Sunthing Special

Still on hiatus …

Admin — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:56:17 +0000

But you can keep updated on my art and local Akron events through my Sunthing Special Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sunthing-Special/300562123302515 or my Web site: www.sunthingspecial.com

P.S. Thanks for all the kind words about my blog and wishes for its speedy return!

As of April 2 …

Admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:18:30 +0000

I will not be writing any new blogs for an indefinite period of time.

With an android phone, text messages …

Admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:51:53 +0000

are symbolized by a smiley face kind of thing. Since some text messages can be of the downright unsmiley kind, like, say, a breakup text, isn’t the ever-present smiley face a bit misleading?

Lamb-shaped butter …

Admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:48:34 +0000

is for sale at the Marc’s on State Road in Cuyahoga Falls if you’re interested. I found the item a strange thing — why would you want your butter shaped like a lamb and you’re just going to slice it up anyway? — but a quick Internet search taught me that it’s a traditional butter sculpture accompanying the Easter meal for many Russian, Slovenian and Polish Catholics. It’s especially big in Buffalo, NY (?). The eyes are often peppercorns and a white banner with a red cross on a toothpick is placed on its back. You know, when you do things for your whole life you often don’t question them, but when you’re on the outside looking in, a lot of traditions just seem very very odd.

Kids’ movies I don’t mind in the background

Admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:37:00 +0000

You know how you skip about 20 years or so of kids’ movies between the time you’re a kid and the time you have kids? I have to make sure my 19-year-old niece sees them when she comes over because some of them are really, really, really good. So whether you have kids or not, here is a list of some of the animated movies from relatively recent years that I’ve enjoyed watching at least once, and don’t mind playing in the background when I’m working on the computer. Not a complete list, and not in any special order: Kung Fu Panda (1 and 2), Fantastic Mr. Fox, WALL-E, Up, Lion King 1-1/2, Surf’s Up, How to Train Your Dragon, Horton Hears a Who, and the Princess and the Frog.

Great, a remake of “Carrie”

Admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:19:29 +0000

The other day I saw that actress Chloe Moretz has been chosen for the title role in a movie remake of Stephen King’s “Carrie”. The original horror movie came out in 1976 when I was 10. From then all the way through high school I was taunted with versions of, “Your name’s Carrie? Like the movie? Are you going to set the school on fire?” There’s no release date for the movie yet, and I can be comforted that I’m too old to get teased like that again. But it does bring back the annoying memories. Can’t they at least rename the movie to a name which would be more common among a teenager now, like “Ashley” or “Hannah”? Torment someone else for a change.

Three new “girls”

Admin — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:11:44 +0000

Acrylic on ceiling tile, 6″x6″, $18 each.

Recycled show reception on Sunday

Admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:05:51 +0000

Just a reminder that this show opened yesterday and the reception is this Sunday the first. I have 16 pieces in the show. We hung the show the other day and I loved looking at all the ways my fellow artists used “trash” to make beautiful art.

You never know what you’re going to see …

Admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:11:38 +0000

when you’re driving the streets of Akron. Today the car in front of me stopped for seven wild turkeys crossing the road in front of him on Cuyahoga Street.

A walk to get ice cream

Admin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:03:03 +0000

When I was growing up, there was a little ice cream stand probably about a 15-20 minute walk away. One or two times a summer we’d walk there with my parents. It was one of those super-special times you remember. My BFF has a Honey Hut a couple blocks away and has probably been taking her kids there the last 15 years (last summer the kids and I got to share in her tradition). We have a Rita’s about a mile away and tonight my husband and I walked with our son and youngest daughter there. My son rode his scooter and had races with my husband, who ran, while my daughter held my hand and talked about this and that. Like how she was going to figure out a way to keep me from dying by making sure I don’t drink too much coffee and Coke. Anyhow, I know so many other people who are able to do this too, whether it be Handel’s or Dairy Queen or a mom-and-pop place, and I think it’s wonderful. It’s such a simple, yet special, time.