QOTD: “Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.” Russel Simmons I always wanted to be the kind of artist that does big, meaningful things. I don’t mean large in size, but large in concept and impact. I never seemed to be abel to pull it off, though. Even when I [...]

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She’s an artist. She has artistic temperment. This is normal for an artist. Errrr.  Yeah. To all of it. That’s what my mother said to the shrink who diagnosed me as bipolar.  She started it as a way of excusing the fact that I slept at extremely odd hours, my 36 to 72 hour day, and [...]

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