When I was trying to find something unique to give Stacy for Valentine’s Day, a livejournal friend posted a Polaroid painting that she’d commissioned. I couldn’t resist copying her idea (so not so unique but still quite special). I emailed a picture and what I was looking for to the artist and shortly thereafter I recieved this beautiful, tiny, painting of Stacy, Toca, and myself.
The Poloroid Project seems to be on a hiatus but the artist, Danny Brito, has plenty of incredible art available on his site. Check him out! Buy his stuff!
I’ve always wanted a cuckoo clock. It stems for my extreme love for the simple, colorful, shape-driven art of the Germans and Swiss. It reminds me of my favorite art of Mary Blair, an early illustrator for Disney. This year for my birthday, my sweet cuckoo bird of a boyfriend offered to buy me one of my choosing. I found one that had almost everything I wanted. It’s quartz so it doesn’t require constant attention, it’s colorful, it has an actual cuckoo bird that pokes out every hour, it plays a different song every hour, and it has a cute pendulum. The one thing it’s missing is moving characters or water mill. I’m in love with it because I fall in love with inanimate objects some times.
It’s pretty exciting that Lebron is coming to the Miami Heat. There was much rejoicing in our house as it means Stacy is pretty much guaranteed some good basketball and a successful team for which to root.
Stacy predicted all three playing in Miami a few months ago and got the domain threekingsofmiami.com in anticipation. So far just a splash page. What next?
We are considering changing our dog’s name from Toca to Pat Riley.
As you know, the position of Candy President is the single most powerful office in the world of Sweets. Through its leadership can come a more delicious life for all people. In it, are centered the hopes of sugar-lovers worldwide and anyone who longs to be treated to a tastier life.
Your next Candy President will be charged with making the most important and yummy decisions of the next four years. How to provide the mouthwatering gift of candy to all people, even in a weakened economy that already threatens our very ability to procure sweets. How to maintain important chocolate and licorice production levels at home and abroad. How to rebuild and maintain a viable infrastructure of sugar development through more candy funding and research. How to prevent the collapse of our local sweet shops and the decay of our teeth. How to achieve, without further sickness, expanded candy consumption benefiting all people. And how, in a time of booming social change, to awaken every man, woman and child to the fact that a piece of comfort, a piece of candy, can lift us up to the new delectable heights.
These are among some the very real, very sweet issues facing us in the coming Candy Election. And it is on the basis of these issues that candy-lovers and candy-voters must make the most tasteful choice for their future.
It is with a knowledge and understanding of all these matters firmly in hand, that I am announcing today my official candidacy for President of the United States of Candy.
I invite you to join me in this improbable quest, if you, like me, see the future of delicious possibility stretching before us. Together, starting today, let us delight in the tasty work that needs be done, and usher in a new dawn of sweet revival for this nation.
Well, for starters, I'm a QA Software Engineer from South Florida.
