Today I bought my first sculpture.  

Back to the beginning:
Mark, do you have RandomSnappies® of the fleshpots who delivered the musical angels ? Could they be the stars in this story ?
Otherswise, how gozit ? How I wish we were neighbors . . .

Oh SDR,
How I too wish that we were neighbors. Would you mind if I raised chickens in the backyard?
Fondly,
Aunt Mark

chickens?
But Mark, what would you raise in the back yard to provide an ongoing supply of red meat?
I once had a painting teacher who had his own cow. He didn't want to have to mow his vast 2 acre lot, so he bought a cow. The cow's name was HOLLIS.
When I was a starving grad student, I painted his kitchen screaming yellow, with even more screaming yellow trim. And green glass 40's cabinet handles. He liked color. The bathroom was PINK.
But I digress.
Hope everybody's doing okay!

Well either chickens or goats....same thing. They both taste like chicken.
Aunt Mark is starting to get weird damp, and I have a real strange look on my face right now. Seems that last evening (in a haze) I stumbled into a party (charity) at a local art gallery...and made a purchase. I wore pink. I do remember that the piece was a painting, but that's all that I can recall. It could be a P. Buckley Moss on acid for all I know. Somebody is to deliver it this afternoon. It was all a blur...again.
Snappies this afternoon, natch,
Aunt Mark
ps the food was divine. oh god............

Dear EameaHead,
Are goats considered red meat? How wonderful the world would be if they were.
Best,
Aunt Mark

goat?
GOAT?
PINK?
This is exciting news about the painting Mark.
Even these "deliveries" have attained an epic status. ( Just ask SDR!)
I can't wait to see it.
Of course I am imaging the best possible image in my head.
PINK and YELLOW OCHRE de Kooning style chickens all messily scrawled in a
blurry
blazed
haze
How can the painting live up to THIS? But I KNOW it will. It will easily surpass my worst and best imaginings.
No doubt at all.

Oh so many thanks, EamesHead.
I just can't imagine what it looks like. Oil? Watercolor? Veal? Size? Framed? And the delivery men? I shall have the boys do the hanging, whip out my newly acquired Honer harmonica, attempt to play the theme song from the movie Deliverance, sip a highball...and hopefully be pleasantly surprised. If not, oh well.
oh,
Aunt Mark

ps,
I shall name every future cow that I encounter (dead and/or alive) HOLLIS.
Best,
Aunt Mark

veal
I've never worked in veal before.
Anyway Mark, we all know it will be first rate, as you were clearly in that "special zone" when you bought it.
That zone that makes you brave and fearless, and able to see FAR beyond your "better judgement".
You have to trust these moments of "lucidity", after all.
As you would say, Why not?
And sure, we may find out why not. But it was for a good cause don't forget. Someone in need is being helped by your generous and blazed purchase.

I'm ready for anything . . .
On the old Steve Allen show, the erudite Allen would get his wacky regulars to spoof various musical genres, including jazz. Tom Poston, Don Knotts, and Louis (Looey) Nye, who once came on as a hipster who played meat. Too cool, too cool, man . . .

.
You know SDR, I think I remember Louie Nye playing that meat! In black and white TV no less. (No red meat back then)
Where is that painting of Marks? He must be blazed by now.

Oh my god...it has arrived,
and I still have no memory of it, but I think that it might work. It has texture. Can't wait to get the bill.
Drinks are on my tab, order up.
Aunt Mark
ps the delivery boys wore spotless white gloves and removed their _________ in the foyer. Then they hung the piece.
pss. kind comments always welcome.

Oh!
I love it with the treadmill.
somewhat buzzed on red wine and chemical stripper fumes,
*spanky*
PS - I think HOLLIS works well for chickens, too. Any chicken.

no red
no PINK?
and no CHICKEN!
Thank God. I was starting to freak out. Whew.
That painting has no business living up to all the pre game hype. Yet it has some very nice things going for it. Like SCALE. I think its gonna work!
Even if it doesn't have bird in it. Does it have a date? A title? Hollis? Veal? I want a closer up shot someday.
I think *spanky* should visit you and spill some red wine on it, and then call it "the patina of life" instead of apologizing.

hmmm...maybe.
Or! I could redo it with several shades of pink nail polish and...oh, never mind. Too soon.
(I think I see "HOLLIS" incorporated into the painting in the lower left quadrant, or maybe I'm just hallucinating. The ventilation in here isn't as good as I'd like.)