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  • Not that I don't care about politics anymore

    Some are asking why I don’t blog about politics any longer. Why? Several reasons. For one, I happened on the Hanford archive and started doing those digital paintings. Which to me are both human interest and political. At least to me they are. And that was eating up a good bit of what would have…

  • Bigger, smaller –"Alice in Wonderland" science

    Ah, the travails and uncertainties of homeschooling. This chapter I’m naming “Alice in Wonderland” science. We’re listening to “Carmina Burana” this morning, an old favorite of H.o.p.’s, because it was used in a video at a website on the “4th Revolt”, which I came across via Pen Elayne. The idea over at the 4th Revolt…

  • Yeah, I know most people don't, but I like Albert Finney's Scrooge

    Last week H.o.p. said, “Childhood is a lot like a long field trip.” He wasn’t saying that this week. We have had colds. H.o.p. had a bit of a fever with his the first couple of days and then was left with with nose misery and a cough. This is the best he’s done with…

  • The day before the day when many will be dozing on turkey

    Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. If you look back a couple of posts you’ll see the picture of a dead turkey and a comment on Edward Curtis. That’s my sideswipe version of a Thanksgiving commentary, I guess. But I hope everyone who drops by and reads this post has a good holiday weekend. Right now I’m deep in…

  • Museums and ants

    Museums and ants

    At the Museum of Natural History Digital painting (with photo by artist as reference) 25.09 high by 22.56 inches wide 2005 Lightbox enlargement Detail.

  • The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls

    The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls are those big-eyed waif pictures from the 60s and 70s that went so well with Tang, the space-age powdered orange drink choice of astronauts. The prototype were those painted by Margaret Keane, and despite the cutesy factor, the world looked cold for those parentless children. When I was…

  • Reading up on Stop Animation for H.o.p.

    Some time Monday the landlord is dropping by to look at the radiators. We’ve had glorious heat all weekend. Turns out that the heat was supposed to be on all last week but the person sent to check out the boiler’s health and turn it all on didn’t cut it on, they just checked its…

  • Stop animation character study

    [clear] When we got back from vacation we kicked straight back in to relentless rut. I’m going to meditate on that some today. While working.I am constantly amazed by this child. Hates anything that isn’t to do with drawing or (now) animation possibilities. Math? Numbers? He’s got a bit of that dyslexia thing going and…

  • It is not "real life" – it is what we’ve been educated to believe is "real life"

    I don’t often post human-interest type stories like this one below, from CNN, but aside from my wanting to note that had this been an anti-war demonstration gone wrong, in which case I think a lot of people would have ended up in jail (I don’t believe any arrests happened), I wanted to hear some…

  • Mark your calendar to buy this book in October

    Or rather marking my calendar to buy this book. You may mark your calendar to do whatever in October. Pam’s House Blend has a post on a new book by Jim Loewen that’s due to be released in October, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America”. A quote that Pam supplies from Publishers…

  • Why can I never remember Karl Rove’s face?

    I never can remember Karl Rove’s face. Rumsfeld is easy. When I think Rumsfeld I think Wes Craven’s “Hellraiser”. Rumsfeld has always, always been “Hellraiser” to me. But Rove? Nothing. A suit with a zero for a head. Continuing. My son can draw like crazy. This is not one of his drawings-drawings. This is my…

  • Some possible things to do when one’s wondering what’s to be done, a question, and a general mess of a post

    Am going from here to there to over there in this post. No single topic. Arvin Hill is back in the saddle posting and networking. Killing the Machine sends to Skookum’s Models of engagement in which is on possible models of active resistance to The Powers That Be. Arvin’s Two things I enjoyed this week…