E.T.s come to Richmond / monoprints and story

As soon as they stepped through that bright light portal people loved them. They looked like a delicious tossed salad and smelled so fresh. They communicated through mental telepathy that they were here in peace and said,”Take me to your leader.”

The governor rushed right over to meet them and they promised that they could increase our crop yield 1000%. Imagine getting a real ton of tomatoes from each plant, 50 foot tall corn stalks with 100 ears on each, pumpkins large enough to be made into housing! They could do all that because they are actually vegetables themselves and they want to put down roots in Virginia.

The governor gave them the key to the city. Then the next day they were shopping downtown and some kids started chasing them with bottles of ranch dressing and forks. Suddenly the portal reappeared and they vanished.

I hope you enjoyed the story. If the mono prints look like something else other than aliens tell me what you see!

It’s raining and I had some fun with these prints but I’m not finished with them. I want to do a larger collage using them and make something deep with layers of paint. I’m not sure yet how I’m going to do that. I’ll have to wait a few days for this to dry then I might cut these and rearrange them.

my car time traveled without me

It’s not a DeLorean but a mere Ford and it didn’t have to get up to 80MPH. It did this standing still.

I didn’t realize how much sand is in my car. I wonder if the car went to the beach.

Anyway, I’m glad I wasn’t along for that ride because 2014 wasn’t that great.

Did your car ever time travel without you?

the Brain aka glitter ball

Do you remember that episode from the original Star Trek where Kirk and Spock go to a planet with those very highly evolved beings that don’t have a body, they’re only glowing orbs that communicate telepathically and have the power to  make things happen through thought? If I recall correctly, they forced Kirk and Spock to fight to the death. It seemed like the big glowing brains were so bored all they did was bet on sports that they forced on other species. One says, ” 100 quatloos on Kirk.” Then another says,” 1000 quatloos on Spock.” etc.  Kirk and Spock don’t kill each other and Scotty beams them up.  I’m not sure I have all the details right of that episode. It was a long time ago.

Also, a long time ago my husband brought home a Christmas decoration like this. It’s plastic cups with holes punched in the bottoms and lights in the holes. My daughter and I loved the thing. It had programmable lights, so they go through sequences. We called it the Brain and said it was communicating with us. When it flashes we said it’s angry. When it does a slow fade we thought it was at peace. You can just stare at it and it hypnotizes you.

I wonder what ever happened to that brain. I always missed it and wanted to try to make one when I thought of decorating for Christmas. I don’t usually decorate but this year I looked up how to make Christmas decorations out of plastic cups and watched a YouTube video. My first try didn’t work because the cups were the wrong kind of plastic. When I tried to staple them together they broke. Likewise when I tried to drill holes for lights. Then I went to another store and bought the Solo cups and they worked.

Now we have a brand new Brain. When I told my daughter I was making one she said she’ll be happy to see our overlord again.