Once a month I highlight a piece of art I have created and posted on my Fine Art America site. This one is titled Rubberbands from the Scanner Still Life Collection.
Rubberbands
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Image Of The Month
“She who dares” Credit: Jules Oldroyd
Puzzler Gag Card
I came across a small box of these “Puzzler Gag Cards” a few months ago and decided to fit them into this blog from time to time.
Pretty Satisfied
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall I’m pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
Gene Hackman
(1930-1925)
Three Tips For Trump
Mount Trumpmore will be the greatest sculpture ever created, finally getting rid of those second rate presidents.
Annexing Greenland, dissolving the Dept Of Education and retaking the Panama Canal are great ideas, but they don’t go nearly far enough if The Donald wants to really get serious about things. Here are three great ideas he is free to steal:
- Move December to the front of the calendar, making it the first month, not the last, because Christmas and Jesus need to be first, just like America.
- Eliminating the Dept of Ed and firing federal workers should be just the tip of the iceberg. All departments, their leaders and their workers should go, excepting the departments of state, treasury, defense (renamed war) and the attorney general. If that set up was good enough for Washington, it’s good enough for Trump. Maybe.
- Annexing Canada and Greenland is a great beginning, but why did Manifest Destiny stop at California to the West? Okay, we spluttered one more time with Hawaii, then that was it. It is time to fire back up good old M.D and get going again. We can start with all of the islands in the Pacific between us and the Asian mainland, including Japan, and then, who knows? Hopefully, Trump will have a third term as president to figure that out.
No Swimming
Once a month I highlight a piece of art I have created and posted on my Fine Art America site. This one is titled No Swimming from the Photographs Collection.
Image Of The Month
Promotional still from the movie Goldfinger (1964). The first Bond movie I saw as a kid and still one of my favorites. How can you go wrong with characters such as Pussy Galore and Oddjob?
Puzzler Gag Card
I came across a small box of these “Puzzler Gag Cards” a few months ago and decided to fit them into this blog from time to time.
2024 Reading
The Foxfire Book Edited By Eliot Wigginton
Foxfire 2 Edited By Eliot Wigginton
American Stories By Calvin Trillin
Composed By Rosanne Cash
The Walking Dead Vols. 13, 14, 15, 16 By Kirkman, Adlard, Rathburn
Here’s Negan! By Kirkman, Adlard, Rathburn
The Book of Leviathan By Peter Blegvad
The Contract With God Trilogy By Will Eisner
Through the Woods, Stories By Emily Carroll
The Plot By Will Eisner
Watchmen By Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
As you can tell the beginning of last year was devoted to graphic novels. I finally finished the Walking Dead series (very enjoyable, and different from the never ending TV series) I reread some Will Eisner and a few others, then on to some finance and history books.
Living Well on a Shoestring By the Editors of Yankee Magazine
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth By Ric Edelman
The Americanization of Edward Bok By Edward W. Bok
Iowa, Land Across the River By Don Doyle Brown
Remembering Santa Fe By Willard F. Clark
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons By Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Vonnegut was one of my favorites growing up, and I have decided to reread some of his stuff during 2025.
Other than newspapers, magazines and online articles that was it for 2024.
May 2025 be a good reading year for both you and me.
Envy Menace
Envy Menace
Once a month I highlight a piece of art I have created and posted on my Fine Art America site. This one is titled Envy Menace from the Spray Art Collection.
Off The Back Porch 