My father always railed against the Pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.  As a child I never understood his furor and frustration.  As a child you only dully grasp the source, and function of money.  It’s there.  You get stuff with it.  It grows on trees.  What happens along the way is that we forget money’s…

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Just a quick note this morning to post a pic of my new charcoal, The Lucky One. There are still some funky issues that I’ll be working out in the finished painting if and when that comes around. I like him the way he is right now and that’s enough for me. He gave me…

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I knew from the moment I was struck with the impulse (notice I don’t say “Idea”, but “Impulse”) to give one of my best friends the head of a crow that the resulting character would inevitably gain companions.I’ve had a number of the characters milling around in my skull for more than a few years,…

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There’s a a line from a Morphine song that always gets me. It goes something like, “People always wanna give ya free advice. Well, it’s something that I always try, but you get what you pay for that’s what I say…” A long time ago I got some free advice. Actually it wasn’t the only…

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