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First on the boards, thanks to all who came to see "Lost Houses" many thanks to Cindy M., Paul S. and all at the Cameron House,friends at the Opening, those who purchased work and for kind words from all, it was a very personal show and now it's on to the next projects ...ones that are focused on pure fun.

Oh Alphabet Shoppe, I am sorry to have neglected you for so long, to rectify this grand faux pas for the next few weeks we will be shifting our focus over to the Alphabet Shoppe,
(go to http://www.thealphabetshoppe.blogspot.com and add to your favourites)
to create the next series of paintings "the GTAlphabet" and I have to thank T.W for this suggestion.

Since I've been walking these city streets daily I've been remarking on "fixtures" in our city and they will be the next series of paintings - if demand is high enough I may post some of the work here too, but it is more of an "Alphabet Shoppe" project. This will also be a "Request" series, once I get the first few up, I think everyone will like to play along with me, as the Alphabet Shoppe is a place for the kid inside all of us, in the spirit of "explodingdog.com" (great site) I'll take your "Commissioned Suggestion" and render it for you for a fee.

Also in the playbook for Late January at the Alphabet Shoppe -

I've been away from writing for awhile and through this time I've been steadily building my collection of Children's Book Illustrations and rereading favourite books from my youth (no not my misspent youth, that's all Bukowski and Jim Morrison bullshit I'm talking about the youth before that, the formative years) and will be guiding you along as I write and illustrate my first book for kids of all ages. So there's another reason to keep visiting. I plan on it being a fun book with big busy pictures and lots of colour, like Mercer Mayer or this other guy who I really like - what the hell is his name ? Sergio Aragones meeting E H Shephard, Theodore Geisel arm wrestling...you'll see.

Someone very special to me once remarked that I do more than most, I have to admit to her and you that for the past eight months I have let that slip - I became lazy, let others down,energy levels dropped, too much time for idling, drinking and becoming a thing that I hate. These new projects should make me feel more like the artist I was - except for the constantly drunk, chainsmoking parts of course, that's over.

These past two months I've learned alot, I've been feeling things clearly for the first time in a long while, dealing with my anxiety and social phobia from a sober perspective. In this time I've only heard two shit head comments from people I know, and I realized something - I don't actually know these people , and they certainly don't know me, they're just bar people and they can go fuck themselves, I'm on to better things.

Before I go, people have said they like the "God Bless " section more than the blog entries so...

God Bless The Buchan Family, Jim Millan, Will Scheff, Suss3it and Denis Leary
(except for the "abusive lesbian "subplot in Season Two, total waste of time)

best to all,

A.S Hahn

works from Lost Houses still available by contacting madcraftshoppe@hotmail.com