CapnRandom73

Hi, I'm rather new to linocutting. I just finished my third piece: a portrait of Lyle Lovett. It was my first time experimenting with fine lines, and a lot of them. The problem is that when I went to print it, all of the fine details got lost. I'm guessing it has to do with the cheap kit ink I'm using. Possibly related, I also got lines from the edges of my brayer that, try as I might, I could not remove. Fwiw, I used a rubber block, not true linoleum. Also, I tried thinning the ink, and it looks better, but still not great.

So do y'all think it's the ink, the technique, or the medium? If ink, what product would you recommend? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

... I've hit 1 year of continuous abstinence again. This time there's going to be a 2. It doesn't matter how many times it knocks you down, it matters how many times you can get the fuck back up. IWNDWYT.

Hey M,

It's been a hell of a year. And you dropped me in one of my darkest moments. And you took my friends and my lifeline with you. But it was for the best in the end. I'm in a new relationship now, and it's going very well, because there's mutual respect and admiration, and she accepts me for my authentic self. And there's no clinging, no gas lighting, No degradation, no emotional abuse, no begging for approval. I want you to know that I was prepared give up everything for you and your daughter, but not at that cost. I hope you're well, and I hope you learned from our relationship, and I hope no other man has to suffer what I did at your hands. Take care of yourself, M. I wish you all t

I'll go first: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon.

Trying to remember a song that I believe is from the last decade. It reminds me of Jack and Diane, but it is definitely not Jack and Diane. It's about a boy and a girl, and I believe they meet in school, and they fall in love and grow up, I believe the guy either gets cancer or dies or something like that, and they have a child. It seems to me like it's in the style of '80s singer-songwriter like John mellencamp or the Boss, and I think the genre could probably be described as indie. I haven't been able to nail it down on Google or GPT, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

The protagonist is (iirc) a scientist. She is hired in a binding contract. She has a team of scientists working under her to develop (iirc) a memory, or timeline, altering device. She runs a lot around the deck of the vessel at the start, and then stops doing so, which is noticed by the boss guy, and she faces consequences. I seem to remember a scene where she maybe throws a glass of wine at him in his personal quarters? The output of the research is (iirc) a chair of some sort. I don't believe it is Recursion by Blake Crouch, but I think I read them back to back, if that helps with a release timeframe. Please help, google and ai have led me nowhere.