EVERYONE, DRAW MONSTERS

oh, hey blog.

don't worry ben. I'm starting the revolution.

Heathen Holystone

I am
inclined to regard the Father with doubt
and the wheel of heaven, goddess of sunrise,
with duty. Our Lady, take it where you may, where
you will, because we have been dishonest. we are not
inclined the know that one leg is not the other.
I will
repeat, myself, that simile. reluctantly repeated,
the heavens are like that simile but out here in deep black
earth we know that (How unusual!) music
speaks well of men.
I was
taken by the sun, have never accepted visitors.
having lost the book of myths
I have found the scroll, the word, have learned
to play the burning question, to be
as I will, have learned to tread under scorn.
I am
under oath,
and I must tell you
that all angels
were not women but
may as well have been.

--hayley mason

relevant childsplay

so, i was babysitting the other day.  i asked the little girl, vivienne, age five, if she liked to draw.  she informed me that she preferred to color.  thus, i drew her a picture to color.  the result is the monster below (coloring of words and background by me):

little did she know that she was working on an advertisement.  

meanwhile, i had been encouraging her to draw something from her own imagination.  i asked if she would draw me a monster of her own.  vivienne said that she didnt know what monsters are supposed to look like.  i said that monsters can look like anything at all.  finally, while i was doodling a dinosaur for her to color, she handed me this (drawing by lil vivienne, coloring by me): 

i told her it was the best monster i'd seen in a long time.  ain't it?

lesson of the day: 

"flashlights in yr head at children"
-d.a. levy

a word to my homies

TRAPdoorPRODUCTIONS is in business.
anyone who wishes to publish (anything) under this umbrella label is openly encouraged.
it's as easy as 1, 2, 3 to add authors to this group's public interspace.
so please, ask if you're interested and post your artistic projects with reckless feckless abandon.
heartsandkisses,
pelirrojo