Bonus
'Toon!
 As
many of you know I also create a weekly
'toon for the good folks over at the Friendly
Atheist. My latest comic was posted over
the weekend so, if you're interested, go
looky by clicking the teaser image or this
linky-dealy.
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Blue
Period
 This
weekend I watched a man's dreams dissolve
into mist
like king crab at a Chinese buffet.
I went garage sale-ing with a friend on
Saturday and the very first stop we made
was at a tidy little home in a modestly-affluent
neighborhood. The tables were full of old
electronics and a smattering of Star Wars
Pez dispensers but nothing that held
our interest. We were ready to leave when
the guy in charge of the sale carted out
one of those honkin'-big 40-gallon plastic
tubs. Inside was
a selection of art books and pads of bristol
board and watercolor paper.
"Well, now
you're talking!", I sez to myself.
Shortly after that he wheeled out a multi-drawered
cart stuffed with tubes of acrylic paint,
brushes, metal rulers, templates, triangles
and French curves. In the mix was a
copy of Adobe Creative Suite.
It slowly began to dawn on me that here
was a man who
had
once
tried
to live
the dream
of
the creative
freelancer but decided he'd rather eat.
The second bedroom in which his art studio
existed was now probably destined to
become a nursery or, at the very least,
usable
space. So out it all had to go.
I took all the paint, most of the
brushes, and all of the paper I could carry.
I paid
him the pittance he requested and then
shook his hand, though in my mind I was
saluting him.
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Technical Note: Paleontologist
Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) once
posited
the intriguing notion that dinosaurs, specifically
the
stegosaurus, possessed a second brain located
in their hips which served to help these
massive creatures locomote more efficiently.
The truth proved otherwise but the idea
still bounces around from time-to-time
like silly-putty, especially in the brains
of cartoonists.
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Technical Note II: Today's
'toon was late due to a mystery malady.
Late Saturday
night I became overwhelmed by a need for
sleep and
basically slept straight through until
late Monday morning. I would occasionally
rouse for
food and
elimination but it was impossible to do
much else. There were no associated symptoms,
just fatigue. I've never experienced this
before and feel more or less normal as
I write this so, you know, weird.
=Lefty=
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