Last night, I continued to work on the lion’s mane, bulking it out and then smoothing the “ropes” together. Most of the blending was done with a small wooden sculpting tool, followed by light burnishing with a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol. It’s still not as smooth as I’d like it to [...]

Cary told me that one of the things she wanted for Christmas was a lion sculpture (actually, she has been saying she wants one for a while now, but I figured Christmas was as good a time as any to start one).
This is the 4th real sculpture I’ve done, so I’m learning as I go. [...]

That’s the word I’ve invented to describe the killing of one’s sense of taste. I came up with it after sampling the unholiest of confectionaries.
Cary is a marshmallow connoisseur. From plain jane white marshmallows (which I’d imagine a mallow snob, if such a person existed, would call “roasting mallows”) to circus peanuts, flavored [...]

Cary and I saw Beowulf in 3D at the IMAX theater on Saturday. I think the last time I read the poem was in highschool, so I don’t remember much. That’s probably a good thing, because movies rarely follow the original source material very closely.
This is a movie that practically demands to [...]

So I’m either supposed to become a charismatic leader, or a celebrity. Or maybe a charismatic celebrity leader. I can technically run for president since I’ll be 35 before the elections start…. Fortune cookies should be more specific.

If only Ghengis Kahn had opened this fortune cookie, maybe he wouldn’t have needed such a [...]

Cary has been wanting to buy a coin sorter (one that isn’t battery- or AC-powered), so last weekend, we shopped for one. I didn’t think finding something like that would be difficult, but boy was I mistaken. We tried Target (Super, Greatlands and Regular), Office Depot/Max, Walmart and a few other places with [...]