Amy Sterling Casil

I'm going to pay other creative people well to create the cover of Like Fire and will publish it this year. This is the really good fantasy book I completed that's paid off in terms of my personal life - these are some of Kirbi Fagan's illustrations that will be in book.

@PaqWilly Me too ... all we have near here is Dick Blick. I also used to order out of the Daniel Smith catalog (I'm a painter/drawer). Also gone, the paints now cost a fortune.

@ASterling Boy do I miss Pearl. I still have my first sculpting tools I bought there along with a number of art books.

Never met him, but he helped me become a successful artist. I started sculpting as a kid, but never pursued it as a vocation due to it being impractical, and didn't touch clay for many years.  In the late 80's I decided I wanted to explore it again, after having worked in the field of photography and a few years trying to make it as a musician in my free time. I discovered Mr Lucchesi's book 'Modeling the Figure in Clay' at Pearl Paint in Paramus, NJ and it was groundbreaking and fundamental in my studies.  I never went to art school but learned by studying the masters of antiquity largely, but Bruno's work and his book gave me the information in step-by-step form to learn my craft and the human form.  It allowed me to find work in collectibles after studying and practicing for less than a year, and led to decades of work in that field before I transitioned into making fine art. To this day, I use his book as reference.  It's so well loved and used that the spine has cracked and pages are coming loose.  I owe Bruno Lucchesi a debt of gratitude.

@ProfessorDNA Excellent! People complain about "AI hallucinations" when it's just copying a lie some human previously told.

@PaulSorrentino3 There's all different ways to turn a frown upside down and we all better work on 'em, Paul, workingclass haute couture

the uniparty delivered

@rodwlatstetter Same with Chinese food from real Chinese restaurants. One dish will easily serve 4.

@ASterling THEY WERE GOOD BUT MADE 4 MEALS FOR 3!!!!!

THIS IS IN CALIFORNIA, BUT IT REMINDED ME OF WHEN I STARTED WORKING IN CHICAGO. I HAD ALREADY WORKED A 12 HR DAY BUT HAD TO GO 80 MILES SOUTH OF CHICAGO AND SUPERVISE AN ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR INSTALLING CABLE ON OUR PROJECT. LONG STORY, THEY WERE OUT OF WORK, SO WE HAD TO ALLOW THEM, AND IT WAS OUT OF OUR LOCAL. ON THE WAY, I THOUGHT I'D GRAB DINNER ON THE RUN. I WENT THROUGH A MEXICAN DRIVE-THROUGH AND ORDERED 2 BURRITOS. I'M CONDITIONED BY TACO BELL FFS AND $7.50 SEEMED CONSISTENT WITH THE PRICE. SO THEY HAND ME THIS BAG, A GROCERY BAG SIZE, AND SAY CAREFUL IT IS HEAVY!!!!!!!!! I THANKED THEM AND WONDERED IF I GOT A FAMILY MEAL.............. SO I PULLED OVER AND FOUND 2 OF THESE THINGS IN THE BAG AND SAID "HOLY HELL." I GUESS I'M FEEDING THE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR I'M SUPERVISING................. THESE WERE AN EASY 3 LBS EACH!

Don’t grow up make new friends every day

@DrLearnALot My friends do the splits and cartwheels. Even I do cartwheels. We are in our 50s and 60s. I was just out last nite dancing with my friends dressed as David Bowie. I hope this man gets out more.

This is sad.

@dirtbagleft1 They "love" whomever they are told to love. This type of person can't even love themselves ... that's a shallow gesture, not "love".

I hate Fauci but I can understand not hating him (if your uninformed). But loving and worshipping him makes absolutely no sense and is pathetic. Seriously, what did Fauci actually do to make these people love him? Appear as opposition to Trump?

@InsightTweeting Oh wow ...

This is my grandmother when she was 52.

I just read an in depth post from my IRL friend Rob Sawyer, Canada's top sci fi writer, where he talked about the excellent medical treatment he just received in the past couple of weeks. He has had many health challenges in recent years and received top care through Health Canada at no cost to himself - in response to his post, dozens of readers shared their good experiences with Health Canada. He does live in Ontario, and their care does vary between provinces - some do better than others, and Ontario is usually the top, closely followed by BC. Even Canada ... I truly don't think there's any English speaking country more primitive and messed up than US. And that was thought to be the case pre-US-Civil War by supposedly more "sophisticated" countries. It's not just "not enough pay to live" we are also exploited by food, health, and entertainment "systems" run by the worst people ever known in history.

@JohnRad15 @cski_michelle @theobjectivist LOL - I'm just applying what it said. I'm not interested, and not a customer for them in any way.

Stossell and those like him keep losing to socialism for one reason: Morality! They refuse to make the moral case, and you cannot beat a moral crusade with a spreadsheet. Why has John Stossel failed? He says it himself: years spent proving free markets work, and socialists keep winning. He blames bad economics. But economics was never the battlefield. Everything Stossel says is true, capitalism produces, lifts men from poverty, delivers what government cannot. And none of it will win, because the fight is not about production. It is about the good. This is the error conservatives and libertarians repeat forever. They argue efficiency while conceding morality. They prove capitalism works, then go silent when it's called selfish, having already granted the socialist's premise: that to live for oneself is immoral. Capitalism has only one defense: that a man's life is his own, that he exists for his own sake, and his happiness is a right to proclaim, not a sin to excuse. Say it, and you win. Evade it, and you lose to men with false economics and a bolder claim to virtue.

@cski_michelle @JohnRad15 @theobjectivist As I previously stated - I blocked you because I am not interested in the dumb stuff you are spewing at John. He's a hardworking man same as I'm a hardworking woman. The world is messed up and just because you can't understand that, is of no concern or interest to ME.

Omg what absolute nonsense. Your survival has always required your own labor. You are not "forced" into anything by "Capitalism". You are forced by the laws of nature to provide for yourself. Your choices are only limited by your own ability, willingness to take risks, and your own ambitions. That's not capitalism' failing if you aren't doing what you want to do in life. That's your own failing. If you don't like your limited choices, then start your own damn business's. Don't have the vision to do that? Then shut up and be happy someone else's vision provides a job opportunity for you. Capitalism is voluntary exchange with unlimited choices. The only thing that limits you in capitalism is yourself and therein lies your problem. Capitalism also requires personal responsibility. Nobody else is required to create opportunities for you and that's really what most socialists/communists are angry about.

@cski_michelle @JohnRad15 @theobjectivist Hello you STUPID DIPSHIT - you said it's a "free market" and anyone can choose at any time so I'm not interested in what you are selling. It, as I said, has ZERO value to me.

@JohnRad15 @theobjectivist @ASterling Hilarious! Coward blocks because they have no intelligent response. Bravo! 👏👏👏

@GDebatta These are all illustrations why Hell had better be real.

@ASterling he should be held accountable and it’s crazy to me that he gets away with it

Grok, put an SS uniform on this Italian doctor who invoked the 5th amendment over 100 times today

@mcsquared34 Where we used to live - the landlord wanted to jack the rent to $2100/mo in 2020. The place was "unimproved" to say the least. This is a 55+ community.

@cski_michelle @JohnRad15 @theobjectivist I choose to block your account since I find your statements of no value

@PaulSorrentino3 Paul, the centers are NOT needed. The only "need" is for the Epstein Class people who wrongly think they will be able to control these machines and others as they have traditionally been accustomed.

stopping data centers could be the thing that unites working class Americans to start fighting back

If 1980 me somehow time traveled to now and ate one of these 2026 Reese's ... It would inspire a classic dystopian story i have eaten the Reese's it's death now