Playing With Words
This week’s You Laugh, You Lose theme is, Playing With Words, since I don’t have very many police jokes. OH SHIT! It’s the law! I better go.
STUPID! The Law caught me.
On Sunday morning on my way to work, I got pulled over by a cop. I was totally, like, “why in hell I am being pulled over?” Well, it turns out I didn’t to a complete stop at a stop sign right in front of house. I was real nice to the officer, hoping he wouldn’t give me a ticket, but he did anyway. I had just paid off my car and now I get a $200 ticket. I’m working on getting it off my record. Still, this sucks. I usually stop and look too. I feel so violated because it was right in front of my house. Though, I was down the street aways before he caught up with me. My sister told me that the officer that gave me a ticket is a jerk anyway and pulls teens over all the time. He seemed nice to me, but again he was cold.
On a nicer subject, I went to Edmond’s Art Festival on Friday. Although it wasn’t as large as Oklahoma City’s festival, it was nicer in some ways. The art was generally cheaper for one. Each artist had their own tent, which made the art area stretched out. There had more fun stuff for children. There was this guy dressed up as a statue. He was really neat. He would move around slowly sometimes, interacting with people. Most of the art there were done by local artist. I thought these series of paintings were interesting. There was some pop-culture art there, like this piece. I saw this waterfall that I thought was cool. With most of the artists being local, there were typical local themes such as wildlife, the old train days, and local places. All of those pictures were taken with my cellphone camera. I’m glad at how well they turned out pretty good.
This week’s You Laugh, You Lose theme is, Playing With Words, since I don’t have very many police jokes. OH SHIT! It’s the law! I better go.
The Festival of the Arts
Hey, I got to tell you about my Friday afternoon trip to Oklahoma City’s The Festival of the Arts. It was really neat. The art took up a whole street and there were all sorts of activities and events going on. There were like four stages for live music; one had a children’s choir, the stage in the Myriad Botanical Gardens played a mix of everything, the one in the food court played mainly folk music, and there was a small stage for solo artists. There were some live glass blowing. There were two guys from Canada doing tricks and comedy. One could paint a pot. Drew and Kaci Too from a radio talk show on 98.9 KISS FM where there. There was a children’s art gallery where kids could go inside a tent a buy cheap art. I had lunch while I was there. Man, there was a ton of food choices. I looped around the selection three times trying to make up my mind before settling for a philly cheese stake for lunch. The neat thing was each of the food booths were raising money for different art related groups in the city, so it all went to a good cause.
As for the art itself, there was a mix of everything. Like I said earlier, it did take up a whole street, but it would be cooler if there was even more art that expanded throughout the gardens. Most of the art was for sale. The artists were on show next to their art, so you had to be careful about what you say around a piece of art. Even one artist painting in front of people. I didn’t really personally talk to any of the artists, though I did listen in to some conversations. Here some pictures of some of the art that was on display.
- Art 1
- Art 2
- Art 3
- Art 4
- Art 5
- Art 6
- Art 7
- Art 8
- Art 9
- Art 10
- Art 11
- Art 12
- Art 13
- Art 14
- Art 15
- Art 16
- Art 17
- Art 18
- Art 19
- Art 20
As you can see, there really was a great selection. I spent about, I want to say, three to four hours in the downtown area. After the festival, I decided to walk around the downtown area for a bit. I ate at Sonic for dinner so I could get my parking validated thus free parking. Hehehe. During my walk, I found 3D Horror Ride that wasn’t open at the time. They opened at six and it was like five and I figured I would just save it for another day. So, yeah, I had a lot of fun Friday.
This morning before work, I went yard sale hopping. One place I had been seeing a huge banner for a sale on Saturday turned out to be a huge joke. I did stumble on a large neighbourhood sale. I walked like half to a full mile checking it out. I ended up not buying anything despite seeing a coffee table I kind of liked. After work, I went to Target and Pier One Imports looking at their home decor and then I went home visited Amazon’s selection. Again, not buying anything, but getting ideas.
TV Land
This week’s theme, TV Land, features 14 images releated to TV shows. As a bonus, check out these wedding photos (if the link still works when you read this).
Yearbook Quotes and TV Last LOLZ
First the big news: I sent off my payoff for my car! Yes, I’m not debt free. Awesome cakes, huh? Now, some more awesome things for my fans. First, I know for many high school will be getting out for summer/ever, so I bring you the Yearbook Quotes collection. No more writing, “have a nice summer.” Next up for business, I bring new You Laugh, You Lose images. This week’s theme, TV Land, features 14 images releated to TV shows. As a bonus, check out these wedding photos. I categorized some images on my hard drive into different themes for future YLYL themes so I don’t do a drought.
As for projects I’m working on, I came up with an idea for a noir style comic that I’m going to try to develop. It would take place after my novella, The Crashing of Heaven and Hell, following the adventures of one of the book’s very minor character. Basically, I’ve been brain storming things I could do to help promote the book. I did recently complete another major revision of the book, fixing mistakes, adding details, and expanding character descriptions. I’m now waiting for some feedback before I take it any further.