Pouring My Art Out

What did I do yesterday??? I went back in time…

Posted on March 8, 2015 by pouringmyartout

We went to see a little civil war reenactment in Vista, California yesterday, and I got recruited by the Richmond Howitzers.

I have actually been thinking about joining one of these reenactment groups for quite a while, but I was worried about spending a lot of money on it. The rifles alone cost about $800.00 dollars. But guess what…

If you join the artillery, you don’t have to buy a rifle.

And I got to fire a cannon… not one of the replicas… a cannon that fought in the civil war… I had to give up my camera and all my other modern possessions for the afternoon, but Uncle Bert took a bunch of pictures and he is emailing them to me later. Hopefully he got one of me firing the cannon during the battle.

Oh, and he used my camera to take a few pictures of some tall guy…

In a really cool hat…

Okay, more on this later…

Posted in My travels, Pictures of me, Stories of my life | Tagged abe lincoln, civil war, civil war reenactment, current-events, history, humor, Richmond Howitzers, social-media | 16 Comments

I made a new friend yesterday…

Posted on February 15, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Oh… sorry… wait… you got a little something in your teeth… and that really isn’t a good picture…

There she is, my new buddy. I had to get up at four in the morning to drive my youngest daughter to church camp in the mountains East of LA.

On the way home I stopped and made friends with this lovely horse… you know how I am about horses…

Okay, that picture just cracks me up.

I know I go on about how organized religion drives me crazy, so it may surprise you to learn that both my daughters are or were very active in youth leadership in a church.

But this is one of those Christian churches that doesn’t judge people or marginalize people.

As I was leaving, I think my new friend looked a little sad to see me go.

But maybe that was just because of the apple I gave her… who knows?

Posted in dogs and other animals, My travels, Stories of my life | Tagged animals, horse, horses, humor, nature, photography | 24 Comments

Just a thought…

Posted on February 4, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Posted in My art, thinking about stuff | Tagged current-events, evolution, free porn, humor, ignorance, philosophy, religion, social-media | 20 Comments

Dear minions, I just want you to know how much I love you all, and I know I could never run a vast, evil empire bent on world domination… (or have a single blog post with over 40,000 comments)… without you… I mean, if it was just me it wouldn’t really be ‘vast’, now would it…

Posted on January 25, 2015 by pouringmyartout

Oh you… you dear, sweet, just-slightly-evil horde of loveable little varmints. I know our plans of world conquest are taking longer than we thought. When I first set out to be the supreme overlord of this and all other universes utilizing an insidious and all-powerful evil empire… (also known as my humor blog)… and began to recruit an army of diabolical minions… (which WordPress insists on burdening with the demeaning title of ‘followers’)… I figured, hey, how long can it take before the entirety of all living things willingly bow down before me and lets me fix all their problems with love and understanding… a week? Two at the most?

Well, it has been closer to two years… dang it… but we haven’t given up. We are still slowly growing… spreading our web of control over the… uh… web of information.

Okay, I will admit that we do not really have a secret lair in a hollow volcano. And we do not have a giant red eye that can see everything that goes on in the world. But we do have that nifty bunker I dug in the backyard… and a telescope… and now, if I come down with a really bad case of pink eye…

Well, dammit, you have to admit that comes pretty darn close…

Posted in stuff about blogging | Tagged art, blogging, blogs, current-events, humor, minions, Photoshop, social-media, world conquest | 10 Comments

Even more shameless self-promotion…

Posted on December 12, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I just went into a little custom T-shirt shop near my house and ordered a shirt with this original design…

I had it printed on a white shirt, so that is just about what it will look like. I threw in characters from both my action/humor science fiction series and from my illustrated children’s book… and I even stuck me in there… you know, because I am the hero of The Otherwhere Chronicles… well, not this me, that other me in that other dimension.

When people do ask me about my books, I can give them that new business card that I showed you in that post earlier today.

On the back, I have the covers of my books I have published so far…

I will post some pictures of me wearing the shirt when I get it.

Posted in My art, Pictures of me, Stories of my life, thinking about stuff | Tagged aliens, art, books, current-events, humor, monkeys, science fiction, social-media, writing | 15 Comments

So, about that post we did that has 36,930 comments… part 5…

Posted on December 7, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Yes, if you have been following along with this, or if you joined in our reunion party on our record-breaking post… or if you just go back a few posts to part one of this series, you will see that we went from 35,927 comments to 36,930 comments… in less than one weekend… on one single post… oh yeah.

Now we all know I suck at math, but that is more than 1,000 comments in just a couple of days, right? Even considering the fact that half of those are my reply comments… and the fact that I did a whole bunch of those comments last night when I was pretty drunk… we did good, people.

And I want to thank everybody that was there last night. We had some fun. I was typing up a storm. I may have to go back and read the comments to see what I missed. Because I was hammered.

Anyway, the reunion party is still going on , so if you want to be a part of history, meet some cool new blogger friends, or just have a place to hang out and tell bad jokes, or blow off some steam or whatever, please go to the post that is highlighted in the blue words in the link over there on the sidebar——————————–>

I guess I will stop doing this series of posts for now… until our next reunion… but remember, the chat room/blog post is always open. We might as well shoot for at least 50,000 in the long run, right?

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So, about that post we did that has 35,927 comments… part 1…

Posted on December 5, 2014 by pouringmyartout

This is it. The official announcement. We are having another of our drunken reunion parties on that post…You know the one… there is a link right over there in the sidebar

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If you haven’t left at least one comment there, you are missing out.

I am going to be doing a bunch of posts to get people to show up this weekend. And I mean all weekend. This party starts now, and ends… when I say it ends.

In the meantime I will be doing posts reminding you of how much fun you have had on that post… or telling you how much fun you are going to have there. I will tell you how the post came about, and fill you in on a few of the things that make it such a fun place to hang out. Because we might have invented the very first blog/chat room hybrid in the history of the interwebs.

And it is a great place to meet new blogger friends.

Please do not comment on this post.

Save your words for the history books.

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I have two ideas for my next children’s book… and one of them might get me in trouble…

Posted on December 5, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I have this old cartoon story I started way back when I was a teenager about a wizard named Gad who creates the universe and everything in it…

I scanned it and began some preliminary work on cleaning up the artwork and so on. The thing is… well, you knew there would be a thing, I told you so right in the title… that some religious people might be upset by this story. The fact that the wizard’s name sounds so much like the word ‘god’… and the way he creates everything… well, it might be construed as a thinly veiled play on the biblical creation story…

Because… you know… it is a thinly veiled play on the whole biblical creation story…

Now far be it from me to go out of my way to enrage the people who take religion too seriously… but on the other hand, it is a really cute story with a really cute character and lots of really bad puns and jokes…

And kids love magic, right?

My other idea is to do a book about all the things that would be fun to be, and then drawing inanimate objects with legs and arms and faces. Because when you get right down to it, every animal has already been used as an animated character, and so have most of the inanimate objects. I mean, they have talking sponges, talking snowmen, singing vegetables, and a rodent is the freekin’ mascot for one of the biggest corporate empires on Earth.

I knew science fiction was a challenge when I started my sci-fi series. Go ahead, try to invent a picture of an alien in your head that doesn’t look like one of the millions of aliens that are out there in the science fiction universes. But I didn’t realize how hard it would be to come up with new ideas for kids.