What’s With All These Damn “Sewists”?
So I stumble on some YouTuber (we won’t waste time mentioning who) giving a screed about how “sewist” is too a word and how she doesn’t wanna use a “gendered” word like “seamstress” because sexism or whatever. You sure about that? Or rather, you sure that it’s “seamstress” that’s...
Shrieking fandom and other artificial nonsense
Saw one of those Facebook “suggested for you” things which was some lame TedX talk by some woman whining that when men cheer for a sports team that’s cool but when females do shit like build a shrine to Harry Styles’ vomit it’s “hysterical” (and apparently that word alone...
Lego, Nick, and Hack Ideas
Back to the Saturday life update blogs… if only to procrastinate on cleaning the kitchen, lol… So, some Lego updates. I got the Elvis art set a couple weeks ago and assembled it, then finally got the King hung up over the throne in the downstairs bathroom: On a...
Fakes, frauds, and grifters
I’m not gonna call anyone out by name, so we’ll just say “Z” for the apparent generation of the one who inspired this rant. Z is a video content creator. Nothing wrong with that. Z tells people she’s an artist. And she paints, so sure. OK. Z seems to...
Lame “important” art vs. fun fan art
So, I saw a FB post from an art magazine showing some installation where someone (presumably a humorless art school prig, though I know my first reaction was to burst out laughing) printed a bunch of blah blah blah slogans about barriers and inclusion in foundation year of art...