Angst...and a sharpie

What if I'm just drawing the same thing over and over a million times
 for the last forty years????

I was wondering to myself "Why, oh why am I keeping all those old sketch books?" The initial rationale centered around ideation. Maybe something would come in handy. Maybe I could study the evolution of style and technique. Then this thought...."All this stuff kind of looks alike. Maybe I'm just drawing the same thing over and over ad infinitum." Yes, sometimes I include Latin phrases in my internal monologue to make myself feel smart.

So I'm considering two things...One: ditch the sketch books that are only collecting dust and taking up space. Two: learn (somehow or tuther) to draw other stuff too.

Yay, it's Friday

Just for laughs

I DID take notes while listening to a podcast and setting my mind to write later in the week. However, when I take notes these funny little nebbishes appear. Not completely unbidden, I suppose, these toons wind up on nearly every piece of paper I latch onto---I have to really curb the impulse on legal documents and financial stuff even though I think little toons would improve that stuffy paperwork.

The blog approaches its one year birthday and I'm wondering about directions it can or perhaps "ought" to go. Part of this deliberation will include revisiting why I started blogging in the first place. Then I can  asses outcomes I'm seeing that might connect to those reasons. Sounds pretty clinical, eh?

Leaning ?????

Now THIS is what I call 'Leaning In'!

Ol Spot could be leaning "out" of the car window or "in" to the breeze. Either way, he's liking it!

I promise not to stretch out your work hat, Dad

So there is an alternative to wearing a baseball cap sideways or backwards....the trick is in finding a cowboy hat that's about double your hat size.

Sharpie Week-Day Two

Fall will you? Not on MY watch!

I'm sooo glad summer is trying to hang on (or at least early fall) here this year. Winter came rudely at this time last year. Maybe it will stay away altogether. Wait. That can't work. This is Canada. We'll take the temperate weather while we can!

Sorry Pat, I might have bought the wrong vowel

The Cassocks are coming, the Cassocks are coming!

Angst: Mentally reviewing something one has said and fearing that it was just plain dopey. I was attempting an historical reference about Cossacks. I thought the reference might be helpful. Thinking back I may have transposed vowels in the word--did 'Cossack' become "cassock'???? "Vestments? What do vestments have to do with it????"  I'm experiencing a surplice of chagrin this morning. (insert groan here)
   Today's work was intentionally scrawled in less than a minute to see if I could 'evoke' something. That and I'm a slacker. I enjoyed using a bolder point sharpie---they do kind of bleed through anything lighter than bristol board it seems.
  Have a day.

Shutdown Throwdown...what's the lowdown?

It's in the best interest of the American people that I sleep in today

Truth: The hardest part about reading disturbing news is the profound sense of helplessness I feel. It might be wrong, but there it is. The bizarre theater going on with "the shutdown" has me thinking.
You remember the TV show Malcolm in the Middle? There was a teaser for the show that includes Lois yelling out about her family situation "What's the matter with you people?" I'd like to send Lois to Washington DC. Maybe we could just sit the politicians and lobbyists down and play that bit of video.
I think Lois' voice would be drowned out by the moneyed special interest groups calling the shots while the "elected officials" put on their Punch and Judy show as a way to pander to them. There I said it.