I turned on my computer this afternoon to find out that Neil Peart, the drummer of Rush had passed away on Tuesday. Just a little more than a year ago I did a Simpsons cartoon marking the 40th year of my fandom of the band - I still have written in my 1979 journal the day I bought that first album at Nova Records Rush at the Door . 41 years I've been a fan. This man's drumming has been with me in good times and bad. And during my time spent doing pictures here at DeviantArt, Rush has very often been the music in the background. And I just featured my favorite of their albums in a recent project -  Marge Neat Meme .     This is a stunner. I

October here in Indiana began with two 92 degree record breaking days (33 C). This morning it was 13 degrees (-10 C) with a windchill of -3 degrees (-19 C). It's only 19 degrees out there right now (-7 C). Mike J out in the Bay Area...you were right - Indiana is weird. And we had an inch of snow yesterday. I'm already looking forward to spring.

I did a picture a couple of weeks ago that I just had to fix. It included Xavier and Wolverine from the X-men, and my OC Richelle Davies. Professor X and Richelle were great, but Wolverine was really left wanting. This was like a dagger on my soul...a major failure. To me Wolverine looked like the singer Mungo Jerry from my youth [link] . I mean, he looked OK, but he didn't look like Hugh Jackman, which is what I wanted him to look like. I took this afternoon to do some "facial surgery" to Wolverine, and hopefully he looks at least a little better. At least now he doesn't look like Mungo Jerry.