scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
Man it’s a hot one
Like seven inches from the midday sun
Santana: “Smooth”
another day of 100-plus temperatures, and I’m digging my collages out of the ancient history archives again. Overtime at work is pushing my bedtime up to about 2 a.m. and the painters decided to start scraping the paint off the […]
“Nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged broken edges because those edges cut things and leave an imprint…” - Harry Crews
a small tribute to an old friend, Larry Killingsworth. I just learned that he died last month. The last time I […]
When you work for a big corporation and the national economy is in a downturn you don’t want to hear the word “consultant”. You know it’s a euphemism for a headhunter, and I don’t mean they’re looking to hire someone to oversee production, but rather some heads are going to be served up on a […]
It was dreadfully hot, the middle of Moodling Season. Everyone trudged rather than walked, dragging sopping wet armpits in their wake. The two brothers, Weaves and Juicester, decided a trip to Planet Earth for some fishing was exactly in order. They donned their fishing togs, swept up their violins, and planted themselves in the Sprint […]
I take medication to lower my cholesterol, and I’m nauseated.
I take medication to help me sleep, and I get a hangover.
I take medication to alleviate severe depression, and I lose my creativity.
It’s a tough choice sometimes, especially that last one. I felt miserable from my teenagehood until well into my thirties when I was diagnosed […]
I’ve been doing a lot of interior painting the last few months. Two rooms may not sound like a lot, but when you have raw drywall on ten-foot-high walls and on the ceiling, and unprimed doors and moldings it takes a lot more work than just slapping some white paint over an existing coat of […]
(verb, intransitive) To sparkle malevolently or coldly. To be brilliantly, often misleadingly attractive.
What is it about sparkling material things that attracts humans? The natives who occupied the island of Manhattan lost their home over a bundle of shiny baubles; mirrors, beads and the like. Now Manhattan IS a bundle of shiny baubles.
spark, sperk, spirk, […]
Finally got my scanner connected again although the office is still a mess. Most of my paint lately goes on the walls of the house, but I do have time every now and then to throw some at a piece of paper.
The tallest sunflower we’ve ever had in our garden: it grew from seeds dropped by the birds at the feeder. It’s taller than the six-foot high wooden fence in the background. You can also see where our thoughtless neighbors poisoned the lovely honeysuckle along the back fence, forcing us to look at their yard full […]
There are a lot of nice front porches in my neighborhood decked out with red, white, and blue bunting. The colors usually blossom in the spring and last until the leaves fall in autumn. It doesn’t feel like the “patriotism” that gets tossed around the political pulpits over the wearing of a flag lapel pin. […]
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