Also clearing space to get down to seriously finishing my graphic novel, Double Entendre.
Also received the walking stick I ordered: it's blue with shiny silver dots - at least it doesn't look like an oldie's stick. Or shtick.
Saturday, August 31, 2019
NOT THE WORLD NEWS
Started a new portrait. Won't say anymore about it until it's done.
Also clearing space to get down to seriously finishing my graphic novel, Double Entendre.
Also received the walking stick I ordered: it's blue with shiny silver dots - at least it doesn't look like an oldie's stick. Or shtick.
Also clearing space to get down to seriously finishing my graphic novel, Double Entendre.
Also received the walking stick I ordered: it's blue with shiny silver dots - at least it doesn't look like an oldie's stick. Or shtick.
Monday, August 26, 2019
POST-NINE OH
Post nine oh
Where do I stand?
On right hip gone wrong
On right leg in feeble protest?
Neon-blue stick
Is in the post
Your order can no longer
be changed.
Where do I stand?
On right hip gone wrong
On right leg in feeble protest?
Neon-blue stick
Is in the post
Your order can no longer
be changed.
Ah yes, your order!
That is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler
In the mind
To stand and struggle
Or to sit and watch teevee
Until the cows
The blind cows
Come home?
Nothing like a good cliché
To distract you
From the point
My point
This Monday morning
This freefrom carnival morning
Was where do I stand
After the big nine oh?
The answer my friends
The only proper answer
To a rhetorical question is
Beh.......
That is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler
In the mind
To stand and struggle
Or to sit and watch teevee
Until the cows
The blind cows
Come home?
Nothing like a good cliché
To distract you
From the point
My point
This Monday morning
This freefrom carnival morning
Was where do I stand
After the big nine oh?
The answer my friends
The only proper answer
To a rhetorical question is
Beh.......
Thursday, August 15, 2019
MORE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Just to round off the birthday another photo then I'll move on.
If you can access Facebook there's an album of about 37 more taken by Habie Schwartz that night.
This is when we're all singing Je Ne Regrette Rien.
If you can access Facebook there's an album of about 37 more taken by Habie Schwartz that night.
This is when we're all singing Je Ne Regrette Rien.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
BIG BIRTHDAY PARTY
Thank
you so much dear friends far and near for your most welcome birthday
wishes.
My party at a local pub on the seventh of August was excellent. I forbade the most boring song ever invented (Happy Birthday) and instead conducted everyone to sing along with me (in French) the much more appropriate Je Ne Regrette Rien made famous by Edith Piaf.
Whatever age you reach on your next birthday, I suggest that you do likewise, sing JNRR, as a choir, with feeling, and you might find that any left-over regrets vanish like smoke.
I didn't take a single photo but others did and a whole album of terrific ones of the whole party, taken by my friend Habie Schwartz, have been posted of her Facebook page as well as mine. If you're not on FB or can't connect to it, I'll try to post at least some of the pics here later.
JE NE REGRETTE RIEN Lyrics by Michel Vaucaire (translated by moi). Music by Charles Dumont
No, absolutely nothing
I regret nothing
Not the good
Not the bad
It's all the same to me.
No, absolutely nothing
I regret nothing
It's paid for
Swept away
Forgotten
Don't give a damn about the past.
With all my souvenirs
I lit a blazing bonfire
All those pains, those pleasures
Don't need them anymore
Swept away my loves
With all their trremolos
Swept them away forever
I'm starting from scratch.
No, absolutely nothing
I regret nothing.
My life, my joys
From now on
It all starts with you.
My party at a local pub on the seventh of August was excellent. I forbade the most boring song ever invented (Happy Birthday) and instead conducted everyone to sing along with me (in French) the much more appropriate Je Ne Regrette Rien made famous by Edith Piaf.
Whatever age you reach on your next birthday, I suggest that you do likewise, sing JNRR, as a choir, with feeling, and you might find that any left-over regrets vanish like smoke.
I didn't take a single photo but others did and a whole album of terrific ones of the whole party, taken by my friend Habie Schwartz, have been posted of her Facebook page as well as mine. If you're not on FB or can't connect to it, I'll try to post at least some of the pics here later.
JE NE REGRETTE RIEN Lyrics by Michel Vaucaire (translated by moi). Music by Charles Dumont
No, absolutely nothing
I regret nothing
Not the good
Not the bad
It's all the same to me.
No, absolutely nothing
I regret nothing
It's paid for
Swept away
Forgotten
Don't give a damn about the past.
With all my souvenirs
I lit a blazing bonfire
All those pains, those pleasures
Don't need them anymore
Swept away my loves
With all their trremolos
Swept them away forever
I'm starting from scratch.
No, absolutely nothing
I regret nothing.
My life, my joys
From now on
It all starts with you.
Wednesday, August 07, 2019
VERY LARGE BIRTH DAY
Big
birth day today. Since I publicly confessed back in January the actual
number of years I've been on this planet, no need to mention THAT number
again, right?
Okay I will mention it again. Here's the full shocking confession, published in the Guardian in January. Ignore the photo, I look better than that in person.
Okay I will mention it again. Here's the full shocking confession, published in the Guardian in January. Ignore the photo, I look better than that in person.
Sunday, August 04, 2019
MORE NdA WORKS TO TEMPT YOU
Here's another small work for your (potential) NdA collection.
THE BAIT NdA (circa 1970s)
Construction. Wood, wire, acrylic on board.
Framed. 12.4" x 10.5" x 1"inches. (32 x 26.5 x 2 cms)
THE BAIT NdA (circa 1970s)
Construction. Wood, wire, acrylic on board.
Framed. 12.4" x 10.5" x 1"inches. (32 x 26.5 x 2 cms)
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