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Thank you all for a tremendous art show in Oxford last week….!,..I’m still tired from it….in a , you know, good way..
tonight i’m rewatching William Hurt in Moby Dick on Prime…he’s very good in it… the whole movie is great…!!….very good.!!.

all I brought home from the art show was a bob Dylan and a Churchill downs… I really like the Churchill downs  and it got no attention at all…none….. C’est la guerre….

I might do the show again next year…if

a. I am still alive.

b. I can think of anything new to paint , that people might want..I’ve painted for show and I’ve painted for dough…. the secret lies somewhere in between.

the Lowly Jets  beat the Giants today…the Giants should just quit…

NYC has the worst sports teams in the USA…

The worst airport.

the worst traffic….

they do have good hot dogs…I wish Memphis had a good Jew deli…I’d go there everyday..

shot or not shot , I’d go…

tip to Eli and Peyton,… if you’re gonna do Monday night football on TV, get a makeup person to fix you guys up… you both have 6 tones of flesh color from bright pink to a languid yellow… and get some hip looking clothes…you look like old Polaroid photos from 1964….

and set out a couple of tall cans of beer, for atmosphere, like Dizzy Dean  and PeeWee Reese did on baseball broadcasts…

you both look like 2 guys just in town from Indianapolis for the weekend..instead of sports legends..

Spruce it up some…,!…do some online betting, live on tv..!

and there’s no need to regale us with long tales , spoken thru a whole series of downs, that go nowhere ….just use ‘well, that sucked’ a lot…to describe unfortunate play calls.  people will like that…

a little set design couldn’t hurt either..

just sayin,,,..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here’s just a few things of the many that I’m bringing..I make really bad photos..I think these are all 16 x20 framed art boards, so they are about 20 x 22 framed. The numbers are mostly rubbed off on my yardstick.

I’ll be there with a lot of new paintings….

you might like them , you might not…I used to do the show every year but I got tired..

im having to rent an Uber Bus to get me there this year , it has a bed and bathroom in it.

Each  artist has their own room….they can decorate them…each room has a bathroom too…and a bed and a tv,,these are real motel rooms. .. Bukowski would have stayed at this motel..

I usually  just buy an old chenille bedspread to put over the bed in my room, because if you even touch the bedspread that’s there in those rooms, you could get any disease known to man…!

there will be other artists too..  I’m not sure what all they do..there’s like 10 or 12 rooms with a different artist in every room..in my room you get a  beer with every purchase….offer good until supplies run out.

Taylor  Swift is set to be in my booth , signing things, etc…..hanging etc….please do not bother, bug or become a pest ..

refreshments and finger food in the parking lot….

Art show starts at 5pm and I’ll be there there from then till about 8 pm then I gotta get back on the Uber Bus..

I can take ….cash or Venmo or PayPal….if you want to buy something..

if I can’t sell anything , I’ll just walk home.

there is no home football game this weekend so don’t worry about giant awful smelly crowds…of UT or State  fans….

 

 

 

 

September 3 2023….
Not getting enough crime in your life..?…..come to Memphis….!

on a Lighter note…l.…….Eat at Gus’s Fried Chicken….!…they rock…!

have a happy hottest summer in world history..according to the New York Times, who have just deleted their entire sports section department…why..?.. the weather in Memphis is pleasant now..not hot at all…
come on down…..but bring a loaded shotgun…

They got  rain at burning man…they are crying……they  used to cry about no rain…..phhffffft..they sure an amazing talent line up…..pfffffffffft……not…!

I’ve  never been on twitter or instant gram or tick-n-tock…or heard a podcast……but I’m getting by….

I’ve watched a lot of Sanford and Son lately..!

I’m postponing my garage sale….I’m too old to deal with it..

I don’t have any channels to watch college football on…I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict That I don’t have any idea who will win…..probably Georgia….Trump might end up as their   Coach…

 

 

 

 

 

Jackson square… New Orleans..

I am painting about a million paintings of, for now, old blues guys…they make me happy…

I have maybe a dozen done , shooting for 100…maybe not all blues guys…

my yard sale plans are now for mid October..weather then is generally real good here..in Memphis.

and as far as I know I will be in Oxford, ms for the motel art show in October too..I used to be very popular there but times change…don’t they.?

tv viewing…I watched the BBC tv show Celebrity Antiques Road Trip…I think I watched it for  a whole week..

im watching Mrs Maisel , now ,a lot…great dialogue , sets and characters…I love shows about New York Jews,,,

I’m looking for a place to play my music….locally…in places that are unlikely to be shot up …if any exist…bring back Amy Weirich… !… Old 60s songs..some Dead stuff…lots of Dylan..and if nobody is there just play Django instrumentals…I play 2 hours… that’s enough for me..all this business of the 4 hour gig needs to get somewhere..!…

 

I am painting orders for people after a month of not being productive… I played guitar and sang a lot of songs instead.

I’m having a yard sale in June—- watch here for details..

im supposed to be returning to the Motel Art  Show in Oxford in October… watch here for details..I’m excited to see if it’s changed…Well..not excited but curious..it was always fun….

in the event of my death, these things won’t be happening..,,,,you get this old, every day is a surprise..

youtube gratefulDead 1968 San Francisco Carousel 3/16/68 show…..great sound…great playing…

some of Garcia,s best guitar sounds… he was playing the 1952Les Paul Goldtop,,,Dark Star…wow…and China Cat Sunflower has a power it lost later..double wow…the tone of that guitar…!

Having a Bluetooth speaker  has  saved me from buying dead shows that just plain sucked…

I think late 1969 they were having bad problems….money or whatever….it’s reflected…I saw them in September 1969…..yawn…But they coulda been road tired..

here Garcia displays  his rare combo …. Hiawatha-Afro hair  style….

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me myself I …. I’m quitting painting for a while%%%….I have a couple of orders to do —- first..so don’t panic if that is you..

im having tremendous website problems..

I’m tired of all this…

my website keeps locking me out…

my brain which was pretty good at math:::it can’t deal with editing websites and getting new passwords..

I just go blank…..

I got a guy from godaddy to kinda help me..god bless him….

but I’m lost again…I think old age is kicking in..

bigtime..it hurts me.

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I’m glad I read Moby Dick during the epidemic… I’d never get thru it now..

have a great day…. I’ll be busy tying my  shoes…