Quote from Merrill J.

This past weekend I had the valued opportunity to play with Merrill J. Miller, vocalist and guitarist hailing from Iowa, but living in our fair country (Alaska). An ad hoc assembly was put together by bass player, Pat "The Rat" Wendt including drummer, Marilyn Clement and yours truly. None of us had played together before. As we were setting up, two figures of authority in the small club we were to play in told me of their previous experience with loud bands. When I passed this on to Merrill, he stated the above quote, which were the first words concerning his musical theory shared with me. They truly were spoken with the voice of authority, without malice towards anyone and yet without mercy for the stupidity of hurting people with sound.

I drew the caricatures of a six man law firm today. For some reason I just felt like keeping at it so I took on ol' Nicholas Cage here. He's got a great face...

Tim Roth

Tim Roth. I saw him first in Rob Roy. He was a very good bad guy. Now he stars in a tv show called Lie To Me. The basis of that show has to do with face mapping and being able to read the involuntary muscle reactions to diverse emotional stimulus. A good portion of the book Blink, by Malcom Gladwell, is devoted to this recent science.

Quick "Tune Up" Caricatures

I get called upon at Christmas to do pary caricatures, so to prep for the gig I do fast ones of celebrities I can find pictures of. Not too hard now, thanks to Google...

Anchorage anchorman Mike Ross

And the perpetual bad guy, Sean Bean

Along with sunken eyes Ted Danson

I'm firmly convinced that the Foreclosure Crisis has been established by several brave men and women, trained mostly in the income tax legal arena, who saw the connection between unholy banking practices and unholy income tax applications, followed their perceptions, applied their skill and forcing banks and lending institutions into disclosure, and now have unearthed massive fraud. The comedy is in the statements by the big guys, who state, while packing their bags for a one way flight to Barbados, "We'll get to the bottom of this..."

Question

The court ruled that Joe Miller had to make his personal files available to the public on the basis that he was running for U.S. Senate, a position that gave the public the right to know about him and his background. I don't necessarily have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is, why isn't that standard extended to our current president? Is it too much to ask for a legit birth certificate from the guy in charge of lethal force in America? Is it too much to ask, "How could you travel to lands unaccessible to U.S. citizens, without being the citizen of another country?"

New Sherlock Holmes

I saw the new PBS Mystery version of Sherlock Holmes

last night and was totally jazzed by

everything in this film. I loved the refreshing

angle on Dr. Watson who is seen in this

version as a much more aggressive individual--

yet nevertheless is totally bewildered by the

mental powers of Sherlock Holmes.

And rightly so. In this day of "forensic everything"

and all the crime gizmos available I was wondering

how they would set this Sherlock over and above

modern marvels. I didn't need to worry.

This Sherlock Holmes is, God help me,

my favorite even over the Jeremy Brett version. I've said it,

please have mercy. One thing I like is the story tellers

decision to bring you into the mind of Holmes as he

thinks with on-screen visuals of the facts S.H. is picking

up from the crime scene and individuals he meets.

It was wonderful. And it wasn't American. There were

very subtle scene transitions and an abundance of 

reasons to want to watch this again. Just imagine inspector Lestrade

texting Holmes requesting his help! I know it sounds like it

shouldn't work but it does and it really swings.