Once, I took an art class.

` (Whew! For a while I couldn't put a title up there, but it has suddenly returned like a ninja seeking revenge....)

` As I have been preparing many photomagraphs for blog usage as of late, thought I'd drop a post in here containing a framed still life I did for the art class I went to years ago when I was otherwise unable to function in a school setting. Click and behold!

` For anyone's curiosity I suppose it might be useful to name all of the objects I can still recognize in the picture. Let's see... there's a wooden chest, a box with a photo of my Katie Girl and a beaver skull, all of which I still have with me, as you can see in this old and wacky blog post.
` Notice, back then my cat wasn't dead and inside the box (put there only because I wasn't allowed to get rid of her ashes once upon a time) and that in fact you can see that I pressed her paw into the charcoal on the left-hand side.
` There are a variety of objects on top of the chest, such as a small, open box containing all kinds of doodads and buttons, a broken-off piece of my PsychoDad's Mercury Grand Marquis logo, a rock with a fox carving, a drink umbrella, and a Fat Head Brewing Company bottle cap I found on the ground on one of those things from the seventies that look like playgrounds but are really for exercising.
` Most of the rest of the stuff is actually my former über-keychain, which was chock-full of things such as ancient coins, a ninja star, an alarm clock bell, a fake rabbit's foot, and hanging over the edge is a Jar Jar Binks keychain. (I got that the time in Vegas when I drew a few Jar-Jar-obsessed sketches shown in this post on my other blog).
` There's also a pewter vase, a gaudy old paperweight (which is also sitting in front of me), a tiki mug I got from Trader Dick's at Lake Mead, an ugly Chinese dragon statue, and a young Scipionyx sculpture, which I made when I was sixteen despite my PsychoDad's screams of ridicule and taking it away from me, etc. I really spent a lot of time on it - I made the eyeballs and the eyelids separate, the teeth separate, and even the claws separate.
` Though it may look funny from the front, it actually looks almost just like this sculpture - except it seems to be broader.
` Lastly, all around the scene we find for no apparent reason those little Wade Whimsies found in Red Rose Tea. I spy with my little eye the giraffe, kangaroo and reddish camel (to the left of the small box), a leopard, zebra and polar bear (in front of the small box), orang-utan, tiger and indian rhino (on top of the box lid), cockatoo (on the beaver skull), raccoon and sea turtle (near the beaver skull), and spider monkey (on the paperweight). If that makes you excited. I hope it doesn't. There are probably a couple more I can't make out as well!
` You know, I bet if my mom had collected them all, she could have tiled the basement with them!
` Anyway, those are all of my tiredness-induced run-on sentences for now, but trust me, I'll be back sometime with more schtuff!