Finally back to class after vacation and having friends in from out of town. My intention was to finish this one up quickly and move on to something else. I think I finished this one, but with only 1/2 hour left to class I didn’t want to work on a new painting. Everyone said they felt like having some cake, so I guess I’m happy with it.
I always laugh when I have to write the word “dessert”. I don’t remember where I head or read this, but here is a trick on how to spell dessert correctly and not confuse it with desert (usually a hot, sandy place.) Dessert has two “s”. Like when you ask for a SECOND HELPING OF DESSERT. For some reason that always stuck with me. Unfortunately there are many, many, many more things that went right out of my head. How to spell the word dessert is not one of them. And all the dessert I’ve eaten (second helpings and all) has stuck right to my body. I started to have the 3 pieces of cake on a table, but somewhere along the way the table disappeared. Now they are 3 pieces of cake floating in space. Exactly where I will be on Monday when I go see the new Star Trek movie.
I CAN’T WAIT!!!!!
Many people know that I am not that fond of movies. But I will always go see a Star Trek Movie. I have loved Star Trek since the beginning with William Shatner as Captain Kirk. I was fascinated by Spock and his pointy ears. And I always thought things were a little more exciting in space. After it went off the air I was sad. Then a new Star Trek came along. HA! I said to myself. Who are they kidding. They cannot make a new Star Trek and make it better than what I now call “classic Star Trek”. But I was wrong. Along came Captain Picard and I was enthralled again. I even watched Deep Space 9 and the one with Captain Janeway. (What’s the name of that one?) I could never get into Star Trek Enterprise, but there is always comfort knowing that there is a Star Trek showing somewhere on my 1000 cable stations of crap.
How did we live with channels 2 – 13 for so long? Now I have over 1,000 cable stations and I swear there is not much to watch. There is the NCIS station. (What’s up with that? All of a sudden it’s NCIS all the time.) And there is the Law and Order station with that show and all the spin offs. And of course there is the Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel (I refuse to call it NatGeo), the History Channel and the Science Channel. As I said in a previous post, I like those channels.
My friend told me about the morbidly obese channel. I am not making this up. For a while there was a channel that kept airing shows about morbidly obese people and how they went to these clinics to lose weight. There was one guy who went and he was actually gaining weight because he was sending out for Chinese food while he was in the weight rehab center. You know what….as my friend Charlie says…If you can’t get up and get your own damn food then you shouldn’t be eating. Tough love. What? you want me to get you another piece of cake? Ok, be right back.
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May 10, 2009 at 2:58 am
wrjones
This is very nice, Trekie mama. The piece on the left has my mouth watering.
The upper left hand corner does seem a bit dark from the photo but you can lift a bit out and it will be fine.
A good painting, Carol. That vacation rest fixed you up.
May 10, 2009 at 3:02 am
wrjones
I wish we could edit our own comments at least. I forgot to mention that I remember not having TV until I was 12. Then it was a 10 in black and white. We had three stations to choose from but they all shut down from midnight to 6:00Am.
You are right about having 1000 channels but nothing worth watching. The cable companies duplicate the channels so actually you are right back to having 2 or 3 channels worth watching (sometimes).
Ok – we had dessert, paint us some vegetables.
May 10, 2009 at 1:05 pm
judith wolfe
Captain Janeway was in Star Trek: Voyager. Lovely yummy painting. I remember how to spell desert and dessert this way. Desert, with one ’s’ is when you are alone and dessert, as you say, is when you have that second helping. Speaking of eating – will we have popcorn in outer space tomorrow while viewing Star Trek?
May 10, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Jim
You know what I noticed once when I was at a hotel for a comic book convention? There was also a Trekkie convention going on… and many of them running around (usually running INTO one another) were morbidly obese. AND could be spotted carrying three pieces of cake!
I love the way this blog post links the three most important things in life: eating; watching television; and sitting down.
Love you !!!!!!
Me
May 10, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Alice
Great painting! Funny, that’s the way I remember how to spell “dessert” also. I’m so jealous that you are going to see the Star Trek movie!
May 10, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Bonnie Luria
I’ll have all three and then when I’m at Judys’, I’ll sit in front of her thousand channel TV watching shows about fishing, in Spanish, world soccer, in Italian, diet drugs in English, and more cooking shows in English. Then I can segue directly over to the channel for the morbidly obese.
We are an insane society. If you need further proof, re-read Bills On Painting latest post.
I believe that chocolate and cake, usually together, can cancel out the threat of microbial invasion.
Your painting reminds me of my favorite stop at a good wedding: the Viennese table.
May 10, 2009 at 11:51 pm
cruthlarson
did i mention that i would have been ill if i had seen it in an imax theater? i owe many thanks to judy. and tip-of-the-hat on reminding you of “voyager”.
maybe one day we can start a club and every third thursday (after you’re done with boot camp) watch 2 episodes (and maybe three on those times we land a two-parter) and slowly but surely and inexorably make our way through each of the four series (TOS, TNG, DS9 & Voyager – did you notice i didn’t include Enterprise) while eating cake.
May 11, 2009 at 12:50 am
Matt
Trekkie-Smeckie!!
I want the piece of chocolate cake at the top of the watercolor all for myself—and not a-la-mode!
Don’t want to offend any Trekkies–only kidding with the opening comment.
May 16, 2009 at 8:48 am
swatch
Cake floating in space! that is d33p man! ‘Fully’ as the surfer dudes say.
This is a great painting – I love the orange shine in the foreground. Thanks also for the spelling lesson – I remember being taught how to spell ‘to – get – her’ which stuck instead of a whole lot more useful stuff.
Cool post Carol – very amusing – I love these comments too – thanks for the laugh guys
June 19, 2009 at 8:06 am
InkSplodge!
Yum! These delicious desserts make me think of Wayne Thiebaud’s mouth-watering paintings of cakes – seen here – http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Wayne_Thiebaud/cakes.jpg
It’s clear to me that they’re on a table – a well polished one at that.
*wanders off to find some cake*