Weird Comfort

Feeling slightly stunned at being a blog of note...hello to new people here. Sometimes I guess it pays to be cranky. It came at a good time, as I have been feeling a bit at sea. Reality on the ground, as opposed to the ether/blogosphere, is rather discouraging of late (not only for artists, I know). So it's lovely to have the opportunity to connect. Recently watched for an odd sort of comfort: the precursor to Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, with host John Neuland, whose presentation is a perfect combination of geniality and dignity. The unexplained forces at work in this half hour drama, said to be based on real events, affect people on an individual level, as opposed to being vast geopolitical or economic bogeymen. And Neuland is incredibly soothing.

The above is a little sculpture I made of a headless frosty the snowman figure, a replacement ceramic head I made, a saucer, a sugar pot lid, thinset mortar and buttons. It will eventually be on my etsy site when I pull myself together.

Edit: correction by Peevish (see comments): "One Step Beyond ran 20 Jan 1959 until Jul 1961: Twilight Zone pilot episode was aired in 1958 and the series ran 2 Oct 59 until June 64".

I still think it would be a lot easier to hang out with John Neuland (urbane, that was the descriptive adjective I was trying to think of) than Rod Serling.