The Monday Artday challenge this week is “most embarrassing moment“. When I was a kid, a short time after my mom bumped off my dad by feeding him meatloaf stuffed with thumbtacks, I came home early from school and quietly walked into the kitchen. I caught my mom pouring Drano into the pot of tomato …
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The Illustration Friday challenge this week is “100%“. 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High was based on Cameron Crowe’s undercover exposé of high-school life. Crowe (who went on to write and direct Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, for which he won an Oscar for Best Screenplay) went back to his alma mater, infiltrating the everyday …
The challenge on sugar frosted goodness this week is “superhero“. Don Diego de la Vega, the mild-mannered caballero who at night donned the black cape and hood and made his mark against evildoers as Zorro, first made his appearance in print in the All Story Weekly in Johnston McCulley’s five-part series entitled “The Curse of …
The first challenge for 2008 on Monday Artday is “new year’s resolution“. I don’t make new year’s resolutions for a few reasons. First, I know I will not keep them longer than three minutes. I am too set in my ways. Second, if I’m going to change something about myself, I don’t need a “new …
