Today I opted to put a few more products in my Zazzle gallery.
It’s difficult to find pictures that I want to put up for sale (not that they sell anyway) because most of my best work is of the celebrity portrait variety and there are all sorts of questions about the legality of me selling images I’ve created of famous people, particularly when I’ve used someone else’s photograph as reference material.
I’ve actually gone ahead and posted some in the past, figuring that I’d get a “cease and desist” e-mail if anything, only to discover that, without telling me, Zazzle simply pulled them down.
In any case, click on the Zazzle link over on the lower right – which has been updated to take you directly to my gallery – or just click here if you want to see what’s new.
(Don’t tell anyone, but one of the new images is a celebrity portrait, but I think it’s sufficiently different so as to be legally “original.” If not, I guess it’ll just disappear.)
I woke up before 8 again today but refused to get up and managed to squeeze in another 40 minutes worth of sleep.
I didn’t do much of anything until around lunch time, at which point I made a quick trip to Super Target to pick up the Mirrormask DVD.
At first I didn’t think they had the DVD, as it wasn’t with the new releases, but as I was about to give up and head to Best Buy I saw that they had another rack of new releases which included the DVD in question, so I grabbed it.
After accomplishing that mission I headed over to the grocery section to try to track down a package of pork gravy mix for tonight’s dinner. While I was going down the aisles I noticed that they actually sell Sturdiwheat pancake mix.
Sturdiwheat is a just-add-water pancake mix that makes excellent pancakes. It’s actually made in Red Wing, Minnesota, where I used to live. I hadn’t realized that it was sold in this area, so I was surprised – and pleased – to see it. It was a pleasant surprise as I was just telling my mom that I wished they sold Sturdiwheat around here a couple of weeks ago.
I don’t make pancakes very often, but now that I’ve picked up some Sturdiwheat I’m sure that will change (I can pretty much guarantee that I’ll be making some tomorrow morning).
In addition to creating some new products at Zazzle I actually ordered a few prints of some of my pictures, including one that I didn’t post to my gallery because it’s one of those images that could cause a copyright issue (it’s one of the pics I did of Rachael Leigh Cook as Death) if I sold it, but just having it printed for myself isn’t a problem.
And that’s pretty much been my day. At some point I’ll watch Mirrormask, and hopefully I’ll be able to force myself to get back to work on a new picture I started yesterday (yet another one that, alas, I wouldn’t be able to put up for sale).
Once the day is over I at least now that it’ll be quite some time before I’m constantly inundated with ads claiming that “Every kiss begins with Kay,” even though that would actually make the word “Kayiss.”
Speaking of which, here’s a rejected script for the “Aunt Amy” Kay Valentine’s Day ad:
Annoyingly Cute Kid: Aunt Amy, Brian likes you!
Aunt Amy (who looks sort of like Joey Lauren Adams, but not really): Who told you that?
ACK: Brian did.
Aunt Amy (showing off ring or necklace, depending on which one she’s shilling): He told me, too.
(Voice over talks up the ring/necklace, and we return)
Aunt Amy: Want to know another secret? I’ve been cheating on Brian with his best friend Dave, and he gave me a much nicer pair of diamond earrings from Jared. Also, I gave Brian’s brother Tom a hummer and he bought me a tennis bracelet from Zales. And wait until you see the brooch from Tiffany’s that your dad will give me if he knows what’s good for him and wants me to keep quiet about how we went at it the night before he married my sister.
Rejected script number two:
ACK: Aunt Amy, Brian likes you!
(Brian whacks the kid upside the head)
Brian: I told you that in confidence you little brat!
The one thing that puzzles me most about Valentine’s Day is why we give out cards and gifts when beheadings would be much more appropriate, given that that’s the method by which St. Valentine is commonly thought to have been martyred. Just a thought…
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