Christmas, etc.
How does that wretched John Lennon steaming pile of shit go? “So this is Christmas and what have you done?” How people claim to like that depressing dirge is beyond me… I would have once said the only thing worse than “Merry X-Mas (War Is Over)” is that wretched...
Friday Arts & Crafts Day Update: December 24, 2021
Not a lot done this week, but I did some stitching on 2018 Santa by Prairie Schooler: Might get it finished this weekend, we’ll see....
Weekly Reading List: December 21, 2021
Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield The Ancient Near East by Harry A. Dawe Taliesin: The Last Celtic Shaman by John Matthews Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom by Erynn Rowan Laurie Konx om Pax by Aleister Crowley...
Monday Memorabilia/Collections: Lemax The Candy Cane Works
This week’s Christmas Lemax piece is “The Candy Cane Works”: This was the first major animated Christmas Lemax piece I got. A bunch of others I’ve admired online seem to sorta be the same but with different housing, which is fine but it means I’ll be looking for sales...
Poem: Old skins
old leather; shed skins one I shed my blood on for art or for ego (and impatience) as if it matters now window dressing recycled edge turned more primal I am shapeshifting again back to the source (I think; therefore I am lost and found again and again) world...
Snowy Saturnalia, web series progress, and shamanism searches
Happy Saturnalia! It’s on now (well, yesterday) through December 23rd, and we have a full moon tonight, and the solstice is on the 21st. So feast and drink and all the rest, folks. I doubt we’ll have a white Christmas based on the forecast for next week, but we...
Friday Arts & Crafts Day Update: December 17, 2021
First up, a little note: note that I’ve changed the title from “Friday Stitch Day” to “Friday Arts & Crafts Day”. I also went back and changed the tags on all these posts, though I left the titles as-is. Because I’m ramping up work on the web series and...
Earthquake!
So, this morning I was stuck in some icky dream which I now don’t remember other than the feeling. And then in a split second, I woke up, heard a loud boom, and the ground started to shake with various items rattling on various surfaces. I ducked under the...
A potential disclaimer for my upcoming web series
Maybe it’s just paranoia I got from my father earlier this week when I was showing him some of the “cast” for the web series I’m working on and he got all spazzed about that I could get sued by people, I dunno. And I didn’t mention that my...
Weekly Reading List: December 14, 2021
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield The Book of Doing and Being: Rediscovering Creativity in Life, Love, and Work by Barnet Bain Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work by Steven Pressfield Do the...