A young artist’s journey. PT.1 (Collected in Seattle)

“I’m not bitter, I’m better.” – Nikki Sixx: from his kick-ass book, “This is Gonna Hurt.”  “You’re dead, Motherf****r. Dead. You’ll never see it coming. I will find you. Count on it.” – Anonymous threat sent to me over two months ago. (I’m still waiting…..) Hello Blogiteers! From the quotes above, you probably have guessed…
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Bitter Fruit PT. 2 (Attack of the Shriller Tomato.)

“Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”  ~Thomas C. Haliburton Hello Blogiteers! When last we met, I had just revealed the terrifying and yet delightfully simple online screen name of my craven and anonymous NOFS (AKA: Number One Fan/Stalker, AKA: Tomato) Thus begins PT.2 of a simple little blog about…
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Bitter Fruit PT.1 (Would you like a burger with that?)

“An Enemy visible is an Enemy vulnerable.” – Anonymous Hello Blogiteers! I really enjoy writing this blog- I really do. Possibly even more than you enjoy reading it. Sure, from time to time I may suffer some minimal fallout from something I’ve written, but it’s a small price to pay for being able to speak…
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Character Study Part Deux (Guess Who’s coming to Lunch?)

“That phrase of yours, [Armed to the teeth with truth] should be on a T-shirt.“– Peter Petrisko Hello Blogiteers! It feels like forever since we sat down and really talked, doesn’t it? In my defense however- I have been crazy busy, I swear. But before I issue yet another literary bitch-slap upside Claire Lawton’s perfectly…
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The Road to Yuma (with apologies to Bing & Bob)

 “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.” – Elizabeth Drew Hello Blogiteers! I’ve been invited to Yuma! Yes, I AM serious. No, I’ve never seen that Russell Crow movie, and I refuse to after what he did to poor sweet Meg Ryan. But that’s a rant for another time- today…
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