Vonnegut Kindness for the Holidaze...

Please feel free to save, send, print, & otherwise share in any way you'd like in the spirit of the season as it were...

You can peep even more holiday frivolity of season's past by clickin' here 

Kenneth Cole sez I'm a Courageous Cat!

Well, this was an unexpected surprise & indeed a delightful way to start my weekend~

Kenneth Cole, beautiful clothing designer & more importantly, strong social activist, just celebrated a few folks whom he thought were making important & special contributions to the field of education in his COURAGEOUS CLASS SPOTLIGHT.

 Proud to say I was one of those he chose to honor

in this extraordinary campaign.

Please do not feel obliged but if so inclined...

COURAGEOUS CLASS SPOTLIGHT:

BACK-TO-SCHOO​L EDITION

Double-shot to go low & then go high...

We have lots of work to do.

Here's two tunes to start us off-

one for wallowin'; the next to pick up, dust off & 

move it forward...

Nina has "Trouble in Mind" (as we all do right about now...)

Lizzo then sez "Walk yer fine ass out the door!" (or as my lovely bride thinks, "Walk yer fat ass..." which I think is delightful indeed.)

Hope these at least help you get through the day...

Mourning in America

Makin' herstory...

Hello everybodeeeeeeeee!

happy birthday grover

Brian Ferry, singer of songs & checker of scarfs.

A gift for the fair Kate upon the occasion of her 50th.

Quick story~

Brian Ferry, of Roxy Music fame & the man to whose voice many of us of a certain age lost our virginity, walked into the SFMoMA wherein Kate works & wanted to check his scarf.

I commemorated this momentous event in inky grandeur for my dear & wonderful friend.

GOAT- in & out of the ring...

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."

Prince is dead. Long live the Funk.

I just want your extra time...

I once was blind, but now...

Colorblindness is really a misnomer; it is more akin to color-confused. Whereas your spectrum is quite vast & includes a veritable plethora of color, those of us who are genetically-deficient have a much smaller range & therefore colors get smashed up together, confused with others, & many unseen at all. 

I am colorblind, one of the most severe degrees of such. It is bothersome at times, disappointing at others, but as with any handicap (& I even hesitate to use that word as comparatively it is a non-issue), one learns to adjust & compensate for such. I also like the fact that I “inherited” from my Poppy, my mom’s dad, who left much too early in my life & sharing this genetic trait is at least something by which I can feel closer to him.

But being colorblind does affect me every day- the loss of a beautiful sunset, inability to decipher a traffic lite, seeing lots of green skin on folks I know are not Martians… unsure if I’m wearin’ a pink shirt. Being an artist (albeit one who predominantly works in black & white), an art teacher & just a lover of looking & seeing & really absorbing this wonderfully vibrant world around us makes it even more distressing at times.

This wonderful company EnChroma has changed all that with their incredible &, I dare say, inspiring sunglasses that promise “color for the colorblind”, & y’know what, they actually deliver on said promise in a big way.

Just back from Méjico where I sported these EnChroma Commander CX-14 sunglasses that profess (& do indeed deliver on that promise!) to allow the colorblind to see color. 

These are amazing, wonderful, & truly awe-inspiring & you can see my reaction to wearing them in the video...

(Lo siento for wind noise- tried to fix to no avail. 

Keep watching, it does improve later in video.)

& as an extry bonus, here is some comix I doodled way-back in college about bein’ colorblind… 

Enjoy:

Vonnegut redux...

For the last two years, the wonderful charity Eden Autism Services has asked me to contribute a piece of art for their Gala Auction. The theme this year is "Some Kind of Wonderful: A Celebration of Extraordinary Lives."
I  thought to meself who was more extraordinary than Mr. Kurt Vonnegut...

Hope it garners them some big bucks indeed!

If so inclined, you can read more of my thoughts on Mr. Vonnegut here.

& next year, Eden folks, I want two tix to your glam event so I can bring my best girl!

The State of the Union is...

KICK ASS!

"Obama Said Knock You Out" 2: electric boogaloo

My piece from Obama's 2012 campaign, 

"Obama Said Knock You Out", 

gets a shout-out in this wonderful 

article

by Harvard associate, Adrienne Childs.

Read & enjoy...

GoodWill Toward ALL...

For the past twenty-five some odd years (& some have been very odd indeed!), I have created holiday cards for friends & family to celebrate the season. Although I waiver between atheism & agnosticism, my belief in this most wonderful time of the year & the spirit of giving & sharing therein has never been stronger.

My holiday scribblings started with a skankin' Santa, rockin' to the holiday groove (replete with "Fishbone" tattoo), & have continued unabated up until this year's offering, a plaintive plea during this wondrous time of the year for equality for all the boys & girls...

Please feel free to save, send, print, & otherwise share in any way you'd like in the spirit of the season as it were...

Last year was the way more lighthearted "Santazilla"

 which you can peep by clickin' here 

(& witness even more holiday frivolity therein!)

"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies -- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind."

Kurt Vonnegut has always held a special place in my heart as well as in my head.

His writings, his beliefs, simply his way of being, influenced my younger self profoundly & still hold a great deal of sway in this somewhat older body in which I now find myself. Of course, Vonnegut would claim, & I think rightfully so, that these two identities are interchangeable, occupying the same time-line albeit at different points, but both exist together, now & forever intertwined.
More important than his works & his philosophies though was his place in the literary triumvirate that is one of the foundations of my relationship with my dad. Devouring those books off my dad's bookshelf in my pre-pubescence became a catapult to help us traverse that leap from being father & son to being friends.
As high school reared it ugly head, the oh-so-long (but equally wonderful) times we spent editing my school papers dwindled. Our Scrabble games also slowed a bit (although they picked up with a vengeance whilst I was in college~ when I finally beat him for the first time!).
But Vonnegut has always remained a cornerstone.

For better or worse, he & my father are responsible for the writer I am today, & a good deal of the man I am today as well.

So it was with quite a good deal of joy that I found this portrait I had drawn of Mr. Vonnegut in one of my old sketchbooks. It's unfinished, smudgy pencil & all. It's certainly not an antique per se, but it is somewhat vintage.
I had the pleasure of sharing it with Mr. Vonnegut at a book signing that I went to with my dad. He looked at it quite intently, then looked up at me with that same bemused smile that he wears in the drawing.
That was a good day indeed.

so it goes...

Happy birthday, my friend.

It does indeed get better...

My kids are doing a benefit reading of 

"It Gets Better" 

for our school's Gay Straight Alliance, 

the only middle school GSA in New Jersey & 

one of only a handful in the entire country.

More info. after this adorable poster...

On Friday 1 May, a group of wonderful & caring middle school students will perform a staged reading of stories from 

“It Gets Better”.

Please come support this important endeavor that will 

benefit our school’s Gay Straight Alliance- 

the only middle school GSA in New Jersey, 

& one of only a handful in the country.

Suggested donation for tickets is two dollars, 

but any amount will be greatly appreciated (read: more, not less!).

I hope you will consider sharing this information 

as well as the 

attached poster to any & all interested parties.

Please email, tweet, facebook, 

socially-media-ize, pony express, 

et al  this event to all your peeps.

The kids would really dig a huge turn-out & 

they so deserve it for their bravery & hard work.

The show will take place on 

Friday 1 May at 7pm at the 

Melvin H. Kreps Middle School Theatre, 

5 Kent Lane, East Windsor, NJ, 08520.

For more information, please contact the director & GSA advisor 

Robt Seda-Schreiber

rsedaschreiber@ewrsd.k12.nj.us

We look forward to seeing many friends, family & supporters come out & help us celebrate this extraordinary endeavor.

¡Muchas gracias!

Santazilla!

For the past twenty-five some odd years (& some have been very odd indeed!), I have created holiday cards for friends & family to celebrate the season. Although I waiver between atheism & agnosticism, my belief in this most wonderful time of the year & the spirit of giving & sharing therein has never been stronger.

My holiday scribblings started with a skankin' Santa, rockin' to the holiday groove (replete with "Fishbone" tattoo), & have continued unabated up until this year's monstrous offering.
Please feel free to save, send, print, & otherwise share in any way you'd like in the spirit of the season as it were...

 & last year's holidaze missive, an oh-so-funny mashup of 

ol' St. Nick & one of the year's most visionary flicks.

Previous cards have ranged from personal to political to downright ridiculous (I will spare you "Zombie Claus"!), & after the jump, I will share with you some of my favorites (complete with whatever necessary context) starting with Santa occupyin' Wall St. when it was all the rage indeed! 

"Champion of Equality"

Thought it might come with a cape, but no such luck...
All snark aside, this makes me very proud indeed~

Read more here & here.

Abracadabra!

I'm no Dr. Strange, but this is kinda' corny & cool at the same time~
http://www.magic983.com/winning-teachers-2014/2014/03/14/robt-seda-schreiber

Santa Claus vs. Gravity

 This year's holidaze missive, an oh-so-funny mashup of ol' St. Nick & one of this year's most visionary flicks.

Please feel free to save, send, print, & otherwise share in any way you'd like in the spirit of the season as it were...