Ok my ooooold tablet finally ate it. Time for a new one. Money IS an issue. So the question for you artsy/designy folk out there, suggestions?

I think I can get an Intuos3 for reasonable money since the 4 came out. Or I could just got with bamboo fun! I like that it has "fun!" in the name. I'm not a pro so the fun may be better for me an my pocket book.

So I got a package from Amazon filled with things off my wishlist. Awesome no? Except no note as to who it's from. It could be on purpose. Just a random anon gift. OR it could be a mix up from Amazon in which case the person who gave it to me is wondering why the hell I haven't said thank you yet.

Stress.

If it was any of youuu, thank you. Most especially for the Edmond Dulac and Arthur Rackham books. They throw me back to days filled with nothing to do but read. Glad to have them to look at in detail and obsess over for a while.

http://www.artpassions.net/rackham/
http://www.artpassions.net/dulac/dulac.html

Now to send this, minus the links, to non journal folk. *grin*

I hope you and yours are having a good time and staying out of the kinds of trouble you don't want to be in and getting into MORE of the kind of trouble you do want.

How are you so awesome?



Posted yesterday Jay has a nice and,I can't believe I missed how OBVIOUS, take on Rick Perry's Superman comment. Nicely done Sir!

It's probably been posted a fair bit but JUST IN CASE I'm posting it again because it should be seen by you.

Ok so this is Clarence's speech from William Shakespeare's Richard III done by an actor doing about 20 plus impressions. It works just as well just listening to it, which is the mark of a good impressionist IMHO.

However...

What makes this AWESOME is not the impressions. Although most of them are excellent. NO! What makes this worth watching is how the performer picked which section of the monologue to go with which "actor". The snippets from the speech just go SO freaking well with the various speaking/performing styles. J'adore.

Seriously. If the Droopy Dog part doesn't make you laugh, I'm worried about you.

So very much. The Daily Show takes an amusing look at politics, this time England's and points out how very different the style of debate is.

If the State of the Union was more like this, I think more people would tune in. Just saying.