Between this one and the Nefertiti one, I’m kinda wanting to see a pigeon who is the Queen of Zomunda

✨ Stars! ✨

The transparency stuff is obnoxious but can be turned off. But mostly it’s just that the icons look completely stupid and amateurish.

This way, the outside of the journal becomes a bit of a record of the year as well.

I mostly don't buy stickers for my journals, I just use whatever stickers happen to find their way to me. So there are always "I Voted" stickers and usually some museum visitor stickers, maybe a sticker from an art event, maybe a sticker that came in a box of snacks.

Everybody loves voting for spineless do-nothing cowards who don’t believe in anything and don’t think anything can ever be better!

Everybody remember! The way to win elections is to have no moral convictions and to stand for nothing!

Cool!

Ah, youth

I was remembering having written about this song and album a while back and it turns out that it was over 20 years ago. I was 25. www.sakeriver.com/blog/2004/08...

Well. It'll get better.

I think mostly I'm just having a hard time doing much of anything.

That is a thing I do sometimes on my show, with the book club episodes. But it's not the main thread of the show. But it wouldn't be that hard to pivot, I suppose, from interviews to commentary or whatever.

I still want very much to talk about art. I just don't find myself with craft or process questions for artists anymore. I just want to talk about the art and what it means to me, and what it means to the person I'm talking to.

And, you know, as much as I do still long for conversation and connection, I just am not that interested in doing interviews anymore. I don't find myself having a lot of questions about the hows and whys of making art when I'm reading or watching a movie or listening to music or viewing visual art.

Two long hiatuses, first when I was getting divorced, and now again over the beginning of a new relationship coinciding with the world falling apart.