Saturday, August 26, 2023

I'm Wayne Brady, bitch!!

Wayne receives a call from Gary, his agent. This is how that conversation went. Probably.

[Wayne Brady will be WB. Gary the agent will be GTA]

It's a marvelous sunny day - but Wayne is feeling a bit of the blues. His career has hit a stagnant point and he's not sure of a way forward. He lays on an over-sized sectional in his opulent great room when the phone rings. Reluctantly, he answers. 

WB: "Hello." *in a deflated manner*
GTA: "Wayne! What's cookin' my man?"
WB: "Who is this?"
GTA: "It's me, Gary. Your agent."
WB: "Ooh, hey. What's up?"
GTA: "Remember what we talked about last time? Getting you back in the spotlight?"
WB: "I guess."
GTA: "Well here it is! THIS is how we do it!"
WB: "How?"
GTA: "You're gonna love it! Listen - we put it out on the wire... that you are now - pan-sexual."
WB: "Pan? What? I'm fuckin' pans now?? I got a cookware fetish??"
GTA: "NO! Nothing like that, it means you're fluid, that you're attracted to everything!"
WB: "Man, how you gonna call me with some shit like this?"
GTA: "Wayne, baby, trust me! This is your John Travolta comeback!!"
WB: "Ain't nobody tryin' to be that fruity, borderline-rapist, creepy muthafucka!"
GTA: "Uh, Pulp Fiction? Tarantino??"
WB: "And he's another one! Man, I gotta go!"
GTA: "Wayne! Wait!! This will get you street-cred with the younger generation! You wanna be big with the kids, don't ya?"
WB: "Appeal to children? There's a word for that. And I damn sure don't want it associated with me!"
GTA: "NO, you'll be hip, in, everyone will love you!!"
WB: *thinks for a moment*
GTA: "You there?"
WB: "If we do this, we gotta do that other thing I mentioned."
GTA: "Of course! Anything you want! *pauses* What was the other thing?"
WB: "I want a harem."
GTA: "YES! YESS!! THIS is the Wayne Brady I know!!"
WB: "White girls. Twenty-one to twenty-five years old. I want thirty of them bitches."
GTA: "Absolutely!! Baby, you'll be in more young white pussy than clit rings!!"
WB: "And... a talk show. I want you to Oprah me up."
GTA: "You wanna go on Oprah? SURE! I can make that happen!"
WB: No, I want my own talk show. Tongue Hour with Wayne Brady."
GTA: "Uuhh..."
WB: "You know, cuz I'll be talking. To guests. "
GTA: "Oooh. K." *shaky voice*
WB: "Alright Gary, let's make a move. Put your headline out. I'm ready for this!"
GTA: "Wayne, you will not be sorry! You're gonna blow up like a warehouse full of sex dolls!!"
WB: *winces* "Just get it done." *hangs up*

Friday, August 25, 2023

"Stillness in the Trees" - First in the four-part series 'Embers' - Mixed media on plywood. My 127th painting.

 


“It is thought that we enter the public school system for an education. To learn and socialize in order to become well-adjusted, productive members of society. BULLSHIT! 

We’re forced into these indoctrination centers to be manipulated and mindfucked into believing absolute nonsense and are only rewarded when we can regurgitate the accepted answers, jump through the right hoops and clap like a fucking seal for a pat on the head. Only so they can then push us out into the world to maintain the slave-level of blindness that keeps the wicked in high places. They can all rot!”

She’d been watching the place all week. Right down to when the last teacher leaves and the first security patrol moves through. There was a sweet spot between 9:15 - 10:30pm. More than enough time to get in and out. 

It wasn’t a huge building but she’d still do a walk-thru, after all, she was no murderer - more an orchestrator of controlled demolition. Ridding the landscape of unseemly eyesores. Especially those who chose to go against the principles of intellectual integrity and the honest forward movement of all mankind.

Her watch reads 9:16pm. Time to get to work. Mariel had a school to burn down.


Thursday, August 24, 2023

The fuse has been lit...

Waterloo, Iowa - 1995

I hate this fucking world. Everything is wrong. People are fake. Institutions are corrupt. The law is for sale and even the idea of God has been made a mockery. 

Billions of selfish, entitled invalids roaming free - ruining all they come into contact with. Oblivious to anything real or meaningful. Clutching tooth and nail to the soothsayers of modern technology and popular opinion. Fuck them! It’s time they got their dose of reality.

My name is Mariel - and I’m about to do some things.


Embers

Stillness in the Trees
Cursed is the Ground
Take This, My Very Blood
Perversion on the Land

A new four-part painting series. Settling in the ashes, soon.