Gibberings
Dad told me never to use XTREE when he wasn’t in the room.
August 19, 2008 ~ 10:38:38 PM * -07:00ST
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Log # 142
I want you filthy heathens to know that I am typing this missive at great risk to life and limb. Mostly limb.
I have developed a seizure. Yes, something of mine now seizes. The seizings happen to the bird-flippin’ digit of my right hand, the single most-used finger in the profession of gonzo blogging. I can’t tell you how many times I gave my editors the deuce during the birth of my now-unpublished “review” of Resistance: Fall of Man. I believe I referred to a Sony representative in simian terms, and many were the birds that flipped over that article, let me tell you.
What I’m saying is that this is a professional hazard, one I knew I would face when I signed up for the mission. I will be absent from my usual haunts for an undetermined amount of time. I’m on Xbox Live a lot because my thumbs are fine and Hexic is a natural opiate.
Rikki painted this beautiful donkey jet thing using actual paint (for the first time in ten years) and named it “Eliza”. I think it’s probably useless to ask why. Somehow I feel I should be ashamed, and scramble to cover my nakedness. As if he donned a pith helmet and protective eyewear, and ventured deep into the dim wilderness of my essential being, and there set up an easel and arrayed his paints just so, and recorded only what he saw. I am a belching, airborne maniac and until now, I’ve been able to keep it relatively quiet.
Truly, I am the “Madame X” of my generation.
A fair chunk of my artworks will be in the upcoming issue of Other, which is a zine I am ashamed to admit I know nothing about. This ties to the previous paragraphs because my renderings of characters from Rikki and Tavisha’s “Ranklechick and His Three-Legged Cat” will probably be included, albeit in monochrome.
The Bee Commission (a collection of paintings, drawings and sketches based on a year’s work to create a “demon bee” for a commission) will go up at Glo’s on Cap Hill at the end of April. Load-in is the 29th. I was informed that Glo’s does not “do” openings, since they are a breakfast spot. I think there should occur a brunch at least. Perhaps I can make reservations.
My other show will hang at Lighthouse Roasters in Fremont, and will be more of a catch-all. Pieces from Unhallowed Metropolis and other books, as well as Monocle, Bat Smax, and whatever else I can finish before load-in. Jesus christ.
