trout in the kitchen

halloween countdown #2: the devil dog

the trout movie trailer

10 days of painting: day 3

added friday: it's a bad neck day so no new painting until monday

trout, red and dovey spend a day at the museum. see "day 1" for an explanation of this blog project.

Friday Dog Post: Dog-in-a-Truck

gratuitous photos of trout placeholding while i make this year's Blogger CD's for my Christmas post. wanna see last year's CD's? click here
Oh and speaking of Christmas: heres what my cards read inside. grrrerhahahahaha

To all my Democratic Friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the any of you.


To my Republican Friends:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

trout and otis

added sunday morning: *in the woods with no laptop power cord!! see you monday night*

here's trouty at my art studio having a good time prepping for anonymous boxer's blog party. shot with EL CHEAPO 3 year old nikon cool pix with no sound capability but at least there's Otis to take up the slack. this video is RAW and UNEDITED and in poor quality but hey, it's coming in at a short 2:35 minutes with a view of my studio and a shot on my computer that EVERYONE will recognize. i am taking to the party my hideous cookies, my custom ornaments and my decorated dog....see posts below. im inviting you all to join me at anonymous boxer's party see sidebar or link in cookie

dressed and ready for anonymous boxer's party

eat your heart out William Wegman. grrrherhahahaha

mute monday: ride (with trout in atlanta)

for the country ride click on "chickory" in the sidebar. happy MM!

Mute Monday: Dog Daze

tagged by new blogmate artfulsub with a new meme: no talking ('cept for this explanation) just pictures....each new monday brings a new theme. this week is "dog days". my apologies for the recycling and Trout heavy imagery. next up: the marilyn manson concert. (aunty belle stay away!) grrrherhaha. okay. no more talkin' now.

this one's for Iamnot

I was tagged by iamnot to do the 8 random things about me meme. I have been tagged with this meme twice already, but because i have a minor (and completely non-threating) blog crush on iamnot, i cannot refuse his tag. However i will answer this tag in photographs as a nod to his own rather impressive skill behind the lens. so with no further ado:















#1: my new favorite cocktail: the hypnotiq martini. hypnotiq is a blue liqueur made of cognac, vodka and some kind of fruit juice. then i add coconut rum and orange-pineapple juice, a squeeze of lemon or lime, shake with crushed ice and strain. blue monkey optional.
















#2: i am heart-broken and hardly able to work or write because i may have to send Trout, my sweet nut-brown hound, to the country to live on a farm. If i hadn't come back to the city this wouldnt be happening. regret is my co-pilot.

#3: number 7 on Iamnot's list was his problem with "completion". grrrherhaha. let's see if he can top this: i have a studio full of incomplete paintings. Here are just three examples:














this one's stuck at the background noise stage











this one, a painting of Luke, is stalled out for no good reason.











this one has been like this for almost 6 months.

#4: i was recently annoyed by the news story about how Cecilia Munoz, the spokeswoman for "La Raza", plans to start a campaign to register and mobilize voters and to address "hate" messages spewed by conservative talk shows.
"That had an extraordinary impact in and as a nation, I don't think we should be comfortable with the fact that the U.S. Senate responded to what was largely a wave of hate."

this is the level of political discourse in the USA now. Citizens decide they want to enforce immigration laws and that makes them racists. Irony alert: a short photo essay on "La Raza" which means "The Race" whose motto is : "Por la raza todo: "For the Race, Everything"

































Grrrherhahaha! Instruction on "hate waves" provided by EXPERTS!





































#5: favorite TV star:












Little Yellow Jacket

#6: This is a recent editorial illustration i did about "hiccups" starring Mr. She:





















#7 i love thunderstoms and scary weather and love to be out in it. this is what the sky over Atlanta looked like last night:
















#8:for some inexplicable reason my friend has tickets to Marilyn Manson and Slayer for saturday. predictably, no one wanted to go with her. But i agreed to go because of the potential for a fun photo blog for next week. Stay tuned.