Art Imitating Life

Thank you for being bothered to come over to this website. You’ll notice that most comments have made it over with their posts, but some have not. If there’s a comment you were super excited about and you really want to go back and read it, everything is still up over at the Wordpress iteration of this blog.

As I do this, I am listening to songs that contain the word “Moon” somewhere in their ID3 tag. It’s a pretty good playlist. Included: Tom Petty (the album Full Moon Fever), Ella Fitzgerald (How High the Moon), Miles Davis (Moon Dreams), and Credence (Bad Moon Rising).

I’m not sure how this happened, but I am the #1 result when you Google creepy old man wink (not in quotes). I have secured my rightful place at the top of the creepy/pervy old man hierarchy. *haaaaaaawink*

I’m very happy to share some advice with you:

Don’t drink and blog. If you drink three glasses (not sips, glasses) of scotch and then get an idea for a blog, you’ll end up writing 1000 words asking the internet for a date. You will not come off as cool.

That is all.

If you read my blog from the actual site http://heylookitsart.wordpress.com, you have noticed I have a new banner. It is no longer the standard blue this-and-that that comes with a free Word Press account. I cropped the image all by myself and even added text! I have done this all for free.

To crop the image, I used a combination of the Mac programs Preview and iPhoto. I then discovered that Word Press has a cropping tool built into its back end and realized I wasted an hour trying to figure out how to crop to a specific size using those free tools.

I got the text on there by using my favorite find of the day: Picnik. I’m probably pretty late to the party on this one, but this is a free, web-based basic photo editor that lets you actually add text and stuff to your photos, as well as resize, crop, mess with colors, etc. It’s pretty easy to use.

Also, you’ll notice new punctuation on my blog name. It’s no longer a statement of excitement. Now it’s supposed to read like an embarassed explination.

The image I used is from when I ate 12 chicken strips at Applebee’s one day. That’s what I looked like right at the end. Unable to hold my head up. I’m only moderately satsified with this image, so I’ll probably find a better one and throw that up there some time. But for now: Full of Chicken Strips.