Pouring My Art Out

Bacon, rattlesnakes, spotty horses, sugar cookies… and other things that remind me of Thanksgiving…

Posted on December 2, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Well, thanks to our recent computer malfunctions, I never did share any pictures of our Thanksgiving. But I am not going to bore you with pictures of tasty turkey…

Ha!!! I lulled you into a false sense of security and then, bam! A picture of tasty turkey… sort of… those are some snacks my wife made. They are cinnamon rolls with bacon feathers, candy eyes, candy corn beaks and red licorice wattles…

Wait, wattles, that is what those weird, dangly things under a turkey’s chin are called, right? Anyway, you know I had to put my own spin on it, so the next day, I turned my breakfast snack from a turkey to a rattlesnake…

Because I am an artist… and I wanted to eat the bacon first…

Now most of you who have been here for a while know that whenever we spend Thanksgiving at my wife’s aunt and uncle’s house, just 30 or so miles North of San Diego, we always walk after we eat and visit the ranch just up the road. They have horses… and a donkey… and stuff. That is Pongo up there, one of my favorites. But I met a new horse this time.

Is that a beautiful horse or what?

She was a little shy, but you know I got her to come over and let me pet her with a little patience. And now, just to finish up, a random, gratuitous picture of Willie, who came over to our house the day after Thanksgiving, to decorate some cookies.

Posted in dogs and other animals, Stories of my life, Willie! | Tagged current-events, family, horses, humor, photography, social-media, thanksgiving | 58 Comments

Polar bears are cool… and you better keep them cool… or they get lazy…

Posted on December 2, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I like polar bears, but San Diego might not have the best climate for happy polar bears.

When it’s getting close to Christmas and it is still 80 degrees outside, the polar bears get lazy.

Maybe wild polar bears spend most of their time sleeping. I could Google it. I ought to know this already, because I watch a lot of nature documentaries. But I do know that the polar bears in San Diego spend a lot of time doing this…

And sometimes, even when they are standing up and sniffing around for food, they look like they might be asleep…

I believe the zoo has a live video feed of the polar bears you can look at on the internet. I know they have one for the panda bears.

Yes, I do know that isn’t a panda bear… it is a camel… I was just mentioning the fact that you could watch the panda or polar bears plying on your computer if you want to. I threw in the picture of a camel because that is an animal that likes the weather in San Diego.

And I threw in the llama because he is cute.

Posted in dogs and other animals, Stories of my life | Tagged animals, current-events, humor, photography, polar bears, san diego, San Diego zoo, social-media | 43 Comments

Hey, did you know they have animals at the zoo???

Posted on December 1, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I am not making this stuff up… What I did make up was a really funny chapter about how zoos came about, not only on this planet, but on most alien planets that have advanced life forms as well. I made that up and put it in my action/adventure/humor science fiction series called: The Otherwhere Chronicles… available right over there in my sidebar if you click on the pictures of my book covers… not that I am turning a cute post about a trip to the zoo and meeting an adorable little goat into a chance to market my books or anything…

Although that chapter is almost as funny and awesome as tiny horses…

Just sayin’…

Oh, and I did stop this parrot from wandering away when the bird guy turned his back for a moment… because I am a hero… just like that other me from the other universe that is the hero in my books…

In book three, which I am editing right now with the help of a few blog friends, my hero meets an alien who speaks only lines from Monty Python skits… which is hilarious and at the same time heartbreaking when it turns out that it is using the famous dead parrot sketch to explain… well, never mind, if you wanted to know the story, I am sure you would have bought the first two books by now.

The colors of those feathers really is remarkable, isn’t it?

And then there was this little guy with the huge eyes…

He hardly reminded me of any aliens from my novels… maybe just a little around the eyes.

And that guy, well, he just reminds me of Christmas.

Posted in dogs and other animals, Stories of my life | Tagged aliens, animals, current-events, humor, San Diego zoo, science fiction, social-media, zoo | 18 Comments

If lovin’ me is wrong, I don’t want to be right… but this is so wrong… on so many levels…

Posted on October 24, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I know… believe me, I know… none of us will ever get the image of me leaning in and planting a sloppy, wet kiss… on my own bad self. And the really sick part is that I tried to slip myself some tongue…

I just want you all to know that I did this in support of all my gay friends everywhere… and because, well, come on, man… it is pretty funny…

Posted in My art, my weird moving pictures, Pictures of me, thinking about stuff | Tagged art, current-events, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, humor, life style, photography, politics, romance, social-media | 50 Comments

Oh yeah!!! We have over 35,000 comments on one post!!!

Posted on October 13, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I want to thank my loyal friend and minion, the mysterious X from over at: http://listofx.com/ I mean, technically, I want to thank all of you, even the people who only left a comment or two, but X stuck around and helped me zip through the last 200 comments… and we had fun doing it… so… uh… yeah…

What do you think of us now, WordPress?

Posted in stuff about blogging | Tagged bloggers, blogging, blogs, comments, current-events, humor, social-media, stats, wordpress | 23 Comments

Oh yeah… we did it… 33,333 comments on one freakin’ post, people!!!

Posted on September 29, 2014 by pouringmyartout

I would like to thank my loyal minions: Julie, Al, Cordeliasmom2012, Doobster418, and the rest of you, with a special shout out to our newest minion, Idiotwriter, whom I now name as official Head Minion in charge of showing up late but making up for it with enthusiasm!

Posted in stuff about blogging | Tagged bloggers, blogging, blogs, current-events, humor, loyal minions, minion, social-media, wordpress | 66 Comments

Attention all loyal minions… and the rest of you too… Let’s get to 33,333!!!

Posted on September 29, 2014 by pouringmyartout

As much as I love the fact that you are all commenting on the post I did about the big dog… or the one where I insulted the big oil companies… can we talk about dogs and greedy bastards on the post where we are trying to break the record for most comments on a post… and get into the Guinness Book Of World Records?

We are already at 33,186! But how cool would 33,333 look when the Guinness people come to check us out?

So click the link at the top of the sidebar over there on the right. Or use this link, which will take you right to the comment box on that post:

http://wp.me/p25PYJ-21u/#respond

Maybe you can be the person who goes down in history by leaving the 33,333th comment.

Posted in stuff about blogging | Tagged art, bloggers, blogging, blogs, current-events, guinness book of world records, guinness world record, humor, minions, social-media, world record | 22 Comments

I met a cool dog yesterday…

Posted on September 28, 2014 by pouringmyartout

He was really big… that stick he is chewing on is really a large branch.

We went to a little music festival. We brought our dog, and I met a lot of nice dogs. But this one was special.

I like dog lips… like black, leathery little bat wings.

Even when I petted him, he didn’t stop chewing on his branch. He gnawed that thing to wet sawdust. Oh, and just so you know, Mollie’s date to the Homecoming dance last night, the one with the new boyfriend who made her that Tardis, went well. They looked adorable together. Had a great time. So, uh, yeah.

Posted in dogs and other animals | Tagged animals, current tevents, dog, dogs, humor, music, nature, pets, photography | 70 Comments

You know that post where we are trying to break the record for the most comments on a single post… yeah, the one that has 32,514 comments on it… yeah, the one that WordPress still can’t or won’t tell us what the actual record is… yeah, the one that has more comments than the few we could find that have anywhere near that many comments, and they only have that many because they wrote something horrible or stupid, and went viral, and people commented just to tell them how much they suck… well I just submitted our post to the Guinness Book Of World Records… so remember when I told you to leave a comment on our post because it might go down in history? Well, it really might… and if we haven’t broken that record, maybe I will get one for the longest title of a post ever… and if that doesn’t do the trick, how about the fact that one of the comments on our record-breaking post was typed by a cat… yes, I know, cats type on blogs all the time, but has a cat ever typed a comment on a post with more than 30,000 comments??? I doubt it.

Posted on September 18, 2014 by pouringmyartout

List of X says:

September 7, 2014 at 6:18 pm (Edit)

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- List of X says:
  
  September 7, 2014 at 6:18 pm (Edit)
  
  that comment was actually typed by my cat.
  
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  Yes, we might actually get into the Guinness Book Of World Records… maybe… if they decide to let us… I mean, I did submit an application and tell them what we are doing… so, if you haven’t yet, get over to our record-breaking post and leave a comment… before you miss the bus.
  
  The link is over there on the sidebar.
  
  And read some comments while you are there… reply to some random people… make a friend or two… Or just stick you pet on the keyboard and let them go nuts.

Posted in dogs and other animals, stuff about blogging | Tagged blogging, blogs, current-events, guinness book of world records, humor, social-media, wordpress, world record | 49 Comments

Oh yeah, I carved that…

Posted on September 13, 2014 by pouringmyartout

Big Johnny… that’s Willie’s dad for those of you not following along… put this picture of the tiki I carved for him up on Facebook. I must admit, I like the hat.