2011 first drawing of the year with new eye-glasses

My sister wearing the eye-glasses I'd gotten from Nicanica
and which I figure, after just looking at 'em, gotta give 'em a try, see what eye can see. They're awful strong, stronger than anything you can buy in an American drugstore. Can actually see real fine lines. Not that the drawing is all that fine-lined. But it's the first of the year... Will work real well for bone carving.

Thanks, Nica. I should probably send you the drawing. Probably will.

The late Teegah, Cosmicegg, Camaro and Rape of Mother

SO, JA, THIS IS A PHOTO OF RUDI UND TEEGAH. Rudi is the black'n white one. The photo is only a few days old... She looks a little distant, but really she just couldn't care less about having her picture taken. If you know cats, you know how independent they are. Not that she didn't have her warm side. She was very tuned in. If you were right, she was right there. Very special cat. Rudi too. Maybe you can guess that this is a pretty good occasion. A lot (?) of the family is here for the New Year and Rizdvo. That's what we call Christmas. Rizdvo. It's January seventh. So you see, we follow a different calendar also. A bunch of different conversations flowed around the table over incredible meals. (Got too drunk New Years, but, what the hell. Had a nice big fire outside. This n that.). Seems the talk sometimes revolved around a piece of Artwork. Somebody gold-plated a turd. And sold it for a lot of money. For old geezers, this is a little bit stupid, ja? Tried to fit it into the concept of Singularity. Some things don't make any sense. Not that

they have to. Calling some things "eye candy" to move 'em out the the realm of Art. Seemed to us that most of the difficulty lay in semantics. The words themselves. As my Sister said, (with so much conviction it left no room for doubt), words have a meaning, they have power, and it's very precise. I'm paraphrasing, obviously. I lack Her know-

ledge of the language. Her clarity. Some of the images of Cosmicegg to Her were eye candy. I said "but listen, if it's the cosmic egg, out of which all hatched, it's ridiculous to exclude any-

thing cuz it's all there. So some things are simply personal views. You know, if you look at the photo of me, my self-portrait, you can see that I'm running out of words. Space has grabbed me long ago. Maybe that's why I didn't hesitate to go with Rape of Mother. A few seconds, maybe thoughts warred. But it was too out of the blue for me to be able to resist it.

The second day of the New Year. A totally unexpected event, unthought of, how or why would anyone wanna think of something like this? senseless. Stupid. but it's not even that. How do you prepare for a death? An innocent enough thing.


Teegah drowned.


Or, at least it seems that it was her.