Who's that {woman}? 2014-W42

So I took last week off and it was fun and the world kept turning so no harm no foul.  Before I continue with the blog proper, we see from the title that this ends week 42 and the year has 52 weeks which means...  that's correct, there are only 10 weeks left in 2014. Let's all be anxious together about that fun fact!

Moving on to today's subject, she is the World's Oldest C---.  She's not the world's biggest c--- or the most stupid c---.  But she has been at it since I was a lad.  Not exactly on center stage any more, but I recently heard the latest bit of nonsense from this C---.  Who by the way is Phyllis Schlafly.  My contemporaries remember her as a leading campaigner against the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970's.  I hadn't thought about her much until she was blowing some new malarkey out of her pie hole.

In her latest crackpot theory, this old C--- claims that President Obama is deliberately letting the Ebola virus sweep into America to make it more like Africa.  I don't even know what that means.  I would first tell that C--- that her boys Georgie and Dick didn't exactly keep their hands on the wheel during a certain September, and oh by the way the body count so far is Ebola: 1, 9-11 Terrorists: 2,977.  In fairness to the withered C---, I would agree that attack did not make America more like the Middle East.

I think I may paint portraits of another c--- or two.  Fox News has a whole barnfull to choose from and I fear that one or two may soon join the US Congress.  Such is life.  Can't get through it without running into the occasional c---.  By the way, C--- is short for crazy bitch.  You knew that, right?

Crazy Bitch: Phyllis Schlafly

Leaf Litter 2014-W40

I finally took myself up on my offer to every now and then skip a week of blogging, so the continuous run of posts going back to January 2011 finally broke last Saturday. (Maybe the streak didn't go quite that far back.  I may decide to check that, or not.) Which brings us to this Saturday.

Whereas a taste of autumn might be nice, and I think we've already had a few licks on that lollipop, this morning brought us a sucker punch of winter. It is cold.  Not chilly, but rather 40 freezing degrees. If you just said "brrrr", that is correct. I planned to hit the Ravenswood Art Walk, but with the cold and drizzle I couldn't find it in me to go out and support my fellow artists. Instead, I bundled myself up, stayed indoors, and worked on some textile arts.

When suddenly it was 4:30, and I realized I hadn't eaten and nor had I made anything for the blog. But happily, I found inspiration on both counts and after some nourishment I got painting. I used a piece I made in 2008(?) to model today's abstraction on that theme. See if you can spot the seminal work in My Gallery. It's probably not the first one you see though. Keep going.

This week I also got a new phone, and nowadays that also means I got a new camera. I haven't cropped the photo to upload yet, so I don't know how I feel about the camera.  But I feel happy enough with the artwork.  It just goes to show that any idiot with a couple of brushes and 30 minutes can make something artful. In closing, I have to say that I enjoy looking at fallen leaves as a painting much more than on my lawn while I'm holding a rake handle.  Plenty of that to come, I fear.  But then again, it beats what comes next. Happy October!

Leaf Litter