Pirates and Mr. Blue Sky on a Savage Winter Freya's* Day

I love the winter. Adore it. It meets my soul in a dark corner of a buried cavern and gives me a secret handshake.

But a little sunshine is acceptable. Especially when pirates are involved.



And you can't have sunshine without a little Mr. Blue Sky, courtesy of the Electric Light Orchestra. I'm keeping it Lazy Town, because I say so. Besides, Kirk Douglas always told me that I'm Sportacus.



Now, back to gristle mining with my scarred and bloody fists. In Christ...

*Or Frigga's. We Norse are not an accurate people.

Frozen People - Art for Everyone (Even You)

The hard truth about art, even really, really good art, is that it is fleeting. It takes incredible work to get any project from concept to completion, and the first thing that happens (if it gets seen at all) is the critics rip it down. The second thing is that it then is forgotten.

Certainly, great art transcends, but I'm no great artist.* So, for us regular mooks, making really, really good art instead is probably the center of the target. But, sometimes, if you keep at it long enough, the art gets you instead...it transcends...it becomes great on its own.

I think Improv Everywhere unleashed great art at Grand Central Station recently. For five minutes, 200+ regular citizens froze in place, to the shock of onlookers everywhere. It achieved beauty, the ethereal, tension and ecstasy.

I wish I could have been there, and I can only hope that this fleeting five minutes of art becomes legend. I hope art text books 200 years from know refer to the "frozen people of '08" in their chapters on early 21st art.



Truly, to God be the glory. I can only imagine that this work delighted Him.

*Yet.