The lady's a Tiger!

image © copyright James E. Lyle

My buddy, Matt, e-mailed me today and reminded me of the fact that I hadn't posted much artwork here lately. Not in so many words mind you. He was talking about other stuff (like maybe even some paying gigs for me as an artist). But he did remind me. So, being as he's the guy who got me started with this whole blogging thing I thought I'd better upload an image to ImageShack® and see if I could actually still do this sort of thing. We'll see. I'm pretty rusty.

After some fiddling, an image is up! Hooray!

Okay, now about the image. Several years ago on Halloween, my wife, Karin (the famous one in our family, but not the punk guitarist of note) was teaching late. I was bored and decided to design a costume I thought she'd like. This is the result. It was done in color pencil on a sheet of tracing paper, then affixed to a sheet of illo board and scratched with an x-acto knife to make the whisker effects.

I'm still proud of the results after all this time and actually still send this out as a portfolio sample from time to time. In fact, I'm doing that today, between everything else.

There's been a lot of "else" lately. Which explains why I haven't been blogging. Which brings us full circle.

Now I have to go check an e-mail from Matt. Go figure.

I wondered why my head was spinning!

Okay, I've made a point not to let this blog become a political thing. There's just too much of that sort of thing going on, and frankly I'd rather not become part of it. I have my opinions and I vote my conscience. However I can not be quiet about the latest outrage from the "New" Congress.

Sorry guys you blew it.

Perhaps one can debate stem cell funding.

Perhaps talk radio annoys some.

Perhaps some would like to enact "hate crimes" legislation.

But to introduce language into the Lobbying reform bill that would strip citizens of their right to petition the federal government…no, you aren't getting off that easy.

Sure, the language WAS stripped out of the house bill before the bill passed (and lobbying reform is a good idea in my book), but that the language was even introduced is an insult to everyone who claims to be a Democrat! In fact it's an insult to everyone who claims to be an American.

I am insensed (can you tell?) that we have elected officials in congress who swore to uphold the constitution, who apparently haven't the foggiest idea of what that document declares.

Embarrassing isn't it?

I understand that the Senate version of the bill may re-instate the offending language.

You might want to reconsider your vote from November.

I expect I'll be slammed with protests about this post. But I'm still right.