Ars Gratia Artis

So, I spent some time last night in taking care of some Boar’s Head A&S correspondence, which included a call for performance notifications.
One of the letters I got back said: Merouda, you adore A&S and you work hard for A&S, why don’t you apply for the Kingdom MOAS?
This was my mind, upon reading [...]

I’m not sure why, but today I have been looking for old works. Something prompted me to start a resume regarding creative works, and this pushed me into some internet research that lead me on an unexpected journey.
My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I found the above piece on the web. It’s [...]

Teaching Thanksgiving.
“Today is a time of celebrating for you — a time of looking back to the first days of white people in America. But it is not a time of celebrating for me. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my People. When the Pilgrims arrived, we, [...]

My blog is worth $1,129.08.How much is your blog worth?

I predict I shan’t be selling this anytime soon. My dead journal over on spaces.msn is worth more ($14,113.50). How sad is that?
I hereby swear to myself that I’ll write something with content over the weekend.

Oh, please, kill me.
They’ve preempted West Wing with a remake of The Poseidon Adventure?
Gah, why didn’t they leave that turd at the bottom of the sea where it belongs?

Today may be the last of the Indian Summer, for tonight’s forecast is the first containing snow.
I stood in the cold drizzle, trying to get the pumpkins to hang in some way that would show them to advantage, the water saturating my clothing in the sly way of light rain: unnoticed until one is chilled [...]

Michael just came home from WindyCon. I was soooo happy to see him.
And when he came home, this AMAZING thing happened.
The heat came on!
Yes siree, Bob, the heat was off all day yesterday and I did not even realize it. d00d, Mr. Michael is a wonder man.

For One Student, a College Career Becomes a Career - New York Times
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Well, I lived in Fort Atkinson, exactly 7 miles from UW-Whitewater, from, oh 1993-1997. And good luck with the marketers who think they’re going to get an “Animal House” reality show outta that [...]

Lately, I’ve been pursuing still life photography as a method of recording the ordinary, and of recording the light. One of the problems with computer photography is, of course, the different ways in which an image will display on different monitors.
I have a number of pictures like this, now, images that strike most people as [...]

i have a headache

It’s Nanowrimo Time!
My book ain’t worth a dime!
No clowns like Clarabel
Plot bunnies go straight to hell!
I set up my little writing space outdoors tonight, to take advantage of the exceptionally fine fall weather we are experiencing. My word count so far is about 3500. On track, but not really far ahead.
Thing I should have done [...]