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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Close to the edge

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

NOTHING LIKE A FEW DAYS IN A HOSPITALITY ROOM with a bunch of 90 year olds to make you feel young again. I had my ass handed to me in cribbage by a lady who was nearly blind. I mixed Black Velvet-and-Gingers for men who require great effort to stand. I joined in a tone-deaf [...]

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Chronic youth

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

I’M CAUGHT UP IN AN EMAIL MARATHON with my high school friends, trading japes over a week of sprawling reply-alls (only children of the 90s could misuse email like this; the overlapping call and response is awkward even when you’re glued to your inbox; no doubt kids today reject the mess and lag—too busy sexting). [...]

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Bête noire

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

10 YEARS AGO CRAZY KARL WAS DELIVERED TO ME IN A PAPER BAG. He had no front claws and only one fang, leaving him defenseless on the farm where he grew up. After losing one too many scraps, he needed a home and I obliged. He was named for his crazy face splotches, but Karl’s [...]

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Drawn in

Thursday, September 2, 2010

JOHANNA’S PORTFOLIO OF WORKS ON PAPER is getting huge. To this unbiased critic, her style gets more fascinating by the week. Click to go big. Precision trims—no Baby Scissors here. There are full-on worlds within these, which she’ll happily take you through. Drawings of People Drawing is a popular sub-genre here. Another: Drawings Cut Apart [...]

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