GOP leaders in Austin want to ensure their corporate cronies corner the market. I really don't trust the finance bros to ensure a quality product, just to make the product as expensive as possible by winnowing out the competition.
Hemp advocates say raising annual licensing fees for retailers from $150 to $20,000 and for manufacturers from $250 to $25,000 would shutter small businesses.
The thing about a peace deal for Ukraine is: Russia doesn't actually want one. Putin needs endless external conflicts to distract from internal failures of governance. He is Lucy with the football. A peace settlement means having a treaty with binding terms.
I go up, and I go down,
And if I catch you, you may drown.
How high I rise, how low I swoon, all depends upon the moon.
What am I?
Even in the ruby red parts of Texas, the people are voicing their opposition.
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
Attention Kids!
Learn Spanish fluently if you don't know it already, especially if your parents don't understand it. Then have conversations with your friends in front of them that they can't understand.
"Twilight at Kiba" by Kawase Hasui, a ukiyo-e artist active from the Taisho to Showa periods.
Brian Schmetzer is America's greatest soccer dad.
#soundersfc #pnw
Art for the People Gallery opening. Excited to have my work up.
#gallery #artforthepeople #artopening #largescaleart #printmaking
Happy Birthday, Coach Schmetzer! 🎉
Heard a riff in my head. Grabbed my guitar and fleshed it out. Then when I started analyzing the rhythm, the riff is in 11/8 time.
So excited to be included in Art for the People Gallery exhibition. Art will be at the gallery and visible online. #thingstodoinaustin #aftpgallery #artgallery #art #austinartscene
I think I'm done.
#portraiture #acrylicpainting #art #contemporaryart
A work buddy suggested a trick to improve memory. Every morning, just to a quick replay of the previous day in your head before starting out the day.
Hard pass. My anxiety would be munching on popcorn while pointing out all the things I didn't accomplish or could have done better.
Gallery night in San Antonio!
#thingstodoinsanantonio #sanantonioartscene #cactusbarn #bluestarartscomplex #datenight
Ironic that a man that consistently delayed aide and undermined FEMA at every possibly turn sent out an email link to HIS constituents on how to apply for FEMA aide. Where was this guy in 2019? Holding up disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy.
www.texastribune.org/2019/05/24/u...
So does that mean your free to jam?
Live portrait session. Drawing done with ink pens. #sanantonioartist #portraiture #inkdrawing #livemodel #art #studiotime
My wife @lesliedeilart.bsky.social is an artist, specializing in printmaking. So quite often her studio floor gets covered on printmakers glitter.
#studiolife #linocutprinting #art #artistlife #studiotime
Like they knew I was coming
Least helpful laundry sorter ever.
Given Chicago's history of deep dish, will the Pope officially declare pineapple on pizza an abomination?
Is the new Pope a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan?
Zero Dark 60
Catch 44
Can we fix the damn electrical grid instead of wasting time on this? This legislation solves zero problems as it addresses non-existent issues. All it proves is the ignorance of the bill's authors. Might as well ban extra-terrestrials from schools while they are at it, because illegal aliens.
So excited to be in
Pressing Matters Magazine this month!
#reductionprint #art #linocut #utsa #printmaking
www.pressingmattersmag.com/issue-30
The judge in the Abrego Garcia has a history of not examining evidence and just taking ICE at their word. In 2020, Judge Kessler accepted a bogus form from ICE that kept a man detained when he had no counsel.
www.aclu-md.org/sites/defaul...
Gamer/sci-fi/fantasy has shown you many dystopias and many utopias as well as the paths that lead there. Fiction is important for its allegorical parallels.
How many times have you "saved the world" in an RPG or video game? Why bother? Because the people in it are worth saving.
Cite a credible source!
