Pens and postcards

Subterranean Homesick Blues: Eudora Welty's cover letter to The New Yorker in 1933

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:36:57 -0400

Subterranean Homesick Blues: Eudora Welty's cover letter to The New Yorker in 1933:

March 15, 1933

Gentlemen,

I suppose you’d be more interested in even a sleight-o’-hand trick than you’d be in an application for a position with your magazine, but as usual you can’t have the thing you want most.

I am 23 years old, six weeks on the loose in N.Y. However, I was a New Yorker…

In case any of you need a refresher on how to write a real cover letter. Also, I would like to honor Eudora by using “concubineapple” in casual conversation.

A small watercolor I found nestled in a book. Give it freely....

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:01:27 -0400

A small watercolor I found nestled in a book. Give it freely. Bananas.

Various outdoors.

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 16:32:42 -0400

Various outdoors.

motherjones: Congress. Like my uncles who say they will drive...

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:11:40 -0400

motherjones:

Congress.

Like my uncles who say they will drive more/waste electricity because they know it will piss me off.

This is the loneliest sketch I have done in a while. I like...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:07:00 -0400

This is the loneliest sketch I have done in a while. I like solitary houses far away on hills. There is something both desolate and secure about the distance. When we do long drives into other states, I always make stories up about those houses we pass in the farmland.

I think when there is too much noise at work, I look at this house and think, I would like to go to there.

Photo

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:16:04 -0400

ooh-la-la.

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:14:22 -0400

ooh-la-la.

I drew this the day that jellyfish-like organisms clogged the...

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:20:00 -0400

I drew this the day that jellyfish-like organisms clogged the intake valves at Diablo Canyon nuclear plant — effectively making California nuke-free. Go, blobs of goo.

Lonely turtle or koopa troopa?

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:39:00 -0400

Lonely turtle or koopa troopa?

On the rocks.

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:30:00 -0400

On the rocks.

I think I’m getting better.

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:53:41 -0400

I think I’m getting better.

Olivia wants me to draw clowns. So I draw happy clowns and sad...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:43:03 -0400

Olivia wants me to draw clowns. So I draw happy clowns and sad clowns — but as I draw them, I become more and more terrified that I could scare her because my clowns seem nightmarish. But really I just scare myself.

My sweet potato science project (Photo by beccaconnors)

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:51:28 -0500

My sweet potato science project (Photo by beccaconnors)

My tribute to Presidents Day

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:58:32 -0500

My tribute to Presidents Day

The assignment I completed for learning to love you more, a...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:04:21 -0500

The assignment I completed for learning to love you more, a crowd-sourced art project which was acquired by the SF MOMA in 2009.

Sadness that I haven’t followed through on this. However,...

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:54:41 -0500

Sadness that I haven’t followed through on this. However, it’s the verge of the new year and all this resolve is surging thru my veins…and so, in 2012, I will totally be disciplined and do my internets.

sour grapes

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:15:00 -0400

sour grapes

Spaceship and / or monster.

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:11:00 -0400

Spaceship and / or monster.

Photo

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:18:54 -0400

the definition of “flittens.”

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:46:13 -0400

the definition of “flittens.”