hi Chirplett's!!

Sat

you'll never guess what? Fri i helped Masoud create a blog and sat i helped my sister Devereaux set up her blog! now i gotta get mom up and running!
this is FUN!

Masoud's birds

Savana kissing

Houdini!

sage ponies

one more!

i call this one

Sage Ponies.

defiant

yet another

recent painting

in the horse

series.

tribute to Barbaro

another recent

painting in my

horse series.

red stallion

another recent painting.

a red stallion inspired

by Soutine.

recent painting

here is a recent painting.
i like to call Wave
Horses.

Me n' Koozie!

this was one i snapped of me and Koozie(Mom) at the ballet!

making the bread...

this is Maynerd (Elsa) "making bread" on Momma.

hi honey!

it's my honey, Masoud!

guess who?

ya'll will have to bear with me. since i just learned a new trick, i'm gonna go kinda crazy!

A Historic Moment!!!

hey everybody! this is a historic moment! i just discovered how to post a pic! and it's of my precious baby, Elsa.
a special thanks to Michael-Ann who wrote me how to do it and to my honey Masoud for some fine-tuning.
AWESOME!!!

About Wed nite...

well, i'm just getting to write about this past Wed nite. the original plan was to meet a former co-worker of mine from BCM for a beer at Azteca. i ended up getting stood up, he must've forgotten or something. but i never thought getting stood up could be so much fun! while i was looking for him, i ran into some other friends from Baylor! Nowana, who works in Acctg and Kenisha, who works in Radiology. i first met Nowana back in 1988 when i started out at Baylor in the Acctg Dept. i knew Kenisha from when she worked in the bookstore. now she works in the Radiology Dept where i worked for 4 yrs back in the mid-90's. what super ladies!! it was SO good to see them again!! and they introduced me to some new friends: Rochelle, Dee, Shawn, Ray and Lawrence. what a great group! you guys sure know how to have a great time! it was karyoke nite and what a hoot! it was such fun!! i can't remember the last time i laughed that much or had that much fun!!! thanks ya'll for making my nite!!! on the way home, i stopped by kroger's. i met these 2 cool women(Heidi and Trish) in the check-out line. they were buying a case of corona and i a bottle of wine. we could tell we were kindred spirits. so they invited me over. i followed them over to their house. not too far away from me. i ended up calling my honey and he came over. he's so cool. i don't know anyone else i could call up at 10pm on a weeknight, on the spur of the moment, and they would come(espec all the way from Hwy 6 & Clay over to the Heights). i have the coolest boyfriend in the world!! we all had a great, fun, impromptu party! even Elvis, Heidi's mastiff, joined in the festivities.

About last nite...

About last nite...
more on this later!

Back from New Orleans...

Elaine and i went to New Orleans this past weekend to celebrate her birthday. It's becoming a tradition. we left Fri (her BD) at 6:30am. stopped in Sorento to eat at The Cabin restaurant. then down the road to the Cajun Village for some shopping. was disappointed to see the art gallery featuring local artists was no longer in business. on to Nola. Elaine had booked us at the Villa Convento, believed to be the "House of the Rising Sun" from the song of the same name. it's a great place to stay in the French Quarter. the young man Warren, who works there and whose family owns the place, is always friendly, helpful and knowledgable. he is always accompanied by his female black Lab, "Oyster"; who upon hearing the bell ding at the front desk, jumps up from behind the counter, puts her 2 front paws on the counter and looks at you as if to say: can i help you? she is so adorable! Fri nite we went to Napoleon House for supper. i had to get the muffaletta. then down Bourbon St. what a place! no where else like it!! then we stopped off in this little hole-in-the-wall dive bar called Flanagan's. it was a Goth hang-out and we were the only non multi-tatted, multi-pierced people in the place. there was a huge screen tv playing the movie Army of Darkness. Elaine ordered a Cosmo and i a Bud Lite. i think it must've been the only time in the bartender's life that someone told him the drink was too strong! Elaine had him add some more cranberry juice.
the next day, Sat, was spent going down our list of places we wanted to make sure we went to.
we made our way down towards the RiverWalk Mall. one of my fav places, a cat store, was gone. altho i did find a place with a Hello Kitty watch that i had to have! we went to the food court, got some cold, liquid refreshment (in my case a strawberry margarita) and went and sat near the huge floor-to-ceiling window for a magnificent view of the Mississippi River. and altho there still isn't as much boat traffic as pre-Katrina, it's still a very relaxing pastime. then to Harrah's where Elaine wanted to try her luck. i, not being much into gambling, waited for her in the Starbucks. for dinner, we wanted Italian, so we asked Warren for his recommendation. he suggested Adolfo's(upstairs over the Apple Barrel bar). it was near the area where our friend Lips was playing at the bar Checkpoint Charlie's. so we planned to eat, then go and catch her set from 7-9pm. well, things didn't exactly go as planned. there was a long waiting list at Adolfo's. by the time we made it to Checkpoint's, we only got to hear Lips sing one song! a huge disappointment! but we did get to visit with her and meet some of her friends: a couple, Bill and June, and Donna. we drank a couple of beers, danced and visited. and then we got a suprise treat. a guest musician, Alabama Slim, joined the band (after Lips) onstage. he was fantastic!!!
in fact, the bar had been really loud and rowdy, but when he started singing, the whole place went silent. the people looked mesmerized, almost like zombies! it was an amazing thing to witness! not only his great talent, but the effect it had on the people, Elaine and i included. then
the next day we took it easy because we'd pretty much gone to most of the places we'd wanted to. we went and got some perfume (i got patchouli) at Bourbon French, we got some chocolate (out of this world!!!) at Laura's Candies. we went to Margaritaville, Hard Rock, Landry's and a whole lot more! i was bummed that the Baskin Robbins in Jax's Brewery was no longer there. and also that the Cajun place at the RiverWalk Mall was gone, they had the best and cheapest crawfish etouffee in all of New Orleans! also disappointing was when we went to the Hard Rock, we discovered that they're closed Sun's and Mon's. we went to most of our fav old places, found some new ones and i'm probably forgetting some. later in the afternoon, it became overcast, with a nice little breeze and low humidity so we went to sit on the Moon Walk by the mighty Mississippi. it was so pleasant. watching the river, the boats, all the people walking by. what a parade of humanity. then monday i got back in the driver's seat. we ran into some rain here and there. but it wasn't bad. and it didn't last long. when i got back, i saw that my wonderful neighbor Bruce, had trimmed back ALL the thick branches and bushes that had blocked my view whenever i tried to back out of my driveway! God bless him! and boy, was Elsa sure glad to see me! she couldn't stop meowing! i checked my phone messages, among which were Myra, Chris, Mom and my honey. so i called my honey and he couldn't wait to come over, laden down with a wonderfully delicious homemade dinner and a lovely bottle of red wine. like the saying goes: be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!

mon

"no
great
artist
ever sees
things
as they
really are.
If he did
he would
cease to be
an artist."
Oscar Wilde

sunday late...

hot summer nites... sweet, white wine.... sweet nothings whispered in your ear ... impossibly white roses with dark green leaves.... strong, therapeutic backrubs... confidences shared... helping organize 20 years of magazine clippings together... spending time with a kindred spirit... patience, understanding, sympatico... a delicious dinner of Connie's fried shrimp and talapia... more vino blanco... warm, romantic embraces... snapping photos of future remembrances... Beethoven symphonies playing on the radio, sandelwood incense fragancing the air, big fat cat lying contented at your feet, a pair of budgies chirping in the background, sun streaming through the blinds... a sense of surealness surrounding it all... not wanting it to end... but knowing it will... tomorrow is work, back to reality...

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knew shouldn't have had LARGE coffee!
at empire...
@ menil opening: awesome jackson pollock painting!
so heady so strong so potent so raw so sexual so strong so liberating so wow
ran in2 former student of mom's and his friend.
Ron and James.
James doing cool artist newsletter, wants submissions.
can be:
writings
black & white drawings
b/w paintings
b/w collages
b/w photos
submit to:
thebranchcollective@gmail
t r y i n g to fight OFF late-nite cravings.... for tacos. ning! merrh!
bad shelli!
maynerd (meow) -- stop me!

menil's 20th

had promised mom i'd meet her 2nite at menil. they're having an opening, it's their 20th anniv! can't believe it's been that long. here's to art!!!

funny site!

hey, ya'll! ya havta check out this website:

www.icanhascheezburger.com

it has pic's of cats w/ funny captions!

just another wednesday

i went over to myra and brian's tonite after work. bri grilled us some delicious burgers. we three have decided to go walking every nite. anyway, after eating and before our walk, we were watching that new inventor show. it was so hilarious. this one guy had an invention that was supposed to enable a person to escape a burning building. he had his partner model it. it looked just like a giant human JIFFY POP popcorn!!! and then there was this woman who had invented, get this, a doggie barf bag!!! it was a bag with a strap and you put it on your dog like a muzzle. then there was this guy with a toilet. his invention was this do-hickey you hung on the outside of the pot. it had a fan and a built-in air freshener and he called it the "pot sniffer." it was supposed to "sniff" the pot and when it stunk, it was supposed to squirt the air freshener. and then there was this lady with a giant bib called the "auto-bib." it's for all those folks out there that eat in their cars. hey, i might actually use one of those! for those late nite taco runs, with sour cream and cheese dribbling down my chin...
here's to good ole American ingenuity (sp?)!
come on maynerd(meow), time for nite-nite!

June first!

It's already June, I can't believe it!! Time sure flies! And there's so much going on! Tomorrow I'm supposed to go help the Gavleston Bay Foundation volunteers plant some cord grass in Armand Bayou from 8am to noon(Marsh Mania). Then I promised Mitch I'd go help him and others set up for the Yale St Art Market tomorrow at 3pm. Well, he said he has enough bodies for the physical stuff, just needs help keeping cars out of the parking lot. No problem! Especially when he said there'd be some cold ones --- sweet! Then there's the AIA 21st Annual Sandcastle Competition in Galveston on East Beach. The constructing part is from 10am to 3pm. Judging 3-4pm. Awards 4:30-5pm. I'd like to take my honey because he's never been. But I just don't think there's time enought tomorrow!