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wtf i say! Today I finished up my Christmas shopping in Tyler, and merrily stopped by Ulta to see about getting some more EcoTools stuff for myself. The new 5 piece set with the duo fiber bristles was sitting in a nice little pile so I decided to splurge and get it. I go up to the register and there's no price....fine.....so she types in the upc number...still no price. So her associate (and i assumed at the time it was her manager, but really, i'm just stereotyping because she was older. i know, bad of me) says "if it doesn't have a price we can't sell it. sorry."
as a result i am livid because
1) why would you have stuff sitting out if you don't have a price attached to it?
2) you make no effort to remedy the situation and maybe my face does not register angry, but my eyebrows were raised. and scrunched.
3) uhhhh ecotools you just lost $15 from someone and countless $ from other Ulta customers because they are too strange to look up a manufacturer's price listing..i mean come on.

g damnit there's this Robert Thomas Pattinson standee at the Fye store and it makes me shiver.

• 22:18 i ran off the road today trying to avoid a stupid dog that wanted to chase my car. :( fortunately I did NOT hit it #
• 22:25 COUPONS for $3 off dvds!!!! coupons2.smartsource.com/smartsource/index.jsp?Link=5S2ZUA6PWPEPO #
• 23:22 those coupons include "Public Enemies," "Inglourious Basterds," and "Coraline.". . . . . #
• 23:24 redplum.com too #

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Thanks so much for everyone who checked out/bought the last batch of paintings! They went much faster than I expected, so I spent the past week knocking out a couple more before the holiday is over. Check 'em out!

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Wow! All along, my readers have just been the best, but you guys never cease to amaze me! =D A Wapsi fan just sent me a blu-ray player from my wish list! O_O

*does a happy-little-kid-on-Christmas dance*

Seriously, all you guys rock! ^_^

Hey folks! Here's some more original Wapsi Square comics! Best of luck to all bidding and thanks so much for all your support! ^_^

Any Questions

Selenium Finds a Home

Tastes Like Chicken

Christmas Sledding

Hat in Hand

Scum on My Tongue

That‘s Better

Things Like That

Pick This Up Later

A Sphinxiated

I forgot to mention that is Phil McAndrew freakin' out there.

wow, that's kinda really late, I drew it thursday though, I was just too lazy to scan it.

And the following are drunk drawings from last night. I'm sorry to Jimi for spelling his name incorrectly. My only excuse is that I was intoxicated and x's are complicated.






this is the cellist who lives downstairs. he knocked on our door at 3 am drunker than us.


Philip doesn't want me to draw him anymore.

Joy, shipmate, Joy!
(Pleas’d to my soul at death I cry,)
Our life is closed, our life begins,
The long, long anchorage we leave,
The ship is clear at last, she leaps!
She swiftly courses from the shore,
Joy, shipmate, joy.

Walt Whitman
photo by Davie;

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In the contemporary Methodist tradition, the third Sunday in Advent is the week of Joy.  Advent used to be a much starker time, focusing on the end of the world and the coming day of reckoning, rather than anticipation of the arrival of an infant Christ.  I was struggling with, for this week’s poem, whether to trend towards the Joy or the End.

But why choose, when you can just have Walt Whitman?  (Next year: Emily Dickinson.)

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• 00:46 a movie to-see list so long.. #
• 00:47 went to greenville, GOT LOST, found a wonderful hidden thrift store in the midst, finally found the goodwill #
• 12:11 watched the original The Secret Garden this morning. *sigh* love love love #

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I saw a stage production of A Christmas Carol today. I love Dickens, I will always love A Christmas Carol. Even if they don't do smoking tricks in it.

Introducing Volume Three of my Doodles sketchbook series!



Thirty-four pages, 8.5" x 11", full color, just in time for the holidays! And for those interested, here's here's my storefront, with volumes one and two still available for purchase.

Huzzah!

• 23:39 is cold and going to bed..bon soir.. #
• 23:45 p.s. on my way home a police officer asked if i had seen a group of loose cattle over yonder #
• 23:46 I favorited a YouTube video -- The Shaky Hands - Why & How Come www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhSPYeO00wA&feature=autoshare_twitter #
• 23:46 I subscribed to ThreadBanger's channel on YouTube www.youtube.com/user/ThreadBanger?feature=autoshare_twitter #
• 01:34 I subscribed to xsparkage's channel on YouTube www.youtube.com/user/xsparkage?feature=autoshare_twitter #

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i lost this perfect travel size EcoTools lotion. it smelled perfect, just the right consistency, and fit snug in my pocket without looking weird. last week i lost it and have been looking for it ever since. even in my dreams i've been looking for it..and in last night's dream i found it. it was in the bottom of some bag.

*boo* Last year I signed up to get tweets to my phone from Sundance. And now the 2010 festival is about to jam and i'm simply reminded of places I should be. Every payment is one step closer, though.

(jamie, i had a dream and The One appeared WHY WHY WHY. this seems downright torturous. in the dream we were on the Titanic - sigh - and it was the present, though. we were at some hipster bar on the Titanic and we just started talking and everything was how i wish it could have always been. then all the sudden we were on a moving sidewalk and got separated.)

tomorrow i'm going on a mini road trip before i have to go to work at 4. i'm going to drive to a town an hour away and just drive around.

• 23:15 I subscribed to cerinebabyy's channel on YouTube www.youtube.com/user/cerinebabyy?feature=autoshare_twitter #

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Today’s Animals for Animals:  musical bees!  Once I had the Morning Glory Victrola idea I couldn’t help myself, even though I know that fewer people are obsessed with cute insects. Up for sale at Etsy.

Bees are the second animal I’ve painted that Heifer International actually deals with (although granted, not bumblebees like these)!  Apiaries are apparently an amazing income supplement in rural communities, and with honeybees on the wane, encouraging cultivation is more important than ever.

Wednesday’s animal was: Gaming Rats.

I realized after painting it that it’s a chillingly accurate psychological portrait of my family’s game nights.  My dad is a tender-hearted pacifist who refuses to adopt the ruthless capitalist strategy necessary to win at Monopoly.  Whereas my mom is a heartless predator, and I’m her cheerful apprentice.

I’m knocking at the door of my $500 goal!  Yay!

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Death of military personnel: my comics specialty. Anyway, I like Montcalm. He wasn't, I don't think, as talented as his young rival James Wolfe, but he was among the best they had and a well experienced, hard working man who did his job as best he could. Montcalm had a hot temper and didn't like Quebec, but he tried to save it, even though he was almost always at heads with Vaudreuil the Canadian born Governor- to whom he was supposed to defer. Vaudreuil was experienced in North America and cared passionately for Quebec, but had never really encountered modern European warfare, and didn't understand it. Montcalm hated the corruption in New France, thought the war was useless, and tried to leave but wasn't allowed. In his final letter to his wife he writes, "I think I should have given up all my honors to be back with you, but the king must be obeyed; the moment when I shall see you again will be the finest of my life. Good-bye my heart, I believe I love you more than ever." I like Montcalm.


Wolfe, of course got the most famous painting in this country's history done up for him some years after the Plains of Abraham. Montcalm got one eventually. It's ok.