Ah, time for a new topic in Illustration Friday: Tango. I’m a fanatic watcher of Dancing with the Stars, but not a dancer myself (except for a little ballet in…
Donna Barstow Blog #2 Posts
Yes, that’s right, I said Google is punishing me for my transgressions, not God. Although I feel a teeny bit like Job this week: problems installing WordPress 2.7, so that this blog was down for well over a day, and attending anxiety, the theme (Template) broke, so I had to pick another one, check I was expecting from buyer did not meet expectations, and another check simply did not get here. Plus, I got locked into my apartment.
Into, not out of , because I hate being just like other people. My top lock, a deadbolt, stopped working, so the lever wouldn’t withdraw the bolt. Well, one always has windows for fresh air. However, someone would have to come rescue me, and I am a typical unorganized serial killer cartoonist, so a lot of organizing had to happen, fast, with, of course, no way to take out the trash.
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The two most important people in a Bachelorette season are the main player – the Bachelor or the Bachelorette- and the editor. The player, the star, can’t be faked by the editing: he or she has to be attractive, compelling, and real. The editing is not real at all. Tell me a bedtime story…
Jillian is by far my favorite Bachelorette yet, and I like so many of the men on her season, too! You know why? They’re smart. (well, some of the men. After the Men Tell All, we know that some are just dicks.) Jillian cannot only talk without a teleprompter, she’s witty and candid and sincere. Every time she cries, I start to, too. That’s real emotion welling up in her eyes, and her whole face swells with shock or sadness when the men (producers) let her down. She’s not naive, but she is trusting. She’s humble enough to reveal her fear that if one guy left (for his job) other guys might do the same, and leave her, as well. Yet she has an inborn cheerfulness that starts each day with high hopes!
She’s a little bit lusty, she eats and drinks (it may be the first time ever that we have seen the star of the show eating), but she does everything with polish and dignity. I love her accent and her squeaky voice, and even her squees when she meets the guys.
“And are there any assets besides your wiseness?” For a cartoonist, maybe not. For Illustration Friday: hollow. I mean really, what else do you think about when you hear hollow:…
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Old theme (template) doesn’t work…shoot. I only put about 50 hours into it over the past year, tweaking, punching it up. And now it won’t work with this new upgrade.…
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My political cartoons for Slate have all been moved to The Opposite of Wrong, where I skewer all the cartoons, and critique the cartoonists! Sorry, sometimes you gotta be plain…
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Some good things happened in May, but I can’t think of that many right off the bat. Mostly I was dealing with having my cartoons stolen and used in certain…
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