Captain Chesley (sully) Sullenberger Flies Again

Mr. Captain Chesley Sullenberger has been in the news again lately. He is the pilot who safely landed his jet into the Hudson River after some birdies flew into both engines.

This month, he returned to the sky and is again flying around up there. He also has a book out called Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters.

For my gallery show at Billy Shire Fine Arts this April, I painted this picture above in memory of the geese who died from the engines of Mr. Sullenberger's aeroplane. I would like to send this painting to Mr. Sullenberger but I don't know how to get it to him. If you are his friend, please let me know.

Whiskey Minute

I met my friend SKU at a whiskey tasting event in Los Angeles. He is a whiskey and food lover. He has a popular blog about food in LA and whiskey and he also has a youtube channel where he teaches some basic lessons about whiskey...with videos like "What is Whiskey?"...."What is Scotch?" "What is Bourbon(shown above)" and "Why is daddy lying face down in the street again?" (The last video is not real.)

He was nice enough to have me on his video to do a tasting of Japanese whisky .

I like whiskey but I'm not as much of a fan as Sku-san.

I did visit the Yamazaki whiskey distillery in the Osaka area though.

There is all kind of whiskey you can find. Some tastes sweet like caramel, and some tastes like you are drinking the smoke from a camp fire. Whiskey is tasty, but drinking too much can make my brains angry at me. I'm sorry, brains.

Drawing Drawings and Painting Paintings

I have been working on illustrating a new book. It's kind a children's book for grown ups but I can't tell you what it's about yet. My goal is to finish the book and have my next art show feature the drawings and the book for sale.

For page one, I drew 7 cute animals. Right now I am working on page 2 and I am drawing 7 scary animals. Today I have been drawing sharks. It's not so easy to draw an animal exactly how you want him. Sometimes I have to draw the same animal, over and over again all day or all week, 100 times, till I finally get him to look right. I spent a week just to get a nice cute elephant done. I think I drew 117 of them. Now my room is covered in elephants.

I'm having a harder time with the scary animals. I'm not sure which animals to include. This is what I have so far as possible scary animals.

Shark

Alligator

Snake

Scorpion

Tarantula

Sting RAy

Jelly Fish

Pit Bull Doggy

Lion or mountain lion

Crow

Vulture

If you have any comments about these animals, or any ideas of other scary animals, please let me know.

The drawing above is one I drew yesterday while I was doing sketches of alligators. I couldn't get it quite right, so I decided to color one in just to see if that would make it look better. This alligator doesn't look how I want it to look in the picture book, but that doesn't make him a bad alligator. He just wants to be loved, so he has crawled out of his swamp onto land to see if someone will love him. Will you love this alligator? Serious replies only please.

Wet, Naked and in a barrel

Do you know Japanese Onsen? It's a hot springs and they are all over Japan. Hot springs is one of my favorite things to do. It warms you up in the fall and winter, and it refreshes you in the humid Japanese summer.

I guess people in most Western countries (except for Russia) are not used to the tradition of group baths. The baths in Japan are separated by sex, and everyone goes in naked. In the old days, it was not so common for Japanese apartments to have a bath in them, so people would go to the public baths. You might go with your grandpa and scrub his back for him.

I miss hot springs and baths when I am in Los Angeles. They do have Korean Spas in the Koreatown area in LA, but it is not quite the same.

In Japan, hotsprings are a popular tourist destination, and if your town discovers a hot springs, suddenly it will have many visitors and tax dollars. Sometimes cities and hotels get in trouble for faking a hot springs. I like hot springs, but I am just a happy if it is just regular water, as long as the baths are handsome.

Giant Prehistoric Shark Will Eat You Alive

Yesterday, I visited the City of San Diego where I met this Giant Shark Hanging up from the ceiling of the museum of Natural History in Balboa Park. His name is Jacob the Megaladon and he lived millions of years ago. He is the Great,Great,Great,Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,GreatGreat,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great, Great,Great,Great,

Grandfather of today's Great White Shark.

He can be 40-70 feet long.

The next morning I surfed at Trails in San Onofre, where great white sharks are seen sometimes. I kept thinking of Jacob swimming below me. His mouth is so wide that he can swallow up a Ken Tanaka without chewing. If that happened I would just live inside of his throat and eat fresh sashimi everyday. I would use his tongue as a blanket.

I like to think about going back in time. When a time machine is invented, I will go back to the dinosaur time and meet all the dinosaurs and name them. I will pet the plant eaters up close, and I will pet the meat eaters from far away using a long stick with something soft on the end like a sock or a pussy willow.

The ocean from millions of years ago has lots of waves that are only surfed by dolphins and other mystery extinct surf animals. When I go back in time I will be tempted to surf or swim in the ocean. But Megalodon and all kind of mystery Tanaka eaters that science has never met might be swimming out there. If you woke up in the dinosaur time, and you found a cave to live in, and the ocean was right near by...would you swim in it?

Please let me know. And if you are from the future and have any advice for me on my time machine trip to dinosaur time, please comment to me.