It’s Friday!!

April 14, 2023

My funny black and white cartoon of a fish talking to a great white shark. Drawn by artist Bryan Skinnell.

It’s Friday!!!!

Yippee! Just a few measly more hours of trying my level best to be great and then I’m kicking back to do indulge in my favorite hobby; being a weekend bum! It’s been a long and challenging slog of a week and buddy I’m so looking forward to doing my impression of “I don’t give a ding about anything”. Which will include long and pleasurable stints of allowing myself to enjoy the sins of looking like a boxcar tramp unfit to be seen anywhere in public among other socially repugnant things. Like eating cold pineapple pizza for breakfast!!

Ohhhh……. I’m going hard-core and taking the art of being a weekend wreck to levels undreamed of so consider yourselves warned!! Getting an eyeful of me will surely frighten and traumatize the weak of heart and guarantee I will never again enjoy another date and so confirm my bachelor status for all eternity. Which means I will be forced to eat all that bacon and pineapple pizza drizzled with chocolate syrup by myself while listening to 70’s disco and launching a paper airplane bombing raid on the cat.

And frankly, that sounds heavenly to me!

Enjoy your weekend pass folks. I will see you on Monday.

Why hello there! My name is Bryan Skinnell and I am a middle-aged (50-ish) artist and neighborhood kook who is living the artistic and creative life out in the boonies of Bedford, Virginia. Bedford is one of the largest counties in the commonwealth of Virginia and, for the most part, it’s still a mostly rural one that bridges the gap between Roanoke and Lynchburg. You could say, in more ways than one, that Bedford is the heart of Virginia. I can’t argue with that although I usually think of Bedford more as Virginia’s belly button myself.

I grew up right here in Bedford and have lived and toiled most of my life on our infamous red clay. The sort of clay that makes the stickiest mud known to man after a rain and which clings like super glue from God to anything and everything it touches. If you are so foolish as to get it on yourself you’ll wind up tracking and leaving a trail of red goop everywhere you go for days afterwards to the delight of your family and friends. But I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else and Lord knows I tried as I’ve wandered from one end of the country to the other. But Bedford has my heart and that’s where I’ve chosen to live my life today. In my free time when I’m not stuck in my studio making art I do love being outside gardening or hiking or just pestering the neighbors.

Every day I try to write something that’s original, entertaining, and half-way thoughtful here on my blog while sharing my happy-go-lucky attitude and zest for life. Quite often I don’t have the foggiest notion of what I’ll end up saying in a post. But, whatever I end up writing about, I do hope you enjoy it!

I do keep a mailing list for interested readers and fans. If you would like to get in on the action and follow my musings and rabble-babble, that can be easily arranged. Just give me an email address that you would like for me to send my blog posts to and I’ll see that you get it.

Thanks for stopping by!
Bryan Skinnell