the little green man.

WARNING: Image may (or may not) be not work safe (NWS).

Bus drivers.

A friend pointed out to me that nowhere in this joke does it say that the bus driver was a man.
Talk about perceived gender roles! What a trap I fell into.
Reminds me of this (common) anecdote:
A father* and his son were both in a car accident. The father was killed, and the son was rushed [...]

Braced (finished)

Braced. Graphite on paper, 7.5″ x 22.5″.
Here’s what I did to fix up in Photoshop CS (click for larger images):

First, I took a photo of it on my desk.

Then, I cropped it.

Desaturated and leveled a little.
After fixing up the value and the tone, I ended up with the image at the top of this entry.
Here’s [...]

bad joke about a nun.

A couple days ago, my little brother, who suffers from the telling sexually explicit jokes that aren’t even funny symptom that occurs at age 13, told me a bad joke. Warning: Potentially sacrilegious and just plain offensive.
A man gets onto a city bus. He sees a hot nun and wants to have sex with her. [...]

Braced

 
Braced. Graphite on paper, 7.5″ x 22.5″.
Still unfinished, but I’m nearly done.

Primary school kids and rhetoric.

I attended a PTA Reflections reception last night. At the end of the program, after I listened to countless little kids read their stories and poems and describe their pictures and compositions (of which I could only hear half, having a hearing loss), the PTA representative in the state legislature gave a little speech.
She was [...]

poetry

I like modern poetry. This one of my favorites from a great contemporary American poet. I love the conceit, aptly emphasized by the title:
Gold
Donald Hall
Pale gold of the walls, gold
of the centers of daisies, yellow roses
pressing from a clear bowl. All day
we lay on the bed, my hand
stroking the deep
gold of your thighs and your [...]