Yesterday was my birthday; I turned the ripe young age of forty-four. Yesterday was also my twenty-second wedding anniversary. That means that, as of today, I have been married for more of my life than not. Age is a bizarre thing. We often joke that children attach so much more importance to their birthdays because…
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Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply Giveaway
Oh hey, this is the one relevant venue where I haven’t plugged the giveaway I’m running on Goodreads. Three copies of the Special Sketch Edition of Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply: Goodreads Book Giveaway Ethnic Albanians Need Not Apply by Nathan Shumate Giveaway ends July 03, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to…
Movies Seen Recently: Tall in the Saddle, The Land That Time Forgot, Exodus: Gods and Kings
Tall in the Saddle (1944) – John Wayne! Gabby Hayes! Two women, a blonde and a brunette, vying for John Wayne’s attentions! Rustling and land grabs and legal schemes and a corrupt sheriff and unknown assassins! What’s not to like? Aside, I guess, from Wayne ending up with the wrong woman (IMHO)… By the way, my…
The new phonebooks headshots are here!
So with at least two new books (and possibly one more) coming out this year, plus Salt Lake Comic Con coming up in September, I decided that it was time to get some updated headshots. And by “updated,” I mean “better than my face cropped out of family portraits or the pics I had my…
Movies Seen Recently: A Fistful of Dollars, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Catch Me If You Can
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – It’s been so long since I had seen this that all I remembered was, “Clint Eastwood gets the snot kicked out of him at one point.” It’s hard to remember that, as someone it in one of the extra features on the DVD, the modern action hero — all…
Oh, Utah…
Last night was the Honors Night at the junior high school where Sariah attends. As I often do when lists of local names are presented, I start browsing for “made-up Mormon” names. There’s a bizarre trend in Utah Mormon culture to give children made-up or creatively misspelled names — but there’s also a certain sameness,…
More New Art
So the last painting was really a technique test. I’ve always hated brushes — I have an ever-so-slight quiver in my hand that keeps me from making smooth strokes — and I probably hadn’t painted anything since I was in classes for my art minor, over twenty-five years ago. Also, JEES I’M OLD. Anyway, what…
New Art: The Angel’s Book
This one isn’t going to show up at the gallery. There’s a benefit auction tonight to buy new camping equipment for the Young Men and Young Women youth groups at the church (their current tents are military surplus that’s older than most of the leaders), and this is what I finished yesterday specifically for that….