Bored, she makes little frogs...

Friday, April 22, 2005

Help! I'm being attacked by cutie pies! And nice butt shot by the way...

"She's reached her limit!"

Well, I never did tell you about Brewtopia last weekend...Brewtopia was a lot of fun, very merry, and I tasted a lot of yummy beer (not my favorite drink by the way, it just makes me feel bloated and sleepy for the most part, so it's not something I overindulge in...USUALLY). One of the best was a Belgian beer, Unibraue...about 2 hours into this thing, this guy comes up to me and says "you've reached your limit" and I smiled and scooted away...I was fine (I thought)...a bit tipsy, but it's Brewtopia! So then the guy is behind me in a line and I hear him whisper "that girl in front of you is drunk, she has that look on her face" and they were laughing...so I asked Megan "do I look drunk, I don't feel drunk". Megan said no, but then again, Megan had as much to drink as me at this point, so of course I looked normal to her! We stayed until 10 and decided to get some food before heading home...I still felt fine...however...after I ordered a coke and hamburger at Outback, the room was spinning, I felt sick and proceeded to lay down in the booth for the next hour or so while the others had a perfectly nice dinner, my head in Lucia's lap the whole time...I wasn't quite passed out, I heard all of their conversations, but I just couldn't sit up, I felt so sick and I was cursing myself for having to try as much beer as possible...I blame Megan...hee hee, just kidding...I can't hold myself responsible, can I? I only raised my head at the end of the meal to say "I think I need to go to the bathroom"...Megan was sweet enough to accompany me 2 times to throw up in the bathroom (that's family for you!) and she also informed me that I am a "quiet thrower-upper"...how ladylike of me! So now that the meal is over, I felt fine...head was cleared, and all is well with the world...and I'm really really hungry!!

So onto to more drinking! No, I'm kidding, I think I 'm done with the boozing for awhile...!! Tomorrow I'm going to see my favorite Scottish boys - the Trashcan Sinatras - perform at the Mercury Lounge and then on Sunday during the day I'm going to a play about Paul Robeson...my friend Vicky knows one of the actors in it - he plays an FBI agent...I'm thinking he's on stage for a total of 2 minutes - sound about right? Well it's something to do anyway...

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Uncle Bill's Paintings

So, these four paintings that you see below were painted by my Uncle Bill, who passed away before Xmas of 2003. He was a very interesting and unique person and I'm so happy that my Aunt Judy gave me these 4 paintings of his...he was very interested in Native American culture and art and a lot of his paintings were based on Edward Curtis photos...these pics don't quite do them justice, but I love them...the Zuni Girl is my favorite, it's very haunting and dramatic.

He also did a charcoal drawing of a Chief Wovoka that used to hang on our living room wall that I love, it was so beautiful...Chief Wovoka was considered by the Paiute Indians (that is the tribe who is from the Las Vegas/ Southern Nevada area, they still have a reservation outside of town) to be a messiah and they believed he would save the land and their people from being destroyed - alas, that's not quite what happened...

The Fancy Dance is part of the Pow-Wow, and Aunt Judy explained to me that Bill wanted this painting to kind of look like a time-lapse photo, to show the frenzy of the dancers and also the energy that they are trying to raise during the powwow.