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This is a what the heck is he up to post

I see I haven’t been blogging as much as I ‘d like (even though I am doing better than my 101 in 1001 goal.), so I thought I post a catching up post.
So, what have I been doing? In addition to working, and regular chores, and, today, watching it snow, I’ve been:

  1. Working on my Everyone We Know book.
  2. Finished another painting in my Black Flag series.
  3. Started prepping panels for something.
  4. Working on some silkscreen prints.
  5. Working on a linocut.
  6. Getting stuff together for a relief printing press. (Hope to have it built this week.)
  7. Working on the bathroom some.  Got the walls–mostly–patched.
  8. Reading Robert Hughes book of essays Nothing if not Critical.
  9. More…

Boring, boring, bored

Wow, it’s pretty boring around here since XMas.  Not much going on.  I used my Borders gift cards to buy some nice books, which should be ending up on my 101 Books list (look in my sidebar–on the right) pretty soon.  One is over 900 pages, so it may be a while.  Used some of the cash we got for art supplies, and eaten most of the Christmas food goodies.  Those need to be gone soon, because I’m buckling down on my diet after the New Year.  Which is coming right up.  This has been a tough year, I’m glad it’s almost over.

Working on art works, but nothing finished, or even close right now–soon though.  I do have some more drawings from my Everyone we Know book ready to go, so I may post them soon.

That’s it.

I would like to thank

Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation for adding my Moby Dick piece to their Cultural Fallout of the Week spotlight, and for the twitter ( http://twitter.com/powermobydick ).
Powermobydick is a site with the full text of Mellville’s Moby Dick plus annotations on the text. I read Moby Dick for the first time about 7 or 8 years ago, and fell in love with it. If they’d made me read it in high school, though, I probably would have been put off it. It’s a great tale, wih many subtexts (the major theme is obsession, and the book is obsessional in many ways), and there is a reason that it’s a classic.

Well, I wasn’t wrong after all

Auto Makers to Get $17.4 Billion – WSJ.com

They got more money than they asked for, with fewer strings attached, and less oversite.
Oh, and who’s the “car czar”? The guy who’s supposed to watch over all this?  why, our favorite bailout maven, who’s done such a fine job with the bank bailout–none other than Henry Paulson.

Here’s Mish’s take on it: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/12/bush-wimps-out-on-autos.html

I wish someone would bail me out.