Portrait of Grover Cleveland. Acrylic on canvas by Ben Celsi.

Ben has been busy through the summer attending sleepaway camp, learning to surf, and working on various projects including his Scratch game opus Hotel Griven and a video thriller called Apple Jack The Ripper: The Cereal Killer, but he has also found time to add one more to his series of Presidential portraits.
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When the temperature hits the 90s in Portland the most comfortable spot in my house is the basement. Last week was a scorcher, so I decided that  the moment had come for a major cleanup and reorganization down cellar. This involved sweeping away years of cobwebs, throwing away burned-out fireplace grates and towel racks ripped out during bathroom renovation, and finally unpacking the last boxes remaining from when Eve and I moved here in 1995. Inside one of them was a handful of old letters with decorated envelopes I sent to Eve over the years, which I’m adding to the batch my friend Geoff Seaman gave me after he moved last year. The top envelope is a portrait of the lovely Eve done before we were married; the four faces on the long narrow one belong to the vocal group The Bobs. I’ve also included a couple of envelopes sent to my grandmother, which my mother recently found in a box in dead storage.
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Just in time for his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, here are three Lightwave animations by my son Ben on Youtube:

When Robots Fight,
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Portrait of Chester Arthur. Acrylic on canvas by Ben Celsi.

Here is the latest in my son Ben’s series of Presidential portraits.

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Sunset Grove

Rebecca writes: Sunset Grove is located on the eastern coast of Fictionopia. There are not many things in Sunset Grove, but there is a one-room school (Taught by Meredith Rowsy) and a town square/chief’s house. The chief is Brandon Helter, with his wife Melody and his children Alexis and Joseph.
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Caricature from lnx.

A while back I posted images of some decorated envelopes that my old penpal Geoff found during his recent move. Since then Geoff has turned up a further batch, and I have added some of the better ones to the album ”Letters To Geoff” at Comics Lifestyle.
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I haven’t sent anyone a letter in ages, but back in the pre-digital day l used to send and receive mail all the time. My friend Geoff Seaman is moving, and in an effort to lighten his footprint he just gave me a sack of correspondence I sent him during the years we lived in different cities, from the mid-70’s to the mid-90’s. I’m far too self-conscious to reread any of the old letters, but I am pleased by some of the decorated envelopes, and I’ve posted an album of them here.
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To her other talents- paper sculptor, flautist and radio actress- my nine year old daughter Rebecca can now add High Priestess. I have just posted two essential documents of Rebecca’s self-created religion, Cowism, or the Cult Of The Sacred Cow, which already has a considerable following among the third graders at Buckman Elementary. Cowism Or Bust lays out the essential doctrine, while How To Draw Cows instructs one in the proper iconography. … » more