Oklahoma lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill this February that would make it illegal to wear hooded sweatshirts, or "hoodies," in public, according to a report from Oklahoma's Channel 6 News.

I drive a very dinged up 1997 van which I sort of hope does not compliment me (or reflect on me) but I don't know (but it IS a dark green and my coloring works out to be basically orange) (most humans' skin colors seem to reduce to yellow, reds thru purples, with just a few amazing blues - and greens are most always included as undertones). From the few pics I've seen of you, your coloring works out to be basically very dark orange so dark red and dark green work for you.  I bought my vehicle used in 2000 and don't drive much (5-7,000 miles per year), have to regularly haul big things, get it washed semi-annually (if lucky). But I own it outright, and if I junked it and borrowed to buy a newer one I would be 1) adding to the junk of the world since no one would possibly want to buy that and 2) getting some debt. --and 3) then I would have to think about it.  Plus I just don't think I need a nice vehicle for a "pls respect me" statement that others do. My sister could never drive what she calls "looks like a rolling meth lab" to any professional situation she needs to go to (like work every day for example).

I guess I am thinking of colors (=hues) because I am about to start a large group portrait of successful, of a certain age, female artists from the NW. It will be based on a group portrait that Fantin-Latour did of his contemporaries (he did several) in the late 1800s in his impressionistic art world. To my knowledge no female painter has done a group portrait (painted) of other female artists and theorists and writers, who are the female artist's contemporaries and often friends. Three of my very close person friends will be in the ptg. Every one of the group is a great artist (IMO). Actually trying to go for an physical/psychological/emotional likeness of 9(!!!!) people all at once is...is...well let me just say it will be a major challenge.  

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Each one of these female artists has had to really struggle to even get to play the 'art game' and to earn a living at it. The youngest is 57 and the oldest is ? in her 80s? I started planning this one year ago, started the studies in July scheduling them for individual or group photo studies in my studio, got my studies together 1 month ago, completed my final study (after having to deal with major computer issues - I keep my studies on my desktop), will make large adjustments to that while I am sketching, will add major elements as I go, will figure out the hues and values as I go. I've had canvases (two) built to equal 6'x10' so the figures will probably be around 80%. When I am physically able, in maybe a week, I'll get started on it! I'm very excited to be able to honor these women in my small way. When, and if (if I can pull this off) I do complete it, the artists have asked me to have a party for them - so I'll be able to 'do my kitchen thing' and make some finger food for them too.

Earlier this year, the Guggenheim Museum put online 65 modern art books, giving you free access to books introducing the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, and Kandinsky. Now, just a few short months later, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched MetPublications, a portal that will "eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals" published by the Met since 1870.

How Low income New Yorkers Benefit

As a result of what the New York Post is calling a "virtual work stoppage," tickets and summonses for minor offenses have plummeted by 94 percent and overall arrests have fallen 66 percent. Theoretically, the practice will strain police budgets, which rely on fines from tickets to make-up for funding shortfalls. ​

Although it's not the intended goal of the work stoppage, the decline in arrests could save New Yorkers money. The city residents who are normally hit with tickets for minor violations tend to be low income individuals who are forced to pay up a hefty portion of their paychecks.

Perfect solution to make up for police budget shortfall: reduce staff and eliminate overtime. New Yorkers could save even more money. What's not to like.

Here's the amazing part.  Frequent readers here probably remember me recounting how I worked for the local meals on wheels for almost two years.  A job I left almost two years ago.  And how it was run by a group of women that belonged to a "non-denominational" church that mandated that the women never cut their hair and wear long dresses and no jewelry.  Among other things.  The requirements on the men were substantially less stringent.  As in pretty much nothing as far as I could tell.   Several of the ones I met were bikers.
One of the women, one of the nicer ones, had breast cancer.  She was dying and left the job before I did.  I had met her husband once at a Christmas party in a large group of other people.  

I have no problem with the desire of those officers to exercise their First Amendment rights by taking issue with Mayor De Blasio for whatever their reasons. But if they have a beef with Hizzoner, then they should petition and picket City Hall for a redress of their grievances -- you know, like normal people. What they did was profoundly disrespectful to the late Officer Liu's family.

Further, Bill De Blasio seems to be a pretty tough guy, and he accepts political criticism as part of the job. But on that note, New York's Finest really ought to keep in mind that De Blasio was elected to office with a decisive majority, and that he's the one with the public mandate here -- not them.

I can't imagine how much mileage I'll put on once we move to the Big Island later this year. It's 130 miles between Hilo and Kailua-Kona, although once they finally complete the upgrade of the Saddle Road between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea through the middle of the island, that'll knock off about 40 miles from that total.

The Spouse wants a Jeep Cherokee once we make the move. The Big Island is mostly rural, and there are a lot of areas we'll be wanting to explore. And like Colorado, the island's highways have some pretty significant grades to climb. The aforementioned Saddle Road rises from sea level to 9,000 ft. from both ends.

Here's that last paragraph in beat poem format. Imagine it being read poetry club style.

Anti-Beef Screamers
a thing by Sarah

Anti-beef screamers
blogging hate from comfy leather office chairs,
wrapped in fashionable leather belts
above your kickin' new leather pumps
you bought because your celebrity idols
(who sport fur and crocodile purses)
grinned in a tabloid
wearing the exact same Louboutins
exiting sleek cowhide covered limo seats
on their way
to some liberal fundraiser shindig
at some sushi bar
that features poor dead smelly roe
(that I used to strip from our Bristol Bay-caught fish,
and in a Dillingham cannery
I packed those castoff fish eggs for you
while laughing with co-workers
about the suckers
paying absurdly high prices
to party with
the throw away parts of our wild seafood)?

I believe you call those
discarded
funky
eggs
"caviar"