Prismacolor Pencils

...I Would Need in Order to Draw My Late Cat, Puck 

1. cold grey dark
2. cream
3. white
4. cold grey medium
5. pink
6. canary yellow
7. green bice
8. apple green
9. indigo
10. silver
11. black
12. cold grey light 
    

Some of the above, sporadically, without much guilt.

or, what I'll DoFoNaBloPoMo

Post to this blog every day.
Post to that blog every day.
Post to that other blog every day.
Lob that one blog over the side because it was never going to work.
Forget that blog that depended on readers for content ever existed.
Ignore that blog I only have because I wanted to snag the url.
Not even pretend I can post to that blog thirty times in one month without a therapist.

"One Food for the Rest of Your Life" candidates

Tofu'n'veggies over sticky rice
Muffalettas
Mattar paneer
Memphis BBQ sandwiches
Lentil sambar w/saffron rice
Shrimp po'boys
Confetti salad

Things I Learned Reading SciBlogs

1) If you’re not a physicist, don’t use the word "quantum." You can’t just spang down a “quantum” in front of something roundly disproved and thereby render it scientific; I don’t care what Deepak Chopra says.

2) Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle very probably does not mean what you think it means.

3) Your rejection of the evidence does not necessarily constitute a “paradigm shift.”

4) There’s a word for “complimentary” or “alternative” medicine that has been proven to work. That word is “medicine.”

5) There are not always two equally valid sides to an argument. Sometimes one side is wrong. Sometimes the majority is wrong. Sometimes it isn't. You may never know if you don't check your source's sources.

6) The fact that someone is rude to you or gets angry at you doesn’t necessarily mean they’re wrong, or even that they suspect that, somewhere deep inside, they might be wrong. Sometimes they're just pissed at you because you're arguing poorly.

7) Vaccines do not cause autism. The fact that we are not yet sure what does cause autism in no way invalidates this fact.

Cool Things I Found Because I Look Down When I Walk

1) An eight-pound chunk of quartz rock
2) Thirty bucks
3) A purple-throated fruit crow’s feather
4) A purse I was able to return to its owner
5) A wallet ditto
6) A near-complete dog skeleton
7) A big red fake flower I wore on my motorcycle jacket for years
8) A dawn snake shed, soaked with dew, that still reeked of snake
9) Bout a dozen empty songbird semi-eggshells
10) Several live copperheads, which is part of the reason I look down.

There is also something to be said for looking up when one walks, or so I hear. 

Ten Very Bad Movies I Love

(chosen at whim and presented in no particular order)

The Alligator People
El Topo
Untamed Youth
The Dragon Lives Again
She-Devils On Wheels
Battlefield Earth
The Giant Claw
Night of the Lepus
Zardoz
The Devil's Rain

If someone added an item or items in the comments, I would be able to see more entertaining but bad movies. This would make me very happy.

The Ten Least Worky Things I Ever Got Paid to Do

This one is straight--I mean I didn't make any of these up.

1) Hold my hand very still just like that for about 20 minutes (hand model).
2) Splash around in a swimming pool and lie in the sun for much of a weekend (sunscreen tester).
3) Dress up like Elvira for two hours for a rich couple's Halloween party.
4) Draw a coupla cartoons for a newsletter.
5) Be a test subject for the Psych department.
6) Juggle at a kid’s birthday party.
7) Act.
8) Look after horses.
9) Model for a painting class.
10) Teach creative writing.