Two months after my layoff, the State Government has finally seen fit to start doling out my $140 a week. Huzzah!


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[sings] flickr has the answer... [/sings] Sorry. Just a little East Coast flashback there. It'll pass.

[clears throat]


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Before you ask: No.

Not on Facebook. Not going on Facebook. I cling with all my strength to that last crumbling bit of internet anonymity as if I were the last polar bear clawing frantically at the very last fragment of the last iceberg in the sea. ( But thanks for your concern. )

Sincere apologies to anyone on my Friends list who has to read this twice, thanks to the wonders of cross-posting.

( Spring-Cleaning-Type Art Sale! )

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.In maybe-by-someone's-measure of connected news, there's a show starting soon at North Portland's Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center. I'll have one piece, an old one, hanging up there. So here's the link, for those brilliant enough to know that collages are better up close. Or just for those want ( Read more... )

Collaging is still glory above all. Just don't focus on how the hell to promote shit with no fucking computer.

Temp agencies suck raw, rotten eggs through the narrow end of an unwashed, bug-ridden plastic funnel.

That is all.

Well, kind of. I spent quite a bit of time this week doing some long-overdue yard maintenance: Trimming the camellia bushes, pulling out tons of weeds, deadheading the perennials, harvesting annual seeds, relocating a couple of dozen now-dormant spring bulbs, etc ( Read more... )

Yeah, and you all thought the cards (2 1/2" x 3 1/2", w/an image area of 60 X 85 cm), were small. Each of these has a completed size slightly bigger than a quarter. I bought a couple of oversized hole punchers at the local craft emporium at the end of 2007, and I love them. So much easier than using a stencil to make circles.


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