Spring Cleaning.

So I deleted a few older posts, ones that seemed like good ideas at the time but are kind of whiny/embarassing now, and a couple that just didn't really have any reason to be around. Hoorah!

Beginning to give thought once more to prettying this place up, though I don't know where to begin. A different template might be nice, but I've no idea how to craft one. I'm also considering a name change yet again. This place was originally known as "Overreactionary" until I learned that the term "reactionary" has political connotations, and I think the wordplay with "OverReactor" is lost and...doesn't make enough sense. So an entirely new name may be in order. Suggestions, anyone? "The Whimsy Pile" is the first one that comes to my mind but I'm not sure about it yet.

Some nifty new Sunday Comics entries are forthcoming, because I've been reading comics like a madman lately.

In other news, art news, more FoodPeople are on the way very soon, so watch for those. Seriously guys, check that place out and suggest something.

I'll close with an art project I presented to my father yesterday, as one of my gifts to him for his 56th birthday...presently just called "The R":

"R" being my Dad's first initial, I decided to do this after some inspiration from my sister's room (she has a similar giant first initial that she displays on her bookshelf). A craft supply store near where I work sells these papier mache letters in various sizes, so using coloured pencils, markers, india ink, paint, and a ballpoint pen, I made this conundrum. All the images and objects pictured in it are references to him in some way--things he likes, family inside jokes, that sort of thing. He liked it a lot, so mission accomplished; keeps it by the table where he sorts bills now. If I had thought of it further ahead, I would have liked to fill up more of that brown space, but I definitely did what I could in the time I had. It's hard to tell from the lighting in the picture but I painted all the other faces of the R black. I was set to write some sort of birthday message, like you would have on an award or something, on one side in silver, but the paint pen I bought turned out to be broken. Lame.

Happy 56th, R!

Holden Out.