Animator. Director. Artist. Scapegoat.
w00t! I finished it! And bashed my finger with a hammer while affixing the hanging rod to the wall, so it’s painful to type. Other than that, no injuries. I present photos of my second-and-a-halfth quilt, “Earth,” which will hopefully be joined by the 3 other elements if I don’t crash out of my new … Continue reading “Earth/Tree of Life & Death”
Dave was hella funny and brilliantly creative and kinda nuts, with a good heart that just stopped January 11, 2024. We both had comic strips in the Daily Illini in the late 1980’s; his, “Bob ‘n’ Dave,” was clever, hilarious, gonzo, and unpretentiously deep. Much later, as the Duke of Uke, he made “Spider Suite” … Continue reading “Dave King Memorial Blogpost”
I was invited to participate in a “Studio Process” for a graduate student’s thesis project, and here’s what came out of me:
I hated my parents. I hated my school. I hated the cops. I hated all authority. I hate anything that imposes limits on me, that gets in my way. I hate disease, I hate that death is inevitable, I hate the laws of Nature. We all do. We all hate our parents, we all hate … Continue reading “Love Thine Enemy”
When I learn a new song – something I do unconsciously, every time I am exposed to new music – is some other song erased in my memory to make room? No. I seem to have unlimited capacity for memorizing music, even as my memory is like a sieve elsewhere. How does my brain do … Continue reading “Collective Senescence”
The COVID-19 pandemic is a miracle. I mean this in the biblical sense. Biblical miracles are horrific, bringing death and destruction. The Ten Plagues of Exodus were miracles, or at least “wonders.” The miracles of Revelation are even worse. A miracle isn’t a fluffybunny event. It is an act of God. The COVID pandemic is … Continue reading “Witnessing a Miracle”