Category: Doodles
Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Looking back on 08, will the big story be: the election of the first African American President, the first woman Vice President, or the economic meltdown of our financial system? I'm betting on the latter. Politics be damned, foreign policy debates be damned, James Carvel had it right, it's the economy stupid! ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Everyone is in agreement that in order for our financial system to work we need to restore confidence. What started as a sub-prime mortgage meltdown has turned into a crisis of confidence. Enter Chris Dodd, as chair of the senate's Banking Committee, it has been his job to oversee the banking industry and it's regulators. But after he admitted to accepting two sweetheart loans from Countrywide shouldn't he step down as chair of the Banking Committee? Do we have confidence in him to oversee these hearings structuring a deal to instill confidence? ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Yesterday opportunity knocked on my door in the form of two local democrats and I drew their portraits for my blog. in the newspaper biz, I did what they call burying the lead. With all due respect to those two fine gentlemen, on Sunday evening the last game was played in the house that Ruth built, Yankee Stadium. Built in 1923 the Yankees played 6,579 games there going 4,132 - 2,430 - 17. I was lucky enough to have attended a small fraction of those games and it was always a thrill. ...
Read MoreRay Petronko in ball point pen on my local paper All politics are local....Yesterday I was listening to the Football Giants game and painting a landscape for a California wine label when my door bell rang. Local Democratic Councilmen, Ray Petronko and Joe Scrudato were going door to door asking if I had any questions about this November's election and their positions on the issues. The news junkie that I am, of coarse I've been following the race, and while I'm not going to go into the local issues here on my blog, I told them they could count on my support... These are genuinely nice guys who put in long hours of service to our community. After a long day of canvassing the neighborhoods they probably wanted to go home to their families, but they were very gracious to humor me when I asked if I could take their picture so that I could draw their portraits for my blog, . Thanks guys! ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Okay, now that all of our financial woes are all taken care of...NOT!! Lets get back to politics. Todd Palin is refusing to cooperate with a subpoena to testify in an abuse of power probe looking into whether Sarah Palin tried to use her influence as Governor to fire a trooper who was going through a messy divorce with her sister. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Hank Paulson may be the most important man in Washington today. In 2006 he left behind a 37 million dollar annual salary to become a public servant as Tresury Secretary. The one time Eagle Scout is one of the few Bush appointments that came to Washington prepared for the job....Good thing, considering the mess he found when he got their. This is a painting I did a few years back, after Hurricane Katrina tested another Bush appointment, Mike Brown. His experience at the International Arabian Horse Association didn't prepare him for the job. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Martin J Sullivan became CEO of the world's largest insurer in 2005. Almost immediately AIG was saddled with three massive hurricanes and a South Asia earthquake, but it was not an act of God that was the last straw, it was the man made subprime mortgage crisis and Sullivan was forced out in June of this year. ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint Richard Fuld CEO of Lehman Brothers It seems that besides the presidential campaign, the biggest stoiry of 08 is shaping up to be the state of financial institutions. Lehman Brothers, in existance for 150 years, has filed for bankruptcy, and following a rash of bailouts and more trouble on the horizon, Wall Street is content to let the market shake this one out...we could be in for a bumpy ride. ...
Read More...and no, I didn't scheduled my vacation to coincide with the end of the conventions... it just worked out that way. I'll be back on Monday September 15th with an all new drawing. In case you missed them, here are the reruns....doodles of politicians, athletes, world leaders, authors, musicians, CEO's, actors, chefs, murderers, artists, terrorists, deceased, journalists, hostages, soldiers, comedians, and religious leaders that have been in the news over the past six months. ...
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