I am lucky to know lots of creative, interesting people.  Some of them actually make a living being creative (only a few make a living being interesting!)  One of them is Stan Shaw.  I met Stan a million years ago when I was a young hairdresser.  He was buddies with my co-worker, Denny (who was in a local band called Running With Scissors…anyone know what happened to them?)  Stan later married a friend of mine who is also creative and interesting.

When I had my mid-life crisis, they designed my tattoo.

A few weeks ago, Stan left a comment on the post about bacon vodka which led me to his website where I saw a cartoon that looked (I thought) a lot like me.  (It is a female with glasses, funky colored hair, pointy chin and holding a PDA.  You tell me.)  It wasn’t supposed to be me.  I didn’t commission it.  But I have no problem with second hand art (it is more within my budget, anyway!)

So, without further ado, here is the new cartoon version of Aura Mae.  I will be using it online and perhaps in print on occasion as the mood strikes.  Mostly I was just tired of the head shot from the book that I had been using for the past couple of years.  The upside of using a cartoon as your likeness?  I can be eternally youthful and no one will give me crap about how old the photo is!

Wednesday March 26 Evening Magazine will be re-running the video they shot in the salon last year.  There is some nice footage of the salon (check out Jonathan’s blonde hair!) and even though the footage was shot in High Definition, I thought they did a very nice job of not making me look too old or too fat.  (Thank you, cameraman!)  Other than the little nit-picky things we all hate about watching ourselves on video, I was very happy with how it turned out.  If you are in the Seattle area, watch it when it airs.  If you miss it, check back here on Thursday and I will link to the online version.  (Watch it here.)

About Evening Magazine

“Evening Magazine” remains a local favorite highlighting the people, places and events that make the Northwest so special. The long-running program has provided a window on the Northwest for more than 3,000 “evenings” since its premiere in the summer of 1986. John Curley is the show’s host.

Program Times

You can watch Evening Magazine on KING 5 in Seattle Monday through Friday at 7 p.m., with replays at 3 a.m.You can also see Evening Magazine on Northwest Cable News from Monday through Friday at 9 p.m.

The show delivers a local perspective with unique and compelling stories. Take for example the recent stories of Tulk-la Massey, a Seattle-born boy growing up as a lama-in-training at a Tibetan Monastery and Boise’s Sally Maughan, raising orphaned bear cubs in her backyard. We follow Seattle’s Dick McPherson as he donates his kidney to a complete stranger, and Bainbridge Island’s Jerilyn Brusseau who’s helping clear land mines in Vietnam. We’ve recently taken you to Hong Kong, Scotland, Ireland and Thailand and “Evening Magazine” made history when we brought you “Alaska: Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”, the first local series broadcast in High-Definition television.

“Maggie,” our Kenmore Air Seaplane, allows us to expand our daily destinations to a 300 mile radius. Once a week John Curley flies off to spectacular locations such as the New Dungeness Lighthouse, where you can be a caretaker, or Jones Island in the San Juans where deer eat right out of your hand.

“Evening Magazine” is the highest-rated locally-produced show in the country and its team has been honored with numerous regional Emmy Awards. “Evening Magazine” is a program like no other for a region like no other. “Evening Magazine” airs Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. on KING 5. Mark Erskine is the program’s Executive Producer.