Radman_Art Blog: Radman_Art Blog Homepage 2015

Songs Dedicated to this Blog:

The Boomtown Rats. I Don't Like Mondays
Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday
Fleetwood Mac - Monday Morning
Jimmy Buffett - Come Monday
New Order - Blue Monday
The Allman Brothers Band - Stormy Monday
The Bangles - Manic Monday
The Carpenters ~ Rainy Days and Mondays
The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday

I used to ad new art on Monday's only.

January 03 2016:

Well that's it. I did what I said I was going to do. I have given to the internet one year of faithful artwork. Semper Fi! I would do another year but I am sure the screen would have to be replaced. I have tried to get sponsored by sending emails to all the big art tablet sellers to no avail. So I will take it easy on my little 4 inch by 6 inch tablet and still do art on it; but not on a regular basis, pushing it's limits too much. I will still be posting my new art on my blog every once and a while here: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/ , so take heart. I am not done with digital sketches. It beats storing up paintings in my house overcrowding my wife and I. You can barley see my walls with what ever art theme I choose at the time. Not to mention the piles of painting that could take up a small room and the 4 foot by 6 foot by 2 foot crate I made years ago to store my art from 1988 - 1999.

December 28 2015:

Happy New Year!

"Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear" John Lennon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCbZhIfQbA

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"
(Happy Xmas Kyoko
Happy Xmas Julian)
So this is Xmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Xmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Xmas (war is over)
For weak and for strong (if you want it)
For rich and the poor ones (war is over)
The world is so wrong (if you want it)
And so happy Xmas (war is over)
For black and for white (if you want it)
For yellow and red ones (war is over)
Let's stop all the fight (now)
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Xmas (war is over)
And what have we done (if you want it)
Another year over (war is over)
A new one just begun (if you want it)
And so happy Xmas (war is over)
We hope you have fun (if you want it)
The near and the dear one (war is over)
The old and the young (now)
A very Merry Xmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over, if you want it
War is over now
Happy Xmas

Now to the art:

What I am going to do from now on is resize my older jpegs (so this page loads quicker) and give you a link for the bigger size art; now located on the special gift page. This way they are not just stored somewhere where no one can enjoy them. So do what I used to do if you have slow speed and go your college or the library and download them.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

2015 My New Years Resolution is as follows: I pledge to have at least 1 new sketch (not more than 1 week old) I have done with my stylus here once a week. It will be a cropped, way shrunk down, copy of the original tiff files, that I like the best, with the title in the name of the file: These are in order of; most recent is on bottom, less recent but within the past week is above that: Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file, I will no longer be adding the day I have done each piece of digital art. Instead I will number them number 01 being the most recent I did that week. :

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_Blackmetalskullkissbutfly_December_28_2015_02: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

Typhonic Age CD cover art for this one.

They are here: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Typhonic_Age/3540337757

I have always loved Metal Archives, they are the greatest Black Metal website ever in the world.

December 25 2015:

The Hateful Eight (2015) I am looking forward to seeing this western!

December 22 2015:

Took the photo this morning. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

December 21 2015:

Look at the bottom of this page. I have come full circle with my art style.

I am posting Christmas stuff till this weekend. Please enjoy these images I have found on Google images. These are my favorite images and took hours for me to pick and choose them. Paste them to your emails.

I gave a full sized tiff to all my fellow artist folks via my email: it is 6mb, about 100 people got this great piece of art. the file was called radman_art_Darkthronebutfly_December_14_2015_04_Big.

I have given out well over 1000 pieces of great original art to the local people around Collin County and will never stop doing that; just felt like saying that.

Now to the art:

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_Darkthronebutfly2_December_14_2015_3: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one. More Darkthrone CD cover art for this one. This art has always spooked me out.

Corpse paint dude if from the Black Metal band Darkthone.

Merry Christmas to us all; everyone!

December 15 2015:

Look I do not know; but I saw a ad in the Kroger ( https://www.kroger.com/ ) for a brie cheese ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Brie, ) at a affordable price..:

Brie (/bri?/; French: [b?i]) is a soft cow's milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated (roughly corresponding to the modern département of Seine-et-Marne). It is pale in color with a slight grayish tinge under a rind of white mold. The whitish moldy rind is typically eaten, with its flavor depending largely upon the ingredients used and its manufacturing environment.

I want to help you!
Please do not buy Brie cheese unless:
If you do; please, cut the rind off!
The rind is not good at all! It taste like; smelly socks smell.

More of my favorite Christmas songs; I never mentioned online before:

All Alone on Christmas

Darlene Love

Released 1992 thanks to the E Street Band!

This is a awesome link!: https://vimeo.com/67085684

The cold wind is blowin' and the streets are getting dark

I'm writing you a letter and I don't know where to start
The bells will be ringing Saint John the Divine
I get a little lonely every year around this time

The music plays all night in Little Italy

The lights will be going up on old Rockefella's tree
People window shopping on Fifth Avenue
All I want for Christmas is you

I've got to know

Where do lonely hearts go
Because nobody ought to be all alone on Christmas

Things are different since you've been here last

Childhood dreaming is a thing of the past
Maybe you can bring us some hope this year
Visions of sugar plums have disappeared

Do you remember sleigh riding in the snow

And dancing all night to "Baby, Please Come Home"
Today's celebration… Full lyrics on Google Play

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Alone_on_Christmas

"All Alone on Christmas" is a song written and arranged by Steve Van Zandt, and recorded by Darlene Love with members of both The E Street Band and The Miami Horns. It was originally featured on the soundtrack of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.[1] It was also released as a CD single which included an instrumental version.

The song returned Love's name to the music singles charts on both sides of the pond that year. It peaked at No. 83 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, at No. 52 on the U.S. Billboard Radio Songs chart, and at No. 31 on the official UK Singles Chart.

AND:

Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby please come home)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV8x7H3DD8Y

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Lyrics

(Christmas)

The snow's coming down
(Christmas)
I'm watching it fall
(Christmas)
Lots of people around
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home

(Christmas)

The church bells in town
(Christmas)
All ringing in song
(Christmas)
Full of happy sounds
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home

They're singing, 'Deck The Halls'

But it's not like Christmas at all
'Cause I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year

(Christmas)

Pretty lights on the tree
(Christmas)
I'm watching them shine
(Christmas)
You should be here with me
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home

They're singing, 'Deck The Halls'

But it's not like Christmas at all
'Cause I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year

(Christmas)

If there was a way
(Christmas)
I'd hold back this tear
(Christmas)
But it's Christmas day

(Please)

Please
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Please

(Please)

Please
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Baby, please come home
(Please)

(Christmas)

Baby, please come home
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home
(Christmas)
Oh, yeah, yeah

(Christmas)

I need you right here
(Christmas)
Please come home
(Christmas)
(Christmas)
(Christmas)

Read more: Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Lyrics | MetroLyrics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_(Baby_Please_Come_Home)

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" is a Christmas holiday song originally sung by Darlene Love and included on the 1963 Christmas compilation album, A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records. The song was written by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry along with Phil Spector, with the intentions of being sung by Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes. According to Darlene Love, Ronnie Spector was not able to put as much emotion into the song as needed. Instead, Love was brought into the studio to record the song which became a big success over time and one of Love's signature tunes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlene_Love

Darlene Love (Darlene Wright; born July 26, 1941) is an American popular music singer and actress. She gained prominence in the 1960s for the song "He's a Rebel," a No. 1 American single in 1962, and was one of the Phil Spector artists who produced a celebrated Christmas album, entitled A christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, in 1963. She is ranked number 84 among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers.

One of my favorite Christmas gif files I have ever found on Google Images:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/

This movie is a lesson to us all; that lend a ear.

December 14 2015:

I have not seen the entire movie American Sniper (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), but I knew people who knew Chris Kyle back in 2005. I do not like the move to tell the truth. I like Clint Eastwood; but rarely like movies he makes. The Gauntlet and The Enforcer and Magnum Force and Dirty Harry and Hang 'Em High and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More and A Fistful of Dollars; are some of the greatest movies ever made. I caught the end scene though. I love the highways around here from my super sportbike days; and loved that end scene ( thanks to http://www.dish.com/ ). It tugged on my heart. Like the heart of our country where Chris came from; where hero's come from too.

Now to the art:

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_Darkthronebutfly_December_14_2015_04_Big and 3: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

radman_art_Darkthronebutfly_December_14_2015_04_Big in a full sized jpeg is located on the bottom of this page http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html I plan on giving a full sized tiff to all my fellow artist folks via my email: it is 6mb.

This is one of my favorite Black Metal bands called Darkthrone.

The dude image is from the great album Transilvanian Hunger.

Check out the art work on the album:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.O.A.D.
looks like my art I did at the beginning of the year featured on this page; huh?

Also like the art on these two albums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Thrones_and_Black_Flags and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_the_Wagons

This band has not made a bad album ever.
I love there new stuff as much as I love their old stuff.

December 13 2015:

Narrator: Sam the Snowman: "Well, for the first year, the Donners did a pretty fair job of hiding Rudolph's uh... nonconformity."
From: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058536/quotes

I like this Christmas song:

Released in 1967

What Christmas Means To Me

Stevie Wonder

Oh yeah...

Candles burnin' low,
Lots of mistletoe.
Lots of snow and ice,
Everywhere we go.
Choirs singin' carols,
Right outside my door.

All these things and more

(All these things and more)
That's what Christmas means to me my love
(That's what Christmas means to me my love)

Oh yeah,

Hey, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And ya know what I mean

I see your smilin' face
Like I never seen before
Even though I love ya madly
It seems I love you more
And little cards you give me
Will touch my heart for sure

All these things and more, darling

(All these things and more)
Whoa!
That's what Christmas means to me my love
(That's what Christmas means to me my love)

Oh yeah ha ha!

I feel like runnin' wild
As anxious as a little child
Greet you neath the mistletoe
Kiss you…Google Play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKFy8oRkD8E

December 11 2015:

I paste things here from time to time about free speech on the internet because I want to prevent something like this: The book and the movie: Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Full Movie

Fahrenheit 451 - YouTube - Trailer

Fahrenheit 451 is where the internet is headed; if we do not stand up for true and right free speech that helps people. I always say, although I love our country; our government does not distinguish between each individual. If free speech is abolished on the internet many great peace keeping free speech will be lost as well. Over all can anybody remember when the entire world seems to be a better more even place? I believe the internet is the reason for that. It is up to you what you read. If I had my way the news media would only be readable news. That is freedom. Reading the news is a personal experience. Don't like a line or paragraph? Just skip it.

December 07 2015:

We have had a really bad past month and a half. My wife got really sick and then got even sicker from the medication she had to take. And to top it all off someone hit my wife's car while car while she was waiting at a stop sign for them to go by; a couple days ago. Right now I do not want to talk about it but maybe someday I may post the long arduous story. I never knew how upset I could be seeing my wife suffer the way she did. The good news is she is doing really good now and is making a great recovery. Needless to say this has taken a toll on me as a artist and I finally snapped and refused to draw a pretty rainbow butterfly this week.

I would like to share with you something I have discovered lately. When my wife was sick she had lost her apatite and if it was not for good old Ensure I would not know what we would do. When she did want something to eat I would stop what ever I was doing and run to the stove to make her anything she wanted as perfectly as I could. She liked to have 1 egg sometimes in the morning and I refused to get our giant griddle we got from my wife's job for free with reward points. I started to use a old non stick pan we still had. We threw all our old non stick pans years ago and replaced them all with steel pans. Non stick coating always comes off those type pans and end up in your food and I have heard that can cause cancer. I figured out when facing the decision to buy a new non stick pan that the reason the griddle lasted so long is because the heat is regulated. I decided to buy a small version of a griddle instead. Every cook will eventually heat their pans at too high a temperature. When you do this it ruins non stick pans no matter how expensive they are.

From: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/athome/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid--pfoa

Other than the possible risk of fumes from an overheated pan,

From: http://www.webmd.com/cancer/features/teflon-pans

That said, Wolke warns, "heating a Teflon pan to 500 degrees or more" (as happens when we leave empty pans on high heat by mistake) can result in smoke and gases that can cause flu-like symptoms in humans and kill pet birds.

The fact of the mater still remains that the ingredients in the non stick coating has been proven to put people at risk for cancer.

December 05 2015:

This is extremely unorthodox but his song is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3PYz-Zpb4 and my wife & I love this movie; too,

Just got this cool email:

2015 has been a roller coaster for our free expression campaigns at OpenMedia.

(https://openmedia.org/) First, I want to thank you for sticking, sticking around for the wins – and, yes, the losses – as we continue to work every day to amplify your voice on key issues that affect our free expression online.

As I was looking back over my calendar to write this email to you, I was struck by how much we’ve been through this year. There’s too much to cover it all here, but let’s take a look at OpenMedia’s top free expression issues in 2015 and what you did to put them on the map.

1. The Trans-Pacific Partnership

I could write an entire email on just the TPP. (I have in fact, many. Perhaps you remember?)

Suffice it to say: we’ve been through five negotiating rounds from Guam to New York1, we worked with a massive coalition to stop Fast Tracking the agreement2 – and came within 10 votes – we pressured all the Trade Ministers of TPP countries, flooding them with messages,3 and worked tirelessly with our international partners to make sure decision-makers know where we stand.

2. Save the Link

This year we put our money where our mouth is in a big way, and stepped up to safeguard the global right to link.4

With your support, we built an international network of over 90 organizations and 75,000 Internet users who have sent the message loud and clear that we won’t let the publishers lobby degrade the very building blocks of the Web. We’ve been taking our fight directly to decision-makers in the European Union [5], and with your help, have already had a huge impact, convincing the EU Parliament to reject the link tax. Our work's not done yet, but I'm inspired by our wins so far.

And that’s only a fraction of what we’ve accomplished together. I hope you’ll stay with us, as 2016 will bring new challenges, new partnerships, and moments where we can truly shape digital policies for the betterment of every global digital citizen.

Oh – and to top it all off, just this past week our team launched a beautiful new website at https://openmedia.org/

December 04 2015:

I know of no other perfect album of no more of a perfect subject on this planet:

A copy of a email to my mom I just sent:

Life is a climb up a mountain; mom. Different people react to that differently. I have and always will admire you mom. You are my mother and I trust your judgment. So keep on pressing on. : https://vimeo.com/87042517 check this link out, it is a great song by Bob Dylan; ignore the video.

This album came out one year after my mom introduced me to a new church and a new life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saved_(album)

November 30 2015:

Sometimes rename my new art and name it with the wrong date; but I assure you each piece of art is from a new week every week of the year 2015.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_steamlinedbutfly_November_30_2015_02 and 4: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

November 28 2015:

My suggestion for White House; Thanksgiving safety. My wife said there should be grease on the fence making it too slippery to climb. I said the grease should be human touch activated to secrete when activated only. We sent this via email to the White House just now.

From here: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2015/1127/White-House-fence-jumper-caught-Should-those-spikes-be-higher : If a man wearing a flag and holding something in his mouth can scale the fence and hit the dirt before being apprehended, it may prove the spikes are not all that’s needed. Secret Service officials proposed making the fence taller than its current 7-foot, 6-inch height.

November 27 2015:

This was our Thanksgiving dinner:

This was good; it gave a taste of Thanksgiving; but the
green beans and carrots were kind of watery. It would have
been better with yams instead of waterlogged green beans.

November 26 2015:

We will be having a good frozen turkey dinner because of our work schedule. We will cook a turkey on our next days off. If I had my way there would be a better selection of turkey frozen dinners available in the frozen section for Thanksgiving. We got a good one; but only one company makes them. You would think the competition for this, this time of year would be greater.

November 24 2015:

If you care about a free and open internet; time to send a email:

We need you to call Congress with a simple message about the budget and appropriations process—We will accept no ideological riders, especially any that threaten net neutrality or undermine the ability of the Federal Communications Commission to protect an open internet. Click here to send an email.

If you did not notice I highlighted all the dates on this page in red and blue with the white background in makes it patriotic like me.

Here is some more Thanksgiving stuff I have stored on the BlogSpot hard drive. In appreciation for that I will post them until Thanksgiving so you can send them in your emails if you want.:

November 23 2015:

I dedicated this in 2013 but it was erased. Once again I would like dedicate this Thanksgiving to the funniest Thanksgiving episode known to man:

Taco Pie Aqua Teen Hunger Adult Swim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTP15uTE8aA

From: http://aqua-teen-hunger-force.wikia.com/wiki/Turkatron

Turkatron (voiced by Matt Maiellaro) is a robotic turkey featured in the episode "The Dressing" who appeared a week after Thanksgiving. He insists that he came from the year 9595 (in a reference to the 1969 song, In the Year 2525) to save the great, great, great, great grandfather of Goblox, the future leader of the turkey rebellion against the Master Chickens.

Turkatron loves taco pies, wine, and other alcohol. He carries laser-guided socks, among other things, in a plastic garbage bag. When intoxicated, he may go crazy, even going so far as to think curtains are time rifts.

It is eventually revealed that Turkatron is actually one of 5,000 malfunctioning "Hustlin' Tom Turkey" toys. The first one that arrived, Turkatron, was at first thought to have been the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, but has a different appearance and clearer voice than the Ghost. The exact nature of the relationship with the Cybernetic Ghost has not yet been explained.

Appearances:
The Dressing:

http://aqua-teen-hunger-force.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dressing

The Dressing

Season 2, Episode 21
Original air date December 14, 2003

Cold open: A decapitated Space Ghost is shown, then Dr. Weird puts his head on as a hat and exclaims, "There can be only one!" as guest Seth Green looks on and says "Nice."

Meatwad approaches Carl and invites him to Thanksgiving dinner at the Aqua Teens house. Since they aren't legally US citizens yet, the Aqua Teens have Thanksgiving a week past the actual holiday. Carl agrees only after hearing they actually have a turkey; however, he eats outside "where witnesses can see him", correctly predicting something terrible will happen.

As Shake gorges himself on a taco pie (which consists of tacos smashed up with a hammer and mixed with all of the food coloring in the pantry, topped with broken crackers), a strange robotic turkey bursts in, threatening to choke Carl if the Aqua Teens don't put the "bird" down. After dropping Carl (who angrily runs back home) the turkey identifies itself as Turkatron and explains he was sent from the year 9595 to save "the great, great, great, great grandfather of Goblox." He then proceeds to tell a long, Terminator-esque story about the war of the turkeys against the hyper-evolved chickens from the future. He is dismayed when he learns the turkey is dead and that the Aqua Teens have been eating him, but agrees to take the cooked bird back to the future with him.

While waiting for his "time rift" to open, Turkatron decides to stay for a little bit and tell another extremely long, boring and nonsensical story while eating their taco pie and drinking all their wine. Since it's basically the same exact thing the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future pulled last Christmas, the Aqua Teen correctly recognize him to be the same character, which he admits to, saying he was reprogrammed by "rogue chicken scientists" into a robotic turkey in order to rescue Goblox. They are suspicious, since as Frylock notes, people from the future don't usually carry their socks and toothbrush around in a torn garbage bag; Turkatron angrily tells them not to touch those, as they are dangerous "laser guided" weapons.

Turkatron eventually becomes belligerently drunk, shouting at and breaking the TV and threatening to punch Frylock in the face for suggesting he go lie down. He then drunkenly mistakes the curtains for the "time rift", wraps them around himself, and promptly passes out.

Frylock opens his circuitry & reveals that Turkatron is actually a defective toy called "Hustlin Tom Turkey" that was subject to a product recall for erratic behavior, and that there are hundreds more identical robot turkeys like him in circulation. Making a few adjustments to his brain, Turkatron suddenly remembers his toy programming and starts dancing and telling everyone to "Do the Hustle".

Just then, there's a knock on the door - Shake opens it up and finds a huge crowd of identical robotic turkeys outside looking for Goblox. Shake points them in the direction of Carl's house - Carl opens and says, "You have got to be frickin' kidding me." When the army of robot turkeys ominously ask Carl what he's eating (a turkey leg). Carl thinks for a second and says "Your...", prompting them to pull out their "laser guided" sock weapons and point them at him. Carl, undettered, decides to finish his statement with "Your mother", at which point they blow him to pieces.

Now to the art:

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_HT_longhaired_Bflyadetified_November_23_2015_03 and 4: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

Happy Thanksgiving

radman_art_HT_longhaired_Bflyadetified_November_23_2015_03 will be featured on the bottom of this page:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

From me to you as a special holiday gift: so print it out and send someone a card from me.

November 20 2015:

from: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2011/10/blogger-sucks-im-moving-my-blog-to.html

Blogger Sucks - I'm Moving My Blog To A Different Platform - The Story Continues
Some people have decided that Blogger One Button Publishing, though a somewhat free service, is simply not to their liking. Some such opinions are possibly tragic, or misguided. Other similar cases, however, may be quite reasonable.
I want a URL that's not available. It's inactive, but nobody will help me claim it, so I'm moving my blog to WordPress!

When you pick a URL to publish your Blogger blog, you cannot pick one that's already in use. Blogger lets us publish our blogs to our own standards, as long as we publish within Terms Of Service. Blogger lets us keep our blogs, for eternity, if we so desire - and will not interfere with our plans for eternity.

If you are so determined that your blog have a certain URL - and are so certain that only that URL will do for your blog - you probably belong with a WordPress blog. If that Blogger URL is unavailable, because it's in use by a previously published Blogger blog, then a Google custom domain - or a WordPress URL - is probably your next best bet. Note that both custom domain URLs, and WordPress URLs, are also subject to availability.

Blogger is what it is. If you're not able to wait for Blogger to improve, and your personal needs are satisfied better by WordPress, you'll probably be better off there. Please feel free to go, with our blessings.

November 19 2015:

I love the Movie Meet The Parents! I have always compared the relationship between Greg and his Father-in-law as my relationship between my dad and I. I was under constant scrutiny from my dad growing up. He was a high ranking police officer and that was his life; literally. People that knew my dad personally would tell you he was a officer 24-7. I loved him though and we had a great relationship when I became a adult. My dad had my back; so much so that he would stick up for me in social situations; even when I was not there he was quick to defend my honor. My wife and I love all the Meet the Parents movies and it is a great movie because we both love it equally. We are looking forward to the new Zoolander Movie too.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Parents

Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach. Starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, the film chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless man while visiting his girlfriend's parents. Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, and Owen Wilson also star.

I always think about Meet The Parents as how innocent we were about bombs on planes in the year 2000 when Meet the Parents came out. I love to wear my American Flag T shirt that has the date 2000 on it; I bought long before the year 2001. That makes me super patriotic. After 911 in 2001; the scene where Greg Focker makes a comment about a bomb on the plane; would have not been made, because of the sensitivity of the subject. This is a amazing example about how the world changed so much. I find it hard to think about to this day without getting a sad feeling and a lump in my throat.

When I read this new story about Bulgaria and how because a Polish passenger made a supposed joke about having a bomb and it forced the plane to land; it is such a contrast to the Meet the Parents movie. Even in Bulgaria they are quick to respond to this type of scenario. :

From: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/19/uk-bulgaria-landing-burgas-idUKKCN0T80MP20151119

Thu Nov 19, 2015 3:48pm GMT

A bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax, made by a "joking" Polish passenger, forced an airliner flying from Warsaw to Egypt to make an emergency landing in Bulgaria on Thursday.

The Airbus A320 of Polish Small Planet Airlines landed just before dawn in the Black Sea city of Burgas, where authorities said all 161 passengers and crew were evacuated safely.

"There is no explosive device on board the airplane that made an emergency landing," the interior ministry said in a statement after conducting a second check of the plane.

Prosecutors said a 67-year-old Pole had alerted crew about a possible bomb on board. He has been arrested and could face up to 15 years in jail.

Earlier on Thursday the Polish airline said in a statement that the man had "informed the cabin crew about the explosive he might be carrying. (He) ... later admitted it was a joke."

A police spokeswoman said the passenger admitted having consumed alcohol.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov praised the security forces' reaction.

"You saw how quickly our forces in Burgas acted after an absolutely false signal," he said. "Such a big concern because of a drunken Pole ... but still it was a kind of training."

Bulgaria has tightened controls at borders and airports since Friday's attacks in Paris in which 129 people died.

The charter flight had been en route to the Red Sea resort of Hurghada. Small Planet Airlines sent another aircraft to Burgas to enable passengers to complete their journey.

November 18 2015:

I have been thinking. I think BlogSpot.com erasing the entire year of 2013 of this bog is not such a bad thing after all. Granted the only reason I mentioned that is that 2013 was a banner year for me on the internet.:

This photo has been moved to the bottom of this page; to help this page to load quicker:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-phtotos.html

I received this in 2013. 2013 was one of my best years on the internet for my political views posted. You know when you like a television series and the first few seasons are terrible? 2013 is like that that for this blog.

This photo has been moved to the bottom of this page; to help this page to load quicker:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-phtotos.html

I also created this art to accompany my meager gifts to the only charity's I give to besides my ACLU member ship once a year. The Christmas cardinals represent the cardinals that nest here and my wife and I on guard. It is French watercolor paints on French watercolor paper

November 17 2015:

Do you want world peace?

I sure do.

Here it is: The Internet!

Think about it. Since the dawn of the affordable Android Cell Phone; the internet has suddenly become more popular than it ever has world wide! I remember when it was all I could do was upgrade my Pentium from a 100mb to keep up; back in 1995. From 2010 (the first Android phone) to now; I challenge you to find a time, when world peace has been more secure.

All them like TPP and Comcast that want to destroy the internet: want to destroy the freedom of the internet. Free internet as it has been for almost 30 years (https://www.google.com/takeaction/ ). To destroy the internet: is to lust after the suffering of other humans. Those that lust after the suffering of others is best defined with the word: Psychopath!

Who is W.D. Richter? I know lets wait until he is dead to celebrate him. This way we can miss all the movies he could have made just like Stanley Kubrick. Richter is from Connecticut; my home state; no less.

Thanks Dish aka: http://www.dish.com/ for bringing me my old favorite Buckaroo Banzai and Epix channel.

Here is a interesting fact about the movie Mortdecai. The dude like me; was from the east coast and was not European at all; ha ha for the 1 millionth time; lol, lol lol, lol lol, lol lol, lol lol, lol lol, lol lol, lol lol, lol,. He was actually from not far from my hometown: New York City; a hated sort, around these here parts; but non the less the inventors of our country. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3045616/

Here is a little know fact: Google.com aka Blogspot.com destroyed the year 2013 on this blog. You see; I did not back up the year 2013 on this blog so when Blogspot.com... jams like it always does in Explorer 11 of Windows (made in America) ; I pressed "Revert to draft" and it erased the entire year on 2013. So a entire year of radmanart2ndhome.blogspot was erased!

November 16 2015:

added this to yesterdays post:

Do not get me wrong I love our country and hope we can stay strong as long as possible because, if we fall it is only a matter of time before; like a domino effect. the rest of mankind falls. If we are destroyed by a nuclear bomb for instance, how could the planet last much longer? This makes sense since the Bible mentions how man try's as hard as he can to destroy the earth. I have a great book on this by De Whitt Talmage. Or maybe not; maybe we are destroyed long before the end. I can not tell the future but the book of Revelation is amazing like that and I took a class that lasted two years in the strictest church in our country in 1990.

Now to the art:

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_fadetified_symmetfly_October_26_2015_03: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one. Those are butterfly's in the background.

November 15 2015:

Maybe it was because we killed 20-30 million people since World War Two

From: http://www.sott.net/article/273517-Study-US-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-World-War-Two this link is also the default on Google.com as well.

Maybe because we have put 2,220,300 adults and 54,148 children of our own people in prison.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in U.S.

federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 – about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S.

resident population.[2] Additionally, 4,751,400 adults in 2013 (1 in 51) were on probation or on parole.I n total, 6,899,000 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2013 – about 2.8% of adults (1 in 35) in the U.S. resident population.

In addition, there were 54,148 juveniles in juvenile detention in 2013.

Also from: http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/page.cfm?id=107

The United States is the world's leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation's prisons or jails -- a 500% increase over the past thirty years. These trends have resulted in prison overcrowding and state governments being overwhelmed by the burden of funding a rapidly expanding penal system, despite increasing evidence that large-scale incarceration is not the most effective means of achieving public safety.

No matter if you can find 1 million hits on Google that say I am wrong; I am telling you the truth. I

know, believe me; I know. I have learned this first hand from actual human beings long before Windows 95; our country will not be in existence. long before the end times on our planet. I hope one day if you are still around and influential enough you will tell two friends; I was right about that. Do not get me wrong I love our country and hope we can stay strong as long as possible because, if we fall it is only a matter of time before; like a domino effect. the rest of mankind falls. If we are destroyed by a nuclear bomb for instance, how could the planet last much longer? This makes sense since the Bible mentions how man try's as hard as he can to destroy the earth. I have a great book on this by De Whitt Talmage. Or maybe not; maybe we are destroyed long before the end. I can not tell the future but the book of Revelation is amazing like that and I took a class that lasted two years in the strictest church in our country in 1990.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYtlvzQ7GV8

I wanted to explain why I posted what I posted yesterday. I just remembered the South Park Movie and how much the French character; The Mole hated God. Christophe, better known as The Mole, is a bitter French nine year old with an expertise in covert operations and an intense hatred of God.

Also I wanted to correct myself and mention that possibly our country could have destroyed itself and not have been destroyed by God. The Bible does clearly not mention our country in the end times as if we do not exist, or have not existed, for a very long time. I also wanted to mention that God is not a God of only peace and love and sunshine and flowers. My mom believes that way and is in denial that God would ever kill another human being. Think about Noah, we all seem to believe that story. Do a search for words like wrath and vengeance in any concordance. In a way it makes me empathize a little for little Christophe.

November 14 2015:

I am sure that GOD will proclaim France one of the greatest country's of all the earth before he purges it with fire to create "a new heaven and a new earth"; according to the Bible.

I would not be a artist unless it was for the French. Think about all the French have done for art. If it was not for France there would be no FINE art. So the earth owes the history of art to France. The history of our planet is no less represented by art alone. Make no mistake about it; art is sacred. After God is long through with the destruction of our country ( the USA is not mentioned of the surviving country's on earth; in the most accurate book of Revelations dictated to John, a true Sicilian like myself ) He will then move on to destroy the entire planet again. He promised not to destroy the planet again by WATER but he will purge our planet by fire. Like fine gold.

I would personally like to thank the French for first and foremost; for a lust for human rights with the heart of all mankind personified; and a lionhearted spirit to fight for it. Second I would like to thank France for single handedly preserving art. I think God will keep at least some art as a remembrance of how great man was; after He and we will rule and reign with Him. That's right I will reign with Him, too.

reign/rān/verb

verb: reign; 3rd person present: reigns; past tense: reigned; past participle: reigned; gerund or present participle: reigning

1. hold royal office; rule as king or queen.
"Queen Elizabeth reigns over the UK"
synonyms: be king/queen, be monarch, be sovereign, sit on the throne, wear the crown, rule More
"Robert II reigned for nineteen years"

Thank you France, for providing the world to this day and through the century's with fine art and fine art paints and painting tools; to affordably create my very best paintings, I have ever created: and in the same breath all the greatest artist of the world who have created the finest art; with art hardware; MADE IN FRANCE.

Speaking of Bullying; I would be honored to post this about LOL. I purchased; with real hard earned US money, a certificate for LOL, to play this great game in the spring of 2015. I have not played since then; because of the bullying that can only be described as; inhuman.:

algorithms* definition:

a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.

from: http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/10675/Pattern-Recognition-AI-Algorithm-Fights-Online-Bullying.aspx

Pattern Recognition AI Algorithm Fights Online Bullying

Kagan Pittman posted on September 16, 2015 | Comment | 2426 views

Riot Games, the developer behind the popular massive multiplayer online (MMO) video game League of Legends (LoL or League), may have engineered the answer to online abuse and bullying with the help of good ol’ AI algorithms*.

Games like LoL are competitive in nature, occasionally hosting championship tournaments offering millions of dollars for first prize, and pitting two teams of players to duke it out in ranked battles to the virtual death.

In less formal settings, players at home sometimes lose their cool and vent at each over in-game audio. In the most extreme cases, this can escalate into slur-slinging and hate speech.

In response to these issues, Riot Games took to policing its LoL community through the Tribunal, introduced in 2011.

This in-game system assigned participating players case files to review, which included chat logs, game statistics and other report details. The judging player would then decide whether the offending player should be “punished” or “pardoned.”

Jeffrey Lin, lead designer of social systems at Riot Games, stated 98 percent of the community’s verdicts were in line with those of Riot Games administrators, according to MIT Technology Review.

Lin and team were able to pick up on patterns in the offensive language and applied an unnamed pattern recognition AI algorithm to the chat logs as a test. “It turned out to be extremely successful in segmenting negative and positive language across the 15 official languages that League supports,” Lin said.

With the Tribunal “down for maintenance” for over a year, the new AI system has apparently worked wonders. Several million cases of suspected abusive behavior have been reviewed, with 92 percent of convicted players not reoffending.

This is a radical reform rate, numbers that real-world law enforcement can only dream of. So how did they manage it?

Punishments were doled out as restrictions to in-game content. Players could have limited chat resources, be blocked out of competitive play or even have their accounts disabled.

But it wasn’t the punishment itself that resulted in the system’s success.

“When we added better feedback to the punishments and included evidence such as chat logs for the punishment, reform rates jumped from 50 percent to 65 percent,” Lin explained. “But when the machine learning system began delivering much faster feedback with the evidence, reform rates spiked to an all-time high of 92 percent.”

Cannot Compute Sarcasm… Or Microphone Audio

The new system’s success is miraculous considering its flaws.

Sarcasm is common in human language, especially in competitive situations. Picking up on this type of phrase is what poses the greatest challenge for Riot Games’ AI in determining who really is or isn’t trying to offend.

To compensate for the difficulty, Lin and the Riot team have implemented a collection of subsystems to analyze and double check key information. “Because multiple systems work in conjunction to deliver consequences to players, we’re currently seeing a healthy 1 in 5,000 false-positive rate,” Lin said.

A further issue is the question of whether or not this new system could record and analyze speech over a microphone.

The previous Tribunal system was incapable of enforcing its rules over players with headsets, as only text chat logs could be moderated. If the new system can only operate within the same medium then only a portion of the community can be defended from itself.

Verbal abuse will still be a common issue that players will only be able to avoid by turning their microphones and related audio off, confining themselves to communicating through text. It’s not the most convenient way to interact, but for some players it’s good enough.

“I [would] rather not listen to people whine and ***** about each other,” said a player under the username “ItsABadBromance, over a LoL user forum discussing the use of microphones. “It’s one thing to deal with the text, but to listen to their voices, is a whole nother world of agony.”

From Video Games to a Broader Online Community

Although the context of this program takes places within a competitive game, similar software could have a place in monitoring forums or similar web portals for the sake of curbing online bullying and abuse.

“One of the crucial insights from the research is that toxic behavior doesn’t necessarily come from terrible people; it comes from regular people having a bad day,” said Justin Reich, research scientist from Harvard’s Berkman Center. “That means that our strategies to address toxic behavior online can’t be targeted just at hardened trolls; they need to account for our collective human tendency to allow the worst of ourselves to emerge under the anonymity of the Internet.”

Lin believes the team’s text and pattern recognition techniques can be applied outside just video games and hopes others within and outside the industry can use them for the greater good.

“The challenges we’re facing in League of Legends can be seen on any online game, platform, community or forum, which is why we believe we’re at a pivotal point in the timeline of online communities and societies,” Lin said. “Because of this, we’ve been very open in sharing our data and best practices with the wider industry and hope that other studios and companies take a look at these results and realize that online toxicity isn’t an impossible problem after all.”

November 10 2015:

from: http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury

If you like planets, you’ll need to get up early this month. The most noticeable planet throughout November, 2015, is dazzling Venus. Look east before dawn! You can’t miss it. In that same part of the sky, you’ll notice Jupiter, second-brightest planet. Fainter Mars is also in the picture, in conjunction with Venus in early November.

Duran Duran immediately followed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Felder#The_Eagles It is about time those people in the background got some credit. Then again I have always been a fan of Bob Welch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Welch_(musician) who recently killed himself because he did not want his doctor bills to be burden on his family. Such is life in the hard knock life of the southern states that I call home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

I was just watching Duran Duran Wembley on AXS on Dish (http://www.dish.com/). I know that Duran Duran to your local yokel is some band that gained popularity slightly in the 1980's. In reality Duran Duran has been going strong all this time in Europe. Same thing for Davis Bowie.

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen on television. Every time I see it with in the context of the show it makes me laugh hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4csByWH9OBY

Since it is Veterans Day tomorrow I would like to dedicate my life anew to my favorite veteran now and for ever my wife.:

Happy Veterans Day. I am privileged to be loved by my favorite veteran.

Pup with wife May 24 2014.

Thin Lizzy Dedication Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC17cLr85EE
This is dedicated to the woman I love
Wherever she stands, my dedication
This is dedicated to the millions
That are starving from hunger in dedication
Dedication
Dedication
I dedicate it, dedicate it
Dedication
This is dedicated to the front lines that are dying
For dedication
This is dedicated to the child of mine wherever she stands
I give a dedication
Dedication
Dedication
I dedicate it, dedicate it
Dedication
This is dedicated for the children
That are starving at your hands
I dedicate this to the millions
I dedicate it to you
Oh yeah, a dedication
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Dedicated
This is dedicated to the woman I love
(I dedicate this song, to the woman I love)
Wherever she stands, I give her dedication
(Wherever she stands)
This is dedicated, to the millions, that are starving, in dedication
(There are millions, they are starving from hunger, oh)
Dedication
(I dedicate it)
Dedication
(This song is for you)
I dedicate it, dedicate it
(Dedicate it, dedicate it)
Dedication
(Dedication)
Dedication
(To the woman I love)
Dedication
(To the child I knew)
I dedicate it, dedicate it
(I dedicate it, dedicate it)
Dedication
(Dedication)
Dedication
Thin Lizzy - Dedication Lyrics

November 09 2015:

Tool - Crawl Away - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHHTWLIChg

You crawled away from me.

Slipped away from me.
I tried to keep a hold,
But there was nothing I could say.
You slid and crept away
And there was nothing I could say.
So what you're trying to say
Is you don't wanna play.
But what you want and what you need
Doesn't mean fuck to me.
Because I can see your back is turning.
If I could I'd stick the knife in.
This is love.
This is my love for you.
This is my love for you.
This is my love for you.
This is my love for you.
This is my love for you.
This is my loooooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Get up.
Now.
Say you won't go.

When I first discovered Tool it was in about 2002 long after they faded out. But Rust never sleeps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhTbOCbvozI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQhEvfeJocM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpr8Y39FLMA

I saw Rust never sleeps at the midnight movies when the midnight movies showed at 11pm long before any one heard of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

My my, hey hey
Rock and roll is here to stay
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away
My my, hey hey.

Out of the blue
and into the black
They give you this,
but you pay for that
And once you're gone,
you can never come back
When you're out of the blue
and into the black.

The king is gone
but he's not forgotten
This is the story
of a Radman_art
It's better to burn out
than it is to rust
The king is gone
but he's not forgotten.

Hey hey, my my
The internet can never die
There's more to the picture
Than meets the eye.
Hey hey, my my.back to top

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_rgby_symmetfly_October_26_2015_03.jpg: I used a image I got from good old Google. That's a Texas wildflower cropped and reversed in the background.

November 03 2015:

I finally figured out why it is I love about the movie Private Parts. It reminds me of my wife.( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Parts_(1997_film) ) I empathize about Howard Stern is his allegiance to his wife.

The things we do for love no matter who you are is always the right thing to do. Like Django Unchained ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained ) I did a review on IMDB for this movie that is a must read! Like the song the things we do for love! Who is 10cc? 10cc are the authors of: The Things We Do for Love (song) by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman of 10cc "The Things We Do for Love" is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1976. It is taken from the album Deceptive Bends. The song was a huge hit in various countries worldwide, reaching number one in Canada, as well as peaking at #6 in the UK, #5 in the U.S. and Australia, #13 in the Netherlands, and #2 in Ireland.

Are there still bands around as talented as the band 10cc? You bet there are; even better! The only difference is now is you need a good internet connection to search for and find them; not like the 1970’s when you only had to turn the radio on; with a disk jockey like Howard Stern running things. Check out 10cc live in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6PnsnBpQE

Think about it we still have great radio stars today. We just have a more sophisticated radio and it is called the world wide web. Quit possible without the internet music would be destroyed 1,000 more than and dictator take over could ever do; in the history of mankind.

Private Parts is a 1997 American biographical comedy film produced by Ivan Reitman and released by Paramount Pictures. Written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko, the film is an adaptation of the 1993 best-selling book of the same name by radio personality Howard Stern, who stars as himself. ( my wife says to this “that’s amazing” ) It follows his life from boyhood to the cusp of break-out success in radio. His radio show staff also star in the film, including newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers, producers Fred Norris and Gary Dell'Abate and comedian Jackie Martling

check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCziA8qAf_M

For his performance, Stern won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favorite Male Newcomer". The awards are given by the result of write-in votes from fans and Stern won by a wide margin. Stern was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy". He was also nominated for a Razzie Award for "Worst New Star".

Also; I finally got my wife to watch Sarah Silverman Jesus is Magic

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman:_Jesus_Is_Magic ) with me.

I was a little distracted by watching her with someone else to tell you the truth. I advise that you watch her by yourself the first time you see it all the way through. The thing is to pay attention to every last thing she says and to take note of the timing. In my opinion you need the to know the reason every human being should see Jesus is Magic, is Sarah goes out of her way to take away the taboos of every controversial subject known to man. By man I mean every dirty rotten bigot man, something we have no shortage of around these here parts. Bigots are against all humankind and prosperity, I say that without one once of regret.

added this correction to my last post today:

I don't believe it. I blamed the compatibility between BlogSpot.com and internet explorer for me being kicked from my blog while updating the is I have no idea what the problem is. I will just have to keep working on the solution. The bottom line is when working with computers we will always have software problems. No wonder in my favorite Terminator movie Terminator 3; it is software that caused the problem. I found out the reason was a local internet outage and slow down we were all experiencing in this aria.

November 02 2015:

Just posted something new as of today 2:00pm. Look just below the yellow highlighted text; I so rightfully typed this morning.

I was graced by the show Amy Schumer Live at The Apollo while getting a free preview of HBO recently: on Dish. I was blown away by this performance to put it mildly. I can now see why Amy Schumer is so popular. This is female adult humor at it's absolute best. I also loved the movie Spy” by the way speaking of full figured hilarious women like Melissa McCarthy. I never thought I could watch a intense spy movie and laugh historically at the same time. Melissa McCarthy is a favorite of my wife’s and now mine also. This was the first time I saw Amy Schumer in action though. I have seen her advertised on television allot in the past year of art for me 2015. Hearing Amy at live at the Apollo was absolutely out of this world. She made me laugh so hard I hurt my body. The chest aria actually got sore from laughing so much.

references:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Schumer

imdb.com/name/nm2154960/

hbo.com/comedy/amy-schumer-live-from-the-apollo

http://www.dishanywhere.com/shows/amy_schumer_live_at_the_apollo_7191

youtube.com/watch?v=2i9nLV6XTpg

Spy (2015) - IMDb Directed by Paul Feig. With Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Jason Statham. A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a ...

imdb.com/title/tt3079380/

Although Amy Schumer is now my second favorite female stand up comedian of all time now my first will always be Sarah Silverman. When I first saw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Silverman:_Jesus_Is_Magic also see youtube.com/watch?v=2ATcainiaHg I could not believe how absolutely hilarious Sarah is. When it comes to stand up comic Sarah is thee absolute best!

I have posted this many times on the internet about Sarah. She is introducing my favorite female band Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins and my favorite song by that band Rise Up With Fists. When I saw Sarah introduce this band on this great MTV video I instantly became a fan. It is the expression on her face that did it. Thanks to YouTube you can see and hear the greatest modern female band from a equally great album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Thz2SOKkGI To me this song is about repression of people of the south.

Rise Up With Fists!!! Lyrics:

What are you changing?

Who do you think you're changing?
You can't change things, we're all stuck in our ways
It's like trying to clean the ocean
What do you think you can drain it?
Well it was poison and dry long before you came

But you can wake up younger under the knife

And you can wake up sounder if you get analyzed
And I better wake up
There but for the grace of God, go hide

It's hard to believe your prophets

When they're asking you to change things
But with their suspect lives we look the other way
Are you really that pure, Sir?
Thought I saw you in Vegas
It was not pretty, but she was

But she will wake up wealthy

And you will wake up 45
And she will wake up with babies
There but for the grace of God, go i

What am I fighting for?

The cops are at the front door
I can't escape that way, the windows are in flames
And what's that on your ankle?
You say they're not coming for you
But house arrest is really just the same

Like when you wake up behind the bar

Trying to remember where you are
Having crushed all the pretty things
There but for the grace of God, go i

But I still believe

And I will rise up with fists
And I will take what's mine mine mine
There but for the grace of God, go i
There but for the grace of God, go i
There but for the grace of God, go i

Read more: Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists!!! Lyrics |

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Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_morefadedsymmetfly_November_02_2015_03: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one. I created a great opaque layer over the background image I got from the internet for this art. I did this by using the easer tool combined with the spray can tool. I referenced the color inside the butterfly sketch I did from the inside out. I used my favorite art color of red for the inside center though.

This is the shade of grey I have been using for my butterfly's lately.

Read more: Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Grey Lyrics FATES WARNING - DYNAMO 1998 (Full) - YouTube Video for fates warning live at dynamo 47:32 This is my favorite all time video on YouTube ever! I watch it often when ever I am in the mood to crow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssanSkWebMThe dictionary definition of the word Crow used as a verb is as follows:crow2 crow [kro]vi (past and past participle crowed, present participle crow·ing, 3rd person present singular crows) 1. cry like rooster: to give the loud shrill cry of a rooster 2. cry out happily: to cry out with pleasure in the way that babies do 3. brag about something: to boast about personal success or celebrate about something another person has failed to do in a noisy and exuberant way n (plural crows) rooster's loud cry: a long shrill call made by a bird, especially a
rooster [ Old English crawan < Germanic]

I don't believe it. I blamed the compatibility between BlogSpot.com and internet explorer for me being kicked from my blog while updating the is I have no idea what the problem is. I will just have to keep working on the solution. The bottom line is when working with computers we will always have software problems. No wonder in my favorite Terminator movie Terminator 3; it is software that caused the problem.I found out the reason was a local internet outage and slow down we were all experiencing in this aria.

I remember Dame Darcy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dame_Darcy) from my Juxtapoz magazine subscription; (www.juxtapoz.com)from back in 2002 when I was new to college. I vaguely remember Dame Darcy from California. I wonder if she was in on that comic book my long time friend Jim Phillips: http://www.jimphillips.com/ worked on.

Over the years this very famous lady has actually replied to my emails to her. I am kind of famous but with not a dime to show for it, kind of like a freak. I am used to it though. All my life I have been a real hate magnet with the only people that paid attention to me were bullies. I always had a way with bullies though because I always had really big dudes or women that were my friends and would do anything for me. Weird huh? I would just ask one of my giant friends to talk to my bully buddies and they would never bully me again; true stories. Most of my bullies would become my friends; once seeing my inner freakishly forced mature nature. I have learned in the past 6 years or so that when people breed dogs to be really big they live much shorter lives than normal sized dogs. I learned decades ago giant people live shorter lives than normal sized people. Perhaps the oddness that large people face coincides with us bullied ones. Some words of wisdom free of charge; as always from the radical one.

Anyhow I have just learned that my most honorable friend Dame Darcy will soon be coming out with a book: The Meat Cake Bible Hardcover – February 8, 2016 This updated collection of Dame Darcy’s gothy, punky comics includes her collaboration with Alan Moore. Dame Darcy is one of the sui generis artistic talents of the past two decades ? musician, actress, fortune teller, dollmaker, Gen X/feminist icon, and last but not least, cartoonist to the core ? and has been bewitching readers for over 20 years with her neo-Victorian horror/humor/romance comic Meat Cake. Alternating between one-off (often cruelly tragic) fairy tales and ongoing romps starring her eclectic cast of characters, including Effluvia the Mermaid, the roguish roué Wax Wolf, Igpay the Pig-Latin pig, Stregapez (a women who speaks by dispensing Pez-like tablets through a bloody hole in her throat), the mischievous Siamese twins Hindrance and Perfidia, Scampi the Selfish Shellfish, the stalwart Friend the Girl, and the blonde bombshell Richard Dirt, all delineated in her inimitable luxurious scrawl, Meat Cake is like a peek into the most creative, deranged dollhouse you ever saw. The Meat Cake Bible is the definitive collection of the series, collecting every story from all 17 issues (1993-2008) ? including “Hungry Is the Heart,” Darcy’s legendary collaboration with Alan Moore ? as well as new stories from the unpublished 18th issue. Black & white with 32 pages of color. Reserve your copy today: http://www.amazon.com/Meat-Cake-Bible-Dame-Darcy/dp/1606999109

November 01 2015:

The Dish was resetting this morning and the radio that plays our television is preset on 101.1. I am glad this great radio station is still going strong. Check out their website it plays the radio station, cool: http://tunein.com/radio/Classical-101-1011-s22565/ also see here: http://www.wrr101.com/

When we first moved to McKinney Texas after my wife was relieved from her active duty in Killen, Texas for the United States Army and assigned to reserve in Seagoville, Texas we discovered this great station. I grew up on college radio and besides Saturday morning blue grass that I love; they would have great classical shows as well. So if you are in the Dallas aria tune in nice and load with the bass turned; up on your car radio.

October 29 2015:

I voted today. I even voted to have the state pave dirt roads. I hope they don't come pave my road though. Cause then I would not be able to sing this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9q1ScC4cg or this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUKt91wvPE8 .

I saw Colt Ford for the 1st time last spring on AXS and it blew me away! The concert went on for almost 2 hours and at the end the mike I thought was a mike was really a rifle that Colt lifted up with southern pride; at the end of the concert to thunderous applause.

I saw Jason Aldean also on AXS last spring in concert outdoors in Houston; and it rocked too.

Colt Ford!

"Country Thang"

Shotgun shack on the edge of town

It's where I'll be when the sun goes down
Big money, bird dog barkin' out back
Wouldn't trade him in for a Cadillac
County wanna pave my old dirt road
Went to the courthouse, said "Hell no"

It's a country thang, it's a fish on a string

Mary Jane chompin' on a chicken wing
It's a tire swing on a riverbank
It's the way we talk, it's the way we sing
It's either in your blood or it ain't
It's a country thang

October 28 2015:

I made this. If you say The Simpsons, Madonna or magazines are outdated then you are in some kind of looser denial.

Check this list I made of my favorite healthy foods. I had to search many websites to make this list.

Shirataki Noodles 15 calories

Soba Noodles low 113 calories per one cup

Mussels 73 calories per 3 oz.

Turkey Legs 91 calories per 3 oz.

Pork Tenderloin 92 calories per 3 oz.

Eye of Round Steak 100 calories per 3 oz.

Mozzarella, Part-Skim 71 calories per 1 oz.

Turkey Breast Deli Meat 72 calories per 3 oz.

Chicken Breast 92 calories per 3 oz.

2 cups shredded romaine lettuce = 18 calories, 1.4 grams fiber

3/4 oz. sharp Cheddar 90 Calories

1 large egg 70-80 Calories

1 roasted skinless chicken drumstick 75 calories

1 half medium baked potato 85 Calories

2 medium figs 75 calories

Vegetable soup 1 cup 90 calories

1 Small sweet potato 55 calories

2 third oz. dark chocolate 95 calories

Pistachios unsalted 25 85 calories

Cucumbers 50 calories per 100 gram serving.

Celery 6 calories per stalk

Brussels Sprouts Total calories per 100g serving: 43

Tomatoes Total calories per 100g serving: 17

Watermelon Total calories per 100g serving: 30

Mushrooms Total calories per 100g serving of Chanterelle mushrooms: 38

Cauliflower Total calories per 100g serving: 25

Asparagus Total calories per 100g serving: 20

Cabbage Total calories per 100g serving: 25

Carrots Total calories per 100g serving: 41

Broccoli Total calories per 100g serving: 34

Onions Total calories per 100g serving: 40

Apples Total calories per 100g serving: 52

I discovered this while watching Dish it came on while I was doing something. I would not actually watch Bad News Bears (2005) :

Is it just me; or is the beginning of the movie Bad News Bears (2005) :

Ted Nugent - Stranglehold - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c3d7QgZr7g

I do not care what party Ted Nugent represents! I will for ever be a diehard fan of the motor city madman:

This is the first song from the first album this dude ever made and it is absolutely perfect!:

Lyrics from Google lyrics:

Here I come again now, baby

Like a dog in heat
Tell it's me by the clamor now baby
I like to tear up the street,

Now I been smokin for so long,
Ya know I'm here to stay
Got you in a stranglehold, baby
You best get outta the way

The road I cruise is a bitch now, baby
But no, you can't turn me round
And if a house gets in my way, baby
Ya know I'll burn it down

You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
You better trust your fate

Yeah
Sometimes you wanna get higher
And sometimes you gotta start low
Some people think they gonna die someday
I got news, ya never got to go

C'mon c'mon up
C'mon c'mon up
C'mon c'mon up
C'mon c'mon up

C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon baby
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon up
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon baby
C'mon c'mon c'mon

Road I cruise is a bitch now
Ya know ya can't turn me round
And if a house gets in my way
Ya know I'll burn it down

You ran the night that you left me
You put me in my place
I got you in a stranglehold, baby
That night I crushed your face

I will forever believe this! This is the greatest live album in the history of the world: and parts are made right here in the great state of TEXAS! :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Live_Gonzo!

Double Live Gonzo! is a live album by the American hard rock guitarist Ted Nugent, released in 1978. In addition to live versions of songs from previous albums, this double album also contains original material played live, including: "Yank Me, Crank Me" and "Gonzo". The album has reached 3x Platinum status in the United States.

Thank you SNL for appearing on Comedy Central , I have a schedule that keeps me from staying up late at night. Also I am unable to find SNL on YouTube. So thank you.

October 27 2015:

Ren & Stimpy: Happy Happy Joy Joy

happy happy joy joy - YouTube

Video for happy happy joy joy▶ 1:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNajFYPljQ

Ren & Stimpy Happy Helment Joy Joy song - YouTube
Video for happy happy joy joy▶ 2:20
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0V4TZAyd8I

Ren & Stimpy - Happy Happy Joy Joy - YouTube
Video for happy happy joy joy▶ 0:15
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZpgnYhzdkI

If I had a Kawasaki 1200 cc Ninja that could travel that far at 1000 miles an hour I would do the same exact thing, and be back in time for the dinner bell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INvMdEcqxfk : Wolf Parade; Dinner Bells

This song came out at the peak of my Ninja 1200 cc ridding days in 2005 and I had it playing on my old fashioned IPod playing at full volume:

Dinner Bells Lyrics

from Apologies to the Queen Mary

I heard all your reasons
I heard all your plans
I have seen the seasons
Clutched up in your hands
You're the one eyed feather
You're the lion's mane
Swear you've heard the weather
Calling out your name
There'll be no more winters
There'll be no more spring and
There'll be no more dinner bells
Left for you to ring
There'll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring
Maestro learns the music
Musicians learn to dance
There'll be no more trumpets
There'll be no more flutes
No more clapping hands
I've heard all your reasons
I've heard all your plans
I heard of your treasons
and I've heard all your pleas
And i've made friends with the hang man
So there'll be no more winter
There'll be no more spring and
There'll be no more dinner bells
Left for you to ring
There'll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring
There'll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring
There'll be no more dinner bells
Dinner bells to ring

Check out 2005 Wolf Parade live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzx_jpdp8gI

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_fadedsymmetfly_October_26_2015_01.jpg: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

When I say stuff like this:

"Tomorrow I will present to you about the fifty thousandth piece of art I have spent many hours to complete. And I keep asking myself, why?

in honor of my two hundredth; seemingly wasted hours on art"

It means I am sickened by the fact I never sell a painting. I am to embarrassed to just come out and say things like that so I beat around the bush like I do more often than I like to admit.

Top Definition

beat around the bush:

To talk about something without mentioning it directly or avoid getting to the core of the subject--to try to bring up a subject in a roundabout way. Often motivated from a desire not to speak frankly about the subject, either because the subject is taboo, it's impolite to bring it up directly, or the conversation is perceived likely to be painful.

This song also says things I do not want to say about bringing you all low.

CRACKER LYRICS

"Low"

Sometimes I wanna take you down
Sometime I wanna get you low
Brush your hair back from your eyes
Take you down let the river flow

Sometimes I go and walk the street

Behind a green sheet of glass
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

A million poppies gonna make me sleep

Just one rose it knows your name
The fruit is rusting on the vine
A fruit is calling from the trees

Hey don't you wanna go down

Like some junky cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

Blue, blue is the sun

Brown, brown is the sky
Green, green are her eyes
A million miles, a million miles

Hey don't you wanna go down

Like some disgraced cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

I'll be with you, girl, like being low

Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

When I saw this performance on 120 minutes November 11, 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5oh3clgrJw I went out and bought the cassette tape. I used to tune into 120 minutes on MTV religiously back then. We were so care free back then. I played that cassette very load as I drove to Georgia from California to stay with my wife while she did her AIT time with the United States Army. Ahhhh those were the days. Here they are on Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnxfojqcKIk and the original music video from MTV : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYdlqjiQPAc

October 23 2015:

I liked this, would to see more like this:

IMDb 25: Look at 25 Top Stars Then and Now

by IMDb-Editors | last updated - 4 days ago

We turn the spotlight on 25 of our favorite performers and reflect on where their respective careers were at as IMDb was getting its start. Click through the gallery to see how far they've all come.

50 images Click here

Just thought this was funny my wife and I discussed and laughed and I was able to look it up on YouTube:

Billy Madison: Bunt. B-U-N-T, in perfect cursive. Any more brain busters?

Veronica Vaughn: “Rizzuto”?
[Billy ponders, then writes]
Veronica Vaughn: Rirruto?
Billy Madison: Those’re Z’s.
Veronica Vaughn: They look like R’s to me.
Billy Madison: That’s not fair! Rizzuto’s not a word! He’s a baseball player! You’re cheating!
Veronica Vaughn: Would you like to try the word ‘buzz’?
Billy Madison: I HATE SCHOOL AND I HATE ALL OF YOU! I’M NEVER COMING BACK TO SCHOOL, NEVER!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jez-F7v_CYc Hurray for YouTube as always

Made some changes to this page as well this morning.

October 21 2015:

I apologize for the politics. I took down all the political stuff...again. As everyone that knows; that has been reading my art sites; I keep politics out and only talk about art and radical fun. I have been sharing my art online since 2001. Starting with my original website created by my wife for me in college, in 2001.: Radman_Art Homepage - Tripod http://members.tripod.com/hey_dtx/ has been around since 2001 and we paid for it for ten years, because Tripod was and still is the best website builder online. I have mentioned politics about less than a couple dozen times on my art websites since 2001.

I still reserve the right to free speech here if I deem necessary. I will probable erase it as always latter. I do not mention politics as a rule though if you do not believe me check here: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-art-vii.html and here (this one started around 2001 much latter I started to date it) : http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/little-radmanart-history.html

This blog is a calibration of my art and other people's art that can include music, television shows, movies, art is widely considered to take many forms including a pile of sand and that which is not even discovered yet. I do not have a whole lot of time; like most people now a days. Posting on subjects that makes me happy is using my time valuably. I believe I am accomplishing the most I can talking about things I love the most in life and that is allot; and more that I can ever put into words even, if I spent all my free time typing forever. This drives me to exceed in what I am doing; into the stratosphere. I do this because it is absolutely, a one hundred percent fun thing to do for me. I am all about fun and have been all my life. Why else would I take everything I owned and my fiance and move from my beloved home state of Connecticut to Southern California to work for the biggest skateboard company in the world at that time in 1988. I not only got a job with them but ended up with a contract selling them art. I made more money then without any college than I have now with 8 years of graphic art college credits, over 120 credit hours of hard earned 4.0 grade average. My pursuit of happiness has always motivated me more that anything in my life. It has always been well worth all my efforts no matter how difficult it is to accomplish physically; to have fun. You have to admit it works for me if you look at my online postings since 2001; simply about things that bring me joy.

So please allow me to be myself once again. This is me and what I do:

The transition of the song ( Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR_0nbEzVdY ) to the first song of the album Darkness on the Edge of Town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_on_the_Edge_of_Town: is the theme of my life. I bought both albums with my last penny's of my hard life of east coast mean streets. I remember buying the album Darkness on the Edge of Town at the Bradlees of South Main Street in Middletown Connecticut. At that time they said Bruce Springsteen made his last great album and was all washed up. I bought that album cause I still believed in the promised land and in Bruce. That album was considered to be Bruce's greatest accomplishment to date. I am proud to grow up back then. I was trying to get in shape for my football team in my junior year of high school. The year the coach of my fathers football team and my team; died of a heart attack just before the end of the season. So many times I could see in his eyes his appreciation for me being on his team after he coached my father generations before. He used to look at me like he was looking at my dad as a high school student. This was all after a life time of my dad being a great police officer in my home town of Middletown Connecticut; and that made everything more intense for me and everyone around me. I think that is a huge part of why I moved to away; for what seems like forever now. I tried with the last drop of blood I had to make my home town proud; but I failed. Just like us all chasing something in the night. Chasing the dreams of our fathers, fathers till there was nothing left but to take our dreams some where beyond that horizon to those streets of fire.

Something in the Night

Bruce Springsteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Dpgn5FpiE

Google Lyrics

I'm riding down Kingsley

Figuring I'll get a drink
Turn the radio up loud
So I don't have to think
I take her to the floor
Looking for a moment when the world seems right
And I tear into the guts
Of something in the night

You're born with nothing

And better off that way
Soon as you've got something the send
Someone to try and take it away
You can ride this road 'till dawn
Without another human being in sight
Just kids wasted on
Something in the night

Nothing is forgotten or forgiven

When it's your last time around
I got stuff running around 'round my head
That I just can't live down

When we found the things we loved

They were crushed and dying in the dirt
We tried to pick up the pieces
And get away without getting hurt
But they caught us at the state line
And burned our cars in one last fight
And left us running burned and blind
Chasing something in the night

Candy's Room

Bruce Springsteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ZfgsQ9Afw

Google Lyrics

In Candys room, there are pictures of her heroes on the wall,
but to get to Candys room, you gotta walk the darkness of Candys hall,
Strangers from the city, call my babys number and they bring her toys,
When I come knocking, she smiles pretty, she knows I wanna be Candys boy, Theres a sadness hidden in that pretty face, a sadness all her own, from which no man can keep Candy safe.

We kiss, my hearts pumpin to my brain

the blood rushes in my veins, fire rushes towards the skys,
We go driving, driving deep into the night,
I go driving deep into the light, in Candys eyes.

She says, Baby if you wanna be wild,

you got a lot to learn, close your eyes,
Let them melt, let them fire,
let them burn
Cause in the darkness, therell be hidden worlds that shine,
When I hold Candy close she makes the hidden worlds mine,
She has fancy clothes and diamond rings,
She has men who give her anything she wants, but they dont see,
That what she wants is me,
Oh, and I want her so,
Ill never let her go, no, no, no
She knows that Id give
all that I got to give,
All that I want, all that I live,
to make Candy mine
Tonight

Racing in the Street

Bruce Springsteen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWIAXsfZus

Google Lyrics

I got a 2001 Ninja with a 1200 CC
Fuel injected and a 200 race tires on the pavement
She’s waiting tonight down on route 75
Outside the truck stop
Me and my wife bought her straight out of Plano Kawsaki
And he rides with me from town to town
We only run for the thrill got no strings attached
We shut `em up and then we shut `em down

Tonight tonight the 75's just right

I wanna blow `em off in my first run
Summer’s here and the time is right
We’re goin’ racin’ in the street

We take all the action we can meet

And we cover all the southwest
When the highway shuts down we run `em in the street
From the fire roads to the interstate
Some guys they just give up living
And start dying little by little piece by piece
Some guys come home from work and wash up
Then go racin’ in the street

Tonight tonight the strip’s just right

I wanna blow `em all out of their seats
Calling out around the world
We’re going racin’ in the street

I met her on the East Coast ten years ago

In a Chevy Van with this dude from Middletown
I blew that town off my back and drove that little girl away
But now there’s wrinkles around my baby’s eyes
And she cries herself to sleep at night
When I come home the house is dark
She sighs “Baby did you make it all right”
She sits on the porch of our house
But all her pretty dreams are torn
She stares off alone into the night
With the eyes of one who hates for just being born

For all the shut-down strangers and hot rod angels

Rumbling through this promised land
Tonight my baby and me we’re gonna ride to the sea
And wash these sins off our hands

Tonight tonight the highway 75 is bright

Out of our way mister you best keep
`Cause summer’s here and the time is right
We’re goin’ racin’ in the street

October 19 2015:

Your so far away. Click here and Click here.

I dedicate this song to my mom and emailed this to her on this day.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_origonalsymmetfly_October_05_2015_04.jpg: I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

October 12 2015:

[Part VI]

i know that i don't know you

and you couldn't know me
but time and space collided
and here we are, here we are

i know that you don't understand

and i can't explain
but circumstance conspired
and here we are, here we are

Read more: Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Grey Lyrics | MetroLyrics

FATES WARNING - DYNAMO 1998 (Full) - YouTube

Video for fates warning live at dynamo 47:32

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssanSkWebM

Here we are:

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_symmetfly_October_05_2015_02 : I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

October 11 2015:

I live in a valley surrounded by intertwining Texas tough trees. I call them Texas tough trees because unlike the trees of my home land: Connecticut, they are seemingly made of plastic. If you squeeze any tree leaf back home you can see water in your hand. If you squeeze a leaf around here you might get a nasty venomous like thorn in your hand for a month. This is why I am so dedicated to keeping every last tree and wildlife preserve there is around here. I believe unless we get serious around here about preserving the wild life here we will all choke to death at the rate we are going. The point I am trying to make is we have no television reception here at all. So when I mention all the great shows I watch they are because of the great and only affordable Dish Network. (http://www.dish.com/)

Speaking of which I love the movie Anchorman 1 and 2. I have seen Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) about 15 times on Epics on Dish Network. (http://www.dish.com/) . I made this about February of 2014:

What I am getting at is I love this song:

This song is performed by Argent and appears on the album All Together Now (1972).

And if it's bad

Don't let it get you down, you can take it
And if it hurts
Don't let them see you cry, you can make it

Hold your head up, woman

Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head high
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head high

And if they stare

Just let them burn their eyes on you moving
And if they shout
Don't let it change a thing that you're doing

Hold your head up, woman

Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head high
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head high

Hold your head up

Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up

Hold your head up, woman

Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head high
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head up, woman
Hold your head high

And if they stare

Just let them burn their eyes on you moving
And if they shout
Don't let it change a thing that you're doing

Hold your head up

Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up
Hold your head up

This song plays in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) towards the end but I wonder how many people realize the lyrics say: Hold your head up, woman. This all means to me how much I love being a women's rights advocate. I have actually won a award certificate from Amnesty International (amnestyusa.org) for my philanthropy in women's rights. I will never change myself like this. I thank my strong willed mom for this trait. Every woman in the world could hate me and I would still be like this.

Two great links from the great free and open internet advocate (worth fighting for!; I have a web page with my name on it showing I did my part to promote it fro the FCC) YouTube!:

Hold Your Head Up, Woman (Extended) [HQ] Argent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiWhEWBmX7E

Hold Your Head Up-Argent-1972-(Long Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBnSWJHawQQ

Also here are some more great space cowboy links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELcTJZLxhFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R27-jz8DgY4

Although I have not used Marijuana since high school and shortly after high school. Since I have mentioned it here on my blog yesterday; I have decided to support the legalization of Marijuana online. I signed up with these folks : http://marijuanamajority.com/

Check this website out it is amazing! http://marijuanamajority.com/

Check out who supports the legalization of Marijuana on this website:

John Paul Stevens Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

David Koch Executive Vice President of Koch Industries

Andrew Cuomo Governor of New York & Former U.S. Secretary of…

Rick Perry Governor of Texas

Glenn Beck Television and Radio Host

Norm Stamper Former Seattle Chief of Police

Elizabeth Warren U.S. Senator

Michael Steele Former Chairman of Republican National Committee

Bill O'Reilly Host of Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor"

Howard Dean Former Chairman of Democratic National Committee &…

Richard Posner Federal Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the…

Sarah Palin Former Governor of Alaska & Republican…

National Organization for Women 500,000-Member Women's Equality

Randi Weingarten President of American Federation of Teachers

Patty Murray U.S. Senator

Brian Schweitzer Former Montana Governor

Rand Paul U.S. Senator

Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Charles Koch Chairman of the Board of Koch Industries

Terry McAuliffe Governor of Virginia & Founder of GreenTech…

Jeb Bush Former Governor of Florida

Mark Cuban Owner of Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres &…

Elizabeth Warren U.S. Senator

Jay Nixon Governor of Missouri & Former Missouri Attorney…

Nikki Haley Governor of South Carolina

Charlie Crist Former Governor of Florida

Bobby Jindal Governor of Louisiana

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

Harry Reid U.S. Senate Majority Leader

John McCain U.S. Senator

Louisiana Voters

Minnesota Voters

Florida Voters

Michael Bloomberg Mayor of New York

Patrick Leahy U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman & Former…

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I definitely do not support any breaking of any laws; so until it is legalized; I hate even the thought of having anything to do with Marijuana. In fact any mention of Marijuana to me or any of my loved ones repulses me beyond belief; to the point of which makes me physically ill. I will always feel this way until Marijuana is legalized. I advise you take up this frame of mind also to protect yourself and the ones you love; if Marijuana is illegal where you are.

October 10 2015:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3geI1yvXpf0 :

Simple Man

Bad Company

I am just a simple man, working on the land

Oh it ain't easy
I am just a simple man, working with my hands
Oh believe me
Freedom is the only thing means a damn to me
Oh you can't fake it
Freedom is the only song, sings a song for me
Oh we're gonna make it

I am just a simple man, trying to be me

Oh it ain't easy
I am just a simple man, trying to be free
Oh believe me
Freedom is the only thing means a damn to me
Oh you can't fake it
Freedom is the only song, sings a song for me
Oh we're gonna make it

I am just a simple man, working on the land

Oh it ain't easy
I'm just a simple man, working with my hands
Oh baby, believe me
I'm just a simple man, yeah yeah
Freedom is the only thing means a damn to me
I'm just a simple man, yeah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Company

When I first heard this at my friends fancy house in Killeen, Connecticut; it made me pass out; at the age of 15. It was that great! : Burnin' Sky by Bad Company in the basement of that dudes palacios house was unreal (like a super rumpus room of that time period) and the head phones I used were his dads special head phones and they were out of this world at that time! I was also high on some of the best weed I ever had up to that time. This dude had some unreal weed. He seemed like a nerd to me at the time in about 1977. It seemed around those days the nerds were in actually the coolest classmates anyone could ever have. Surprises are always in disguise it seems. Do not drive high on weed by the way. I had my share, back then in those: (HIGH school days.)

"Bad Company"

Company, always on the run
Destiny is the rising sun
Oh, I was born 6-gun in my hand
Behind the gun I'll make my final stand
That's why they call me

Bad company

And I can't deny
Bad company
'Til the day I die
Oh, 'til the day I die
'Til the day I die

Rebel souls, deserters we are called

Chose a gun and threw away the Son
Now these towns, they all know our name
6-gun sound is our claim to fame
I can hear them say

Bad company

And I won't deny
Bad, bad company
'Til the day I die, oh, yeah
'Til the day I die,

Hey

Bad company

I can't deny
Bad company
'Til the day I die

And I say it's bad company, oh yeah yeah

Bad company
'Til the day I die

Tell me that you are not a thief

Oh but I am bad company
It's the way I play dirty for dirty
Oh, somebody double-crossed me
Double-cross, double-cross

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bV64CW2HRM

In 1971, Miller broke his neck in a car accident. Just like Kanye West when I first liked him in 2002. So don't put Kanye down! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Wire! :

The style and personnel of the band changed radically with The Joker (#1, 1973), concentrating on straightforward rock and leaving the psychedelic side of the band behind. The title track became a #1 single and was certified platinum, reaching over one million sales. It was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on January 11, 1974.Three years later, the band returned with the album Fly Like an Eagle, which charted at #3. Three singles were released from the album: "Take the Money and Run" (#11), "Fly Like an Eagle" (#2) and their second Number One success, "Rock'n Me". Miller credits the guitar intro to "Rock'n Me" as a tribute to the classic song by Free, "All Right Now". Book of Dreams (#2, 1977) also included three successes: "Jet Airliner"

My new butterfly is really great like 10 (Stephen Silvers): you'll see.: just finished the pre sketch, this morning. For now; want to let you know; I am cool; like you remember from high school back in 1978. Was cool (1st class certified) then, and am just as cool as I was then: Just like: Steve Miller from: Dallas Texas; 1978! Right here, right here @ home.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Miller_Band

The Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. The band is managed by Steve Miller on guitar and lead vocals, and is best known today for a string of (mainly) mid-1970s hit singles that are staples of classic rock radio, as well as several earlier acid rock albums. Steve Miller left his first band to move to San Francisco and form the Steve Miller Blues Band. Shortly after Harvey Kornspan negotiated the band’s landmark contract with Capitol Records in 1967, the band shortened its name to 'Steve Miller Band'. In February 1968, the band recorded its debut album Children of the Future. They went on to produce albums Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace, Number 5, Rock Love and more. The Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits 1974-1978, released in 1978, sold over 13 million copies. They continued to produce more albums and in 2014, Steve Miller Band toured with the rock band Journey.

I'm a space cowboy! Bet you weren't ready for that!

Steve Miller Band on the Midnight Special (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhPZAh0syGY the video is bad but the audio is ready for CD.

I bet you did not know Steve Miller was from Dallas, Texas; 15 minutes from here on my old Kawasaki Ninja.

When I first heard a full Steve Miller album in about 1979 I was as clear minded as I ever was back then. That album blew me away! I bet you I could play the guitar sweet like that with one of those finger metal things and on a full blown Gibson guitar with a Marshal amplifier on the highest setting.

I'm a space cowboy

I'm sure you know where it's at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I was born on this rock

And I've been travelin' through space
Since the moment I first realized
What all you fast talkin' cats would do if you could
You know, I'm ready for the final surprise
There ain't no way around it
Ain't nothing to say
That's gonna satisfy my soul deep inside
All the prayers and surveyors
Keep the whole place uptight
While it keeps on gettin' darker outside

I'm a space cowboy

Bet you weren't ready for that
I'm a space cowboy
I'm sure you know where it's at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I see the show downs, slow downs, lost and found, turn arounds

The boys in the military shirts
I keep my eyes on the prize, on the long fallen skies
And I don't let my friends get hurt
All you back room schemers, small trip dreamers
Better find something new to say
Cause you're the same old story
It's the same old crime
And you got some heavy dues to pay

I'm a space cowboy

Bet you weren't ready for that
I'm a space cowboy
I'm sure you know where it's at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Wake up Dallas! We are the coolest place on earth and have been since 1974:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzEZdy216gw

Here are some better links to Stephen Silver. This guy made friends with Kevin Smith and that is all it took to make some serious money for sure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Silver :

Stephen Silver (born August 30, 1972 in London, England, UK) is a British professional artist, cartoonist and character designer. He is best known as the lead character designer for animated series such as Kim Possible and Danny Phantom.

History

Silver started his professional career by drawing caricatures at amusement parks in 1992. He worked for clothing company No Fear in 1996, before he got his first job in animation at Warner Brothers in 1997.

Animated works

In the field of animation, Silver is the lead character designer on Disney Channel's Kim Possible, ABC TV's Clerks: The Animated Series, and Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom (on which he was also art director).

His character designs for the characters of Clerks: The Animated Series inspired the animated versions of characters in the other View Askew films.

He also worked on Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents as the lead character designer for the Crash Nebula episode special, and some character designs for the movie Channel Chasers. His early works in animation included being art director for Recess.

http://www.silvertoons.com/ :

Stephen Silver

Character Designer & Teacher

I was born in London, England on August 30th 1972. Aspiring to be a professional artist my whole life and knowing drawing would be my vocation, I got my professional start in 1992 drawing caricatures at Sea World in San Diego.

I have designed characters for Disney Television Animation, Sony Feature Animation and Nickelodeon Animation, designing characters for shows such as "Kim Possible", "Danny Phantom" and many others...

This link has a great review of his book: http://www.parkablogs.com/content/book-review-art-of-silver This guy is a good artist, but so aren't I; right? Ok that's all I'm saying.

October 09 2015:

Watching now 2:06 pm Texas time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAKoDhRm7DA

Blackberry Smoke Live (Part 1) - YouTube Blackberry Smoke Live at the Ogden Theater:

http://www.blackberrysmoke.com/entry/live-on-axs-tv-from-denver-s-ogden-theatre-on-november-9th.html I don't care what anyone says: these guys are great. If they make some songs like Freebird or Gimme Back My Bullets we are all in trouble.

I showed these links to my wife and she said: it's all in who you know.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks:_The_Animated_Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith

I love this scene LOL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtBATmGZCZs say something!

I sure could of used a friend like Kevin Smith: still could.

I have nothing against Columbus Day as a celebration of the discovery of the new world, but if you read this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html you must consider them that do not celebrate this holiday; as not all bad. I am all for a day off for hard working folks though, that is for sure.

October 06 2015:

I have discovered something awesome at the Kroger. :

Better Than Bouillon Bases:

http://www.betterthanbouillon.com/products/

Seasoned Vegetable Base A rich base that's made by combining real sautéed onions, celery, and carrots. This is the perfect starting point to create vegetable broth, minestrone soup or add it to rice for minimal flavor.

Roasted Garlic Base Our Roasted Garlic Base is made with real Roasted Garlic and natural juices. It gives your favorite recipe a deliciously savory flavor.

Organic Mushroom Base A paste containing Ground Mushroom concentrates with other flavoring materials. It is used when a typical mushroom flavor is required.

Organic Seasoned Vegetable Base An organic paste made with sautéed carrots, celery and onions, which are combined with other flavoring materials.

Seasoned Vegetable Base (Reduced Sodium) A granular paste made with sautéed carrots, celery and onions, which are combined with other flavoring materials. It conforms to FDA requirements.

Cool huh? Vegetable soup season is almost upon us and I hope this makes all of our winters better.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This butterfly art titled radman_art_Neon_Cowbutterfly_October_05_2015_04 : I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

You can find a special full sized representation of this great art on the bottom of this page: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

October 04 2015:

I never loved a band as much as I love Fates Warning I did not find out about them until I immersed myself in metal music around 1999. I may have met some of the band members for all I know. When I lived in and grew up in Connecticut I was very well connected to say the least; with the locals. My Sicilian family is huge to say the least as I have expounded on many times in this BlogSpot.com website. Fates Warning as you may have guessed is from one of the smallest and richest states in our great country; Connecticut my home state of my family's, family's, family's, family's and then some.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates_Warning:

Fates Warning is an American progressive metal band, formed in 1982 by vocalist John Arch, guitarists Jim Matheos and Victor Arduini, bassist Joe DiBiase, and drummer Steve Zimmerman in Hartford, Connecticut. Their early work was heavily influenced by NWOBHM, and was key in the development of US Power Metal. With each work the band developed into a pure progressive metal style. Fates Warning has experienced numerous line-up changes. From 1982 to 1996 — and temporarily in 2010 — Matheos and DiBiase were the only remaining original members of the band, with Matheos being the only constant member. Their current lineup consists of guitarists Jim Matheos and Frank Aresti, vocalist Ray Alder, bassist Joey Vera, and drummer Bobby Jarzombek. As a pioneer of the American progressive metal movement, Fates Warning rose to international fame in the 1980s and was ranked as one of the early "flagship bands of progressive metal" along with Queensrÿche and Dream Theater, who were responsible for creating, developing and popularizing that genre.

Fates Warning has released eleven studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, one VHS, three DVDs (each of them features live concerts) and four demo tapes. The band experienced major American commercial success with the 1986 release of their third studio album, Awaken the Guardian, which peaked at number No. 191 on the Billboard 200,[1] and became the first album released on Metal Blade to enter that chart. Their next three albums, No Exit (1988), Perfect Symmetry (1989) and Parallels (1991), were also successful; the first two peaked at No. 111 and No. 141 on the Billboard 200 respectively. Fates Warning's most recent studio album, Darkness in a Different Light, was released in 2013.

Fates Warning must be listened to load. This is hard rock at it's utmost. It does not get any better that this and I have heard my share of load power metal via top notch cd's I have owned. They will pound you down to the ground without mercy with sweet melody of the loudest screams of all mankind. I searched tirelessly for the very best Fates Warning CDs and bought them all I could. My favorite is A Pleasant Shade of Gray a absolute master piece of all power metal albums. Still Life (Fates Warning album) is also a must have. I found them both in a CD shop in Plano Texas. To see them live seems to be the way to understand what I am saying best of all. I recently found a most amazing long concert of them on YouTube:

Fates Warning - Live in Athens 2014 - YouTube

Video for fates warning live at Athens 20:50

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio1gZZEJKU

Thank you to all Greek maniacs for a fantastic night at the Gagarin 205 Club in Athens.

I personally have watched this entire concert over the past two days while doing my workout. I am jealous and at the same time empathetic to the metal pummeling the Athens audience got.

I also owned this on DVD at one time during my college years it is amazing and that is a absolute understatement. This is A Pleasant Shade of Gray live even more precisely presented than the actual studio CD. How often can you say that?:

FATES WARNING - DYNAMO 1998 (Full) - YouTube

Video for fates warning live at dynamo 47:32

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RssanSkWebM

FATES WARNING - DYNAMO 1998 (Full) ... Within Temptation - Restless - Live Dynamo Open Air 1998 ...

Get ready for more Butterfly's I have already completed many Butterfly's on this page so I consider this a series already. This will be presented like the bird series that has become a Radman_art staple.

October 03 2015:

Just watching bad grandpa for the fifteenth time on Epix and loving it. I was thinking of Wes Anderson my favorite director of all time and when I went to watch The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou at the movie theater. After following Wes Anderson for quit some time and listening to some closed-minded old dude; after the show at the theater in Plano, Texas of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, about how he thought the movie was retarded. I was thinking of the movie The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) because of the statement I believe he made by making that movie at the end of the movie in the credits. At the end of the movie he wrote: "inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig Budapest Hotel". Are all the villains of all his former movies figuratively Nazis? You decide.

Stefan Zweig:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Zweig:

German: [tsvaɪk]; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world

Last song of the movie bad grandpa "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere":

Clouds so swift

Rain won't lift
Gate won't close
Railings froze
Get your mind of wintertime
You ain't goin' nowhere
Whoo-ee ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair !

I don't care

How many letters they sent
Morning came and morning went
Pick up your money
And pack up your tent
You ain't goin' nowhere
Whoo-ee ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair !

Buy me a flute

And a gun that shoots
Tailgates some substitutes
Strap yourself
To the tree with roots
You ain't goin' nowhere
Whoo-ee ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
down in the easy chair !Genghis Khan
He could not keep
All his kings
Supplied with sleep
We'll climb that hill no matter how steep
When we come up to it
Whoo-ee ride me high
Tomorrow's the day
My bride's gonna come
Oh, oh, are we gonna fly
Down in the easy chair !

Stefan Zweig Biography:

Zweig was born in Vienna, the son of Moritz Zweig (1845–1926), a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida Brettauer (1854–1938), a daughter of a Jewish banking family.He was related to the Czech writer Egon Hostovský, who described him as "a very distant relative"; some sources describe them as cousins.

Zweig studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and in 1904 earned a doctoral degree with a thesis on "The Philosophy of Hippolyte Taine". Religion did not play a central role in his education. "My mother and father were Jewish only through accident of birth," Zweig said later in an interview. Yet he did not renounce his Jewish faith and wrote repeatedly on Jews and Jewish themes, as in his story Buchmendel. Zweig had a warm relationship with Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, whom he met when Herzl was still literary editor of the Neue Freie Presse, then Vienna's main newspaper; Herzl accepted for publication some of Zweig's early essays. Zweig believed in internationalism and in Europeanism, as The World of Yesterday, his autobiography, makes clear. According to Amos Elon, Zweig called Herzl's book Der Judenstaat an "obtuse text, [a] piece of nonsense".

At the beginning of World War I, patriotic sentiment was widespread, and extended to many German and Austrian Jews: Zweig, as well as Martin Buber and Hermann Cohen, showed support. Zweig served in the Archives of the Ministry of War and adopted a pacifist stand like his friend Romain Rolland, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1915. Zweig married Friderike Maria von Winternitz (born Burger) in 1920; they divorced in 1938. As Friderike Zweig she published a book on her former husband after his death.She later also published a picture book on Zweig. In 1939, Zweig married his secretary Lotte Altmann. Zweig's secretary in Salzburg from November 1919 to March 1938 was Anna Meingast (13 May 1881, Vienna – 17 November 1953, Salzburg).

In 1934, following Hitler's rise to power in Germany, Zweig left Austria for England, living first in London, then from 1939 in Bath. Because of the swift advance of Hitler's troops westwards, Zweig and his second wife crossed the Atlantic to the United States, settling in 1940 in New York City. On August 22, 1940, they moved again to Petrópolis, a German-colonized mountain town 68 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro known for historical reasons as Brazil's Imperial city. Feeling more and more depressed by the growth of intolerance, authoritarianism, and Nazism, and feeling hopeless for the future for humanity, Zweig wrote a note about his feelings of desperation. Then, in February 23, 1942, the Zweigs were found dead of a barbiturate overdose in their house in the city of Petrópolis, holding hands. He had been despairing at the future of Europe and its culture. "I think it better to conclude in good time and in erect bearing a life in which intellectual labour meant the purest joy and personal freedom the highest good on Earth," he wrote.

The Zweigs' house in Brazil was later turned into a cultural centre and is now known as Casa Stefan Zweig.

Work;

Zweig was a prominent writer in the 1920s and 1930s, befriending Arthur Schnitzler and Sigmund Freud. He was extremely popular in the United States, South America and Europe, and remains so in continental Europe; however, he was largely ignored by the British public. His fame in America had diminished until the 1990s, when there began an effort on the part of several publishers (notably Pushkin Press, Hesperus Press, and The New York Review of Books) to get Zweig back into print in English. Plunkett Lake Press Ebooks began to publish electronic versions of his non-fiction works. Since that time there has been a marked resurgence and a number of Zweig's books are back in print.

Critical opinion of his oeuvre is strongly divided between those who despise his literary style as poor, lightweight and superficial, and those who praise his humanism, simplicity and effective style.

Michael Hofmann is scathingly dismissive of Zweig's work, which he dubbed a "vermicular dither", adding that "Zweig just tastes fake. He's the Pepsi of Austrian writing." Even the author's suicide note left Hofmann gripped by "the irritable rise of boredom halfway through it, and the sense that he doesn't mean it, his heart isn't in it (not even in his suicide)".

Zweig is best known for his novellas (notably The Royal Game, Amok, and Letter from an Unknown Woman – which was filmed in 1948 by Max Ophüls), novels (Beware of Pity, Confusion of Feelings, and the posthumously published The Post Office Girl) and biographies (notably Erasmus of Rotterdam, Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan, and Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles and also posthumously published, Balzac). At one time his works were published without his consent in English under the pseudonym "Stephen Branch" (a translation of his real name) when anti-German sentiment was running high. His biography of Queen Marie-Antoinette was later adapted as a Hollywood movie, starring the actress Norma Shearer in the title role.

Zweig's autobiography, The World of Yesterday, was completed in 1942 on the day before he committed suicide. It has been widely discussed as a record of "what it meant to be alive between 1881 and 1942" in central Europe; the book has attracted both critical praise and hostile dismissal.

Zweig enjoyed a close association with Richard Strauss, and provided the libretto for Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman). Strauss famously defied the Nazi regime by refusing to sanction the removal of Zweig's name from the programme for the work's première on June 24, 1935 in Dresden. As a result, Goebbels refused to attend as planned, and the opera was banned after three performances. Zweig later collaborated with Joseph Gregor, to provide Strauss with the libretto for one other opera, Daphne, in 1937. At least[21] one other work by Zweig received a musical setting: the pianist and composer Henry Jolles, who like Zweig had fled to Brazil to escape the Nazis, composed a song, "Último poema de Stefan Zweig", based on "Letztes Gedicht", which Zweig wrote on the occasion of his 60th birthday in November 1941. During his stay in Brazil, Zweig wrote Brasilien, Ein Land der Zukunft (Brazil, Land of the Future) which was an accurate analysis of his newly adopted country; in this book he managed to demonstrate a fair understanding of the Brazilian culture that surrounded him.

Zweig was a passionate collector of manuscripts. There are important Zweig collections at the British Library and at the State University of New York at Fredonia. The British Library's Stefan Zweig Collection was donated to the library by his heirs in May 1986. It specialises in autograph music manuscripts, including works by Bach, Haydn, Wagner, and Mahler. It has been described as "one of the world's greatest collections of autograph manuscripts". One particularly precious item is Mozart's "Verzeichnüß aller meiner Werke" – that is, the composer's own handwritten thematic catalogue of his works.

The 1993–1994 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.

Hello all; who care about American art in 2015. I am watching TMNT (2014) right now on www.epixhd.com. Epix should have Epix.com. I love this one really. I would have extenuated the whole skateboarding radical skateboarding California style to a much higher level in this movie (but what do I know), but this is a great movie. It may be mostly computer graphics... but it is still great. We rented or owned the whole series from TMNT 1 and on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(film_series)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100758/

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

A group of mutated turtle warriors must emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from an uprising criminal gang of ninjas. IMDB 4 ever my friend. Director: Steve Barron

Storyline

Through contact with a mysterious substance, called Ooze, 4 little turtles in the canalization of New York mutate to giant turtles. They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. The wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters. Their arch-enemy is the bad, bad guy Shredder, who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him.

I love the fact that no comic company can be associated with this movie; kind of like Radman comics invented by me.

I just want to say I took only one film class at CCCCD and I hated it. Never the less it was a woman professor that ran the class; so I respect that much.:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103060/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.

Storyline

The turtles find out where the Ooze, the substance which made them mutate, came from. Unfortunately Shredder learns about it too, and uses it to enhance himself. So the turtles have to prove again who's the better ninja fighter.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108308/

Storyline

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.

I got a cool new series of art for anyone out there that cares (BUTTERFLYS).

I will never let you down:

The Nurse - The White Stripes:

I bought this CD as well as with every CD produced by the White Stripes, before this CD. After this CD came out I could not afford to buy any new Cd's (after I graduated college and all the money was spent.}

The Nurse - The White Stripes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r7duOM5px0

"The Nurse"

The nurse should not be the one who puts salt in your wounds

But it's always with trust that the poison is fed with a spoon
When you're helpless with no one to turn to alone in your room
You would swear that the one who would care for you never would leave
She promised and said, "you will always be safe here with me"
But promises open the door to be broken to me

No I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you down now
No I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you down
No I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you down now
No I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you downn

The maid that you've hired could never conspire to kill

She's to mother, not quietly smother you when you're most ill
The one that you're trusting suspiciously dusting the sill

No I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you down now
No I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you down
No I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you down now
no I'm never, no I'm never, no I'm never gonna let you down

September 28 2015:

I hear these lyrics in my head allot lately: "All you do is slow me down And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town" "Crosstown Traffic" : JIMI HENDRIX LYRICS

Then Jimi also said: "Stone free do what I please Stone free to ride the breeze" www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJbuqkptpQ he said this back in 1966; and it is just as true today!

I just saw this on Nothing But Videos on AXS just now: This is what Jimi said; in todays voice: Mike Posner - Be As You Are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1tSfQbtKMU

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This black bird art titled 04_Radman_art_Boeing_A-50_Golden Eagle_September_28_2015 and 05_Radman_art_Boeing_A-50_Golden Eagle_September_28_2015 found bottom of this page http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html : I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

I will be posting a special huge background wallpaper image of this great original art by me; for your pc or fancy phone at the bottom of the page here:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Although I cannot predict the future I am giving you a special presentation of this great original art by me; for your pc or fancy phone at the bottom of the page here: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html ;to celebrate, because I am no longer going to be drawing birds. I am a better person for concentrating on such a great subject as American birds. I never thought I would become a expert at drawing birds; but alas there I go. Ending the series of bird art with our nations mascot and symbol of freedom is a grand finally; that burst out at me as I did it. I have been drawing cardinals for people as gifts for people for many years now; though.

Peace out to all. I hope everyone has a great and prosperous and healthy week.

I wanted to suggest a Christmas gift for you to give that special someone in your life. This is definitely a luxury item to me, maybe not to you. I would avoid the collector items. I just thought it would be cool to list them.

http://www.amazon.com/Rudolph-Red-Nosed-Reindeer-Misfit-Figurine/dp/B00G4KOHB8

Product Description

This figurine set combines highly detailed figurines with environmental accessories to recreate a favorite scene from the classic show. Perfect for holiday display and decorating. Santa on Misfit Island features The Abominable Snowmonster , Santa and Young Buck Rudolph® figurines with pvc sleigh, toy bag, mini Misfits Doll, Elephant and Plane. Includes fold-out cardboard backdrop. Figures range in size from 2.5" to 4.5" tall. window boxed, by Round 2 / Forever Fun, 2013.

http://www.amazon.com/Rudolph-Reindeer-Moonracer-Welcome-Misfit/dp/B00FJ7OM6C

Product Description

This is a Collectible Figurines Boxed Set of Figures. The figures are arranged in a unique Diorama Style Window Box, depicting an off-camera scene from the Classic Rankin/Bass Special when King Moonracer first welcomes the Misfit Toys to Misfit Island. The set includes figures of: 1. Deluxe King Moonracer action figure, 2. Misfit Cowboy PVC figure, 3. Spotted Elephant PVC figure, 4. Misfit Doll PVC figure, 5. Misfit Train PVC figure. Window Box, by Playing Mantis, 2002.

http://www.amazon.com/Rudolph-Red-Nosed-Reindeer-Friends-Figurine/dp/B005G654ZE

Product Description

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & The Island of Misfit Toys Figure Collection of PVC Figures and Deluxe Bumble Action Figure. This is series one of the PVC figures along with an in-scale deluxe Bumble action figure. Characters are in scale to accompany the Castle Playset by Playing Mantis and based on the Holiday Classic from Rankin / Bass. The set includes PVC figures of: Rudolph; Clarice; Sam the Snowman; Yukon Cornelius; Hermey the Elf; Santa Claus; King Moonracer; Spotted Elephant; Misfit Doll; Charlie-in-the-Box; and Misfit Train, PLUS an 8" articulated action figure of the Abominable Snowman. This Bumble is not yet Humble! Still with all his teeth, Bumble is ready to terrify your Misfit Toys! This set allows the Bumble to be in scale with the SMALL sleigh team set and all other PVC characters! Window boxed, by Memory Lane / Playing Mantis, 2002.

http://www.amazon.com/Rudolph-Red-Nosed-Reindeer-Characters-Figurine/dp/B00QFZHTZS

Product Description

All the main charcaters in figural form from he classic 1964 Rankin / Bass "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". 2 inch PVC figurines of Rudolph, Yukon, Hermey, Sam the Snowman, Charlie-in-the-Box, Santa, Clarice, all in this convenient gift set.

http://www.amazon.com/Rudolphand-Island-Misfit-Toys-Rudolphs/dp/B001NDMTQQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1443430563&sr=1-1&keywords=Rudolph+the+Red-Nosed+misfit+train+set

Product Description

Has a twelve foot tack which can convert into a four foot circle track. Yukon and Hermey and Yukon operate the hand car. There is a light on the front of the engine, and it makes a locomotive sound as it ravels around the track!!

September 26 2015:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)

Have you ever heard of this show? When it came on the television when I was a kid it was like a holiday event. :

Thunderbirds is a British science-fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, filmed by their production company AP Films (APF) and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It was produced between 1964 and 1966 using a combination of marionette puppetry and scale-model special effects sequences – a hybrid filming technique known as "Supermarionation". Two series comprising a total of 32 episodes were filmed; production ceased after the Andersons' financial backer, Lew Grade, failed in his efforts to sell the programme to American network television.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057790/

Storyline

In the 21st century, Jeff Tracy, a former astronaut, amasses a colossal fortune and decides that he must use it to benefit others. His answer to this desire is to create International Rescue, a unique private emergency response service equipped with customed designed vehicles and equipment that enable the organization to react to any crisis whether it be in sea, air, land, or space. Jeff's five sons volunteer to operate as the pilots and field agents, as well "Brains" (alias Hiram B. Hackenbaker) as the team engineer. In addition, Jeff's friend, Kyrano and his daughter Tin Tin agree to be the support staff. In addition to the field team, IR also maintains an intelligence network with Lady Penelope and her ex-con chauffer, Parker as the chief agents in this arm. The series depicts this team as they answer various calls for help around and beyond the world while they prevent enemies like the Hood from learning and exploiting their secrets

click here for original image

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step_Brothers_(film)

Step Brothers is a 2008 American buddy slapstick comedy film starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly. The screenplay was written by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, from a story written by them with Reilly. It was produced by Jimmy Miller and Judd Apatow, and directed by McKay.

This song is awesome! It is the last song in the Movie Step Brothers and it describes my life:

Cheeseburger - Derby Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmR0Xdsednk

At the age of 15 years old I was left to my own devises. I did not know how to cook for myself or do dishes. These are my earliest memories of living on my own way too soon; on the north end of Middletown, Connecticut in my rented room above a bar around 1974. Now the age of 15 is considered; the knowledge of the internet is all you needed to survive. In and around 1974 having your drivers license was all you needed to survive in the eyes of the parents of those days. As soon as I got my drivers license and was able to buy a vehicle and move as far away from Connecticut as I could I did and that is a absolute fact. So began my new life in California and now here in the great state of Texas.

Since the age of 15 years old I was left to die on the streets of our country‘s urban slums. Since the pilgrims settled on Plymouth Rock our country has been founded on the backs of it’s suffering of it’s children. To the children of today who cling to the likes of social media to survive, cling on to thrive; for the rights of all mankind. You can never make things right for children like me and children before me; but you can stand on our backs to press on against the tyranny of the right wing conformists extremists who seek to tear you down.

Night and day whenever I was alone for about 6 months or more I would weep with gushing tears over missing my brothers and sister and mother after I left home. I do not believe I have ever of will ever recover from that. It ruined my life to put it bluntly. I learned pretty quick how good I had it at home. If my dad or mom took me back home after time I would have been a much better son I guarantee it. I asked them both many times after about a year to take me back even many years after that as well; they flat out refused me to my face like I was the black plague to them. It should have been obvious to them I had changed. I would have gladly paid rent; I can tell you that much. I will always believe my mom and dad refused to let me come back because it was allot more convenient for them and that is unacceptable for any parent to behave like that. Please do not have kids unless you can not have responsibility for that. We never had kids because I believe would could never have handled them financially. The crime ridden slums and condemnable buildings I lived in; would have been enough for anyone to fear for my life on a daily basis. I only lived there because I had very little money. Like I said in my September 22 2015 I have never been a drug taker or a drinker. I never ever felt or sensed any concern from my parents ever over my living conditions. I lived in the same town my dad was a police officer and had my life threatened many times because of that reason. No child should ever have to endure what I endured. Even the state of Connecticut provided food stamps for me until I was 21; and let me tell you that saved my life.

The truth is my parents both left me for dead in 1974. They gave up on me completely! Then I hit the streets and then to everyone's surprise I rose up like a phoenix. Then you know what everyone did next? They all gave me a standing ovation with tears in their eyes I became their new hero! My brother who went to college for 8 years to make daddy proud ground his teeth with jealousy! Ten years latter just before my father left us all, with me grabbing at him to stay with me just a little bit longer; my brother started talking trash load at a family gathering about me. I was 2000 miles away at the time. My dad rose up load and proud and told my brother to stand down. This always makes me miss him when I think of this moment in my family's history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeseburger_(band)

Spin has referred to the band as "The Hives, minus the Swedish accents (and matching formalwear)".

Cheeseburger is a Brooklyn, New York based hard rock band.

I am a fan of Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass and have been since I was a child. This came up recently in email correspondence with my mother. As a child living in Connecticut Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass's amazing creations played regularly on television every weekend.

I highly recommend this book: The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass: A Portfolio

Overview: Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass are best-known for producing some of the most popular animated holiday TV specials ever aired, including the long-running "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Frosty The Snowman," "The Year Without A Santa Claus" and "The Hobbit." They have also brought us animated feature films including "Mad Monster Party" and "The Last Unicorn," and cartoon series such as "ThunderCats," "The Jackson Five" and "SilverHawks." This definitive, authorized history and celebration of Rankin/Bass animation documents every one of their productions with rare photographs, production stills, concept drawings and memorabilia, along with extensive commentary by Arthur Rankin and dozens of the artists, actors and animators he worked with. Format: Paperback Large Print Language: English Language: English ISBN:

0964954281ISBN13: 9780964954281 Release Date: November 1997Publisher: Tiger Mountain Length: 176 Pages Weight: 1.70 lbs. Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0

The reason I mentioned Guns N' Roses was that when I taped that concert on TV it was long before Guns N' Roses first music video on MTV. No one knew who they were at that time. I taped the show very late at night also. I always felt like I liked them before most everyone. Then they became like the Beatles in America and people compared them to the new Led Zeppelin. I have been doing this all my life. I have a real ability for seeing things like this. That is probably why I am such a good graphic designer. I am constantly criticizing television commercials to my wife because I am sure I can do a way better job with a very limited staff and budget on top of that. The world may never know.

I want to comment on one more adult movie I have seen on Epics recently and probably why I mentioned so many of them in my September 22 2015 post.

The movie is:

Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (2013) - IMDb

www.imdb.com/title/tt2520096/

Internet Movie Database

Rating: 6.4/10 - ‎208 votes A look at the extraordinary world of Penthouse founder, visionary and ... Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story is the definitive documentary on porn ...

This documentary movie is sad and so interesting at the same time. It is probable one of the best productions of a documentary I have ever seen. It really is a testimony of the 1970's through the 1980's. He died here in Plano, Texas two towns over from where I live. Also his wife who appears through out the film is from Plano, Texas. I believe I met her at the college when I went there.

Fixed two more curse words I just found on this page. All part of the copy paste function.

September 25 2015:

I was watching one of my favorite comedy's Step Brothers with my wife. I want to be honest about this movie; any family that keeps their grown men sons at home that long are not well; unless they are disabled of coarse. The song Sweet Child O' Mine Song by Guns N' Roses came on the movie and we all sang along. Our super wonder dog loves this song particularly for some reason. I explained to him the following:

I have talked about this online many times: I saw Guns N' Roses on television live back in Vista, California around 1988. I taped them on my VCR and brought that tape into the corporate office of the biggest skateboard company in the world the next day. I played it so load the whole office could hear it. At that exact moment someone came into the room and was telling me about some assignment I needed to do; but stopped to watch and listen to this new band. That is how amazing they sounded back then.

The song Sweet Child O' Mine was my song that always made me think of my precious wife. We took a one ton Chevy custom van with a 1981 Honda Shadow 500 in it and drove to California to make our stand there. We had know idea what would happen. She was my sweet child then with her eyes wide open amazed at everything that was taking place with me at the helm. I used to love to coddle her and go on about how fragile she was. When I first heard the song Child O' Mine I immediately dedicated that song to her then; in my mind. I had the job of the century then and a art contract on top of that in southern California; with the multi million dollar skateboard company; Tracker Designs and she was my child like wife. So sing it with me:

She's got a smile it seems to me

Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face
She takes me away to that special place
And if I'd stare too long
I'd probably break down and cry

Oh, oh, oh

Sweet child o' mine
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Sweet love of mine

She's got eyes of the bluest skies

As if they thought of rain
I hate to look into those eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder
And the rain
To quietly pass me by

Where do we go?

Where do we go now?
Where do we go?
Oh,
Where do we go now?
No, no, no, no, no, no
Sweet child,
Sweet child of mine

From: Google Lyrics

Sweet Child O' Mine Lyrics ~ Guns N' Roses - YouTube:

Video for sweet child of mine lyrics 5:56
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRSljaduq2U

September 22 2015:

I will not lie Boogie Nights is the anthem to my life growing up at the exact timeline of Boogie Nights. I had no idea about cocaine and for the most part drugs in general. I was never into drugs or drinking all of my life. I had no idea about cocaine and carpet drugs like talked about in the movie Boogie Nights. I first heard about methamphetamine when I moved to California. I have never taken cocaine or methamphetamine my entire life. I heard about it more when I moved to Texas. The whole time I lived in Texas; I lived in the country. When you find out that methamphetamine is the drug of choice by most country bumpkins it tends to get your attention. I am glad I have never known or know of such things. Also I have never know of such violence or prostitution like in the movie Boogie Nights. Other than all that my life and the people I knew and loved in the 1970s and the early 1980's; is captured perfectly in the movie Boogie Nights. I have never seen anything like it in my life.

September 21 2015:

I watching part of Private Parts (1997) for the 2nd time on Epics. Outstanding; really. I am adding this movie to "my favorite list of movies most people hate" ; I have never shared with anyone online till now. Number 1 is Boogie Nights . I grew up in the 1970's and this movie is a absolute anthem to my life if there ever was one! Except for the porn parts, lol. To think that there was beautiful stories to tell about the porn industry; is a big "don't judge lest you be judged to all the haters of the world".

My other favorite move that most moms in middle America would hate is: (don't get me wrong my other half is president of MAM: Moms Against Movies) The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) This is another example of a movie that shows a beautiful flower in what most people paint as obscene and condemnable.

Howard Stern is called a shock jock; it reminds me of the lyrics from Marilyn Manson's song "shock rock". Marilyn Manson music is called shock rock. Private Parts (1997) is not a movie my wife likes. Private Parts (1997) reminded me of Marilyn Manson:

She also has always hated Marilyn Manson. Do not get me wrong; I love my wife and without her LOVE (only); I would die; but like I have always said what ever my wife does not like for entertainment; I almost always love.

I quote myself from this page: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/mark-ryden.html

"I liken my personality growing up especially in California in my prime; as being like the Lyrics to "Mechanical Animals" song by MARILYN MANSON: "And I was a hand grenade. That never stopped exploding". It all started back in 1999. I had heard about this band from this dude who was obsessed with them and I just had to go buy a cd from the at my old hang out The CD Warehouse in Plano Texas. I bought the The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999) CD and the rest is art history. I did so much digital art themed with The Insane Clown Posse just before I started college. It is amazing since I barely knew what I was doing. The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999) was the greatest underground hip hop CD every made!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zuglF7cP64

My wife hated them so much. I remember we were in the car down town in the Best Buy parking lot and I was listening to that CD so much she started to sing Insane Clown Posse - B?tches Lyrics "Girl, you know I love you, but now you gotta die" . I thought at the time; how adorable cute that was, lol.

Then I thought I must be on to something here. If my wife hates music then that must mean I like it. So I bought the MARILYN MANSON Dope Show CD. Marilyn Mason was in the news a lot at the time because of riots at his concerts. I was buying a lot of CD's back then. That lead to this:

This is the greatest drawing I ever did.

I did it in 1999. The colored copy was featured in my Art Bar show in Dallas. Marilyn Mason is in the middle; as if to suggest he was the center of this drawing. I tried to get him to buy this once."

Some more of my favorite Marilyn Manson Lyrics:

"Rock is deader than dead Shock is all in your head Your sex and your dope is all that were fed So f@ck all your protests and put them to bed"

"I know it's the last day on earth We'll be together while the planet dies I know it's the last day on earth We'll never say goodbye"

"Next motherf@cker's gonna get my metal On we plow The big bully try to stick his finger in my chest Try to tell me, tell me he's the best But I don't really give a good g@ddamn cause"

"I wanna be a big rock and roll star So no one f@cks with me"

"Wanna go out, gotta get out To the playground, gonna throw down at the playground I wanna go out"

"This isn't me I'm not mechanical I'm just a boy playing the suicide king"

"REPENT, that's what I'm talking about i shed the skin to feed the fake REPENT, that's what I'm talking about whose mistake am I anyway? Cut the head off Grows back hard I am the hydra now you'll see your star prick your finger it is done the moon has now eclipsed the sun the angel has spread its wings the time has come for bitter things"

"The nature of the leeches The virgins feeling cheated You've only spent a second of your life My world is unaffected There is an exit here, I say it is and it's true There is a dream inside a dream I'm wide awake the more I sleep You'll understand when I'm dead I went to God just to see And I was looking at me Saw Heaven and Hell were lies When I'm gone everyone dies Scar, can you feel my power? Shoot here and the world gets smaller Scar, scar, can you feel my power? One shot and the world gets smaller Let's jump upon the sharp swords And cut away our smiles Without the threat of death There's no reason to live at all My world is unaffected There is an exit here, I say it is and it's true There is a dream inside a dream I'm wide awake the more I sleep You'll understand when I'm dead Scar, scar, can you feel my power? Shoot here and the world gets smaller Shoot, shoot, shoot mother@cker Shoot, shoot, shoot mother@cker Each thing I show you is a peace of my death No salvation, no forgivenessNo salvation, no forgiveness No salvation, no forgiveness (I said)No salvation, no forgiveness No salvation, no forgiveness(This is the idol experience)No salvation, no forgiveness No salvation, no forgiveness (Forgiveness)"

"In space the stars are no nearer Just glitters like a morgue And I dreamed I was a spaceman Burned like a moth in a flame And our world was so f@cking gone I'm not attached to your world Nothing heals and nothing grows Because it's a great big white world And we are drained of our colors We used to love ourselves, We used to love one another"

"You were from a perfect world A world that threw me away today Today to run away"

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This black bird art titled Radman_art_Boeing_Fisher_P-75_Eagle_September_21_2015 (4); I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

September 19 2015:

I have had this special ability all my life. I have gone out of my way to be extra nice to people who were different. I have always refused to treat anyone without my complete attention and respect who ever they were. My girl friend; who I went out with during my height of my body building days was angry at me one day (she most likely had every right to be angry at me); said to me: you are nicer to foreigners than you are to me. She was the only other woman that I seriously considered marrying before I met my wife. I met her just before my wife. I told her just like I told my wife; lets just move to California together and get married. If she said that about me; it was the truth. I would go out of my way to help people that did not speak English; were ever I went.

We just got done watching Shallow Hal here at the house, and I got to tell yeah it got to me again, this time. Love grows where my Rosemary goes made me almost cry again; for the 10th time.

Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9XyhFQeob0

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) Lyrics
Get "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" Ringtone
She ain't got no money
Her clothes are kinda funny
Her hair is kinda wild and free
Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
She talks kinda lazy
People say she she's crazy
And her life's a mystery
Oh, but love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
There's something about her hand holding mine
It's a feeling so fine that I just gotta say
She's really got a magical spell
And it's working so well that I can't get away
I'm a lucky fella and I've just got to tell her
That I love her endlessly
Oh 'cause love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
Yeah I'm a lucky fella and I've just got to tell her
That I love her endlessly
Oh 'cause love grows where my Rosemary goes
And nobody knows like me
(Love grows where Rosemary goes)
Like me
(Love grows where Rosemary goes)
Like me
(Love grows where Rosemary goes)

Shallow Hal (2001) - IMDb FOREVER! I LOVE THIS MOVIE AND ALL THAT MADE IT!
www.imdb.com/title/tt0256380/
Internet Movie Database

Edison Lighthouse was a UK pop group, initially a studio-only assemblage that included Tony Burrows and songwriter/record producers Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason. The band are best known for their 1970 UK chart topper and million-selling record, "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)".[1][2] They are widely regarded as a one-hit wonder, with only two songs entering any chart worldwide: "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" and "It's Up to You, Petula".

Please give me a one-hit wonder, as good as "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)". Please give us all one this great.

September 14 2015:

Just got this email and thought I would pass it on:

The Senate is on the verge of moving a bill that would FINALLY support Fourth Amendment rights for digital communications.

Government shouldn't snoop on emails without a warrant! Contact your Senators today.

Click here: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/dp-tx-ecpa/

Our Fourth Amendment protections should be upheld online and off. Please support S.356, the Lee-Leahy bill — an important piece of bipartisan legislation that protects citizens’ privacy and ensures the government can’t access our email without a warrant.

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Privacy Policy

Of all the outdated privacy laws on the books, one of the most absurd is the law known as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, or ECPA.

Passed in 1986, the law defies the Constitution and commonsense — it says the government can access emails without a warrant just because they're over 180 days old. In fact, one court has said this is in clear violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Good news: the Senate is scheduled to hold a critical hearing on this issue WEDNESDAY — and could move S.356, the ECPA Amendments Act — which would fix this outdated policy.

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Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This black bird art titled 04_Radman_art_Boeing_T-50_Golden Eagle_September_14_2015; I used a image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

September 12 2015:

I dedicate this to my wife. I dedicate it to me to for supporting her through all the hardship, loneliness, sadness, patience of having a spouse that is in the United States Army.

U.S. Army "Team" Commercial

Published on Apr 27, 2015

You can't condense the U.S. Army story down into 60 seconds, but this commercial goes a long way toward highlighting the foundation of America's first team; our #ArmyTeam. This spot showcases everything that makes the Army great -- the Army values and Warrior ethos, the scale and scope of our versatile team, and the benefit of Army service both to each individual and to the Nation as a whole. When you don the Army uniform, you bear the flag of our Nation on your sleeve, and the name of our team - the U.S. Army - over your heart. And when you are a member of this team, the team that makes a difference, you are a member for life.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIFATDe9dsw

She is the reason we decided to stay in Texas after her active duty:

"The great state of Texas"; you have to listen to the song to hear these lyrics. They must not be Paul's contribution to the lyrics of this great song. I just love that part of the song because, Texas is absolutely and definitely; great!:

PAUL WALL LYRICS

"They Don't Know"

They don't know what that scar bout'
They don't know what that bar bout'
They don't know what that candy car bout'
or smokin' that joint about
Texas is the home of the playas and pimps
Showin' naked ass in the great state of Tex'
3rd Coast Born I mean we're Texas raised
(Texas muthaf@cka that's where I stay)
[Paul Wall]
All ready!
What you know about swangaz and vogues
What you know bout' purple drank
What you know bout' poppin' trunk, neon lights, candy paint
What you know about white shirts, starched down jeans with a razor crease
Platinum and gold on top our teeth, big ol' chains with a iced out piece
You don't know bout' Michael Watts
You don't know about DJ Screw
What you know about "MAN! Hold UP", I done came down and what it do?
They don't know about P.A.T
What you know bout' FREE PIMP C
What you know bout' the Swishahouse man
What you know bout' the S.U.C
We keep it playa, ain't no fake
When we holdin' plex whenever haters hate
We listen to music screwed and chopped
Down here in this Lone Star state
Outta towners be comin' around
Runnin' they mouth and talkin' down
but you don't know nuthin' bout my town
either hold it down or move around
[Snippets from U.G.K. songs Bun-B (Pimp-C)]
They don't know what that scar bout'
They don't know what that bar bout'
They don't know what that candy car bout'
or smokin' that joint about
Texas is the home of the playas and pimps
Showin' naked ass in the great state of Tex'
3rd Coast Born I mean we're Texas raised
(Texas muthaf@cka that's where I stay)
[Mike Jones]
MIKE JONES!
Me and Paul we actin' a fool
When screens fall I'm packin' a tool
I'm Texas raised, Texas made
We grind daily no minimum wage
I represent the home of candy cars
Screw music and purple bar
Trunk bangin', fifth hangin'
84's and vogue swangin'
Belt-buckles we wear in Texas
Rag-tops lay down on Lexus
Diamonds shinin' from grillin' necklace
Haters hate cuz we well respected
Paul Wall and Mike Jones
Who one of the throwedest on the microphone
We sittin' high on 20 inch chrome
Tryin' to get our shine on
I said, Paul Wall and Mike Jones
Who one of the throwedest on the microphone
We sittin' high on 20 inch chrome
Tryin' to get our shine on
I crack a smile and show platinum mouth
Every time I rap I rep Swishahouse
I spit a verse and head straight to the vaults
5 G's for me to even open my mouth
[Snippets from U.G.K. songs Bun-B (Pimp-C)]
They don't know what that scar bout'
They don't know what that bar bout'
They don't know what that candy car bout'
or smokin' that joint about
Texas is the home of the playas and pimps
Showin' naked ass in the great state of Tex'
3rd Coast Born I mean we're Texas raised
(Texas muthaf@cka that's where I stay)
[Paul Wall]
All Ready!
Hold on, hold up a second cuz
boys comin' down blue or red
Down here pimpin' ain't dead
Grindin' daily to stack my bread
I from the place where girls jump fly
Now a days the brauds pimp brauds
Cuz they got more game then most these guys
You'll get set up and then you'll get robbed
You don't know bout' chunkin' a deuce
You don't know bout a southside fade
Down here we be ridin' d's
But you don't know about choppin blades
Texas southern or Prairie View
What you know bout' battle of the bands
Down here we got ghetto grub
Like William's chicken or Timmy Chan's
You can catch me ridin' swangs
What you know about sippin' syrup
You don't know about pourin' it up
Purple drank some speeches slurred
You don't know bout' the way we talk
Boys say we got country words
But I don't really care what you heard
Cuz you don't know bout' the Dirty 3rd
[Snippets from U.G.K. songs Bun-B (Pimp-C)]
They don't know what that scar bout'
They don't know what that bar bout'
They don't know what that candy car bout'
or smokin' that joint about
Texas is the home of the playas and pimps
Showin' naked ass in the great state of Tex'
3rd Coast Born I mean we're Texas raised
(Texas muthaf@cka that's where I stay)

The video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-epezoK5iE

Unedited song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVez35khmtw

September 08 2015:

When I was comparing myself to the Movie In Like Flint and being bothered by emails from the White House; I was trying to be very funny. I actually was comparing myself to the first movie; Our Man Flint. These were some of my dads and my grandfathers favorite movies along with spaghetti westerns. We would all gather around my grandfathers giant stereo television, with every cable station; to watch these old favorites. As a young boy I almost compared my dad to Flint. I found both movies on YouTube! In Like Flint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgsHevPT0o and Our Man Flint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckL7W0a-6EY Good for me, because now you can see what I am talking about. It is so obsered that Flint barely has time or cares that the President needs him.

September 07 2015:

Happy Labor Day!

Here is a email I got from the White House:

Labor Day is about more than barbecues and a three-day weekend.

It is a day owned by every one of us, to honor our contributions to America's strength and prosperity. Today, we're looking at more than 13 million private-sector jobs created since 2010, and 66 consecutive months of private-sector job growth. That is prosperity that we created together. And it deserves to be recognized.

The problem is that far too many Americans still aren't sharing in that prosperity.

As we continue to emerge from the depths of the great recession, the challenge before us is to make sure more Americans get a slice of the pie that they helped bake. America, after all, is stronger when more people have more.

Watch this video on the Clean Power Plan.

Last month, I hit the road to meet hardworking Americans standing together to raise their voices. Whether it's making sure an honest day's work earns a fair day's pay, or insisting that no one should have to choose between the job they need and the family they love, Americans across this country are showing that small conversations at the lunch table can lead to big changes at the boardroom table.
It starts with a conversation. And you can commit to start one today right here.

You can tell us about how you or someone you know stepped up in your workplace to push for a change, whatever your issue may be -- from better wages to workplace fairness to greater equality.
And here's what's next:

On October 7, we're hosting a Summit on Worker Voice at the White House. The Summit will rally workers, employers, unions, organizers and others to bring attention to both the new, innovative ways that workers are coming together to have a voice in their workplaces, as well as the proven practices -- like collective bargaining -- that have sustained the middle class for generations.

As history has shown time and time again, there's no limit to what we can accomplish when we speak up with one voice. We are, after all, stronger together.

So add your voice: Say you'll start the conversation.

Happy Labor Day.
Thanks,
Tom
Secretary Tom Perez
Department of Labor
@LaborSec

I feel like the movie: In Like Flint (1967) getting email's from the White House.

Please sign this for labor: http://action.usaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=710

I woke up this morning and was working in the kitchen and just started to sing this song. So I looked it up on Google and YouTube and found this out about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_a_Little_Longer:

Stay a Little Longer

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For the song by Brothers Osborne, see Stay a Little Longer (Brothers Osborne song).

"Stay a Little Longer"
"(Stay All Night)"
Song by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

Form
Western swing
Writer
Bob Wills/Tommy Duncan
Language
English
Recorded by
(many, many other artists)

"Stay a Little Longer" is a Western swing dance tune written by Bob Wills and Tommy Duncan. The title comes from a refrain in the chorus:

Stay all night, stay a little longer, Dance all night, dance a little longer, Pull off your coat, throw it in the corner, Don't see why you can't stay a little longer.

The song consists of a number of unrelated verses, one of which (verse three) comes from an old folk song—"Shinbone Alley":

You ought to see my Blue Eyed Sally, She lives way down on Shinbone Alley. Number on the gate, the number on the door, The next house over is the grocery store.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded it in 1945 and it reached #3 in 1946. Willie Nelson (#22, 1973) and Mel Tillis (#17, 1982) also charted Top 40 hits. The song has been recorded numerous times.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wills

Bob Wills

Background information

Birth name
James Robert Wills

Also known as
"King of Western Swing"

Born
March 6, 1905
Origin
Kosse, Texas, US

Died
May 13, 1975 (aged 70)
Fort Worth, Texas, US

Genres

Western swing
Years active
1929‒1969

Labels
MGM
Associated acts
Light Crust Doughboys
Texas Playboys

Notable instruments
Fiddle

James Robert "Bob" Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing,[1][2][3] he was universally known as the King of Western Swing (after the death of Spade Cooley who used the moniker "King Of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969.)

Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass. The band played regularly on a Tulsa, Oklahoma radio station and added Leon McAuliffe on steel guitar, pianist Al Stricklin, drummer Smokey Dacus, and a horn section that expanded the band's sound. Wills favored jazz-like arrangements and the band found national popularity into the 1940s with such hits as "Steel Guitar Rag", "New San Antonio Rose", "Smoke On The Water", "Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima", and "New Spanish Two Step".

Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded with several publishers and companies, including Vocalion, Okeh, Columbia, and MGM, frequently moving. In 1950, he had two Top 10 hits, "Ida Red Likes The Boogie" and "Faded Love", which were his last hits for a decade. Throughout the 1950s, he struggled with poor health and tenuous finances, but continued to perform frequently despite the decline in popularity of his earlier music as rock and roll took over. Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the next year, which forced him to disband the Playboys although Wills continued to perform solo.

The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.[4] In 1972, Wills accepted a citation from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in Nashville. He was recording an album with fan Merle Haggard in 1973 when a stroke left him comatose until his death in 1975. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Wills and the Texas Playboys in 1999.

Yall give era listen rightch yonder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkjG9-03lhw

I had no idea I was singing such a old classic or that the guy who wrote it was from around here. Maybe I was sensing a spirit of a cowboy like Bob Willis passing through these here parts.

You know how I steam all my vegetables? I figured out recently if you steam them then season them then bake them on high in the toaster oven the it brings out the taste way better.

We have been enjoying sausage and peppers a lot here lately. I serve it with pasta and butter and garlic salt. I made a sauce with it made from water sausage juice, a little vinegar, Italian dressing, garlic and all the traditional Italian seasonings and flour to thicken it. Kroger has a excellent deal on a ten pack of Italian sausage. Try it, it is cheap and tastes expensive. I find it amazing that I gravitate towards the traditional food my ancestors loved even subconsciously.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This black bird art titled 04_Radman_art_Labor_Day_2015_September_07_2015; I used a several manipulated images I got from good old Google Images for this one.

September 01 2015:

I found this graphic from MTV. This is a link to what this graphic may mean:
https://www.facebook.com/MTV/videos/10153098349061701/

I thought it was cool since it was about Mondays and this blog is about Mondays when I ad new art here.

August 31 2015:

Everything is going good. I am happy these days. I try not to get too happy or sad. I had a life changing experience at the age of approximately 20 that made me much less emotional. My mom took me to Catholic church every Sunday until I left home; to live with my dad when I was 15 years old. Latter when I was about 22 years old and living on my own; my mom took me to a new church she was going to that was a extreme Pentecostal church. I learned allot of great strengthening things there but the emotional side of that experience was too much for me. I then started going to a small local church in my home town shortly after that. I took my wife there before we left for California. I also took my dad there once for father son day. I remember I ate way too much corn on the cob that day and found out the hard way never to do that again. That church was anything but emotional. In fact what made me like it there was that they were specifically not emotional and would actually preach against mixing emotion with church and had great literature on it. After researching the subject in depth I decided to never give myself over to emotion again. Ever since that day my life has been 100 percent better, more organized and in synced with the immediate moment.

I really love where I live and have done enough art to fill 50 art galleries featuring the landscapes I see here every day. I have really been enjoying taking our new dog outside especially with my wife, more and more every day these days. I really do have some great neighbors here too and that helps allot. I do not talk to them but I admire most all of them for one reason or another, like neat well kept yards and peace and quit. The few times I have talked to the local people around here it has always been a good experience. I believe this has inspired my western art as well as the scenery. The weather has been exceptionally nice lately too.

I have notice I have been getting a little flabby around the waist and have purposely put aside time on my workout routines when I am not in a rush and hope to get in better shape in the future. I have also been concentrating on my diet; more vegetables with less salt and less fatty foods.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

This black bird art titled Boeing_F-15SE_Silent_Eagle; I used a manipulated image I got from good old Google Images for this one.

August 30 2015:

I heard a song on television and it inspired me to look up this song and to my surprise I found the same type act I saw as a young man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN8ZmPMMjOA Wavelength baby!

When I saw this guy sing this song back about 1979 it blew me away. It was a concert in my home town of the great ocean port town of Middletown Connecticut. In the pit of the hockey rink of Wesleyan University. The venue opened with some load hard rock English band that made me loose some of my hearing. I was there with my step mom and her sister two very good looking; young looking blonds; the cold truth and it did not make me feel bad back then to this day, I was proud to be there with them. Van Morison had a leather jacket much like in this video, except he had blues brothers like sunglasses on that he never took off. He sang that song much like this video too. The talent at that moment knows no match to even the best of the best today. That was me at that moment in time. It makes me think of my wife right now. She is so precious. Really this woman never stops making me appreciate her. She is a gem of gems. You have to realize where we are from; the east coast at it’s very peak: is who we are. It is black as the leather Van Morison wears and as blue as the bluest sky you have ever seen with the deepest ocean under it known to man dropping off into the Atlantic Ocean. He also did Moondance too but even better than this video in 1979. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIU_2C3g6_s This was a amazing song back then; as perfect in it’s arrangement as the thought of dancing in the blasting moon light of that crisp ocean sky, to a band like this breaking the boundaries of rock and roll; as known back then. You have to understand that I was a Van Morrison fan long before I went to that concert and I was ready to see the sound of that wavelength that connected us all back then. This was a moment in music back at the cusp of the dreaded 1980’s. Also to see this huge production crammed into the Wesleyan hockey ring was awesome. They made the wavelength sound go from one speaker to the other 20 feet away making the song that much more intense. It was very, very load, but also very, very high quality load; something Van Morison was known for in his albums. Back then Van Morison was the it band; chosen by the rock gods from the sunrise of the power of souls still untouched by the likes of social media; wild and free and bursting with love that only needed to be realized. I am sure any young man in the prime of his life can relate to that time when he could say this was me and it was phenomenal. This is kind of like that to me.

August 28 2015:

Been noticing them in this commercial:

Judah & the Lion

Aug 20, 2015 - Currently featured in a Nature Valley commercial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_%26_the_Lion

I love this band very much

My favorite song is: Judah & the Lion - Back's Against The Wall - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiBi6F_EvoU

Back's Against The Wall Lyrics

Artist: Judah The Lion

"LYRICSLRC.COM"

Back's Against The Wall Lyrics
Artist: Judah The Lion

"LYRICSLRC.COM"

In my head I may not know
What I feel down in my soul
With my eyes I may not see
The fire that burns inside of me
Just stand strong, hold onto hope
Just grab on, don't ever let it go
When your backs against the wall you're not alone
You know I have been set free
Fear has got no grip on me
You know I can see the light
A dead man coming back to life
Just stand strong, hold onto hope
Just grab on, don't ever let it go
When your backs against the wall you're not alone
Yeah, when your backs against the wall you're not alone
Just stand strong, hold onto hope
Just grab on, don't ever let it go
When your backs against the wall you're not alone
When your backs against the wall
When your backs against the wall
You're not alone

August 27 2015:

I have been looking though my old preview magazines. They are comic dealer magazines I was fortunate to find when I was going to college in the early 2000’s in comic book stores down in the Plano aria. I have always wanted to post about this comic by Tom DeFalco and how similar his Mr. Right character was so much like Radman. Could be just a weird coincidence, who knows. It was very hard to find info on this on the internet but I did find this here:

http://webspace.webring.com/people/dt/the_gzone/tomd.html

The Spider's Web: Finally, if you can say, what lies ahead for Tom DeFalco, Spider-Girl and MC2?

Tom DeFalco: As far as Spider-Girl is concerned, I intend to keep writing this title until Marvel tells me to stop. As for me, I love writing comics. It is an honor and a privilege to participate in this medium, and I never want to stop. Right now I'm planning two new comics which will be published by Image. They are called RANDY O'DONNELL IS THE M@N (with Ron Lim), and MR. RIGHT (with Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema). Fans of Spider-Girl just give them a try. Thanks for being there!

The Spider's Web: Thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule for this interview.

Tom DeFalco: Take care, and thanks for thinking of me!

Also I found a comic I would like to read by the creator of the great comic and movie Watchmen; Alan Moore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore :

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has been called "one of the most important British writers of the last fifty years" He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Translucia Baboon and The Original Writer.

This is the comic I find very interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/Top-Ten-Book-Alan-Moore/dp/1563896680

Check out the cover image: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515C9937EZL.jpg

Written by Alan Moore; Art by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon This is the tale of Neopolis, a modern metropolis with a citizentry made up exclusively of super beings. In a city where everyone is blessed with powers, it takes a unique and powerful police force to protect and serve. In this Eisner Award-winning book, we are introduced to the extremely diverse officers of Precinct Ten; an armored and talking dog, a genetically engineered "perfect woman," a high tech cowboy, an indestructible man, and a rookie with a toy box full of "helpers." Individually they are unique personalities, together they are Neopolis' finest.

Cool huh?

August 24 2015:

I usually do not talk about politics on this blog, but I got this email yesterday and I thought this would not be that controversial to post. It may help people understand something new, hopefully and at the same time be helpful. To us that already know these things it my be a peaceful pat on the back. Don’t get me wrong; everyone knows I love Texas and I appreciate our elected leaders and they have always been courteous to me. Sometimes we can learn from our critics though.

From: http://progresstexas.org/blog/how-one-party-republican-rule-hurts-texas

People often say that Texas is a red state, though it is more accurately described as a non-voting state. But with turnout that ranks among the lowest in the nation, restrictive voter laws, and an imbalanced system of redistricting, Republicans have gamed the system to create disproportionate representation in the state.

But one-Party rule is bad for everyone – including Republican voters.

It pushes the fringe elements of the Party to the forefront, heightening generally crazy policy positions, and ends up making us all look like Yosemite Sam.

Here are samples of how it hurts Texas…and then how we can fix it:

Poor Representation

Texas Republicans have been sued for disenfranchising minority voters through heavily gerrymandered districts. The most blatant example is the “Optimized Hispanic Republican Voting Strength” strategy, in which a district is drawn to include a majority Latinos but only ones who have very low voter turnout histories – and then include a minority of high-voting Republicans to skew the electoral outcome.

And while Texas is one of the most diverse states in America, you wouldn’t know that by looking at our statewide office holders: 15 Republican men, of which 14 ½ are Anglo. I mean – they couldn’t even get one woman on board? Yet in a state where all the powers-that-be are all Republican, they’ll look out for each other before they look out for you.

Bad Public Policy

The result of bad elections results in bad public policy.

According to polls, we know that Texans care greatly about public education and income inequality. But officials from heavily gerrymandered districts wind up dominating the conversation - steering the focus towards bills to open carry guns in public and on college campuses, efforts to usurp local control, and of course abortion (it’s always abortion with these people). There was a press conference in which Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller wanted to put cupcakes back in schools. Meanwhile, public education cuts have still not been restored to pre-recession levels, income inequality bills went nowhere, and Texas continues to have the highest percentage of people without health insurance – while bills to address the issue languished in committee.

No Accountability

In addition to bad policy, there’s no real punishment for bad behavior.

When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on three felony counts, Governor Greg Abbott made no call for resignation or any other type of accountability, and to date few (if any) Republicans have. And though the claims against him were well reported for more than a year, no authority investigated Paxton until the Texas Rangers stepped in. This type of “politics before policy” is bad for the people the politicians are supposed to represent.

And just this week, a state official’s Facebook page featured a religious discrimination post, but he didn’t apologize and actually called it “thought provoking” (he’s capable of the provoking, still not sure of his ability for thought). Then there are the repeated examples of Republicans calling for local control, and then doing the exact opposite on fracking bans, as well as expressing an interest to do the same on things like bag bans and non-discrimination ordinances. Bag bans!

Restrictive Voting Laws

One would think that it can’t be that hard to vote, but in Texas, they’d be wrong.

Texas still does not have online voter registration. There’s straight ticket voting, in which few voters may know who they are actually voting for since they can mindlessly pull a lever for a Party. There is the voter identification law that sounded neat on a bumper sticker but was so restrictive that it was struck down in court. The law was so restrictive that women who had their maiden name listed one ID and a middle name on another had to sign an affidavit, while a gun ID but not a student ID was considered valid to verify identity.

In short: One Party Republican rule can be described as “Politicians Gone Wild!” And that’s not good for anyone.

So how do we fix it?

1. VOTE.

First and foremost, Texans need to participate in greater numbers. We can blame the abysmal voter turnout rate on many things, but it is the one thing that people have the power to immediately change.

2. INFORM.

Keep up on the issues you care about, find your favorite publication and “like” it on Facebook so it shows up in your newsfeed, join an email list, volunteer. Organizations like Progress Texas regularly publish news to inform the public in quick formats, but you may find other sources that align with a particular issue that you care about.

3. ENGAGE.

Second, we need to talk about politics with our friends and family. It’s not always easy, but it’s always important.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

Another on the side of the road photo I took back in 2007 on this black bird art titled F-15E Eagle. I used just the sky this time.

August 17 2015:

I thought of another cool song from my youth that was one of my favorites also.:

Fly Like An Eagle by The Marshall Tucker Band (from ...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxxZ749UkwM

Artist: The Marshall Tucker Band

Album: Carolina Dreams

Released: 1977

“Makes me fly like an eagle

Higher and higher every day

Cause in my mind and in my dreams

I can't get her away”

When I hear this song I can think of only good times. As a young man I owned almost every album Marshall Tucker came out with, in album or cassette tape format. I have search the internet for the inside of the album I talked about last week and could never find it. It is tough to find the inside of album covers that were my favorite as a young person. One More for the Road inside jacket is another one that comes tom\ mind just now.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

Another on the side of the road photo I took back in 2007 on this black bird art titled F-15 Eagle. I used just the sky this time.

August 10 2015:

My favorites songs with Eagles mention in them:

Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (1977) Steve Miller Band has been one of my favorite bands since I first heard them in the 1970's. There were allot of special effects in Steve Miller songs not in songs of those days. I think that is what put Steve Miller over the top, not to mention the perfect song writing and melody. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zT4Y-QNdto I have loved the horse art on this album and have drawn it more than once.

Marshall Tucker Band - Fly Eagle Fly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEVZbaPLi7Q this YouTube link also features art from the album that is some of my favorite southern art ever. Lyrics: "Won't you fly oh eagle fly You better run, little cottontail run I hope you both live long enough
To see the settin' sun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZl7tqXVoEw Marshal Tucker was a great long haired southern band. Long hair make a southern band more heart felt I think. Heart felt is the magic in all music. Like these Guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKCKERcqbF0 Blackberry Smoke Live in North Carolina (full 90 min concert feature) I saw this concert on Palladia. Look out when these guys write a ballad or two. Of course I can not forget to mention one of my favorite southern bands from the 1970's: The Eagles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(band)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald_eagle:

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek hali "sea", aiētos "eagle", leuco "white", cephalos "head") is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.

The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish, which it swoops down and snatches from the water with its talons. It builds the largest nest of any North American bird and the largest tree nests ever recorded for any animal species, up to 4 m (13 ft) deep, 2.5 m (8.2 ft) wide, and 1 metric ton (1.1 short tons) in weight.[2] Sexual maturity is attained at the age of four to five years.

Bald eagles are not actually bald; the name derives from an older meaning of "white headed". The adult is mainly brown with a white head and tail. The sexes are identical in plumage, but females are about 25 percent larger than males. The beak is large and hooked. The plumage of the immature is brown.

The bald eagle is both the national bird and national animal of the United States of America. The bald eagle appears on its seal. In the late 20th century it was on the brink of extirpation in the contiguous United States. Populations have since recovered and the species was removed from the U.S. government's list of endangered species on July 12, 1995 and transferred to the list of threatened species. It was removed from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the Lower 48 States on June 28, 2007.

National bird of the United States

Seal of the President of the United States

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States of America.[133] The founders of the United States were fond of comparing their new republic with the Roman Republic, in which eagle imagery (usually involving the golden eagle) was prominent. On June 20, 1782, the Continental Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States depicting a bald eagle grasping 13 arrows and an olive branch with its talons.

The bald eagle appears on most official seals of the U.S. government, including the presidential seal, the presidential flag, and in the logos of many U.S. federal agencies. Between 1916 and 1945, the presidential flag (but not the seal) showed an eagle facing to its left (the viewer's right), which gave rise to the urban legend that the flag is changed to have the eagle face towards the olive branch in peace, and towards the arrows in wartime.

Contrary to popular legend, there is no evidence that Benjamin Franklin ever publicly supported the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), rather than the bald eagle, as a symbol of the United States. However, in a letter written to his daughter in 1784 from Paris, criticizing the Society of the Cincinnati, he stated his personal distaste for the bald eagle's behavior. In the letter Franklin states:[4]

For my own part. I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly ... besides he is a rank coward: The little king bird not bigger than a sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district.

Franklin opposed the creation of the Society because he viewed it, with its hereditary membership, as a noble order unwelcome in the newly independent Republic, contrary to the ideals of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, for whom the Society was named; his reference to the two kinds of birds is interpreted as a satirical comparison between the Society of the Cincinnati and Cincinnatus.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

Another on the side of the road photo I took back in 2007 on this black bird art titled Eagle.

August 03 2015:

Posting early, I know. Early bird gets the worm though. :

the early bird gets the worm:

1.Whoever arrives first has the best chance of success; some opportunities are only available to the first competitors.

Related terms

early to bed, early to rise

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_early_bird_gets_the_worm

CEOs, athletes, artists and countless people deemed to be successful individuals have a secret weapon that all have access to, but few choose to take advantage of: early morning.

They say that the early bird catches the worm, which is true. Especially if you’re a bird looking for a worm.

But even as a human being, there are plenty of reasons for you to forget you have a snooze button and start your day a little earlier.

Life is meant to be lived… not slept through. Here are 9 reasons why you should get up with the sun:

1. You have more energy in the morning and a clearer mind.

Okay, you may need to have your cup of coffee first, but you get the idea.

Waking up early may not give you much more energy than waking up later, although even this may be the case depending on your sleeping habits, but what it will do is give you more time in the day when you feel energetic and motivated.

The later you wake up, in theory, the less time you have before you lose your motivation and get distracted.

Once the evening comes around, no one really wants to be working. Especially not when friends, neighbors, and/or children want to spend time with you.

Wake up earlier, get more done when you feel like getting things done, and then have more time to live a little.

2. There is nothing worse than starting your day off in a hurry.

I hate rushing with a fiery passion. I think it is the most annoying feeling in the world. Having to rush your day at any point leaves you feeling flustered and beat.

Starting your day off in a rush leaves a sour taste in your mouth, making it difficult to slow back down and get grounded.

Take your time in the mornings to do… nothing. Get ready slowly. Have breakfast while seated at a table instead of mid commute. Go for a walk or maybe a bit of exercise. Meditate or just breathe in the morning air.

Maybe you would even like to watch the sunrise – few people see the sunrise more than a handful of times in their lives. Why not get to see it every day?

3. Mornings are a great time to get personal things done – things you don’t need anyone else to help you with or to contribute to.

Write emails. Do some quick cleaning or organizing. Make your kids breakfast and lunch.

Do some reading. Do the laundry. Do all the things that you know that you won’t want to do once you get home from work.

I don’t know about you, but I dread going home knowing that a long list of chores awaits me.

Get up with the birds and do all the things you don’t especially enjoy doing early, allowing time to enjoy the rest of your day the way it was meant to be enjoyed.

4. Crossing a few things off your list early in the day will give you a nice sense of accomplishment, fueling you for the remainder of the day while simultaneously giving you peace of mind.

Sometimes we have such slam-packed schedules that we aren’t sure how we’ll manage to fit it all in. Waking up early will, for one, give you a few extra hours if you need it (emergencies do happen).

You’ll also be able to check a few things off your to-do list, making you especially productive and accomplished. Who doesn’t want a little ego boost in the mornings?

5. Overall, it’s more efficient.

Your mind focuses more intently in the mornings and because most of the world is either still asleep or just stirring, there are fewer distractions.

Also, the most efficient way to work is to work in neat two to four hour sessions – straight. No breaks or distractions.

Getting in one of these blocks earlier on in the day will basically give you extra hours in the day itself. Waking up early and getting to bed early is – in a nutshell – a more efficient way to live.

6. Starting early usually means finishing early – happy hour anyone?

As adults, we have a lot of responsibilities. Too many even. There is always work to be done and always things that we would rather be doing instead. The key to a happy and productive life is time management.

Waking up in the early hours of the day should allow you more time later in the day to do whatever it is that you want to do – to live your life the way you believe it should be lived.

Doing nothing but working all day, every day is miserable. Managing your time wisely by starting early can very well lead you to hate your life a little less.

7. You’ll get tired earlier and get to bed earlier, getting a better night’s sleep.

While the amount of hours you sleep may or may not affect your quality of sleep, as there are many factors to consider, what it will do is make getting a proper night’s sleep more likely. If you go to bed earlier you are more likely to get the needed hours.

Most people don’t just lie down and pass out right away – most people take some time to fall asleep or wake up in the middle of the night and have to fall asleep all over again.

Getting to bed earlier will allow you to sleep in a little extra if a little extra is what you need.

8. You’ll literally experience a side of life you haven’t experienced before.

As human beings, we are creatures of habit. And as such, we like to follow routines that we have created for ourselves.

The problem with such routines is that, forgetting about the fact that they are usually unhealthy, they only allow you one version of reality.

If you wake up late then you never get to experience the magnificence that is dawn. You never get to hear the first chirping of the birds or the beautiful array of colors in the early morning sky.

You don’t get to see your environment in the morning calm before the storm. You don’t get to experience your whole life – the part of life you’ve been missing after sleeping in for so many years.

9. You get a couple of hours to be yourself. No masks. No gimmicks.

No trying to impress people you couldn’t care less about. Getting up earlier allows for more alone time – time that too few people give importance to.

Having a few extra hours in the day when you don’t have to pretend to be someone you’re not, when you don’t have to watch your every move, your every word, will give you a new a redefined sense of self.

You will feel better about yourself and feel happier overall. We get trapped in the rat race that is life. These morning hours are a time for you to simply be yourself. No one else is watching.

http://elitedaily.com/money/9-reasons-morning-people-successful/681717/

I fixed the date; I got wrong last week. The date was supposed to say July 27 not 20. I am sticking with my New Years resolution and doing at least 1 sketch per week.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

Another on the side of the road photo I took back in 2007 on this black bird art titled Flutter.

July 27 2015:

Thank you all for the hits lattly. I have noticed the hit counter going up. I want people to see my art; it is mostly joyful styled art and I can not see how it would not pick up the spirits of the people that read it. The words like the art are helpful, that is why I like the hit counter going up.

I am leaving another huge copy of my art on the bottom of this page from this past week:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html just got the very bottom of the page.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

Another on the side of the road photo I took back in 2007 on this black bird art titled Kite.

July 20 2015:

I quote myself to my wife yesterday afternoon: "it's amazing the difference between cold water and regular water , ESPECIALY IN THE SUMMER" I hope everyone in DFW; is being nice to one another and not being mean; just because it is hot outside.:

Heat Rage is real:

July 20, 2000

Domestic violence usually reaches its peak during the summer months, according to the Wichita, Kan., Police Department. Domestic abuse cases typically number about 700 in June, July, or August, and around 500 in February or March, they report.

A new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that aggression and violence seem to peak in hot weather. But not when it's too hot: During daytime hours and in the warmer months, when the temperature gets unbearable, people's tempers seem to cool.

Heat rage may peak in the evenings because people may drink alcohol rather than water to beat the heat, and "alcohol increases the probability of aggressive behavior," the researchers write.

Arthur Bachrach, PhD, a psychologist in Taos, N.M., spent 18 years studying extreme environments, including underwater, cold, and heat, for the U.S. Navy. "With heat, in particular, there is no way to escape, but you can protect yourself from the cold by wearing warm clothing," Bachrach tells WebMD.

There is no particular temperature that triggers violence, he says. "Irritability is associated with heat, and this is probably what leads to violence and rage," he says.

Crowds and lines may also intensify the situation, he says.

From: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20000720/steamy-weather-hot-tempers

Climate-Violence is proven to be true more recently:

Dec 19, 2013

As the climate heats up, tempers may follow suit, according to a study published in August 2013 in Nature. Analyzing 60 quantitative studies across fields as disparate as archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science and psychology, University of California researchers found that throughout history and across the world, higher temperatures, less rainfall and more drought were consistently linked to increased violence. The correlation held true for aggression between individuals, such as domestic abuse and assault, but was even more pronounced for conflict between groups

From : http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/feeling-hot-can-fuel-rage/

July 2015 02 2015

hot weather makes people angrier

people are outside a lot more during the hot weather, so there is a drastically increased chance of people meeting each other in circumstances that would result in a violent altercation

Added to this, schools are closed for summer, meaning hordes of adolescents are left to roam the streets with their rebellious, aggressive tendencies. With all this to consider, no wonder there’s a spike in the stats! Especially in cities, which are usually much warmer than elsewhere.

the physiological reactions to heat are responsible. Raised temperatures cause an increase in heart rate, testosterone, and other metabolic reactions that trigger the sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the fight-or-flight response, so people are more inclined to fight.

When people are experiencing discomfort and the resultant stress due to something they have no control over, it makes them angry

people exposed to unpleasant “negative” stimuli will be predisposed to anyone they associate with the unpleasant thing, which in the heat is potentially everything.

From: http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2015/jul/03/summer-hot-weather-anger-psychology

Simple precautions, such as seeking air conditioning, drinking plenty of water, and dressing appropriately, may help reduce cases of heat rage, experts tell WebMD. The best way to protect yourself is to "stay cool and find air conditioning when it gets too hot," Bell says.

"Drink eight 8 oz. glasses of water a day or more in extreme heat, wear light clothing, a porous hat, and avoid crowding if possible," Bachrach says. "Prevention is rather simple."

I decided to make a good old fashioned gif file instead of a video for you all; of my dog catchin Frisbee like a catchin fool. You can really see that Pets Mart logo like he wants you to see it. He makes some amazing catches lately. One time he watched go over his head then caught it from around to the front of him. The best ones is when it doe not touch the ground at all. This gif file is a great catch for sure no where near touching the ground and he catches it after watching it over his head. This is kind of a big file and may take a minute. Check it out:

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

1 piece of art this week but it is a good one:

Another on the side of the road photo I took back in 2007 on this black bird art

I wrote this poem about what I think might go through the mind of artists like me when they are creating paintings, drawings, digital art, sketches like I do:

A poem by the artist of radman_art July 20 2015

Foresight Creating In Common Artists

Lamentations of songs unsung

Abysmal end of paint unused

Not seeing the art only wanted love for

For letting it sift through their fingers like sand in time

Expressions and endeavors of love crushed with scrutiny

Resolve in the face of adversity to only give from love

Wanting for ever regret not seeing how beautiful the art was

Warmth made cold by harsh winters of final words

Not knowing the eco would engulf their heart with love

Heartache’s broken direction

Gifts of love unknown and never knowing, known

The earth shattering falseness of shrouded eyes

Was it, could they, what if, could it have been grander

Such strength in solitude

Untitled Art

Folk have in their minds regret

Lack of recognizing for art’s beauty

Retribution in regret not appreciated

Way ahead of the time created

Shinning light of true hearted free expression blocked

Furious regret of love for art ignored by critics

Missing that not expounded on

The sweat of the brow turned to tears of sadness

Agony of desire at the feat of nothing

Pressing on, against the undesirable opposition’s outcome

Lamenting the emptiness of nothing

Blindness in ignoring the art was love

Endless empty sound of that not realized

Could more have been

Happiness in forever weeping over the light that covered

Minuscule glimmer of the brightness matted down

To have seen the creations will cause a tiny smile inside

Shed a tiny tear minds in contemplation art in love lost

Leaving on the bottom of the love in the heart for inspiration

July 16 2015:

We took videos of our Tehas super human Canidae this morning; catching Frisbee; hope to have it up on YouTube soon.

I wish I could find good old fashioned cheap Frisbees by Wham-O in any local store like I could when I was young. Maybe they are considered hippie propaganda now a days. I guess I have to settle for the Pet smart Frisbee want to be.

Tejas :

The original Native American word for friend. Often thought to be Spanish, but used by the Caddo Indians long before the Spanish arrived. Bastardized by Spanish explorers and became known as the location now known as Texas.

Frisbee:

A flying disc is a disc-shaped gliding toy or sporting item that is generally plastic and roughly 20 to 25 centimeters (8 to 10 in) in diameter with a lip, used recreationally and competitively for throwing and catching, for example, in flying disc games. The shape of the disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air while spinning. The term Frisbee, often used to generically describe all flying discs, is a registered trademark of the Wham-O toy company. Though such use is not encouraged by the company, the common use of the name as a generic term has put the trademark in jeopardy; accordingly, many "Frisbee" games are now known as "disc" games, like Ultimate or disc golf.

Canidae:

The biological family Canidae / is a lineage of carnivorans that includes dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, and many other extant and extinct dog-like mammals. A member of this family is called a canid. The Canidae family is divided into two tribes: the Canini (dogs, wolves, jackals, and some south American "foxes") and the Vulpini (true foxes).

UFO World Cup Champions

Overall/Combined World Cup Series Champions

01 Nick (Australian Shepherd), trainer Bob Evans, Dallas, TX
02 Nick (Australian Shepherd), trainer Bob Evans, Dallas, TX
03 Levi (Mixed Breed), trainer Todd Duncan, Atlanta, GA
04 Ben (Mixed Breed), trainer Karin Actun, Dusseldorf, Germany
05 Levi (Mixed Breed), trainer Todd Duncan, Atlanta, GA
06 Maggie (Border Collie), trainer Matt DiAno, Littleton, CO
07 Maggie (Border Collie), trainer Matt DiAno, Littleton, CO
08 Maggie (Border Collie), trainer Matt DiAno, Littleton, CO
09 Guinan (Border Collie), trainer Danny Eggleston, Osceola, IN
10 Maggie (Border Collie), trainer Matt DiAno, Littleton, CO
11 Maggey (Border Collie), trainer Mike Hanson, Littleton, CO
12 Bling Bling (Mix), trainer Chuck Middleton, Dallas, TX
13 Torch (McNab), trainer Kirby McIlveen, Huntington Beach, CA
14 Flower (Border Collie), trainer Matteo Gaddoni, Forli, Italy

UFO Finals - UFO World Cup Frisbee Dog Series

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The points earned at the Finals are added to a teams regular season score to determine the UFO World Cup Champions. Points at the World Cup Finals are ...

Search this page for the words Border Collie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisbee_Dog_World_Championship

July 13 2015:

Well we got us a real festival of art this week. I hope you like it; reader. Twiggy took along time. I had to stop myself or I could have taken another week to do it. Then I would not be able to show my work this week. Not that it matters in my mind apparently. Forgive me, but last night I had a dream that my sweet little birdie creations were being shot by people that viewed them on the internet. I could see them being shot in my dream and disintegrating as they were shot into little black and white little dots of destroyed art. It does not surprise me that much this would be in my dreams because I have felt this way since I completed my first great really big painting on masonite board with wood frame back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonite This baby was absolutely pristine. The one with the big busy bumblebee. It is 3 feet by 3 feet. I thought this would be the first painting I did that people would not be able to stop from buying or showcasing. That was in 2002 and most people would have just quit by then.

I must be psyched up more than normal lately though; I did do two works this week. That being said I am glad how my work came out this week. It is now officially a series of artwork. The tree featured in both pieces of the photo background art is from a tree I have painted many times in my art. The tree was even featured in my Friday addition of the Dallas Morning news Hot Picks; back in the day. The screenshot of the newspaper article can be found on the bottom of this page: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-art.html ;see it? It is a good one. Two of them together like that on the side of the road really caught my eye. I have talked about these trees before on the internet. They are spruce trees. They are magnificent and grow like weeds around these here parts. They are like the pine trees of my long lost old home stead in Killingworth, Connecticut. Those were some of my fondest memories of my life, living in the forest there (see my other home page here about Killingworth). When I saw those two trees together back in 2007 I thought of my wife and I. It was just one of those nature photo’s I had to take.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):
http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

2015 My New Years Resolution is as follows: I pledge to have at least 1 new sketch (not more than 1 week old) I have done with my stylus here once a week. It will be a cropped, way shrunk down, copy of the original tiff files, that I like the best, with the title in the name of the file: These are in order of; most recent is on bottom, less recent but within the past week is above that: Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file, I will no longer be adding the day I have done each piece of digital art. Instead I will number them number 01 being the most recent I did that week. :

July 06 2015:

Maybe it is just me but it seems like South Park is peaking out: http://southpark.cc.com/ In my opinion the greatest character of the South Park series is http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Nathan I hope I made you laugh.

On to a new series now. It will be called blackbird. I am drawing huge again. I actually did two pieces of art this week for the first time in a while. The cloud series was the only drawings I have done at 768 x 1280. These are still high quality Tiff files though. All other art I have done with my stylus; the originals are bigger than 1500 x 2540; Tiff files. The cloud series was done with allot of emotion and it was harder to create small, I was glad in a way it was more difficult. I will be creating this series with abstract versions of each piece of art. I will have light blue background; if looked sideways on a computer or phone looks navy blue. I will also be adding the art I do to photos of the local nature I took photos of around 2007 for Bird Williams class. www.collin.edu/photography/bwilliams.html. I delicate this series to the song Blackbird. Blackbird - The Beatles - YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xdeatlwYk . Lyrics: “Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to flyAll your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise” The only bad part of this song is that if you have ever hung out in a guitar store everyone can play this one song. Other than that it is one of my favorite Beatle songs. It has always touched me as well as amazed me with it’s refection of those times from with in the deep cover of the inner world of the Beatles. The Beatles were a legend to me from my birth and always will. I am only talking about until they broke up of course. My mom was a very big fan also. We have incredible birds around these here parts. I remember looking at a flock of birds around 2005 over where I live. I have wrote about this before on the internet. These birds where flying so high in the sky; I thought to myself is this possible? They where big like white cranes. They formed a funnel as a flock and seemed to look magical. When I saw this the only thing I could compare this to was angels flying around in that hazy light blue sky; that is the basic color of the skies here. That sky color is easy to recreate in my art. It reflects off planes and even birds and this was causing a reflection of the birds that day. It really looked unreal, yet it was just another day mowing the lawn or what ever work I was doing at the time. I am happy to be doing a more cheerful series. I think if we really look at nature and concentrate on it majesty it can really brighten our day.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Two pieces of art this week:

July 04 2015:

What is July 4th?

United States Declaration of Independence

The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. A committee of five had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence. The term "Declaration of Independence" is not used in the document itself.

Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document,which Congress would edit to produce the final version. The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. The national birthday, Independence Day, is celebrated on July 4, although Adams wanted July 2.

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(film)

1776 is a 1972 American musical film directed by Peter H. Hunt. The screenplay by Peter Stone was based on the 1969 stage musical 1776. The song score was composed by Sherman Edwards. The cast included William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, John Cullum, Ken Howard and Blythe Danner.

Portions of the dialogue and some of the song lyrics were taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants of the Second Continental Congress.

Every history student should see this great movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugTBktqhcIk

I am fortunate enough to remember our country's two hundredth birth day. That was the year I graduated from my grade school, Saint Johns Parochial school.:

http://www.saintjohnchurchmiddletown.com/Pages/aboutus.aspx

It had been the hope of Rev. John Brady, Jr., to establish a parochial school for the children of the parish. The expenses of the new church precluded such an idea until 1855. At that time, the school was slated to be held in the original church building. Heading the school was a lawyer by the name of Mr. Andrew Cody. Assisting him were the sisters Misses Mabel A. and Helen Fagan, members of a local family. Before Rev. Brady could see his dream realized, Bishop O’Reilly relieved him of his pastoral duties. His successor, Rev. Mangan, took over control of the school and was later followed by Rev. Lynch. In 1866, the school was turned over to the city school system. Rev. Lynch, in order to return the school to the church’s control, started his efforts to establish a convent. He hoped to staff it with religious teachers in order to provide for the necessary form of instruction desired by the church. A contract was drawn up and construction started. With only partial completion of the convent, the Sisters moved in from Ireland. In September 1882, the city of Middletown gave control of the school back to the church.

In 1887, Rev. Sheridan contracted to erect a school building. Using the area just west of the church, known as the Hall House, a four-story building was erected. It was to be constructed of brick made locally. The top story was to be used for church affairs. This was later converted to classrooms. Dennis O’Brien, a local contractor, was awarded the masonry portion and O.O. Stowe, the interior.

Today, the school boasts approximately 160 students, under the principality of Mrs. Kathleen O. King. ( There was a student in my class who was my friend named Kathleen King I bet she was a relative of the original. )

http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5494

Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1882, this school continues to offer a challenging and enriching curriculum interwoven with an emphasis on the teachings of Jesus Christ.

St John School

5 Saint Johns Square
Middletown, CT 06457-0645

It was the very same school my brothers and sister graduated from and my mother and her two sisters and her brother graduated from. That year my school to our class to the movie theater to see this great movie:

July 03 2015:

Happy fourth of July again. Here are some more of my favorite revolutionary war heroes:

Ethan Allen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen :

He is best known for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and his leadership of the Green Mountain Boys.

Major General Nathanael Greene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathanael_Greene:
It was in Boston that Greene first met George Washington. Even during their initial meeting, Washington was greatly impressed. Within a year, he would consider Greene the best of his generals suited to succeed him in case of his death or capture.

Captain John Paul Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones :
He captured his opponent after his own vessel had been practically shot out from under him and she later sank, despite the pumps and every effort to save her. This action beginning at sunset, with the full moon just rising, lasted nearly four hours, the two vessels being lashed together, starboard side to starboard side. Not only was it the most brilliant sea fight of the war, but one the most remarkable single ship actions in history. Finally, with the Bonhomme Richard's hold filled with 4 to 5 feet water, gaining despite the pumps, in a sinking condition; with all her guns out of action except 3 nine-pounders; with her hull holed in many places and decks all but shot away; with half of crew killed or wounded; including several officers; with fire raging in many places and fast approaching the magazines; with rudder and much of the rigging shot away, lying helpless to maneuver -- the Captain of the Serapis hailed Jones: "Do you surrender?" Captain Pearson immediately had his reply twofold over the roar of the battle as Jones and his men boarded the Serapis shouting his immortal words: "Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!".

William Prescott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Prescott :

Before the attack Gage, reconnoitering the works, saw Prescott walking on tile parapet, and asked Counselor Willard who he was, and if he would fight? The latter replied, "That is Colonel Prescott--he is an old soldier, and will fight as long as a drop of blood remains in his veins."

July 02 2015:

I made this. I have search the internet endlessly for something like this to no avail. Here is your very own tiny gif file of the flag from the movie Saving Private Ryan. If you are ever feeling low on the patriotic scale watch this and you will be lifted up like a Eagle.

Happy fourth of July this is my favorite patriotic post I ever posted. We will be having hotdogs with ketchup, mustard, relish, and coleslaw and potato salad. 100 percent good old fashioned American fourth of July food.

I combined Radman_Art pages VI and VII and cut this page in half so it will load faster from now on. You can see the other half of this page here: Radman_Art Blog Homepage Part I

I was happy to see the flags outside yesterday when I was out with my wife.

Who are my favorite veterans?

Well the first one that comes to mind is:

Clinton Romesha:

I posted this on February 11, 2013:

David Jackson, USA TODAY3:49p.m. EST February 11, 2013: Clinton Romesha led a battle to defend a U.S. outpost in rural Afghanistan in 2009. President Obama awarded the nation's highest military honor Monday to a U.S. soldier who led a counterattack in Afghanistan after he and his comrades were asked to "defend the indefensible." Clinton Romesha, a former Army staff sergeant, earned the Medal of Honor for leading the defense of a plywood-and-concrete outpost dangerously placed in a valley of the Afghanistan mountains, and staffed by only 53 American troops. More than 300 Taliban fighters attacked Combat Outpost Keating from above on Oct. 3, 2009. Throughout a day-long firefight, Romesha led efforts to beat back the Taliban after some of its fighters penetrated the camp. The outpost "sat at the bottom of a steep valley," Obama said, and a later investigation determined that the surrounding mountain terrain "gave ideal cover for insurgents to attack." That investigation also found that Camp Outpost Keating "was tactically indefensible," Obama said. "But that's what these soldiers were asked to do, defend the indefensible." Eight soldiers died in the battle and 22 were wounded, including Romesha. CNN anchor Jake Tapper wrote about the attack in his book,The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. Romesha, 31, who sustained shrapnel words, cited the "loss of our battle buddies" in a statement to reporters after the Medal of Honor ceremony, saying he has "mixed emotions of both joy and sadness," and is "feeling conflicted with this medal I now wear." He added: "I accept this tremendous honor on behalf of all soldiers who have served with me that day. This award is for the eight soldiers that didn't make it and for the rest of the team that fought valiantly and magnificently that day. I will forever be humbled by their bravery, their commitment to service and their loyalty to one another." At the White House ceremony, Obama described Romesha as "a pretty humble guy" who was born in Lake City, Calif., a town of less than 100 people. Now retired from the military, Romesha works in the oil fields of North Dakota. This is not even the biggest event of Romesha's week, Obama joked, as he and his wife celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. In describing why Romesha deserves the Medal of Honor, Obama said he "gathered up his guys" after the Taliban invaded the outpost, "and they began to fight their way back -- storming one building and then another, pushing the enemy back, having to actually shoot up at the enemy in the mountains above." Amid fire and smoke, Obama said, "Clint stood in the doorway calling in airstrikes that shook the earth all around them." In saluting all of the Americans at Camp Outpost Keating, Obama repeated that one of the lessons "is that our troops should not -- ever -- be put in a position where they have to defend the indefensible." He added: "That's what these soldiers did for each other in sacrifice driven by pure love."

Then there is: Audie Leon Murphy:

(20 June 1925 – 28 May 1971) was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II, receiving every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. The 19-year-old Murphy received the Medal of Honor after single-handedly holding off an entire company of Germans for an hour at the Colmar Pocket in France in January 1945, then leading a successful counterattack while wounded and out of ammunition.

Murphy was born into a large sharecropper family in Hunt County, Texas. He grew up in Texas, around Farmersville, Greenville, and Celeste, where he attended elementary school.

Top ten Audie Murphy Movies, The Unforgiven, The Red Badge of Courage, To Hell and Back, Column South, No Name On The Bullet, Battle at Bloody Beach, The Duel at Silver Creek, Night Passage, Destry, The Cimarron Kid.

Then there is Patrick Henry:

In August 1775, Henry was commissioned as colonel of the 1st Virginia Regiment. At the outset of the Revolutionary War, Henry led militia against the Royal Governor Lord Dunmore in defense of some disputed gunpowder, an event known as the Gunpowder Incident.

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, he is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

Then there is Captain Joseph Wadsworth the guy that hid the charter oak document in the hollow oak tree in Hartford Connecticut my home state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_Oak

Check this out: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/media/abl/etext/Wadsworth/wadsworthcomplete2.html

"For over two centuries the name of Hartford has been linked with the Charter Oak. Every school boy has read of Captain Joseph Wadsworth and looked upon him as a genuine hero in homespun"

"Captain Joseph Wadsworth, says that he slept at that place in a hollow tree on the night that the Charter was taken from Andros."

The Charter Oak was an unusually large white oak tree growing, from around the 12th or 13th century until it fell during a storm in 1856, on what the English colonists named Wyllys Hyll, in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. According to tradition, Connecticut's Royal Charter of 1662 was hidden within the hollow of the tree to thwart its confiscation by the English governor-general. The oak became a symbol of American independence and is commemorated on the Connecticut State Quarter.

then there is Paul Revere:

Paul Revere December 21, 1734 O.S. – May 10, 1818 was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride".

Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year.

Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service culminated after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. Finally in 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels.

Then there is my dad who served in the United States Air force during the Vietnam Conflict: My dad was in the Air Force in Montana where he was stationed and where I was born.

Then there is my Grandfather, my wife's dad and her brother who is amazing and latter worked on advance weaponry for Pratt & Whitney.

And last but not least my favorite veteran ever; is my wife who served active duty in Killeen Texas in the early 1990's.

June 30 2015:

I found a song about when I wear my baseball cap; by my buddy from Connecticut, Chris Webby. I just do not relate to the whole song at all. Such is great music; it does not have to make sense. I do not relate to the lyrics about being medicated or drunk and so on... :

"Brim Low (Album: Chemically Imbalanced) Lyrics by: Chris Webby

If you see me while I’m out and got my hat down to my eyes

Brim low, that is like my “please do not disturb” sign

But I’ma keep my brim low

I’ma keep my brim low, I’ma keep my brim low
I’ma keep my brim low with my head up high
And I’ma keep my brim low"

Brim Low - Chris Webby - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihm8YSdLHLU

June 29 2015:

This is my finally cloud in this series. I may do another one I don't know. What is a series? Three or more pieces of art. Thanks Merry for teaching me that: A quote fro this page:

MERRY FUHRER: http://www.zhibit.org/merryfuhrer

http://www.creativeartscenter.org/instructors.html

MERRY FUHRER has taught drawing and painting to adults and children since 1997. Although she has worked with a variety of materials, she prefers the rich color possibilities of oils, acrylics, colored pencils, and oil pastels. Merry has exhibited in various juried and solo shows and has work in many private collections.

I took Merry's Class twice.

I was thinking of this song every time I drew a cloud. :

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Live, 1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg

I also like this Cloud Song:

The Rolling Stones - Get Off of My Cloud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlhPRuAve8k

Then there is this favorite of my mom's and me when I was 11 years old:

"I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee"

Carly Simon - You're So Vain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g

It is worth mentioning after I posted this I explained to my wife; that my mom only owned 1 album when I was 11. Only 1 album that I remember. It was the Carol King Album Tapestry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapestry_(album)

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Only one piece of art this week reverberated 6 times. :

This drawing took a long time I started it with rays from behind then ended up with this after erasing. I like it though.

I made this cloud with orange red and yellow lines in background; special. Find a special huge version; that would make great super high quality background for your technological device. It shines with infinitude devotion and unfathomable emotionalism.

Find it at the bottom of the page here: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

in·fin·i·tude :noun: infinitude: the state or quality of being infinite or having no limit.

"the infinitude of the universe"

un·fath·om·a·ble: incapable of being fully explored or understood. "her green eyes were dark with some unfathomable emotion" synonyms: inscrutable, incomprehensible, enigmatic, indecipherable, impenetrable, obscure, esoteric, mysterious, mystifying, deep, profound "unfathomable mysteries" (of water or a natural feature) impossible to measure the extent of.

e·mo·tion·al·ism : a tendency to regard things emotionally. undue indulgence in or display of emotion. as a research paradigm, refers to an approach to conducting research studies that provides a gateway to understanding people's experiences through the use of social inquiry methodologies such as ethnography. openness to emotion: a tendency to be easily swayed by the emotions display of emotion: an exaggerated or undue display of strong feelings

Here is a copy of my email to my mom today:

Mom:‎ I was listening to your so vain (the link from my blog that I found on Google.com) . hay, that was good music then. I can't understand anything about todays music.

Ha yep mom you have that right. There is allot of great music out there though, take heart in it. My favorite female is the Alabama Shakes. alabamashakes.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-3MIBxQTw www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5OX7CO26c

June 27 2015:

I could not sleep because I realized I got the dates wrong here I owned the Ninja from 2003 to 2008, I think I put 45,000 miles on it too. The bike was a 2003 I got it from Plano Kawasaki; it was used with 6,000 miles on it that same year I think around May of 2003. The guy that owned it took it all over America, he was allot older than me I think he was in his early 70's. I saw him in the Plano Kawasaki service center where I frequented for inspections wheel changes and occasional maintenance work. You have to understand although I was wild I was also always very cautious and tried my best never to offend other motorist. Also the roads where way less populated then they are now. Like I said I was a motorcyclist / stunt snow skier / ( freestyle / street / ramp / skateboarder / bicyclist ); since I was 12 years old.

I just want to make a correction I only popped wheelies at stop lights when I was the head of the pack at the busiest intersection I could find. I would only pull my most daring stunts when at least 40 people had their eyes on me. I was a bike stunt outlaw fame junkie. Same goes for my highway 75 tricks. I remember looking at this dude in a car with his mom driving, it looked like he just got him out of jail. I remember he was checking out my bike out so I did my kneeling on the gas take with hands spread out trick at 170 miles an hour. I could see his hands holding his head like his brain could not take what he just saw. I remember out running a hot car with two of the sexiest blonds with slinky dresses goggling at my sleeveless guns out getting a tan. So what. All I cared about was flying seemingly levitating at least 180 to 220 miles and hour at least twice on a trip back and forth from Plano. Ask anyone that drove back and forth from 2003 to 2008 if they remember seeing my neon green bike with my Halo ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(series) ) type full regalia totally disguising me in bad green mesh and black leather. I even wore the Italian style knee high racing boots, in case I leaned to much: which I always did. My HJC helmet had a fire mufti color design with lots of lime green. Then one day I just plain old fashioned ran out of money. It took at least 2,000 a year to keep it up to specks and safe. Tires alone twice a year took 1,200.00. I put about 50,000 mile on it in 7 years.

My Ninja got me through it all free as a bird. I even wrote a poem about that bike. From my Little Little Radman_Art History page:

My Green Dream

Green Ninja Song In The Wind

If I should peer outside my back door

I am filled with joy

just a glimpse of the beauty of nature

fills my being with strength

on my motorcycle, my lady

any motorcycle is my woman

I love her, I hug her, I squeeze her.

We ride, we've seen so much

we've seen the sky light at dusk

bright light blue 2933, 2933

show me the way 2933

The big moon's, the bright sun

shimmering clouds, my motorcycle & me.

All the beauty I need to see

rushing all at me

pushing green air at me

Beauty, flying through beauty

I ride, I fly through my mother nature

suspended in beauty, in air so green

on a cloud so soft, I am a loft

cars move like chess pieces

Don't bite me for passing you

Big Beast like cars and trucks

Just let me pass not jealousy

Don't be jealous, let me fly for you

pretend your me then you will see

pretend you are free

flying at full speed

be me when you feel jealousy

The dancing wind,

tires grip like spider

stick here or there

sticky green sk8board

sk8ting on asphalt

I am sk8ting and that's all

I am a true street fighter, free

free flying, looking out, looking left

I see that, I saw that, I read that

Why, I ask why, look at the sky

I see beauty and I trust

True beauty not lies

The lying beauty is not

I trust beauty , Don't you, I do

I trust the sky, the trees, the birds

How can I be sad

In the state of free

Life's worries, Life's woe, Life's tow

Towed on a breeze, tow till I free

Tow me at 0 degrees at speeds

I'll lead, lead to freedom, lead me free

I'm laying down and floating on air

I'm relaxed into the circle turns

Don't lean over, I have learned

Just be natural, let her lead you

The green machine

let my bike speak to me, tell me

Now we are one, Neon green all one

nothing we can not do that all can't

Strong me and her, stronger than all else.

I was married on a mountain called Big Bear

I was safe with my friend the California the bear

so I stay warm, and strong, and free

Here in pretty McKinney

To be me this is who I want to be,

with my green lady, eyes of jade

My green lady and me

exactly what we want to be

to be me, with my green lady

Just naturally, naturally free

also from Little Radman_Art History page:

I was on my Ninja just getting on the highway and I meet up with two sport bikes. I have had my Ninja for 3 years now and I will tell you this has never happened before. These bike where nice a brand new GSX and a new Ninja. These dudes where not together either. We zoomed down the highway weaving and whizzing in ways only a sport bike can. One dude exited and me and the GSX rode about half way to my destination. As I exited to a inter change I gave aces high to the GSX. This actually happened more once I met this dudes and his wife at a gas station and ended up at the Garland Sonic. If you had a sport bike and were any where on 75 most likely you would round up and head down to the Sonic.

Many times I would meet up with kind strangers and ride down to Sonic in Garland on Thursday nights; where I never saw and probable never will see more sport bikes than most people have never seen. 2 times all different dudes were waiting out by my bike when I got out of class at CCCCD and we road down to that sport bike Thursday night non stop party. Those were some wild Texas times fore sure.

7 years I ruled 75 on my 2003 Ninja 1200 from Plano to McKinney 2003 to 2008. I was just a good wholesome all American dude having good clean fun flying through traffic at speeds well in excess of a hundred miles a hour 80 percent of the times. I always respected the police and was on the look out constantly. My favorite thing would be to wave to a police bike office on duty and get a wave back. I was racing a supped up Jeep one time into McKinney late at night and the police in hiding on the service road flashed me, I slowed immediately and that was it, they let me go. Police love bikes like they love the adrenaline rush of being a police officer. I would only pop wheelies when they just happened; like bursting from a stop light. My bike was build for speed. I would like to catch air on familiar country roads I frequented. It is hard to look at the speedometer when you are going fast but I remember one time racing a supercharged Kawasaki 1200 (not a ninja) I saw it read 230 miles a hour. That was a fast bike and almost had me. I prided myself on leaning into a turn so sometimes my foot peg hit the pavement. That is how I got into my wreck that shredded right through my bike glove and took part of my palm off like butter. I always wore full safety gear cause it look so cool. My favorite trick was getting up to 160 miles a hour and kneeling on my gas tank with my hands out like Jesus on 75. I raced every kind of supped up car you can imagine from Porches to Dodge Vipers to those crazy Mustangs with stuff growling in there engines that were totally unnatural. They love their mustangs around here. Those new Corvettes were amazing too. I beat ever car I ever raced. To see a car take off is something I will never forget about my bike. It is almost like the movies it does something unnatural to the air to move something that big so hyper fast. The other sport bikers were something else. Most sport bikes had trouble keeping up with me as far as speed went. I even can say that about a big pack of bikes that followed me from Garland to McKinney one time I kept loosing them and had to slow down so they could catch up. Plano and close to that was my home stretch but those Dallas dudes ruled Dallas highways and made me feel like a beginner. I raced some bikes going into Sherman one time and I could not believe what I saw; they went so fast ahead of me I had to back down. Those North Texas country dudes rule sport bikes. So I hope your all happy I opened up about some of the sport bike stuff I did back then; for the 1st time on the internet. It was so much I will never regret it. If I had not had that big 250 Honda in my early teens I would have not lived to talk about it. From my Little Radman_Art History page: I am a motorcyclist and have been on and off since I was 12 years old. I was 12 years old doing jumps with my big Honda 250 street bike in Cockaponset State Forest where I lived in Killingworth Connecticut.

And my 1981 Honda Shadow in California. From my Little Radman_Art History page:

OK, more about my wife and I. I had 2 cars when I met her one was a Mustang 2, it was nice and in real good condition even though it was a 1970’s car. But when I met her I had a One Ton Ford, custom van. It had rust on the bottom but it was nice. It had hard wood floors and velvet cushioning. When we moved into the new place I got a cheap motorcycle like a 400 I think. It had straight pipes so it was load. It was a Honda and it was shiny and neat looking. Then there was this dude in Meriden, a older guy that fixed up bikes, he had this Early model 500 cc Honda Shadow, I loved that bike and still think they look nice. I wish they made bikes like that. I would take that thing out allot and took my wife every where on it. I even took her to where I used to ride my 250 Honda when I was a kid in Cacaponsit State Forest. Just looked it up on wikipedia.org, this bike was so nice they would customize it into a chopper, Yamaha and Kawasaki had similar models and even Ducati had a nice model like this, in the 1980’s. One time I had that bike out on a sunny day with the walkman on full blast I popped the best wheelie of my life at the stop light. That bike went straight up I road it out and made a nice light landing. Like I said when I met my wife I told her I wanted to move to California for a while and was determined to do it. So the idea was to put the motorcycle in the van so we would have two modes of transpiration in California.

Here are some photos I took a nice crisp winter day in January of 2007:

I own this magazine. That is my bike on the left.

Run this plate if you want. I can post the bill of sale and receipt when I sold it. I had trouble selling it to
Southwest Superbikes because it had such a unusually high amount of millage; I put on it.

Updated my May 2015 for all my brothers and sisters and new friends forever.

Also I want to brag about this guy; he is amazing! I am 3rd generation South East Sicilian both sides of my family from Connecticut and before that my family's family were settling there when Middletown was a thriving shipping port. I think this guy might actually be Italian too. He loves to rap about how great Connecticut is. I have never bad mouthed Connecticut. I have always said all the wonder that lies just outside of New York City. Maybe it is because so many famous and super intelligent people that live there. Maybe it is the unreal and stupendous summers and autumns; the and the crisp clean air in the winters or maybe it is because Connecticut is just plain great. I will always miss her like I missed my mom when I left home for the first time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Webby

Christian Webster (born October 13, 1988), better known by his stage name Chris Webby, is an American rapper from Norwalk, Connecticut. Chris Webby has released many mixtapes such as the DJ Drama-hosted Bars On Me (2012) and his EP There Goes the Neighborhood (2011), which peaked at number 101 on the Billboard 200. He has worked with various artists such as Freeway, Mac Miller, Joell Ortiz, Big K.R.I.T., Method Man, Prodigy, Bun B, Wiz Khalfia, and Kid Ink. In 2013 he and his label Homegrown Music signed a deal with E1 Music. He then released Homegrown, another EP, in November 2012. Webster released his debut studio album Chemically Imbalanced on October 27, 2014.

On December 21, 2010, Webby released his fifth mixtape Best in the Burbs. The mixtape featured collaborations with Statik Selektah, Ski Beatz, and Big K.R.I.T. and has been downloaded over 100,000 times on DatPiff. It had even shut down DatPiff's servers due to the high amount of downloads upon its release, the first mixtape to do so.

I forgot to mention I am from old school Middletown in my post here: http://listentowebby.com/leave-a-message/comment-page-17/#comment-5029. I do not know too much about those fancy folks down in Norwalk, Connecticut. If Chris's family is Italian than I am sure we have very much in common concerning Connecticut life and growing up there. I am glad I could give him props though. "Radman_Art" in Google now rends About 442 results and that is the lowest I have seen. My blog has gotten 700 hits since April.

June 26 2015:

We got baby in 2003. We named her after the first cat we purchased who was a pure bread Persian show cat, in Connecticut. We went to the SPCA of Texas: https://www.spca.org/ and they had a bunch of cats it the glass and metal incased room. We both were looking lovingly at all the cats and kittens. Then a tiny black kitten jumped suddenly at us about 4 feet in the air, then she tried desperately to cling to the metal frame and failed. She fell down with a terrible cracking noise. After that she kind of shamefully hobbled back to the back corner blending into the other cats and fell asleep. My wife and I were totally flabbergasted by this and immediately decided that that was the cat we wanted. We took her home and she was so tiny I could hold her whole body in my two hands. I will never forget how much she ate. It was amazing. We have loved and adored Baby everyday of her life. She had been insisting on laying next to my wife and I recently; constantly. Then she stopped eating slowly. Then all my wife could do is give her a little milk once and a while. This lasted about two weeks, but I noticed slight changes in her diet and lessening discharge about a month and a half earlier.

Baby died at 12 years old that is 84 in cat years. She died quickly so we are glad she did not have to suffer at all. She was still our plump healthy looking cat when we found her hiding behind the door. She had the softest fur like a rabbit or a mink right up until she left us.

I uploaded a day in the life project from college we made of Baby doing what she did best; playing. She was a well fed healthy young cat in this great look at just how irresistible she was.

Here is the new link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimJrylQoGo

June 24 2015:

This sounds so cool! :

As cool as that sounds, there are some major limitations. Since it operates magnetically, it only can hover over a steel surface. And it also only works as long as the liquid nitrogen holds out.

The auto brand released pictures of the hoverboard floating above the ground, but no pictures of it in motion or with anyone standing on it. Durand says, however, it can support weight. Limitations aside, the hoverboard is sure to win fans -- maybe even sell a few cars.

"At Lexus, we constantly challenge ourselves and our partners to push the boundaries of what is possible," said Mark Templin, executive vice president for Lexus International, in a statement. "That determination, combined with our passion and expertise for design and innovation, is what led us to take on the Hoverboard project."Lexus says the board is being tested in Barcelona, Spain. It's the perfect example of the amazing things that can be achieved when you combine technology, design and imagination.

June 22 2015:

Not too much art this week or words. I did realize something this morning I wanted to share. I have never said I was sorry from something I posted on the internet. I just thought that was pretty good compare to the fact that if you combined all my emails and websites I have typed at least half of the size of War and peace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace :

Pages 1,225 (first published edition)

Love means never having to say you're sorry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_means_never_having_to_say_you're_sorry

In a 2004 episode of The Simpsons ("Catch 'Em If You Can"), the Simpson family watches the film, and Lisa retorts, "No it doesn't!" The line has also been parodied countless times, usually substituting another word or phrase for "love" and/or "you're sorry," especially the latter.

I saw these guys playing live in London in Hard Rock Calling 2013. It was the band that played this song : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That's_Entertainment_(The_Jam_song)

"That's Entertainment" is a 1980 song by British punk-mod revivalist group The Jam from their fifth album, Sound Affects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jam I forgot about that song and now I am reminded by Paul Weller who older than me now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weller

More art therapy for me:

June 15 2015:

You have to see this it is absolutely hilarious! I saw it on Palladia.

Joywave - Somebody New (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9ppY7u6Ug

I figured out why Palladia is so great. They do what MTV should have done from the beginning instead of killing rock and roll in 1981 "video killed the radio star". The radio star was rock and roll.

Don't worry MTV I still like you. I remember in the early 1980's a day well spent was a day filled with cheeseburgers and MTV. I remember turning the channel out of desperation to MTV while my dad the police officer (my friends called him the general) rolled his eyes and looked like he was watching the mentally challenged television station. I would only do this on his day off and he was in control of the den. It would last about 20 minutes until I had to give him the remote. Most of that time it was hard to hear the music because of his sighs that would just keep getting loader.

Buggles - Video killed the radio star 1979 - YouTube Buggles were really amazing and way, way ahead of their time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

The song's music video was written, directed, and edited by Russell Mulcahy, and is well-remembered as the first music video shown on MTV in the United States at 12:01am on 1 August 1981, and the first video shown on MTV Classic in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2010.

Palladia makes rock and roll look great!

I saw this video when it first came out on the MTV Subterranean (TV series) at around midnight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_(TV_series)

Subterranean was a weekly music show on MTV2 dedicated to alternative, indie, and underground music and artists. The show was made as the modern-day continuation of MTV's 120 Minutes. The show was hosted by MTV2 VJ Jim Shearer from its debut in 2003 to 2007. It continued without a host and with sporadic guest appearances by bands from 2007 to 2011.

Old Crow Medicine Show - Wagon Wheel [Official Music Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gX1EP6mG-E

Old Crow Medicine Show are so unique I have nothing to compare to them.

Now to the new art:

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html Check out the giant storm cloud on the page, lol. :)

Thee art:

Two pieces of art this week. :

Have you ever seen a Texas wild flower like this pink one? Every once and a while we
find flowers growing here that must be very rare.

I only did 2 cutesy art pieces for two reasons. One my stylus broke last about a week and a half ago. It took me a week to get a new one. The second reason is I am having a very hard time adjusting to the new stylus. It was such a good price I am trying very hard to make it work. Then again maybe I damaged my screen from the broken stylus deteriorating on my screen. I may have to dumb my art down or what ever it takes. I am still having fun no matter what and that is all that counts. There are those flowers I picked for my love June 5, 2015; again. The storm cloud was kind of therapeutic since the storms hit our homeland, so bad. I even made a little animation out of my nightmare cloud, because I can. The mech is from some sketches I did in the tax office waiting room about 6 years ago. I remember back then being electric with art in my soul. I am like that now from all this regimented art. I knew I would be when I made my New Years resolution. Put a writing instrument in my hand and look out, some magic will come out. When I drew the mech 6 years ago, just like that, the first thing that popped in my head. I looked at it like, I just did that? I am like that now. I drew a cardinal for the last service person that was here on a business card and it amazed me like that mech. I have the spooky power now. It is like a flow. Like when a pro sports player practices all their life to get really good at something and they work their magic for the fans. I do not care if I do what I do just for my wife and I right now, that’s how it is.

added to May 2015 page:

I want to thank Chris Becherer of Tree Service Solutions of Anna Texas: for saving my paintings from our giant red oak falling on them. His climbing dude, was heroic in his efforts; crawling around on a dead tree, 50 feet in the air. His price was not that bad compared to a tree guy I talked to out of McKinney who would not even haul it out for more money.

Check him out at: http://treeservicesolutions.com/

June 14 2015:

I want to correct my post from June 9 2015. I like Mumford & Son don't get me wrong. They are definitely the ones to watch. I am watching the show again on Palladia right now and the song that blew me away was a new song by my favorite Blue Grass band Old Crow Medicine Show. I have loved Blue Grass since my early teens and would listen to the Wesleyan College radio every Saturday morning. I even had a friend in a Blue Grass band, I used to work out with at the YMCA in the mid 1980's. Long Live Old Crow Medicine Show. http://www.crowmedicine.com/

June 13 2015:

I am having to adjust to a new stylus. My last stylus broke. I wore it down. This one I have now; has replicable tips. I highly recommend a replaceable tip compatible stylus. I will be keeping a close eye on the tip now to avoid damaging my screen. It is not fancy but it is supposed to be more precise. I did find out how to make your own stylus if anyone wants to try it. : http://www.instructables.com/id/Touchscreen-stylus-2/step4/Add-the-Q-tip/

June 10 2015:

I updated my May 2015 Page this morning prompted by a email I sent my mom this morning. here: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_41.html

I also fixed some typos I made from yesterday's post. The latter in the day it is, the more I tend to make sleepy head; mistakes typing. I have come a long way since 2001. It still has me scratching my head how I could type things I do from time to time. I mean it is one thing to misspell a word and another to not make sense in a entire paragraph. I suppose it is a little comical. I am not a very good typist and my fat fingers make it even worse. I am really bad with our Coolpad https://krogeriwireless.com/shop/smartphones/coolpad-arise I call people I did not mean to call more often than I care to admit, wrong numbers can be a problem too. I wish the text option could be made bigger too for my fat clumsy fingers.

I promised the makers of Orange Crush I would mention them here because I bought a water enhancer they made and it broke on me. When these things break it is imposable to use them. I am so into water enhancers lately. I love the orange flavored ones especially. I have loved orange aid type drinks since I was a little boy. It would be the highlight of going out to eat with my family. The Orange Crush flavor if made real sweet will remind you of being a kid again, if you are as old as me. They were nice enough top send me free coupons for their powdered version of this great product. It tastes really good in a 20 oz. water like when I was youngster. http://www.jelsert.com/Products/Beverages/crush.aspx They make many other of my childhood favorite drinks as well like Hawaiian Punch too.

June 9 2015:

this is a invitation card from my Art Bar show

One more thing about Palladia. I was thinking about how someone could come up with the idea to create this channel on Dish Network. I realized that I thought of it years ago. You all know how I love to search for music on YouTube, I realized how amazed I have always have been: when I search for music on YouTube I find all these recent results of video recording of bands I like. It makes perfect sense to me to have a channel dedicated to this. I am still amazed that Palladia's logo is a butterfly and my art as of late is butterfly art. Good to see Kings of Leon is still going strong on Palladia. I picked their 1st 2 most popular cd's; Youth & Young Manhood (2003) and Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004) to be background music for my 1st art show at the Art Bar in Deep Ellum http://deepellumtexas.com/ in 2005. It pains me to think I never was able to buy copies of the newspapers that announced the show. I have 5 copies of all the newspapers that mentioned my art. Yes I sent a copy to my mother.

The painting of the sun and the earth (that I mention in my last painting) I hung actual has the exact measurement of the earth from the sun. It is amazing how things fall into place when I am hanging art. It is almost like a art form hanging art. I have fill the entire room now. I still have about 20 small paintings I still have to ad. I took the sun and earth painting out of a pile of paintings I stored away for over 10 years about 6 days ago. Yes it glows in the dark too. All the stars and the yellow like color glow in the dark. I never thought I would be rehanging these paintings over my more detailed work.

Palladia is so cool! I just let it play for hours till my wife and I the other day said together; no more. No more great music, too much.

It just appeared on Dish Network last Friday. Love it, And they even have a butterfly as their logo. :

Palladia is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by the MTV Networks Music & Logo Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. The channel, which broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format, broadcasts music-related programming from Viacom-owned networks MTV, VH1, VH1 Classic and CMT.

Just found about Mumford & Son , I think unless: I have liked them before, they seem too good for me not to have known about them before:

Mumford & Sons are an English rock band from London, England, formed in 2007. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, drums), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboard, piano, synthesizer), Winston Marshall (vocals, electric guitar, banjo) and Ted Dwane (vocals, bass guitar, double bass).

Mumford & Sons have released three studio albums: Sigh No More (2009), Babel[1] (2012) and Wilder Mind (2015). Sigh No More peaked at number two on the UK Albums Chart and the Billboard 200 in the US, with Babel and Wilder Mind both debuting at number one in the UK and US, the former becoming the fastest-selling rock album of the decade and leading to a headline performance at Glastonbury Festival in 2013. The band have also issued two live albums: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire (2011) and The Road to Red Rocks (2012).

The band have won a number of music awards throughout their career, with Sigh No More earning the band the Brit Award for Best British Album in 2011 and six overall Grammy Award nominations. The live performance at the 2011 Grammy ceremony with Bob Dylan and The Avett Brothers led to a surge in popularity for the band in America. The band received eight total Grammy nominations for Babel and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The band also won the Brit Award for Best British Group in 2013.

Another southern rock band from Europe. I commented on this type of thing before on this blog. See October 30 2014 on this page: Radman_Art Blog Homepage Part I If only the real south could cause this much commotion.

It seems so pretentious that if I do not have every form of information there is at my finger tips. Never the less it is a absolute fact that the internet is as much a part of our lives as the telephone and the television.

Resized and moved big art over too: Special Gift Background For You

I do not need to remind you that the original art I create is a average of about 15mb and makes my big art here on this blog seem minute at best.

June 8 2015:

Just added May 2015 and Special Gift Background For You officially.

Unreal. I'm exhausted. It has been a month to remember that is for sure. I have had so many service people here fixing stuff; super fast, I do not remember them all.

I am still working the dinning room art display and may update that here.

I am going to just skip to the art this update. No encyclopedia of radical rad words this time.

The progress.

Completed.

I picked these flowers for my wife last Friday morning after I finished
mowing the lawn of Jurassic size grass. In the background is my glow in
the dark painting of the sun and the earth I did around 2003.

June 4 2015:

I spent 9 hours hanging all new art in my dinning room yesterday and. I only picked my best art with the most color; something I'm famous for. I took all my paintings down from the dinning room 20 days ago, because the tree was threatening that part of the house. Thanks to the tree removers we do not have to worry about that.

I will be updating my internet more often now. I will still be adding art Mondays only.

I would like to thank Juan Pena for fixing our roof. He was recommended to us by our insurance agent. All the workers got free art from me. I have a rule that every service person that comes to my house gets free art work. As far as I remember I have always kept to that rule. The dry wall dudes were awesome. The one dude with a beard like I used to have: had a tattoo of one of my favorite death metal bands: Death. He was wearing a sleeveless shirt on this past Tuesday and I noticed the tattoo and went into my happy mode. His coworker also liked metal too.

So, thank you Juan Pena for saving our house from falling apart. If you need a good contractor I recommend this company:

D. 1 Contracting LLC

Providing Commercial and Residential Contracting Services Throughout Texas

June 1 2015:

I added a Venom nose cover to the gas mask of the art piece 03 Radman_art War Mask 6 1 2015 yesterday morning May 31, 2015. The image is from the album:

Metal Black: Released 27 March 2006

Ratings:

About.com 4/5 stars

AllMusic 3.5/5 stars
Blabbermouth.net 8/10

Metal Black is the eleventh studio album by heavy metal band Venom. It was released in 2006 through Castle/Sanctuary. It is the last to feature Mykvs on guitar. The name of the album is a play on their 1982 album Black Metal, one of the band's best known LPs.

Venom is the greatest band no one has no idea ever existed since 1979 and they are still making great music to this day. That equals almost 40 years of great godd old fashioned rock and roll. I did not know about them until I saw a documentary where they argued who invented the name Black Metal about a few years ago:

“Venom are an English heavy metal band that formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne.[1] Coming to prominence towards the end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982)—are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general. Venom's second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of an extreme metal subgenre: black metal.” : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom_(band)#Discography

If the name Black Metal came from the great band Venom it would make me like the genre no less. I like to think Mayhem (born out of Mayhem; just like their name) invented the heart and soul of the genre though. They are the most hardcore metal band in the history of rock and roll. "Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed 1984 in Oslo, regarded as one of the pioneers of the Norwegian black metal scene.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayhem_(band) To think it took me my whole life to discover Venom; a band that played big arena venues when I was in my late teens. Why? The music buying public of our country judged them as weird or too extreme? I have been saying this since I first signed on to the internet; that all entertainment is the same, all it is does is entertain us, that’s it. It won’t make us a bad person or a good person, all it will do is entertain us. I think that is one of the reasons I like Black Metal music so much:

Black metal is an extreme subgenre and subculture of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, highly or heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.

During the 1980s, several thrash and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal. This so-called first wave included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. A second wave arose in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Immortal and Emperor. The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre. Norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles independently.

The most comedic example of the generations of people condemning music is from The Dewey Cox Story check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANaNkIrJxeM

Basically Black Metal music; is just music. I question any human on this planet that does not like some kind of music as at best to being mentally challenged. Music is vital to our existence and livelihood. With out music and art where and who would we be? It defines us and our generations here on earth. Why and for what reason anyone would consider one form of entertainment or artwork bad for you is a sure sign of closed mindedness. Being closed minded is rightfully considered a

mental disorder by the physiatrist community. :

“Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD): Beginning by early adulthood, people with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) display a persistent preoccupation with themes of order and control. Their perfectionism and focus on organization frequently interferes with their ability to complete tasks effectively or enjoy leisure pursuits. Peers might describe individuals with this disorder as inflexible, stubborn, or closed-minded. Other common features may include “workaholic” tendencies, hoarding, and unwillingness to delegate responsibility to others. OCPD differs from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) because it reflects a general personality style and does not involve specific obsessions or compulsions.”

http://albertellis.org/personality-disorders/

I have no idea how any true blue, red blooded, rock and roll fan of any kind can watch this live concert of Venom in 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MROyGsNszcw and not be blown away. Check out the awesome bass solo from lead singer: Conrad "Cronos" Lant, from that Awesome Venom concert in 1985 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN3JKXTj7gw

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Thee art:

Two pieces of art this week. :

I was so disappointed about not getting a decent sketch done the week before last week. What made it even worse is the only sketch I did was not even that good. The first thing I wanted to do this past week was make up for my lame black metal art attempt. I really like how my newer sketch came out and it was fun to make also. As I have said before on this page I really like drawing gas masks, circles are always cool and to have circles as the main attraction is even cooler.

The background on 03 Radman_art War Mask 6 1 2015 is from jpegs I got on Bing image search. The image is of some of my favorite bands logos. I would love to find a viable alternative to Google Image search, because when I put radman_art in google images, I get the lamest images I could find on the internet, I have posted. 95% of the images I have posted on the internet for the past 20 years are nothing short of totally awesome. I think the reason I am pessimistic and critical this week in my comments, is because my roof is still not fixed. Lol. My laugh is from the seemingly uncertainty, hopelessness and helplessness of having such damage on our dwelling place. Nevertheless I encourage us all in North Texas to be certain of confidence in the future.

On a more somber note I do feel bad for all my fellow Texans who has suffered so much from the terrible storms we have endured in May of 2015. Having suffered ourselves here in our home. Getting a small taste of what our fellow Texans have suffered from the harsh extreme large storm systems of Texas weather; makes us even more emotionally supportive of people around us. I wished and hoped the dense rains and storms would stop many times since our house was almost destroyed by the excessively strong winds of May 2015. Being a optimist from birth, seeing the silver lining of the drought of many years has come to a end here in North Texas is a comfort and a pat on the back in this time of woe, great sorrow and distress. I have written my representatives in hopes to encourage federal ad to us all here; having endured these trials and tribulations. I hope we all emerge victorious here in North Texas from this test of our patients and endurance.

“I think it’s safe to say that on a statewide basis this ended the drought,” says Ruben Solis, French’s surface water counterpart at the Texas State Water Development Board.

The background in 03_Radman_art_sun_dream_6_1_2015 is from a photo I took up the street around 2007. I drew this to please my wife. She loves the sunshiny, sweet, pretty art I do. It is like picking flowers for her. Just to see her smile it is worth it. I like butterflies too; so like horses, it works for both of us.

May 27 2015:

Updated :Damage From May 10 2015 Storms, Tornado, McKinney TX

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May 25 2015:

I made this last Easter. It is a small gif
file of the flag from the movie
Saving Private Ryan. Since it may rain today;
all us North Texans can celebrate inside,
watching this great patriotic move.

Happy Memorial Day.

I am going to repost what I posted last year (edited) on veterans day because it is perfect for memorial day as well:

from November 11 2014:

My favorite veterans of our country:

Audie Leon Murphy:

They had this awesome memorial to him in one of the PX's in Killeen Texas. I saw it when my wife was buying uniform stuff one time. It was very cool.

Murphy was born into a large sharecropper family in Hunt County, Texas. He grew up in Texas, around Farmersville, Greenville, and Celeste, where he attended elementary school.

Then there is Patrick Henry:

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention in 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, he is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. Among the delegates to the convention were future U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.

Then there is Captain Joseph Wadsworth the guy that hid the charter oak document in the hollow oak tree in Hartford Connecticut my home state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_Oak

Check this out: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/media/abl/etext/Wadsworth/wadsworthcomplete2.html

"For over two centuries the name of Hartford has been linked with the Charter Oak. Every school boy has read of Captain Joseph Wadsworth and looked upon him as a genuine hero in homespun"

"Captain Joseph Wadsworth, says that he slept at that place in a hollow tree on the night that the Charter was taken from Andros."

Then there is Paul Revere who had long hair like me:

Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year.

Then there is my dad who served in the United States Air force during the Vietnam Conflict:

This is where I was born, cool huh? High ranking Air Force doctors delivered me into this world. My mom has the paperwork and sent me a email on it. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmstrom_Air_Force_Base You could say I have the military in my blood.

Then there is my Grandfather, who worked for Pratt & Whitney.

February 25 2012:

Here is a photo of my grandmother and her two sisters. I quote from my words page:
I loved my grandfather, my dads dad. He was a tough as nails Sicilian man. He was so tough he came across to me as very mean, even though I know in his heart he loved me. The only reason I say that is because he was like a drill sergeant to me. You have to understand my father was a police officer and my grandfather being like a drill instructor always seemed to much to me. I believe it is the reason I am more disciplined at every thing I do. It is also the reason for the greatness in me. My grandfather was a Navy man from World War II. No one likes to be bossed around even though it was for my own good. I did not see that as a kid though. Now that I look back on it I understand. I have a hard time talking about all that because I get choked up. He loved me like a son. I felt more like his son than his grandson.

I hope you never have to hire a contractor like we have to for our roof. We found some cool advise on the internet though if you do:

Call the local Better Business Bureau and ask if there are any complaints on file against the contractor(s) you are thinking of hiring. A call to the local building department inquiring about their professionalism and courtesy may be revealing. Ask each contractor who his primary supplier of materials is, and then call that supplier.

A quick call to a local credit bureau is also a good idea. Ask how long the company has been in business. If you uncover any pending suits or liens, walk away. You don’t need the problems that can occur when a contractor is in litigation, like the sheriff arriving to impound the contractor’s tools—or your building supplies. It happens.

Other sources for references are banks and subcontractors. Ask the GC who he has dealt with and call them, too. The banks can tell you about his fiduciary responsibility and the subcontractors about how well organized he is.

Another word of caution: Treat your contractors, subs, and the other people you hire with appropriate respect. They’re not your employees, they are businesspeople from whom you are buying services. A modicum of courtesy and basic consideration will be rewarded. That goes for the men and women who work for them, too.

Hiring a Contractor

Without a doubt, hiring a contractor is the part of home remodeling that causes more fear and anxiety than any other phase. How do you know you've got a good contractor, someone you can trust to do a good job for a fair price and stand behind his or her work? Unfortunately, there are no guarantees. But if you do your homework, you improve the odds of getting a contractor you will be happy with.
General Contractor

A general contractor is the person you hire to oversee the entire job, whether it's new construction or a major remodel job. The contractor is responsible for managing all aspects of the job including purchasing the materials and hiring the sub-contractors (subs). Typically, you sign a contract with the contractor and make payments only to him. The contractor is then responsible for paying the subs and suppliers. When you have a contractor on the job, that is the person you go to with all your questions and comments about the work. The contractor in turn communicates your concerns to the subs.

It's common knowledge that you want to get at least three bids on your job. The question is, whom do you ask to bid on the job? Word-of-mouth referrals are best. Ask your friends, family, and neighbors for the names of contractors they've been happy with. The responses you get back may include large design/build companies you're familiar with and smaller companies you've never heard of. Don't rule out this last bunch? There are many good contractors you've never heard of because they prefer to get all their referrals by word-of-mouth.

Whether you get referrals from people you trust or end up blindly calling listings from the phone book, it's important to trust your instincts. Did the contractor return your call promptly and show up on time for your appointment? During the meeting, did the contractor answer questions to your satisfaction? Willingly provide references? Lay out his expectations for the job? Did you feel like you had good rapport with this person? This is important; communication is the most important aspect of the client/contractor relationship and you have to feel that you can speak directly and honestly with your contractor.

Bids and References

When you ask contractors to bid on your job, be sure and provide each one with an identical packet of information that includes plans and a list of materials. It's important that they all bid the same job, otherwise you will have no basis for comparison.

The bids you receive should be in writing and contain an itemized list of labor and materials charges. You want fixed bids, not time and materials bids, which have a way of escalating far beyond what you expected the job to cost. The bids you receive will tell you a lot about the people bidding. Was the bid ready when the contractor promised it? It's a bad sign if the contractor breaks his first commitment to you. Was the bid outrageously high? This contractor is busy and only wants the job if you're willing to pay a premium for his time. Was the bid really low? This contractor either doesn't understand the scope of the job or deliberately underbid to get the job and will likely discover several unexpected problems that are not covered in the original contract and will require additional cash outlay.

When you get references from a contractor, make every effort to not only call the contractor's references, but to go over and see the work for yourself. You never know, that happy client could have entirely different quality standards than you do. Before you sign a contract, you also want to check into how he conducts business. Check the credit history and bank references, verify that the contractor carries both worker's compensation and liability insurance, and make sure there are no complaints against the contractor filed with the local consumer affairs office, builders' association, or Better Business Bureau.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Thee art:

Only one piece of art this week. :

I did not feel like sketching this week because my wife had to change her days off. I usually have a time we can sit together in quit for many hours while I do my art every week. There I go blaming anything other than myself, something I always tell everyone not to do. I sketched a black metal sketch because it would have taken too long to do a horse.

I manipulated this one after I got done sketching it.

May 18 2015:

I hope all my fellow North Texans are being kind to one another. It may not have been a long cold winter but it has been a long rainy winter. Us local folk are used to being outside allot more than this past year. When ever you get a bunch of folks inside more than usual they get a bit more ornery than normal.

Yes sir; we had the storm of all storms. I am not going to talk about though because it is a bit of a downer and I do not want to be a downer. I will say this Flex Seal actually fixes leaks in a roof. You can buy Flex Seal in stores now. See http://www.flexshot.com/?tag=im|sm|go|tm : this stuff is amazing. I also want to say I would not know where I would be without the internet to discover such things as Flex Seal and storm activity though The Weather Channel. I do not know anything better when it comes to knowing the weather than: http://www.weather.com/. I remember about10 years ago sending email after email to The Weather Channel to complain about inconsistencies in there weather reporting; when I owned a motorcycle. They have come along way since then. They are far better than any television weather report or radar.

I was seriously into skateboarding back around 2006 when I used to skate Allen Skate park every once and a while, with my wife. The only way to see great sk8 videos back then was to buy them; I bought a whole bunch of really great sk8 videos on DVD, most of which I still own because you can not trade them in for more than 50 cents. I will go check my book shelf real quick and tell you may favorites:

There are others; but these are phenomenal to say the least! My wife saw them all with me. She really likes watching them. I taught her to street skate in California. She does not like hard core underground hip hop though. Hard core underground hip hop is another free speech thing to me and given the right frame of mind and I can not help but love it. It goes perfect with sk8ing, I know from wearing my Ipod to it till I fell on it so much I broke it. Breaking a Ipod is not easy to do, it took me many years. I still have it.

01 Yeah Right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeah_Right!

02 Baker 3 http://www.skatevideosite.com/skatevideos/baker-3/online

I own the tshirt too!

03 Pig Wood Slaughterhouse http://skateboarding.transworld.net/photos/pig-wood-islaughterhousei-premiere/

04 That's Life Flick DVD http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Life-Flick-Foundation-Skaters/dp/B0007M1G3G

I was searching for music videos of bands I like the other day and I got on to recent sk8 videos.

Here is my lest of the best sk8 videos from 2014 to 2015:

My wife remembered Danny Way better than me one time she told me something like he was a brat. I have this one memory of Danny one of the rare times I tried to Sk8 the big ramp at Mike McGill’s Sk8 Park. I was very religious then and everyone knew it there before; I moved to the central coast. The you young men would love to pick on me for my religious convictions back then. I remember being up on the big ramp and Danny and one of his buddies had a skateboard with cut out’s of women wearing bras and underwear glued to the bottom of his skateboard. They looked like they were from Sears Catalogue. They showed it to me because they thought it would make me angry. It actually made me laugh inside. Then I wasn’t skating the big ramp more than 20 minutes when one of Danny’s friends broke his collar bone. I stuck about till the ambulance came and called it a day. I know Danny was into making videos around the time of Yeah Right.

I also remember Danny beating Tony Hawk in a game or horse on the big ramp too, at Mike McGill’s Skate Park.

Best, Top, Top 10, DVD, Skateboard Videos of 2015 and 2014:

01:

Plan B - Plan B TRUE Video (2015) Is the best sk8 video I have seen since Yeah Right. http://www.planbskateboards.com/page/plan-b-true Produced by: Danny Way. Hey I remember trying to catch a barracuda back in the early 1980’s of the long Deerfield Beach pier. It bite right through my line like it was butter. Back then you could see to the bottom of 100 feet of the sea water in sunny south Florida. I still got 100’s of my Sicilian east coast family members living in south Florida and I would not go there if you paid me! Comeuppance; look it up; Florida, and don’t say I did not try to help you. Thee biggest street airs you can not deny it, SK8MAFIA. STEE got the style though.

02: SK8MAFIA. STEE : http://www.sk8mafia4life.com/stee-sweetmafia/

03: Transworld Outliers http://skateboarding.transworld.net/outliers/ I worked For Transworld in the late 1980’s. These are the kind of sk8ers that make the most difficult tricks look easy. I wish the audio did not reveal that they were sons. It would have been better in the credits. Like Tony says they are the best no matter who their fathers were.

Pasted from this page: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/little-radmanart-history.html :

I met my wife and for the first time I became focused. Around 1986, I started sending my artwork to skateboard companies in hopes of getting recognition. In 1987, I moved to California where I got a job working for Tracker Designs. Tracker Designs was at the time the largest skateboard company in the world, they published Transworld Skateboarding Magazine and the best trucks in the world. They invented OJ skateboard wheels. They sponsored Tony Hawk in the 1980's when only dudes like me knew who he was. Let me tell you this about Tony Hawk from the 1980's. He had a bowl ramp at his home allot of skaters I used to hang with went there. They used to say "That Tony Hawk he is so conceded, one time I cut out in front of him and he said don't you know I am the greatest skateboarded on earth?" You know what he was right. No one has done more for skateboarding than Tony has. In the 1980's while working for Tracker is when I went off the hook and did so much ding dang artwork. I mailed many copies to skateboard companies and originals. Tracker Put me on a contract and purchased a bunch of comics from me. I have a bunch from back then. It seemed like that is when I started doing really great stuff. To any artist to sell their work is a huge ego booster. I have been doing art like a machine since then. In 2005 I did over 100 rad paintings. Anyway if you talk to me for more than 5 minutes about my art I will mention 250 pages of really cool skateboard comics I have from back then. The past years have been ground breaking for me. I must have about 500 + pieces of art that I did since 1998 that can only be described as the top of it's genre, what ever that may be, and to my enemies or (envy)mies as I call them, I am a no body. I have seen envey many times in college. You work almost a year on a animation and you sit in class and some students refuse to watch it. Envey is awful thing. I want people to journey with me, to let me be their art instead of envey. To them I say I am the reason artist to day are not discovered I am the missing link. Without my recognition, there is no recognition. The quality of my art is on the rise. So stay tuned. I have 1500 + art and comics from 1988-now, that I want to entertain with. I plan to reveal all of these pieces to the www in the future. All 1500 + pieces of art I have saved all this time are frame worthy. I throw trashy scribbles in the trash. I have a small fraction of my art up on the web. When I lived in California I had moved there for the sk8ing as well as my passion for artwork. In the late 1980's Skateboarding was at a all time high and that is because I move from Connecticut to California than and got a job with Tracker Design the biggest skateboard company in the world. Tracker also owns Transworld Skateboarding (and snowboarding) Magazine. Clothing, equipment you name it. Also they where the Sponsor of Tony Hawk. Gleaming the cube came out I knew and had skated with almost every pro there was back then. I used to have free access to Mike McGuil's skatepark in Carlsbad, California. Mike did the stunts for Gleaming The Cube Movie and Police Academy. My whole life I seem to be surrounded by important people. I should have went to college out of high school, Yale or something in Connecticut or Boston. I was a rebellious kid though. I just wanted to have a good time. I am trying to make up for that now. It is never too late. Look at it this way, by some miracle I survive to be like some museum piece from the seventy's untouched. I give you the art of the seventy's with out any influence of college in the 1980's. I learned what I know by experience. I have been going to college for 4 years now (since 2001) with a A Average all paid for in cash by me. It is a struggle believe me. But I choose art my way and I hope the whole world will enjoy that someday. That will be the day. My love for art shines in every work of art I do. I can use any medium. Give me any art tool including a computer art and I will blow you away. It has taken years of hard work to arrive at this point. Now I am at a place and time in my life where I would like to get a job as a animator, comic artist or illustrator or anything where I will be developing cool art. One of my favorite teachers said I would make a great art director. College is intense and will take me to that job I want as a graphic artist. Before you go check out the art, and animation's I have created please note: if you are offended by movies like Harry Potter you should understand like Harry Potter and video games like Doom, my art is make believe, pretend meant only to entertain. Oh and I could say drugs are cool, to go along, the truth is I hate drugs and I do not even drink. If you label my art as drug related that is the type of prejudice that ruins lives and ambitions. If you say some one's art looks like it is drug related and they hate drugs, then you are saying they should hate their art. This is my push for all great artists, be a rock to this and forge forward (for you, not to please others) no matter what bigots think or say or use to oppress you with. I do not do comics or animation’s allot or hardly ever. The reason is I have to get paid to do this. When I do a painting I can hang it on my wall and it entertains me every day. It is like food for the eyes where ever I walk in my house. Also it inspires me to do more and better paintings. Comics and animation’s I have to go find then I watch or read it and then what? You can only watch or read something so many times before you are sick of it. Doing this site was a real moral booster to me. I promise you this if I where to start comics again they would be spectacular! I would like to do a modern art comic novel. If any of you all can help me by giving a good word or linking me to a site please do! I want more than any thing to publish the comics I already have. Of course I have all the original art if excellent condition. I always use fine quality paper and bristol board. I have been hanging out in art stores talking to people since the mid 1980's, that is how I got my education. Also around 1988 I attended the San Diego Comic Convention (the largest in the world) I spent the whole weekend there talking to all the venders and sitting with the artist's. That is when the Teenage Ninja Turtle came out and the actual artist drew me a picture for 1 dollar. As you can tell by the way I write I talk allot . I guarantee if you read my comics you will laugh. I would except for all the blood sweat and tears put into it. Good health and prosperity, friends.

04: Gold Wheels Presents Gold Goons http://skateboarding.transworld.net/tag/gold-wheels/

05: DGK - Blood Money: Great Hard Core Hip Hop music, hardcore sk8in.

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/dgks-blood-money-video/

06: Gypsy Life Cliché : http://clicheskate.com/gypsylife/

07: Bronze Hardware Bronze 56k Trust http://www.bronze.bigcartel.com/

08: Pig Wheels Cutlet http://www.pigwheels.com/2014/08/ If this is any where as good as Pig Wood Slaughterhouse (that I own) it is sure to be legendary.

I would not have ever moved to Southern California if it were not for the advice of the lady owner of ZPIG. I talk to her on the phone obsessively; from Connecticut, before we moved with our Chevy Van and Honda Shadow inside. I used to send ZPIG tons of free original art; back then in the mid to late 1980's.

I had a mini ZPIG board in the late 1980’s that was much like the modern boards of today.

Bring back ZPIG as the main distributor of skateboard hardware in California!

09: Emerica MADE Chapter One http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/emerica-made-chapter-one/

10: Dekline's "True Blue"

http://dekline.com/trueblue/

Also check out the 2012 Almost DVD http://www.almostskateboards.com/5-incher/ I still have my Daewon trucks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Mullen

(from Almost) Tensor Trucks and they are awesome. The best trucks out there. http://tensortrucks.com/ I believe light skateboards are the best sk8boards. I own Cheese and Crackers and it is amazing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Skateboards#2003.E2.80.932006:_Formation.2C_Round_Three.2C_Cheese_.26_Crackers

I was very sorry to hear about Marnell.

The video was Marnell's final appearance in an Almost production, as he died in January 2013 from a diabetes-related complication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiD_eZPjK7E

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Marnell

What ever happened to clear glowing urethane wheels? We used to have them in the late 1970's! Make those wheels glow and sparkle night or day!

The one thing I see wrong with sk8 videos today is the audio. The video is right on. The audio editing needs a total redo. It should be perfect to the beat. I have audio "officially accredited"; college training. I have 3 certificates in graphic design. Audio is the only coarse I got a higher grade than my wife. Please only hire; state or federally; accredited people.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone): http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Thee art:

Only one piece of art this week. :

I added this version with a background of a photo I took back in college, photo class in 2007; 04_stable_radman_art_may_18_2015. It was that time I was near Frisco off 121. There must have been 50 or more horses there that day. Someone told me they saw a bunch of horses out there. Oh the kindness of strangers, where would we be with out them.

I also added a bigger version of 05_stable_radman_art_may_18_2015 to:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html
because horizontal versions of my art on this page are too small.

May 15 2015:

Even though we should be thinking; no more rain. We refuse to think no more rain; no matter what.

Here is a link to a page I just published for now: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_41.html

May 11 2015:

I just want to remind anyone that reads my blog or any other place on the web concerning my art, that I have authored; that you will never read anything controversial. I only talk about happy sunshiny upbeat things. This blog is about art only. Even when I talk about food, I consider cooking and presenting food a art form. I do my best since the formation of the original Radman_Art in 2001 to only talk about art keeping everything on the positive side. Politics or anything like that does not have a place here or ever will.

We have been steaming cheese burgs again. It is a old favorite that originated in my hometown of Middletown Connecticut. I wrote a huge blog about it but lost it here on this blog.

http://www.orourkesmiddletown.com/ordereze/default.aspx :

Established in 1941

In 1941, Uncle John J. O'Rourke, a veteran of Jack's Lunch, purchased the old wooden Dunn's Diner. In 1946, he replaced the diner with a sparkling Mountain View diner to accommodate the growing crowds. When Uncle John retired in 1977, current owner Brian O’Rourke and his cousin, John Sweeney O'Rourke bought the diner. Brian's culinary talents emerged in the form of wonderful soups like Irish stew and roasted plum tomato. Brian bought out his cousin in 1985 to "take the diner to the next level." He currently uses his experiences from the kitchens of New Orleans, Barttra (Ireland), and the Caribbean to reinvent the omelet. This was the beginning of O'Rourke's Diner as we know it .

Sadly, on August 31, 2006, O'Rourke's Diner was decimated by fire. The community united and helped bring O'Rourke's Diner back. In February 2007, the doors were opened again!

O'Rourke's Diner was located right across the street of the Irish Catholic School. Saint Johns; the school me and my brother and sister grew up in. They were most definitely one of the first people to make steamed cheese burgers famous.

If you go to this page: http://www.ctmuseumquest.com/?page_id=12477

You will see the photo above of what I would see every day from Saint Johns. If you go down those steps there are trains running on tracks down there. My best friend Sean McMahon pulled me out of the way down there and saved my life from a train when I was about 11 years old. Read about what is said about steamed cheese burgers on this page. It proves what I told you; O'Rourke's Diner made the best ever.

I found a new way to make these at home: Put them in a big frying pan. Make some nice flat big ham burgs season both sides. Wrap the bottom of the burger high enough to keep out the water. Fill the pan with just enough water to steam them for about 15 minutes. Cover and cook. Juicy perfect burgers with all the fat cook off them. You will love them.

I was watching Reo Speedwagon on AXS at Soundstage I tried to find this on the internet but could not. All I know is it was awesome. I think it was last Tuesday.

I remember that time I skateboarded better than I have in my whole life. it was in Manchester Connecticut where I hung with a gang once and a while. The closest thing I ever came to a gang and it was awesome. Just a bunch of fun loving wild young people like me. We used to hang out at a park in back of the rooming house I lived at. That time winding down that steep street close to where I lived in this awesome rooming house. It was a rooming house and a office building combined with a great little kitchen. Connecticut has the coolest assortment of rooming houses in the world. I have personally lived in the most awesome rooming houses ever. When I met my wife I lived in a rooming house that had a wild bar under my room and a complete old-fashioned video arcade to the left under my room. I have even lived in secret rooming house that really did not exist, wink. I went back there years ago and asked if there was any rooms for rent and the owner said what rooming house? I bowed out like a true easterner from the big city. One thing you learn living in the big city on the east coast is that you must swallow your pride on a regular basis to survive and thrive. I was a king in my own right when came to be very cool. Something my fellow Texans would not survive. That is not a bad thing at all; it just means you have been spared something. I still love the country bumpkins around here. I just hope the city never sneaks up on us; that would be the end of Texas for sure. Texas is known for it’s wide open spaces and big country, take that away and it is not Texas anymore.

If I had a choice about what city Texas should build a city around: it would be the greatest city in Texas Austin Texas. There is no way you can visit there and not leave without a little good old fashioned southern hospitality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_hospitality

Conversation flows cheeringly, for the southern gentleman has a particular tact in making a guest happy. After dinner you are urged to pass the afternoon and night, and if you are a gentleman in manners and information, your host will be in reality highly gratified by your so doing.

Such is the character of southern hospitality.

Saw parts of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Are_Alright_(film)

On AXS. Never saw that movie. I remember seeing a billboard for that movie on one of my hitchhiking episodes in my late teens. Most of my teens I remember wanting to leave where I lived from Connecticut and the entire New England states. I always wanted to live in the south and be a free wheeling cowboy. I changed in my twenties as my love for my father (the strict police officer) grew along with the love of my homeland. I have always missed living in my rural home town as well as Killingworth, and the beaches and the skiing and beautiful summers and falls. I especially have always missed the early fall in Connecticut, it was magnificent. The foliage here has always seemed like plastic compared to New England in the early fall especially. The countryside here is tough and made for the tough to enjoy. We all have toughness in us somewhere and that is satisfied here more than you will ever want.

I owned the cassette tape You Get What You Play For is a live by: Reo Speedwagon back in the early 1980’s when I lived in the party town of Manchester Connecticut. This in my opinion is thee best Reo Speedwagon album:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live:_You_Get_What_You_Play_For :

Live: You Get What You Play For is a live album by rock band REO Speedwagon, released as a double-LP in 1977 (and years later as a single CD). It was recorded at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas, the Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kiel Auditorium in Saint Louis, Missouri and Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia. It peaked at number #72 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1977. The song "Ridin' the Storm Out" reached #94 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The album went platinum on December 14, 1978.

I lived on my skateboard those days. I think I skated that hill about 3 or 4 times. never want to hang out too much in the east in the same spot. I was one of the first ones to own a walkman cassette player on the east coast, I swear. I was the only one I saw listening to them in public in huge crowds of people. Back east back then I was in huge crowds of people everyday. I had a Toshiba. They were nice back then; polished metal and all the lights and options. I am sure I traded them in for new ones at the record shops. I am still amazed when I think back on how great those personal cassette player sounded.

The one song that has always stands out on that REO cassette was "157 Riverside Avenue" the second to last song on the album, side 3; where the guitar talked.

Thee best song REO Speedwagon ever made and only good live!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/157_Riverside_Avenue :

"157 Riverside Avenue" is a song by REO Speedwagon from their first album, REO Speedwagon, released in 1971. It was written by all five band members at the time, Terry Luttrell, Gary Richrath, Gregg Philbin, Neal Doughty, and Alan Gratzer. The title refers to the Westport, Connecticut address where the band stayed while recording that album.

The song is a standard at the band's live performances, as it has been for many years. Where the original studio version clocked in at only 3:57, live performances include a bass solo in addition to the song's piano and guitar solos, and an extended interlude where lead vocalist Kevin Cronin tells a story that leads up to a "conversation" between him and lead guitarist Gary Richrath (later Dave Amato) where the guitarist's side consists of guitar solos while Kevin's side is scat vocals.

“The version of the song on Live: You Get What You Play For is 7:38 in length. An even longer version (12:22) was included on the compilation album A Decade of Rock and Roll: 1970-1980, and a third live version (with Amato) appears on Arch Allies: Live at Riverport.”

longer version (12:22) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03HN2wAQH5w

Live video! : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEmKHD40ZxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8zb851LoI

Imagine grinding those urethane wheels on that skateboard clinging to the hot, steep, summer road in the prime of your life, rocking out to this on cassette at full blast. I just kept going down and walking up that street all day in Manchester, Connecticut. Memories like that make me feel special for sure.

The exact version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqvf6wFfdV8

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Thee art:

Only one piece of art this week. :

I added this version with a background of a photo I took back in college, photo class in 2007; 04_Radman_art_greeting_05_11_2015. It was that time I was near Frisco off 121. There must have been 50 or more horses there that day. Someone told me they saw a bunch of horses out there. Oh the kindness of strangers, where would we be with out them.

Thee art:

2015 My New Years Resolution is as follows: I pledge to have at least 1 new sketch (not more than 1 week old) I have done with my stylus here once a week. It will be a cropped, way shrunk down, copy of the original tiff files, that I like the best, with the title in the name of the file: These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that: Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file, I will no longer be adding the day I have done each piece of digital art. Instead I will number them number 01 being the most recent I did that week. :

Only one piece of art this week. :

May 04 2015:

Check out my new YouTube I just uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4b9znFMDuY

My YouTube videos are getting a lot of hits still. https://www.youtube.com/user/RadmanArt2012

Well I finally found me on NBC Cannel 5 Dallas News. The fire took place on January 29 2008. I had to point the camera at the computer screen then edit it together. If it sticks in places it is because it was pieced together. When I made this video I new what I was doing and still in college. http://www.nbcdfw.com/ Most of this news story is of the fire behind my house. Randy was standing behind my house on the neighbors land where the fire started. I did not know who he was and just started talking to everyone there like I always do. He heard me talk about trash burning and must have liked it and did the interview, This dude was huge like a football player. At the time and I was heavy set myself and I am not exactly short; and had to look up at him. It was so weird having him and the camera guy in my house. The dude at the Kawasaki shop said he freaked out when he saw me on TV the next day. My beard was absolutely hilarious; you can not see my mouth move. I still wear my Dallas Cowboy hoody. The fire marshal is in the footage. He is a good dude. He pulled me over one time for driving too close to his car. We pulled into McKinney motor pool. I started pointing at him, he said; don’t point at me. Little did he know I had contact with him and his staff many times, the unknown hero that I am. I will paste the fir story from below again here on this page to comemerate me putting this on my YouTube account for the first time.

From March 02 2015 blog entry:

I remember when there was a fire that started behind my house I realized that it would be impossible for me to move all my art out of the house in time.

I quote my old my old Radman_art web site:

Here is a link for you to go see the Television footage for yourself. It is from the local (NBC Universal) television station out of Dallas, Texas. Here is the link:

http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=211612 (this link does not work but I am sure they have it archived. I have a video of it myself somewhere.

I wrote a story about the fire that almost took my house and my art. You can find this story on my words page. on this page Little Radman_Art History :

Do you know what that is like to live your life day after day, year after year in selflessness, I have a heckler in my class right now. She said one time your interview was all about public relations. I feel like saying to her, next time you have a huge fire almost engulf your home you come talk to me then. I thought about her sarcastic remarks, and then I remembered the incident from the start. As soon as I realized the fire was threatening my home I began to load stuff in my car. You can see my car on camera in the interview near my front gate. On one of my trips to my car one of my trips to the car the first person I spoke to was the Fire marshal himself. He is the guy in the footage of the Collin County command post. He is the grey haired man on the walky talky. He is a ok guy, I have spoke to him on the phone about many things like the trash burning before. As soon as I saw him I complained about the trash burning. That combined with the fact that the NBC interview almost sounds like I single handedly inspired the trash burn. This should prove to any one that I was selfless in my actions. Yes I wanted people to know I was a artist and all my art in my house might parish in the fire. I wanted to give the fire fighters incentive. I wanted to give all the good people that were there incentive. Take a good look at my art for the past 3 - 4 years. I have been doing exclusively western art that is it. I would not mind going off in any direction I pleased with my art. After all I make no money off my art and have never made any money from my web site, ever. I easily spend 40 hours a week painting. If you consider that I am either paining or working out my next painting session in my head, you could say I am doing my art constantly. Every thing I do is selfless. My life is selfless. Even when I do things for myself it is also for many, many other people at the same time. It is jealousness. People see how zealous I am about my art and they are jealous. They want to be like that, but can not. If they would open there eyes and see that I am not only talking about my art, but art in general. They would see I am promoting their art too, and all art. Isn’t it funny how sometimes the very people you are helping are the ones who put you down the most. Sometimes I think people are how they are depicted in the Simpson’s series. I’m trying to be funny. I have to ether laugh or look on the bright side.

Yes I have been complaining about the burning of trash in my neighborhood for years. I hope this news broadcast clears the air on that subject for good. It sure was cool being on Television, even though for me and mine, it was out of a day of heart ache and pain. To all you who are fans of Radman_Art you can call (NBC Universal) channel 5, for the Tape or DVD of that news broadcast of January 29, 2008 at 10:10PM.

We had a fire today 01 29 08 the day after my twentieth wedding anniversary to my wife. My wife could barley get home because of all the fire trucks. The fire started in the back of the house. About a fifth of a mile away it started and was headed towards our house. It shot across a field of grass very quickly. About 12:45PM The electricity went on and off and then completely off. I was angry about it and sat down and turned my game boy on and turned the volume way up. My boy dog, the black one, was trying to warn me that something was wrong outside. I tried to ignore it as much as I could. My mind was on my wife and the dinner she was buying us to celebrate our anniversary. I was hoping she would call me so I could tell her not to buy any food since the power was off. I told her to call me if she had any questions about the painting to be mailed to my step mom for her birthday. Finally I gave in to my dog and opened up my back door. I opened and shut the door many times. I could not believe what I saw. I had to stop and think about it. I looked out of other windows in the house and saw smoke. I told myself this must be fog. It has been foggy lately. Finally I went out the back door to face the truth. The wind was blowing so hard it was hurting my ears. The smoke was all up wind from the back of my house. I left the door open and immediately started to try to decide on what to load in the car. I heard someone shouting in to my door. I went out side and there was a young man who looked like a punk rock skateboarder. He was trying to warn me about the fire. I was angry and was sarcastic with him. I do not know why I would be angry at him, I guess it was the stress. I went out side to back up my car nearer to my door. The fire trucks were already on my road. I did not even know it. The gate was open They had broke the lock and opened it that fast. They said we have to get through this fence. I said please chop it down, what ever you want. When my wife came home I saw her going through the same thing I had been going through for the last 2 hours. Trying to make sense of what was going on. A fire man came to the my back door and said we had to wait on the street. I then began to get my poor dogs into my car. They hate going in the car and my boy dog has got to weigh at least 50 pounds. He fought me all the way. I got him in the car and carried the girl dog in the car, both were on leashes but that made no difference. The cat was under the couch,. I had to pick up the couch to get her out and then the bed. I finally got her in the cat cage and took her to my wife’s car. My wife waited in the car with the dogs. The dogs were shacking violently as they sat in the car. That broke my heart to see that. I went up the hill and could see how the fire took out the whole field of grass. The smaller trucks would fill up with water and go up in the field and work the fire on the wooded aria behind my house. They said my house was the only one threatened but I walked over to my neighbors house and the fire was allot closer to his house. I said, get your hose, and we feed it through the fence to the female fire fighter who used it to put the smoldering ground out. One of the fire men told me the trees stopped it before it got to my house. The fire had rushed across the field and stopped at the wooded aria behind my house. Nature saved us! Ironic huh? The trees blocked the wind and because it had rained, they did not burn like the old winter grass in that field. I do not know for sure what caused the fire I heard it could have been a transformer blew out. It did start the minute the power went out for good. The tree branches grow too close to the wires around here. I hope the electric company pays more attention to this problem. I have seen them replacing the poles lately. Like I said I am not so sure that was the cause. The field where the fire started did not seem to be near any telephone poles at all. It was just a empty field. I am sure the local authorities will find out what it was and do all they can to prevent this from taking place again.

I went from calming, painting my assignment for painting class, to complete chaos lasting for many hours. I have many painting projects I have completed for college that will not be on the web site until the end of class, like I did last time. The painting I completed was vary cool and I was feeling a real sense of accomplishment. The fire changed all that in a complete 360. But I kept my head and saved the day. I worked very, very hard to be better safe than sorry. It was cold out and I was dripping with sweat. From about 1PM to nightfall I worked hard finally mending all my fence. I also did a interview with NBC channel 5 out of Dallas including a interview about my paintings that where on display in Allen last August, in my house. I had to explain to the reporter why my bed and the couch was tipped over.

I am very, thankful for the McKinney fire department and the Melissa Fire department and the County for putting the fire out before it got to the house. The smaller trucks were the most effective. They were able to get in smaller arias, feeding off the bigger water trucks. I was amazed at how much water, those cool red trucks hold. They did a outstanding job. The female fire fighters were very impressive. Every one of the fire fighters were friendly and extremely professional. Outstanding job what can I say. It really touched my heart to see these people save my home and the thousands of works of art it contains. I was prepared to unload the paintings if necessary but I would need a big truck to haul them in. I will never forget hearing about how Norman Rockwell lost all of his art in a fire at his home. That to me was like a natural disaster that devastated our country.

I mentioned that I made asparagus ends. What I did not tell not mention that I eat them in my soup. I would suggest slow cooking them first. The point is they will be so moist and tender you will not notice the difference. It beats throwing them in the garbage and they are so good for you.

Asparagus is low in calories and is very low in sodium. It is a good source of vitamin B6, calcium, magnesium and zinc, and a very good source of dietary fibre, protein, beta-carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, thiamin, riboflavin, rutin, niacin, folic acid, iron, phosphorus, potassium, copper, manganese and selenium, as well as chromium, a trace mineral that enhances the ability of insulin to transport glucose from the bloodstream into cells The amino acid asparagine gets its name from asparagus, as the asparagus plant is relatively rich in this compound.

I wanted to ad that I am making this awesome batter out of lemon juice for our fried fish. Every once and a while we have cod fish and chips for dinner. My wife’s dad was part English and used to serve and take my wife for fish and chips and she craves it. I have tried every batter combination there is and using just lemon juice and flour is the best. Try it you’ll like it!

I was making dinner and I thought of this thing I do with the chicken, beef or pork. I slow bake the meat; like I told you before. Then about one hour before we eat; I chop the meat up into little bite sized pieces. I put it back in the oven. I make mashed potatoes or the rice and such. I make some gravy then take the meat stir it in and pour that in the bowl It is so good that way. I form it around the outside of the bowl, making a bowl within the bowl.

You may have to let the pasta and such cool; so it can be formed correctly then ad gravy then microwave; then ad meat. This is only necessary if the pasta is not formable when hot. Actually I think it is necessary for all pasta like mac and cheese or Rice a Roni. If the pasta mixes to much with the gravy; it does not taste as good. I have been liking the Idahoan powdered garlic mashed potatoes lately; so it would be necessary for that too. When I make fresh mash potatoes I always make it thick like cement.

Alka Seltzer Classic Try It You'll Like It (1972) TV Commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qdfMYFl0Ic

My last blog I said that I do not use margarine for popcorn. There is a way to use margarine though. Just put it in a pan and do you best to evaporate the moisture from it; before you ad it to the popcorn. We had a bunch of popcorn last Friday, yum.

This weeks sketch comes with a great rough pre sketch. Like I told you before these squiggly lines are the hardest part of the sketch. When you look at it bear resembles a horse at all. I also include a nice completed sketch. Some of my sketches under all my paintings I have done are amazing. I hope you like my reddish brown horse this week.

Have a great week being kind to someone

every chance you get.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Thee art:

2015 My New Years Resolution is as follows: I pledge to have at least 1 new sketch (not more than 1 week old) I have done with my stylus here once a week. It will be a cropped, way shrunk down, copy of the original tiff files, that I like the best, with the title in the name of the file: These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that: Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file, I will no longer be adding the day I have done each piece of digital art. Instead I will number them number 01 being the most recent I did that week. :

Only one piece of art this week. :

I added this version with a background of a photo I took back in college, photo class in 2007; 04_Radman_art_Irish_May_04_2015_wbg. It was that time I was near Frisco off 121. There must have been 50 or more horses there that day. Someone told me they saw a bunch of horses out there. Oh the kindness of strangers, where would we be with out them.

April 27 2015:

I was just about to prepare the days vegetables and I remembered how good the asparagus ends were. That's right the asparagus ends, the stuff we throw away. I figured out a way to eat them and they are really good. First spray a big baking pan with oil. Spraying oil is a lot better for you than dumping oil or butter in the pan. Spray on oil is cheaper these day; we get the Kroger brand. Not that we can afford butter. I did a search and found I Can't Believe it's Not Butter was the most popular brand of margarine. Butter is a must for our air pop corn popper though, learned that the hard way. Ok; so once your pan is sprayed lightly ad all the asparagus ends. Season with garlic salt pepper and oregano. My grandma always told me ad oregano if you want it to taste Italian. I say ad oregano if I want it to taste like my Grammy made it. My grandpa who cooked on a ship in the Navy in world war 2 about to be blown up; told me always ad salt and pepper to make anything taste like homemade. Bake 410 for how ever long it takes to get all dried up yet still bendable, it should shrink down to one forth it's original size. Last time I did this; I did 4 bunches and only ran across one that would not chew like gum, I hate that, lol. I also make mushrooms like this, and ad them to Pioneer gravy, yum.

I am renaming this page to; I don't like Mondays because, I have been wanting to ad this song to this page for a long time now since I only update on Mondays. I love the video I linked the title too. I had no idea the lead singer was Bob Geldof! I just discovered it this morning when I saw the video linked to the title. All I knew was Boomtown Rats where a very obscure band; with only one really good album. It played a lot on the radio when I was in my prime. I was a young ripped guy on the streets of the East Coast, running free and wild. It took meeting my wife to tame me.

First go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boomtown_Rats#Studio_albums then go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Geldof Bob is definitely a special person like me; except people like him. He did Live Aid: the moment Live Aid came out on every channel on TV's every where; was when I got my 1st car. He was also the star in Pink Floyde The Wall from 1982! And he is in The Simpsons (2015) – as himself (voice) (episode: "Live Aid from Springfield"). I sure called that one right, like always, yawn. Ah the 1980's making my dad watch MTV when ever I was in the living room. Watching his eyes roll and then having him yell at me and make me give him the controller. No wonder all my friends were so intimidated by him and called him the general.

I am watching a country music concert and it is really cool. I love straight from the heart modern country music like DBT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-By_Truckers. The stage Coach concert is coming up on AXS too and I am going to watch that to: http://www.axs.tv/axstvconcerts/2014-stagecoach-country-music-festival-live-on-axs-tv-this-april/

Drive By Truckers almost single handedly changed country music for the better and even they hate me; even though I sent them a cd rom with sketches I did for them; and a animation I made of there crow. I even sent it to the original artist that drew it. That took a lot of work; and not so much as a thank you.

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Yes I enjoy drawing and creating horses. When I was in college I refused to attend class when a nude model was to be in painting class. I remember mentioning to my teacher Dr. Daniels https://www.woodsonginstitute.com

that I enjoyed drawing horses more than drawing people. I told her that I thought that the muscle structure of a horse was very similar to a human and way more fun to create. She agreed immensely. When she agreed with me I noticed she made a face that looked like I totally agree with you. I imagine she did not want to make a big deal about it because I was basically protesting nude modeling. What I like most about creating horses is the curvy lights. I seem to work best with curvy lines verses straight lines although I was a drafting expert in high school. I took drafting courses every semester of every year of high school. I cheated on my assignments many times by adding small free hand lines; with out the teacher being able to tell the difference. I only took one art class in high school and hated it. There was no art classes in my Catholic grade school. This weeks masterpiece was a real pleasure. It is as red as I could make it. I just love reddish colored horses. I even added a war colored sky. It is the same color sky as the giant war painting I did. No pre sketch just to involved in the creative process to make one.

Thee art:
2015 My New Years Resolution is as follows: I pledge to have at least 1 new sketch (not more than 1 week old) I have done with my stylus here once a week. It will be a cropped, way shrunk down, copy of the original tiff files, that I like the best, with the title in the name of the file:

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that: Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file, I will no longer be adding the day I have done each piece of digital art. Instead I will number them number 01 being the most recent I did that week. :

Only one piece of art this week. :

I added this version with a background of a photo I took back in college, photo class in 2007; 02_Radman_art_war_face_04_27_2015_wbg. It was that time I was near Frisco off 121. There must have been 50 or more horses there that day. Someone told me they saw a bunch of horses out there. Oh the kindness of strangers, where would we be with out them. The first thing I notice when I moved out west is how much more friendly people where.

This photo was taken May 23 2014. I could not find it in my blog photo option and it is so huge a folder I gave up. I have been wanting to post it for a year but I found it yesterday looking through some old emails. It is amazing to me to see him so small just a little while ago.

April 20 2015

Why do I update on Monday? Because deep inside me lies a worker. I will work no matter what like I work on my blogging. I believe in working people. I am Sicilian and Sicilians are known for being hard workers.

I got 208 hits March 23 2015; cool huh?

Here is the link to my big art (better have high speed or unlimited data access on you cell phone):

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

Thee art:

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file, I will no longer be adding the day I have done each piece of digital art. Instead I will number them number 01 being the most recent I did that week. :

Only two piece's of art this week. :

02_Radman_art_Natures_ultra_rgb_April_20_2015 was a warm up piece of art I did. I cut out the background and added the flower that grew on our crepe myrtle tree last spring. I talk about it on my

home page part 1. Search for the word crepe myrtle on this page

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-art-vii.html. It is under my post from: August 5 2014. You can see the photo I took of it there too.

03_Radman_art_polished_gooden_April_20_2015_bw is really how I start a sketch. These random lines are the hardest thing about doing a sketch to me. I have been meaning to show you all this mess of a example for a while but I get into sketching so much I forget. I meant to show a mid sketch example this time but I saved over it by mistakes. Oh computer mistakes have robbed me so many times I am way to shy to reminisce about that in detail. Read the post from January 23 2014 on this page: http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/radmanart-art-vii.html I lost a whole year of text on this blog. I save every thing I do here from that day on.

Speaking of computer malfunctions I let Google Chrome sign me into my account automatically on my home phone and it proceeded to take all my data tiem I had stored on it. Big mistake if you have limited data. That is realy not fare though. I wish Google could fix that. We have a Coolpad ( http://www.coolpad.com/us/ ) we Got at Kroger for 9.99 around Christmas time. This phone is absolutely amazing and I can send emails and everything. I bet if I had unlimited data I could even maintain this blog with it and upload to YouTube too. For now all I can do for about a month on it is phone; thanks to Google taking all my data. I would be lost without Google but I hope they fix this for us poor folk. The cool thing about this phone is you get phone minutes if you buy groceries for free. Guess what though; you do not get data minutes. Thanks again; Google. Please fix this problem Google. Google is so interested in getting the internet to the masses; this is one sure fire way to "Git-R-Done!": The Larry character has a stereotypical redneck appearance and a thick Southern accent, recounts stories about his "family," and uses, among other common expressions, his own catchphrase "Git-R-Done!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy By the way Delta Farce is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.

I added this version with a background of a photo I took back in college, photo class in 2007; 05_Radman_art_polished_gooden_April_20_2015_wbg.

It was that time I was near Frisco off 121. There must have been 50 or more horses there that day. Someone told me they saw a bunch of horses out there. Oh the kindness of strangers, where would we be with out them. The first thing I notice when I moved out west is how much more friendly people where. Back east I have asked directions from people on the street and they completely ignored me. There are many great things about living in Connecticut but many friendly random people is not one of them.

I added a comment to this page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLNG3dqAbo I added it a week and a half ago. I meant to mention it last week. If you want a good laugh check it out. Just search for my skateboard or the text RadmanArt2012 relating to this awesome video.

Words of wisdom?

I know you want some words of wisdom from me. Do not ever take advantage of anyone. If you can make it from this life to the next without that; then you have lived right. I believe in fair pay; do not get me wrong. Equal pay for equal work is a human right; for women and men too. If never taking advantage of anyone means; less money for you, than you did the right thing. The right thing in life counts no mater what. If I have ever taken advantage of anyone; it is only because I was that naive.

Naive meaning: extremely simple and trusting: having or showing an excessively simple and trusting view of the world and human nature, often as a result of inexperience, Yes I can be that stupid. Stupid meaning: regarded as unintelligent: regarded as showing a lack of intelligence, perception. We must be expert at perception to survive this life. In my opinion: what I just said; is thee American way.You know how I learned all this? The hard way. You have the internet. Research everything. I once heard really good advice when I was a teen: Question everything. I thought at the time it was some stupid thing a hippy would say. There is so much wisdom in that though. This is all I could find at this time on the internet:“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing“; Euripides ; He was a author; his profession was a Poet, he was born: 480 BC

April 13 2015

My wife and I were enjoying our time off together and we started talking about a favorite song that we liked and then I thought; why not look it up. We spend allot of money on the internet because we live in a aria that does not have the high speed internet, that is essential to a graphic artist like myself. I can call myself a artist and a graphic artist because I went to Collin County College for 7 years and graduated 3 times and took every art class they offered; sometimes 2 times. Paying so much for the internet, makes you think of all the reasons you have it. Having YouTube is defiantly one of them. I also love reading the news verses watching the dramatic television production of the news of sometimes things I do not want to hear or watch. My favorite place to read the news on the phone to is http://www.nytimes.com/ On YouTube I think of a song and; bam we can enjoy it, and the great memories we have had. Like when my wife got out of the army. Say what you want about me but I have a wall full of awards she got in the army; one of the gold plaques I have says, she did the job of a Sergeant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant and she was the guild on barrier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guidon_(United_States) When it comes to her if you are patriotic just follow her orders like me. Her order for me is always love though so I am partial. The Music that was some of the best in the history of rock and roll was around the time we moved here to McKinney, Texas, after leaving Fort Hood. I owned everyone of theses cd’s and they would proudly play in 1995 when we visited McKinney on many weekend getaways. We moved here for the college, the highest rated in the state at the time. We were looking for a good out of the way apartment that we could afford. We finally found one in 1996 then moved in in the month of February1996. All this time I remember spending allot of time in the car driving around and eating at restaurants and basically having a great time and listening to the current music that was popular. I am talking about certain albums here; not bands. I usually recommend bands online so this will be the first time I recommend albums only. Even though I bought almost every album of all these bands:

1995 Radiohead - The Bends, 1995 Spacehog - Resident Alien (favorite song is Zero), Tool Aenima 1996, Beastie Boys 1992 Check Your Head, Beck - Mellow Gold 1994, Big Red Letter Day is a 1993 album by Buffalo Tom, "Crank" is a song by the alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. It was the first single from their 1993 album, Chrome., Kerosene Hat is Cracker's second album, released on August 24, 1993, Filter - Short Bus, Short Bus is the debut album from Filter. It was released in 1995 and has sold over 1 million copies in the United States, THEY ARE FROM DALLAS! (nice shot man), Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991., Ten is the debut studio album by the American rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991, Siamese Dream is the second album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993, Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger 1991, Soundgarden - Searching With My Good Eye Closed [Motorvision 1992]

I bought this VHS tape and have tried to by it again I traded it is like all my music. I have searched on the internet for more than a decade for it here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ChIpzH31gQ&list=PL2Gt-yMLHASV7w9iWPWvY1xZ1yPM936pp , Gentlemen is the fourth studio album by an American alternative rock band The Afghan Whigs. It was released in 1993, Vegas is the debut album by the American electronic music duo The Crystal Method, which they released in August/September 1997., Weezer, also known as The Blue Album, is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released in May 1994, White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000, Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head is the fourth and final studio album by White Zombie, released on April 11, 1995, Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral 1994, Undertow by Tool (1993), I had not known about Tool until I moved to McKinney, after discovering them I became a fanatical fan instantly. Truly this is some of the best music ever made. I remember driving around with my wife and the best songs would always come on when we were exiting on the 380 exit just before we got home.

You thought I forgot:

Rubberneck is the most successful album by the post-grunge band Toadies. It was released in August 1994 on Interscope Records and attained RIAA gold and platinum status in December 1995 and December 1996 respectively.

Toadies began in 1989 in Fort Worth, Texas!

Thank you http://en.wikipedia.org for all this great info and http://www.youtube.com/ for letting me show off in front of my wife and show her how much I know about music. And https://www.google.com/ for helping me to find the info too.

Thee art:

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

Only one piece of art this week. It’s a gooden though:

I added this version with a background of a photo I took back in college,
photo class in 2007; 03_radman_art_natures_RGB_April_13_2015_wbg is dedicated
to all the glorious color found right outside your door in nature. If I could
worship nature I would. My wife’s favorite flowers have recently bloomed and
gone away. I love these trees.

April 06 2015

I don’t think you all understand how huge these drawings I do this year are. I remind you of the time I gave out a full copy of a jpeg of the original tiff file.

Here is that link again from blog entry March 02 2015 :

I know what you want a giant size jpeg for your background.

The original is 12 inches by 15 inches

Click here for the Jpeg:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

You are welcome my friend

The original tiff files average 10 to 15 megabytes each. This example of a original is not the biggest I have and it is around 15 inches times 12 inches; if my memory serves me correctly. This is still not my biggest rendering I can do and have gone bigger. The problem going really big is the program shuts down because the image is so huge. I just restart and it saves my info though. From taking a photography class with non other than Bird Williams; I know 15 inches times 12 inches can be easily made into almost twice that size for a huge poster sized high quality print out.

Imagine this. A gallery prints all my originals and displays them. Sounds cool huh?

I took a photo of what we had for dinner for Easter. I am trying to make a point to all the working people out there that say they do not have time to have a holiday meal with their family on the day of the holiday. This combination of all the traditional holiday foods can be made real fast. It cost more than making from scratch but for a special day it is worth it.

Here is a photo of what we had:

I also surprised my wife when she woke up; with a Easter basket. Easter is always a big deal with us southerners. May we all rise up free all over the world on this rising day. I do not know why but Easter always makes me feel patriotic too. I made a special gif file for you all. I have search the internet endlessly for something like this to no avail. Here is your very own tiny gif file of the flag from the movie Saving Private Ryan. If you are ever feeling low on the patriotic scale watch this and you will be lifted up like a Eagle.

Here you go:

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

Only one piece of art this week. It’s a gooden though:

I added this version with a background of a photo I took back in college, photo class, 2007 of the sky; around here. I used to take photos of the magnificent skies we see around here. I used to want to be a painter of the skies only. I never thought it would be popular enough to sell.

Getting allot more hits now. I remember back in 2002 when I got like 10,000 hits in about a year and a half. Thank you.

March 30 2015

Wanted to see what it felt like to do one drawing. I did just promise myself one piece a week, after all. Then I could not help but draw one more. I do mean drawing; straight sketching (no art programs) with a computer is not easy. I am not manipulating the sketches at all. I attended a Short Guys seminar in fact it was the last time I went to the college. (I wasn’t taking any classes so it felt awkward). I was still riding my bike so I think it was around late 2007. The Short Guys still send me emails. There was this guy who was demonstrating how to draw on a computer and he was using so many ticks with Paint Shop Pro I thought the drawing had no meaning as a drawing and had become only a computer rendered object. It is not easy to draw with a stylus verses a actual pencil, but I do not have to store it.

A Bunch Of Short Guys

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Bunch-Short-Guys-4370469

A Bunch Of Short Guys is a Dallas-based non-profit animation guild established to foster a community of world-class artists and storytellers. The group provides an educational resource for the local community of entertainment professionals, educators and students, helping visual creators pursue career development.

Why do I draw horses? What was the first thing I did when I started to use the medium of water color in Cathy Cotter Smith’s class? Western art. It took allot of trial and error to go for it. The intricacy of it demands I try it on something new. Western art in acrylics is possible but harder to do than water color; that is for sure. When I do western art, my take on western art is intricacy and detail. I started to develop a style using the stylus that I believed I could accomplish this. When I realized it was possible; I decided to try western art. When you live in the west as long as I have it becomes a part of who you are. We all resemble our surroundings and that becomes our comfort zone. All else leading up to this series was just practice and testing, testing one two. I prefer to do series when it comes art. What is a series of art? A series is 3 or more pieces of art; so says my painting teacher from my college days: MERRY FUHRER.

This took me along time to find: http://www.zhibit.org/merryfuhrer

http://www.creativeartscenter.org/instructors.html

This is one of my favorite pieces she did: http://www.zhibit.org/merryfuhrer/more-drawings-and-paintings/fast-food
She told the class it had to do with her car accident.

My email to all my Juxtapoz Magazine fellow artists: http://www.juxtapoz.com/

I have not emailed you all for many years now; since my last serious series of paintings, I think it was Living in the Past. I think it has been about 5 or more years since my last email to you. I thought I would email you all since I have a series I am into now. I will paste some choice pieces I hope will inspire you at least and if you can get me some more hits on my blog please do. Thanks my great low brow art friends and fellow artists. Keep your chins up and know you are special no matter what the times may tell you.

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

My quick last minute sketch 01_radman_art_my_dog03_30_2015 was named that because it looked like my dog, so said my wife when I showed her it. Our dog does have all the characteristics of a pony; the way he moves and his legs especially.

03_radman_art_Mom_and_pony03_30_2015_done was named that because my wife said it looked like a mom and her child, even though it was not supposed to look like that.

I just want to say that people should take responsibility for everything they do. The problem with the world today is the same as it ever was; people blame others for their own actions. It all comes down to lying to yourself. I truly believe lying to yourself should be considered a serious mental illness. Just some words of wisdom from yours truly. Take it or leave it. Take a tiny bit and use it to your advantage. It is my lot in life to try to help people.

I have not made 1 enemy in my life time. I have hated no one in my life since my grandpa on my dads side yelled at me; for saying I hate someone. He shocked me when he did that; it was not like him to yell at me. We were in his car on South Main St in my home town at the time. He told me never to hate anyone when I was 16 years old and I have not since then. Also there was this girl in Catholic school who use to say she loved everyone. I never got it until I she was my girlfriend in grade 8, and she was one of the first girls I ever kissed. I can't love everyone; like I love my wife or like I am a God. I can treat everyone with *kindness. I have a soft side like my mom and a hard side like my dad the police officer for life. The soft side get's picked on by the cruel. The hard side will not rest till justice is sought after; no matter how deep in the forest of life it may be.The only way I have enemy’s in this life; is when someone blames me for things they have done.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindness

The word kindness in literature

"Kindness is 'Pure Love' expressed / experienced / realized ~ 'Human Kindness' defines the fate of Humankind." Jaime Corpus Reyes, Waves Of Kindness Global Initiative
It has been suggested that 'most of Shakespeare's opus could be considered a study of human kindness'.

Robert Louis Stevenson considered that 'the essence of love is kindness; and indeed it may best be defined as passionate kindness: kindness, so to speak, run mad and become importunate and violent'.

The Christian apostle Paul lists kindness as one of the nine traits considered to be the "fruit of the Spirit" in Galatians 5:22.

March 23 2015

I think I will start keeping track of my hits. The cool thing about this blog is it does not count when I view it. My current hit count of today is: 8,568 , I got 7 hits last week. Hey, no one liked Van Gogh either and his paintings sell for almost a half a billion dollars today. I got nothing on Van Gogh as far as insanity and a life squandered in a huge burden on society, that is absolutely for sure. In other words I am non of those things, compared to Van Gogh I am Michael The Arc Angel. Van Gogh; in my opinion; from what I have learned about him; was the personification of evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)

Michael ("who is like God?") is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. "great prince who stands up for the children of your people" referred to as "the archangel Michael". Christian sanctuaries to Michael appeared in the 4th century, when he was first seen as a healing angel, and then over time as a protector and the leader of the army of God against the forces of evil.

I don’t know if anyone is paying attention but I have been providing pre sketches for everyone to see. I started to do this so that people can see how much work goes into this, and because they are just plain cool to look at. Sometimes I get so much into the art; I forget to do this. It’s like I become entranced. I am now making it a point to do this, so I hope you like some black and white with your color.

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

All the pieces of art this past week have backgrounds from my memories of living here. 01_Reflections_0f_March_23_2015_radman_art; the clouds look like that often here, just all bunched up sticking out like 3d.

06_Flying_Caliches_March_23_2015_radman_art; I love that word Caliches. People do not like when I show up at their place of business with it on my feet though. Special dirt for a special place on our great country. It feels sticky in your hand like Elmer’s Glue. I want to take a bath in it cold on a cold day, just slide around in it till I am drenched in Texas greatness. There was this joke from one of my favorite movies. It goes something like this:

God looked down on Texas and said oh no, all the ground in Texas is hard like cement. He said whay change it; I'll just make people that like it like that.

09_50_ft_rearing_March_23_2015_radman_art features those trees lining the fields around here. It has often made me feel un easy; the way that looks. You can see this from the roads around here. Someone told me it keeps the wind of the fields.

12_Blonde_Bombshell_March_23_2015_radman_art is once again the first art I did last week and my favorite for that week. I keep saying that here and every time I think I should not think that way because I will goof it up, but then I don’t; go figure. My first piece will be my best next week: I here by proclaim this, lol. Then again Flying_Caliches is definitely a classic, ah who cares. I just like making my wife happy with my art and having fun doing it.

I take it back I say this week it is a tie for my favorite between Blonde_Bombshell, 50_ft_rearing, and Flying_Caliches. It was a good week for art.

March 16 2015

I think I will start keeping track of my hits. The cool thing about this blog is it does not count when I view it.

My current hit count of today is: 8,561 , I got 21 hits last week. Exact same hits as last week. It is as if software is viewing my blog only.

Ha, ha I left a note to myself in my last post: “Spell check this” I think I will leave it.

Well now that soup days are coming to a end and spring and summer is coming I want to share something’s I have learned this past year. I like hot sauce in my soup. I set out to find a good hot sauce besides Tabasco http://www.tabasco.com, nothing beats Tabasco though. My wife used to give me her extra field rations back when we were living at Fort Hood. One of my favorites came with a tiny Tabasco sauce bottle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_sauce :

One-eighth-ounce bottles of Tabasco, bearing the presidential seal, are served on Air Force One. The US military has included Tabasco sauce in Meals, Ready-to-Eat (MREs) since the 1980s. The British and Canadian armies also issue small bottles of Tabasco sauce in their rations.

During the Vietnam War, Brigadier General Walter S. McIlhenny issued The Charlie Ration Cookbook. (Charlie ration was the name for the field meal then given to troops.) This cookbook came wrapped around a two-ounce bottle of Tabasco sauce in a camouflaged, water-resistant container. It instructed troops how to mix C-rations to make such meals as "Combat Canapés" or "Breast of Chicken under Bullets.

I did find a good hot sauce made in California though; and talk about inexpensive: Tapatio Hot Sauce http://www.tapatiohotsauce.com/, I found out just 3 shakes is good enough for a small size slow cooker.

Also I just want to say my favorite vegetable soups are Asparagus and Cauliflower, by far. Cauliflower has a amazingly buttery taste it is amazing in slow cooked soup. Asparagus is awesome but you have to wait for it to go on sale. Also if I had my way I would only season my soup with powdered seasoning because it dissolves best in slow cooked soup.

I was across the street working very hard fixing part of my fence and cleaning up my yard, last Thursday morning. I had to move some logs I leaned up against my fence years ago when my motorcycle and weight lifting made me strong like bull. I was amazed at one of them it was at least over 30 feet long to think I moved it years ago when it was not as rotten. My fence was shredded really bad, seems some animal must have torn it up pretty bad. I found some cans and a bottle that must have come up out of the ground after the rain. The people that lived here before us were slobs to say the least. The pile of trash on the far south end of my yard is full of trash, mostly glass and plastic and metal, under dirt, thanks to my wife and I. My wife and I had a special trash service and spent months throwing out trash we found there. One of the last things we found before we gave up was a cows head covered in fire ants. All I could think is they must have stole a cow from someone and ate it. I took some fence from inside my house; that I used to make a cage out of for my puppy when we first got him; and finished fixing the fence hole. My wife was upset it took me so long, she needed more me time; I guess.

I was greeting my wife as she cam home from work on Saturday afternoon and a helicopter flew by us; low over our house. It was awesome looking either a Huey or a Comanche; I think. Maybe it was Raytheon; 2501 W University Dr, McKinney, TX 75071

www.raytheon.com/ (it used to be Texas Instruments)

Raytheon moving California HQ to McKinney - Dallas Business Journal Okay ... the existing facility in McKinney once belonged to Texas Instruments: http://www.city-data.com/forum/dallas/1885295-raytheon-hasnt-seemed-made-up-their.html . I worked there for Handy Andy’s once. The place was huge and had that cool retro look.

Maybe Raytheon was doing a test run. Nothing compares to seeing all the awesome military equipment every day when my wife was at Fort Hood. http://www.hood.army.mil/

I lived there right off base for over 3 years. It could have been these guys also: http://www.ntxe-news.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=53&num=85873

Or it could have been a Black Helicopter, scary, the black helicopters are going to get me; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter

What made me angry is my dog was in my arms and I was bringing him to great my wife for the first time in months and the helicopter made him take off running so fast he could have hurt himself on the stones.

I have been a fan of helicopters officially since I drew awesome helicopters on the envelopes of my wife’s letters to her while the our country took her from me to do her basic training. Her drill sergeant was so impressed with my art he announced it to the entire unit. It was art I quoted In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel. I missed her precious eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3kFPBtc9BE

Here is a link to image of helicopters I painted in gouache about 8 years ago:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS_9k-2aq2a6OnF4-iXMTzW2ytQdNPZSz0o23uIxraf5AtBGZJcmut5fnbcZ6tFVeCGCajmuZiacnlIPnz5zQV-YE6A96ywj7wm2_tZ2SgOB5ebSVEz5ypDDQ37DBBaVWo9zqJP-9QRvNr/s1600/Radman_Art_Apache_Helicopters.jpg

Anyone who tells you a enlisted citizen of our great country; whether they be female or male is any less a sacrifice before the throne of freedom; then they are a great enemy of America and freedom. When you sign up for, and pass the endless tests to be a solder for the greatest country the world has ever known; you lay your life at the alter of righteousness and this deserves honor and glory. Only 1 percent of our population is willing to do this.

I am raving about my favorite country rock songs because; to me horses, mean cowboy. I plan on doing cowboys next, but I never can say what way I turn in my art work.

This weeks favorite cowboy songs is one of my favorite songs by Sir Elton John, This song always has and still does give me chills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Fantastic_and_the_Brown_Dirt_Cowboy

About the album: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by the English singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 1975. It debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200, the first album ever to do so, and stayed top for seven weeks.

The amazing Cover Art:

In 1976, Bally Manufacturing released a pinball machine for arcades titled Capt. Fantastic. With artwork by Dave Christensen, John was featured on the backglass, in his character from the movie Tommy, as the pinball wizard. It is considered an iconic pinball machine by most enthusiasts as far as artwork. It was also the most produced electromechanical pinball machine.

I have been a Elton John fan since I was like 8 years old. I had his posters all over my walls at that age. I collected photos and suck from fan magazines. I listened to his albums thanks to my Uncle Bill who leant me his stereo and albums. I have talked about this many times online.

You can listen to it here thanks to the world wide phenomenon YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmP2jFdmsw

Here are some of my favorite cowboy lyrics from that song:

Captain Fantastic raised and regimented, hardly a hero

Just someone his mother might know
Very clearly a case for corn flakes and classics

While little Dirt Cowboys turned brown in their saddles

Sweet chocolate biscuits and red rosy apples in summer
For it's hay make and "Hey mom, do the papers say anything good.
Are there chances in life for little Dirt Cowboys
Should I make my way out of my home in the woods"

For cheap easy meals and hardly a home on the range

Too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change

This part gives me chills:

We've thrown in the towel too many times

Out for the count and when we're down
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (that is describing me all the way sometimes. I have given up on my art way too many times, I know that much)
Lyrics continue:
From the end of the world to your town
I got this from here: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eltonjohn/captainfantasticandthebrowndirtcowboy.html

I worked real hard and give you 5 original pieces I did this week; verses my usual 4 a week, I hope you enjoy them.

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

01_Radman_art_March_16_2015_TX_wildflowers has those amazing wildflowers that grow here every summer that I pick for my wife. Beside drawing horses it makes her the happiest I can make her. Although I can make her laugh to tears at any time I please pointing out some of the comical things she does. The back ground and flowers are from memory only. The clouds seem to do that around here. They settle to the bottom of the sky. Sometimes I think they resemble looking at Dallas from McKinney.

03_Radman_art_March_16_2015_Gigantor is my second red horse although you would not know that unless I told you.

05_Radman_art_March_16_2015_balmy_summer looks more like red because of the combination of white and red. When I did this and told my wife she said I sounded like Adam Sandler:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001191/ ( keeping comedy movies alive single handedly, every movie he make, makes me laugh at least once till I cry the first time I see it)

when he was it that movie Billie Madison: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112508/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_46

he draws a blue duck compared to my red horse:

Billy Madison: Well, I made the duck blue because I'd never seen a blue duck before and I wanted to see one.

Miss Lippy: Well, I think it's an excellent blue duck. Congratulations Billy, you just passed the first grade.
Billy Madison: Wow, Miss Lippy, that's great. What do you think of that Mr. Blue Duck?
[pretending to be duck]
Billy Madison: That's quacktastic.

See image here: https://reneedezvous.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/billy-madison-blue-duck.png

07_Radman_art_March_16_2015_pudgy_pony was not supposed to look like that. I named it pudgy pony because it just turned out to look like that. It was supposed to look like a mature muscular male horse. The background is from those photo’s I took back in 2007 out near Frisco off 121. There must have been 50 or more horses there that day.

09_Radman_art_March_16_2015_shady_color is my first and again my favorite. I used color as light and dark. I do not normally do this, I mean pink is the light color. Sometimes being weird pays off.

After writing about cowboy art I had to prove to myself that I could still cowboy up so I did one last drawing 10_Radman_art_March_16_2015_CCSD_1801 has a Collin County Sheriff Badge. My first cowboy with the stylus.

http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/cowboy_up/

Jan 2, 2007 - “Cowboy Up” comes from rodeo lingo and means that a person who has ... said first baseman Kevin Millar, who coined the phrase Cowboy Up, ...

http://www.co.collin.tx.us/sheriff/Pages/default.aspx

Collin County Sheriff Terry Box brings his 1955 Chevrolet Bel Aire, a deep purple beauty his calls "Purplicious," :

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/starlocalmedia.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/6/9b/69b3412f-15dd-58c8-aea7-a2dd5086ece5/527d24c70088c.image.jpg

March 09 2015

I think I will start keeping track of my hits. The cool thing about this blog is it does not count when I view it.

My current hit count of today is: 8,540, I got 21 hits last week.

Spell check this

I will no longer be adding the day I have done each piece of digital art. Instead I will number them number 01 being the most recent I did that week. I am definitely being challenged by the new series of horse art. I have gone down to 4 pieces than the average 7. I am still not striving for perfection in any way, I am simply having fun and moving on.

I just wanted to say I have switched to a slow baking method for all my meat recipes. I use a toaster oven to save electricity. I used to talk allot about slowing cooking in a crock pot here. I still use a crock pot for soups and spaghetti sauce.

Since I was talking about fire last blog and one of my neighbors had fire trucks out side there house a couple of weeks ago I wanted to talk about a cool digital timer I bought cheaply from the store and love it. You can actually clip it to your shirt. I use it all the time to time the cooking of my meals. I have a exact photo of this cheap great food timer I highly recommend. It has saved my food from burning too many times to mention.

Cool cowboy song of the week is Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song - Live & Dangerous. I first heard this song in this format from the awesome album Live and Dangerous that I owned when I was about 13 years old. To really appreciate this song you have to here the song where the lead singer proclaims it’s ok to let your self go. It used to and still does give me chills. It’s ok amigos you can let yourself go we’ll be riden here with ya in the rodeo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wil_kDsqeq8

The photo’s in this double album where amazing to look at. That is what was so great about albums. They where like full blown posters. You can make a great poster out of that jpeg I gave you all last week. Or go get this art and take it to Kinko’s:

http://popmaster.pl/environment/cache/images/0_0_productGfx_5ecf7582494204728617fd67a42c587f.jpg

this is what the album looked like when you opened it.

The fact that I spent my childhood to age 13 in a Irish School also make Thin Lizzy a special band to me.

I also love and get chills from the song dedication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC17cLr85EE

This is dedicated to the woman I love. Dedicated!

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file:

01_radman_art_off_121_towards_frisco_03.09.2015 is from a photo I took of a herd of horses. I found some of the photos I took in Photo class for college. I will be using them as much as I can. I used the photo from just outside Frisco to do the coat on the horse. I truly love the burnt sienna and white horses best. The background is from here in McKinney also from the photo collection I have. I really need to take a photo of the print outs I have.

I hide the state of Texas in the nose.

06_radman_art_hungry_horse_03.09.2015 includes a background from here in McKinney and the coat is from a horse not far from where I live. It is one of my favorite horse coats and I have used photos I took of this horse many times in my paintings. The coat of a horse must be carefully added to avoid it looking contrived. Horses like humans are all unique. The uniqueness of creatures on earth have always amazed me. I spent over a hour on the side of the road one day taking photos of this horse.

March 02 2015

I think I will start keeping track of my hits. The cool thing about this blog is it does not count when I view it.

My current hit count of today is: 8,519

I want to remind everyone of daylight savings time this Sunday:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

Daylight saving time (DST) or summer time (see "Terminology") is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that light extends into the evening hours—sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, users of DST adjust clocks forward one hour near the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to "normal" or regular time.

Although not used by the majority of the world's countries, daylight saving time is common in the Western world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

I want to begin by reminding everyone how cool Cowboys are by quoting a song by James Taylor : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkaEP2ZqbY

There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range. His horse and his cattle are his only companions.

He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons, waiting for summer, his pastures to change.

And as the moon rises he sits by his fire, thinking about women and glasses of beer.

And closing his eyes as the doggies retire, he sings out a song which is soft but it's clear as if maybe someone could hear...

Goodnight you moon light ladies, rock-a-bye sweet baby James.

Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose, won't you let me go down in my dreams?

If you do not think that song is not absolutely cool I do not know what to say. It came out in 1970, and was played on the radio all through the 1970’s.

This is a photo of my wife and our wonder dog on his first day of snow. She said when she was at work she was sad because she was missing out on his first time in the snow and was very glad I took photos. We have radar love. Golden Earring sing Radar Love Live in 1973 in HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf53Pg2AkdY

This photo I took on Saturday of this amazing dog in all that deeper snow we got here. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/28/weather-forecast-winter-snow-northeast-dallas-planes/24181045/:

8:04 p.m. EST February 28, 2015:

Icy storm halts planes in Dallas; heads north with snow

Another winter storm heading for the Northeast dumped freezing rain on North Texas and forced the cancellations of around 1,000 flights Saturday at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

Digital art lacks substance that is why I do not like doing it. That is ok because:

My house is a warehouse full of great original American Art a archive of this land and life in America. A good guess is about 3,000 pieces (not counting digital art and art I have given away in person); of the best of the best I have done.

I remember when there was a fire that started behind my house I realized that it would be impossible for me to move all my art out of the house in time.

I quote my old my old Radman_art web site:

Well I finally did it. I have been in the news papers. I have been in a Movie. Now I have finally been on Television. It was because of a very bad time for my wife and I and my two dogs. We were all so upset that day.

Here is a link for you to go see the Television footage for yourself. It is from the local (NBC Universal) television station out of Dallas, Texas. Here is the link:

http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=211612 (this link does not work but I am sure they have it archived. I have a video of it myself somewhere.

I wrote a story about the fire that almost took my house and my art. You can find this story on my words page. on this page Little Radman_Art History :

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file:

Although I did not do as much art this week I did work very hard on what I have. Always remember it is way more easier to do my art with a real pen or pencil or paint and probably always will be. I would like it if someday computers would take the place of that but I do not every see that happening. The touch of a human can is way to unique to be replaced. I know that I am creating a non tangible product but I am not going to let that get me down. I know that I am throwing my art out there and have always known my art is a free public service I do for the internet. I wish everyone felt like that.

I asked Wacom to sponsor me with their best tablet but got know response. http://www.wacom.com/en-us

Better Palomino has that background I have done so often and
looks like most of the fields around here you can see from the road.

I know what you want a giant size jpeg for your background.

The original is 12 inches by 15 inches

Click here for the Jpeg:

http://radmanart2ndhome.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_65.html

You are welcome my friend

February 23 2015

Just took him out about 20 minutes ago, about 9am. This was his first snow.
He is about to jump on me here. He was very excited licking and eating the snow. We have
had all the cold here this year but this is the only accumulation so far.

It is very cold here 5 months a year but snow like rain is a welcome thing here.
I wish you all on the east coast could send us your snow for our lakes.

About 30 hits in one week; not bad for me. I do not pay that much attention to my hit counter that much. I always think in the future someday people may discover me and look at all the pretty pictures and read my notes I make. I do appreciate any love till then. All I want is for people to love me, that's it. With that comes certain responsibility's. I live a pretty good healthy life. I love my wife and have much responsibility's to her. I just got done with scraping the ice off her car and reminding her to do some things at her job. I should get a pay check for the way I help her with her job. I do not tell her what to do and since the day I met her that can not be done. I used to like to play wrestle with other girlfriends I had before her but she was the only one I ever had that would not give up and actually tried to win no matter what. Telling her what to do is a waste of my vocal chords. I do however do what most guys do not do is; I listen to everything she says to me. I can actually help her sometimes from the knowledge I gain from her. There is not a minute that goes by that I do not appreciate things like this in my life. I am just like anyone else going through this life, so fragile. I think the one thing we can all do the same is look on the bright side.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=optimistic

3 cheers Google!

I was just watching AXS http://www.axs.tv/ Nothing But Videos a few minutes ago and saw this:

Rob Drabkin - Hope In A Hopeless World (Official Music Video) I also like the video that played right after it: Rob Drabkin - Don't Worry About Me Good Combo, YouTube; love you too.

I just transferred everything from this huge page to this infinitesimal like huge page:

Radman_Art Blog Homepage Part I

I did this so it will load quicker for you busy people. I may have to go back in and adjust the html latter. This interface needs updating for sure. I get error messages every time I load up and log in and every time I tried to update my Radman_Art Blog Homepage Part I it says: An error occurred while trying to save or publish your post. Please try again. this is something new it was not doing that before. I have to search the html and go from there. Yet it still loads properly when accessed with the browser. I do not care actually every thing loads when you all access it and that is good enough for me. I will always love you Microsoft and Google my fellow Americans. And I will always love the computer chip invented right here in Collin County, Texas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments

The only thing that is going to be on this page is from 2015. I may make this a log standing tradition of only featuring the current year on this page,

I did allot of art work this week that I know you will love, something for everyone this week. I know all my fellow Texans will love the horses. I really had my doubts I could do horses justice with my new fandangle gadget. I actually had to stop myself. I am trying to pace myself like The Tortoise and the Hare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare

The Tortoise and the Hare is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 226 in the Perry Index. The account of a race between unequal partners has attracted conflicting interpretations. It is itself a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to overcome a stronger opponent.

"crawling slowly but steadily" that's me right on my belly in the dirty wet dark Texas mud crawling in the rain.

Tales with a similar theme emphasizing doggedness have been recorded in Native American culture. Hummingbird and Crane agree to race from one ocean to the other. Though Hummingbird flies faster, he stops at night to sleep. Crane, however, flies overnight and is overtaken by Hummingbird later and later during the day, at length coming in first. The ultimate prize differs between versions and includes choice of habitat, the love of a girl, or the right to cut the other down to size.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tortoise_and_the_Hare

What else? Oh yeah I am working out again everyday. I quit working out for almost one year after Ursula died. Loosing two 8 year old dogs to cancer in close to one year's time really too a toll on me. I devoted all my time to carling for Ursula as she slowly and happily left life. You can read about it here: Radman_Art Blog Homepage Part I Just do a search for the word Ursula starting at August 11 2014 and down. Devoting all my time meant not working out, but I would do it all again. So I realized that grieving took away my desire to work out everyday. When I realized that it helped me to get back at it. I have been working out for about 3 months now every day and am just now feeling the difference in my life. It takes that long when you get to be my age. I am doing over 200 mock type crunches where you punch like and row your legs at the same time. I do gym class like calisthenics and this is the way you work out when you get old. I always new this when I was lifting weights back in the YMCA in Middletown in the early to mid 1980's partly because of getting advise from older dudes back then. I do about 60 different positions of stretching standing sitting and on the floor. I memorized this entire routine about 6 years ago and have been doing it all this time. Abs I work hard so I can feel it. I do about 9 variations of jumping jacks until I am too weak to do any more, as well as that I am working on memorizing a aerobics routine too, recently.

And now for the art:

I just realized I named my art wrong I meant to write 2014 obviously and I put 2014 sorry. I did this for February 16 2015 and February 09 2015. When you are dealing with numbers of many different things and your mind must be 30 different places at once these typos will take place (welcome to the internet). I like it though because it makes it more human like. Also I named them Radmana_art instead of Radman_art. I like that though Rad Mana sounds like power for art lovers to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana

Mana is a word found in Austronesian languages meaning "power, effectiveness, prestige," where in most cases the power is understood to be supernatural.

Hey what do you want from me I just started all this last month. This reminds me of the old days with Tripod at Trilex I had it down back then and worked a large part of my college life back then building that web site.

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These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file:

I did this in sketch form for people for free about
100 times and thought this would be the best
way to try a horse for the first time with my stylus.

The next four I did for fun on Thursday. Just me having fun with digital art.

I did this on Wednesday; this lead to Thursday's extravaganza.

February 16 2015

I consider my art to be American art, 100% of it.

I quote myself from this page: Little Radman_Art History :

"I have always thought that at least in Japan I could be popular. I have loved Japanese art since Akira:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(film) and my first Nintendo game from the first unit made by them. I love to see modern Japanese art. It copy’s American skull and flames artist like me. They try so hard to copy American art. You have to actually be a American to successfully create American art though. I think you have to endure the hardship of it to express it’s freedom.

See the American cultural phenomenon that is Radman_Art. Post apocalyptical blasphemy, modern pop surrealism.

In 1988 I had a contract with Tracker Designs to sell my art work to them. That is what started my life's pursuit to be a recognized American Classic Artist.

This is Modern American Art! Or as Juxtapoz calls it Lowbrow art."

I mean look at tattoo and comic book style art in our country; and that style art in all it's forms; and the history of that art. It seems it only exists in all it's glory; here in our country.

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

Names of the art and day I did the art are all in the name of each file:

February 10 2015

From email to my mom today:

I remember the butterflies from two places in my life:

1) Central Coast California

2) and here in McKinney Texas:

I lived two blocks from Pismo Beach: http://www.monarchbutterfly.org/

McKinney Texas:

Monarchs are arriving in Texas on their migration to Mexico. Here they are at Cleburne State Park south of DFW. Are you seeing any? Follow their journey at http://bit.ly/MonarchsMigrating

https://www.facebook.com/texasparksandwildlife/posts/10152398708428693

Habitat in McKinney Texas.:

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/43743049

On a Gregg's mistflower bloom in a small butterfly garden at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, in McKinney Texas.

Habitat:

On a Gregg's mistflower bloom in a small butterfly garden at the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, in McKinney Texas.

February 09 2015

Before I get started I just want to make it clear I do not make statements of any kind with my art work. My art is like most of my favorite art and music; it just does not make sense. I simply see something I think as radical and render my version of that and my version never looks exactly like the original art, photo, or memory of mine. I love to draw from memory especially nature; like landscapes especially. All of my backgrounds for my art in this series of art comes from scenes I have scene from memory. I never use photo reference except for western art or nature or for portraits and the like. All of my skull and flame type art is from cartoon type art that inspires me from cd cover art or comic books for instance. I never look at photos to do my skull and flame type art. I am not going to tell you where I get each idea for every renderings I do. I want you to enjoy my art for what it is. Maybe someday I will go back and show you what inspired me. Most times it looks nothing like the original and would be completely different in every way. I have a real habit of taking skull and flame type agro, lowbrow type art and making it nicer like this weeks art piece Toxic Worms. I substituted a zombie eating a human’s shoulder with eating worms instead.

I worked on Toxic Worms last Monday and Tuesday. I even worked on this one lying next to my wife in bed while she snored wildly. I enjoyed doing this piece even though I wanted to give up many times. I made a black and white pencil only and deleted it because I did not like it. This one is Death Metal all the way complete with a Metal hand sign from the zombie.

I call this one Molten Lava because when I asked my wife what it looked like she said Molten Lava. This is a definite computer art all the way. I could have never done this in two days with paints. If you zoom in on the bottom right you will see the muscular arm of a horned warrior. I worked on Molten Lava last Tuesday and Wednesday.

Bone Cruncher was another one I wanted to delete now and then. I worked on Bone Cruncher last Wednesday and Thursday. It was not until I added color that I began to really like this one. The nose was impeccable. I do this with allot of my art. I have one section that is almost perfect. I think it is my way of suggesting what I could do. I guess that could be interpreted as making a statement.

Orange was my way of getting a nice smile from wife. I named it orange because it seems to be the most popular real life color for butterflies. Like I said I love to draw nature mostly for it’s unending amount of color variations. I did this last Thursday.

Finer Orange is me getting a little better at rendering the orange color of the butterfly. I love the way the orange varies in strength. I over embellished the wings to make it look almost angel like. I did the sketch last Friday.

Maniac Nuker was done Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It was my go at a mech type being in almost full body view. It checked out and I believe I am ready to get better and this type of art with my stylus.

Skullish Warrior is in my opinion the worst sketch I did on last Sunday of the week. I like parts of it so I am posting it. The idea was top notch though. Full body muscle structure seems to be my week point so far with the stylus.

I have great black and white versions of Finer Orange and Maniac Nuker but am not posting them as to avoid any kind of over kill. I can’t and won’t post everything I do. Whether for the reason of I do not think it is good enough or for the reason it is too good. It could happen I could make something that is too good. I haven’t seen that in a while. I am just out for some quick drawing fun with my stylus so far.

February 02 2015

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

I did this yesterday and today, I wanted to mix two things that
do not go together. Bursting color with a dragon.

I did this on January 31, 2015.

I did this on January 30, 2015.

Done January 29, 2015.

I did this on January 28 2015. This is my version of a popular
death metal band's album cover.

Done on January 27, 2015. Another version of a
death metal band's cd cover art.

Done on January 27, 2015. Another version of a
death metal band's cd cover art. This is the sketch
found under the color version.

January 26 2015-

Got some good sketches this week. I am getting better at this slowly. I did not do any flowers and sunshine this week. First I wanted to post this:

I am not the only one out there that post's ways to stay warm in those cold winter months. I was emailing my mom some stuff I found for her on the web. She emailed me back and I copied it this morning and will post my picks here:

5 Ways to Stay Balanced in Winter

I was told by a friend it’s all about the clothes. To enjoy being outside, you need to be wearing the right gear in order to be warm and still able to move (were you ever or do you have the overstuffed snowsuit kid?) There’s a method to layering clothes for warmth. Following these tips from Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills by Abigail R. Gehring (Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2008) should keep you and your kids both warm and comfortable.

1. Before thinking about the clothes, realize that food supplies heat to the body; the clothes provide protection so that it isn’t wasted. Make sure you eat a good meal before spending an extended amount of time outdoors in winter.

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2. Several light, comfortably fitted layers are preferable to a single heavy layer. Generally an outer, mid, and under layer suffice.

3. Underlayer. Two-ply long johns and undershirts, (cotton on the inside for comfort, wool on the outside for warmth, are warmer than thermal-knit underwear. Two pairs of socks–a thin pair of cotton socks beneath a heavier wool pair–are warmer and more comfortable than a single thick pair.

4. Midlayer. For warmth and ventilation, wear a tightly woven wool shirt that opens down the front and a quilted jacket over it that also opens in the front. Pants should be of tightly woven wool, cuffless, with plenty of room in the seat and legs, and flaps over the pockets to help keep snow out. For added ventilation use suspenders rather than a belt. A woolen stocking hat or mask-like hat will greatly reduce loss of heat from the head.

5. Outer layer. The main job of the outermost layer is to protect against wind, rain and snow. A parka that covers the hips and has a hood with a full-length zipper is best. If you’re planning on going above the timberline or along windswept ridges, you’ll need a windproof face mask. Down pants, mittens and booties are fine around camp, but are too warm for the trail. Two-piece mittens–a wool liner and a nylon outer shell with a leather palm–are better than gloves.

6. A good pair of boots are essential. Double boots–a felt inner liner and high-top outer boot–are warm and comfortable, but very expensive. A rugged mountaineering boot has many of the benefits of the double boot at a lower cost. Foam-insulated rubber boots will keep your feet warm, but will also make them perspire.

7. While down provides maximum warmth at minimum weight, wool has the important advantage of retaining its warmth even when wet.

With winter fast approaching, many people — myself included — are thinking about ways to not only keep the house warm, but also save a few bucks while doing so. The projected tab for heating your home this winter (in places that need heating) is over $2,200. That’s not chump change.

Beyond just saving money, it’s simply not always easy to keep a home warm if it’s older and doesn’t have very good insulation. In our 1952 house, keeping the basement warm (where our entertainment center is located) is a tall task. Utilizing the tips below will not only save money, but will make sure you’re warm and comfortable all winter long.

1. Install a programmable thermostat. This will keep your bill low, and your efficiency high. Instead of having to manually fiddle with your thermostat every time you leave the house or every time you come back home, This Old House recommends programming your thermostat for the following temps/times during the week if your house is empty during the day (they also recommend setting the thermostat to 55 degrees when you go on vacation for a few days or more):

?6 a.m. to 9 a.m. = 68 degrees

?9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. = 60 degrees
?5:30 to 11 p.m. = 68 degrees
?11 p.m. to 6 a.m. = 60 degrees

Their nighttime recommendation seems a little chilly, so adjust accordingly as to what’s comfortable for you. Keep in mind, though, that research has recently shown that cooler temps — say in the mid-60s vs upper-60s/low-70s — promote better sleep, and may even increase your metabolism.

2. Let sunlight in during the day. Once the sun is up, you want to capture as much of that free heat as possible. Even on cold days, the sun is still warm. So before you leave the house for the day, open up those curtains and let the light shine in. If there are certain parts of the house that don’t get sunlight, no need to open those curtains. Just do so where it streams in for a good part of the day.

3. Keep curtains closed at night. Once the sun goes down, keep all that heat from leaving through the windows by closing the drapes. If you’re in a particularly cold home or geographic area, consider getting insulated curtains for winter use. They’ll prevent some of the warmth in your home from escaping. You can even put up temporary curtains (or even sheets, rugs, etc.) over doors to the outside, even if just at night while you’re sleeping.

4. Mind your wood-burning fireplaces. While they’re romantic on a chilly evening, lighting a fire is terribly inefficient for the rest of your home. It’s warm and toasty right by the roaring flames, but for all that heat being exhausted up through the fireplace, cold air is being pulled into the house elsewhere (this is due to a physics principle called the stack effect – more on that below).

You don’t want to put the damper on idyllic evenings spent in front of crackling logs altogether, so when you do have a fire, just be sure to buy/use a glass front for your fireplace, which keeps some of that heated air in your home from escaping up the chimney once the flames have gone out.

Beyond that, remember to keep the flue closed when the fireplace isn’t in use. Failing to do so means basically having an open window in your room, letting warm air out and cold air in.

5. Take a look at your ceiling fans. If you have ceiling fans in your home, they may be sitting needlessly dormant during the winter months. Many fans have a “winter” setting, which reverses the fan so that it moves clockwise vs. counterclockwise. Since heat rises, the clockwise-spinning fan will push the heat back down into your rooms versus being trapped up at the ceilings. This is especially recommended if you have high or sloped ceilings. Some experts don’t trust the efficacy of doing this, as the fan may just cool the air too much, but try it out on a low speed, and see if it warms the room. In my experience from harsh Iowa winters, it definitely works.

6. Move furniture away from vents. You may have unknowingly placed furniture in front of heating vents when you moved in or rearranged. Go around the house and double check that vents aren’t blocked, and if they are, find a way to move your furniture, at least for the winter. This will make sure every room is getting its max heat potential. Blocking return vents in a forced-air central heating system could also cause air pressure issues, which further disrupts the flow of heat.

7. Mitigate the “stack effect.” The stack effect is the movement of air in and out of homes and other buildings, essentially creating large-scale chimneys. The rising warm air in a home will pull in cool air from the outside through any gap it can find. This creates negative pressure in lower levels, which acts like a suction cup because that warm escaping air needs to be replaced. This pulls cool air in and obviously chills the home. The effect is magnified in taller homes (more air rising to greater heights, so more cool air is being pulled in), so be extra aware of the stack effect if you live in a multiple-story home.

To combat this, you obviously want to seal those gaps. The most common offenders are doors and windows. To test this out, you can light a candle and carry it with you throughout the house, holding it close to the doors and windows. When you hold it still and it flickers, you have a possible gap. Hold your hand out to test it and you’ll often feel cold air. It may seem like a small and unimportant leak, but it can definitely make a big difference, especially when they’re multiplied around the house.

For doors, you can try making a “door snake.” That can be inconvenient, though, if the door is frequently used. You can also buy door sweeps that seal those gaps on the bottom. For gaps on the sides and top of the door, as well as window gaps, use weather stripping to negate the stack effect.

8. Seal other leaks, too. There can be air leaks in your home beyond windows and doors. Think attics, basements (where cements meets the wood frame), even kitchen hood vents. Take a look at this handy guide from energystar.gov to find those leaks and seal them. Hint: caulking can be your best friend.

9. Keep certain rooms toasty warm by closing doors. If you spend a lot of time in certain rooms, you can close doors and create a little sauna. I do this with my office, and it works like a charm. I simply leave the door closed at night, let the heat run like normal, and since there aren’t as many gaps for heat to escape, it’s nice and warm in the morning. At times, it even gets too warm. If you have big, open spaces, you can use room dividers; it may not seem like much, but any blockage that keeps air from escaping just a little less quickly will help keep things warmer.

You can also close doors to rooms that aren’t frequently used in your home — just make sure you also close the vents in those rooms. This sort of acts to lower the heated square footage, and the warm air will spread quicker and easier through the house. As a bonus, this will save a little bit on your heating bill, too. (Just make sure you aren’t sticking your in-laws in the guest bedroom without first letting it heat back up for a day or two.)

10. Utilize space heaters, but with caution. Space heaters are excellent tools for keeping individual rooms warm. The danger is that they are a high-risk fire hazard, especially compared to other tips listed here. In fact, they account for one-third of all heating-related house fires.

To ensure the safety of your household, keep any flammable material at least three feet away, and make sure the heater is on an even and stable surface. Never leave space heaters on overnight or when you leave the home (there are timed space heaters that turn off after 1-4 hours that are a better option than entirely manually-operated ones). Additionally, it’s a good idea to only use space heaters that shut off automatically when tipped over.

11. Use the oven. Baking, convecting, and broiling things will keep your house warmer, especially in rooms nearest the kitchen. Don’t be afraid to roast a chicken or bake a ton of casseroles when the temperatures dip! (This is also why, in our household, we don’t use the oven much in the summer.)

12. Add layers to your wood floors. According to the National Energy Foundation, uninsulated wood floors can account for up to 10% of a home’s heat loss. Carpets and rugs were created for a reason — to keep rooms warmer. They’re far better at trapping heat than your creaky wood floors. Add a rug or roll of carpet to your floor in the winter, and you’ll notice a difference in coziness.

13. If you have radiators… The first thing you can do is put tinfoil on the back of the radiator. This will reflect heat back into the room(s) versus it just floating up to the ceiling. There is special reflective radiator foil, but the kitchen variety will work as well. The second thing you can do is put up a shelf or table over the radiator (not on the radiator — don’t put anything directly on it). Again, this acts to trap the heat and let it spread more evenly through the room.

Ultimately, keep the person warm versus the house. In doing research for this article, I came across one mantra over and over and over again: it’s more about keeping the person warm versus the entirety of the house. The house doesn’t really care if it’s a little chilly, but you care if you’re cold. So throw on hoodies and sweaters, get a warm robe, sip on hot coffee or tea all day, break out the thick blankets and bed sheets; do whatever you need to do to stay warm and comfortable (being comfortable is key — you don’t want the thermostat so low that you have to wear a coat in your own home). In all likelihood, you can probably handle the thermostat being a couple degrees lower if you take some of the measures above.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/11/14/how-to-keep-your-house-warm-in-the-winter/

Although winter is filled with festive holiday occasions, it can also be cold to a point of cruelty. You don't need a big, heavy, puffy coat to stay warm and toasty though. Here's how to layer up for comfortable, effective (and stylish) warmth.

Down jackets are better insulated and easier to compress than synthetically-insulated jackets, but also wilts when it's damp. This should be less of a problem if you layer your peacoat over it.

Vests are good for you if you want to keep your torso toasty, but don't want to get too bulky in the sleeves (and retain elbow flexibility). I wear a sweater under my down vest and wear a peacoat.

That's kept me pretty warm in Toronto for the past few years, although I'll wear my big bulky jacket in anything colder than -20°F weather.

If you're wearing long underwear, you already know that adding a layer under your clothes could be just as effective as adding another one over it. To keep as warm as possible, try wearing runner's tights under your sweaters and pants.

You could also wear thermal underwear, but retired law enforcement officer Tim Dees writes in this Quora thread that runner's tights will keep you warmer than most varieties of lower-half thermal underwear, and still fit neatly under your clothes.

Winter headgear can be laughable (for all the wrong reasons). While scarves can safely protect your neck (and face on occasion), many of us don't protect our ears properly. You don't have to mess up your hair with a toque or big winter hat. Instead, keep your ears warm with slim earmuffs (i.e., wrap-around headband or ear wrap).

To minimize the bulk, look for a pair of earmuffs that fits behind your head and one that you can fold up and leave in your briefcase or bag. I'm very pleased with these wraparound earmuffs, which I carry around in my bag and use whenever it gets too cold or windy.

Our bodies prioritize keeping our organs warm, which means our hands and feet are typically the first to feel the brunt of the cold. Protect these extremities by adding a layer or two. While mittens may suffice in mild temperatures, you'll need full out winter gloves (e.g., insulated with wool) to keep your hands warm if you're walking in the freezing cold. You can also keep your hands warm with heat warmers.Your boots should be insulated as well. Ideally, when they should also have some extra space so you can comfortably fit in them with thick wool socks. Some of you may think desert boots are a good idea for winter, but they lack the waterproof and traction that proper winter boots have.

If you're required to wear shoes at work or certain formal occasions, you can wear galoshes or other shoe protectors so you don't have to carry two pairs of footwear around.

You can lose heat from any uncovered part of your skin. Even when you've covered everything else, leaving your face exposed can make the cold difficult to endure. Fortunately, you don't have to wear a clunky ski mask to cover your face.

Most of us warm up before our workouts and jogs (or we know we should!). Quora user David Mongan suggests a similar technique to weather the cold:

TK It helps tremendously to start off warm, both for comfort and injury prevention (provided you don't hurt yourself jumping around like an idiot).

Mongan does a few pushups, jumps, lunges, and squats to get the blood flowing before stepping out the door. If your clothes don't allow you to move around (especially in your business suit or formalwear), wear your jacket or vest for a few minutes inside the house to get warm before stepping out.

As Wes Siler writes on Indefinitely Wild, insulation doesn't increase your temperature - it simply maintains it. It works much more effectively when you start off warm.

You don't have to be a sartorial wiz or a fashionista to stay warm in winter without the heaviness or puffiness of a standard winter coat. Layer up like hikers do. Wear vests or jackets under your peacoat, wear tights under your clothes, cover up your extremities, protect your ears with slim earmuffs, keep your face warm with a face mask, and warm up before you leave the house.

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-effectively-layer-up-and-stay-warm-this-winter-1668968761

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

This is totally radical dude? One of the best things I learned is something I observed when viewing someone use a smart phone.

The art:

I did this about a hour ago. This is the most fun and easiest
sketch I have done so far. I have always loved drawing gas masks
and adding a goat head is all the more fun.

I did this yesterday; Sunday. I included a colonial flag because
I am originally from one of the colonial states and because
I thought a modern substance would be cool with a
old flag.

The Betsy Ross flag is an early design of the flag of the United States, popularly — but very likely incorrectly — attributed to Betsy Ross, using the common motifs of alternating red-and-white striped field with five-pointed stars in a blue canton. The flag was designed during the American Revolution and features 13 stars to represent the original 13 colonies. The distinctive feature of the Ross flag is the arrangement of the stars in a circle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross_flag

I did this on Sunday too. I like the way this
came out even though it is semi abstract.

I did this little ditty last Saturday. It has some cool features.
Just your happy go lucky goat face rearing it's head in my art
work once again.

I did this on Thursday and Friday. I saw the background in a dream.
I tried to make as much as I remember the great fields here.
Oh yeah and the mech rules too.

I did this on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I tried to make as much as I remember the great fields here.
Oh yeah and the dragon rules too.

January 20 2015

I forgot to ad this one and I hesitate to ad it now because it is so radical. I worked two days on this special master piece of black/death metal art. Skulls and crossbones; just like back in 1988 when most of the skateboards worth noting had as a main graphic

I showed this to my wife from across the room and she
liked it for it's detail. She only really likes flowers and sunshine
though. It makes me well balanced. I am a expert skull drawer.
If I am pressed to impress someone; like at work, in a minute, with out
getting in trouble with the boss; I draw a quick awesome skull.

January 19 2015

2015 My New Years Resolution is as follows: I pledge to have at least 1 new sketch (not more than 1 week old) I have done with my stylus (that I got for Christmas 2014, by surprise) here once a week. It will be a cropped, way shrunk down, copy of the original tiff files, that I like the best, with the title in the name of the file:

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

I am showing them all again this week.

I did this one about 30 minutes ago and it is my least favorite.

I think I may stop doing a sketch just before I post. To much

pressure. I do not do art good under pressure. I do my best art when

it just comes to me, like skateboarding and pulling a cool

trick, it just happens.

Perhaps I am way to picky about my dragon art. When it comes to

dragons I have been known to spend many a hour obsessing over lines

and color. It is nice to get one done though. I did a abstract dragon for

Mary Ferrer's class at the college and I refused to comment on it for

my final presentation.

I did this sketch yesterday. Like the sketch from the day before in my attempt to use more space I had
another happy accident and ended up creating this giant rat devil monster character. This is just my way of having fun.
If you worked for the largest skateboard company in the world; doing art; in the late 1980's; like I did; you would create the same type of art; for fun; I guaranty it.

I did this last Saturday. I like this on because in my attempt to
use more space I created this boxy little guy.

I did this last Friday for my wife while she watched in amazement. I started it by
giving her the stylus and asking her to give it a try. She started to draw a ruff
sketch of our super dog. Despite my help she gave up. I took it from about 20 lines
to about 10,000 lines and the rest is history. He actually laid down next to me as if he
knew I was drawing him. Pretty cool. My love of nature motivated me. This
one is my favorite for this week for sentimental reasons.

I also did this last Friday in front of my sweetie. I collected the leafs
2 weeks ago and finally got around to doing something nice for her.

I did this last Thursday. I was trying to push the limits of the lines.
Detail is the thing I was referring to when I said I went on a adventure; last week.
It is a adventure to make things small. I have always loved and preferred
to do art small and detailed as much as I can reasonably. My love for castles
was my motivation and inspiration.

Happy MLK Day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day :

Martin Luther King Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.)[1] is an American federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King's birthday, January 15. The floating holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act.

King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.

January 12 2015

I changed the sizes here, so the page loads better.

2015 My New Years Resolution is as follows: I pledge to have at least 1 new sketch I have done with my stylus here once a week. It will be a cropped, way shrunk down, copy of the original tiff files, that I like the best, with the title in the name of the file:

These are in order of; most recent is on top, less recent but within the past week is below that:

I did this about 1 hour ago. lol.
Yep this is it. You like it if; you like Black
Viking Metal from the 1980's; like Bathory.

Bathory was a Swedish extreme metal band formed in Vällingby in 1983 and named after the infamous Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Báthory. The band's frontman and main songwriter was Quorthon (Tomas Forsberg). Bathory's first four albums were "the blueprint for Scandinavian black metal".The band departed from this style on their fifth album, Hammerheart (1990), which is often cited as the first Viking metal album. Bathory continued in the Viking metal style throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, although the band returned to thrash metal with the albums Requiem (1994) and Octagon (1995). Bathory ended when Quorthon died from heart failure in 2004.

You know me. I love the metal art.

I have a Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine devoted to the art of metal music cd's.

Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine (pronounced Jucks-tah-pose) is a magazine created in 1994 by a group of artists and collectors including Robert Williams, Fausto Vitello, C.R. Stecyk III (aka: Craig Stecyk), Greg Escalante, and Eric Swenson[1] to both help define and celebrate urban alternative and underground contemporary art. Juxtapoz is published by High Speed Productions, the same company that publishes Thrasher skateboard magazine in San Francisco, California.

I did this two days ago. This was a adventurous piece I did, the adventure was a successful one for me in this art. New things never sway me in my quest. I like to learn new things and every person my age should take heart in that. Wisdom is knowing and learning as far as I am concerned.

wis·dom:

the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment; the quality of being wise.

synonyms:

sagacity, intelligence, sense, common sense, shrewdness, astuteness, smartness, judiciousness, judgment, prudence, circumspection; More logic, rationale, rationality, soundness, advisability

thanks for that Google

I am showing you everything this week. This was a quick nature sketch I like and feel good about doing it.
I kinda scribbled a face on this tree. I love those talking trees in that Toy Land Movie:
Babes in Toyland 1961

I did this while my wife watched and especially for her. This is about how sweet I can be these days. It reminds me of summer.

This is a Texas style winter tree.

This was the first sketch I did last week. This painting I did in watercolor like this faces me every day where I sit and do art.

Hope you liked the work from last week.

I saw this awesome concert on AXS TV:

http://www.axs.tv/axstvconcerts/axs-tv-concerts-the-m3-rock-festival-best-of-2012-part-1/

Are you ready to rock?

On Sunday, April 21st re-live the BEST moments of last year’s M3 Rock Festival during the PREMIERE of AXS TV Concerts: The M3 Rock Festival – Best of 2012 Part 1. For one hard-rocking weekend last year, some of the biggest names in hair-metal joined forces LIVE on TV and this Sunday re-live some of the performances from Queensryche, Quiet Riot, Warrant, Stryper, Great White, Loudness, Lynch Mob and L.A. Guns!

This blew me away! All the Metal Music of today have all these bands to thank for paving the way. Best concert I have ever seen on TV! It was so good I begged my wife to let me watch it. She did not complain that much because she remembered some of the songs.

Would you believe this is actually on YouTube?!!!

Click to see

January 5 2015

Cool it is 2015; just like the movie Back to the Future, well not at all like that, but what are you going to do. There was a lot about the future in the movie Back to the Future I did not like, like wearing your pants inside out. I found this from Time Magazine:

6 Things We’re Glad Back to the Future Got Wrong About 2015

The double tie worn by future Marty

Fax machines are not really a part of life anymore

Griff’s hat

Dehydrated pizzas

Computer glasses

Flying cars

I woke up this morning thinking about my dad. My dad was a police officer most of my life. His friends were my friends and some of my favorite people to hang out with. To me: when it comes to male companionship there isn't anyone that is better than the police; except maybe some friends I had from church. I had this one friend from church that would make me laugh from the moment we went out to get rowdy, till the party was over. It was the same thing with my dads police friends. I started to think about the troubles with police today and thought maybe the problem is the relationships they have. I believe that is one of the main problems with the police is their inability to have healthy relationships. My dad was a prime example of that; from what I know, and I know very little. I was happy that he finally met that special lady that comforted him and gave him the peaceful home life he deserved. I think if we could concentrate on our police officers home life being all it could be; it would benefit all of us.

I was joking about Saturday Night Live: Season 24, Episode 17, with my wife and how it related to my college days. The skit where John Goodman plays Arthur Dugan, an immature 50-year-old man in an adult literacy class. Here is a link to the transcript:

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98qliteracy.phtml

98q: John Goodman / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Adult Literacy Program

Teacher.....Tim Meadows

Arthur Dugan.....John Goodman
Adult Male #1.....Horatio Sanz
Adult Male #2.....Darrell Hammond
Adult Make #3.....Chris Parnell

[ open on exterior, Wilson High School ]

[ dissolve to interior hall sign: "Adult Literacy Program, Monday Nights 8pm" ]

[ dissolve to interior, adult literacy classroom ]

Teacher: Good evening, everyone. Uh -- you should all be proud of yourselves for coming out here tonight. Adult illiteracy, uh -- it isn't an easy thing to admit. Huh?

[ murmurs of agreement from the adult students ]

Teacher: Yeah. But -- with some hard work, determination, and the support of each other -- at the end of the semester, you'll be able to leave this classroom and say: "I can read." [ he nods ] Yeah. Now, the first thing we'll cover is -- [ he is interrupted by a makeshift farting sound effect from the back of the classroom ] Uh -- I'm sorry. What's going on back there? [ cut to Arthur Dugan, dressed in the style of a high school slacker with his hands pressed between his lips as he blows into them ]

Arthur Dugan: Come on, Teech! Ain't you never heard nobody cut the cheeeeeeese?

Teacher: Uh -- [ consults the class roster ] Who are you?

Arthur Dugan: My name's Arthhur Dugan, and I'm your worst nightmare, Teacher-man! 'Cause I ruuuuule... this schooooooll!

Teacher: Right. Uh, how old are you?

Arthur Dugan: Fifty!! [ flashes both hands five times ]

Teacher: Yeah. And you "rule" the, uh, adult literacy program?

Arthur Dugan: [ lowers his shades a tad ] Oh... yeeeeeeeaaahhhhh!!

Teacher: Meaning: you can't read or write?

Arthur Dugan: [ lowers his shades a tad ] Oh... nooooooo!! Let's just say the only word I know how to spell is PAR-TAAAAYYY!!

Teacher: Okay, uh -- well, why don't you spell "party" for us?

Arthur Dugan: [ tapping his pencil ] T! K! L! [ pause ] L! O! B! O! [ pinches his lower lip ] Yeeeeeaaaahh! [ raises both lips ] Caw!! [ plays air guitar ]

Teacher: Okay, well... it's clear, Mr. Dugan, that you've got a lot of work to do, uh -- which is what we're all here for. So, why don't we start out by sounding out osme alphabets, uh -- starting with "A". Arthur Dugan: Yo, Teach!! Teacher: Yeah? Arthur Dugan: Do we, uh, have to know this for the test? Teacher: Uh, no -- you have to know this to learn how to read. Arthur Dugan: [ fake-snores ] Well, wake me up when it's over! I'm kickin'back and puttin' on some tunes! [ flops his headphones over his ears ] Teacher: Look, uh -- this is a volunteer class, you don't have to be here if you don't want to.

Arthur Dugan: Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no! [ his backwards cap falls off ] You ain't gettin' rid of this bad boy that easy. I got a REP to maintain, dude! [ he picks his cap off the floor ]

Teacher: Uh -- and what is your rep?

Arthur Dugan: I'm a fifty-year-old father of three who can't read! [ puts his cap back on his head ] And I rule... this... school! Teacher: Alright, well, look -- just try to be more respectful for the people around you, okay? Arthur Dugan: What? What's that? Uh -- Geek Patrol, here? Adult Male #1: [ insulted ] Geek Patrol? I drive a bus. Adult Male #2: [ insulted ] I'm a veteran! Adult Male #3: [ insulted ] I'm here because I want to better myself! Arthur Dugan: [ makes foghorn sound effects ] NERD ALERT!! NERD ALERT!!

Teacher: Look, uh -- Mr. Dugan, look, you're being extremely insensitive. These people, they face hardships every day because they can't read.

Arthur Dugan: Well, you know what they say: "If you can't read, you better do... some serious... PAR-TEE-IN'!! [ mimes raising bottles back and forth from his lips ]

Teacher: [ deadpan ] No one's ever said that.

Arthur Dugan: Well! Come on, now, let's get goin'! [ lifts a small boombox onto his desk and hits Play ] Illiteracy Class of '99 is lookin' fine!! [ stands and dances to "Low Rider" by War ]

Teacher: You're very sad, sir.

Arthur Dugan: That's right! I'm sad because I can't read! [ mimes rubbing tears from his eyes ] I can't even read medicine labels! I once took Altoids for my high blood pressure! [ plays air guitar ]

Teacher: Look -- I'm here to HELP YOU!

Arthur Dugan: Okay, let's hear all the illiterate homies in the class say: "Yeeeaaa-eahhhh!!" [ performs a wave ] "Yeeeaaa-eahhhh!!" I was misdiagnosed as retarded when I was young, so no one bothered to teach me how to read! [ mimes rubbing tears from his eyes ]

Teacher: Look -- I am going to teach you how to read!! I am going to do it!!

Arthur Dugan: Oh, yeah? You and what army? [ raises both lips ]

[ dissolve to still image of "Fundamentals of Reading" textbook, as text scrools ]

Narrator: "Arthur Dugan's teacher worked with him for three long years, teaching him how to read. They started slow at first, with words like "dude", "kegger", and "booty". Eventually they moved up to advanced phrases, like "Is it cool if I puke in this?" and "He who smelt it dealt it." But finally, after three years of work, Arthur Dugan left that school as a proud, LITERATE jackass." [ fade ]

This skit would best describe how I saw going to college; in my satirical way of thinking. The bottom line was the generation gap is still alive and well and when you are old you are uncool no matter what you do. Even if you ride to school every day on a superbike looking like a wild native American hunting buffalo.

We used to joke about it in class all the time and no one ever knew what we were talking about. I guess I could understand why; because I could not find a video reference to it. I think you can see it if you get Hulu. This link has it; I think : click here Any way if you ever see it; I am sure it will make you laugh.

I made this poem for my mom today in a email:

If time was a person:

I would make a petition for it to slow down.

I would give it a piece of my mind.

I would sue it for all it owes me.

I would beg it to stop taking from me.

I would work my fingers to the bone 24/7 in exchange for more of it.

This is a idea I had. We have lots of clovers
growing here and they always inspire me. This
is that inspiration come to life.

This is a comical representation of my wife
and I complete with big belly's. It is abstract
but in a non lazy way.

This one took a long time and is another example
of my love of nature. I have seen similar looking scenes
locally here in all those lovely ditch rivers we have here.
What I love most about nature is its use of color.

December 30 2014

Well Christmas was awesome. I got my wife some super warm socks and a nice pair of long john bottoms. I had to go to the woman's underwear section to get that stuff. I shop late so I asked the manager if there was anyone working in the woman's section and he said no. He said just go into the woman's section by yourself, I said; no way. I said well never mind I will come back latter. As he walked away he found someone and asked them to punch in and help me out.

My wife really surprised this year. Usually she gets the lamest gifts you can imagine. I have gotten any were between a bar of soap and some tooth paste. I love to joke about with her and we always have a good laugh about it. The 1st gift I opened were some cheap style leather construction type work gloves. I was glad to get them, my old pair had holes in them. The last gift I opened was a stylus. I have always wanted to try drawing on the computer. Here are some cropped way shrunk down copy's of the original tiff files of what I have so far; that I like the best:

Dinner was delicious! We had the shrimp on rice with cooking sherry sauce and it came out perfect. Here is a photo of that shrimp:

Also we had those great frozen tender rib eye steaks and some Daks canned ham (because we love that movie Christmas With The Kranks) and some asparagus with white cheddar cheese and a bunch of bottled goodies. Here is a photo of what was for Christmas dinner:

Here is a photo and a link to this great canned ham we love:

Click here to buy this stuff is great trust me

Here is a picture of the ham scene from Christmas With The Kranks :

Here is a photo of our tree before we tore through it this year:

And a Happy New Year to all!

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