Dec 052011
 
Drawing Conclusions or Conclusions on Drawing

I’ve been drawing for a long time. I’ve never had any formal training, it’s always been a matter of me taking pictures or drawings I liked and reproducing them. My “style” therefore is an amalgamation of different things I liked about other people’s drawing styles. I think it’s safe to say that that’s who most […]

Nov 282011
 
Musings on The Muppets

I just came back from an afternoon at the theater. Not just any theater, mind you. I was revisiting the Muppet Theater as the Muppets returned to the big screen this weekend. To put things in context, I wouldn’t qualify myself as a hardcore Muppet fan. I mean, I had never seen the original Muppet […]

Nov 222011
 
What Do I Say Now?

Here’s the blog I had originally written for Monday: So here I am. It’s Sunday and I figure I’ll write up my Monday Blog early…only I don’t know what to write. I could just skip a week, but once you start down that path, it’s too easy to skip updating altogether. So no! I need […]

Nov 212011
 
On the Nature of Giving (and Receiving) Gifts

I was trying to come up with something to write about this week. I had even written a makeshift blog entry. Then, as luck would have it, I was thinking about Christmas gifts and I figured that I would write about that instead. Why do we give presents to a person? Well, it can be […]

Nov 142011
 
Thinking About Fairy Tales

Today I’m gonna talk about fairy tales. Fairy tales are everywhere.We all read them when we were younger, or had them read to us, or watched animated versions of varying quality of them. Chances are, if you have any kids you’ve read a fairy tale or two to them. Fairy tales exist as cautionary tales: […]