And so begins another useless day....
Some post on Blackplanet from some guy that has decided he should tell me how I should be doing my art. Not in that "it would look better if you did this" but the whole philosophy I should have toward it.
This guy is a forty year old graphic designer. And since he and his fiancee can barely afford their studio apartment, I would venture to say he's not very good at it. He's an ex-junkie who is afraid to talk to much of anyone in person but gets very self righteous online. Most of what he does say is pretty illogical and doesn't make much sense.
It is my belief that his years of drug abuse gave him some sort of mental retardation. I know it has happened to people before, and it's the best explanation I can come up with for the stuff he says.
I've been approaching this with "well it's my art and my decision. I'm not saying it's right for everyone but it's what's right for me." with the unstated but obvious "oh fuck off". It does no good. My next recourse is to say, "I'm sorry. What makes you an expert on how I've lived my life? What extraordinary accomplishments have you had in the arts?" since this guy has pissed away his life even more than I have pissed away mine. And that's saying a lot.
So Rob has to go away for a week again, leaving the sunday after thanksgiving, and gone until the following Friday. Goddammit. I wish his job didn't yank him away so much. He'll be here for three months then he'll go through long stretches where he cant be home more than two weeks without being sent somewhere for a week.
Of course, seeing the image of Brooklyn on fire from a crashed American Airline flight doesn't exactly ease my fears. Especially since he flies American a lot.
And of course since his company have become real cheapskates since the recession, he'll have to take the cheapest airline which also means the airline with the worst track record of safety. And that would be American these days.
Oh but one of the head execs of American said "I think being on an airplane is the safest place to be these days."
Yeah. I can tell.