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An 8 Year-Old’s Awesome Artwork

10 Tuesday Jul 2018

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art, Basquiat, boston, boston terrier, Bulldog, Cricket the French Bulldog, daddy, frenchbulldog, gay, gay dad, LGBT, modern art, naive art, outsider art, pop art, Squeak the Boston Terrier, Warhol

starring my lovebugs Cricket and Squeak

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Modern Art: Cricket as Little Bo-Peep, also with a Cat’s Body

28 Saturday Jun 2014

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art, atlanta, Basquiat, boston terrier, buy John's book, Cricket the French Bulldog, culture, dogs, french bulldog, funny, gay, humor, LGBT, Life, love, modern art, pets, pop art, pop culture, St. Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Warhol

Modern Art: Cricket as Little Bo-Peep, also with a Cat's Body

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Am I Cursed?

24 Saturday May 2014

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Andy Warhol, Basquiat, buy John's book, eye stye, Florence & the Machine, funny, gay, gay dating, Gypsy, humor, Lemongrass St. Petersburg, LGBT, modern art, Nitally's St. Petersburg, perspective, point of view, queer, Romany, St. Petersburg, tampa, Tampa Bay, the Dali Museum, the dog days are over, the Warhol Exhibit, Thinner Stephen King

Am I Cursed?

Dear Diary,
On days like these I have to question if I have a gypsy curse , voodoo or worse hoodoo, did somebody put roots on me?! My story begins last week, when I met this lovely man on the interwebs. He is cute, smart, former military, and is clever in his texting and emails. We made a date to have lunch at Lemongrass on today (Saturday) and then we were going to the Warhol Exhibit at the Dali. I have been preparing all week for this day, getting an expensive haircut, buying a new Polo shirt to match my eyes, Just for Men-ing my eyebrows, cleaning the apartment, bathing the gremlins, and finally calling in sick to work and going to the beach (so I will be all tan/red and healthy looking when we have our joyous meet). I am so excited, I am ready, the dog days are over, this is my husband!
During the night, I wake up a couple of times rubbing my eye, which is bothering me for some reason. I finally get up for good around 8 a.m. and have a look in the mirror: it’s bad, real bad. My right eyelid is red and swollen, making my eyes observably different sizes. I panic and google and text my friends and figure out I apparently have a stye. Now this is where I start to question being cursed. I have never had a stye in my life, didn’t even know what it was, but I mysteriously have one on the only, only, only day that I am meeting this beautiful man? FML…
I can’t let my future ex-husband see my like this, and when I explain my situation he (quickly) agrees to push our glorious meeting out a few days, when I am better. He was very agreeable to this, especially after I disclosed it was vaguely contagious 😦 I hope he is the patient and loving and kind man that i have imagined him to be, and will wait for my disease to dissipate. I just can’t let him see his future blushing bride with one big eye and one little eye, it ain’t cute.

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Feet, as Art. Feet…is art?

28 Monday Apr 2014

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@thejohnjernigan, Andy Warhol, art, atlanta, Basquiat, buy John's book $3.99, dating, festishes, foot fetish, gay, gay dating, LGBT, love, modern art, naive art, outsider art, pop art, queer, relationships, sex, St. Petersburg, tampa, Tampa Bay, Thrift Store

Feet, as Art. Feet...is art?

$10 at the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store on 34th. Not really a fan of feet though, either mine or anyone else’s. Maybe my next boyfriend will be a foot fetishist and I will gift it to him…

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I is an Art Connoisseur

17 Monday Feb 2014

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I is an Art Connoisseur

my curator purchased three modern art pieces for my collection, from up and coming artist Bryan Abbey…for $12

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Paint By Numbers

25 Saturday Jan 2014

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animals, art, Basquiat, culture, design, dogs, gay, LGBT, modern art, perspective, pets, point of view, pop art, Warhol

Paint By Numbers

I have been buying $4.99 Paint by Numbers at Michael’s and getting my talented friend Caleigh to paint them. She has done a wolf and horses, and I just gave her an elephant. My vision is to have a whole wall of great art.

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Dunedin Arts Festival

12 Sunday Jan 2014

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Dunedin Arts Festival

Lots of nice, expensive artwork, and lots of rich old white people. This was my conversation with the artist who did the French bulldog pic:
Me: Can you do one of these on one of my dogs?
Him: Sure
Me: How much?
Him: $3400
Me: Thank you

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Basquiat for Christmas

28 Saturday Dec 2013

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Andy Warhol, art, Basquiat, Christmas, culture, gay, inspirational, Jean-Michel Basquiat, LGBT, modern art, outsider art, pop art, pop culture

Basquiat for Christmas

My favorite Christmas gift, from a gentleman admirer, my love Jean Michel Basquiat’s coffee table book.

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My Book!!!

21 Saturday Dec 2013

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My Book!!!

Illustrations from my soon-to-be-published book, The Gay Road Less Traveled, which will be available on Amazon. The artist is both a friend and one of the most talented individuals in the world, Mateo L’artiste.

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Gary Baseman

11 Monday Nov 2013

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@squeakjernigan, art, artist, Basquiat, culture, different, funny, Gary Baseman, gay, humor, inspirational, john jernigan, LGBT, modern art, point of view, pop culture, queer, Tampa Bay

Gary Baseman

I heart his art

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Banksy

03 Thursday Oct 2013

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art, Art Basel, artist, Banksy, Basquiat, culture, gay, graffiti, humor, inspirational, john jernigan, LGBT, modern art, naive art, outsider art, politics, Tampa Bay

Banksy

Banksy is a England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencil technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.
Known for his contempt for the government in labelling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls, even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself; however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.

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Artists’ Renderings

29 Thursday Aug 2013

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art, Basquiat, boston terrier, Cricket the French Bulldog, cute, dogs, french bulldog, gay, john jernigan, modern art, naive art, outsider art, pets

Artists' Renderings

Two of my children’s interpretations of Canis lupus familiaris (Cricket and Possum).
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Art Basel Natural High

09 Sunday Dec 2012

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art, Art Basel, Basquiat, culture, different, favorites, gay, inspirational, john jernigan, Miami, perspective, point of view, south beach, south Florida

Today I went to Art Basel Miami all alone and I did fine. I have seen Fort Lauderdale and found it lacking, so I am focusing my energy south. I stopped at the Aventura mall to buy a Domokun backpack oh and btw Tiesto was there, just signing some autographs for the people.

When I see a good movie or read a good book or really like a new song I get this buzz, a natural high, my brain and senses working together, making me happy. Seeing all of the great artwork and creativeness and culture and cute men, I felt that good ole buzz in my noggin. There were four Jean-Michel Basquiats! and lots more cool pieces and artists…plus, after I left the venue I kissed a sexy Italian man, with tongue…that’s how I roll.

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