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On “War Prayer.” I think it’s almost finished. There is still some awkwardness. Not sure how I feel about the cross-hairs. They may need to be red.

“The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience But You’re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, ‘I have fought the Big Knives and will continue to fight them until they are off our lands!’”

Happy Independence Day.

My thanks to the wonderful writer and fellow lefse aficionado Writing Grandma’s Book for giving me the Arte y Pico Blog Award. I’m pretty sure I don’t deserve it as I can’t even get the Phil Bender video from my last post to work right, but I appreciate it anyway. The rules of the award follow, swiped from WGB’s blog.

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award through creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributing to the blogger community, no matter in what language.

2. Each award should have the name of the author (or their site) with a link to their blog.

3. Award winners have to post the award with the name and link to the blog of the person who gave them the award.

4. Please include a link to the “Arte Y Pico” blog so that everyone will know where the award came from.

There are many likable blogs out there. It’s hard to choose just five. But here are five blogs in no particular order that give me aesthetic pleasure, and make me want to return for more.

Nicole Hyde’s Finders! Keepers? Art Project (Random Acts of Art in a Big Big World) documents her journey as she creates small paintings and leaves them in random locations to fend for themselves.

Claudio Parentella’s The Extra Finger features interviews with artists from all over the place as well as his own art. I like his taste, and look forward to each new entry.

Matthew Rose’s Store Front Windows is beautiful and thought provoking.

Poet Sarah Jane’s The Rain in My Purse is everything a good blog should be. Smart, funny, and habit forming to view.

Finally, Xupacabras is a blog of delicious photographic treatments of the human form. I don’t know who is responsible for this Portugese blog or if they are still around- it hasn’t been updated in quite some time- but it is so lovely that I had to include it. May not be safe for work.

I need to stop smoking again. For good. It’s such a trial. But a little levity about it helps.

 I almost choked on my coffee when I found this PSA by Nate Starkey.

Most of my inbox spam these days has been garden variety stuff from Nigerian princesses who need assistance with their enormous inheritances. So I was delighted to find this spam from Elvis today. My favorite bit: “If Yes give out come”. Good Heavens-What sort of phrase book are they using?

Greetings to you 

 

My name is Elvis Solomon, I

am an artist. I own Elvis ART in London (United Kingdom)We Have a job

offer available for you in response to your initial requesting the job

search directory for USA, CANADA, UK AND EUROPE. We are based in Asia. We

have been receiving orders from North America which we have not been able

to process completely since we do not have a payment receiving personnel

in this area. So we have decided to recruit Payment Officer online hence

we will be needing a representative to process out payment in this area

and get 10% on each payment being processed and you will making at least

close to $1,800 weekly. 

 

All you will be doing is receive

payments from my customers in the States in form of MONEY ORDER'S or

TRAVELER'S CHEQUE,Then take to you bank and cash then deduct 10% and have

the remaining 90% sent back to me via western union money transfer. 

 

If interested Kindly get back with this information below and i

will furnish back with further and more details on this, Please have it in

mind this is 100% legit and would not affect you present job nor cost you

dime of your personal money. 

 

If you are interested, N: B,

Please send to me the listed

information below directly to me at

(************@hotmail.com) 

 

Full Name, Address in full (

No Po Box ) City, State, Zip code,

Phone Number.

Have receive

or done an offer like this? Yes or No?

If Yes give out come 

 

Name:Elvis Solomon

Time 24Hrs Daily

+**-**********

1925 - 2008.

From caricature artist Sam Klemke.

1977 is the year my family moved to the Denver area. Denver has changed a lot in thirty years. I’m pretty sure my dad had the exact same hairstyle and jacket Sam is sporting here.

Will it be more interesting than this YouTube Video leads me to believe? I certainly hope so.

keeps getting deleted from my photobucket account. Other life drawings, including males with full frontal nudity, remain. I have no idea what’s so offensive about it, though some of the proportions are a bit out of whack.

And still National Poetry Month (!) here is the Richard Corey Interactive Adventure, from Llamas.org. What joy awaits you.