“If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
-- Jimmy Buffett

EAST, Y'ALL + NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Where are y'all? It's EAST, you fools!

I also have fifteen paintings hanging in the Bass Concert Hall at UT. Y'all should see those, too.

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TO WHOM + AUGUST 27, 2011

To Whom it May Concern: I am about to sign a lease for a studio at the Pump Project Satellite, which means that I will have a great destination for this year's East Austin Studio Tour. I have yet to discover how I will be paying the rent on the first, but I am confident that I can piece it together. All fingers crossed. This is important. Over the past few years I have been lucky enough to be very centrally located and have had much success with the hoards of art lovers that would just stream into the townhouse. But now in a group setting I will have hundreds & hundreds come by. All for this nominal monthly fee. And now to just find that money...

As I write, Hurricane Irene is threatening New York City. Crazy evacuations all over the city and so many belligerent friends refusing to move out of the way. I shouldn't be surprised and I am not.

Many of the postings that I've read allude to parties, drunkenness and all sorts of other chemically induced denial and disinterest.

I am on a tear to make money right now for assorted reasons and I'm not talking fancy shoe money, but some serious dough. Give me a call if you have discovered my purpose or have discovered an absolutely failproof way to rob a bank. (Do not call me to rehash parts of the Jerk.)

This also reminds me that I turned a whole year older while I was on vacation in South Carolina. I'm about a million now. And South Carolina was gorgeous, but super muggy. And I had to fly back with all of this crazy Irene business.

Can I also add that ten days is too long with family? That it is inevitable that you will turn on one another in the end, remember why you all live so far away?? OR as Jerry Seinfeld said, "There's no such thing as fun for the whole family."

I plan to update my portfolio site www.annegenung.com any day now. I have such a huge amount of new work and have been somewhat dreading the enormous task ahead. Watch me get it done, though. Watch me tread on.

And I do- I know... It looks just awful the way it is and so perhaps even more of a reason to go even faster faster faster. Because all the while I am still directing people to come and look at the site and my guess is that they get there and think "She would like to use these awful skills for money??"

Indeed. xo

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