I burst into happy tears when I opened the framed portrait of Charmer. What makes it especially meaningful is that it's based on a photo I took. Thank you! She was the only cat I've ever had who loved playing with tennis balls
Acrylic painting by Marcia Biasiello called "Even Ice Can Melt" shows two people with a bird bringing them a flower
At the Dittmar Gallery in Evanston
Delighted to see new artwork by Melanie Deal at the Dittmar Gallery in Evanston
Paper cutout collage artwork by Melanie Deal called O brave new world, featuring somersaulting figures
I was walking home in the snow and saw a girl wearing a parka with the hood up, but she had the front open so we all could see her crop top and bare tummy. Never change, Chicagoland, I love you
Seen at the local bead store
I was listening to an Agatha Christie mystery narrated by an Englishwoman. She started talking about psyllium. I thought she meant the fiber supplement. She actually meant a Sealyham terrier.
Embroidery featuring a forest of stylised individual lollipop type trees in various colours akin to a children's drawing, interspersed with occasional forest creatures, on a cream backgrounds
Annalisa Bollini, freelance illustrator based in Turin, Italy who creates embroidered artworks based on storytelling #WomensArt
A cat inside a lamp shade
Ballerina. 🩰
Book cover that says Part-Time Adult: A Daily Planner
This made me laugh. I saw it in a shop window on the way to a doctor's appointment
My one piece of advice for this weekend: If you can find a day where you can be fully in your pajamas by, let’s say, 5:30, watching a movie, covered by something like a Phillies blanket, go ahead and do that. It’s going to feel great.
Fun fact: In the 1960s, nurses worked pretty much any place other than a hospital.
Nice to see you tonight!
Screenshot of text box: As the Letters and Community editor here at The Washington Post, I know many of you will have strong feelings about this note from Mr. Lewis. If you'd like to submit letters, you can do that here: https://wapo.st/letter. I'll be reading every one of them and we'll publish as many responses as we can.
Pour one out for Alyssa Rosenberg, who has promised to read all and publish as many as possible letters to the editor about the @washingtonpost.com’s owner/publisher decision to cancel presidential endorsements effective now - after endorsing all but once since 1976.
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I might make this into a sticker
Hey look I get to show you another thing I drew. It was very fun working up these characters and I'm counting on everyone to buy the books so I get to draw them again for subsequent volumes.
(also if your book needs a cover illustration I am just so available.)
A gel monoprint: A woman's head split horizontally at the eyeline with the top and bottom coming apart to reveal a bare skull underneath. On either side of the head are groups of scissors arrayed out like wings. Below the head is a decorative frame around text reading 'Slayer of Men' and below that text in casual handwriting typeface reading 'Your Worst Enemy'. The background is bright red and printed in gold can be seen an array of medieval pole arms and various other weapons.
Slayer #1. Another new gel monoprint. Messing around more with painting in the spot colors and what I can get away with there and so far it is not as much as I want to get away with.
PSA: I am asking everyone to please use the ALT tag when posting pix. It only takes a few seconds, is the right thing to do for people with low vision, and it can be used to add extra info or even something funny (as long as you get the basic description in there first). Please.
My social scene? Broken
Also, it might be possible to alter how we experience time, so a person's life might seem to last much longer than it actually does.
Time travel, backward motion: This breaks the laws of physics and is therefore unlikely.
Time travel, forward motion: This is already happening at a rate of one second per second. It might be possible to travel forward in time at a faster rate.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future made me rethink the concept of time travel.
A 5x5 grid of thumbnail images of things I made in 2023. Too much to alt text, sorry.
A 5x5 grid of thumbnail images of things I made in 2023. Too much to alt text, sorry.
Here's 50 things I made in 2023. Personal work, client work, random sketches I like, etc. Certainly not everything. I didn't paint as much as I wish I had, but I did a lot of client work, which is why I am still alive. So I guess it was enough.
I read 201 books this year. Ask me anything! www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...
