Back in the day, when I used to be a part of modern civilization, and engaged to an Art History major in New Haven, I guzzled gallons of free alcohol at similar events. I do miss it. Having come from mopping floors, manual labor, and scrubbing toilets just a few years prior, I too dismissed some pretty nice people as pretentious. I bet we both know there are some really nice folks at those foo-foo events--no matter how hard they are to suffer through.

Anyway, I'm not overly ambitious. Once I can paint something like this, I'll move on to a new hobby:




... or this one. I wish this wasn't part of pop culture, I think too many people don't really see it 'cause they think they've already seen it. This one makes my nipples tingle: