What if I just started posting like nothing had happened? Fourteen years isn’t a long time to a grown-up.

Mayor Daley is going to name the Chicago Transit Authority chief to replace Arne Duncan (now working for Obama) as the head of the Chicago Public Schools.

Because, after all,  if there's one thing that's funded worse than the CTA it's the schools.

All gifts given during an occasion where gifts are exchanged fall into these categories:

• Genuine Gift: With minimal input from you the giver located the gift on their own initiative based on their perception of it as something you might like. In other words: you didn’t ask for anything but you got something.
• Line-Item Gift: The gift was ( Read more... )

A long time ago, in 2007, we were sitting around at work making new years’ resolutions. We agreed upon a “blanket” resolution for both 2008 and 2009 so we wouldn’t have to repeat the conversation again the next year (which is now THIS year.)

The resolution was “Decadence in 2008. Rehab in 2009.” Of course, at the time, we were joking.

And god damn ( Read more... )

Last night I sat down in front of the TV with my sketch pad and tried to work out some ideas for paintings or comic strips or whatever. I’m not going to draw the VTA anymore but if I get random ideas for comic strips I might draw one every now and then.

The first thing I drew was Vault Boy from Fallout 3 (the guy in my profile pic.)

I think I’m ( Read more... )

This is my fourth instructional exercise in my effort to learn how to paint. The painting is originally by PBS television' Jerry Yarnell. I just followed the steps in his "Basics" book.


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I updated my interests in my profile when I realized that I originally entered them in 2002.

Back in my big sideburns days.

I think profile pics will be the next thing to get overhauled.

Did you know that Wednesday is named after the Anglo-Saxon pagan god Woden (Wotan)?

In turn, Woden was derived from Odin, the chief god of Norse paganism.

Does this mean that Thursday is named after Thor? Thorsday? Of course it does.

Cross posted from my real blog, of course.

Lately I’ve been preoccupied with the idea that in a post-apocalyptic America there would be a post-apocalyptic Santa Claus. When I get an idea like this my usual instinct is that someone else thought of it first and it’s something I read and forgot about or it’s simply a case of me having the same idea as ( Read more... )

I think if I could change my LJ name I'd start posting again.

I know it's possible but it costs more than I'm willing to pay.