Things I Watch.

Yep. That's Nic Cage.

 So last night I threw on a few movies to keep me company while I worked. I don't know if it's more embarrassing that I watched Valley Girl or that I knew all the words to the soundtrack. Nicolas Cage must have sealed his acting style in carbonate because it is exactly the same in this movie as it is now.

On the bright side, it meant I got a lot of work done.

How to Get (& Keep) Your Work in a Gallery

I'm working at my 3rd gallery, and since getting involved with running/helping to run galleries I have developed some preferences about how artists present themselves and their work. Some of them can make or break a deal with new artists or with ones who get pulled because we need the wall space. So, in no particular order, here are some tips on how to get & keep your work in a gallery:

Pokemon

So last Christmas I learned from my brother that updated color versions of the first pokemon games had been released under the guise of "leaf green" and "fire red". I thought to myself how awesome, I had, at one time a copy of red, blue and gold. I never made it very far in gold because there were too many stats to deal with. Yes, I realize that it's a children's game and that I was (at the time) somewhere in high school and that I should have been able to figure it out, but my general approach to strategy games is to get really high level and bludgeon my way through battles that were obviously set up to employ artful simulated combat within the rules of the game. Pokemon gold over loaded my brain and I stopped playing after that.

Years later I would give away my games because I never played them anymore. Since Christmas though, I've been thinking about playing pokemon on and off because I've got a couple of friends now who play it and talk about it. So when I found a copy of leaf green for what amounted to pocket change, I picked it up.

I named him Tesla. Because I have the need to be considered the nerd of dorks apparently.

And now we get to the point of this incredibly long, boring and nerdy story. Within the game there are trainers you can battle, and they have names and an adjective related to their pokemon preferences. The trainers with the water type pokemon are swimmers. I happened to notice one of these characters was "Swimmer Doug", and I casually thought to myself, "ha ha. I knew a guy named Doug on the swim team." and was prepared to think nothing more of it. Then Swimmer David showed up, there was also a David on the swim team, then swimmer Darrin, who, as you might have guessed, was on the swim team.

I don't know if it's weirder that there are 3 coincidences or that I didn't notice it when I was playing the game when I was still on the swim team.

I drawed a puppy

Pencils.

I am too tired to be witty so I give you a happy dog.

I am a bad cook.

Today I put half an acorn squash in the microwave to cook it. Instead, it decided to turn in to a fireball and explode.

Oddly enough, the microwave still works.

This turn of events meant I had to go grocery shopping since the only other thing to eat in the house was a couple of cans of butter beans and rice. For some reason, I decided that I did not need to make any kind of menu or list or guide lines for my shopping trip.

So there I am at the grocery store hungry (bad), tired (bad) and somewhat shaken by the explodability of acorn squash (very bad) with no real plan of what to buy other than "food" (also bad). This lead to forty minutes of wandering up and down aisles trying to come up with meal plans while telling my inner child that "all the food" is not a good idea and neither is "all the candy". My inner child is not helpful, but very loud. I am dreading the day she realizes that we could have bacon all the time.

What this week's meal plan finally boiled down to was nachos and chili cheese fries. I am the healthiest person ever.

Oh, and I got another acorn squash, because what are the chances of it exploding again?

Sometimes, I'm really boring.

Today I ordered a cake. If you want some cake, you should probably be at the Vertin on Friday from 7~9. Also, Joyce Koskenmaki's exhibit of work inspired by the Kalevala will be opening. You could get some edutainment and cake. Mmm. Cake.

"Poor vampire had to DIE rich. Couldn't manage to make $10 in the last 100 years."

In other news, my subconscious in charge of the dreams has decided that it needed to jump on the vampire band wagon. However, instead of smut and/or horror, my oh-so-special subconscious told me a story about a vampire who was ostracized from vampire society because even though he was really old, he had not managed to capitalize on whatever it is that vampires seem to do so that they have stacks of cash for mansions and designer jeans. All of his money was left from his estate before he died and the other vampires were picking on him about it. The rest of the dream was me giving him investment advice. Original? Yes. Boring? Oh yes.

Because of this, I've been wondering exactly what the undead investment strategy is since all of the children of the night from Dracula to Angel seem to have, even in the midst of rampaging across Europe, had the foresight to put some cash away to use a couple hundred years in the future. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that good money management must be the unsung vampire power. Super strength & speed get all the glory, but no Nosferatu would be caught living without a diversified investment portfolio.

DULUTH.

Duluth. Only 4 hours and 24 minutes away. Awesome.

 My last few trips have begun with disasters and then turned out pretty well. When I went to Duluth all my ducks did not row themselves until the Thursday before I left. Ducks are not good at geometry. This is why I did not let them do my math homework.

Anyways, as I was leaving Friday, the gal I was visiting called me back. Which was good because I could tell her I was coming. Yes. Ducks are very bad at geometry.

Onward to Pictures!