I just scanned in two images I painted back in 1998. One is of Pecha, my beloved Netherland dwarf rabbit(mix), licking his foot. The other is King Louis XVI, a beautiful, blue betta fighter fish. To see a larger image of Pecha or King Louis, click on the corresponding image below:

Pecha 1998

The aphids keep reproducing like crazy. Leave my poor plants alone! I don't want to kill them :(

The following advice appeared in the paper at Fordham University in the Fall'88 Semester. Needless to say it is meant to be humorous.


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H O W T O W R I T E G O O D
My several years in the word game have learnt me several rules.

1. Avoid Alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & and abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren't necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement