Jo

Oh my grandmother she would so get a kick out of things tonight if she was here.
Videos of the songs that we use to listen to as kids and dance and sing to.
I can now find them on youtube.
Gotta love that.
Here's to you Jo!
Cheers. Wherever you are!
Love you.
Liz

RIP Frank

But one I found online.

Frank Frazetta was born February 9, 1928. His early artistic career consisted of years of exquisitely drawn comics work, including contributions to the EC line of comics, assisting Al Capp on L’il Abner and later drawing several years of the strip, and working with Harvey Kurtzman on Little Annie Fanny.

In the ’60s, Frazetta turned to cover paintings for the thriving pulp paperback industry and created one of the most recognizable illustration styles of all time. His covers for Conan, Tarzan and other rough-hewn heroes created a visceral, violent, erotic yet somehow still nuanced visual style that has been endlessly imitated but never surpassed — Frazetta’s imagery of brawny, relentless swordsmen, seductive, fleshy sirens and hellfire breathing monsters had a gut level impact because it came from the gut — his many followers were just tracing without the passion of the originals.

In recent years, as reported here and elsewhere, the Frazetta estate had been much in dispute among his four children, following the death of his wife, Ellie. After some family squabbles that could only be called stressful and embarrassing, peace was made, however, and the sale of some of Frazetta’s most iconic paintings had begun, notably with the $1,000,000 sale of one of his paintings to a buyer believed to be Metallica’s Kirk Hammett. Another Frazetta painting was recently put up for auction, although it was not owned by the family.

Below is one of the last known public photos of Frazetta, shown in February at a family barbeque in Florida with his daughters and granddaughter.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/2010/05/10/frank-frazetta-rip/

Bobby introduced me to Frazetta artwork when we first got married back in 1999.
Little did I know that I was already a fan of this man.
He was a major figure in the art world.
His fantasy art was playful and creative.
His mind must have been a playground of infinite expanses.
I so wanted to meet him and interview the man who was the legend.
The man who let such beautiful flights of fantasy take over his body and flow from his fingertips.
He brought alot of joy to us geeks, nerds, fantasy freaks, people of all shapes and sizes and races and religions.
Art reaches out and touches you.
It caresses your soul.
Art gives you wings to soar on high.
So here's to you Frazetta.
Your name will live on in your artwork.
You will always have a place in my hierarchy of great artists!

Finding some Inner Peace

I want a Peace of mind.
Just a small one.
But I will never give away a piece of my mind.
I want to spread a calming feeling to people.
I am lucky to have friends and family who love me for me.
And at 31 the me I see is Great!
I can do anything.
I am running with that.

Once More into the Fray

So we venture once more out into the wilds of the Ft Worth Botanic Garden..........It's a jungle out there!
You have to bring your safari gear. Or you need to wear a romantic jacket like mine, some sort of lingerie or something.
Roses are in bloom and love is in the air etc, etc.
And it's time to just goof off and have fun.
I tell you what Day before mother's day truly a great day to go.
So many people that you can take pictures of.
I realize that day which was 5/08/2010 that it was also the day before my Independence Day.
My Independence Day was Mother's Day 11 years ago.
It wasn't planned that way.
That was the day that I made the call to tell my rents I am moving in with Bobby and then on 7-11-99 we finally tied the knot.
It didn't take us long to take the plunge.
Anyways, here are some pictures.
I recommend if you go that you find this secret trail on the back of the property past the pond where the roses are.
It's so awesome.

Project of Femininity and Masculinity Dualities with the Female Mind and Body and Soul, trates we exhibit

So this is Spring of 2010. I am 31 yrs old. Call-center employee by day. Lady, most of the time.......Young Brat some of the time, Definitely a talker.
Anyone who knows anything about Liz, knows she is a talker?
Oh did I mention I sometimes refer to myself in the 3rd person......What is so up with that?
I am pressed with questions about my life.
Is it where I want it to be....No of course not, whose really is 100%. We all have fantasies hopes and dreams that we want to ascertain for.Shoot for the moon and reach the stars type of stuff.
I have decided to do a Project.
I have up to this point. Managed not to be rather ladylike. I may have had my moments of little lady or perfect angel.....Cough Cough, Sputter Sputter, Who am I trying to kid here. Those that really know me know that me being a lady is well.....rather out there. consider myself to be a few things.
On the border between Angel/Devil, good girl vs Bad girl, Super hero vs Coward, Crime fighter vs Criminal, Pixie vs Galadriel, Poison Ivy, Cat Woman, Harlequin like personality at all times. And somehow yet I manage.
I have so many thoughts flying through my mind at so many intervals of the day that I have to keep running all my subroutines at the same time.
I feel like the character from Alias who was always playing 2 different roles for that character. Aha there we go to google for the answer.
Jennifer Gardner as Sidney Bristow.

I have my moments of stepping back and forth over the line like I am double dutch jump roping.
Pretty much in me I have a combination of a character from Batman Forever.
Drew Barrymore's character Sugar, and Debit Mazar's character Spice.
We all have our Cardamon moments.....And our Hot Sauce moments.
When I am Cardamon moments I am so very ladylike and dainty and sweet and friendly and adoring and grateful and lovey and dovey, Gag me Cough Cough Cough you get the picture.
Empathy is part of my job it has pretty much be imprinted on my hard drive and is the Main Program that sometimes runs my life.
Don't be worried out there you huddled masses. Empathy isn't the only thing embedded in my chips.
I also have other emotions as well on subroutines.
Isn't that a valuable thing to hear.
I have alot of different subroutines.
So if Cardamon is my Sweet Side, angelic, Lady, Galadriel, Cat Woman, you get the picture and I digress......Anyways.

Spice is more of the naughty/Wild side of life.
Most of us women, yes Dudes if you have not figured it out yet. Normally have these 2 personalities in our bag of Multiple Personality Disorder.
Insert Rim Shot Amen, whatever you want to say in this line.

I know from just reading a comment on facebook today that I have a friend with this type of Party action going on at her house.
Something about 16" of Delivery Boy was mentioned if I am correct....from what I overhead at the gossip at someone's house.
It was a Soap party..... What an interesting reason to have a Party.....Ha ha ha ha ha LOL etc and points to someone on her page not mentioning names but tries to couch to cover it up real quick.

My own party this weekend was a Spartacus party. We had one friend over whose name shall remain anonymous but one of Our com-padres who use to live close to us in another apt complex. He came over and watch the finale of Spartacus and we partied with Roman fair. There was a beef shoulder BBQ-ed on the grill, and half a piece of wheat french bread, A big honking cheese platter, and Callamatta olives, and special feta cheese. Even Gingersnaps for dessert.
Yes I know not Greek or Roman in origin. But what the heck you have to fudge sometimes.
This happened Friday night.

Then Saturday I went to get my hair done. Bought some daisies for myself and went to lunch with my mom at the restaurant by my sisters' salon, The Micheal Flores Salon in Dallas, in Turtle creek, an area I normally don't frequent mind you. I am not that high end in the financial end of things at the moment.
So I was astonished that at the Nail place across the St on Oakwood offered a 30 dollar pedicure.
Highway robbery in my opinion.
I would rather go get one done somewhere cheaper than you very much walk out the door.
There was a bakery I stopped in to get a cookie....yes I cheated I had a cookie for dessert but It was only one and it was so delicious and choc chip, yes even a diabetic like myself needs to cheat a lil so we don't go crazy and we do a better job at eating correctly so our bodies well work like well oiled machines.
Even us girls with the "Sug" we cheat every now and then....
But the woman there was so pleasant directed me to Sally's. Oh you ladies know you know Sally's that place is as a friend of mine says...."Off the Chain and "the Business" at work.
She is so right Sally's is both of those.
I got a pedicure kit for 8.99 and then I walked down the street picked out 4 flowers for myself. Gerber Daisies a pink one and another shade of pink and 2 yellow. Assembled for me by a lovely lady up front, really cool chica, Her manager then checked me out all the while helping a Woman get ready for the "Mad Hatter's Tea Party" supposedly some hit party happening soon in that area....guess Highland Park big society sort of get together.
It's called Mad Hatter's Party Dresses and Dahlias or something like that.
She had her dress and hat with her which a friend of hers so graciously loaned her.
See hints of upper crust women doing the same thing we lower crust do.
Is there really a crust anymore though?
We all try to do things to better ourselves in this day and age.....Yes Sadly I discovered the other day again that there is truly a crust.
When I went to the Dallas Arboretum or the Ft Worth Botanic Gardens...with a redhead photographer friend of mine, even to the West End then to Dealy Plaza and the Vickery Plaza. Definite view of the Delineation of the Crust.
Sometimes it runs North and South sometimes East and West. Sometimes undercurrent but it is still there. You can spot it out if you look for it.


Anyways, here is what I am getting at. I am going to do is through art and life and conversation I am going to post some observations about the Cardamon or insert some of there nice sweet something in there for yourself and Spice. I will be like a Navy Seal I will be in and out before you knew what was happening or Elizabeth Bond. I will only let what I want out and what I don't want out No one could ever beat out of me.
We have to be our own 009s.
Keep some operatives covert and secret and only share secrets like those Alphabet agencies share them all over the world.

@ copyright Elizabeth W. Smith
4/18/2010
Sorry if the images aren't showing. All of the above here is the intellectual property of me.
Except for the licenses images which I lay no claim to whatsoever.

4/11/2010 The Beautiful Lady makes her Grand Exit.......She sounded like she was beating a million drums!!