Hooked on you -- and the man again

A man
Line drawing -- black marker on bond paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches
Barbara Muir © 

Whoeee -- it is the coldest it's been all winter here and

everyone is in shock.  That feeling goes along with the

strange feeling of having to go out and buy sunscreen

because it was eye-blindingly sunny today. We all

feel a bit like we've been smothering under a grey

blanket for all of January and February (but it was

warmer under there) and all of a sudden -- brilliant

light!  We love it, but we're unprepared.

So it has been the kind of day a Saturday should be --

super busy with market shopping, and then having

dinner with friends.  I am still working on larger
paintings, but I wanted to blog all the same.  

Plus I decided tonight that I have not said enough about

how much I appreciate what Stephen Colbert has

continued to do opening his show, to lighten my

mood on the depressing state of the world -- 

especially the one he has to wake up to and present

as comedy  (a tragi-comedy of errors) every week 

night.  

I like the loose quality of this sketch from the year 

I was on the Oprah Winfrey show Skype sketching her.  

And I know my underlying reason for drawing Colbert 

so many times, aside from the fact that I could freeze frame 

his show on my iMac and draw gestures -- was that I wanted

to be invited to be on his program too  -- The Stephen Colbert

show.  Now I enjoy watching him on The Late Show,

and am more than content to simply enjoy his superb

humour.

Have an enjoying-humour-in-your-life day.