Art Attack Central
Fixing stuff, myself included…
Lists
What lists?
Things I want/need to do today/yesterday. For instance right here I want to add a set of links on the side bar to the Mr. Potatoehead Chronicles, and I want a link to a page that’s just my art work. In real life…
Real life?
You know that thing we do when we’re not on the computer. Now that I think about it much of my “real life” is spent on the computer. How much will i spend, as in at what cost today. I say that, because one of the other time consuming things on my to do list is redesigning/updating artattackcentral.com. And, my painting another thing on my list, while unrelated directly to the computer, the image I’m working from is a photo enlarged, enhanced, cropped and printed on the computer.
Speaking of computer time, remember when I said if you put quotes around “pavlovian speakeasy” Google comes up with a big fat 0. Well that was 3 days ago. Yesterday I typed it in, and viola there it is with one result, me of course.
So why are telling us this?
It might be a heads up on a Tuesday Too question. Maybe it’s easy for you to come up with a two word (spelled correctly), in quotes combination that produces your site as the one result, or maybe it’s not. If it’s not, you’ll have to invent a combination, and it will take a day or two for google to pick it up. In that case, you’d better get started now, unless of course you don’t give a rats ass about failing the Tuesday Too.
And speaking of rats, that’s something else on the list: Lab Rat needs to be updated (see more computer stuff).
I thought Lab Rat was dead?
She’ll be brought back from the dead, just like a soap opera queen. The soy study sent me a letter stating they’re now accepting smokers into the study. I’ll let you know when Lab Rat catches her breath, and starts spinning her exercise wheel again.
Anything else?
I want to make a 5 min. movie with my digital camera, which I think means hooking together several 1 min. movies. I know nothing about how to do this, so here we go, more time on the internet seeking out information, and freeware programs. Perhaps I don’t have time for real life.
Are you going to do all this today?
Do you think I’m crazy? I’ll be lucky/pushing it to get it done this week.
Painting
Finally I started a new painting yesterday afternoon. Drinking wine, smoking and painting at the same time, I heard the dreaded “beep beep beep”. I threw my brush down, and dashed through the hall shouting, “what, what, what?” There sat Abbott reading The Washington Post, while Elliott was once again trying to dismantle the keyboard. I gave both of them a proper tongue lashing.
Yesterday it was “mouth-watering;” today it’s a “tongue lashing.” Do you have an oral fixation?
Well I did say, we need to redefine the word “speakeasy.” Perhaps it’s the opposite of a tongue lashing.
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
–Oscar Wilde
“It is better to be compex than to have one”
–jf Cates
Dogs At The Pavlovian Speakeasy
Abbott, Su and I went to Niwanna a Japanese/Korean restaurant last night. It’s located on 33rd St. very close to Johns Hopkins University. I love sushi; someday I’ll just eat sushi and nothing else. I’m also a fool for Korean food; I like it hot, hot, hot. I wonder if I’ve burned my taste buds out, and thus they require constant stimulation. No don’t go there! That’s not what I meant.
Well just what did you mean?
No amount of nudging, begging or pleading will make me tell you. However, I have been known to accept bribes.
How about some gazpacho soup?
Okay, you’ve got me. What I really meant was if your taste buds are truly captured by the essence of a particular food, you will not be able to resist it. All resistance is futile. Do not attempt to escape mouth-watering foods. Mouth-watering? What does that really mean? We’re creating a Pavlovian speakeasy.
Pavlovian speakeasy?
Boy is that weird; you get 23 results on Google for it, but if you put quotes around it you get a big fat 0. I wonder what you would serve at the Pavlovian Speakeasy? I know you would have to serve illegal alcoholic beverages to qualify for the name speakeasy in it’s original definition. I think therefore, we should redefine the word so it will have a practical use in today’s world. How about the word bootlegger from the same era? My grandfather was a bootlegger, or so I’ve been told.
Click on the image to enlarge.
One of the things I remember about him was that he used to make little dogs out of chenille. He was old then, and crippled from a fall on the ice that occurred during the time when he was a used car dealer in Washington DC., after prohibition was over. He used to sell the dogs at a craft fair in Braddock Heights Maryland. There was a huge sliding board at the fair. You would climb up a long ramp to reach the top; the slide was about 12 feet wide and at least 50 feet high, and by today’s standards probably dangerous as hell. The gleaming metal was hot in the summer time.
PS Some how the Tuesday Too comment is now with the KittyKat De-Konstruction Kompany Post; I fear this is the work of Elliott.
1.) Describe your most recent sexual encounter. APRIL FOOL! However, if you really want to do that, go ahead.
2.) Does your state/county have some form of legalized gambling other than the lottery? What do you think about on online gambling? Is gambling really connected to organized crime?
3.) What is your greatest ambition?
“A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.”
–Anon.
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