I appear to have a hint of bloggers-block. Things seem either inconsequential, better covered elsewhere, or the sort of thing that makes me want to throw electrical appliances out of upper-story windows. For the later I’d love to write a definitive guide to quite how, in so many ways, Neu Arbeit have betrayed the children of this country but it would reduce me to a keyboard chewing-rage.
No work this evening either (thank God) so I decided to rusticate myself to the shed (my personal Skunkworks) and I then remembered I’d vowed to get back to painting and drawing and stuff. I used to wield a mean pencil many moons ago and am pretty handy with a camera. Anyway, I remembered that during the recent re-structuring of the Skunkworks I’d found some hand-tracings I’d done in a CAD package (forget which - it was on a Computer Shopper coverdisk) in ‘01). I thought, the hell with it! Let’s fire it up and do some colouring! Twenty minutes with my venerable copy of Corel Photopaint (8!) later I’d produced this:
Tomorrow night I’m gonna have a very big fire.
Well well, so your brother isn’t the only artist in the family then!
The first thing I played with when I got this computer was the paintbox suite.
You’ll have to go a bit to beat Crowleys pack.
Do you know much about the Tarot Nick?
When I was about 20, we had a medium come round to the house one night to give us a reading (we were deep into our mystical phase at the time).
The only thing that the woman knew about me already, was I was good at reading the cards.
She told me that my spirit guide had just told her, that I was going to be the most famous Tarot reader in history!
My guide is apparently a Cherokee Indian, they usually are, how they keep getting the gig of spirit guide is a mystery.
You certainly never get the village idiot of Nemphnet Thrubwell coming through do you?
I havent touched a Tarot deck since.
In Will Self’s book “How the Dead Live” the issue of spirit guides is addressed. Put simply there is an acute shortage of Native Americans and the recently deceased woman in the book gets an Aboriginal Australian instead.