My first week of college after so long a break was hard, but not as challenging as it could have been.  I know the semester is just warming up, and it will only get harder, but I'm looking forward to it.

I've been published in the Student Press Law Center's REPORT again.  Fall 2008, Vol. 29, No 3. (pg 15,16,29).

Current Internet Rummagings:

 -Articles on the Energy Crisis for Political Science class

 -Gargoyles and creature figues for Sculpture class

 -Anything by Matisyahu.

     On Monday, for the first time in more than a few years, I will be going back to school.  I have an ambitious schedule that will hopefully let me graduate by summer, or at least end-of-summer.   I'm anxious, to say the least. I don't have anything logistical to worry about; books have been purchased, and I already know what work clothes to bring. Monday evening is a fundraiser for Thunder Bay Theatre that I'm helping out at. It'll be a long day to start a series of longer days, but it has been a long time coming. I'm greatful for the 2nd chance. My classes are 3 sciences, two arts, and run from 9am-17:30

      This summer has been mercifully short.   Thunder Bay Theatre was an exciting hand full. I had a brief, but fantastic whirlwind family vacation on the trails and waters of Big Bear Lake, CA.  Returning, there is a renewed urgency of action to spiff up and market the old house.  Most of today, and all of tomorrow and Sunday will be involved with painting and cleaning. With the dumpster delivered, I only have 2 weeks to fix up the house and rennovate the interior of mom's new quilt shed.

     Edo:2k5 is not forgotten, just backburnered. I need to produce about 9 more pages most of which are at least scripted.   Then it's editing, printing and binding the first few 1st series books.  I imagine the first 10 to have hand painted canvas covers, and the first one going to the Library of  Congress.  That's some ways off at this rate, but still the plan.

 

...wow, that's a lot, looking at it.  Now for my next trick, getting my bills paid at the same time.

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

Bold those you have tried.
Strike-through those you wouldn't eat on a bet.
Italicize any item you'll never eat again.
Asterisk any items you'd be interested in trying but have not yet.
Underline anything you eat regularly (more than once a month-ish). Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

1. Venison (around and a few months after hunting season)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile *
6. Black pudding*
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp*
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses*
17. Black truffle*
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese*
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper*
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda*
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi <--- Salted Yogurt? I guess? *
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea*
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail*
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects (Ok, so the occasional ant may count only on technicality)
43. Phaal*
44. Goat’s milk*
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more* (ask the Royal Mile Pub about it's tasters?)
46. Fugu*
47. Chicken tikka masala*
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear*
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle*
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine* (I mean, I've had cheese fries, just not fancy Quebecois cheese fries) <-- 2nd'ed
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads*
63. Kaolin (Kaolin is a clay and a medicine, not a food. Kao-pectate, anybody?) <--- Will it make me shit bricks?
64. Currywurst*
65. Durian*
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis*
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (I have never before heard of this as a specific combination) <--- 2nd'ed
73. Louche absinthe (What's "louche" about it?)
74. Gjetost, or brunost*
75. Roadkill*
76. Baijiu* (i'll try it but unimpressed with the wiki description)
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong*
80. Bellini*
81. Tom yum (as-described)
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant*
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash*
88. Flowers
89. Horse*
90. Criollo chocolate* (it's chocolate - can't be bad, right?)
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa*
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor*
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee*
100. Snake* (don't think i actually have had this)

Hearing this made me understand why people trusted the Joker, in the original Batman movies...

"Not every violation of the law is a crime."  Attorney General Mukassy

Good morning from Big Bear Lake, California!!!

*yawn*

it's very sleepy here, at 8am and 7000 feet.  Very pretty too.

I'm surrounded by ponderosa pines, a beautiful cabin, mountains and good friends (well a good friend and her parents)

After returning 8/17, I'll put up pictures, update comics and be uber-productive.
Class starts the 25th... woo!

Now.. off to kayaking.  Do they have coffee on kayaks?

-b

http://www.durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/08/news080724_3.htm

Michigan couple tasered at own wedding reception!  I've witnessed Bride-zilla during receptions before, seen it in videos, and even seen kegstands. I've heard sheer horror stories from my catering-veteran boss. The idea of a couple going ape (and tased by police) at a reception isn't beyond the realm of possability. 

I can't imagine the reception bills if you included bail...

 

I've put up the publications section of my website - including the thumbs of the SPLC cartoons. 

The road to Big Bear will feature lots of drawing, as i've got most of the pages scripted out for the end of the Edo:2k5 (1st) book.  Once it's inked, colored and laid out how I want, it's time to find printer's prices. I guess being color it's going to cost a pretty penny. I want to bind the first few by hand, custom painted cover - all that.  Call them the prototype edition or something - but still get an ISBN #, and a Library of Congress Barcode - or whatever it's called. 

 

Class starts the 25th of August, and with that comes book buying. I will be making 2 more dream catchers to help pay for that after I get back.  Since I won't be working at the theatre full time, it's sink-or-swim with my art.  I can't wait till hunting season (so I can earn my venison), and collecting tubsfulls of promised bones from the local game/taxedermy shop. The gentleman there said that they throw away more than they can count. Free art supplies FTW!

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