Friday’s Feast.
February 29, 2008
Appetizer:
Who was the last person you hugged?
Jerry… Agent J… The Hubby… The Big Kahuna.
(He likes it when I call him that.) 
Soup:
Share a beauty or grooming trick or tip with us.
Two of my favorites:
When my hair is having a total static fly-away freak out, I bend over at the waist, shake my hair and rub a dryer sheet all over it. Stand up and brush it out. Voila! No more static head.
Also, sometimes a princess gets a slight blemish – (the term big honkin’ zit shall not be used in this kingdom!) – and dabbing a little pure lemon juice on it will usually smite the evil aberration overnight.
Salad:
What does the color yellow make you think of?
Main Course:
If you were to make your living as a photographer, what subject would your pictures revolve around?
Naked people - but not nude people. There is a difference, you know. The world of visual art is filled with photographs of posed and idealized nudes. I want NAKED. Gnarly, natural, NAKED.
Dessert:
What was the longest book you ever read?
The longest novel was Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Excellent book, of course, but when it’s assigned to you in high school Literature class you want to cry the moment you see how thick it is. How I ever got through it, I will never know.
Now, being an art history student for a decade (and a teacher of the subject for a while) I’ve read quite a few brutally thick and heavy art books from beginning to end. When I was teaching, I sometimes felt a twinge of empathetic pain when I’d assign a 50 page chapter on a Friday afternoon, promising a quiz on the following Monday.
Sometimes. Heh. 
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My name is Christine Thurow and I am a professional artist, living in my lovely home state of Iowa. My humor is sarcastic, my wit dry and my appetite for unbridled hedonism, ravenous. Did I say hedonism? I meant intelligent exchange.
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That’s great advice in your soup. Thanks!
Thanks for a great soup!
Btw, LOVE your banner;-)
And is that your store in Etsy? I will take a look..hehe I love handmade items!
since my desk is actually a plastic tote with a drawing board on top, I needed a “booster seat” for my laptop so I wouldn’t have to lean down so far to type.
Gardner’s 12th edition is as wide as a laptop AND thick enough to bring it up to my level. HAHA!
….and I still need to finish Les Mis! Are there any chapters worth skimming, or should I just bit the bullet and read the whole thing?
re: NAKED vs. nude.
I love that you’ve made this distinction, because REAL naked bodies just don’t get the exposure they deserve in the art world.
here are a few of my favorites that I think you might enjoy:
(I wish I knew more html to make these clickable…)
http://loganart.deviantart.com/art/Sacrifice-a-k-a-Tree-of-life-40504056
http://modelisa.deviantart.com/art/stilmation-40202886
http://bellchild.deviantart.com/art/Almost-Fearless-46899149
http://pelicanh.deviantart.com/art/Scar-s-scars-53519182
http://kb244.deviantart.com/art/Love-is-NOT-blind-60467566
http://exiff.deviantart.com/art/my-name-s-a-woman-71080951
http://ctphotoguild.deviantart.com/art/Fatal-Attraction-77114746
http://ctphotoguild.deviantart.com/art/The-forgotten-69705351
…a lot of these people have galleries FULL of amazing shots. check them out!
I loved brutally thick books in high school and still do. Although I have TRIED to read Les Miserables - started it twice - (in French) and simply cannot get beyond the first chapter, which is unbearably slow.