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Morning tea

This wee-little painting is done with oil glazes, and it gets a really neat jewel-tone that you wouldn’t be able to get unless the pigments are suspended like that. The subject is my teacup, from my dear friend, that I always have my tea in.

Copyright 2005 by Andrew Price, all rights reserved.

Barack Obama Speaks at Dr. King’s Church

Barack Obama Speaks at Dr. King’s Church

Barack Obama Speaks at Dr. King’s Church

All drawn for the latest Nail magazine.

Those pesky pixies have been at the larder. Does anyone even have a larder any more, we’ve just got cupboards. Drawn to go with a poem called Elf Shelf (by someone elf, I mean else)

Copyright 2005 by Andrew Price, all rights reserved.

All drawn for the latest Nail magazine.

Those pesky pixies have been at the larder. Does anyone even have a larder any more, we’ve just got cupboards. Drawn to go with a poem called Elf Shelf (by someone elf, I mean else)

Copyright 2005 by Andrew Price, all rights reserved.

Books I’ve read this year

The year didn’t matter, since to me a new book means it was written in 1980. I kept the list since it meant that I could keep track of the books that I’ve read.

And I’m going to present this list with time-saving/time-wasting categories

Religion/Politics/General Non-fiction
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Creationists: A history of Scientific Creationism by Ronald Numbers
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
The Sickness unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy
A Short Life of Kierkegaard by Walter Lowrie
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank Schaeffer
Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible Editied by Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet

Novels
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
The Jump-off Creek by Molly Gloss (class)
Jujitsu for Christ by Jack Butler
Children of Men by P.D. James
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Baby Jack by Frank Schaffer
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach (for class)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke translated by Michael Roloff
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (second time) translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (class)
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (class)
Howards End by E.M. Forster (class)
Dubliners by James Joyce (class)

Comics/Graphic Novels
The Watchmen by Alan Moore
300 by Frank Miller
The Sandman 1: Preludes and Nocturnes- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 2: The Doll’s House- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 3: Dream Country- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 4: Season of Mists- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 5: A Game of You- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 6: Fables and Reflections-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 7: Brief Lives-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 8: World’s End-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 9: The Kindly Ones-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 10: The Wake- written by Neil Gaiman
Persepolis-Written by Marjane Satrapi

Soccer/Sport
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
Education of a Coach by David Halberstam
Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
Futebol: Soccer, The Brazilian Way by Alex Bellos
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer by David Winner

Movies/Music/Art
Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet (This could count for the religious section as well.)
Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman by Peg Weiss
Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors by Peter Bogdanovich
A Concise History of Modern Painting by Herbert Read
Pagan Mysteries of the Italian Renaissance by Edgar Wind
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
Eno: His music and the vertical color of sound by Eric Tamm
U2 by U2

Books I’ve read this year

The year didn’t matter, since to me a new book means it was written in 1980. I kept the list since it meant that I could keep track of the books that I’ve read.

And I’m going to present this list with time-saving/time-wasting categories

Religion/Politics/General Non-fiction
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Creationists: A history of Scientific Creationism by Ronald Numbers
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
The Sickness unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy
A Short Life of Kierkegaard by Walter Lowrie
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank Schaeffer
Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible Editied by Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet

Novels
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
The Jump-off Creek by Molly Gloss (class)
Jujitsu for Christ by Jack Butler
Children of Men by P.D. James
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Baby Jack by Frank Schaffer
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach (for class)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke translated by Michael Roloff
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (second time) translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (class)
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (class)
Howards End by E.M. Forster (class)
Dubliners by James Joyce (class)

Comics/Graphic Novels
The Watchmen by Alan Moore
300 by Frank Miller
The Sandman 1: Preludes and Nocturnes- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 2: The Doll’s House- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 3: Dream Country- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 4: Season of Mists- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 5: A Game of You- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 6: Fables and Reflections-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 7: Brief Lives-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 8: World’s End-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 9: The Kindly Ones-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 10: The Wake- written by Neil Gaiman
Persepolis-Written by Marjane Satrapi

Soccer/Sport
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
Education of a Coach by David Halberstam
Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
Futebol: Soccer, The Brazilian Way by Alex Bellos
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer by David Winner

Movies/Music/Art
Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet (This could count for the religious section as well.)
Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman by Peg Weiss
Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors by Peter Bogdanovich
A Concise History of Modern Painting by Herbert Read
Pagan Mysteries of the Italian Renaissance by Edgar Wind
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
Eno: His music and the vertical color of sound by Eric Tamm
U2 by U2

Books I’ve read this year

The year didn’t matter, since to me a new book means it was written in 1980. I kept the list since it meant that I could keep track of the books that I’ve read.

And I’m going to present this list with time-saving/time-wasting categories

Religion/Politics/General Non-fiction
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Creationists: A history of Scientific Creationism by Ronald Numbers
Russian Thinkers by Isaiah Berlin
The Sickness unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other by Walker Percy
A Short Life of Kierkegaard by Walter Lowrie
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank Schaeffer
Killing the Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible Editied by Peter Manseau and Jeff Sharlet

Novels
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Trouble is My Business by Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
The Jump-off Creek by Molly Gloss (class)
Jujitsu for Christ by Jack Butler
Children of Men by P.D. James
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Baby Jack by Frank Schaffer
Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach (for class)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket
The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket
You Know Me Al by Ring Lardner
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke translated by Michael Roloff
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (second time) translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (class)
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (class)
Howards End by E.M. Forster (class)
Dubliners by James Joyce (class)

Comics/Graphic Novels
The Watchmen by Alan Moore
300 by Frank Miller
The Sandman 1: Preludes and Nocturnes- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 2: The Doll’s House- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 3: Dream Country- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 4: Season of Mists- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 5: A Game of You- written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 6: Fables and Reflections-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 7: Brief Lives-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 8: World’s End-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 9: The Kindly Ones-written by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman 10: The Wake- written by Neil Gaiman
Persepolis-Written by Marjane Satrapi

Soccer/Sport
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
Education of a Coach by David Halberstam
Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, translated by Mark Fried
Futebol: Soccer, The Brazilian Way by Alex Bellos
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer by David Winner

Movies/Music/Art
Through a Screen Darkly by Jeffrey Overstreet (This could count for the religious section as well.)
Kandinsky and Old Russia: The Artist as Ethnographer and Shaman by Peg Weiss
Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors by Peter Bogdanovich
A Concise History of Modern Painting by Herbert Read
Pagan Mysteries of the Italian Renaissance by Edgar Wind
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald
Eno: His music and the vertical color of sound by Eric Tamm
U2 by U2