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Some pictures of some paintings… part 2… that we might have more fun with later…

These are just some photos of some of my art that I am still working on. They mostly started off as rough sketches, just for fun, and then they start to grow into… something… You might be wondering why I … Continue reading →

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Some pictures of some paintings… part 1… oh, and a free art lesson…

Yesterday, I told you I was almost done posting photos of my trip to see my mom in the Bay Area, except for some pictures of some pictures. I always do some painting when I am at my mom’s house. I … Continue reading →

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Well, we did it… 25,137 comments on one blog post!!!

And we did it with love. We did it with friendship. We did it with humor. We didn’t start off with a negative topic that made people so angry that they felt they had to comment. We just did it … Continue reading →

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But I’m an ex Berkeley liberal hippy… I can’t be a racist!!!

Yeah, that’s right… I have been accused of being a racist… sort of… in a really offhand way. You know that children’s book I did? The one called: I Like Monkeys. It is over there in my sidebar. I have … Continue reading →

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That’s it… I am having a joke contest… on that post where we are tring to set the record for the most comments ever on a blog post…

There are just too many depressing posts today… poverty, abuse, depression, lost love, broken hearts… there is only one way to counteract this tidal wave of negativity. A joke contest. There will be two categories: 1. Best joke… 2. Worst … Continue reading →

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I am starting a revolution… sort of…

But this is a revolution that takes us back to the way things used to be… so I am calling it: Retrolution!!! For years, those of us that were born in the 60’s and came of age in the 70’s … Continue reading →

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We did it… 15,000 comments on one post…

It never went viral. It wasn’t about a subject that made people mad and generated comments that way. I just asked my friends and random strangers to come and hang around and have some fun. And we did it. I … Continue reading →

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So, we contacted WordPress to tell them about this attempt of ours to break the all-time record for most comments on one post, and this is the reply they sent back to us…

Okay, that isn’t the actual reply, this is the actual reply: ———————————————————- —‘The blogger can follow the instructions in my previous reply to get Freshly Pressed. Feel free to contact us if you have any other questions.’— ———————————————————— Which feels … Continue reading →

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Uh, it is sort of hard to break the record for the most comments on one WordPress post until WordPress tells us what the record is, so until that happens, I am just going to keep going with this crazy idea of mine…

I might be leading you all into disaster… Like all of my plans, this one was not really thought through very well. I just thought it would be fun to see if we could break the record for the most … Continue reading →

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Adding to my collection of famous people who Tweeted me back…

I got a ‘Hi’ from Megan Amram. She writes for a little TV show called Parks and Recreation. Maybe you heard of it. My older daughter introduced me to her Twitter feed, and she does some funny Tweets. Oh, and … Continue reading →

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