Three nights ago, the only thing on 22-year old rookie Nick Adenhart’s mind was not giving up any runs to the Oakland A’s starting lineup. Nick scattered seven hits and three walks across six innings, while ringing up five Oakland batters on strikes. Nick was looking great in his 2009 season debut as part of …
Adrienne Shelly began her career with starring roles in independent filmmaker Hal Hartley’s The Unbelievable Truth in 1989 and Trust in 1990. She followed those roles with parts in Law & Order, Oz, and Homicide: Life on the Street and two dozen off-Broadway plays. She stepped behind the camera as writer and director four times …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge word this week is “talisman.” The Monkey’s Paw A man, a woman and their grown son received a visit from the man’s friend – a sergeant in the military. The sergeant brought the family an artifact from his world travels — a monkey’s paw. He explained that the withered simian appendage possessed …
The inspirational word at Inspire Me Thursday is “key”. “The generation that would change the world is still looking for its car keys.” Drinking on the Job by The Rainmakers (1986)
The Monday Artday challenge word this week is “bunny”. Elroy Bunny eyed his prey from a distance. From fifty feet away, he could see neat rows of emerald flora as they cascaded over the dirt mounds. A hint of thick auburn taproot poked out of the earth beneath each lacy green canopy. Elroy stood motionless, …
The inspirational word this week on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “ghost”. Resurrection Mary is the Chicago area’s best-known ghost story. The story takes place outside Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Since the 1930s, several men driving northeast along Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection …
The Illustration Friday challenge word this week is “poise”. poise = Audrey Hepburn.
On November 22, 1955, while returning home by taxi from attending a boxing match, Samuel “Shemp” Howard, of the Three Stooges, died of a massive heart attack. Shemp was lighting a cigar after telling a joke when he suddenly slumped over. The Stooges still had four more shorts to film in order to fulfill their …
The current challenge on Monday Artday is “the old west”. In addition to my finished illustration, I included my original pencil sketch. (I showed a pencil sketch once before on this post.) Coincidentally, almost two years ago, I did this drawing when another illustration blog posed the same challenge. When I did an illustration for “the …
The illustrationfriday.com challenge this week is “subtract”. I read the following article in National Geographic Magazine in February 2009: Monkeys Can Subtract, Study Finds February 18, 2009 Add this to the growing list of reasons humans aren’t so special, after all: Monkeys can subtract. The discovery marks the first time a nonhuman species has been …
