"Traced Cross"

Original IBL art - crayon and felt pen on cocktail napkin, 5 x 5 inches, 1/22/13.

"Follow You Down", Gin Blossoms

I hadn't thought about this song in years and years and, then, Steve Earle played it last weekend on his radio show on Outlaw Country (I know - he likes to stray sometimes).

Would that all pop songs were this well made...

Follow You Down...


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A Little Put Out by the Pope Quitting, I Am

I mean there's a reason I follow him on Twitter: to learn about this via CNN.com? In a word - disgraceful.

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"Pull Tabs $10"

Original IBL art - crayon, ink and lipstick on Christopher Norwood donated coaster (including the titular note to himself), 3.5 x 3.5 inches, initiated 2/8/13, completed 2/10/13.

"Leviathan"

Original IBL art - ink and torn Hattie's Hat receipt glued to found coaster with pre-drawn image, 3.5 x 3.5 inches, pondered for several months, completed 2/10/13.

McSweeney's #39 and #38

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A Note from Senator Patty Murray, Democrat, WA

On 1/16/13 in this very space I shared a letter I'd written to President Obama requesting he end the drone strike program in Pakistan.  I also sent copies of the letter to my Washington senators, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray.  Senator Murray has responded -

A humble thing but thine own...

Everybody in, nobody out.


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