I had to look up this meme. It'd been bugging me because I kept seeing it and it felt familiar. It turned out I'd already read the famous Hyperbole and a Half post of whence it sprang long ago.

I'm glad and a little irritated at the result of looking it up. Because the result is a multi-thought pileup in my headspace highway. I usually like those, but let me list them out. You'll see why I got irritated. The post "this is why I'll never be an adult" mirrors some of the unfortunate cycles of my creative life. The meme – not the way the article features it but the way the meme has used the phrase "ALL THE THINGS" resembles the reason for this cycle in both fortunate and happy and unfortunate and unhappy ways.

--random

Another black and white image. No, I'm not feeling particularly apocalyptic ... why do you ask?

Working on "Reopening" I had one of those moments I so often have in creating digital art that makes me very, very glad I'm working with digital art. Past the point where you see "Reopening" now -- well past -- I kept working and trying to come up with an overlay that would add yet more interest to it. That work kept not "working" for me. It kept making it look more like other things I'd already done and wasn't holding my interest -- felt more distracting because of that.

First of all, apologies to Michel Gagné for the duplicate comment. My browser signaled an error, twice, and at least the first time I was convinced it had munched the comment. Secondly, if it didn't take, here is that comment below.