January 18, 2005

“dorothy” explained

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dorothy.jpg
The above pic­ture is called “Dorothy”. One of my sen­ti­men­tal favo­ri­tes. I wrote about it some more in the “About” sec­tion:

I’ve always been a big Dorothy Par­ker fan. Urbane wit at its finest. Would I trade my life for hers in order to be that talen­ted and famous? No way. Like all into­xi­cants, talent can be a poi­son. Rea­ding her bio­graphy, it seems she lear­ned that more than most.
It’s 2 am and I’m in this crazy Mid­town Irish bar. I have no idea why I’m there. I shouldn’t be there. I should be somewhere else. Asleep, com­for­ta­ble, happy, sha­ring my bed with a sen­si­ble girl from a good family, Brooks Brothers’ pyja­mas, insuf­fe­rably middle class. But no.
Every­body in that bar is crazy. I tell myself I’m the only sane one but I think I’m kid­ding myself.
Being an artist/creative is like wea­ring funky clothing. Every year gets a little bit har­der. After a while it just looks stu­pid. Even­tually the stu­pi­dity reaches cri­ti­cal mass and the late-night tails­pin begins. At a mid­town Irish bar at 2am, while I’m dra­wing this pic­ture, these things no lon­ger seem to mat­ter.
I like this card because it’s the kind of thing poor old Dorothy would have written.

This card was drawn at a very inte­res­ting period of my life. I was living in New York, I was making a ton of money, I was going out a lot, I was drin­king huge, and I do mean huge amounts of alcohol, and I had just dis­co­ve­red the “dra­wing on biz­cards” for­mat only a few weeks pre­viously, which I was wor­king furiously away at.
It was an insa­nely sti­mu­la­ting time.
Of course, it couldn’t last.

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2 Responses to ““dorothy” explained”

  1. Roman says:
    January 18, 2005 at 9:58 PM

    If you where in your Brooks Brothers pyja­mas, nothing of this blog would exist and I would have less hope in my heart tonight.
    I gra­dua­ted recently and after a very messy, pain­full and unpro­duc­tive “crea­tive” period, I am finally sig­ning for my first “real” job.
    So thanks for the advices.

  2. mamagiggle says:
    January 20, 2005 at 11:19 PM

    “The nowa­days ruling that no word is unprin­ta­ble has, I think, done nothing wha­te­ver for beau­ti­ful letters.…Obscenity is too valua­ble a com­mo­dity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on spe­cial occa­sions only.“
    Dorothy Par­ker from Esquire (1957)
    I came across this quote in someone else’s blog, thought of this here post and one a while back where your usage of ‘bad words’ was ban­died about. Any­way I thought the point was salient, but screw it.