St Maarten-Patron of The Arts

Write? Right! Sail? Sale!

 Art is taking something out of nothing and selling it.

Coventional wisdom says, there is no such thing as a good painting about nothing. I disagree, In fact, the Art I am painting doesn't imitate life, it imitates episodic TV, think  Seinfeld, a show about nothing; Jerry's the engine, and Kramer does the steering.

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San Juan-Growing old isn't optional; Growing up is.

It took Pablo Picasso 60 years to paint like a child--It took me one day

Actual quote:“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” Pablo Picasso

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At Sea- There's No Place Like Work When Your Home

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Grand Cayman: I am Steve Irwin and so can you

Dating Outside My Species Again

K.I.S.S. Keep it Simple Stingray

Ok,Which version do you want: Regular or Extra Crispy?

Regular--  Kissing a stingray while being filmed in Grand Cayman Islands

Extra Crispy- Being fatally pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming  in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

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Mexico-Dating Outside My Species

February 2009- Macau: Swimming with  the sharks. 

February 2010- Mexico: Swimming with the dolphins.

Happy Lunar New Year Of the Tiger tonight but this is the day of the Dolphin.

I got kissed by a dolphin today.

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Key West-Welcome To Alaska

Sunshine State?

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Montego Bay -Higher

"Ed Reif has a very interesting look, in a Scott Stapp sort of way"

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Jamaica--What Color's Your Parachute?

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Cozumel-Chips and Salsa

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Ft Lauderdale--MSC/Coast Guard Rescue Operation

The Coast Guard and a Good Samaritan cruise ship, The MSC Poesia worked together to rescue four  men who became lost at sea while sailing off the Florida coast. Read more HERE

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Any Given Sunday-Super Bowl Miami

Bob Reif And Ed Reif

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Bahamas-Coffee Is My Cup of Tea

Bean and Nothingness in The Caribbean

Greetings from  Caffeine Central... I ordered a Code Red Eye and saw a talking horse,  Mr. Ed.

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British Virgin Islands-Shoveling Sunshine Instead of Snow

Write About Here

The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off-Enlighten Up!

I am at one with the Chainsaw...You Son of A Beach

Roll Video

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San Juan-.Wish You Were Here

Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

Third-Hand Smoker, Second-Hand Smoker-- I graduated today to first-hand smoker.

I didn't inhale, varaiation of the Bill Clinton Mea Culpa

 When I was in San Juan, I experimented with cigars a time or two, and I didn't like it. I didn't inhale and never tried it again." –Ed Reif

 I would like to thank Pedro Pablo Peña, from Old San Juan, who took a chance on an unknown  Vegan/ Endurance athlete with off-the-chain VO2max scores, and sold him his first El Borinqueño cigar

I accept the  the  Phillip Morris Throat Kazoo Newbie Award , in a COPD  tobacco catagory in the name of all  those who have given there time, money and lives to the industry!

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