Thanks

Many thanks to those who contributed to my fundraiser. I appreciate each and every one of you. Your generosity has touched me deeply.

And to my cousin who is fighting to get his donation back from me, you're scum. If the cost of the certified letter I sent your conceptual art cards to you is the price I have to pay to keep you out of my life forever then it was a great investment. I realize that you were raised with an incredibly huge sense of entitlement when it comes to me and my family, but seriously asshole, you need to get help so you can figure out why you have this deep sick need to be liked by those you used to bully. Consider yourself lucky you got the art cards I sent you. And you be sure to let the concept I wrote on them sink in that thick drug addled skull of yours, I know all those years of smoking pot have made you stupid, but damn, it's not that hard to figure out. I don't like you, I don't want to be around you, I don't want you to be around me, and none of that will ever change.

Thank you, you are too kind

I've recently been given a couple of awards by some fellow bloggers and it's high time I quit being a douchebag and acknowledged them.

John abuzz gave me this award. This award is a dedication for those who love blogging and love to encourage friendships through blogging. I've made many friendships through my blog, most of the friends I have made I have not met face to face yet but some I have and I'm very lucky to have all of you as friends. I love to blog because I get to share what's on my mind, make folks laugh, do a bit of teaching, and be an antidote to the corporate media machine. I love it that everyone in the world can read me if they like and there is no one telling me what I have to write or that I shouldn't write or post something. Blogging is citizen based media, not corporate crap that encourages us all to be the same slaves to the companies who want to control our every thought and movement. Thanks much for this award John, and thanks for all the nice things you say about my blog on your blog.

John struck again when he gave me this award that fellow atheist Lemmy Caution had also recently given me:

Here's the skinny on this award:

1.You must brag about the award. Yay! It's the greatest award ever! It's better than puppies and cotton candy and sunshine!

2.You must include the name of the blogger who bestowed the award on you and link back to the blogger. Done it already.

3.You must choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or you may improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Will do in a moment.

4.Show their names and links and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Or think of it this way--show the seven random victims' names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog Award. Well, there's no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon. Ummmm, you'll see why I'm not going to do this one in a second.

5.List at least ten (10) honest things about yourself. Then pass it on with the instructions!

1. I will not ever knowingly eat a cooked carrot. Never ever ever.

2. I bitch about the small conservative "Christian" college I went to, but I actually loved all my years there and I would not trade that experience for anything.

3. I forgive but I try to never forget.

4. I loved to play pinball and arcade style video games.

5. In bookstores, when no employees are looking, I will shelve copies of the Bible in the religious fiction section.

6. I knew I was going to be good at improv comedy the first time I ever saw it being done onstage.

7. I think some of the people who have been through the Second City Improv process are some of the most pompous assholes in the world.

8. I was a virgin until my freshman year in college.

9. I turn off televisions in stores like Bed Bath and Beyond and Books a Million.

10. I'd rather get beaten in the kidney's with a sack of oranges than go to Arkansas ever again.

Okay, now I want to pass both awards along to everyone on my blog roll.

I am doubly honored

My good friends Blueberry and Delia Guzman have seen fit to award me the fine award you see here. This award means the world to me especially since it's coming from two blogging women who I admire and respect so much. It's always nice to be recognized for one's work and it's even nicer when people as intelligent and progressive as these two gals do it. Thanks ladies for your kind words about me and my blog, it's a pleasure to write this stuff when I know that people like you are reading it.

I get to pass this along to others who I think are worthy. Delia already gave one to one of my blogging idols, Vikkitikkitavi, but there's a slew of others out there who need one of these as well. But before I give it away I need to post the rules, so here they are:

1) Pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y Pico” blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award which is here: Arte y Pico.

Okay, now that we got that out of the way let's get on with the glittering award giving:

1) Rev. John Shuck of Shuck and Jive gets one for his creative use of religion and his work on behalf of teh gays and teh peace. Organized religion is not my bag at all but if there were more people like John in it then I might change my mind, maybe.
2) Chris of Some Guy's Blog gets one for his creative use of poop jokes and all the other stuff he does that makes me laugh.
3) The couplets alone qualify Splotchy for one of these awards so he gets one too.
4) No one is more creative than Becca, she draws, she blogs, and she's quite the cutie as well, so I'm proud to award one of these to her.
5) My friend Snad doesn't blog much but she has us over to her house all the time, she got us involved in local activism, and she introduced us to our other friends Brian and June so for all that and much more I'm awarding her one of these thingys as well.

Thanks for all your great blogging you five who I chose, and thanks again to Blueberry and Delia for giving me one of these.