Ink drawings

A yucca plant in Colorado, the Mississippi in Minnesota, and some ducks in Missouri. I'm discovering that the small Moleskine sketchbooks are supremely awesome. It's a lot less hassle to fill up a small spread.

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Now playing: Jimi Hendrix - Red House

Riverview.

My drawing table has returned to me, after long being in my wife's classroom. I also bought me a watercolor sketchbook, so it looks like things are moving forward. Here's the first one I've done on the table.


"I find it very hard to believe that a gorgeous building like this can coexist with some of its neighbors with any modicum of architectural harmony. This comes from an old photograph, taken sometime in the late nineteenth century. It's from St. Cloud State, and I'm not quite sure if it's Riverview Hall or the building with the old gym directly next to Riverview Hall. At any rate, this building once stood proud, alone in a vast lawn dotted with healthy, young maple trees. Some of the trees remain to this day (and turn a most enchanting shade of gold in October), but most of the lawn has been replaced with streets, retaining walls, and parking lots. In the 1960s, St. Cloud State underwent vast expansion at the same time the International Style, possibly the most evil movement ever to mar the good name of architecture, swept across middle America. Today the stately Riverview stands shoulder to shoulder with a slew of cold, ugly, ineffectual heaps of brick and concrete that can't hold a candle to the historical might of a well-designed building. Of course, the whole thing is probably lost on the majority of SCSU's student body. Such is the nature of progress I suppose."

If you like laughing, especially in response to funny things.

Yes yes you all and you do not stop.

What did I say? I'm not gloating, but what did I say? Did I not tell you? Did I not say that the 49ers would win? That was a very satisfying game. Never did I waver in my confidence in a Broncos collapse. When Jake Plummer came in, I started giggling. When Champ Bailey strolled into the endzone to give Denver a 13-0 lead, I relished the mounting magnitude of the eventual chokery. As cameras showed shots of Bronco fans going nuts after they tied the game late in regulation, I thought to myself, "Dear God, why did I not bet on this game?!" It's a shame about Darrent Williams though.

In other news, the University of Minnesota fired Glen Mason after the biggest bowl choke job in history. Sweet. Now is probably one of the biggest decisions in the school's football program. The next coach will inherit a Big Ten spotlight, a program with little to no expectations, and a soon-to-be-built outdoor stadium. This could, and I stress the tenuousness of this, but it could be the start of something very big for the U.

In other better news, St. Cloud State owns you. They own everybody these days. After taking home the Catamount Cup over the weekend (beating Vermont in the championship on their home ice), the Huskies' only competition is Minnesota. They tied twice earlier in the season. Now is the best soft stretch for the team: Alaska-Anchorage, home and home with Mankato, UMD. This should give them plenty of momentum as they head into murderer's row in February.