{"id":272,"date":"2006-03-13T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/03\/13\/don%e2%80%99t-go-back-to-grey-days-try-to-find-some-better-ways\/"},"modified":"2006-03-13T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T02:20:18","slug":"don%e2%80%99t-go-back-to-grey-days-try-to-find-some-better-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/272","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t go back to grey days; try to find some better ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">March experiment&#8212;day twelve&#8212;<\/span> This dismal weather is starting to get to me. I&#8217;d rather be forced to wear a heavy coat and gloves, if it would get me a blue sky. Continued to use my time matrix to chip away at projects, not all of them money-makers. Took the equine-packaging job from sketches to electronics this afternoon and that&#8217;s an important step. After five o&#8217;clock, I tried to finish cleaning up the front yard, but it started to rain. Didn&#8217;t that happen yesterday? Tonight I sat down again with &#8220;FLIGHT, Volume Two.&#8221; This collection doesn&#8217;t seem as awesome to me as Volume One, but I&#8217;m enjoying it immensely. That&#8217;s just the way it is with sequels, I guess. I can&#8217;t help but observe how much some of these artists have been affected by the drawings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambiek.net\/artists\/w\/watterson.htm\">Bill Watterson<\/a>. Reminds me of when I look at political cartoons and realize that an entire generation of editorial artists have been influenced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimmy.com\/bio.htm\">Mike Peters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnelly.com\/jeff_bio.html\">Jeff MacNelly<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> Sky like a canopy of yellow-grey bruises<span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span>with a tree swaying the way a nervous man shifts his weight from one leg to another.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Tomorrow&#8212;<\/span> Wake up to the stationery bike and another gym workout (try to catch<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectstorm.org\/movie.cfm\">Sebastian Junger<\/a> on &#8220;Washington Journal&#8221;), and then get in some billable time before the Salvation Army executive committee meets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March experiment&#8212;day twelve&#8212; This dismal weather is starting to get to me. I&#8217;d rather be forced to wear a heavy coat and gloves, if it would get me a blue sky. Continued to use my time matrix to chip away at projects, not all of them money-makers. Took the equine-packaging job from sketches to electronics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,38,40,16,14,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}