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I’m exhibiting! Catch me & my work in Nov & Dec in Portland.

Pancakes & Booze, Hawthorne Theatre, Nov 22, 8pm-midnight

Small Works Exhibit, Walter’s cultural Art Center. Opening night: Dec 5, 5-8pm, exhibit runs December 5-January 16

Madeline Marketplace, The Madeline School, December 12, 2-8pm

I really like this neighborhood.

Anyway, I'm teaching my older kid to play the recorder. So I guess this is a way of saying sorry to the neighbors?

I would be so, so happy if my kids got to got to a school that had the funding for art classes (which are cheaper imo) let alone music.

There's a lot of listicles about the Simpsons & financial change in the US - they all talk about an undereducated, blue collar poor man owns a 4 bedroom home and two cars. I've never seen them mention that their kids go to a public elementary school that has the funding for a music department.

Again, I'm an art major. Last month I learned that the marble work in a specific area of Italy follows the same 5 color palette (black, cream, grey, red and white) no matter which monument you visit. THAT is where my mind should be right now.

But instead: will food be safe next year?

Knowing that this is all nonsense hasn't helped stop any of the nonsense so far ... but ffs, can we at least talk about why the spin is a lie? Can like a major news channel or publication talk about this?

So this whole natural food dyes thing requires absolute trust in the US food manufacturing industry to voluntarily self-police their products to the low, low bar of not poisoning people.

No one has that trust, obviously.

So, sure. It's probably fine to replace Red 40 with beet juice and stop using Citrus Red 2 to make your orange peels extra vibrant. But no one is going to be employed to open one box in every crate of cereal to check that all those red loops are actually made with beet juice and not madder root.

This is why we have protein powders that cost $60 for a 2 week supply, constant articles about what rando supplements were full of mercury this month, and homeopathy. And essential oils, a pyramid industry that has bankrupted so, so many desperate women in the US.

Natural dyes are an unregulated area of the food industry in the US. Two massive problems with this.

1 - Is there lead in them thar natural red dye? Who knows?

2 - the last big push to deregulate a consumer product in the US was Orrin Hatch making supplements a food instead of a medicine.

So I don't know how to break down data (art major) but from what I understand from actual scientists, doctors and research journalists, the case for artifical dyes being bad is a solid meh.

And on the surface, banning artificial food products sounds great.

EXCEPT

Listen to Krypto — see #Superman in theaters NOW!

Facists have terrible media literacy. Or they really do want to eat people.

Like 'proud boys' is after a song about being gay? Like the Punisher is about a guy who specifically hunts corrupt le?

I'm sorry, I've been ignoring nonsense in favor of living my life for a hot minute, but ... Grok? Really? After the book where a guy got so existential thay he got to the point where it was OK to eat people to understand them better?

This is the picture that did it. This is a quick draw of a moving target, that's amazing enough, but you can also feel in the picture what the artist thought and felt about this man. That's a spark in art that can't be taught, and makes the difference between an expert and a master.

Obviously his technical skill is incredible, but what makes a truly great artist is the feeling they captured. When I saw his work in the Emmett Till exhibit in the Chicago History Museum, I stopped dead.

Franklin McMahon was an illustrative reporter working for Life Magazine when he was in the courtroom covering the trial of Emmett Till's murderers. He's been published almost nowhere that's available now, but you'll can see a lot of his quick draws here.

I discovered a Franklin McMahon over the weekend, so now all you have to as well.

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My husband's variant cover line made it to @colbertlateshow.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DJ5rH9O... - this is so, so cool!

ENTIRE SUBPLOTS devoted to this.

Superman has been bitten by Dracula a surprising amount of times. I'm starting to think he likes it.

I don't believe any of the big names, but you'll see a lot of one-offs and secondary/tertiary character overlap if you look at a list of public domain novels.

"They don't exist in our age." ~ RFK

Yes, before the current era, there was never any recorded depictions of people with -

Rodney R. Rodney: the omnibus After 4 years of online publishing, webcomic Rodney R. Rodney comes together as a full 350+ color page comic book!

I have pledged!

One of my favorite things about Rodney is how well timing is handled. Its a skill for a comics creator to be able to control the pace of the reader, and it's done so well here! Comics students should for sure be looking at this.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rod...

This joke is for me and possibly two other people.

I'm on my third Nathan Fowkes class via schoolism and I have been thinking of the set as the Light and Dark Triad.

Alice In Wonderland is a very vintage text with a lot of things that don't make sense outside of the fact that it was written to be silly.

However.

The gag of someone reciting a scholastic lecture when everyone is soaking wet because 'it's the dryest thing I know' stands the test of time.