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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Websites, Booze, and Strange Conversations

I cannot seem to find time to post. It's terrible. I did update the image gallery on my website with three new design samples, one new painting (well, not new, but new to the website), and one new illustration. Yay! If I say so myself, the last two posters I designed ROCK BIG-TIME. At least, I was pleased with myself.

I will be back with a real post. I'm starting to see the light at the end of the non-blogging tunnel. Really.

Here's a short conversation for you in the meantime. Please note that my blood was rapidly being replaced by vodka gimlets at the time.

Scene: A very loud dance club/bar in Modesto of the 21-and-over variety that's really more like 30-and-over.

Me (to man of indeterminate ethnicity dancing with my friend): Excuse me, if you don't mind me asking, what's your ethnicity?

Man: I'm Persian.

Me: Ah, I see. I only ask because I'm half-Pakistani myself. I thought you looked, maybe...

Some half-coherent shouted conversation ensues about the state of our respective countries of family origin.

Man: My country, it is very troubled right now. That's why I live here.

Me: (Nodding in agreement)

Man: Plus, the drugs are much better here.

4 comments:

tanita✿davis said...

Oh, hello? And you stopped the conversation before the next *nods in agreement* happened??

The posters are WAY cool -- I like the Comedy of Errors the best because it reflects the Bard's constant use of ...essentially the same characters. I like that you could flip the little figures around. The clowns in dunce caps (Exit the King?) are still pretty cool, too. I'm always impressed with how you get gigs -- for all sorts of things!

Sarah Stevenson said...

The Comedy of Errors poster was fun--I went back and forth with the contact person at the school, and we figured out a way to emphasize that whole mistaken identity/twins thing. I ended up getting that gig via my other poster-designing gig--one of the actors in Exit the King teaches at the school where they're putting on the Shakespeare production. Alas, still not a high-paid thing, but oh well...

Anonymous said...

I love that it's more okay to ask someone their ethnicity if you're "ethnic" too. Clearly, you agree. :) I recently asked someone if he was Vietnamese. Though, I asked based on his name, not his appearance.

David T. Macknet said...

And ... we're assuming he was talking about illegal drugs? Because, really, the drugs are much better in the UK - you don't have to pay for the darned things because of National Health Service. :)