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Train Pig
This painting is one that I drew first in pencil, which isn’t true with a lot of my paintings, as they’re abstract. This is more for humor than anything else. In case my handwriting is too bad to be read, the Piglet, whose name is Avocado, is thinking “Where’s Mom? There’s a stink nearby…” and…
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Dad!
I painted my dad with watercolors. By the way, before you ask, I’m going to tell you that the little brown spots on his face are not acne. They were supposed to be freckles, but it didn’t turn out so good. Even with a tiny brush, it’s extremely hard to make freckles with a paintbrush.…
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Those at the top
A recent study found that intelligence only gets you so far and that those at the top are slightly less intelligent that those beneath them. There so many things that can be said about that. It is the joke that everyone wants to tell. When I was in the Navy, the enlisted tended to feel…
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Tells and Engs
Jilletta is a tell. It is all that she has ever known or cared to do. Yet she doesn’t always like her work. She is good at her work. She should be, since she is the daughter of the greatest tell ever. Her father was considered to be at the apex of the art. His…
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The Storm of Abstractness
I painted my very first actually abstract painting. I honestly have absolutely no clue what it is. It looks kind of like a storm, so that’s why I called it The Storm of Abstractness. It would probably sound more professional if I dropped the -ness on the abstractness, but I’ll live if it’s not perfect,…
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The Emotional Painting
The reason I call this painting the Emotional Painting is because it has a big, black streak down the middle, symbolizing the hurt, and hatred and darkness that can lie beneath the happy, calm person on the outside. Yet the two shades of pink I used right next to the black streak symbolizes the love…
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ChatGPT – AI Writing – More thoughts
I read somewhere that Clarkesworld Magazine closed submissions due to an influx of AI generated stories. I don’t know if that is true or not, but if you look on their site, they do say “We are not considering stories written, co-written, or assisted by AI at this time.”I don’t think that we should be…
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50% Evil – Revised
I recently shared a draft of this short piece. I generally have an optimistic view of the world, so I was endeavoring to write an ‘opposite’. I had an idea that this might be a way to start a bit of satire. Perhaps, you can see the potential. This is (I think) better than the…
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Blogging Stuff
There are a lot of people that blog (or perhaps, journal) on a daily basis. I am not one of those people. I have claimed (mostly to myself) that I want to write a book. I have been making that claim for about 4 or 5 years now. I even took a “Creative Writing Habits”…
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Test Post
This word account was frustrating to set up. I honestly am liking the way the letters appear on the screen in this nice rhythm…… why do the periods shrink whenever you type them in groups. Dad just trolled me that it’s because it’s an ellipse. I spelled that right first try by the way. I’m…
