new work

Wishing you the happiest of holidays!

If you love gifting art as much as i do, see the NEW 5" x 7" digital repros now available at my etsy shop, ateliermaryk.
Here is a sneak peek, with more to be offered at my shop daily:

Oooops, and almost forgot: Etsy Madness is happening, with sellers slashing prices and offering discounts all over the place, so to join in the merriment, I am offering:
* * * CYBERSPACE SPECIAL * * * Now through Tuesday, December 2, take 15% off everything in my shop, PLUS free shipping and handling.

green eye mandala


the view was her own

kewl, dude

Witness! a signboard spotted recently in a nearby elementary school...


the following week, a new message appeared:



BTW,
being smart is in.

speaking of smarties, Krazy Kat has had a loyal and devoted fan following of famously smart, geeky, kule dudes and dudettes:

Pablo Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Gertrude Stein, Walt Disney, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Kristen Hersh (of the band "Throwing Music", whose song "The Key" was inspired by the strip), H. L. Mencken, Umberto Eco, Frank Capra, Jack Kerouac, e.e. cummings, Charles Schulz, Richard Diebenkorn, and Wayne Thibaud.

{this was but a partial list, courtesy krazy.com by Peter Campbell.}

so fear not, if you have ever felt the need to quell the escape of multi-syllabic or intentionally mutated words from your lips; if you routinely listen more than you speak; and if you demonstrate maniacally obsessive behavior toward reaching the stars or throwing bricks with precision like our boy Ignatz,

REJOICE! BC UR KEWL.

etsy Treasury and Showcase

Hurry, this Treasury by darling OhFaro will expire promptly at 8:58 p.m., Thursday, November 20th.

It is so great to be pictured with other Etsians from all over the place! Make sure you click on the Maya Angelou soundtrack as your browse the Treasury. Thanks, OhFaro.

And also on November 20th, my text ties will be featured in the etsy Accessories Showcase. Here's a little preview, enjoy!

new url

Coconino County argot: "Eureka! New url is borned in the oith, li'l ainjil, we'll be rich, rich, richie rich from this black fountain of yute."

Translation back to anglais: ¡Atención! "love letters to ignatz" debuts here at its new address:
http://loveletterstoignatz.blogspot.com
Fresh and slightly tweaked look; continuation of the blog "love letters to the universe" and its customary perspective.

Back to Coconino County:
For those of you unfamiliar with Ignatz, the Kat and the Pupp, the following tutorial is proffered (Keep in mind, tomes have been written in profundity analyzing the characters, antics and landscapes described in cursory form herewith.)



Krazy Kat is the legendary comic strip/ brainchild of George Herriman, who gave public birth to Krazy in 1913. The strip ran in U.S. newspapers between 1913-1944.

The action in the strip focuses around three main characters mired in a "love" triangle amidst the shifting landscape of Coconino County.
The characters are: a cat, Krazy; the cat's antagonist, Ignatz Mouse; and the protective police dog, Officer Pupp. Krazy nurses an unrequited love for the mouse, while Ignatz despises Krazy and constantly schemes to throw a brick at Krazy's head, which Krazy takes as a sign of affection. Officer Pupp, as Coconino County's administrator of law and order, makes it his mission to toss Ignatz in the county jail for his brick-tossing schemes.
(This excerpt was distilled from Wikipedia's detailed and informative entry on Krazy Kat.)

Dialogue takes the form of alliterative and stylized argot, a mixture of French, English, Spanish, Yiddish and Herriman's New Orleans dialect, Yat.
To my great chagrin while pondering the direction of today's post, the sudden reality that the language unintelligible to the rest of the family and still spoken between my sister and me derives largely from early exposure to the Kat.

How did I not connect these dots before, after a lifetime of Krazy exposure and existence? BOINK! It hit me like a brick in the noggin.
Thank you, li'l dahlink readers, for the opportunity for this most egregious epiphany.

a year in the life

the reds are at it again
another fall blooms




summer
a dim memory
already

the time
of decline
upon us
the holy of holies
so we can't forget:
Días de Muertos

or is it the 'Ween...
watch the little movie below and decide.

Véase también mis otras entradas sobre esta celebración tan bonita.

See also my other entries about this celebration.

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hard to fathom: one Fall day i'm touring kindergarten classes with my band, The Ladybugs; said to be the first karaoke-all-girl-band-on-the-planet (the year: 1964, the Brits have landed).
the next, i'm discovering remarkable similarities between Kurt Cobain's and my birthcharts.
(so what's forty-five-ish years between these two events: a mere micro-drip in the scheming of the cosmos)
nothing can make me happier, except another tour.



proof: you can take the girl out of the rocker, but never the rocker out of the....

so thanks, Paul, for playing at my place Nov 1,

and thank you,
madcap lads from liverpool and all you rockers before and since, for the continued celebration and inspiration.