My Blog  Facebook

May 24, 2010 - A Picture I Would Rather Not Have Drawn

Cartoon of meIn one of my darker moods, I was inspired to create a picture in "honor" of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil spill, and environmental calamity in the Gulf of Mexico. It is linked on the Art index; look for it in "Other Pictures."

May 13, 2010 - Minor Updates Here and There

I have added a couple of pages to the Writing section: a somewhat humorous list of things that bother me and a political allegory that isn't funny at all. I've also gone back on what I said some time ago and fixed this site so that it works correctly with Internet Explorer in both new (8.0) and older versions. Finally, I've changed the "Hurricanes" section to a "Weather" section. The reason for this will become apparent at a later date.

February 18, 2010 - Changes in Galleries

I have completely revamped my Art and Tolkien pages, which were starting to seriously annoy me with their primitive and hackish means of navigation. I have used a script called Facebox for the reworked versions and I think it is much nicer. With this change, however, I have no choice but to say that JavaScript is definitely required to navigate this website. Additionally, I have removed some very old items from the Tolkien gallery which I do not think demonstrate the quality of artwork that I am capable of. Keeping a record of one's history is one thing, but publicly displaying eight-year-old scrawlings that make you yourself wince is quite another.

View the News Archive


What Is This Website?

My name is Erin Thead, and this is my personal website and blog. I custom-built the main site—that is to say, the site that you are reading—and the WordPress theme for the blog, and I maintain them both independently. Some people think that is strange in this day and age, but I have found that I prefer it this way. It makes backups very straightforward, and I have full knowledge of the program code and markup used in the site, having written almost all of it.

The site contains mostly creative work that I have done relating to subjects that interest me, and the time frame for the work spans roughly a decade. The blog is primarily political (hence its name), but not exclusively.

For more information about me, visit my About Me page.