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.

more day.

Jasper johns pic.

As promised.
Some pictures.

more days ’til Xmas.

more days ’til Xmas.
Image by Jasper Johns.

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.

Rescue Bid for Detroit Collapses in Senate – WSJ.com

That’ll larn me.