Actually, I hate exceptional customer service, and that is what I’m greeted with at my comic book store of choice, Heroes World, located just north of Toronto.

Every time I go in, the staff actually acts as if they enjoy being there and sharing their enthusiam with clients - go figure.  This “treat your customer well” philosophy might be great for business, but it kinda sucks for me, because I never seem to leave the store without purchases.  Why are they making it so easy for me to buy?

I’m not a Super Hero genre fan, yet last week I left the store with “Superman, Red Son“.  Today I left with the collected series from 1 - 14 of “The Immortal IRON FIST“.

I don’t like great customer service - no, I mean it.

If you happen to be in Toronto, please do check out Heroes World.

I made a couple of signigficant discoveries last night in class -

1. Working with colour showed me just how little I know about colour.

Our teacher introduced coloured chalk last night; not a pretty picture (pardon the pun)

2. I don’t like charcoal.

I inhaled way too much charcoal dust in class.  I’m going to stick with pencil for the time being!

At long last, I had my 1st art class last night at the Art Gallery of Ontario Gallery School, or the Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School.

I was thrilled to be sketching a white cone and 2 white spheres on white foamcore with charcoal - no, really I was thrilled.

I can’t wait until next week’s class.

I start art classes today at the Art Gallery of Ontario.  I’ll probably begin shading spheres and cubes.

Gotta crawl before you can walk or run I suppose.

I went to bed at about 3:00am this morning and maybe that’s the reason.  Normally I have dreams about flying here and there - usually very exciting and entertaining dreams.  However, I was so exhausted that I think my dreamtime was a bit wonky.  I dreamt of an apocalypse - not the 4 horsemen kind, but a visually cool but really terrifying kind.

It reminded me of the final sequence in the 1985 film The Quiet Earth where the lead character, Zac Hobson witnesses a spectacular celestial event.  In my case, it seemed like a couple of suns going super nova as well as asteroid plummeting to Earth.  Then immense sky-sized sheets of ice crashed down on us.

Me and my party survived.

I am going to figure out a way to draw it - it won’t be soon, but I will be doing it.

Check out the final sequence of The Quiet Earth.