B. Mag.’s blog

Show us some art in your home.

You can check it out here at www.magnanimousart.com It's all my work.  the B/W portraits are done with pencil.  Hope you like it.   B.Mag.

What's the most famous movie you've never seen? 
Submitted by Mike.

It's a Wonderful Life.   Amazing, huh?  Somehow I miss it every year.

Feeling small and ignored in a big world full of people?  Well check this out...this is the Golden Disk placed on board the Voyager probes that have now passed beyond our Solar System.  Each disk includes instructions on how to listen to the device which contains sights and sounds of and directions to a small, insignificant, backwater planet called Earth.  Perhaps someday someone will find the message in the bottle...

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html

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How do you beat writer's block? 
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

I don't.  Only wirte or speak when there's something to be said, when there's something important inside my head.

"Lend few thine ear and none thy tounge.  For those who know do not speak and those who speak do not know."

 - Hamlet, Shakespear

To all those that feel as though their lives and efforts go unnoticed, here's a little song from Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet Band from back in the '70s.  Still stands true today.  They should have had this song featured in the movie Office Space somehow...

"I take my card and I stand in line

To make a buck I work overtime

The ‘Dear Sir’ letters keep coming in the mail.

I work my back till I’m strapped with pain

The Boss can’t even recall my name

I show up late and I’m docked, it never fails.

I feel like just another

Spoke in a great big wheel

Like a tiny blade of grass

In a great big field

To workers I’m just another drone

To Ma Bell I’m just another phone

I’m just another statistic on a sheet

To teachers I’m just another child.

To IRS I’m another file

I’m just another consensus on the street

Gonna cruise out of this city

Head down to the sea

Gonna shout out at the ocean

Hey it’s me!!!

‘Cause I feel like a number

I feel like a number

I feel like a stranger

A stranger in this land

I feel like a number

I’m not a number

I’m not a number!

Damn it I’m a man!

I said I’m a man."

What's something that you're really proud of, which most people in your life don't know about?
Submitted by CosmicBabe.

I got a four-year Navy ROTC Scholarship out of high school to college.  I was an active duty Naval Officer for seven years, serving three tours (GTMO, USS ANZIO and Washington DC).  I now own my own business and I have another full time job.  Oh yeah, I'm an artist too... http://www.magnanimousart.com

Oh yeah and my IQ is around 130.

Do you have any phobias?
Submitted by Amirul B Ruslan.

Sharks.  definitely.  Or maybe the idea of being eaten by anything else...bears, lions, etc.  Scary stuff to those of us at the top of the food chain.

One of the two jobs that I have is the best job in the world, but it is also the hardest.  I own a small, independent hobby shop in Manassas, VA called Olde Towne Hobby Shoppe.  I love it, I really do.  It's a fun, rewarding job, but it also has its drawbacks.  I've put myself so far in debt that I just can't see the end.  This is the risk you take when starting your own business, I knew that from the start.  The frustrating part now is that here we are a week before Christmas and sales are not exactly booming.  In fact, they are down significantly from last year.  This has me extremely worried.  This is the month that's supposed to carry me through the year.  I can barely get myself through this month, what's tax season gonna look like?  I am so stressed out about this.

Anyway, I pose this question to you...in a world full of evil Walmarts and online ordering, can a small independent store survive?  Reply here with your answer and tell me if you are in favor of small speciality stores or not. 

Who would you like to kiss under the mistletoe?
Submitted by EmmyAngua.

Easy question - the same girl I kiss every day...my one true love, Cary!

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