December 2004

SM: Do you have anything you carry around for good luck? M:I have carried items through out my life but I lack the follow through to actually keep them with me forever. Maybe it is an inherent lack of faith, growing up without religion, or maybe I just don’t fear living life with out a [...]

SM: If you were to illustrate a silent windless grove of trees, what would you be sure to include? WK: A pirate. And a honey glazed ham. SM: How would you recelebrate last year’s birthday if you had the option? WK: I’d remind people it was my birthday, it’s really kinda disheartening when everyone but [...]

SM: Do you have anything you carry around for good luck? RC: I am not really all that superstitious Oh! yes there is a huge stuffed albatross I wear round my neck…I never take that off…then there’s the rabbits foot on my keychain….the monkey paw on my wallet…..a packet of Imodium…container of salt to throw [...]

SM: What do you like the best about your paintings? IS: That’s kind of a toughie — how do you answer that without sounding like a big fat-head? “I really love what a totally awesome painter I am! Man, I ROCK!” I guess what I like is the moments where it feels like the painting [...]

SM: If you were to draw a locomotive, what would you be sure to include in the portrait? EF: I wouldn’t attempt a locomotive without checking Google Images first. I have no idea how to draw locomotives. SM: What is something you would like people to know about you? EF: I like dumb jokes. Short [...]

SM: If the street that you live on could speak, what would the people who live on it know after hearing it? HK: I might know what the hell was going on in the house with no front door, packed to the ceiling with broken TV’s and old newspapers and a 400 pound lady sitting [...]

SM: Please design a proper flag to sail over a captured fort, be it made of stone or couch cushions. MC: I believe this is the answer you’re looking for. SM: When was the last time you consumed something to excess? MC: That’s easy. Thanksgiving dinner. When I went on a huge cocaine binge. SM: [...]

SM: If you took a fifteen minute walk in heaven, what would you bring with you? GC: My polarized Persols, a digital camera and somebody from Skeptical Inquirer to verify that I wasn’t experiencing some brain-based biological phenomena. SM: Please describe an impressionable encounter with someone elses’s art. GC: My first post-adolescent exposure to Saul [...]