Gloating Originally uploaded by angrypirate. I went to a bookstore to research the next book. It makes me feel all gooey inside to see my book displayed on store shelves.

Another book deal is in the works. This one fits nicely into my schedule and sounds like it could be a lot of fun. If it works out, I can finish it over the summer and have two books under my belt before I start CCA. These books could really help me get through art…

Thursday night at 9:45 the Castro Theatre in San Francisco will be showing Harry Smith’s Heaven and Earth Magic. with live score by Deerhoof. It’s going to be fun. Come on down! Film Festival website

Following a creek as far as I could go. The smell of oak trees. Polywogs and tadpoles. Water Skeeters. Skipping stones. Gooey mud between the toes.

SFIFF Movie Review: The Sun I was all worked up to see The Sun. I really enjoyed Alexander Sokurov’s 2002 one-shot-wonder Russian Ark and I was prepared for a visually stunning film. The film stock that he chose to use baffles me. It was grainy and cloudy, At first I thought it was our copy…

Movie review: Adam’s Apples I love this movie! This film is a side-splitting dark comedy involving neo nazis, God, brain tumors, crows, and apple cakes. I feel like no description I give for this movie can do it any justice but I’ll try anyway. It’s a movie about a small country church that serves as…

Following a creek as far as I could go. The smell of oak trees. Polywogs and tadpoles. Water Skeeters. Skipping stones. Gooey mud between the toes.

Movie Review: Al Franken: God Spoke This movie is an ass-kickingly funny and poignant documentary about the state of popular media and Al Franken’s personal transformation from comedy writer to political activist. Al uses his keen comedic talents to engage America in his passionate struggle to kick the asses of filthy, stinking, lying politicians and…

Another doodle for the “Golden Master” series of paintings I’m working on now. Yeah, I’ve been thinking about my experiences at Apple a lot lately.

SF International Film Festival Movie review: Lili and the Baobab Lili and the Baobab is a charming movie about friendship, family and purpose. The main character in the movie travels back and forth between a small village in Senegal and her hometown of Normandy. She encounters a warm and wonderful culture and makes a lifelong…

Evany’s book, the Secret Language of sleep had a little segemtn on Good Morning America. How neat is that! You can see the video on the ABC News website. Nifty! Congrats Evany!

This one is going to be up for auction at the Artspan Auction on May 3rd 2006. Artspan Auction Wednesday May 3rd, for sale 2006 California Modern Gallery 1035 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103

Chalk sketch of the next painting Originally uploaded by angrypirate. This one’s going to be called “Golden Master”. It’ll be a 24″ x 24″ encaustic. Feels so good to be back in the studio. I actually was reluctant to come in today but I needed to finish the piece for next week’s artspan auction. Now…

The San Francisco International Film Festival officially kicks off today. The Festival runs from today, April 20th, 2006 until May 4th. Most of the movies will be showing at The Kabuki, The Castro, the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) or the Aquarius (Palo Alto). If you haven’t checked out the website for a list of films…

I’m having one of those days where I wish I had something interesting to say but I’m all dried up. Maybe my wit cells can only reproduce and flourish when I eat breads and grains. I’ve sort of decided that I have a ban on these easy pickings until I loose 20 pounds. The ban…