I'm blushing over Old Dog's comments on those two kitty paintings. Like I said I didn't do any prep work on them at all. Actually I was thinking of them as sketches for a bigger painting to come later so without the pressure of creating yet another masterpiece I just slung the paint around carelessly, and when I set down my brush and examined by work, I thought damn, that looks pretty good. Well of course I often think that, but then the other people in the class, who often do not appreciate my genius, stopped by and said, "Damn, that looks pretty good." And when I put them on FB I got more than the usual polite comments. Wow, maybe I was becoming pretty good.
Since then I have tried to replicate it, but now, having some sort of aim, and not being as splashy dashy as on the first two, things are not going nearly as well, as evidenced by my next two paintings on fb and on the watercolor blog.
I'm glad to hear that Old Dog is noodling around on a keyboard. I am always interested in his projects, like the Asian cockroach and the plants he was growing in miniature, and am looking forward to hear about his keyboard experiences. Any chance we could get an audio sample? And I would like to urge Beagles to pick up his instrument and just fool with it a bit, just slapdash playing and see if he gets any pleasure out of it.
Have to tell you I am not a big fan of aphorisms, generally a little to clever by half, and kind of simple so they can be interpreted in many different ways. But I will comment on a couple of them because is that not what we do here at The Institute?
I am a big fan of: "Perfect is the enemy of good" Also may I add of the pretty good, and the good enough, and of my personal favorite, good enough for gummint work. Some people think we should take care of this big mess (whatever it is) for once and for all, but I think that is too lofty and hard to do. I prefer muddling through and making things a little better here and there.
I agree with 3 of the 4 things that aren’t worth it in life But I disagree strongly with the one about politics. One, I find them very interesting. The same way that true sports fans are interested in the play of a game even when their team is not involved. Two, I remember very long ago in my hippie days I had a friend who was back from Nam, as us cool kids called it, and he would laugh about the political stuff in the newspapers and say it was all a bunch of garbage and would never mean anything to him, and I am thinking Dude, you just got back from Vietnam.
But I am not going to get into politics today. I remember once Old Dog went on to some length about his ice cream machine, and I went off on some stupid rant about why was he wasting all my time writing about that stupid machine, and he wisely said something on the order of it's my post and I will write what I want, if you don't want to read it, don't read it. So you can expect to hear more political rants from me. But not today.
It does piss off Uncle Ken. LESS IS NOT MORE, IT IS LESS, MORE IS MORE.
Well I am disappointed to hear that the freehold is not as isolated as I have been thinking. And I think I remember hearing that there are no bears and no cougars, but I am glad to hear that you can still romp about in your altogether. Some years ago you sent us your address and I was pleased to wander the semi wilderness through google maps. I wonder if you could send it again. And I'll cross my fingers that I won't see any little pink blobs between your house and your mailbox.
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