As part of our dinner conversation last night: off the beaten path spots for the M&M road trip. Tips from around the table:
1) Middendorf’s in Pass Manchac, Louisiana. You’ll never get a better fried seafood platter and its thin-filleted fried catfish — made with the same recipe since 1934 — is famous. I just […]
M&M have arrived, providing us with a reason to celebrate and the main ingredient for the feast: grass-fed beef from the Hearst Ranch in central California. Laurie Sue will join us, so we’re preparing a leisurely dinner for five, with lots of delicious food and lots of time for meandering conversation. Last night, Val and […]
Damnit! It turns out that I can’t do a major website relaunch and keep my whole house out of whack with my do-it-yourself realist painting workshop. Too much chaos! Website work wants order! Okay, break down the still life, resked the whole thing after the launch and visit of M&M next weekend.
On the M&M visit […]
Nightnote Kentucky correspondent and friend Janice felt it! The big midwest shaker shook her area and she sends us this report:
You Californians might think this is normal but I was awoken at 5:30 this morning with my house shaking and a making all sorts of noise! We had a 5.2 quake and an aftershock of […]
that will piss you off! Listen to this NPR interview to learn about the shadowy cabals known as hedge funds and how the Bush administration is assisting them in screwing the world. Yeah, that means you. (No better, the Dems regulatory response: huh? who, us? uh…) Warning: listening to this may make you want to […]
Long Beach leads California in water conservation. In October, I wrote about our town’s efforts to deal with deep cuts in its water supply and our own plans to do our part. This month, great news on both fronts! The Grunion Gazette reports that Long Beach won the Green California Leadership Award for Water Management […]
… to katecohen.com April 2002: “The Catholic Church taught me how to deal with sin. Every day — every school day, weekend day, holiday and summer day — from September 3, 1965 to August 13, 1973, I prayed the Act of Contrition and The Confietor. The church taught me that these prayers were necessary because […]
It’s crunch time on the californiaauthors.com redesign. [sketch] Thanks to Val, the shiny new site is already living and breathing on the test server and I am filling it up with the copious content CaliforniaAuthors has built in six years of operation. Val made the blog-port from Graymatter to WordPress look like a piece of […]
I’ve seen lots of paintings in the last few weeks: three juried group shows and an exhibition at the Long Beach Museum of Art. It’s been good; it sent me off on my current realist exercise and it’s been sort of encouraging. I feel a happy understanding of the language of paint. It is good […]
Freda and Laurie! Very nice to see you!
Sigh. Spent the whole morning resetting my still life. That’s right. The still life lesson of the day: still lifes must be absolutely still. It seems that over the week since I set up the still life the first time, things have moved around just enough to make my original drawing seem off. Now, this […]
I spent the afternoon mixing medium into color — sitting on the back porch, listening to Miles Davis and thinking, “this is the best goddamned job I’ve ever had.”
The vine is going to town! And …
Ajax is getting into his daily summer sunbath routine.
I know I said the curation of the recent portrait exhibit at the Long Beach Museum of Art fell flat, but the paintings themselves left an impression on me. I found myself thinking a lot about the high level of technical performance required to create the hyper-real portraits in the the show. So when — […]
We just saw a piece on the news about Jeff Deck, a guy who’s traveling around the country correcting misspellings, including misplaced apostrophes, in storefront signs. His route is plotted on the Typo Eradication Action League site.
Here’s his post from New Orleans; he’s in LA right now!
I’m glad someone took up the challenge to […]
