Feeling deflated. 3 performances thru the day before the real show even started. We sang. We danced. And now it's time to steal things. I'll take every piece of soap from this Ritz Carlton Hotel visit and stock my own house with the finest French milled facial soap.

The bus moves on tonight to Illinois while Toca & I fly to Denver tomorrow for more mini in-between shows. I can no longer think ahead in time further than a day. The future doesn't exist, I tell myself. The only time and place is now.

I try not to say I have a million places to be or lots of shit to do. Instead I say, "I have a full life" and instantly I welcome abundance. It's not that I HAVE to do all these things. It's that I GET to do all these things.

Tonight's show at the Variety Playhouse in Little 5 Points, a suburb of Atlanta, was a fun showcase of new material with a few teasers of old favorites. Music, Magic, & Make-Peace carries on. I regretfully had to leave the late night parking lot crowd due to sudden overwhelming requests for pictures, though for a moment we were thoroughly entertained as a group by a back alley card spitting magician who's magic word was "Mu'Fuckah."

So I split, but not before I snatched a box of movie popcorn from the classic concession counter. I enter my hotel room and drop my bags with circus dramatics only a veteran traveler knows. I am finally not going to use my computer or brain for that matter. I'm going to watch a movie and put the popcorn and clenched fist to good use.

At first I try a DVD I got from a friend in Australia but it's the wrong region code so I can't play it. Then I try to order a movie on hotel-a-vision but no credit card has been left for incidentals. I'm too tired and too naked to bother visiting the front desk after the midnight hour. I collapse. Too tired to laugh. Too goofy to try. And I eat the popcorn.

Here are some corresponding doodles courtesy of Right Brain performed while Left Brain was determining the nutritional & emotionally uplifting value of the popcorn.



"Popcorn's Big Night"
This one represents the "not right now" aspect of the given night. No access to Region Code 4, No Credit Card, No Desire to talk on the phone, No Pussy, No Herb, No interesting lady bugs to observe, No Time left in the day, etc. Just Popcorn without a film.

"It's Alien Fresh"
Fresh is a favorite word. It means new; recently harvested, clean, showing no signs of previous use, not changed by the passage of time, natural, pure, wholesome, alert and full of energy, cooler than usual, pleasantly bright, light, lacking experience, AND also means to have recently calved and are able to give milk. To be Alien Fresh must be even fresher than all that stuff combined.

"The GreeNerds"
The Green Sparkly Duo; This may be their debut as well their grand exit. They're green in more ways than one. Their heads may be in space but their hearts are earth conscious. This point is hard to convey with only a black pen.

"Things to Do"

"Splash Remake"
Based on reoccurring dreams of Manatees. Please make them go away. But save them. They are endangered.

I am deflated no more. Art is my air hose.