Laura

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

In my next life I want to be a tectonic plate

Very close crop of an oil painting showing just the body and a bit of the wings of a vibrant bat in flight, mouth open with teeth visible

Tonight’s studio critter

Thank you!

Cropped section of an oil painting showing a bat swooping down over some water

Today’s studio critter

Animals interrupting sports is one of my top five favourite things of all time

Taking L after L in the studio is really getting to me, so I went through the car wash to reset

Respectfully, from a painter

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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This is actually the best summary of Stoner by John Williams I could find online, for a book that unexpectedly devastated me but I enjoyed it the whole time

The one line movie zingers on Letterboxd are more tolerable than the droning, endless “reviews” of books on goodreads that can’t do anything beyond summarizing the plot. I keep finishing monumental books and looking for reviews that put how I’m feeling into words but keep finding only synopses

Laura the frog

Laura the frog

Worse yet is knowing that the sting in my eyes is just the onion trying (and failing) to defend itself

“Dull tools are much more dangerous than sharp ones.”

I shovelled snow for 90 minutes and took a walk around the block and everything I shovelled away was filled in with fresh snow. My brain can barely comprehend what it’s seeing with how much of it is coming down all at once

Do thou, too, remain warm among ice.

Tonight’s studio critter

OPINION | Canadian TV needs to get weird again | CBC Arts In the ‘80s and ‘90s, English Canadian screens were filled with bizarre, fever dream-like shows. Writer Niko Stratis argues that we need to back to that

For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...

The most selfish, warmongery people alive on the planet getting together in a group and calling it the “board of peace” is just how stupid things are now. Trump at this point may as well assemble himself, Bill Cosby, and Harvey Weinstein into a club and call it “the cabinet of consent”

I was one of those people to borrow all of your audiobooks that my city’s library had and they’re wonderful!

A new Donna Tartt novel would really take the edge off everything going on right now

Libby needs to start allowing reviews of titles at the library because this year I’ve already started and finished one and a half audiobooks and I have opinions about them and nowhere to share them

Canada’s slowness being dressed up as moral superiority is peak hoser buffoonery

No matter how long I play chess I’ll never stop referring to the capture of a piece as someone “eating them”

On the 1st anniversary of my dad’s death I’m watching The Fugitive, the most boomer dad movie of all time, just on the off chance that he’s around today to hang out

I talk directly with an extraordinarily high number of visual artists for my job and I wish I could tell them and all artists that EVERYONE is having a bad time right now, no one is selling anything, it’s not personal it’s just the market

Honestly infuriating that ballet flats are back

One of the unexpected things I discovered after breaking my most recent (very expensive) pair of glasses this week, and temporarily wearing my 9 year old (very expensive) glasses while waiting for my new (very expensive) glasses is that absolutely no one can notice the difference between them

It’s one of the few things taking the edge off these times that we’re living through