I had several friends over yesterday. There’s a room upstairs where I’ve painted sharks and squid and fish and seagulls, and one friend said I should have painted turtles on the ceiling. Two problems: One, I have popcorn ceilings. It
The Lure of Alpaca Poetry
One of the nicest things about having a wordpress blog is that it tells you what search terms people are using to end up at your site. I get a lot of people looking for information on specific subgenres, quite
How to Lure In the Elusive Ceiling Turtle
To continue our extremely amusing (to me, at least, and probably Ian) on-going series on ceiling turtles, there may be a point in your life when you actually want, no, need, ceiling turtles in your life. But Kit, you say, I thought ceiling turtles were
Pomp and Circumstance
Rounding out our Kit is Extremely Random Week, let’s talk about Pomp and Circumstance. Also known as the graduation march. You know the one, where they play the same four measures over and over and over while hundreds of people
Reliquaries and Ramblings
Sometimes it’s interesting what hoops you have to go through in order to get internet. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’m losing, and it may be very late when this finally gets posted. (Yep, losing. Apparently this particular university requires
What’s Up, Grocery Stores?
Have you ever noticed how grocery stores tend to have one entrance that sits wide open all the time? This may be a Colorado thing. I don’t remember it being as wide-spread in California. Picture this, if you are unfamiliar
Have a Landsquid
Hand-drawn until I fix the settings on the tablet. Gone camping, back Monday. I mean, assuming we don’t freeze to death because it’s supposed to be a high of 18 degrees.
When in Doubt: Aliens
I make no claims towards being a rational person. Sure, I can fake it pretty well, but then I draw pictures of landsquid and stick them on the internet, so I’m pretty sure I’m fooling no one. Much as I
The Great Blog Transfer
Or, as a subtitle, how wordpress.com is actually a lot nicer to use than wordpress.org. So, at some point last month I mentioned that I was working on getting together a real website. Well, I have one. It exists. It
Ceiling Turtles
They lurk above, where you don’t notice their slow, deliberate movements. Then – when you least expect it – they drop down, onto your head, and gnaw gently on your ears. Not terribly scary, ceiling turtles, though they can be
