Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Belated. Didn’t want mix IRL with fiction on Saturday. The drought post made more sense yesterday. So, thoughts for next year. Vox: Juneteenth, explained, Cineas, updated 2021. The Root: Make Juneteenth Great Again: The Caucasians’ Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth, Harriot, 2021. Assist to Whatever for the Root post.Continue reading “When Life Gives You Rain, II”

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. Water here. No water there. To stay updated, U.S. Drought Monitor website.~~~ Forecast for the show on the day before. Flash flood watch, Chance of rain 85%. Bumped up to 100% by Friday evening. Remember the show a week ago? That I didn’t go to? That got postponed?Continue reading “Or Not To Show”

Images, Lettering Awareness of the outside world. EarthSky: Why hottest weather isn’t on longest day, Byrd, 2019.~~~ Process notes. Today’s project was Gradient. Radial gradient for sun; linear gradient for hot. Inkscape. Letters drawn on grid with Bezier pen. Not exciting shapes, but a) more original than starting with a font, & b) this wasContinue reading “Summer Words”

Words How did you come to write Rage Anthem? I was in a bad place. I’d had some personally reversals and I was watching way too much news. That was right around the time of the Florida Riots and I knew people who had gotten caught up in them. I hated the human race. So,Continue reading “Rage Anthem, A Fictional Author Interview”

Horsekeeping Awareness of the outside world. Tokyo Olympics. Would you go? As an athlete? A volunteer? A spectator? Assuming costs covered, qualified, etc. etc. Me? I’ve been vaccinated. I trust the science. I would feel personally safe to go. However, I would be concerned about the burden on the host country. The Guardian: In JapanContinue reading “Milton’s Meals”

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. I suspect the people who are getting their knickers in a twist over CRT (see yesterday) are conflating it with the 1619 Project. Personally, I’m all for teaching the full story. Politically, I am having a hard time seeing the NYT as a hotbed of subversive discourse. TheContinue reading “Extending The Sweet Gum Branch”

Riding Journal Awareness of the outside world. “Critical Race Theory … is an academic movement … seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race …” Wiki: CRT. If we are going to argue about it, at least know what it is. “I’ve taught in American law schools for 30 yearsContinue reading “Let The Summer Hours Begin”