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i think i will be taking a sabbatical , which is the ego-maniac term for quitting work. i have several good paintings still for sale on this website but i may not be adding any more. but i never say never. i have some big mural type things to be done but they are all local..which is good…

i am contemplating having a big yard sale if the GOD DANG TEMPERATURE ever goes below 93 degrees… holy cow weather-jesus why do you hate us..?..havent we had enough for one summer…?

.. i read the Thomas Wolfe book last week. everybody said ‘read it before you die’..650 pages…wow….honestly, it was impressive if you like intense descriptions of various day to day scenes in small town southern life in 1900 but where nothing every really happens, except one child finally dies of the pneumonia after 550 pages and earlier one child had his head stepped on by a horse. …there is no plot to speak of, which i guess is his metaphor for real life having no plot but is still vastly interesting in it’s many jigsaw puzzle parts… i am glad i read it, but i wish now i had spent that week gambling, instead . i welcome you to call me small minded… i see how Cormac and Faulkner took a lot from his style..the guy could really use words like nobody’s business.

so yea, i may quit painting, for a while or till after christmas or forever. i never really have done that except when i went on some trips but now i don’t go anywhere and that suits me, its all i can do each day to tend to 3 little dogs who run my life like i am some kind of canine yard-boy.

i would drive you to the airport for 20 dollars if you live in Memphis , i could do that job well but you have to ride in a pickup truck.

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dylan box purse case whatever

Posted on 09/13/201809/13/2018 by lamar sorrento

13 x 14 x 7 ..this is an old old miniature accordian case..a HOHNER….if the damn latch on it […]

JERRY GARCIA

Posted on 09/05/201809/06/2018 by lamar sorrento

23 x 12 , same exact size as the ‘Johnny Cash hears a train’…..you could buy them both…they match…..if you […]

the million $ quartet

Posted on 09/05/201809/06/2018 by lamar sorrento

on a very light piece of old wood….like some kind of thing you would see in a cheap church…..23 tall […]

Junior Kimbrough

Posted on 09/03/201809/26/2018 by lamar sorrento

24 x 24 on thin plywood….hanger on back… do the rump…..can you..?……

django reinhardt gypsy guitar

Posted on 08/28/201809/16/2018 by lamar sorrento

this is a great guitar, plays very easy and sounds great, has that unique gypsy sound. the body is not […]

mississippi ‘home of the blues’ dobro

Posted on 08/28/201810/08/2018 by lamar sorrento

this is really cool….a nice Recording King dobro….plays great with low action….its loud too…..all the greats painted on top….a wall […]

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