Congo Park Watercolor By Jenny Mathews

Jenny and I went on vacation to New Orleans earlier in the summer. It was an amazing vacation. We stayed at the Olivier House. 

The Olivier House by Jenny Mathews

Of course we received the usual warnings. Don't go here, don't go there, which we did our best to ignore. One of the places we were advised against going to was Louise Armstrong Park. Not safe they said. But we went, anyway. Reading the history of the park and Congo Square was fascinating. It was the one place slaves and freed Blacks were allowed to congregate in freely. Well, semi-freely. One could almost feel the energy that had been imbued into that ground. For me the most striking feature of Congo Park was...

No matter what question you ask in New Orleans, the answer seems to be Marie Laveau, and even locals in the know will freely admit ain't nobody really knows a damn thing about her. I never asked about Marie Laveau, because I didn't want to get the answer they give to tourists. I don't know much about anything metaphysical, but if this tree isn't my spirit plant I don't know what is. 

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Four "Cute" Watercolors of Aquatic Animals By Jenny Mathews

I want to show these four paintings by my partner Jenny in sequence so you can get the entire picture of what is going on. Every day I wake up after her and I come downstairs and she is almost always painting. A lot of times she is working on a project for clients, but sometimes she is just painting. So, I'll start making a cup of tea and wait. A lot of times she'll paint things in a series. When I first saw this first painting in the series I missed the point. I won't be heavy-handed about what I think these might be about.

The next day I shuffle down the stairs and I see she has finished another piece in a similar style, so I know she's on to a particular theme for a while. Sometimes I'm anxious to check my own mail, get a cup of tea going, and ingest whatever pills and potions my medical team thinks is necessary to keep me going, and I still didn't really get what was going on here.

On day three I got it. You see, I use plastic. When I go to the store and they ask me I say I prefer plastic. There was even a time in the 1990's when I was told in an Environmental Life Science class that in the end it didn't matter what we chose because both created about an equal hazard for the environment. Turns out that's not exactly true, especially not for marine animals. 

Day four

This was the fourth and final piece in this series. Frankly, I'm glad there aren't any more.

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Oprah Winfrey's Pussy

I am now a painter as well as a poet, actor, and America's First and Only Zombie(Z) Party candidate. I painted Oprah Winfrey's Pussy. It took a lot of paint. Want to see Oprah's Pussy? I didn't, but I am the only person on Earth who has. And it looked like this...

I am the only person on planet Earth known to have seen Oprah Winfrey's Pussy.  I was surprised when she commissioned me to do the portrait. She wants it to be memorialized for future generations so they can remember it as it was.... untouched.


December 12, 2012 update: At one time this was my most popular blog. I actually spent a few days on the texture of this painting. I removed it from my blog but then decided I worked hard on this painting and it should stay. It doesn't get much traffic anymore. 

Ron Jeremy is a Bad Dude

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