Dread in my Skin

Doodle dump

2011-12-17T12:49:00.004-05:00

Below are several doodles. Look at them and try to appreciate them even if appreciation is not your initial reaction. Try and appreciate them even if your appreciation is forced. Do this one thing for me. I will ask for nothing more until at least tomorrow.

X-mas Card Design Option

2011-11-14T18:06:00.001-05:00

Old Man Blurred into the Sky

2010-07-19T07:40:00.007-04:00

Each batch of thunder lingered, hanging and unassociated with the pensive, impatient lightning. Gusts over the green beckoned the clouds to move west but they defiantly churned eastward. We sat loose-limbed in our lawn chairs cradling our cozies and watching the old man who was watching the sky. He was concerned but not alarmed.

Be Thankful For What You Get

2010-07-09T10:15:00.005-04:00

Sweddy Bears are very similar to Teddy Bears.

Hydrox cookies are inferior to Oreos.

Miracle Whip is not acceptable in any circumstance.

Expensive haircuts are better than cheap ones except when you consider the cost is really not worth the benefit.

Calm Ladies Solve Your Problems

2009-12-08T12:26:00.001-05:00

Who are we to each other?

2009-07-29T23:27:00.000-04:00

2009-05-30T16:38:00.002-04:00

Caravan to Crazy-Town

2009-05-26T13:46:00.004-04:00

He's Got Your Number

2009-02-18T22:48:00.006-05:00

On opposite ends of the continuoum but standing in the same room these clods size each other up and down. They guardedly grip miscalculated digits but only one remains untouched by the other.

One clod retains the advantage of course. It only stands to reason. No two clods are exactly alike.

And, since it follows that each clod will fit differently into this most inflexible frame, one will fit more aptly.

Sadly, neither will understand which, how or why.

Also, nobody cares. And that's okay because that's the way it is.

Changing Wants

2009-02-16T21:39:00.005-05:00

If I could just have a receding hairline to emphasize the swoosh of my greasy pompadour, strong forearms, and a pencil moustache I might be happy. That's a thought I'm pretty sure I had sometime just before my hormones kicked in. Probably like 1981.

Since that time I've come to understand rationally that nothing much actually matters in the long run. Of course this is no excuse to go about doing horrible things because when nothing really matters in the long run what matters most are the moments of the life you live. All you have to bargain with is what you put out-there. That is to say, if one wants to live in a world surrounded by pleasantness one's best effort to that end is to be pleasant. Spending the bulk of one's time screwing around and flipping people off will leave one with no right to complain about the lack of productivity and surplus of incivility in the world.

Of course even with the best of intentions we're only essentially animals. A good idea, I think, is to forgive other people their humanity even as they condemn you for yours. They'll call it weakness or some such drivel, but you'll know it as humanity if you give it just a moment's attention.

So in the end (of this pointless thought) I guess I embrace the idea that there are things more important than the self because the self is fleeting but we hope that the best of our society will not be. I say we with the assumption that you agree with me. And as with the assumption that these words mean something in any context to anyone I embrace it, intentionally ignoring the irony of the self-indulgence from which it was created.

Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again

2009-02-02T22:32:00.004-05:00

Of course that's just a silly semantical trick. Once anything is it cannot be as it was again because when it was partially defines what it was. Right? But since I'm no guru, and you're not seeking enlightenment anyway, this episode is best forgotten. Please move on to the illustrations.

This is an old man, daft with power. He holds authority over all the government issued number two pencils and is not afraid to give you a very very dull one if you displease him. This is not a work of my imagination, but rather, it is TRUTH!! (The capital letters and exclamation points signify emphasis AND sincerity.)

This picture represents my relationship to my cellular telephone as well as the physical discomfort I feel in my stomach when I recall being spanked in public as a child.
This is supposed to be Carl Rove, but unfortunately does not look enough like a pig. (Carl Rove looks like a pig, and not at all like Morton Downey Jr.)
I often imagine people casually pointing at major disasters. For instance, this person is pointing out that everyone in the theater (he's in a 500 seat theater) is gushing blood from their faces.

This is the most recent example of ugly-monster-face.

Real Things

2009-01-29T00:47:00.004-05:00

Sometimes I feel like this guy, all underground and ready to pull myself up into the unobstructed sunshine world of clean-air-possibility. Then prematurely exhausted from breaking the surface I rest my cheek on the clay gunk from which I am incompletely extracted. Exhaustion is a flaw, but resting reveals the event as an installation in the museum of eternal futility.

Before my irrational fear of flying there were gracious ladies pouring cocktails in the clouds. During my irrational fear of flying the ladies were replaced and the cocktails dried into crusty public blankets alongside innumerable snotty-sneezies. Now I specialize only in rational fears. Now old ladies wait for socialized rest-homes.

Who likes___? This guy! (the witless, wimpy jokester rides again)

This type of manipulation of an ink drawing is never satisfying. I want paint under my fingernails and glue in my hair. That would be satisfying.

Please Mail Me a Break

2009-01-16T17:11:00.007-05:00

What can I do to turn this thing around? Whatever it is I'll do it. Just give us a hint. Please.

ex pal, ex pat, ex lax

2009-01-06T22:26:00.007-05:00

I can't really wrap my head around how pulling Bill Richardson out before the Obama crew even takes power is supposed to reflect badly on the administration-to-be. Whether or not Richardson is found to have been connected to any shenanigans this seems to be a classier move than claiming executive privilege and immunity for all in the name of Jesus.

Richard Wolffe has an extra ~f~ in his last name. He also has a clever accent, which goes to show that people come from far-away lands to make careers out of reporting on American political goings-on. Plus, so what.
You're never too young for cardiac arrest.

Shhh... tick tock.

2009-01-04T23:21:00.004-05:00

In true silence watch batteries cannot exist.

He'll tell you there is a best way to do everything.

Can't we learn this virtue from a more fortunate clam?

I Enjoy Drinking Beer

2009-01-03T23:28:00.006-05:00

Beer is good. Try and tell me it's not.

It's delicious. Mmmm... beer.

I sometimes drink it in big gulps because it's so damned good.

Sometimes I sip it. Usually that's only if I'm really full though.

I think it's great with peanut butter on crackers, if you want to know the truth.

When I used to eat chicken wings I drank beer while eating them.

nutrition is essential

2008-12-31T00:36:00.003-05:00

calcium hurts cow teets

handburgers only hurt hands

everybody loves fudge

It's Never Too Late to Pick Up Filthy Habits

2008-12-29T23:59:00.004-05:00

Yammering

Eating Eskimo Pies in the Amazon

Holding Side Conversations

Carrying a Bat

Melting

Making Devil Fingers

Don't Think of an Elephant

2008-12-22T23:46:00.005-05:00

Nudge to Make it Stop

Lick Only Your Own Lips

I was calling you.

Old-Timey

sunny-side-eager

discovery by marks and signs

2008-12-06T22:48:00.003-05:00

...spun like sugar...

...bent like rubber...

...up to the bar...

...the finger till it hurts...

Jungle-City Miscommunication

2008-11-29T13:29:00.006-05:00

Such Big Sound

Will do For Some

Tilted Tags Throw Thugs Toward Treaties

Scrubbing Bubbles

Lemons and Limes Turn to Walnuts in Hanging Kitchen Baskets

Sticky Clicking Siliva Mouth and Popping Pees And Whistling Noses

push

2008-09-27T09:26:00.004-04:00

I eat like a little bird.

You are your body.

Pudding yourself aught.

Some pieces broke off a long time ago. I don't remember even having them but I do remember losing them.

2008-09-15T22:12:00.005-04:00

I always thought he had tootsie-rolls in his mouth, but that was just his teeth.

Why not let me help?

There are no coverups in this ocean.

It's equally your fault for trying.

Why backwards?

2008-09-13T00:29:00.001-04:00

BE JUST

2008-09-08T23:31:00.005-04:00

Awareness of being as you are is greater than belief in becoming other than you will ever be.

Not every seed deserves a hand-made bed. Nonetheless you should see my brother.

Simplicity in how one simply cannot be.

Don't Repress Knowledge

2008-09-04T00:27:00.005-04:00

Maintain Composure even where composure itself raises legitimate suspicion.

Choose to believe your own rationalizations so that at least one person does.

And, take credit where none is due because some will undoubtedly be given.

No One Is Actually listening

2008-08-29T01:46:00.006-04:00

See it as a good thing

because fate makes sense in reverse

even to those who can't understand it forward

so it is your sole obligation to respond.

Interrupted Expectations

2008-08-14T02:06:00.003-04:00

soy shock

kindness of strangers

Where have all the flowers gone?

2008-08-08T00:43:00.005-04:00

Self-respect and pragmatism coexist uneasily.

I never know if you're serious.

TV makes you care.

Empathy is impossible as ever.

Once again, but more pathetic.

I'm on fire.

It's another picture of you. They're all pictures of you.

Weeds are People Too

2008-05-23T12:50:00.004-04:00

Shoot the Rehearsal

2008-04-07T00:15:00.002-04:00

Laughter as shocked recognition of fear

Self-Talk mistaken for Prayer.

Fraternity mistaken for Paternity

Unbearable solitude mistaken for Lonliness

Mistaken for a Ride

Self Determinatiton

2008-04-01T14:17:00.009-04:00

Forces are not worth any bother. Contemplation is bother. Bother.

That you knew it was coming did not protect you from its arrival. That it should have will haunt you even though it shouldn't. Huant.

To be thought of is enough, but then anything is enough. Nothing is quite enough; while "more than enough" is not a thing. No thing.

Good people are subjected to the unjust laws of gravity. So are the rest of us. Especially those that have been laid to rest. Rest.

Status Considerations

2008-03-26T09:42:00.005-04:00

professor or villain

amusement or emasculation

chaperone or sped

generosity or bribery

confidence or crassness

meaningful representation or crude regression

Illusory Choice

2008-03-03T02:08:00.003-05:00

Lead the Follower

Long Pig Longhand

Inermezzo

Nothing was anyone's initially

Futility is Resistance

No Comparison is Valid

2008-02-25T22:22:00.002-05:00

do something constructive

contemplate life with trustworthy friends in altered states

just jam out

enlist

Things You Already Know

2008-02-17T23:33:00.002-05:00

Fortune tellers cannot be trusted.

Nothing is actually worth stealing

2008-02-13T22:18:00.005-05:00

Selling a lie is stealing twice, plus dickery.

What do you think I think you think?

Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.

But I am Grimaldi.

bad things [*just] happen

2008-02-01T23:52:00.001-05:00

Where is the line between remaining unaffected by the perception of others, and being a sociopath?

How often is getting what you want sincerely giving other people what they want?

What will it take to realize these mundanities as the luxuries they truly are?

Now You're Getting Somewhere

2008-01-27T00:30:00.000-05:00

Maintain a single-minded concentrated effort, and smile as if it's fun.

Don't read into the shapes of things. Shapes can be misleading.

Titles can't be copywritten, and often come with silly hats.

Reward yourself for choosing life with a little strenuous exercise.

Don't be afraid to look.

2008-01-12T12:54:00.001-05:00

More is only sometimes better

I think a thought in which I am, and so in thought I am, I think.

I imagine you're quite delicious.

You May Already Be A Winner

2008-01-10T00:12:00.000-05:00

Displace emotional dreams for tangible targets.

Focus on the dig and ignore impending doom.

Charge forward and demand the prize behind the curtain even though you don't want it.

Lurk in waiting for someone to drop something. Hope in advance that it's a prize.

Sit and read a book.

Good Show

2008-01-04T19:19:00.000-05:00

John Edwards might get my vote. Judge me.

Please, be patient.

2008-01-01T04:43:00.001-05:00

Greatest Available Hero

Good people abstain in preparation of their eternal reward.

It turns out you look like yourself, only uglier.

You two are familiarly odd.

Francis [feels/is a] let down.

Stand Up For Something You Believe In

2007-12-29T22:08:00.000-05:00

Santa's Pictachio Green Eyes Hypnotize.

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Unexpected Brotherhood

You may not be who you think you are.

I prefer well-done, but I'll take what I can get.

Push on.

There's nowhere to go and the quickest way to get there is to stop.

Open Secrets

2007-12-21T00:52:00.000-05:00

Overheard

Overexposed

Underhanded

Under the influence

I was framed!

2007-12-18T15:05:00.001-05:00

Roger retired.

He should've been fired.

handymen tittered.

as their homes lay unlittered

here it's over-reiter'd

and Jiacamo Johnson smoked crack.

Facing Demons

2007-12-09T11:21:00.000-05:00

fantastic

gastric

immersion

subversion

suitable for wrapping fish

2007-12-04T21:32:00.001-05:00

within

after

over

despite

Beyond

through

restless

2007-11-21T23:19:00.001-05:00

breathless

2007-11-21T23:14:00.001-05:00

boundless

2007-11-16T20:28:00.000-05:00

It's just me.

2007-11-15T13:26:00.000-05:00

emulate

great

await
contemplate
masturbate

recreate

Espy, Imagine, Exaggerate, Fly

2007-11-13T13:23:00.000-05:00

ennui
not free no one
Klingon

time marches on

2007-11-10T13:30:00.000-05:00

miracle

follicle
avian
coven

booking
hooking

Dressed Down & Fluffed Up

2007-11-06T19:39:00.000-05:00

bee-you

2007-11-02T01:38:00.000-04:00

for - don't reach for anything

Say what?

2007-10-29T09:32:00.000-04:00

Have tissues handy

2007-10-27T02:47:00.000-04:00

rock hunting

2007-10-19T23:32:00.000-04:00

Someday, maybe

2007-10-17T02:16:00.000-04:00

turned up (prelim)

2007-10-14T13:54:00.001-04:00

when is a birthday card not enough?

2007-10-13T01:02:00.000-04:00

holding on

2007-10-10T11:09:00.000-04:00

without purpose or thought

2007-10-07T12:45:00.001-04:00

flattery

2007-10-05T01:16:00.000-04:00

Vladimir Pooting?

2007-10-03T01:58:00.000-04:00

rudy-romney

2007-10-01T18:57:00.000-04:00

Santa's Nostril Show

2007-09-25T02:40:00.001-04:00

This is my free electronic Christmas Card to you. Some assembly is of course required.

George

2007-09-23T23:51:00.000-04:00

oh, lady

2007-09-22T23:07:00.000-04:00

peel out

2007-09-22T02:03:00.000-04:00

So What?.

2007-09-20T00:40:00.000-04:00

string theory

2007-09-18T11:37:00.000-04:00

the return

2007-09-17T00:47:00.000-04:00

Some of Mr Pasty

2007-09-11T21:01:00.000-04:00

midget twins

2007-09-09T00:00:00.000-04:00

the new RiP

2007-09-07T23:43:00.000-04:00

fat pig

2007-09-06T18:00:00.000-04:00

Fun Clown Dance

2007-09-06T12:35:00.000-04:00

This image is meant to represent an actual clown (clowne).

the new thing is round things

2007-09-02T00:05:00.000-04:00

under the table

2007-08-31T21:54:00.000-04:00

flat road

2007-08-30T23:44:00.000-04:00

push

2007-08-28T15:20:00.001-04:00

Gritty Mexican Drug Film

2007-08-25T23:22:00.000-04:00

follo

2007-08-22T03:56:00.000-04:00

You Make Me Sick

2007-08-17T14:47:00.001-04:00

9th ave Dunkin Donuts on 48 straight waking hours

2007-08-15T11:36:00.001-04:00

Fresh Royal Seal

2007-08-15T03:55:00.001-04:00

Against all odds

2007-08-14T13:22:00.000-04:00

bunting

2007-08-14T03:28:00.000-04:00

SEMAPHORE

2007-08-11T00:11:00.000-04:00

More coming attractions

2007-08-08T23:53:00.000-04:00

x-ray of my ex gfs mother

Marie and the Leafchomper

2007-08-07T19:20:00.000-04:00

Production stills

2007-08-01T14:30:00.000-04:00

Handle: barred

2007-07-31T19:29:00.000-04:00

ithendity deft

2007-07-30T19:01:00.000-04:00

What's Your Address?

2007-07-29T12:52:00.000-04:00

sneak preview

2007-07-24T15:30:00.001-04:00

creephead mobile

2007-07-21T13:05:00.000-04:00

I never saw a spider with a thing on his ass like that!

2007-07-20T21:42:00.000-04:00