Mar 09, 2026: rip biggie smalls

29 years ago today the notorious b.i.g. was assassinated. I hold Puff Daddy personally responsible. He shoulda been in jail long before he actually was. If he never had another free breath in his life......

Wait a minute. Did you just stumble into one of my longest running inside jokes with nikkigirl? Why, yes, yes you did. Turns out one of the greatest poets in human history died on the same day as mah baby was alived. Not on the same day of course, but I digress.

I might never stop talking if I reminisced over every inside joke, song lyric, word from the television box, picture, or whatever else that nikkigirl and I share together. My partner in crime and I share our own language - beeps, boops, bops, eye contact, hand signals, and we might have a whole conversation, with you there, and you wouldn't even know it happened.

On her birthday, I don't wish her a happy birthday (well I do that too), and instead I say: Rest In Peace Biggie Smalls. Just one more in a long line of ways I show my love to her.

By chirping about dead people. lol

We'll close with one more section after this, and before we jump to the next, let's take a moment to look at the photo dumps of it all:

That's just the pics of the supplies I snapped along they way, starting with the palette left over from my last painting project, the lost series. See 2 of the 5 I have written about in blank canvas and water. Blank canvas is when I formalized the "when" of the idea I will close with.

These are the bits leading up to the final product. Mod podge is so fucking sexy.