Movies Quoted on a 6-Day Girls' Trip

• Raising Arizona ("Say, that reminds me...")
• Forrest Gump
• Goodfellas
• To Have and Have Not
• Moonstruck 
• Love Actually ("That is a lot of _____, David.")
• When Harry Met Sally ("I've been looking for a red suede pump...")
• Top Gun
• The Hangover
• Austin Powers (all of them)
• So I Married an Axe Murderer
• It's a Wonderful Life
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Airplane ("and don't call me Shirley.")
• Miller's Crossing
• Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
• Caddyshack ("So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.")
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding ("It's okay, I make lamb.")
• Spinal Tap
• Waterboy
• Anchorman
• American Pie ("One time? At bandcamp?")
• What About Bob
• Sixteen Candles
• Grease
• Fools Rush In
• Back to the Future
• Pretty in Pink
• Trading Places
• Elf
• Pulp Fiction
• Full Metal Jacket
• Blazing Saddles
• The Godfather
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Say Anything
• The Jerk ("I don't need anything else. I need this!")
• The Princess Bride
• Rainman
• French Kiss
• Return of the King
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Steel Magnolias
• Cool Hand Luke ("Any man caught playin' grab-ass spends a night in the box.")

Don't worry, we had real conversations too. A little.

A Quote About Lists

"You do not seem to come in the old lists that I learned when I was young. But that was a long, long time ago, and they may have made new lists."
-Treebeard
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Words I Have Saved in My New Phone's User Dictionary

• grown-ass
• HAAAAAAAAA
• Hm
• non-fat
• ok
• Sheesh
• u
• Woohoo

List I Saw in Two Different Places at Flicker Street Studio

Coast to coast
Extra low
Stir something up

Things on the Bookshelf Next to My Front Door

1. books
2. four pairs of glasses and three cases
3. four bottles of sunscreen
4. a bag of geodes
5. bike repair equipment
6. a stopwatch
7. two packs of gum
8. Toasti Toes, self-activating foot warmer (one pair)
9. a bowl of Werther's
10. Rain-X
11. the dust jacket from the de Kooning biography I borrowed from Greely Myatt four years ago
12. artwork to be framed
13. artwork not in need of framing
14. a chess board
15. photo albums
16. yearbooks
17. diplomas
18. a 2009 road atlas 
19. a Kindle Fire
20. one pipe in an ashtray with a Zippo
21. three candles
22. zip ties
23. a bowl full of keys and pens
24. a lamp
25. T's work badge
26. my keys

My Year in Art, by the Numbers

After a relatively quiet 2010, art-making-wise, and actually a slow start to 2011 (thanks, gallbladder!) I got on a roll and I did not stop. In 2011 I painted/drew/sketched/created/wrote/taught/organized/took/exhibited the following:

• oil on canvas paintings, exhibited: 8
• oil on canvas paintings, edited out of my show Go Change: 4
• new and reworked acrylic/oil on panel: 4
• tiny outfit paintings: 19
• stories I wrote: 6
• stories I illustrated to create a 12-foot-long drawing with narrative: 1
• tiny paintings I made to go with paintings for Go Change: 6
• commissioned paintings (tiny): 2
• tiny paintings, other: 6
• shows I was in: 6
• classes and workshops I taught: 3
• sketch groups I organized: 12
• sketch groups I led: 10
• classes I took: 1
• projects I did that don't fit into these other categories: 3
• sketches I made: a bazillion

CBS Sunday Morning Never Disappoints

The description for tomorrow's show:

• The power of charisma
• Judge Judy Scheinlin
• artist Maurizio Cattelan
• college football uniforms