#good coo

[neonarboretumart]

🎀🎄Christmas Eve: Carolling🎄🎀

This was yesterday’s post, but I fell asleep before I could put it up here 😅 it’s a redraw from a piece I did back in December 2019! That feels like a whole lifetime ago, and I think my art has improved a fair bit. At least I’ve moved past those weird oval borders!

Tomorrow’s (today’s) prompt: Christmas Tree

[Image ID: the first image shows a Christmas illustration in alcohol marker. It shows a snowy outdoor scene with a starry sky. Stood in the snow are an anthropomorphic highland cow and sheep. The cow is dressed in a sweater, scarf and heavy winter skirt. Because of her horns, instead of a hat, she wears a mismatched pair of fluffy socks on her ears. She’s holding a book of carols. Beside her, the sheep is also wrapped up warm in a sweater, scarf and patched britches with green wellies, and he’s holding a crook with a lantern hanging from it,

The second image shows a closeup of the cow. Her long forelock hangs over her eyes, and she’s smiling broadly.

The third image shows a closeup of the sheep. The wool on his head looks curly and thick, and his lantern is glowing brightly.

The fourth image shows the original 2019 piece. Its on white paper instead of brown, and the details are simpler and a little clumsier. Instead of a rectangular frame, the illustration is a wonky oval. End ID]

[staypositivelypositive]

You mentioned that you hang out with GCBC? Does that mean you guys are friends now?

“Yep! He apologized for destroying Cloud Cuckoo Land and we became buds!” Unikitty enthusiasticlly exclaimed.

[brianjohnspencer]

The Adams-McGuinness "good cop-bad cop" strategy

Newton Emerson wrote:

“Listening to Adams’s histrionics from safely behind the Border, the main question that arises is: what sort of deputy first minister would he have been? He seethes with such self-serving resentment that he could not possibly have replicated McGuinness’s calm professionalism. There are whispers McGuinness’s avuncular Stormont persona is just an act and he retains the character and temperament of a man with an extremely dark past. However, most politicians are acting to some extent so it still counts that McGuinness chooses to put this act on and to make it durable and credible. The suspicion that McGuinness and Adams are playing nice cop/nasty cop with the unionist community, in part to satisfy the worst instincts of the nationalist community, was belayed by Stormont’s recent welfare reform crisis, which Adams clearly seems to have caused against McGuinness’s wishes. In any case, what does it mean when when nasty cop has moved abroad? The Sinn Féin faithful would say Adams remains essential to the all-Ireland project. But which seems more likely to deliver unity – McGuinness working with unionists in the North or Adams insulting them from the South? The answer to that looks black and white.”

See here: http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/newton-emerson-gerry-adams-is-out-of-north-s-sight-and-mind-1.2635161?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Ed Moloney explained how it worked here: https://tmblr.co/ZTxVUt22xReZu

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

"Tyrants, like mob bosses, know the value of a smile: Precisely because of the fear he’s already generated, you desperately want to believe in his new warmth. It’s part of the good-cop-bad-cop routine that will be familiar to anyone who has studied the presidency of Vladimir Putin."

See here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits