Thought of the night:

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

...and who said ol' Ron never said anything important?

Hell thy name is HTML

11:44pm and my newest stint as a webdesigner is finally over. By no means am I skilled in HTML coding (fairly obvious if you look at my page), but I know what's visually pleasing to me. And even though this page gave me fits over coding problems, I think she came out pretty well. Now I can focus my attention back to art ...YAY!

BTW - Yes, I am Xen Design. I thought I needed a snooty name for doing webpages that didn't sound like a lounge act...and yes I probably have brain damage.

Morgage schmorgage...

Sheri and I have recently have been house hunting. For those of you who've ever been through such a f&^ing dismal nightmare, I feel for you. Credit ratings, closing costs, location, location, location... no wonder couples flip out and kill people. I've been having nightmares of being chased down dark alleys by realtors wearing clown masks armed with stacks of buyer agreements...strange but true.

Oh well... I figure in the whole scheme of "growing up" it's a necessary evil. But, I'm still hiding the knives and power tools for now...

9-11

"patriot day" (a.k.a. "Dubya's a dumbass" day) activities:

• woke up
• ate lunch
• read a book
• watched tv
• wrote this
• contemplated
• slept

...how eventful.

fnord part.2

We all have our misconceptions about people, ideas, right and wrong, etc. But, when these misconceptions are taken for biblical fact in your mind, they become hurtful and dangerous to you and others. One good example I guess is conspiracies...When rational people pick apart facts and horribly warp their meaning. I'm not saying I'm free from such thoughts ...great zombie Jesus, no. A good (pronounced 'extreme') example is a newly acquired family member of mine who believes every nutty conspiracy theory that passes her eyes to be true. Recently, we were told of one such theory that the Nazi Holocaust was fiction cooked up by great overseers in order to keep us in line (this is too odd to make up, believe me) and this would help to culminate the end of the world by this October. The rest of the theory is too bizarre and drawn out for me to mention here. It just sickens me that she chooses to alienate the rest of the civilized world because she believes if others don't believe it than they're against me and they must go (since they are masons, illuminati, devil worshipers, or whatever). Her mind working against her, causing her to hate and fear others all because of half baked notions.

But, this isn't the first time I've met someone rife with ill-conceived notions. I knew people who thought I was into devil worship because I own a hearse, people who think I'm a pervert because of where I work, and someone who believed I was out to ruin his personal and professional life, make people hate him, and other unkind deviltry...fabrications that led him to alienate me from the public (a.k.a. downtown) with said beliefs. Well, the past is neither here nor there and what doesn't kill me makes me stranger. I believe the mind can either kill you with beliefs or bless you with them...the difficult part is how you choose that path. And I hope you find many good paths kind reader

the sage moron,
Joe

busy busy busy

Sleep has become a hot commodity recently. I've been working with the Tucson Roller Derby on merchandising and advertising, more band flyers (details later), bids on new work, and more paintings. Not a bad few weeks if you ask me.

I'll get some updates (pics for the gallery, redesigns, etc) soon. Sorry about the delay..

boom-chicka-boom

...Is it my imagination or is Ron Jeremy starting to look like one of the Mario Brothers?



...guess so.