#TheGoodWife Does a little bit of "Orange is the New Black"

I've come to the conclusion that prison is bad.

Pics from Steel City Con (August 8 thru 10) and where I hit up LeVar Burton for a grant...

I actually took a picture of LeVar Burton at the Steel City con held last week from August 8th thru August 10th over in Monroeville but it was a terrible picture so I'm going with this. You might also know Mr. Burton from this:

But as I read the depressing news coming out of Ferguson, Missouri I have to admit I'm reminded of his iconic role in Roots. Wondering if times have changed all that much...

Since his fantastic success with his Reading Rainbow Kickstarter I hit em up for my modest Kickstarter like campaign to create a dedicated review of African American fiction, kinda like Shadow and Act but dedicated to Walter Mosley and Steven Barnes and other writers of color. I don't think I'll get that grant but I'll keep trying. That campaign is here.

Here are some other pics from the show. Here's a pretty plus size black girl I worked with. I took one picture and altered it in two different ways

And I tried another version that made it look more like comics. Her shirt says, from memory I think: "Wish I was Batman but I can't fight and I'm broke."

Here's a picture of the crowd:

And here's a picture of the Batmobile because I Am Fanboy.

And more from the crowd: 

A very impressive Predator. I just thought he looked better in blue.

More crowd. Probably the best pic I took. I blame the camera.

I just couldn't get this shot right. So I tried two versions.

And there's this version. 

#UFC #UFCfightnight Nice. Ryan Bader uses "Paint it Black" as a fight entrance song.

I don't think its anything racial because he's fighting a black guy. I think he just likes "The Stones".

Artist Spotlight: Jason Woolslare's Pop Collage Art

Or is it called "Mixed Media"? I just know that I liked his art. This is from the Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Here's his website. And I figured out what I like about his art. It reminds me of comics and has rockets and bots. Some other pieces:

And:

Artist Spotlight on Ron Copeland, whose art I can't really explain.

It looks like the most creative lamp sculpture I've ever seen. But his style works as collage paintings as well. Here's his Flickr site here.

Artist Spotlight: Katie Rideout. And not just because she has a beautiful smile.

This is kind of late but here were the artists that stood out for me at the Three Rivers Arts Festival.

I'm pretty sure that's the artist or the artist's attractive friend. Definitely better than the experience I had last year where somebody was threatening me.

Here's her website. Looks like just simple chalk and charcoal but the portraits show so much emotion. I'd buy her work if I had any extra money.

Here are some other pieces from her website.

And:

And here's one more from the Arts Festival:

Old Pic of the East End Co op Weekend Festival That I Forgot That I Had

I added sepia and some other embellishment.

#Tyrant Great. He must run Israel. No power sharing, ever. Kill all who oppose me.

#Tyrant If you do elections the American Way, then the guy with the most cash wins.

I don't think losing is all that bad either. You lose rich. You rewrite the constitution to protect wealth. Run again in several years...I don't think the Castro regime ever understood this. You can shape the courts, shape the constitution so that corruption doesn't take hold. ON the other hand, there are no good laws that can't be upended by corruption. Still, you have to try.

#Tyrant Well the dictator has to apologize so we know we're not talking about Israel.

Israel can kill lots of people and its all good from the ambassador and our current secretary of state. 

#Tyrant Ain't no partyin like the son of a dictator partyin'...

#Tyrant Nice point from the blogger dad about his daughter trading one kind of subjugation for another.

It looks like both Saddam and Khadaffi treated women better than the armed religious sects that replaced them. Way better than our client state Saudi Arabia.

#Tyrant Trying to figure out whether this more like Egypt without resources or Iraq/Iran with oil reserves....

Feels more like Egypt. 

#tyrant Okay I would like a tall lady Amazon East German decathlon trainer, too....

#Tyrant Great the decent brother is at odds with Enthusiastic War Criminal General...

Not sure if I want the bad brother to do better by more perceptive public relations. The general had a point about Hiroshima or Nagasaki...why not mention the Iraq war? That was a big War Crime...

#Tyrant Self immolation.. Nice FX.

The Strain, about blood sucking vampires, seems like the nice show.

#Tyrant Yeah the daughter has it right. No elections then, hey, you're a monarchy. Or the guy with the most guns standing.

#Tyrant Looks like flashback 80s...And he doesn't know his family is evil?

Well it looks like your room mates knew.  This is a real life reference to Saddam gassing the Kurds, who are doing well in Post Saddam Iraq.

#Tyrant Who dies this week in order to protect your evil brother?

I have a feeling I'm going to lose count...

Lying sociopath Sarah Pavao Sidders of Contemporary Services Corporation is Watching Me On LinkedIn

This dopey arrogant pretentious cunt Sarah Pavao Sidders, who lied to my face and claimed that her mediocre company Contemporary Services Corporation never told me to come to a job (when in fact they had asked me twice) is watching me on LinkedIn.

Here's the proof. You should try it sometimes Sarah you incompetent dolt. You know, basing your facts on evidence and not "Well, its an all white country club here in Fox Chapel and he's just some nigger so..." or at least that was my honest impression of what happened.

Oh and I'm watching you Sarah Pavao Sidders of Contemporary Services Corporation. I'm watching you as well....

#TheStrain You too Sean Astin? Part of the pro vampire conspiracy...we're all doomed...

#TheStrain Waiting for Blade to set things straight....

#TheStrain It's the Continuum Guy! But I don't want him to leave Continuum...

#TheStrain Is that the awful Red Wedding King? I hate that guy...

#TheStrain I think the first couple minutes are pretty good.

I've read some bad reviews, which I can't believe. Del Toro's visuals are just so good. Great storyteller as well...

#TheBridge What is the "Run Lola Run" actress doing? What's her role?

And will it be bloody and turn our eye toward the Heart of Human Darkness, like most FX shows...?

#TheBridge Lyle Lovett sighting.

#TheBridge Yet another bloody depressing slice of FX Hell awaits me for the next hour.

I must heat up the popcorn. There is something on Hallmark...but I will fool no one...

I'll be writing more about lying sociopath Adventous/CSC vice president Sarah Pavao Sidders.

Here's something about  that liar Sarah Pavao Sidders, who pretty much lied to my face June 26th at the Fox Chapel Golf Club, over at the Tumblr blog.

I did ask for apology from her on LinkedIn but I may have been intemperate. Or still pissed off. Who knows.

InMail · Job inquiryI'm Owed An ApologyJuly 8, 2014 3:05 PMJust for the record, I was paid for those 30 hours! I was emailed a confirmation to show up at the golf course. IN the future, stop being a fucking idiot and listen to the people that you've actually hired for the job!

I do want to apologize for one thing: in my haste and possibly anger I wrote "gulf" instead of "golf". I corrected the spelling here. There are no apologies for anything else.

#tyrant Not sure if I want the leadership of this country to do better by way of superior public relations.

What's this country called again? The husband didn't deserve to be hanged either. That was self defense as far as I'm concerned.