Skip Williamson's Blog
Skip Williamson
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- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Birthday
- August 19
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- Bio
- Cartoonist, writer, artist, unrepentant insurgent, publication designer, pornographer and an aggravating carbuncle on the ass of Culture.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Suede,
Thanks
for the correction about Lisa
Wu Hartwell's husband. I
will
rectify…”
November 01, 2009 11:37AM - “Nice memory. Nice
shoes.”
October 29, 2009 08:37PM - “Sex is magic, intimacy
is transcendent, love is where
it's
at. Even if it's
just…”
October 23, 2009 02:47AM - “It could just be that
that which you love and and
are proud
of is exactly what
yo…”
October 21, 2009 03:01PM - “As I peer into my
crystal ball I can't help but
wonder why
the other one isn't
cr…”
October 20, 2009 01:11PM
Skip Williamson's Links
"This is absurd. This is absurd".
--Sigmund Freud (last words)
My daughter, Rita, made breakfast for the Real Housewives of
Atlanta this week.
Rita is a chef. She works for Opera, an opulent Atlanta nightspot
that caters to beautiful people willing to tolerate -- and pay high
dollar for -- the/… Read full post »
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire...
--T.S. Eliot
When I was a kid preeminent writers, poets and notable celebrities were entertained in my home. Beguiling and legendary characters like John Ciardi,/…
There are those on Open Salon who jealously guard the written
word. Not surprising considering that this territory was
settled, fenced off and farmed by writers.
Cartoons can be a powerful medium. Boss Tweed said about
Thomas Nast "Stop them damn pictures. I don't care what the papers
writ… Read full post »
Funny Side Up
In 2002 I was flying into Portland, Oregon, for a show.
For me the Great Northwest was an alternate universe populated by
pale indigenous forest children. Their knit caps pulled low even
though it was May. Clothed in surplus army khaki, faded denim, worn
plaid flannel, hooded sweatshirts and hemp,… Read full post »
There was an excitement in Canton, Missouri, when the
Mississippi reached flood stage.
The river would rampage nearly every year. Sometimes it simply
crept across Highway 61 north and south of town and then began to
recede. But other times it was more angry and bent on
destruction.… Read full post »
My friend, Suzy the Floozie, would bring me bags of toys. 50 gallon Hefty bags filled with Happy Meal toys, tiny spacemen and alien creatures, Disney tchotchke, gaudy trinkets and horrific gee-gaws, gllttery beads and king- cake babies, little army men and cowboys and Indians and batgirls, small jac… Read full post »
If you can fake that, you've got it made."
--Groucho Marx
Because I was the young, hip guy in the Playboy art department, I'd get the young hip assignments. For instance, I'd work monthly with editor, Kate Nolan, producing whatever the/…
--Germaine Greer
The night I met Francy I went home with her. We didn't leave the bed for a week. She had been dating a science fiction writer, but he'd been atomized. The hot avaricious/…
Playbore
-- Edward Abbey
Playboy has always been a target of parody. In fact
Playboy liked to consider itself a advocate of the art of
parody and satire. But the truth was that Playboy magazine
was fairly thin-skinned when it/… Read full post »
Slice of Life
The vicissitudes of domesticity.
Originally published in the National Lampoon, vol. 1, no. 64,
1975.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of pas/… Read full post »
A Dispatch from the Trenches
--George Carlin
A bit more than a decade ago I reinvented myself.
With premeditation and willful intent I transformed from cartoonist
and print designer into a gallery rat. My theory was that the
asshole quotient, common and rampant in/… Read full post »
I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
-- Nicolas Cage
In 1969 I was working as a junior book designer for Playboy's book division. My boss was Don Myrus, who'd/…
Illustrations
July 16th on my Facebook page I published a link to four
recently completed paintings here on Open Salon.
I received a comment from gallery director in Brooklyn. He said my
paintings were "illustrations..." A bit snarky, I thought. And
rude. Not to mention a tad assholier-than-thou.
And why use "illust… Read full post »
Criminal Intent
and fit man for the constable of the watch,
therefore bear you the lantern.
--William Shakespeare
In 1980 I was driving through the Cabrini Green neighborhood.
Cabrini Green was a notorious and violent public housing project constructed at the intersect/…
It Begins
of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing
us for its inevitably fatal operation." --Tennessee Williams
There were 13 refineries and a forest of oil rigs around Ploesti, 35 miles north northwest of Bucharest. This included the Romano Comp/…
Four Paintings
These are four recently completed paintings. And they're fairly good examples of the diversity of my source material. I'm not the kind of guy likely to paint a stoic still-life. Or an abstract color-idea explosion. And God knows I loathe conceptual art...Y'know, like a box of ribbons… Read full post »
It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust
enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw
her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe."
--Tori Amos
… Read full post »
and seldom even ordinarily respectable."
-H. L. Mencken
As anyone with a sense of history knows, the link between Organized
Crime and Organized Politics in Chicago was so solid it was often
difficult to discern one from the other, especially during/… Read full post »
4am
A few years ago I was talking to Kelly. She was in the final
throes of a romantic relationship. I told her "Your boyfriend has
one of the most wickedly interesting profiles I've ever seen".
"Maybe you should draw him," she said.
"I'd rather do a drawing or a painting of… Read full post »
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The Museum of Lost Things
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