, more storage, a private garage, a kitchen big enough for more than one person, a pool and hot tub nearby.
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