scribblings from historic downtown McKinney, Texas: altered art, local color, flora, fauna, cemeteries, irrational commentary, improbable-and-unlikely diy home projects
Found Papers: playing card & 2 cigarette packs.
A co-worker was showing me her latest scrapbooking efforts this week, and I was struck by how much money she has invested in her hobby, so much so that she says people will only be getting handmade cards for Christmas, and nothing else. She’s got a machine to […]
Playing around with Photoshop and some of its filters…..Been thinking about Day of the Dead and these images appealed to my macabre senses. Like too many of my projects I had no plan when I started.
I’m inspired by how many people can do a project every day. I hadn’t planned on doing a card-a-day project yet, but since the heat has me mostly hibernating indoors, and since the smell of the paint on the outside of the house deters me from painting on the inside, I’ve started doing a few […]
The smell of freshly ground and brewing beans may sound like an invitation as it winds its way up your nostrils. It’s not. Burt’s Bad Bird is watching you, just past the wooden gate topped by barbed wire. He is fierce. He is wise. He was Dead-Eye Dick in a former life. So keep on […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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.
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