Missed one this week. Oops.

One for sale in my Etsy store… …and the rest directly from my sketchbook:

Here’s another metric crapload of capsule reviews of movies I’ve seen recently but haven’t felt motivated to write about at any length. The Pilot: A Battle For Survival (2021) – Russian-made WWII thriller about a pilot shot down during the winter, who has to survive and make his way back to the Russian front.  Not…

I’ve caught up to my sketchbook again, so it’ll be a couple of weeks before I have regular sketches to post.

In an artists’ Messenger group, the discussion (inevitably) turned to the legitimacy of A.I. output as “art.”  This was my response, and it was the longest thing I’ve written in a while, so I figured I would repost it here to preserve it, with a couple of my comments down the thread. This response was…

Skipped one for New Year’s Day.

I have been watching movies for the last several months, but I’ve been entirely unmotivated to write about them. So here is the first part of a metric crap-ton of capsule movie assessments to purge the hopper. I Am Vengeance (2018) – Ex-commando reacts to the death of an old comrade-in-arms by coming to his…

As usual, it seems somewhat morbid to dwell on the deaths of the year without also recognizing the births of the same year… but with extremely few exceptions (I’m a grandfather now!), we don’t know which of the millions who came into the world this year will be familiar to us by the end of…