Thanks to all of my fellow creative and other lunatics who share my superstitious love of muses, totems, crystals and statuary, all meant to inspire me and guide me to glory. You can’t beat the Madonna for a muse, although my friend Ed Gulley is making his own muse history by creating a series of “Mr. Blockhead” brick creations from discarded bricks on his farm.

(You can wander into the unique imagination of Ed Gullley, a dairy farmer from White Creek, N.Y., he has started his own blog, the Bejosh Farm Journal and we are encouraging him to show and sell his folk art there. I think he should call it farm art, since everything he makes comes from things on his dairy farm.

I wouldn’t say Ed is insecure, but he is just coming to terms with the artist inside of him, it is coming out with a roar.

Mr. Blockhead started out on the back porch, but quickly migrated into my study, where there is a corner devoted to strange and beautiful things. These totems have not catapulted me to fame and riches, but they have helped me write 28 books and publish this blog, and more books are on the way.

That’s not bad. Today, I decided to use Mr. Blockhead’s lap as a sort of display space and gallery, I put my new Pinhole Photograph from New York City there. Maria says she wants to put some flowers there, sounds great. I’m moving my beautiful statue most to the corner tomorrow. We are going for it.

Ed has dramatically expanded his “Mr. Blockhead” collection, there is one for  St. Paddy’s day and two riding  wagons made out of stumps Ed dug up and carved and cut up. Check them out. I believe they are all for sale, and quite reasonable, I am proud to be the first purchaser of a Mr. Blockhead, I am very happy with mine. And judging from my messages and e-mail, he is catching one. I think I need to get Ed to sign mine before he becomes a big shot and gets an ever bigger head.

One of the new ones even got a beer can to sit next to, it was tossed on the road in from of Bejosh Farm.