It's not that I haven't had things going on; it's that what's going on is either part of Operation: Stay Employed, or Things Best Not Blogged About.
More in a few days, when I'll have a couple weeks' vacation, and time to sleep more than five hours a night. Stay tuned.
Interestingly enough, The Fabulous Lorraine said exactly the same thing about my driving a couple of years ago, when I picked her up from LAX. ... Not even showing her my Safe Driver certificate from the DMV was enough to convince her that I could be let on the road without causing great bodily harm to my fellow Angeleños.
Read MoreI highly doubt that anyone could manage to alter their body shape as drastically as that video above would have you believe, but it's a good illustration of just how much you can do with Photoshop, if you know what you're doing...."For those of you who have seen, time and time again, these manipulated images — be it a retouched wrinkle or a dramatically trimmed waistline — and are aware of the reality behind them, you're maybe able to look at ads and mags and keep your head straight.
Read More In this week's issue of The Economist is an article about the future of the pencil, of all things.... Those pencils gave such a rich black, it was astounding; so unlike those crap No.2 pencils I was plagued with in school.
Not having inherited that level of cleanliness, this is my version: making an already complicated schedule even more complicated, by piling another extremely labor-intensive project onto the list of things I'm supposed to be doing.... I become convinced that surely an epileptic six-year-old could do better, and I should just light the entire home studio on fire, so there was never any evidence of my failed attempts.
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