Weddings are unforgettable, but Snow White
had special occasion to remember hers. She
was, I think, the world’s first true Bridezilla.
Grimm’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
has several interesting alternative endings.
Happy New Year! Wishing 2008 brings you peace and happiness.
Sometimes the worst happens and you can’t do anything about it.
Well… We can be more careful, more appreciative, more supportive
of others, more understanding. We can make some things better.
“Weaving spiders, come not here
Hence, you longlegged spinners, hence!
Beetles black approach not near
Worm nor snail, do no offence.”
Quoted from William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Everything is dangerous. Use a firewall. Find a good anti-virus program.
But don’t let the danger keep you from enjoying your connections.
“The thwarting of the instinct of love is the root of all sorrow and
not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed.”
Quotation from Freya Stark, Traveller’s Prelude
I make myself cry more than anyone else does.
“But I would cry,
rooted into the wall that
was once my mother,
if I could remember how
and if I had the tears.”
from Anne Sexton’s “Self in 1958.â€
Hamlet Au over at New World Notes tagged me weeks ago to tell eight random facts or habits about myself. In turn, I need to tag eight others (which frankly is a bit embarrassing). I’ll do my delicious duty, however, and tag some different, wonderful bloggers/artists to follow along but only if they wish:
Cotton Candy at Whimsical Delights
Gary at Withinsight
Kalyan at Heaven’s Garden
Jen at Mahalo Fashion
Adam York Gregory at Flowfield Unity
Author Alex Richards
Jennifer Gordon at Stiletto Heights
Ozge Samanci at Ordinary Things
The rules, should you decide to accept them:
1- Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2 – People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3 – At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4 – Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
I’ve been tagged twice before. HERE by Romeika and THERE by Kalai.
I hate anything that encourages personal responsibility.
I cannot determine the value of an action because I am
blind to the consequences. I’m tempered by selfishness.
“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
Quotation from George Bernard Shaw, Hypatia, in Misalliance
Slippers keep them warm and toasty.
“Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators
have the right idea: they eat their young.”
From the movie Mildred Pierce (1945)
I saw Chase Thursday. I hadn’t seen her in 76 days. We talked until
late last night too. Life begins each time we reinvent ourselves.
One of my favorite songs by EMILIE AUTUMN.
She has a beautiful voice. Sung with ironic humor, the song
nonetheless makes a point about being taken at face value.
Derek Hotger put a piece together highlighting last week’s
Nice and Naughty Christmas Fashion Show. If you click on
a model’s name, you are directed to a site showing the
designer outfits worn by that model in the show.
Global warming impacts all of us. Carbon pollution
traps heat, melting ice and threatening many species
with extinction because they cannot reproduce.
2004 Washington Post article: Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction
2007 Science Daily article: Polar Bear Population Predicted To Dwindle WIth Retreating Ice
Love invites one to acknowledge the imagination of another, and
also the reality. One gains the perspective of the one being loved.
I personally select and pose everything shown in my fashion shows beforehand.
Here I’m modeling the corpulent “shape” from the Santa Suit by Wild Thing.
The header photograph is a fountain reflected on
water on a cloudy day, from a reversed perspective.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your expectation subtly shifts
your perception of someone and how you treat them.
“Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.”
Quotation from Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms
I’ve been programmed. After years of repeated listening,
these songs are embedded. Dark stormy winter days are
the trigger. It’s like whistling in the dark. It’s very strange.
“As if being eighty-five or ninety
and terrified and talked down to loudly
and pushed around in wheelchairs by the staff
all day weren’t bad enough,
for tonight’s entertainment the local Brownies
have come to sing Christmas carols…”
From the poem by Mary Jo Salter, Brownie Troop #722 Visits the Nursing Home
One comic I read every day is Doug Savage’s Savage Chickens.
He draws cartoons on sticky notes. I use sticky notes everywhere. I’ve
even stuck sticky notes on other sticky notes. It’s how my brain works.
It’s the week before Christmas, and Santa looks weary.
It puts everything in focus; you can’t make a Christmas
list without first knowing what it is you don’t want.
“It is like any other work of art.
It is and never can be changed.
Behind everything there is always
The unknown unwanted life.”
Quotation from Randall Jarrell, The Orient Express
The punishment should be proportionate to the harm done. Right?
“Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.”
Quotation from Samuel Richardson, Pamela
Tags: Michael Vick, Quarterback, Atlanta Falcons, Dogfighting,
Stanley O’Neil, CEO, Merrill Lynch, Verdict, Fired for Cause…
It’s driving me crazy already. Christmas shopping, wrapping,
baking, friends/family, decorating, cards, phone calls… It’s
too late to back away now, I’m fully committed. Woe, woe.
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory,
like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
Quotation by Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
This year’s Christmas Fashion Show will feature awesome new designer Seide Tripp
showing her unique goth-inspired fashions while Nickie LeMay of Wild Thing, in her
first runway show ever, presents some of her exceptional seasonal Men’s designs.
Exciting established designers Andie Ramona, Xulltana Lowell, Lilibeth Andree,
Camilla Yosuke, Soda Domela and Nicky Ree will also be showing their newest
Nice & Naughty creations on our runway.
The event will be held at Kadarin Hall and is sponsored by the Creek Side Shops.
I hate when I feel this way: a curtain that never falls in place.
“The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful—
because the reproached self isn’t abandoned; it remains intact.”
Quotation from Aldous Huxley in Time Must Have a Stop (Bruno Rontini)
I wish I could dream within a dream so I
could maintain the buffer between me and me.
“Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth.”
Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Demonology
What kind of music do you like to listen to?
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you
don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s
a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
Quotation by Charlie Parker, Children of Albion
Interesting research article: Message in a Ballad (.pdf file)
Being thin isn’t the same as being skinny. I hate being called skinny.
I prefer being referred to as slender, which implies health and proportion.
Better yet, comment on how much you like me or my art, and leave my body alone.
“I’d rather you wouldn’t call me Slim. I’m a little too skinny to take it kindly.”
Spoken by Lauren Bacall in the film To Have and Have Not
I’d like to stop reality, or make it go away by disbelieving it.
It’s quite rude and interrupts at the most inconvenient times.
“Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.”
Quotation from Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms
Welcome to my 200th comic. Thank you for giving me a voice.
Seraphine refers to the highest “order†of angels, one whose
position in Heaven is nearest to God. It’s quite ironic, isn’t it.
“It was she who sometimes leaned back against a wall,
pale and trembling, stubbornly impaled by her silence,
bound there by her silence, so happy to remain silent.”
Quotation from Pauline Reage, The Story of O
Eat Dulce De Leche Caramel Cheesecake By Cheesecake Factory
Read Talk Back by Alex Richards
Wear Bangles by Dani
Wearable Art The Daggers Pottery Pendant Necklace by Country Girl City Life
Boots by Insolence (In Second Life)
Spank Me with a Horse Hair Flogger