Quote of the Day: Jdmpapgaf

 Jdmpapgaf


[posted 6.23.11]

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SURPRISE!

Today, as I stumbled through my blog, adding a new html code discovery [note to self - add html to all other blogs...], I was unpleasantly surprised to find this lonely, loner post. I know this is my blog, and considering the minimal posts posted throughout its lifetime, I shouldn't have been totally surprised, but - believe me or not; ruin my rep or not -  I truly did just (7.4.11) FIND -  this little treasure.

Which, upon this moment of way too comfortable confusion...

I think:

• did a guest blogger invade my site and post this gibberish?
• did Blogger run the fate of facebook and was momentarily invaded by 9th grade typing flunkees?
• wtf?
• who wrote this? not me, surely?
  

and then (now)... taking some responsibility:

• i obviously must have astrally channeled a new genre, perhaps, flarf II, and/or The Reduced Haiku.
• did i begin a blog moments before a neurological blackout?
• did i have a neurological blackout on 6.23.11 at 11:10am?

and then-then (now-now)... seeing things in a more lucid light:

• ahhhh, the same person who's been sneaking into my apartment while I'm sleeping or at doc appointments, or on my mad dating schedule (wink, wink), and hiding my debit card, prescription glasses and sunglasses, clean underwear, fresh-made coffee, lighter, my big pink glass full with water, the melanie who did go to the gym to restart aqua therapy, my cat... you get the (scary) picture.

I'm so glad I figured this one out - now-now-now.

Abe Books E-mail Database Hacked

AbeBooks E-mail Database Hacked

It figures that a remaining sense of dignity we have in this country - books, and good books, and people who read, and people who read good books by great authors on great topics published by well-sighted publishers, then sold by good (or greedy) booksellers, and on and on - would be the victims of potential identity theft, or at minimum an invasion into their privacy.

Image from Blog Patrol

Read about this (story that's available and linked to this wonderful, not so new, blog I just discovered,  dedicated to books and book-related news that I just discovered and was instantly hooked like [way too many "things that are hooked" entries in the blogosphere..., so here's my own go at defying the cliche] indoor hanging plants, winter coats on rainy days, and a single person in chronic pain to their pain meds, couch, and TV.


If you haven't yet, subscribe to this and all of my blogs (see right column) and then subscribe to Book Patrol: A Haven for Book Culture too, written a man with a long name and a long list of achievements that make him the dopest blogger on, well the obvious..., the blog's title.

Coming up Next...Trenton Ave Arts Fest (Philly)

I'm sure you all have missed me soooooo much. After all, as one long-distance friend asked via text, "Why are you harder to get a hold of than the pope?"

The answer, my friends, is that I am - as most of you know by now - a full-time neuro-ite x 3.5, which is the equivalent of 3.5 full-time jobs without any staff (other than my Pittsburgh-based mom, yay mom!).

My latest escapade involved a 10-day treatment schedule of IV Ketamine, that made quite a dent into my horrific RSD flare-up, but didn't punch the bugger out of my body completely and kept me clinic- and couch-bound for 2 weeks and counting.

So, altho you may not see me on the streets much anymore, or even in my apt bldg hallway, I'm steppin' out this Saturday to return to the Trenton Avenue Arts Festival with new (and some old) works, including (drum rolllllllllll) a flower and a my-own-blood paintings series, and this year, I'll have affordable drawings and collages too.

While I have been lucky (in my new-found visual art "career") to have gained popularity and collectors, I'm still a socialist artist at heart, and my prices still reflect that...starting at $10 and up to $300.

Wow! Now, that's a bargain and a 1/2!!!

So bring some cash, or a lot, and spend it on a good cause - me. When you buy one of my paintings, etc., you're not only getting a beautiful, heartfelt, emering-artist, soon-to-be-worth so much more collectible, you're also helping to support a full-time sicko on disability and insurance that covers only 1/2 of my medical expenses (did I hear someone say, corruption?) which are becoming greater and greater than SSDI can give.

You'll be ensuring that I stay insured until medicare kicks in next year - and until then, as long as COBRA extends itself to that date, I'm looking at at least $700/mo for insurance that doesn't even cover much of my care.


Thanks, and see you Saturday!

PS
Don't know where it is? View this interactive map.

I'm in a Group Show!....Opening art party tonight. Come!

Click on the title to go to the post...It's worth the exercise.

Life for Sale

I'm feelin' it. You're feelin it'. The money void.

Rent is due, so while I wait for my disability to be approved, I'm selling everything I can live without.

Hello minimalism!

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/hsh/1055206673.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/hsh/1055222838.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/fuo/1055196022.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/fuo/1055192023.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/clo/1055212169.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/bik/1055209116.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/ele/1055198288.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/ele/1055196953.html
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/hsh/1055225401.html

Clothing and shoes are next to go. Buy my life, please, if you can.