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Sunday, June 13, 2021

Sunday Sketches: 06-13-2021

A few efforts in old notebooks from back when I was trying to emulate Japanese brush painting with markers, circa 1991 or so. With apologies to the real brush masters.

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Saturday's Child, 06-12-2021: Hot California Days

My weekly original song, enjoy!

Sunday, June 06, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 06-06-2021

Pages From The Past: 10-08-1995: I shared this seven years ago, but it's worth a re-run.

Saturday, June 05, 2021

Saturday's Child, 06-05-2021: Hey Nonny Nonny

Another of my original tunes, this one in memory of Johnny Otis:

Sunday, May 30, 2021

Saturday, May 29, 2021

Saturday's Child: Our Love Is Like The Wild Rose

My weekly sharing of one of my original songs. I hope you enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU5bSvq3u3s

Sunday, May 16, 2021

Sunday Funnies: Pages From The Past:

May/June 1996:

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Saturday's Child: Permanent Blues

My weekly original tune. Haven't been sharing these here but will do so from here on. Enjoy!

Sunday, May 09, 2021

Sunday, May 02, 2021

Memoirs of A Music Addict, Part 2

I'm working on Part 3, which I hope to have ready by around this time next month. Part 1 was posted here on March 7, 2021. - R. Loomis

Sunday, April 25, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 04-25-2021: Dream Journal

A couple of recent weird ones to share here:

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Taking a day off today, just posting this scene I sketched of a sweet March 31 afternoon playing flutes and whistle on the back deck with our late, great cat Stumpy meatloafing in the sun. Needs "colorizing" but I'm too lazy to do it right now. Have a great Sunday!

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 04-11-2021

Those truly annoying robocalls! This cartoon inspired by actual news. The story I read about it is here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2021/04/09/the-supreme-court-just-gutted-a-thirty-year-old-law-against-robocalls/?sh=5ca3cadc7935

Sunday, April 04, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 04-04-2021: The Week in Review

Onward and upward with the arts ... and Happy Easter whether or not or in whatever form you observe or do not observe it. May all your chocolate eggs be free of bloody yolks!

Sunday, March 28, 2021

Sunday Funnies: Pages From The Past, 07-14-1995:

And I thought I was old then!

Sunday, March 21, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 03-21-2021

OK, I lied, I happened to come up with this for this week even though I said I would not be doing Sunday Funnies because of work on my memoirs:

Sunday, March 07, 2021

Memoirs of a Music Addict, Chapter 1

Seville Street:

To Be Continued

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 02-28-2021

How Time Flies, Part 2021:

Sunday, February 21, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 02-21-2021

Pages From The Past, 09-08-1995: Sunday Funnies: Remember when we all worked in offices and newspapers were widely read ... that's rhetorical, of course, no question mark needed. Here's a page from my days at the now departed Contra Costa Times. Enjoy!

Sunday, February 14, 2021

Sunday Funnies: A Day Off with Love to Beverly, 02-14-2021

Taking a day off for V Day/Presidents Day, and with love to Beverly Joan Loomis, the following:

Sunday, February 07, 2021

Sunday Sermon, 02-07-2021

This poem presented itself yesterday afternoon as I listened to jazz on KCSM-FM. It is obviously influenced by past and recent browsing and pondering of various Buddhist and Tao texts. The art was done on canvasboard with brush pens in 1991, likely copied from some Chinese master's work. I'm sorry to say I can't recall whose. When I finished the poem I thought "Ah-ha! A perfect pairing!" This is what I was able to produce with my primitive technological skills. I hope you like the result. Peace, love and heath to all sentient beings.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 01-31-2021

Pages From The Past: Return with us now to those freewheeling, pre-COVID days of yore. Aloha!

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Sunday Sermon, 01-24-2021:

This is an attempt to combine some imagery with a poem from my 2018 book "Till We Have Faces," available at Amazon. I hope you enjoy it!

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 01-17-2020

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 01-10-2020: Dream Journal

Sunday, January 03, 2021

Sunday Funnies, 01-03-2020

Happy New Year, all!

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Sunday Funnies, 12-20-2020

Pages From The Past, 02-12-1997: Return with us now to those early days of the digital age when dial-up was how we connected and the Internet was a vast new world of possibilities: