Intaglio

My plates are coming along nicely. I'm I a weirdo or is okay to think soft ground smells good on a hot steel plate?

1960's Belly Dance

Trying to talk Tricia into The Lollipop Shoppe going sultan.

Jim Bianco

Jim Bianco - You Don't Come Around - Luxury Wafers Sessions from Luxury Wafers on Vimeo.

http://www.20x200.com/art/2009/06/no-one-can-live-outside-of-history.html

Trail Trekking!

Cedar Hill State Park

Paper Fortune Teller

When I was a kid at White Rock North Elementary, a redheaded, skinny, sweet boy named Stephen taught me how to make these. I still randomly fold one up and leave it wherever I got the urge to make it. I hope it makes whoever finds them happy.

Quote = Mantra

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell

Park Day!

I go to the park at lunch.


(Does anyone know this artist? Tell me please.)

Joshua Tree

More Memorial Day Weekend

I got in trouble with the docent at the LACMA for taking this photo. :) Whatev, it is an awesome shot of Erik in a Richard Serra sculpture!

Memorial Day Weekend

Went to Los Angeles to visit Bo and her beau, Shane.


Erik came with me and there was much fun to be had. Sailing. Joshua Tree. Art - outsider and educated. Friends. Clients. Exploring. Getting lost. Finding ourselves.


More photos to come!

Cool People I Met at D Mag Art Slam

Blake Wright

Bob Poe

Todd Camplin

James E. Hastings

Francy Renz

Lynda (who does cool printmaking, but didn't get her card)

Sunny Jacquet

Igor Khunteyev

Gosh

Where does the time go? Let me get home and settled and I'll post what's new and a few things I've been thinking about... Facebook does a lot of this for me these days, maybe that's why I haven't been here in so long.

I've been goofing off with this guy a lot.

High Fructose Corn Syrup

I'm offended by the commercials I'm seeing about High Fructose Corn Syrup fine in moderation.

The worst offense:
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) turns off your brain's ability to know the body is full. It blocks that hormone relay. When you intake HFCS at a meal, you will eat 15% - 30% more at that meal than you normally would eating that same meal without HFCS. Its also in the sneakiest of places, like Campbell's Tomato Soup. Since you eat more, you intake more HFCS, ingesting more sugar product, makes higher insulin production, and a higher risk of many popular diseases.

Hey You Toyota

Hey you, Toyota truck who nearly ran over the motorcyclist while exiting 75N onto Northwest Highway east. Fuck you! I hope you die.

I'm a Short Hair People Now

The hair-cutting event happened yesterday! More photos as I download. Bo took some during the cutting. Bag of hair was sent to Locks of Love and I'm playing with my new short hair.

What's Coming Up

Thursday, January 8th, in honor of Tempest needing to shake some shit up - a hair cutting event will take place at 5:30pm.

Here's a before (it is a roughly 2" longer than this today):


Here is what it will look like after (but brunette, of course):


I will post finished product photos after the event. Check back!

Happy Christmas Eve Goodies

I like the Christmas season. I like my family, cooking, eating, and feeding others. I really enjoy being in the midst of IT: people I love, old stories, gossip over the stove, babies tugging on me, normally sullen teenagers who just can't keep it up around all the frivolity, and sleepy daddies snoozing in the den.

Today I stepped out of the IT and went to work for awhile...



Gift wrapping with Zee. Note the multi-use laptop standing in for a tabletop surface.



Then I baked with Mama. I know, I never remember to take photos of the finished product. We made Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, Sinful Fudge, and these little strawberry cream cheese 'refrigerator cookies' which are fabuloso. (I will post the recipe later.)



Finally, Christmas with the maternal side of the family. This is us after spaghetti dinner and desserts - sacked out on the couch. Even the Wii was too much for us when this photo was taken.

Heirloom Recipes

Great-Grandma Robbie's After Dinner Coffee Bars

Wet team:
1/4 cup of shortening (room temperature butter)
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg (two eggs + vanilla)
1/2 cup of fresh hot coffee
-cream together and stir in coffee

Dry team:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (1 teaspoon)
1/4 cup of hacked walnuts
1/2 cup raisins (golden raisins)
-sift together flour, powder, soda
-add salt, cinnamon

-Bring the two teams together with a mixer; I prefer a hand mixer.
-Fold in the raisins and nuts.
-Spread in a 13x9 baking pan, metal.
-Bake for 18-20 minutes.
-Let stand to cool.
-Cut into bar shapes.
-(Sift top with confectioner's sugar to finish.)

I was going to put a photo up of the end result, but it was eaten too quickly.

I am adjusting this recipe for a more flavorful bite. I'll post newer versions as they manifest. (The first revisions are in parenthesis above.)

Dallas Cinemania Film Society: STRAW DOGS - It's On!

Dallas Cinemania Film Society: STRAW DOGS - It's On!

Dec-18, be there.