poor trait

I'm pretty bad at painting or drawing portraits of people, but once in a while i decide to try it and, once in a while, one will come out good.
I had a very good example from around 2003, but i really don't want to look for the images and scan them right now. Instead, I'll just show you the one I did today. I took it from a photo from Stephen Shore's book Uncommon Places.
Fort Worth, June 1976

By no means is my rendition of this woman as fabulous as she is. And I tells ya, a brush tipped pen can do a lot to add depth to a line drawing. Or probably a real brush, but that's too messy for me.

a dapper young Don Knotts?

found art

Some art from a few years ago that was being stored at my folks' house. You really ought to click on them and make them bigger. They are much nicer that way.

a rare moment

My Uncle Reggie took this picture of my family at dinner in Reno, NV the other night. It's not common for all of us to be together at the same time. I don't think these smiles were even posed, for the most part.
I was laughing at something my brother David said. "I'm saving that for the girls at Circus Circus." It was funny, but I missed the first part and I have no idea what "that" was.

incredible!

My favorite song of all time just got better!

That Bobby Darin is all kinds of awesome.

some more old drawing

Maybe I should make some new ones rather than just posting old ones all the time.

I originaly did this on a little peice of paper years ago, but I think I gave it to my friend Sagar, who really liked it. Soggs, this is for you.

the new falcon treadador

I did this comic about five years ago spoofing an SUV commercial that was running at the time. I enlarged a particularly hard-to-read panel to use as the button, so click on it to read the whole thing:


And for no real reason, here's another drawing I did around the same time. I like 'em scuzzy.

gluten for punishment

My friend/coworker/Filthy's Angel Rachel has surprised me. She doesn't eat meat or dairy or wheat or gluten or anything and naturally when I think of vegan food, bacon and cheese lover that I am, I think "yuck". Rachel, however, has managed to make some kick-ass peach cobbler, key lime tarts, and enchiladas. Hopefully she will continue to make great food and give it to me.

Here I am with one of her kittens. I am refraining from making any "pussy" jokes because they have all already been made.

brand new bag

Are you one of those people who goes to the grocery store and, when checking out, realizes that you forgot your reusable shopping bag? You say "Oh no, I left it in the car," or "It's hanging on the door at home." You begrudgingly take a paper or plastic bag, feeling guilty rather than green as you singlehandedly deepen the footprint that humans are leaving on the planet?

I'm here to tell you not to worry. It's fine, really. Just the fact that people are aware of it at all is progress. We have decades of plastic-bag-use to recondition, it's not going to happen overnight. Soon enough you will remember to bring that bag out of your house and into your car. Then out of your car and into the store. I've noticed a lot of people just scraping the whole idea and going sans bag, period.

So worry not, eco-conscious friends. I'msure you'll remember to bring that bag instinctively, especially when we start charging you for paper or plastic :)

something from the weekend

A car in front of us had a vanity plate that said "DADREAM", and I chose to read it as "DAD REAM".

what i did at work today

...and I didn't even have to buy him dinner.

which is better?

Whitney has:
Giant floating Kevin Costner head
Silver Super Hero outfit
Ninja sword
powerful lungs


Dolly has:
Hee Haw
Polyester
big hair
Minnie Pearl
can make you sad


It's like my geekyness and gayness are having a debate.

I'm famous!

Click the picture to go to the Common Ties web site.

like a lead balloon

well, i didn't post anything yesterday. Here's my post for today.

i'm lazy

That's why I haven't been blogging much. This week, I'm going to try to pick up hte pace by making one post per day for each blog. Only for this week, though. And since I already did a review, I'm just going to share the results of this survey that someone sent my way a couple of months ago.

note the difference between the first and last choices

more art

I sold that last picture, the one witht eh dudes on the bed. I'm submiting another one tonight, wish me luck. I hope it doesn't violate my contract or anything if I put my artwork up here before they publish it. oh wells.

does this make me an asshole?

clicky make bigger

sequel

the Hills
Neti pot
comics

video

I keep wanting to play with my video camera but I can never think of a topic. Well, I still haven't come up with anything, but I made a video anyway. It's about the placement of a plant in my room. oh, and passions.

sinko day my oh

Today I sold a whole lot of Corona and a whole lot of salsa and a whole lot of tortilla chips and a whole lot of taco fixin's. To a whole lot of white people.

On a different note, remember that drawing I sold to that website (that still hasn't published it yet!)? I submitted another one tonight. Here it is, followed by the caption (submitted by someone else, I just illustrated it):

When you’re lonely, any comfort will do.
Gender does not matter - only a warm embrace.
He listens, he cares.
Holding leads to kissing leads to more.
This choice is only temporary.
Please, please only be temporary.

sit rep

So I didn't spend Free Comic Book Day in the drug and booze induced stupor that I previously suggested. It was more like Super Bowl Sundays when I was a kid...I spent most of it doing chores. I'm not complaining, over all it was a pretty good day. I told myself, No beer or World of Warcraft bfore 8 pm. That way I would, you know, do stuff.
I woke up, ate breakfast, got high and went to the gym. I still have about two weeks left of free membership there before I'm all done and going 45 minutes to an hour on the elliptical does make me feel pretty good. Then I took the bus to Arcane to get my comics. I was bummed to discover that we, the people, were limited to three free comics! Boo! I understand the business of it, but it's not like there was a huge crowd. What's going to happen to all those free copies of Jughead? They're going to sit there.
So then it was back home to study some logic. I was worried because I didn't do so hot on the last quiz, but in only about an hour I caught up and took the next quiz. There was only one question and here was my answer:

1. C > D
2. D > (E & F)
3. (E & F) > G
4. (~C > F) & (A > S)
5. ~G & A­­_____ / (F v S) & ~G
6. ~G (5)simp
7. D > G (2)(3)HS
8. C > G (1)(7)HS
9. ~C (8)(6)MT
10. ~C v A (9)ADD
11. F v S (4)(9)CD
12. (F v S) & ~G (6)(11)CONJ

See that part that says "(4)(9)CD"? That 9 should be a 10. I still got full credit, though! It was about 3 or 4 pm, but I said "Screw it, I rock," and started on my beer. And My laundry.

Yesterday had to be the biggest laundry day I ever had. I did five, count 'em, five loads. So yeah, pretty much everything I own. Reds got separated, whites got bleached, and only one load, the last one, has gone unfolded.
While I was doing this I was also making some awesome hamburgers and mashed potatoes, but the butter I used in the potatoes had absorbed a bunch of fridge odors. This made them taste like shit and I had to throw them out. Luckily I had veggies to eat, too. During this time my roommate Cesar and friends Amber and Christina were having a craft/sewing day thing here. It was fun to see them and the stuff they make.
Oh yeah, I got my stimulus money, too! Woo Hoo! I'm not spending any of it until I budget things yet, but I immediately put $100 in savings as some sort of insurance.
And I got to watch the fourth season on Curb Your Enthusiasm, compliments of my co-worker Pete. He might bring me season five today. I also painted the picture of the fire hydrant in the previous post. Played Warcraft with Steve2 for like an hour. um...I guess that's it.
It was a really good day with one exception. My man is out of town visiting family and I'm not too macho to say I miss him terribly. I'm glad he's getting to spend time with his kin, though.

what freaking luck!

I had planned to start celebrating Free Comic Book Day like a holiday, much in the way most people celebrate the Super Bowl. You know, take the day off, eat shitty food and drink a lot. But of course I completely forgot.
I knew that it was at the beginning of may and here it is, May 1st, way too close to request the day off. I looked it up to see exactly what day it was and it's May 3rd. The good news is that I have that day off already! And it's a Saturday! Woo Hoo!
So, come Saturday you can be sure that I will be going to Arcane Comics and More in Ballard and grabbing up as many freebies as I can. Then get sufficiently wasted and gorged on junk food. And maybe, like others do on Super Bowl Sunday, I'll go to places where people are working and let them know what a great time I'm having not working and doing something they don't care about.

i am truly blessed

...because I guessed on a lot of these answers.

You know the Bible 85%!

 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

Ultimate Bible Quiz
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fight AIDS on my birthday

Participating restaurants are listed on the website. I don't know where I'm going yet, but I'll let you know so you can come wish me a happy birthday!

Now listen to the attractive gay man:

sometimes grocery work has its perks

what i did at work today

penis. penispenispenispenis.

With Julian's penis being cut off, Passions is not passing this opportunity to make itself the trashiest I've ever seen it.
Dr. Eve Russel has reattached the penis. However she did so under the supervision of her pregnant hermaphrodite son who drugged her and made her operate drunk. He instructed her to remove a significant amount of the penis and sew it on upside down.
Meanwhile, everyone in town has heard the news. Everyone in Harmony is blabbing 'bout boners! And naturally they are using every euphemism in the book! My favorite line has been "Don't say 'winky dink' to God." Despite the colorful terms, they don't hold back on the 'penis', either. Man almighty, I never thought I'd hear the word 'penis' so much without Jeremy around.
To what lengths will this show go to as is creeps towards it's delayed demise? I can only hope that, similar to shows like Arrested Development and Roseanne and even Roseanne's talk show, that it spirals into insanity just before the end.

watchmen pics!

There are some more pictures out from the Watchmen movie, which will be released next March. I am now officially really excited about this movie. Even the shots of the sets look great! Some of the costumes worry me that the movie might focus more on the super-hero-y stuff, rather then the deeper social and emotional focal points of the comics.
Still, I REALLY want to know what Dr. Manhattan is going to look like!

in Passions news

Julian just had his penis cut off.

walkin the dog

I just got back from California, literally throwing away huge parts of my past that had been weighing me down, locked away in a storage unit. It feels good, but I did manage to get a few goodies out of it, like this picture:

I colored this with Photoshop when I was taking a class in it, maybe in 2004...I recently tried coloring a drawing with Photoshop again and this old one is way better. I'm clearly out of practice. I also found a watercolor of similar content...It's in the style of a fishing photo, but the fish the guy's holding up is a robot fish.
More to come about the trip. I'm still getting settled. It's always great to come back home.

deep thoughts

i always liked this song

but i only recently discovered the video for it, and it's great.

smokeout

Well, I fell off the wagon. Yup, I went and started smoking again. I'm not beating myself up over it, but my quit-date is April 1st. I'm already ready, but I have a lot of traveling and school and work and things coming up, so I don't just want to be ready, I want to be prepared. Does that make sense?

for no good reason...

me as a lad.

my dogs

...are barkin' somethin feirce! Don't know why my feet are hurting any more than usual today. Is it cuz I danced at kareoke on sunday? The rest of my body is super tired, also. I think when I get home (i'm at work right now)I'm gonna have a foot bath with summa this:

SNL returns, attn: election

While watching Saturday Night Live last night I realized that it was significant for many reasons. First of all, it was the first episode since the writer's strike ended. It was appropriately hosted by Tina Fey, the former SNL writer who made a name for herself by hosting Weekend Update before moving on to bigger writing/acting gigs.

The absence of television during the last few months may have done more to the country than make us bored. With nothing to focus on other than reality TV, I think people became more aware of current events, fueling the excitement that the '08 election seems to have brought. Not only do we have both a woman and a black man in the running, enough to grab any politically-apathetic person's attention, we didn't have TV around to distract us (as much). People have listened to speeches and opinions and debates and have made some choices. Sure, some have made the decision based on aesthetics, but it's America, people can do that. But there was something missing that I didn't think about and wonder if anyone else did.

Where is that institution that has helped sway the public opinion of presidents and presidential hopefuls by parodying them for the last twenty years? From Dana Carvey's Bush Sr. to Phil Hartman and Darrell Hammond's Bill Clinton to Will Farrel's first-rowdy-Texan-then-bumbling-idiot Bush Jr.(or whoever's doing it these days).We've also seen Ross Perot, Al Gore, and Bob Dole.

Last night, we got it back, and for once the public knew more about the candidates before they saw an SNL skit about it. So here we go..what I like about this sketch is that they don't make fun of either candidate that much but focus more on people's attitudes towards them.

I don't think that every Obama supporter is giving in to his charisma. If you like what the guy's about that's great but you have to admit that a lot of people are like this guy...right when he says the word "inspire" is when I feel he loses all credibility:

I've already written waaaayy more than usual, so go on over to Jeremy's post to see what he has to say and watch the kick-ass news segment that Tina Fey delivers. I wish she would make a regular appearance on the show. It would be a strong, sensible view point in support of Hillary Clinton which she needs. And it would also make me laugh.

just so you know...

Rachel got a great new pair of Armani Exchange aviator glasses that she is very excited about.

i want to see this movie

philthy's angels

The girls who made me that card...wait, let me start at the top. I was at Walgreen's and they had t=shirts for sale, 5/$10. The last one I picked was bright orange and a size small. I knew it wouldn't fit but I nonetheless decided to buy it. When I got to work one of the girls who made me that card was wearing a bright orange sweat shirt. For shits and giggles I put my new orange shirt. Then the other girl said she had just bought an orange shirt and went home on her lunch break to get it. This is what resulted: