I Feel Red!

Do you ever feel like red? I mean red is a good thing I know could be thought of as a bad thing like “seeing red” are perhaps the color is a metaphor for anger rage hostility I don't know sure the list goes on and on. But not the red means something exciting, interesting maybe even something a bit racy. But avoid like red even as a little kid I like the red fire engine, like the song Red Rubber Ball in fact I like to think I waas listening to Red Rubber Ball the instant of my accident which changed my life forever. When I wrestled I had a pair of red socks that I don't think I had any place to wear them to except maybe the Saturday night dance but as I wrestled I continue to win and are wrestling matches are always on Thursday afternoons and since I always want I always wore red socks the following day.The only thing which would've made that wearing of socks better would be if there is a black the on the side for victory. I supposed to go to Boise high school and the colors for Boise high were red and white. Maybe it's because I associate Christmas with the color red. Maybe it's because I was a child of the advertising age in red is always used for all kinds of advertising on television. I don't know if it has anything to do with Valentines but certainly read seems to be the predominant color of that particular day. I even had a red blazer that I love to wear to the Saturday night dance in the mid-60s—I thought I was just so cool.

The color red can also have a punitive side of course. Of course from the very beginning of my academic career the teacher always use the red pen with a red pencil make those infamous marks on my paper homework assignments, or tests all the way through college University it seems academia lives by the red pen/pencil. There's always one light on the police vehicle or emergency vehicle which is red and there's only a few fire engines which are not red I've seen them to chartreuse but usually read as the preferred color and civilian use. There's even a dark side of red so used (I have heard) and the Internet usually in the area porn land somewhere. The color red certainly catches one's attention is always caught mine. I love to use red when I draw. In fact most of my studies of burros are red or done in red felt tip. As I progressed in my drawing – – which hasn't been much – – I continue to use red quite a bit though I am branching out and force myself to use the other primary colors as I can. But still some days I just feel like red and red it shall be. Yesterday when I was out I actually got off the train at the Office Depot on 21^st South because I needed to pick up some rubber bands and see if there's anything else that I felt I needed or deserved. I picked up a red broad tip felt pen. I already have one probably more than one was a purely impulse purchase. I was totally surprised when my bill was rung up and it was nearly 20 bucks. I had the checkout person go over the list in my red tip cost almost 4 dollars! It's never cost that much but you know what? I got it anyway I needed that red felt tip right then. I'm sure I'll use them as I work on my epic burros of the apocalypse collection.