Susan McAllister: Red Man after dark

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Don't ask me why, but I always think of "Susans" as these sweet ladies who go out and have tea & cookies at 3pm and have conversations some what like this one: "Would you like another cookie dear?", "Oh no I couldn't, one cookie is outrageous already" , "So what did you do yesterday?" , "I made some mail art to send to Dean" , "Lovely, Lovely, do you think we could see it?"  "Well of course, here it is:"

Thank you Susan, you are my one and only very unique Susan.

[Amy Irwen]

I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE Susan's black and red works....that's a very "devilish" tongue !!!

[Alicia Starr]

Funny Dean, i heard 'old' too.

Perfect lead in to Susan's piece. 

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Fun story and blog, Dean! Susan (Hayworth?) sent a very dynamic "red"...wow!

No "old" ladies here...just "mature" :-)

[Dean aka Artist in Seine]

Let me read my blog again.  Now where did I mention "old".  I'm sure I would never have thought of anyone as old.  And your art work is far from it.

I kicked the cookie habit a long time ago.  "Go where cookies can not follow", that's my motto.  Risks pay off in the end.

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Your description, Susan, of yourself  as "a working class, Berkeley radical, hippie, queer type of old lady who has never eaten only a single cookie at a sitting" sounds great (and also sums up just about the existential crisis I'm going through at the moment: but I'm addicted to dark chocolate)

[Susan McAllister]

Hi Dean, You are correct in guessing that I was born at a time when many baby girls were named Susan after the famous actor Susan Hayworth. (Who??? I hear people asking.) That definitely qualifies me as an old lady. Where you've gone wrong is in what kind of old lady you are envisioning. We aren't a homogeneous bunch, you know. I am a working class, Berkeley radical, hippie, queer type of old lady who has never eaten only a single cookie at a sitting.

Good for you for taking a risk. I definitely approve of risk taking. I'm not offended at being thought an old lady, only a tad disappointed that you just noticed my art sometimes has a bit of an edge. I'm going to have to work harder at that I guess. Thanks for the blog.