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i am a refractory factory

Cigar-tin stories (from bottom to top) #6, #7, #8 ... the grim production continues ... #6 contains a story called Victory Girl , #7 contains Free Rein , and #8 is In the Kingdom of Chicken ... all previously published stories, all with additional illustrations on the booklet cover ... now I know what a factory feels like, where everything comes down to numbers ballooning, and mashing the requisite parts together ... meanwhile, there's rain falling on snow here today, and the sky is like poker smoke in the morning.

Quintal

Drawing for a story, pencil on paper.

sydenham street studios late-night opening, december 12th

The invitation (extended to anyone who sees it – that means you) for our late-night opening on December 12th. It's simply an excuse for people to drop by, have a cup of coffee, see some new art and say hello. * * * * *

cigar-tin stories #3, #4, #5

For Pinch Me , Blindekuh and Death of a Dictator respectively. As of today I'm at #14, I think.

to be of the opinion that

Cigar-tin story #2. Inside is a story called Broken Head , which takes the form of an introduction/acknowledgements to an imagined book, and wherein the narrator/author has some jagged opinions on exactly who has helped him become who he is today. * * * * * More cigar-tin stories. I'll have a bunch done for our late-night opening as SSS on December 12th. * * * * * Our new sign outside SSS, lighting up the winter night. * * * * * **Add-on!** Not part of the original post! Psyche! I'd almost forgotten that Sheri had tagged me, so here's my eight bits: 1} I am second of seven kids. 2} I have never left the continent. 3} Right now, I'm eating an orange. 4} In the winter, my skin falls apart. 5} I think life tends to dip at the edges. 6} And that things will get worse before they get better (C hates that, subscribing to the happy-thoughts school). 7} Despite her Pollyanna attitude, C is awesome. 8} Her cats are not. At. All. And now to spread the pain: 1} Melis

pretend me this

Making: cigar-tin stories. One Panter dessert cigar tin + one painting on its lid + varnish + one previously-published story in a booklet (my own stories, of course) = one cigar tin story. They're meant as fun, decorative, curiosity objects, facing outward on bookshelves or adding life to a coffee table. I will have about twenty of them ready for our late-night opening at Sydenham Street Studios on December 12th. * * * * * Watching: Into the Wild , directed by Sean Penn. A sad story about a young man who arrogantly abandons a life lived with others for an idealized version of nature and its wilderness. Sean Penn shows us accidents and misfortune as the reason for his demise, but really he was simply ill-prepared, and so starved to death. * * * * * Reading: Batman: Year 100 by Paul Pope. It's Batman re-imagined yet again, and while the story adds no new ideas to the territory (a standard-fare plot about a conspiracy amongst government security agencies), the artwork

for illustration friday ... {wise}

every day we stretch, then break (so wise up) ; pencil on yellow xerox paper, 8.5 x 14 inches. For Lenora, as promised.

lucky devils

The lucky devils are right behind us. ; mixed media on canvas, 10 x 10 inches. The *string* series continues. * * * * * Here's a new twist ... I've sent out a lot of manuscripts in this lifetime, and I've got back just about every kind of rejection letter you can think of, but I've never had a manuscript flat out denied without ever having been opened. I mean, was the English department erased? Were the professors all taken out and shot? Did storm troopers surround the place, and burn the college to the ground? And where can I get one of these "REFUSED" stamps for myself?