I have regained enough use of my fingers this week to produce the small, funky pastel crayon illustration of the Chicago Skyline, as seen from a cab going up Lakeshore Drive.  It’s based on some blurry phone photos.

I used a few straight edges and flexible curves, but was mainly just trying to regain some control over the digits.

This was drawn on a new (to me) type of ragweed paper that was a little more off-white than I’m used to, so the colors aren’t exactly what I’d planned for. Still, it sort of works for what it is.

To see this week’s art bigger try clicking HERE.

Over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a new episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM an also new edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Because I am writing this last Thurday before Mel and I head out of town for The Kentuckiana GI Joe Toy Expo, we don’t have playlists for either show. Nigel Pye tells me that Psychedelic Shack is another one of his favorite episodes ever, but he didn’t give me a hint of what to expect in it.  As I write this, Herman Linte had not yet recorded his mixtape tribute to the late Dave Cousins, of the folk/prog band, The Strawbs, but it’ll be waiting on me to schedule on The AIR once I get home.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear another collection of the music of Spike Jones on a classic episode of The Comedy Vault.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten more hours of The Comedy Vault, as we go all British on you.