The Spontaneous Monday Off

[kybearfuzz]

I burned one of my "use or lose" vacation days today. I just couldn't muster the energy to get up. My new 500 count bedsheets might have something to do with that. I just didn't want to get up. I also needed a bit more time to recover from a rather stressful holiday week.

After the plyometrics workout (geez, been a while since I've done that one, I forgot how it wears me out), lunch at Chipotle (they have brown rice now!), and taking out the recycling, I'm settling in to do some odds and ends. I have the Christmas cards printed, the pages for the next comic installment, and Christmas stuff to put out. I'll get to that soon. Some of it today.

The doodle page was to have something to post here. I often do random drawings when I'm watching TV and I particularly liked this page for some reason. It slowly gets me into the mood to draw more, trying out some ideas to see how they'd look on paper.

Last night, I watched a documentary on Netflix, "Gay Sex in the 1970's." It was pretty illuminating and it was exciting to see the photos and videos of the time, seeing how free the love really was. Wow, how things have changed.

Okay... Rainy day, good day to get home stuff done, but only if I get started. Happy Monday, all y'all.

Comments

[designerotter.livejournal.com]

Post-Stonewall '70's was like a heady maelstrom of newly-discovered sexual liberty. I had just begun the coming out process back then... and from what I can tell, it still remains a 'process' that is ongoing for a lot of people. For whatever reason, I was (was?) fairly shy, and a romantic - so that anonymous sex never had an allure for me. In the '80's, living in NYC, I never did get up the courage to go to the 'baths' - and if you ever found me in a bar called "The Spike", it was likely for a play-reading by some gay author. On the other hand, I'm currently alive and healthy ...so perhaps the tradeoffs weren't such a bad deal.

Nifty page of sketches - it's always fun to see an artist's mind percolating on the page.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I can only imagine the amount of control it must have taken back in the 70's. I think being in the environment would have been like sticking a fat kid in a candy store.

"The Spike"? Now that sounds like an interesting place.

And thanks. I tried to get into the drawing mood last night and it just wasn't happening.