Tag: Too much time on my hands/brain again

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...

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...

Ch-ch-changes… probably…

So, the flower headers are gone, replaced with some random pics from my rock memorabilia collections. Seems to me when I updated the blog in 2020 and I was painting more, the headers were my art. Then in 2021 I swapped it to my garden as I tried to...

A ramble on Bono, singer’s doubts, blue notes, etc.

Fuck… where do I even start with this… well, how about a screen shot? This came up a couple days ago, I guess. I haven’t heard the actual podcast it’s from yet, but I guess Bono went into some depth about the various doubts he has about the sound...

Friday Fashion/Beauty: Online shopping ramble

So… about that whole “buy less but buy better” thing… in the short term it sure can look like “buy more.” Maybe that’s just me, lol… but in any case, there’s been some good sales around so I now have 3 blazers en route, a skirt, a dress, and...