Rick

Strangely, I haven't had any dreams since my strokes.
Not sure why.
Just a blank void of a brain.

When I'm planning on moving in with boy#2 soon? Hopefully.

That's uncomfortable.

Of course the kid leaves the house and within 10 minutes, I fall down and smack the back of my head into a table.
Figures.
🤕

Old #art.
Once stolen by the Oregon Zoo for an ad.
So... sort of a success, I suppose.

Would bake my normal carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
But am too busy and too tired and have no appetite.

Nope. Working.

boy #1: Good morning, dude. Happy birthday.

me: (tired grumble)

boy #1: Keep being a cool version of whatever grandma was forcing you to be.

me: (confused grumble)

Currently reading:

The Trump Administration’s MAHA Lies On PFAS, pesticides, food additives, and more — what the MAHA commission said in their report, what the MAHA commission recommends and what the Trump administration is actually doing

The Trump administration has dismantled regulations and policies that protect children from toxic chemicals, pesticides, and pollutants, while cynically packaging its rollbacks as victories for the "Make America Healthy Again" movement. We need rules that put health first.

Fuck it up.

If this is what 57 feels like, I DO NOT APPROVE and need to speak to the manager.
😡

That's on there.

www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day.

me: Here's a list of things to do and numbers to call, when I die.

boy: Keep it. You're not going to die.

me: Sure, I am. At some point.

boy: Shut it dude. No, you're not.

me: But...

boy: No.

And in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

crazy to think you could literally use this image anytime this administration does something [pic of Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer from the TV show Veep. She is smiling while looking slightly off-camera, accompanied by the subtitle, "(laughing nervously) what the fuck?"]

This image covers 99% of my reactions

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

tothemax2050 on threads: "Roughly, how many unread books are waiting for you at home?" thisone0verhere: "Honestly there's no need for that kind of language"

I don't like your tone

A healthy (but frustrating) chunk of the creative process is this:
#DavidLynch

currently spinning on the turntable

a close up of a woman 's face with her hand on her face ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with her hand on her face

boy #1: This is why you're the coolest dad ever. Other dads are listening to Adele(?) or Fox News, and you're listening to... (checks album)... The Tubes.

me:

Blood, Sweat, & Tears
Spinning Wheel

#art
5 minute sketch edition.

How people are helping breeding frogs dodge cars - High Country News Imperiled northern red-legged frogs need to cross a 4-lane highway in Oregon to lay their eggs. Every winter, volunteers carry them across.

Meet the volunteers shuttling northern red-legged frogs across a 4-lane highway in Oregon to lay eggs.

patrick star from spongebob squarepants is crying with tears coming out of his eyes ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is crying with tears coming out of his eyes

Finding myself becoming strangely emotional/nostalgic after no noticeable prompting.
Not sure where it's coming from or why. But it's embarrassing, coming from a guy who never really cried or showed any emotion.

“Great artists are entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they've got their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.” - David Lynch

better than in the soup bowl

archive of old #art.
a pair for diptych presentation.
35 years ago?

One Magical Movement: A Poet's Occult Journey with David Bowie - Arts & Culture, Culture, Living, Music Reviews, Paganism, Perspectives, TWH Features, Witchcraft Witchcraft & Pagan News - In 2020, Lauren Parker was driving through the desert listening to David Bowie's 1976 album "Station to Station," starring one of Bowie's most haunting characters, the Thin W...

In 2020, Lauren Parker was driving through the desert listening to David Bowie’s 1976 album “Station to Station,” starring one of Bowie’s most haunting characters, the Thin White Duke. “I didn’t even know if I liked the album,” she writes. “I just couldn’t shake it.”

wildhunt.org/2026/03/one-...

We can throw another $500,000,000,000 at the Pentagon this year and spend $1,000,000,000/day on a wholly useless war, but we can't afford to hire doctors and nurses to take care of our veterans? The United States is such an irresponsible, messed up country right now.