A few months back I was rather nervous about having recieved a DWI. Any time in jail for long periods of time, yes 60 days is much too long to be away from a server or access to a paint system, would have done more damage to my ability to produce art or have a platform you all would want to continue reading.

So I went to those I thought were friends and explained my situation. How if I was to go to jail my friends and those I live with would destroy my art if I'm not around to guard it. I had tones of disks and backup files of original prints and sketches and comics and porn mags and books and journals and commissioned art and great gags, placed in crates, 2 of them, all loaded to the brim in the off chance this whole issue of having laws in my life would aid in revealing more than I wanted to at the time and cause me to be displaced.

Well a lot has come out of the wash, in the past few months but it has nothing to do with me being in jail. Mind you I still have court dates.

Feeling I was imposing too much on my friends by asking them to continue to hold the effects, which if they have not seen their value or potentional, reduces them to fire starter if I ever found myself living in a tent again, I asked them via email and phone calls to let me know when I can pick up my 'merchandise'.

As of yet no return calls.

I feel robbed at this point of my intellectual property. (It's been a fee months..maybe I'm not trusting enough, until they actually tell me that is their intention I maybe putting undue stress on myself. I needed closet space.) But inspite of me not desiring them to feel used, I feel I may never see those old sketches or the newer ones I was preparing, or my old journals, which thankfully, most of it is documented here and elsewhere.

With Covid-19 hampering the market and money being tight you'd think art theft would take a chill pill, especially if the people holding your work told you it sucked and you could never sell in their establishment. Begs the question, *why would anyone still works of art they don't like or think to be beneath their own level and ability?*

I'd like to think it's cause I'm not a bad artist and the potential to increase their own clientele with my brand and labels was too much. That's only plausible if it's true I make works worth stealing.

My friends, not the ones that steal from me, but them too, insist that I complaine too much, I whine after I get drunk and I see the world in shades of grey that increase dark clouds around me.

It's not true. I see the world as it is and plan to document the twists and turns and make some money from it.

Considering we all have our own stories to share, I find the theft of art to be so unproductive and assanine that I never thought anyone would want to steal mine.

If they did not want to steal, you'd think they'd return a phone call.

Ever seen any body go all "Training Day" on someone over some effects that would be lost in a horrible fire had I ever been made to be homeless again?