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At Dogfall

November 15, 2012Dogs, Drawingsblog minneapolis, blog minnesota, dog drawing, dog sketch, dogs falling, dogs jumping, drawing blog, skyfall by adeleRebecca

for keith
* To the tune of “Skyfall” by Adele.

I Like Dogs

November 5, 2012Dogs, Drawingsblog minneapolis, dog drawing, dog sketch, drawing blog, drawing German Shepherd, German ShepherdRebecca

Happy Halloween!!!

October 31, 2012Drawings, General Weirdnessblog minneapolis, drawing blog, favorite halloween monster, Halloween cartoon, halloween survey, monster, sketch blog, slimer ghostbustersRebecca

I Got Your Whimsy Right Here

October 17, 2012Drawingsblog minneapolis, drawing blog, elephant drawing, elephant driving car, sketch blog, whimsical blogs, whimsyRebecca

I’ve noticed that many successful blogs are built upon whimsy.

If you know me, or even if you’ve read some of these posts, I’m not very whimsical.

I would not, for example, bite the pattern of a heart into an apple and then cup it in my hands and take a photo of it to post here.

I don’t have any cute kids I can press into blogging service.

I could take photos of delicious food, or show you how I delicately dab butter onto my pastry dough with a pastry brush. If only I had a brush. And some dough.

I’m not obsessed with the color turquoise or white (which, when I was in school, was not even a color.)

I don’t even enjoy coffee, so I can’t whip up a late and draw a picture in the foam (another heart?) for you to enjoy with the caption “I love love”.

Hell, I don’t even live each day in the moment. Like a lot of humans, I’m usually living in the past or contemplating a fantastic, fanciful future.

So. Here. Here is the whimsy I can give – a drawing of an elephant driving a car that may or may not be a Mini Cooper convertible.

Ta da!

The Wednesday Outlook – March 9, 2011

March 9, 2011Wednesday Outlookanchor fish and chips minneapolis, Bernie Madoff, blog minneapolis, Charlie Sheen, dallas tv show, katharine hepburn, not shallow minneapolis, the viewRebecca

Hello!

It’s snowing. I do not approve of this snow situation.

What have I been up to lately? Well, I’m excited to say that I’ve been masterminding a redesign of Not Shallow. Within a week I should have the new site up and I’m going to have ALL NEW CONTENT as well. It will be Not Shallow 2.0, “the upgrade you never knew you wanted but now desperately crave.” I’ve been working on it this week and let’s just say that it involves a drawing of a prawn.

Like the rest of America, I’ve been watching the Charlie Sheen implosion with great interest. Yes, I’ve been treating it as if I bought a ticket to see the sideshow. Each morning I eagerly tune in to the morning news to see what fascinating videos/podcasts/interviews he crafted overnight.

Now there is a movement to stop gaping at Sheen. Craig Ferguson and the ladies on The View both said in recent broadcasts that this is certainly not a sideshow, it is a person with a major illness and we should not be watching from the bleachers. To a large extent, I agree with them, if for no other reason than there are kids involved. Kids who have a dad who went down into the well and doesn’t seem to be planning to resurface anytime soon and a mom who is doing daytime rehab.

But it pains me to agree with the ladies on The View.

And it seems impossible, this being America, for us to just ignore Sheen, what with the machete waving and “tiger blood” drinking (probably some kind of acai berry drink spiked with vodka). But I think the comedian Marc Maron has it exactly right when he said on a recent WTF podcast that Charlie Sheen is like Icarus – he’s in a manic state now and feels invincible but he’s going to fly too close to the sun and those wings are going to burn off. I mean, you can smell singed feathers, can’t you?
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