Saturday, September 5, 2009

Presented Without Comment

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

It's September

You guys, candy corn season is ALMOST HERE!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Repping the SFV

So August has been a big ol' dry spell on this here blog, mostly because I've spent it in LA, where I've been more engaged in enjoying really stellar food, napping with my dog, and letting my thoughts percolate than in doing anything legitimately interesting or productive.

Tough luck for all (six) of you.

HOWEVER, amid all the many and varied projects that have floated through my brain, I stumbled across something that, believe it or not, is actually within my abilities and will probably hold my interest to completion (probably). It's this: an essay series on something I am all too familiar with: the San Fernando Valley. Yes, laddies and gentilemen, I think it's high time I began to articulate my extremely complicated relationship with that most hated region in that most hated city in which I grew up.

Anyway, here it is, let's see how this goes.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Together At Last

This painting is based on an actual photograph that appeared in Martha Stewart Living. So I took absolutely no creative license here (apart from changing an overly detailed kitchen into a pleasant blue background because I was really too lazy to replicate it). Martha Stewart, Alan Cumming, Margaritas, sombreros. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

I like to pretend that they do this once a week.

And that I'm invited.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Things I'm Going To Miss About My House

I'm moving out of the ol' crack den, and into another town house with an identical floor plan. And yet here are the things I will miss (in no particular order):

1) Wacky dance parties at night in a well-illuminated room in front of the window.

2) The ghost.

3) The decorations (i.e. portraits of first ladies, tapestry of dogs playing pool, creepy painting of a child).

4) Two ant farms, no ants.

5) The fear that I am turning into one or both of the Edies from Grey Gardens.

6) Anti-gravity crate.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Chuck Jones > Isaac Newton

Just a little cartoon physics on a Thursday night. Now watch more Looney Tunes. Doctor's orders.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

On Language

"Guppy" and "snoop" might be two of the cutest words ever.