I seem to be on a January hiatus

I seem to be

"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"

thanks to Ray Troll for knowing just how I am feeling.....

that reminds me,

I have a great story about Ray.

When I was the executive director of a small non-profit in Washington State,

called, Wild Olympic Salmon,

we decided to sponsor a marathon to raise money -

we called it the Salmon Run.

What we needed was a catchy logo.

We loved Ray Trolls work and were all big fans.  He lived in Alaska, we even had some friends who knew him.....

So we are at a meeting and have to make some decisions, I say, let's write to Ray.  Ha ha ha.

Oh come on, someone says.  Call him, F. says, yeah, call him.

Ok, right, so I look on his webpage, call the number and fall off my chair

when someone answer's, Ray here.

Brilliant me, the first thing I can think of is to say was, oh my god, you answer you own phone!

After some conversation, turned out he was a regular famous artist kinda guy

and he said he would work up a logo and donate it to us -

unbelievable

he was a fish guy, but still unbelievable and yet true.

He is one hell of a nice guy.

I have long since lost the artwork he did for our run.

The group fell apart - well blew apart in the late 90's

(founders syndrome - spread like wild fire - deadly)

but here are some of my favorites

we were the salmon people

 and we could totally relate to the fish themes

it was so us

this was our favorite

http://www.trollart.com/home.html 

George Harrison - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IV9gxHhwM