{"id":514,"date":"2008-05-27T23:36:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T07:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/montgomery-hill-painting\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:15:13","slug":"montgomery-hill-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/montgomery-hill-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Montgomery Hill&#8221; Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/37_montgomeryhill.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I finished my painting \u201cMontgomery Hill\u201d\u009d today, prints and cards available at <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rudy.imagekind.com\">rudy.imagekind.com<\/a>.   The terrified humans are oddly less real than the Saucerians from the stars.  Come to think of it, the Saucerians <em>are <\/em>stars!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mhgunnar.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>My friend and neighbor Gunnar showed up and watched me finish.  He took a couple of pictures of me, and later we went biking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mhartist2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I like painting a lot, it gets the other part of my brain working.  I think of writing differently now that I paint.  If something\u2019s not right, you just paint it over and do it again.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/oliver.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Last night I had dinner with <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.keele.ac.uk\/depts\/as\/staff\/Harris\/harrishomepage.htm\">Oliver Harris<\/a>, the Burroughs scholar.  It was fun hanging out with him, a civilized, knowledgeable  Englishman (although he takes exception to this description).  He\u2019s in the area to root through the Ginsberg archive at Stanford, looking at manuscripts that Bill mailed Allen.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One final box had escaped previous scrutiny.  As the Scholar slid it out from under the lowest of steel shelves, he noticed that it had been sitting in a viscid pool of clear fluid.  A ripple passed across the congelation and a small tentacle formed.  Moving with savage speed, the tendril wrapped around the Scholar&#8217;s ankle, dragging him closer to the Last Box.  Slowly the folded-over cardboard edges unfolded to reveal&#8212;&#8221;  Maybe a giant eye.   Or the Muse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s organizing a conference in Paris next summer in honor of the 50th anniversery of the publication of <em>Naked Lunch<\/em> by the Olympia Press&#8230;I&#8217;ll post more info when it&#8217;s available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/mhcactus.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When I got home, oh joy, my <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/haodascreen.com\/leica.aspx\">Haoda adapter ring <\/a>was here, meaning that I can now attach my old green 50 mm Summicron Leica R lens to my new digital Canon&#8212;at the cost of difficult focusing and slightly flaky exposure metering&#8212;so I stayed up late tinkering and reading camera geek posts on the web. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my painting \u201cMontgomery Hill\u201d\u009d today, prints and cards available at rudy.imagekind.com. The terrified humans are oddly less real than the Saucerians from the stars. Come to think of it, the Saucerians are stars! My friend and neighbor Gunnar showed up and watched me finish. He took a couple of pictures of me, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}