Amazing artist link posted on our Art Life Collective artist forum
Ok, GorillaSushi posted links to Jessica Joslin’s work on the Art Life Collective artist and shirt designer’s forum.
I recommend everyone check out her work, it’s amazing.
We have some cool stuff, admittedly some of it is mine, in the custom artist shirt section of Art Life Collective, but her stuff is amazing (not taking anything away from our artists, her stuff is sculpture, so would not fit on a shirt).
Stupid does not take a holiday
Life lession No. 354:
When stealing a truck — a felony here no matter what the condition of the vehicle — it’s probably not a good idea to grab one from a salvage yard … while workers a present.
The early 70’s Chevy truck only made it a matter of feet before breaking down. Guys stealing it are still going to jail for theft of a motor vehicle.
Also, nearly had a Darwin award. A group of local teens decided the other night to go joy riding. On a power lift. In a power utility substation. Luckily — or sadly — someone driving by saw the suspects and they were arrested before 1. Blacking out the west side of town and, 2. Frying themselves.
And, last but not least:
It looks like we have a huge black market for tasteless inflatable Christmas lawn ornaments. There have been maybe 20 thefts of these things — and police have no less that three suspects. For inflatable Santas and such. You know, if you are going to go to jail for something, better not be telling your cell mates it’s because you ripped of some old lady’s blow up Rudolph.
Don’t do this if you have warrants out …
Word of advice to you folks out there who have a bunch of outstanding warrants.
No matter how cool you think it would be … don’t be in a police-escorted parade. Was covering a community parade Saturday in one of our housing projects. Car came in to line up for the parade. Turns out, the passenger was wanted out of Birmingham on several warrants.
At least the police were nice enough to hold off on the arrest until after the parade was over so they would not make the arrest in front of a bunch of kids. Still. Someone needs to review the British military film: “How not to be seen”.
On another front. We had a report of damage to property. Guy breaks into his old girlfriend’s house to get all the stuff he left behind during the breakup. So far, no problem. Then, just to be malicious, he stuffs three sheets in the oven. Now there is a problem. Cops have not picked up the jilted boyfriend, but his day is coming — soon. It is, after all, a small town.
And now … stupid repo men meet stupid parent.
Local woman missed a bunch of payments on her car. Repo guys followed her to a local nursing home. After she went in, they waited about 30 minutes to make sure they had time, then went ahead and hooked up the car to the tow truck.
The two dumb and dumber repo dorks got a few miles down the road when they heard screaming. Turns out they had repossessed the car … and kidnapped the woman’s 2-year old the dumb bag left in the back of her car. Mom is undergoing intensive counseling from the good people at child services on where not to leave your childre.
Repo guys managed, somehow, not to get charged with kidnapping. Still, you would figure that, rule No. 1 on repossessing vehicles would be to check and make sure no one is actually in the car when you tow it away.
What’s really sad here is that the child is absolute proof the woman has already reproduced. We need mandatory Depro shots for everyone who spends more time breathing through their mouths than their noses.
Some cynical entertainment
I like dark, surreal commedy. The darker the better. Probably just another way to keep the frontal lobes intact after dealing day in and day out with the public at its worst.
One of the Art Life Collective t-shirt designers found this stuff and posted it on the Art Life Collective forum.
It’s part of some of the work one of the ALC contributing artists does. I was hoping to get in on our site, but reality, being what it is, they are already selling their own shirts.
Still, it’s the kind of comics that help reset my mental circuit breakers at the end of the day.
Go here for a sample then click on the Deviantart link above the cartoon for more.
Got to admit, comics aside, I am a fan of the other artwork on the site.
Venting my spleen … all of it
Ok,
My dad said, when he found out I was going into journalism, “You are not going to become one of those cynical reporters, are you?”
I just looked at him. Have to admit, after dealing with some of the smegma that passes for humanity, I do find myself getting a bit frustrated. Cynicism is the least of my worries, misanthrope is more like it.
And, though it appears to be more rampant locally, corruption and stupidity are becoming a genetic component of our species everywhere.
For instance:
‘‘We can’t go through a whole year of misery for the sake of accountability.’’ — Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, at news conference outlining priorities of Legislature’s Black Caucus for remainder of regular session.
Love those politicians.
But now I have found a way to vent. I have a wonderful collection of anti-warm and fuzzy phrases on some of our custom designer shirts now at Art Life Collective, www.artlifecollective.com. My favorite is Save the planet, kill yourself followed by Too much stupid, for obvious reasons. I find creating such antisocial products keeps me from actually becoming antisocial. Plus, around here, they are guaranteed to piss off exactly the right kind of folks.
Still, there are a lot of people out there who could die on my birthday.
