01-18-04

A mind-fuck? Woo-hoo! What's that about John Dillinger? Fnord! Hail Eris! But why do I have this golden apple? Happy b-day, Robert Anton Wilson.

Busy couple of days -- a lot of drawing. This term is my first drawing class and we're drawing shoes. Lots of shoes. The homework assignment is to draw ten shoes over the weekend. It's still simple, just contour drawing. So far my hapless models have been a geta, a suede pump, a tai-chi shoe, a sisal sandal, a cowboy boot and a clog. They've been drawn with greater and lesser success.

The cowboy boot turned out particularly well. *smile*

A lot of writing this past day or so. Since Friday afternoon I've been re-working a short story that's given me conniptions for months, writing a story proposal for the screenwriting class, written many e-mails and worked on newspaper copy.

There's still algebra to work through, more shoes to draw and writing, writing, writing.

I'm in my elephant right now. Yes, elephant. You read it correctly. Adding to the joy is that my favourite movie is on. Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby. It is the funniest, screwiest, screwball comedy ever.

Why can't we make screwball comedies like that any more?

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