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RDCanecutter

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  1. If we're ever gonna be in the same place, let's use our age and treachery against her youth and idealism. We can learn some short Gaelic dialogue and just rattle it off. I'll be impressed with your fluency. You give me a beer and some food. Deal?
  2. Only if the courses are drinking binges where Diego shoots out the juke box, then Tina Modetti slanky-dances with Frida.
  3. Yo-u no-u se-ii perro tall vezz suh-ree-uh la sa-loo-shion.
  4. Won't fit through the hoop.
  5. On second thought, I need to apologize to Kathy. I remember that for about 14 years, I was an art quitter too. Made some bold freelance moves in my 20s. Got my financial teeth kicked in. Fled to safe jobs and grad school, until one day I woke up teaching at Aggy. Fled to Mexico. Best move ever. Became an artist again. Took a while to go full-time, but after my first michelada the healing started. Sorry, Kathy. You just need to go to Mexico. You'll be alright.
  6. Yep. Bought it on S. Congress during the Austin leg of our honeymoon while we were staying in the Hank Williams suite of one of those hotels down there with a neon sign shaped like dick and balls.
  7. Year-End 2024 Art Report Year started slowly and was interrupted with occasional tedious stuff, but that's normal. Paid all bills. Finished strong. Did 29 shows total. Would have been 30 but one was on my mom's birthday party, so I skipped it and took gifts of jewelry to all the womenfolk. To keep with the metal theme the men will get plunking ammo for their favorite toys, but I am shopped out at the moment. Geographical Conquests: actually retrenched a little, concentrating on Birmingham and Montgomery. I must go to Atlanta and Nashville soon. Plan is for me to get travel van for overnight travel farther afield. Still avoiding local "big" multi-day shows. I think they are way over-priced for the profit, and the thought of leaving art unattended to the mercy of weather afflicts me with sleep deprivation. Did some new shows, one of them was the #3 best seller. I am way behind on commissions. I have them, I am just slow. Leaning on the prints has been a winner. I have hundreds of sold paintings saved digitally, I order them in batches of 20 or so from Redbubble, but only 2 or 3 of each. Back them with mat board, put them inside ClearBags, bingo, nice instant art widget that sells itself. Then order different ones so it stays fresh. In 4 local stores, it's not big but it's fun. Like having 4 fruit trees spread around the county that I am allowed to graze. For the Cold Wet Time of Jan-Feb 25 I plan to go back to my roots, swamp eBay with fast simple art, while putting down a drop cloth in our "loft" (top of staircase) and laboring on large vainglorious canvases. Like maybe "The Night Watch" except with Apes wearing 1600s munitions armor and elkhide coats, matchlocks in simian paws.
  8. It takes a village, and at least in my case, lead paint chips.
  9. Ayup. Once I got something off eBay and the guy used Zimbabwean notes as packing materials. Even the "solid" precious metal currencies were given to slips, slides, and petty deceits. One thing that fascinates me is Mexico's coins since the early 1900s. They were (are?) devoted to keeping some of the coins in silver, and so you'd have a real silver coin, but the numbers on it kept getting bigger. Like watching a brave but overwhelmed army fighting to hang onto a trench before having to retreat to another.
  10. My Brother, millimetres? Do you want to see a guillotine in Piccadilly?
  11. Looks like you got some natural pimp in you, son.
  12. I for one am impressed with Vivek's rise from moneyless, friendless Dalit, to success. A success surely envied by Brahmins with infinitely more resources and connections to help their sons. Vivek, Man of True Success. Now dance.
  13. Not gonna lie, if Trump starts sending out more checks, I'm gonna ride that train of spending devalued currency all the way to Zimbabwe. People spent.
  14. It's like this: you get old and say you need some money. It happens. If you're really an artist, and you still have one eye and half a hand, you can knock out colorful little widgets, flog em on eBay, and hell, with any luck, pull in a few extra bucks on eBay and Etsy. Don't tell me she doesn't have a phone. Now because I judged, and may be judged in turn, I hope I don't get afflicted with the non-art circumstances like she did. I am mostly just puzzled.
  15. On second thought, maybe she was a graphic designer. I'd retire from that and go push a lawn mower.
  16. What kind of artist "retires?"
  17. @Bozo_Casanova got a new hammer for Christmas and he's hammering nails. Keep it up.
  18. Download the sumbitch a bus map. @tx_3_putt for the win.
  19. I haven't dramatically cut off anybody, but there are several I have made no effort to be around after they showed their asses. eg trying to visit my 80-ish mom with their unvaxxed asses because now they're faith-healed (they weren't,) or lashing out at old friends because Hannity or the local priest or whoever got them spun up in closed-equation thinking. On the other hand, anybody who knows how to act, I get along fine with them. I don't ask for ideological conformity, just some some courtesy, some sympathy, and taste. Thankfully where I live is a little old fashioned with a shadow left over of dueling culture. We don't actually meet at dawn, but it tempers the outbursts.
  20. "Kathy" rolls up aggressively, but I warm her heart.
  21. I could have been someone.
  22. You got me. One cute funny chick in a comic book store (yeah it's a stretch but I'm totally telling the truth this time,) one 19 going on 38 jaded chick who was couchsurfing 5 Points South, as one did, then Tall chick who was running buddies with first one, and eventually started working at the Post Office but diverted into skripping and small sex parties, so I heard.
  23. Begun, the Christmas Eve Taco Payment Wars have.
  24. I haven't, but for $4,000 bucks a pop, I might need to start.
  25. I looked up the address, and it looks like there's a 50/50 chance that if you walk in there you'll get hijacked into a coding bootcamp for 8 weeks never being taught to close a function and you'll have a Github that makes somebody wince then after dicking around for a few weeks of tech brah interviews you realize you could have just given your own self a pay raise by doing a better job at what you already were good at doing.
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