Talk is Cheap’s Neighborhood

I couldn't decide who should be eating such an obscene amount of ice cream (it is national ice cream month, don't you know?), so went for little girl and hairy monster because I'm fond of drawing both. You can decide which you prefer. These were done with acrylic paint, black ink and some brown pencil.

Tokyo Rose

U.S.-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who was dubbed "Tokyo Rose" for broadcasting anti-American propaganda from Japan during World War II, was convicted of treason and sent to federal prison for about seven years (this picture was taken at the lockup in Alderson, West Virginia). D'Aquino was pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977.

I am not insensitive to disabilities.

I do not like to use slurs or slanders in a derogatory manner.

I do not know if this is really real.

I am not always on top of the popular internet memes.

This may be old.

But I never saw it before, and it's funny.

Happy Friday.

Show us a bird native to your habitat.

We have a lot of grackles here. They're prolific, gregarious and very vocal, and come in lady brown and bad boy black.

Every year in the fall they congregate in a certain part of the city in the thousands.....the noise of them roosting in the trees is almost deafening. Just so happens to be around the local Target.

Okay, I just had this brand new system built for me by Dell....all the goodies you could ever possibly want in it and more (my son helped me with all the components)....plus a 22 inch flat screen monitor....and it was delivered yesterday.  Guess what?  Everything is still in the boxes.  Boo hoo.  I admit it.  I've failed you all.  I'm not a genius.  I don't know what the heck to do with it.  There are so many items on the Dell computer I'm using now that I want to place on the new system (like folders of photos, documents), and I don't even know how to format a CD to copy those folders, and then I could install them somehow onto the new system.  They are family photos and documents I use for work, etc.  And it came with Vista (hate the idea already), and I'm an XP gal.  So I'm going to be looking at something that is totally new to me, and I won't know where to go.  And how do I get my Favorites copied over??  Ugh.  Oh, and of course, my 5-in-1 (printer, copier, fax, scanner, and photo thingy) doesn't operate with Vista.  What?!?  So I have to find some sort of converter, right??  I dunno.  What the heck do I do?  Well, I guess the first thing is to format a CD, right?  HELP!!!!

This here's a tale for all the fellas
Try to do what those ladies tell us
Get shot down cause you're over zealous
Play hard to get an females get jealous
Ok smartie, go to a party
Girls are stancin the crowd is showin body
A chick walks by you wish you could sex her
But you're standin on the wall like you was Poindexter
Next days function, high class luncheon
Food is served and you're stone cold munchin'
Music comes on, people start to dance
But then you ate so much you nearly split your pants
A girl starts walkin, guys start gawkin'
Sits down next to you and starts talkin'
Says she wanna dance cus she likes the groove
So come on fatso and just bust a move.

.......

Don't ask why. Just go with it.

Someone want to bother explaining the purpose of Twitter to me?

I'm just not getting it.

I got this book out from the library yesterday and have been thoughly inspired by it.

Here are some of my sketch book pages.

And here's painting inspired by the floral designs on art deco cosmetic packaging.

More genius from Simon.

I'm no prude, by any means, but I have a problem when people cross the line with what's appropriate in a given situation.

I'm searching for a free site to send a big file to one of my vendors, since our FTP is all hosed up. I Google "free file transfer" and a bunch of services come up on the list. Right up near the top there's one called "bigupload.com" that says it offers 2000mb free file transfer, hosting, etc etc....so I click on that one.

And what comes up? A page full of porn.

Oh, there's a file transfer box there too, but the majority of boxes are of a different ilk.

IN-appropriate.

Right. Like I'm going to use your smut-infused site to send print files to my vendors. Wouldn't that be nice? "Dear sir....please use the link below to access the production files we talked about, and while you're downloading, watch barely-legal co-ed teens stuff all three holes with massive cock. Feel free to contact me with any questions."

Fucking idiots.

Don't believe me?