tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post72311065229510778..comments2023-12-08T00:54:27.168+11:00Comments on Sorrow at Sills Bend: Stuff found under the houselucy tartanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-36557158071440997112007-03-08T12:41:00.000+11:002007-03-08T12:41:00.000+11:00hi, this is a lovely collection, i have similar pi...hi, this is a lovely collection, i have similar piles but the worst of it is thousands of miles away, so i don't worry too much...dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15815135066421573451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-56218014311504615542007-02-14T22:27:00.000+11:002007-02-14T22:27:00.000+11:00Draw again!Don't let the bastards get you down.- b...Draw again!<BR/><BR/>Don't let the bastards get you down.<BR/><BR/>- baristaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-55643504217138523782007-02-14T16:32:00.000+11:002007-02-14T16:32:00.000+11:00Wow. I'm in awe of your drawing talent. I always h...Wow. I'm in awe of your drawing talent. I always had ideas for things I'd like to draw, but they never made it from my head to the page. I love these.<BR/><BR/>Happy moving (and subsequent destroying!)Arielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570339715916432947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-28365141892619982007-02-13T19:42:00.000+11:002007-02-13T19:42:00.000+11:00And "remember the Alamo"...quotable quotes galore!...And "remember the Alamo"...quotable quotes galore!<BR/><BR/>"I don't make monkeys, I just train 'em!"<BR/><BR/>"It's like unravelling a biiig cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting, and knitting, and knitting, and knitting...."<BR/><BR/>"Everyone I know has a big but."lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-81024446567371759532007-02-13T19:37:00.000+11:002007-02-13T19:37:00.000+11:00Chris, we already bought tickets for the Handsome ...Chris, we already bought tickets for the Handsome Family, so we're going come hell or high water.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-17310650494318498932007-02-13T19:35:00.000+11:002007-02-13T19:35:00.000+11:00Suse, excellent! Do you also say "I know you are,...Suse, excellent! Do you also say "I know you are, but what am I?" I hope you do.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-80999420832778153752007-02-13T17:31:00.000+11:002007-02-13T17:31:00.000+11:00I bet that lion's eyes follow you around the room....I bet that lion's eyes follow you around the room.<BR/><BR/>And your Pee Wee Herman recollections reminded me that I need to add another to my 'phrases from movies' post that I wrote recently. We regularly do the four claps, followed by the singing of 'Deep in the heart of Texas'.<BR/><BR/>Must dig out old Pee Wee videos.Susehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14837796439737091649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-59659803560534019902007-02-12T21:28:00.000+11:002007-02-12T21:28:00.000+11:00They are gorgeous. I love the picture of the ibis ...They are gorgeous. I love the picture of the ibis and the crocodile turning into a giraffe. In my garage I have a collection of high school era creative writing in a suitcase - when i read it I find the writing naive and obvious but the ideas fantastic. Hard to believe I had that much imagination. It's a shame VCA put you off art.Stegetroniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15881823966680751798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-76156782834167482007-02-12T19:01:00.000+11:002007-02-12T19:01:00.000+11:00I saw the Handsome Family at the Basement a coupla...I saw the Handsome Family at the Basement a coupla years back when they were out for the Leonard Cohen concerts. Rennie and Brett are <I>unimaginably</I> better live than they are on CD. So <I>do</I> make the effort!<BR/><BR/>I didn't know they were comin', so thanks for the heads-up!!Chris Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215203610745043810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-73767499317561556642007-02-12T02:28:00.000+11:002007-02-12T02:28:00.000+11:00I'm quite impressed with the last picture in parti...I'm quite impressed with the last picture in particular. You are teh talented.<BR/><BR/>There are 250 cassette tapes and a large boulder in my cellar, mouldering on their own respective time scales.Phantom Scribblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03258384756183844406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-82680559124755702082007-02-11T22:14:00.000+11:002007-02-11T22:14:00.000+11:00I did see The Handsome Family last time, at Ceres....I did see The Handsome Family last time, at Ceres. Only because I was harrassed into going. It was an excellent show, but not quite what I expected from hearing their music beforehand. This time, I am hugely looking forward to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-18998740751799676142007-02-11T20:02:00.000+11:002007-02-11T20:02:00.000+11:00Duck it is a terrible tragedy but Pee Wee's Big Ad...Duck it is a terrible tragedy but Pee Wee's Big Adventure is not apparently obtainable on r4 dvd. A Great Wrong.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-5436449272640852902007-02-11T20:01:00.000+11:002007-02-11T20:01:00.000+11:00grandkids, well, when the dust settles I'll show b...grandkids, well, when the dust settles I'll show baz the puppet & see what he reckons. <BR/>Yep, happy birthday room it was. When the door opened the light set off thirty or so little bleating electronic tunes. We had big plans beginning from that excellent point of departure to do up the two rooms as a kind of Buffalo Bill den but they never amounted to anything.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-24840693123097149832007-02-11T19:04:00.000+11:002007-02-11T19:04:00.000+11:00Keep those pictures safe so you can give them to y...Keep those pictures safe so you can give them to your grandkids one day. <BR/><BR/>And didn't Dorian have some sort of installation under the house? The Happy Birthday Room, with all those musical birthday cards?Meredith Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977264379899180896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-1118906835887075892007-02-11T17:30:00.000+11:002007-02-11T17:30:00.000+11:00Under my house is a two foot concrete slab, thank ...Under my house is a two foot concrete slab, thank goodness and I have no garage to store junk in either. It should have been the usual 6" slab but a communication breakdown resulted in four courses of brick being laid for a wooden floor. The builder just backed a cement truck up and filled it in.<BR/>The last earthquake rumbled through.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-68886904240368984572007-02-11T17:26:00.000+11:002007-02-11T17:26:00.000+11:00PS the puppet is EXCELLENT. I love/d Peewee too.PS the puppet is EXCELLENT. I love/d Peewee too.Ampersand Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245377686193859488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-40281131729913403142007-02-11T17:25:00.000+11:002007-02-11T17:25:00.000+11:00Nice to see that the decorative element in your dr...Nice to see that the decorative element in your drawings has manifested itself in myriad other ways in your life, which is as it should be when art school fails to inspire.<BR/><BR/>My underhouse has only spiders and wayward passionfruit strays. I have both a garage and a shed full of such crap, though.Ampersand Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12245377686193859488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-46820118468365119622007-02-11T15:46:00.000+11:002007-02-11T15:46:00.000+11:00Poking round on their website just now I saw that ...Poking round on their website just now I saw that Rennie Sparks does <A HREF="http://www.handsomefamily.com/petportraits.html" REL="nofollow">pet portraits</A>:<BR/><BR/>"I do portraits of pets that try to envision what heaven would look like for your particular animal friend."<BR/><BR/>she is my hero.lucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-18884850735389306932007-02-11T15:38:00.000+11:002007-02-11T15:38:00.000+11:00Thnak you Zoe. Is there a reason? The VCA course ...Thnak you Zoe. Is there a reason? The VCA course really put me off drawing, and by the time that wore off I was into other things. <BR/><BR/>There's no going back. I discovered recently that Derwents are made with the pencil casings all the same colour now, with only a coloured blob on the end to mark them apart. I don't think it would be as much fun to draw with those as with the old varietylucy tartanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244574932248425378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-77738787313230555212007-02-11T14:23:00.000+11:002007-02-11T14:23:00.000+11:00Your high school drawings are so evocative, I had ...Your high school drawings are so evocative, I had to come out of lurkdom and just say, Wow. I hope you've kept them. Maybe you'll draw again?<BR/><BR/>We have nothing under the house, but I did have a big suitcase of shame. Which was audited almost a decade ago. Stuff was burnt with much whooping and hooping around the flames. The good stuff was moved to a smaller suitcase.<BR/><BR/>We're seeing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10611988.post-62509842237294042252007-02-11T13:51:00.000+11:002007-02-11T13:51:00.000+11:00Is there some reason you are not writing and illus...Is there some reason you are not writing and illustrating books for children?<BR/><BR/>As for under the house, there are lotsa spiders and dirt and a big roll of tatty mangled chicken wire hiding behind a tiny door that says "Bobie's House Keep Out"Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546885088503890394noreply@blogger.com