Caturday: just a quick blurb.

Birch is pretty affectionate, as far as cats go.  He likes to lie next to me (or sometimes in my lap, but only when he wants to, not if I put him there) and will generally submit to being picked up/cuddled/smooched for a few moments before he starts to struggle.

Last night, however, was unprecedented: he fell asleep with the side of his face literally mashed against my mouth and nose.

I was flattered, and his face smelled okay, so I let him remain there.  He stayed for hours. It was epic.

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Love kitties?  Click here to see all the cat paintings currently for sale in my Artfire store!

My Artfire store now has 50 items!

...And I still have a bunch more paintings yet to list, if you can believe that!  I've been busy since I quit my day job back in April. :)

The latest piece I've uploaded to my store is a tribute to my friends in the LGBT community:

Click here for the full listing!

Pink!  Glitter!  Rainbow colours!  There's so much fabulousness here that it practically explodes out of the canvas and hits you in the eye (and I heard that can really sting, so be careful!).  Plus, at a mere 4"x4" in size, this painting can add flamboyance to even the tiniest apartment nook - whether it's the wall above your feather boa collection or that little empty bit of shelf space next to your Indigo Girls CD box set.

And until December 31st, you can enter the code SHESAIDPOPBLOG at checkout to get 15% off!  (Not just off this particular painting; I mean 15% off your entire first purchase from my store, no matter what you buy or how much you spend.)  Huzzah!

Dumb girl is DUMB.

My most recent painting on Artfire has gotten a lot of views already - more views than can be accounted for by my blog, Facebook, and Twitter marketing efforts, I think - and this made me wonder if the painting could possibly be showing up in searches already and people are finding it that way.

So I Googled "Uberwhore" to see if the painting would come up.

No.  No, it did not.

And now I see glowing afterimages of penises every time I blink.

I've just listed my 49th item on Artfire...and it is scandalous!

Ever since I was a kid, I've loved the little descriptive names that companies give to makeup shades (also paint shades and ice cream flavours).  The names are so evocative; they conjure up emotions or sensations or sometimes even create a whole new persona for you to put on along with the makeup.   

The only problem is that makeup names are often too subtle.  A lipstick intended to make you feel sexy might be called "Vixen," for instance...and that's not bad, but I think it lacks a certain oomph.  So I stepped up and invented a lipstick that's goddamn seximafied and doesn't pull any punches.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the latest addition to my Artfire store:

Click here for the full listing!

Hey, bright red lipstick is already associated with sex and seduction.  And this lipstick is really bright red, sooooo...

Oh, and by the way, you know how most makeup ads or websites have a little descriptive blurb about each colour?  I did that, too:

Don't forget that you can use the coupon code SHESAIDPOPBLOG at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase!  Only until December 31st, though; after that the code expires forever and I don't know when I'll make a similar offer again.  Feel free to pass that code along to family and friends so that they, too, can take advantage of these savings before the deadline!

Conversational Snippet #17: Oh HA HA I just got that.

The Boy and I are watching Star Trek fan-made music videos on YouTube.


Boy: The cast of the original Trek must've gotten so many weird injuries over the course of the show...like, I know all the main actors have tintinitus now...


Me: "Tinnitus."  Tintinitus is the compulsion to plaster one's hair forward, leaving a cowlick at the front. How did they get tinnitus?


Boy: Because of all the explosions and stuff.  [Long pause]  ...Shut the fuck up.



By the way, if you understood my joke without having to click either of the links, we totally have to be best friends.  It's non-negotiable.  I'll be showing up at your house any minute now with gluten-free cookies and a bucket of Legos.


Okay, watch this now!




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Have you checked out my Artfire store yet?  You totally should!  I have many original acrylic paintings that will tempt and delight your inner nerd.  And if you enter the code SHESAIDPOPBLOG at checkout you'll get 15% off your first purchase!  (Offer valid until December 31, 2011)

New item in my store: GLITTER BACON CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS!

First, I invented wall-mountable Glitter Bacon.  Then, the approaching holiday season inspired me and I adapted the design into tree-hangable Glitter Bacon!



Life-sized, realistic-looking bacon!  Copious amounts of superfine gold holographic microglitter!  Coordinating gold-coloured S-hooks for hanging!  Truly, these ornaments are the pinnacle of human achievement.  And if you enter the code SHESAIDPOPBLOG at checkout, you'll get a 15% discount on them!  Or on anything else in my Artfire store, for that matter.  But only 'til December 31st.

So, y'know, don't wait too long to start shopping. :D

Apparently, Sylar only makes waffles for the boys.

The Boy informed me via Facebook today that actor Zachary Quinto - famous to nerds everywhere for his roles in Heroes and the recent Star Trek movie - is gay.

The remarks about chicken noises and Chicken Ladies are a reference to some old Kids in the Hall comedy sketches, by the way. You can watch this video to fully understand the joke if you want to, but the gist is that the mental picture of Zachary Quinto gettin' it on with dudes is appealing to me, and The Boy knew it would be.  Finally: an indication that Zachary is doing the horizontal mambo with guys in real life and not just in my badly written Star Trek slash fiction*!

All lechery aside, I have to say that the closet is a terrible place to live and I'm genuinely happy to see Quinto come out and live a freer, more open life.  Maybe young, unhappy LGBT folks will be inspired by him (and other out-and-famous people, of course) and realize that it really does get better.


*I'm kidding!  I don't actually write bad Star Trek slashfic.  I write exquisite Star Trek slashfic.  Young Spock/Spock Prime anachronistic pseudo-twincest FTW!***

**I'm still kidding.  Nimoy is way too old to make my tribble purr.

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Pridebot approves of people coming out of the closet and bravely living the lives they were meant to live!  Please go visit Pridebot (and other robots!) in my Artfire store.  You can enter the code SHESAIDPOPBLOG at checkout to get 15% off your first purchase!  (Offer expires December 31, 2011).

p.s. I also carry life-sized paintings of waffles.